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  1. I am personally just waiting for the day someone releases a movie consisting of just a single letter; perhaps a movie about drugs and night clubs named E.

    Then a takedown request on EVERYTHING that has an E in it.

    The internet will get really, really empty when all orphaned works of any kind vanish without a trace.

  2. Re:Democrats on Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces · · Score: -1, Troll

    Opposing theory:

    Maybe blacks tend to get themselves pregnant more often, but at least have access to getting an abortion when that happens so their lives aren't changed forever due to a moment of bad judgment?

  3. Re:It's the big problem with space games on Using Math To Tune a Video Game's Economy · · Score: 2

    Fast enough?

    "Guys, I'm blowing up five hundred transport ships with ship parts on Thursday. Get ready."

  4. Re:Fukushima on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1

    Maybe these scientists are trying to make a laser powerful enough to shoot the radiation dead?

  5. Re:Fukushima on Japanese Scientists Fire the Most Powerful Laser On the Planet · · Score: 1

    Because a whole country can only focus on one thing at a time!

  6. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    But what if the drone has to go up over a six foot solid fence in order to get that view? Most people can't just look over a fence that high, so it would be the equivalent of propping a beer crate against the fence, stepping onto it, and looking over the fence. That is no longer clear view.

  7. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    He took a shotgun and aimed it at a drone that clearly had a camera in order to be able to navigate.

    Since drones don't have microphones, the shotgun should count as a warning that he will shoot.

  8. Re:The article should use "ridiculous" 0 times. on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 1

    If I stopped having a car I would have to move from where I live, as the nearest store is some six miles away; hardly an easy trek to do all the time to get groceries. For others that may, as you said, lose their job, not having a car isn't a realistic option either. So you get something that makes your life a LOT easier, but in doing so government mandates there is something else you HAVE to buy.

    On the same logic you could stop paying the government and then not read the law. Sooner or later that is going to get you in trouble because you don't know the law, but you can make your life a LOT easier by buying access to reading and understanding the law.

    Please keep in mind that I find it insane that the government can hide the law from its citizens; to have a free society the law has to be equal for everyone, and this more than anything else puts a divide between the haves and the have-nots.

  9. Re:The article should use "ridiculous" 0 times. on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 0

    I'm not sure I get what you mean.

    Let's use car insurance as an example; something you are required by law to buy. That means the government can force you to buy stuff, so ... the law doesn't have to be free to read? Is that actually what you meant?

  10. Re:The article should use "ridiculous" 0 times. on Georgia Lawmakers Sue Carl Malamud For Publishing Georgia Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The agenda may be that if ignorance of the law is no excuse, access to the law as it is interpreted by the courts should be free.

  11. Re:Who wrote the summary? on Uber Faces $410 Million Canadian Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    I have a lot of respect for dyslexics who still try to express themselves in written form - I can't imagine it being easy getting past the, "People are gonna make fun of me" line of thought.

    The editors, however, failed miserably at their job in the case of your submission. Samzenpus' task here was to make it so none of us realized you're dyslexic, and instead he just clicked "Approve" without even bothering to reach for his keyboard.

  12. Re:Gee, I'm really torn... on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 1

    For those who don't think to do the math, the 2 GB per day mentioned in the summary would amount to a monthly expense for you of 880 dollars - and that's if you don't do anything with the phone yourself.

  13. Re:What is this "quest" you speak of? on Company Aims To Launch Spacecraft On Beams of Microwaves · · Score: 2

    Because we finished doing that, we just didn't invite you. For obvious reasons.

  14. Re:By comparision on UK Government Proposes 10-Year Copyright Infringement Jail Term · · Score: 1

    I hate when I can't tell if a comment is serious or tongue-in-cheek humor without looking up the legal history of other nations.

  15. Re:Copyright? on Automakers Unwilling To Share Driver Data (Yet) · · Score: 1

    "Today is Sunday and the weather is great. I am gonna just drive out to the country and head down whatever road looks nice until 2 pm."

  16. Re: Leftist propaganda article on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    Europe had very little involvement with American slave trade and later liberation, the extermination of the indians, or the current political climate in the US.

  17. Re:British man arrested for sale of grapefruit kni on Twitter Yanks Ads UK Activists Say Could Trigger Seizures · · Score: 1

    First of all, ANY reason to get constantly flashing ads banned from the internet is a GOOD reason.

    Secondly, it's just other kinds of offending pictures that other countries' citizens could learn to look away from rather than flying into a rage and trying to have them banned.

    Yes, I'm talking about the religious fanatics here. You pick which religion.

  18. Re:Politely? on Click-Fraud Trojan Politely Updates Flash On Compromised Computers · · Score: 1

    Impolitely is the standard way, because you can't just update it - you have to go to get.adobe.com, remember to turn OFF downloading McAfee Security Scan, download the installer, run the installer, wait for the download and install, turn off your browser, then lose the "Restore last session" feature in Firefox (and probably others) because it 'tests' Flash by opening Adobe.com again.

    So yeah, a background update by malware seems very polite.

  19. Re:This it perhaps the first severe accident. NO!` on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Because the job of an editor is to, get this, EDIT the submissions so they are correct in spelling and facts.

  20. Re:Do not... on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    What? She wasn't anon, she was Sister Mary Elephant! You just said so yourself!

  21. Re:what the fuck. on Should Nuclear Devices Be Kept On Hand To Protect Against Near Earth Objects? · · Score: 1

    How did that movie quote go?

    I don't fear the man who has a thousand nukes. I fear the man who only has one.

    Something like that, anyway.

  22. Re:Yay for Belgium on Belgian Privacy Watchdog Sues Facebook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    who can't enter in to an agreement with a business

    The commission is particularly interested in the use that Facebook makes of information about users who are not logged in to Facebook, and may not even be members.

    Facebook is essentially saying you don't HAVE to enter into an agreement with them in order for them to keep track of you.

  23. Re:What do we get? on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    DX11 is already in Windows 7, though.

  24. Re:Solitaire on Features That Windows 10 Will Deprecate · · Score: 1

    Look up Pretty Good Solitaire.

    I haven't used it in a few years myself, since version 11, but it comes packed with so many different solitaire games you wouldn't even believe it - including the good and classic Klondike which most of us now just call Solitaire.

  25. Re:You might want to check that data again... on Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Where there's one anti-vaxxer, there's more anti-vaxxer.

    Just like infectious diseases.