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  1. Re:Tell me who actually pays? on Sources Say EU Will Find Intel Anti-Competitive · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Which is why Intel should do that voluntarily. "You don't like our business practices, we won't sell there. Good luck buying your next computer."

  2. Re:It doesn't matter what the MPAA says on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Copyright law gives an exemption for copying. But the DMCA has no parallel exemption, so it's not legal to decrypt the content in order to create the copy.

  3. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    I completely didn't think of that without the GP mentioning it. Which is quite a feat, seeing as how I ride a bus with such mounts several times a week.

    I can think of a couple of cases where bringing a bike might be useful. There's some places locally where, between the high traffic volumes in the streets and lots of pedestrians or lack of sidewalks, riding your bike is just plain dangerous.

  4. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Possibly dumb question, but... how did you bike only one way? Where do you get the bike, if you didn't leave the house with it?

  5. Re:as long as books are cheap on Amazon Kindle DX Details Revealed · · Score: 1

    Someone forgot the stores' take.

  6. Re:He asked "actively license" on US Trustee Asks To Send SCO Into Chapter 7 · · Score: 1

    If they're that big on SCO Unix, why only in restaurants? And why not in all restaurants?

    Why not in all McDonalds? One word: franchisees.

  7. Re:But...what about the environment? on Amazon Wins First Kindle Patent; Bigger Screen Expected Soon · · Score: 1

    DHMO poisoning will kill us all first, I'm afraid

  8. Re:If they broke up the channels a la carte on The Problem With Cable Is Television · · Score: 1

    Other channels have ads, but because the ads don't generate as much revenue as on over-the-air channels (with less eyeballs watching), they charge a franchise fee so they can afford to stay in business.

  9. Re:Set-top-box on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    Point. I was focusing on the more recent IRDA references. :)

  10. Re:This is familiar.. on A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode · · Score: 1

    I dunno. There's a reason why Apple didn't make OS X the default until 10.1.2... :)

  11. Re:Yeah, Screen replacement works wonders. on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    Your "isn't that difficult" was contradicted as soon as you used the term "solder". ;)

  12. Re:Set-top-box on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 3, Informative

    They have an IR receiver, for use with a remote control, but not a two-way port.

  13. Re:Step back a bit... on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 1

    I'm not suggesting that the second device would be purchased because it has a camera; it would be purchased because the low-end device is deficient. If you're talking laptops, if you want a decent processor, video card, etc., you're going to have to get something higher-end than the Mini 9.

  14. Re:Step back a bit... on Portables Without Cameras? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The main thing wrong with having a low end device is that you end up needing two devices. One for use in the camless environment, and one for your normal work--when the latter would function just fine for everything if it didn't have the camera.

  15. Re:It's true on IE8 Update Forces IE As Default Browser · · Score: 1

    I don't know how it functions with an automatic update, but when you are manually initiating the update process IE 8 presents you with an interactive window—including an install/don't install option. Unless they really went to the effort to write a different installer for automatic mode, you wouldn't have had it thrust upon you.

  16. Re:Travesty? on Klingons Cut From Final Star Trek XI Movie · · Score: 1

    A Klingon language first appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but wasn't fully fleshed out until Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.

  17. Re:It should be mandatory for IE6 users on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're right, I do. I thought that Win2K came out February 1999. My mistake.

  18. Re:It should be mandatory for IE6 users on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    It's the same site where you can download an OS that doesn't predate the Pentium III.

  19. Re:Microsoft, please read and listen! on Windows 7's Virtual XP Mode a Support Nightmare? · · Score: 1

    Why will it have reduced CPU support? The VM won't need to know about the real CPU.

    No, but the XP VM will only run on real CPUs with hardware virtualization support.

  20. Re:Well... on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 1

    Not in their current incarnations, no. Social Security at the moment is just a pyramid scheme. And national healthcare is a black hole that I'm paying money into but not seeing anything back from.

  21. Re:I call bullshit on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's cheaper because we're spending money over a longer time; there's not so much a "race" aspect this time.

  22. Re:Well... on NASA Moon Launch May Be Delayed After 2020 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cheap, fast, and reliable. Pick two—and reliable is a required option, meaning we can either get to the moon cheap or fast. In the 1960s they picked fast; this time we went for cheap.

    But hey, Congress has corporate bailouts, Social Security, and national healthcare to pay for instead of useful projects. *rolls eyes*

  23. Re:Convert? on Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation · · Score: 1

    From the subscription fees, once the initial infrastructure that required the investment is in place and operating?

  24. Re:A more general issue... on Internet Archive Seeks Same Online Book Rights As Google · · Score: 1

    But once a document is considered an orphan (that is, automatically if it's never registered under your plan), the author loses the copyright to it to Google. That's arguably worse than if it was never covered by copyright in the first place.

  25. Re:re-read the section you quote on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 1

    It's not always up to the creator/owner of the IP whether or not the works stay available. An author is at the whim of the publishers whether or not their work will stay in print.