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  1. Re:We can make them change their minds yet... on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    Correction: bit.ly link does go back to this article, originates from /. tweet to this article which I had copied and pasted, had wrong URL copied when I intended to paste Hypnotoad video link in here.

  2. Re:We can make them change their minds yet... on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 1

    Had intended to link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU2RlSCdxU (Hypnotoad 10 hours), must have had the bit.ly shortened URL in my clipboard from posting it on Twitter. Guessing /. blocks shortened links due to abuse which is why it redirects back here. FAIL on my part.

  3. We can make them change their minds yet... on Futurama Cancelled (Again) · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 hours of Hypnotoad: http://bit.ly/13O13rl

  4. Needs a soundtrack by Soundgarden on DarkSeas Games Developing Spiritual Successor To Road Rash · · Score: 2

    Like the Playstation & PC versions of Road Rash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFkxYUxxtD4

  5. Re:Want to collapse the Bitcoin market? on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 1

    All you would have to do is wait until the last Bitcoin has been mined and their value has made them too cumbersome. It would be laughably easy to pull this off.

    So... the year 2140 then? Have fun with this plan in 127 years, good luck!

  6. Re:Cool! How do they feel in your hand ? on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 1

    What size are they...

    Oh, what's that ?

    You can't ?

    While this ATM doesn't dispense them there are physical Bitcoins you could carry on your persons, https://www.casascius.com/

    So long as they can be kept physically secure in the machine there is nothing to stop future BitCoin ATMs from being able to dispense said coins.

  7. Re:What's with all the hostility? on World's First Bitcoin ATM · · Score: 1

    And in the end, when I want to sell WoW weapons, buy webserver space, or play a few games of poker online, why would I use gold, credit card or paypal, which all require me to remember log-in creditials, give away information and/or pay a bunch of third party fees.

    In the United States banks were ordered to block these transactions under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlawful_Internet_Gambling_Enforcement_Act_of_2006 ), though there are some poker sites that continue to accept US players following Black Friday.

    For BitCoin poker SealsWithClubs.eu (available in the US) runs exclusively on BTC deposits and withdrawals while SwitchPoker (US players not accepted) takes it as a deposit method and then converts it to fiat. Another site, InfinityPoker, which has been in beta for close to 6 months plans to also be available to US players and will accept BTC as a deposit method and convert it to fiat (and back to BTC when you withdraw).

  8. Re:X-Ray Detector T-Shirts? on DHS Eyes Covert Body Scans · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You know those WiFi-sensitive T-Shirts from ThinkGeek? Maybe it's time for something that responds to X-radiation...

    New Clothing Line Reminds TSA of the 4th Amendment - http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/07/new-clothing-line-reminds-tsa-of-the-4th-amendment/

    Not thrilled with the Transportation Security Administration's new touchy-feely pat down techniques and full-body scanners? Now there's a line of underclothes that offer a friendly reminder of the Fourth Amendment during controversial searches.

    It's called 4th Amendment Wear.

    Metallic ink printed on shirts spells out the privacy rights stated in the amendment and is designed to appear in TSA scanners.

  9. Re:Declared wars? on Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding the Enemy · · Score: 1

    authorization of force != declaration of war
    declaration of war = declaration of war

  10. Re:morally bankrupt on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    even traitors deserve a fair trial, see also John Adams legal defense of Captain Preston after the Boston Massacre.

  11. Re:So Dick goes to Jail? on Lawmaker Reintroduces WikiLeaks Prosecution Bill · · Score: 1

    Lets make sure it's retroactive

    They can't... Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3

  12. Re:Small government? on New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts · · Score: 1

    Do the satellites still trade with Russia?

  13. Re:Small government? on New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts · · Score: 1

    They can have the Monarchs (who play in the Verizon Wireless Arena), the University of New Hampshire Wildcats are better anyways.

