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  1. Re:Well on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    Guess that's a long winded way of saying you're not a member of your local, well armed militia? Typical.

  2. Re:Well on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    So how long have you been a member of your local militia zehaeva? Or are you just an anonymous coward?

  3. Re:Well on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately this is kind of what we have. (emphasis mine)

    Which is why I used the word literally to differentiate it from what we currently have.
  4. Re:jobless on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm confused, is the Boy Scouts of America a bunch of commercial pirates?

  5. Re:IP is the most important issue facing us in the on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice try, but all work produced by the government is public domain. The only way your point is valid is if a private corporation produced this law and didn't put it into the public domain.

  6. Re:Something funny re: the amendments to section 4 on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know you're being facetious, but selling an inferior drug under the name of the biggest competitor is technically an IP violation (a trademark one). Personally I think it should be a case of fraud and treating it as a trademark issue is simply ridiculous.

  7. Re:Well on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 1

    If copyright bought laws isn't capitalism at its extreme (alright, companies literally being the government would be a bit more extreme, but they like to have mascots so that's unlikely), I don't know what is.

  8. Re:Seizing hardware on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if they'd take a blind person's dog or an elderly woman's phone just as quickly?

  9. Watch out WoWers! on H.R. 4279 Would Establish Federal IP Cops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It would allow the Feds to seize hardware that has even one file coming from 'dubious origins,' e.g. downloaded from P2P

    So if a computer has anything they got from p2p, then the cops can confiscate their computers? So if, say, a cop doesn't like someone's politics, ethnicity, race, sexuality or gender and that cop knows the person plays WoW, they can confiscate the person's computer with no possible recourse for the victim? Sure a charge won't come from it, but they get to make life annoying for that person.
  10. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 2, Informative

    here is good reason why there are pedestrian sidewalks and roads for motorists but no bike lanes. You are almost correct. There are, in fact, many places where they do have paths or lanes specifically for bikes. When there aren't, the law says that bikes must be given the same consideration as a car, truck or motorbike. Don't like it? Call your congressmen. I'm sure big oil would love to help you in outlawing bikes.
  11. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    reinvest in property closer to their workplace and potential future workplaces. Hard to do when businesses offshore and outsource like nobody's business.
  12. Re:Nonsense. on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 1

    How did the human race possibly survive before cars? Astonishing how we could have lived with just horses!

  13. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 2, Funny

    it might not be safe, but there are no checkpoints in the mountains that only allow SUV's in Most people don't like to gamble with the lives of their families. Have fun up the mountain though.
  14. Re:Good riddance! on The SUV Is Dethroned · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I use to ride on the sidewalk until I got ticketed. Take it up with the police if you don't like me riding on the road.

  15. Re:Grr sidebar history on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 1

    Keep it consistent and let people with special needs enable it Sounds like the people with special needs are the ones that need it consistent.

    Interfaces change. Sometimes for the better (tabs), sometimes for the worse (grouping windows in the taskbar). But by keeping things stagnant (sorry, I mean consistent) you guarantee innovation will die.
  16. Re:Grr sidebar history on Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ctrl+H is shorter than Ctrl+Shift+H, and it opens the history in the sidebar on FF3 here. Of course, I don't remember what FF2 did. Crtl+H opens up the history in the sidebar on FF2. Its hardly new.
  17. Re:Wake up! Domestic spying is bad news. on Data Retention Proven to Change Citizen Behavior · · Score: 1

    Human freedom has to extend to freedom of information Sure. Freedom of information also means no passwords which means I get to look up your bank balance whenever I want.
  18. I tried to go Linux free on Microsoft Free, One Year Later · · Score: 1, Troll

    I tried to go Linux free from 7 months, but ultimately the various shortcomings of the software used under Linux and Linux itself (apparently I had a driver problem that made my internet connection work quite slow), drove me back to Windows XP. I do, however use OOo, Gimp, Firefox and Thunderbird.

  19. Re:The Gods Must Be Crazy! on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 1

    I envy the simplicity of their lives. How much are they paying for gas these days? How many times have their phones rung today? What's their average life expectancy?
  20. Re:Expert Loses Job on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 1

    Why do we assume these tribes don't want contact? Shouldn't someone ask them first? Sure asking them will cause contact, but its fairly minimal contact (just a few months to learn the language).

  21. Re:Misread? on Philip K. Dick's 'Ubik' To Be Filmed · · Score: 1

    Thankfully there wouldn't be any problem with getting it stiff.

  22. Re:Online? Or Offline? on Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data · · Score: 1

    so they could literally have hired everybody who will work the Games At 5 cents a day why wouldn't they hire everyone?
  23. Re:Inevitable on Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we ARE screwed unless we act So what are you doing besides posting on the interfrets?
  24. Re:cruise on Olympic Tickets Contain Microchip With Your Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In China someone is a terrorist if they believe in free speech and decent wages.

  25. Re:First time Bush has posted something sane. on President Bush Signs Genetic Nondiscrimination Act · · Score: 1

    I can't provide absolute proof that you're not a figment of my imagination. Does that mean you're not real?