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  1. Yeah on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 1

    AC/DC were so smart, never to release their songs on the radio, as singles, or in movie soundtracks. By demanding "whole album or nothing" they really proved their point on this whole issue.

  2. Ridiculous on iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD · · Score: 1

    $24 more in parts? Perhaps. But so what?

    However, what about differences in costs around engineering, part yields, manufacturing time, etc.?

    Stories like this are meaningless. The headline should read: "Some guy guesses some numbers."

  3. Not Stealing. Not infringement. on NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates · · Score: 1

    The copyright on a non-protected derivative work automatically reverts to the original copyright holder. In this case, if I transcribe the dialogue to a movie, the dialogue still clearly belongs to whoever owns the copyright on the movie. If they license Netflix to use the dialogue as subtitles, then Netflix are within their rights to take it from transcriptions done without license.

  4. Re:Not safe on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oh come on. Both articles you link to are full of nothing but conjecture and opinion, and both are about the same accident. Plus, anecdotal evidence tells us nothing. What I want to know is: how many accidents on average do Google autonomous cars have per mile, and how does that relate to the average for human-driven cars?

  5. Slashdot Hates Patents, News at 11 on New Apple Multi-Touch Patent Is Too Broad · · Score: 1

    Seriously, how is this news? The article title is clearly an opinion. Just because your Kool-Ade is opensource doesn't make groupthink healthy.

  6. Technical Problem, or etiquette problem on Do Developers Really Need a Second Monitor? · · Score: 1

    In my experience, people get personally hurt when they are told that they don't need equipment as good as another department. It's one thing not to hand it out in the first place, but I can never imagine an employer taking away part of someone's working environment and equipment. It's a slap in the face. It's also disruptive to productivity-- Once someone is used to their setup, changing it at all can waste their time, especially taking away equipment they are used to as part of their daily process.

  7. What a coincidence... on Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years · · Score: 1

    I'm aiming to have 200 million customers in four years too. And I'm about a likely to get them as Ubuntu is to meet their goal.

  8. Re:Hopefully this accelerates its adoption on iMac Gets Thunderbolt I/O, Quad-core · · Score: 1

    I may be wrong, but I think this one is backwards compatible with the last one. It basically adds all of the other connections to mini-DVI, doesn't it?

  9. Re:Hopefully this accelerates its adoption on iMac Gets Thunderbolt I/O, Quad-core · · Score: 1

    Interesting memory you have there. Because mine clearly includes a first wave of USB devices that were ALL "bondi blue" to go with the first generation iMac. By the time the PC manuacturers came on board, a lot of accessories already existed thanks to a market Apple created. The commodity PC market-- sorry, WinTel world-- may have benefited from "free" USB on Intel motherboards, but it didn't hurt that Apple made sure devices already existed for those ports.

  10. "Reverse Engineering" how? on Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed · · Score: 1

    Is it actually "reverse engineering" if you scrape the data off the ROM? It sounds like the phrase "reverse engineering" is just being used to avoid a DMCA attack.

  11. Re:Wrong. on Netflix Compares ISP Streaming Performance · · Score: 1

    Verizon offers DSL in far more areas than FiOS. I suspect the results would be more meaningful if their two products were separated.

  12. Context on Comic Sales Soar After Artist Engages 4chan Pirates · · Score: 1

    Sure, this vastly increased sales-- the artist's direct sales of the trade paperback on his own Etsy. We have no sense at all of the scale of impact on overall sales. In effect, this was just the best opportunity he had had to drive traffic to his own site. Would this have even shown up as a blip in total overall sales? Did Amazon see a similar peak?

  13. Libertarianism Gone Wrong on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    To me, this is the perfect argument to make me question my often-Libertarian leanings. The reason we have governments is so that, as a society, we don't have to worry about situations like this. So we can extinguish the fire, without wondering if it was paid for. So we can protect the neighborhood (or surrounding land). Fire departments are in place to provide a necessary protection for society as a whole, and that system breaks down if one person can opt out-- or even be put in a position to have to choose whether to opt out. Fire departments should not have a fee associated, they should be covered by a tax.

  14. Re:BS on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 1

    Did you read the summary? While I am sure the results would be brilliant YouTube (or Darwin awards) material, how do you get hundreds of men with shotguns up into the tree canopy?

  15. Re:Acetaminophen on Govt To Bomb Guam With Frozen Mice To Kill Snakes · · Score: 1

    A recent well-publicized study re-pegged that dangerous number (for liver damage to be likely) at ~2g.

  16. Your questions? on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1

    I'll answer your leading questions with another question-- Who cares? This is a case of a private company deciding which kind of speech/opinion they want to transmit. They had a contract which allowed them to pull this content, and they pulled it. More power to them, it's not like this "church" can't relocate to another hosting provider.

  17. Wrong. on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    Legal with your own property. Vandalism if it belongs to Apple, which is the case with the display models.

  18. Re:Eh? on Internal Costs Per Gigabyte — What Do You Pay? · · Score: 1

    I agree. This question got through without enough information to be answerable. My guess is this either refers to storage or bandwidth.

  19. File Under: Stupid on Microsoft Quickly Revises "Sexting" Ad For Kin Phone · · Score: 1

    A man's "breast" is not sexual FFS. He was being dopey, pulling a third-grade prank, with no sexual undertones.

  20. Re:Quite the opposite on Google Preparing iPad Rival? · · Score: 1

    You must be new here.

  21. Re:Or, very badly reasoned on In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue · · Score: 1

    That Kissinger quote just goes to show that Jews were the originators of the same sort of guilt now commonly associated with Catholics.

  22. Undecided, Software on The iPad Questions Apple Won't Answer · · Score: 1

    I can think of one single, consistent reason why all of those questions are unanswered-- because they can be provided via software, and Apple is unsure about whether to provide them (or at least whether they will be included in the release version).

    In most cases, the best clue comes from what has been done on the iPhone...

    Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad? Document live within Applications. No shared filespace. So yes and no.

    Does the iPad support Microsoft Exchange email? Yes.

    Does the iPad support VPN? Yes, but some features aren't done.

    Configuration management? Yes, for corporate customers, but some features aren't done.

  23. So what? on US Dir. of Citizen Participation Patents the News · · Score: 1

    So what? I get that some FOSS types really don't like patents, especially software patents, but where's the news in this story? It's not like she raped her dog. Nothing especially heinous, unusual, or hypocritical happened here.

  24. So? on Sharp Rise In Jailing of Online Journalists; Iran May Just Kill Them · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I just call myself a Journalist, and print up some business cards, and then murder someone-- Will I add to this statistic? If so, it's meaningless, and only demonstrates that in 2009 it's easier to call yourself a journalist without actually being one.

  25. !Zombie on Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next · · Score: 1

    A zombie is a dead thing that moves. This article describes a living thing that doesn't move. How far off can it get?