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  1. Re:The rise of indie on RIAA Math: Sell 1 Million Albums, Still Owe $500k · · Score: 1

    It's easier. Distributing and advertising your album yourself is hard work that pays off but if someone goes "I'm an artist, I'm above such worldly matters" they sign up to let someone else take care of that and get screwed for it.

  2. Re:What happens when the power goes out? on Could PSTN Go Away By 2018? · · Score: 1

    Make sure your telephone can run off the line power, we've got a DECT phone and I think the base station requires a separate power supply so in case of a power outage the phones would stop working.

  3. Re:Well on Could PSTN Go Away By 2018? · · Score: 1

    Therefore no business depends on cell service as their only communication line.

    No but it's not either PSTN or cellphones, there's also VoIP as an option and businesses do rely on that.

  4. Re:The real question is on Germany Considers Banning Wild Facebook Parties · · Score: 1

    People don't think much. Especially when they're promised free alcohol.

  5. Re:Can't wait... on 3D Chocolate Printer · · Score: 1

    The first thing Europeans tried with cocoa was smoking it. Guess that didn't work out.

  6. Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    Yes but the difference in signal quality between high and low quality cables isn't enough to distort a digital signal into uselessness.

  7. Re:But the Best Buy guy said it does on Retailer Calls Rivals' Bluff On "HDMI Scam" · · Score: 1

    Gold plated cables turn the TV's connector into a sacrificial anode, i.e. the TV's connector corrodes faster than normal.

  8. Re:Tons of lumber? on Renewable Energy Production Surpasses Nuclear In the US · · Score: 1

    I think he meant lumber as a building material.

  9. Re:What happened to poor people on Realistic Robot Designed For Dental Students · · Score: 1

    You want them to exercise on real people? I'd hope they'd use these for training until they can be trusted with a real patient.

  10. Re:WTF? on Patriot Act vs. the EU's Data Protection Directive · · Score: 1

    Well, what IS a natural right? If you recognize something as such and someone else goes and uses force to trample all over your rights, where does that leave you? A right is only one when you are able to exercise it and as a society we formed a state to ensure that we can exercise our rights. What these rights are is an agreement within the society and differs between societies (e.g in the EU we consider life a basic right and the death penalty is a violation of that right, in the US the death penalty is in use).

    As an atheist I believe that a "natural" or "god given" right is one a human made up and didn't want to justify.

  11. Re:Honestly - why do business in the U.S. on Patriot Act vs. the EU's Data Protection Directive · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's conservative propaganda to make people demand the tax breaks that are the only constant in conservative policies around the globe (even GREEK conservatives demand tax cuts!).

  12. Re:LOL! American Freedom! on Law Professors vs the PROTECT IP Act · · Score: 1

    Which only prevents you from having a website, not from speaking in other ways. In China you'll get arrested or shot if you try to demonstrate.

  13. Re:Good job on behalf of the hacker on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 1

    How do you prove that nobody stuffed fake ballots into the box though? That identifies a person as a voter but not a ballot as cast by a new person.

  14. Re:Not even trying, are we? on Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, you can tell it's an obvious fake as they call it a "sad day". Fox would never do that.

  15. Re:Though High, Not Even Close to LinkedIn Hype on Zynga Seeks $1 Billion In IPO · · Score: 1

    Well, they bought up the popular iPhone game Drop7 and renamed it to Drop7 By Zynga. Building up an app store presence would give them other income sources, if their strategy overall is to get a presence in multiple markets that may work out well.

  16. Re:Acoustic Levitation on Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest · · Score: 1

    We could build pyramids but it would be fucking expensive. I guess that's why the pharaohs built the things though.

  17. Re:Related disturbing trivia on Bug With "Singing Penis" Is World's Loudest · · Score: 1

    Yes but schwanz means tail or colloquially penis in German..

  18. Re:You need to move to texas on 40GB of Data That Costs the Same As a House · · Score: 1

    Careful with bodies of water, during e.g. a flood you should stay away from water as it'll likely be heavily infected and polluted, enough that you'll die from it.

  19. Re:incoming calls on AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Well, that's pre-paid and 20c/min is pretty bad as far as pricing goes (not for pre-paid but compared to contracts).

    First company I could think of for a European example is Base, the options there are the various flatrate plans you can stick on your contract. The unlimited ones are:
    - Calls and SMS to the E-net 10â
    - Calls to the fixed line net 10â
    - SMS to all networks 10â
    - Calls to all networks 50â (several smaller plans with limited minutes are listed as well)
    - Data, throttled after 5GB 20â (50MB 5â, 500MB 10â, 1GB 15â)

    So infinite calls + SMS + 5GB Data adds up to 80â per month, in practice 1â buys about as much as 1$ so the prices are comparable to the US. If you don't need infinite calls you can save a ton by dropping that from your plan.

  20. Re:free market on AT&T: Meet the New US GSM Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Hm, is there any country where public companies have a monopoly on cellphone networks? There are enough networks and they appeared late enough into the whole privatization craze that I doubt any country has a govt monopoly there outside of maybe a few fringe countries that are generally terrible compared to the western world.

  21. Re:More reasons why the Cloud is a disaster on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 1

    Then they just charge you with destruction of evidence.

  22. Re:Good luck with that. on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 1

    The EU doesn't particularly like giving all data to the US. Look at the whole SWIFT debacle a few years back.

  23. Re:Politics making technology useless on The Patriot Act and the EU Cloud · · Score: 0

    Al Qaeda is a franchise, that's the key problem with them. Annihilating the whole thing would not eliminate Al Qaeda as a name as any random idiot or disenfranchised youth can take the name.

  24. Re:Not sure, TBH on Google Patents Censorship of "Annoying" Content · · Score: 2

    Hm, your gaming example reminds me that most large gaming websites have templates for any game title whether they have actual content or not, searching for a review of an obscure game will spew out pages full of IGN, Gamespot and so on advertising themselves as the best source on the game when all they have is a page stating the title and basically "we know nothing about this". I'd like to see Google do something about that.

  25. Re:On the same note... on Google Patents Censorship of "Annoying" Content · · Score: 1

    America has fairly high ones compared to Australia, the latter often has caps like 5GB.