  14. Re:Small government? on New Hampshire Begins Open-Data Efforts · · Score: 1

    NH has two large airports (Manchester and Portsmouth [and several smaller ones]), a power plant (Seabrook), and is not likely to be attacked on it's on if it adopts a foreign policy of non-interventionism and free trade (you know, like America was INTENDED to) - in addition we see $0.71 worth of services for every dollar we ship to DC, 47th out of 50 in the country (source: Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State, 2005 - http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html) - we no longer need the federal government and would do better on our own.

  15. Doublethink on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Winston sank his arms to his sides and slowly refilled his lungs with air. His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them" - 1984

  16. Re:Right to Privacy ? on A Nude Awakening — the TSA and Privacy · · Score: 1

    There is *no* explicit right to privacy in the Constitution, or any other doctrine that the USA was founded on. There is a limitation on unreasonable search and seizure, but no explicit right to privacy.

    The bill of rights provides only basic examples of your rights, anything not explicitly given to the 3 branches by the document is retained by the people and States; or at least this is how Madison intended for it to work. There was strong opposition to the inclusion of a Bill of Rights to the document for preciously this reason, that the people would interpret them as their only rights.

  17. Re:hate speech is NOT protected anywhere. on A Single Re-Tweet Lands Chinese Woman in Labor Camp · · Score: 1

    "A Place of Assembly Certificate of Operation (PA) is required for premises where 75 or more members of the public gather indoors or 200 or more gather outdoors, for religious, recreational, educational, political or social purposes, or to consume food or drink." - http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/applications_and_permits/pa.shtml

  18. While the MPAA are on the topic of original intent on MPAA Dismisses COICA Free Speech Concerns · · Score: 1

    Someone should bring copyright in to the conversation - the whole limited time (14 years in the first bill) "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" bit seems to have been forgotten.

  19. Re:How does this happen? on Inside a Full-Body-Scanning X-Ray Van · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Obama is as bad as Bush? Are you cracked?

    Obama voted against war. Bush started two wars.

    Citation Needed

    Then Senator Obama served from January 3, 2005 – November 16, 2008, the Iraq resolution was enacted enacted October 16, 2002, the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists September 18th, 2001. When did Obama "vote against war", when he was in the Illinois State Senate?

  20. Re:No predator(s)? on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could it be that whatever fauna that survived, adapted and/or now thrives might do so under conditions perhaps harsher due to radiation, yet plausibly improved by a potentially reduced presence of any predator species, whom may not have fared as well, or may have been displaced?

    The deer got superpowers, but the bears glow in the dark

  21. Re:Patriotism Is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The .fortune at the bottom of the page showing this story say:

    It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

    Slashdot has achieved artificial intelligence. Or it's another part of the same conspiracy hiding the Lincoln Memorial from Beck's zombie army. Or both, since "reality has a well-known liberal bias" (- Stephen Colbert).

    My .fortune offers a retort: "Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley"

  22. Any prior C&D's? on ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Anyone familiar with any prior actions from the NPB that were of a similar nature?

    Austin Powers: "Baby, the other other white meat"

  23. Re:Gambling leaves a trail of victims on Mass. Gambling Bill Would Criminalize Online Poker · · Score: 1

    To give your comment some context, it's also worth noting that in the UK 0.6% percent of the population struggle with problem gambling, 68% of the population had participated in some form of gambling, and only 3% gambled online.

    Source: British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 - http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pdf/british%20gambling%20prevalence%20survey%202007.pdf

    Additional arguments can be be made regarding poker vs. other casino games, but I'll leave those for other posters.

  24. Per Mr. Lessig's request, copy and paste: on Warner Music Forces Lessig Presentation Offline · · Score: 5, Informative

    WMG contact form: http://www.wmg.com/contact
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    Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A [17 USCS Sects. 106, 106A], the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include--

    (1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

    (2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

    (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

    (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

  25. why should I pay a music tax? on Warner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities · · Score: 1

    I'm deaf you insensitive clod!