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  1. Re:Easily the dumbest thing I've heard today on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 4, Funny

    How anyone over at Hulu could think that this will work out for them is beyond me.

    Hulu is partly owned by Comcast. Does that answer your question?

  2. Re:Hulu doesn't even understand what they do on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    But Comcast doesn't want you to do that. And they're part-owner of Hulu.

  3. Re:Not related on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 4, Informative

    Collusion nothing. Hulu is 1/3rd owned by Comcast, by way of their 51% ownership of NBCUniversal.

  4. What the hell do you expect? on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 2

    What exactly do you expect from a company 1/3rd owned by Comcast, with the other 2/3rds being Fox and Disney.

  5. Re:WTF? They're going to pay money? on Navy To Auction Stealth Ship · · Score: 1

    It's really too small to make a decent reef, nor is it a good candidate for target practice, so they just sell it to the breakers to recycle the hundreds of tonnes of steel and stuff, same as has been done for over a century.

  6. Re:Race to the bottom - only for "bad" states. on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 2

    The US has the highest corporate rates of the G7

    Sure, highest supposed rates and 3rd lowest effective rate in the G7, thanks to loopholes you can sail a cruise ship though.

  7. Re:No One Hates DRM More Than Me ... on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    2. Maybe people aren't paying for his work because it... sucks? (I don't know, haven't read his work)

    The last 2 books of Jim's Dresden files series hit #1 on the New York Times best sellers list. I think it's safe to say people are buying his work, just not so much in ebook form due to his publisher being boneheaded about it.

  8. Re:DRM free and working fine - Baen Publishing on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    Eric has quite a bit more to say on the subject than just that little foreword. His bimonthly column at Jim Baen's Universe discussed this and related issues in fair detail over the year it ran for.

    http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/2011/09/26/salvos-against-big-brother/

  9. Re:Not Quite There Yet on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    You mean like this one http://www.baen.com/library/ ?

    That seems to be some sort of mix. First book that caught my attention I can't even buy let alone read online ... The possible free books appear to be a very small subset and the books that are listed as "Baen Books" are closer to what I'm talking about but the selection is small and the topic is very narrow (sci-fi fantasy?).

    Rainbow's End isn't published by Baen, it's published by Tor Books. I'm presuming some sort of agreement between the companies came apart resulting in the book being made unavailable (Though Tor does ebooks and have stated they're going DRM-free starting this year). Not sure why they'd leave it listed though.

    Baen isn't exactly a huge publisher. They have about 40 or so authors.

    Also, sci-fi/fantasy is all they do.

  10. Re:And so another empire has fallen on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    I presume he means the Articles of Confederation.

  11. Re:It is possible to vote in publicly traded corps on Apple and Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Can't do that with Google. The class B shares held by insiders get literally 10 times the votes of the publicly traded class A shares. Unless Larry or Sergey agree with you, you're not making Google do anything.

  12. Re:Small Scale Nuclear Power Plants... on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: 4, Insightful

    have been in use by the U.S. Navy for decades. They've plenty of safety and failure rate data on them, they've got a high safety rating, and they're pretty small.

    They also require weapons-grade uranium for fuel, which kinda rules out their use in civilian applications.

  13. Re:I don't get it on Judge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case · · Score: 1

    He knocked the actual damages down to 398.98, but had to add the statutory damages, which are a minimum of $200/infringement, giving us a total judgement of $3,587,998.98.

  14. Re:Lying with statistics on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 1

    The study shows the booster needs to be given sooner. California gives them at 12-13 years. The CDC currently recommends it be given at 11.

  15. Re:This makes perfect sense on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 1

    The study showed that California needs to update their vaccine schedule and give the booster currently given at 12-13 years at 11 instead, as per current CDC guidelines.

  16. Re:Blame the unvaccinated kids on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 2

    I think you are mixing up your diseases. There hasn't been a case of smallpox since 1978 and there hasn't been a case in the wild since 1975. Perhaps you mean polio.

    Also, pertussis is a bacteria, not a virus, and the form found in cattle is not the same as the one that causes whooping cough in humans.

  17. Re:Why not redefine "CAP"? on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Because that wouldn't be to Comcast's advantage.

    For example, one could trivially set a bittorrent client to vastly prefer internal peers and rack up a few terabytes of free transfer that Comcast couldn't take a spiky dildo to their wallet for.

  18. Re:Other things that are exempt on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Or chop it into little pieces and keep it from T-1000-ing a la AT&T.

  19. Re:This is just a stupid complaint ... on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Informative

    Great! So if i rig my bittorrent client to only connect to peers within Comcast's network, none of that transfer will count against my cap, right? No? Oh right, such concepts will only be applied when it's to Comcast's benefit.

  20. Re:Yay Canada on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    I think you're mixing up federal and provincial elections. There is no federal Wild Rose party, only the provincial one in Alberta who look like they may form the next provincial government there.

  21. Re:A step in the right direction on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, Canada will begin to take a slightly more critical look to the whole concept of 'Emergency Powers'.

    We did. It was called October, 1970.

    Seems we're due for another review of it.

  22. Re:Wait - isn't this time/place shifting? on Major Networks Suing To Stop Free Streaming · · Score: 1

    This would be more like if a company was recording shows off the air onto VCR tapes and mailing them to subscribers.

    No, it would be more like Community Access TV, i.e. the original form of cable TV. You set up an antenna tower somewhere with good reception and run cable to the houses with lousy reception (e.g. in a valley).

    This is no different, except that the cables are way longer.

  23. Re:Misleading Summary Title on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Yes, and how did they get it?

    Because the people around them (parents, siblings, etc.) were either never vaccinated or haven't kept up on their boosters.

    TDaP boosters have been being recommended for expectant parents for years now.

  24. Re:Vaccinations are for the public welfare on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    That being said the government/medical complex is partially responsible by requiring so many vaccinations.

    9 is too many for you?

  25. Re:I trust me, not other parents on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    1. The pertussis vaccine is given in multiple doses over several months (2, 4, 6, and 15-18 months). There's a rather large window of vulnerability where one may not have immunity.

    2. Even with such multi-dose measures, vaccines aren't 100% effective at provoking immunity. For various reasons, they simply don't work sometimes, about 5-20% of the time, depending on the vaccine.