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  1. Re:The patent system exists for aiding innovation on Champerty and Other Common Law We Could Use Today · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The resources you spend on unnecessary innovation - working round the patent - could be spent on useful innovation - creating something new or better.

  2. Re:There's Only One Way To Boil A Frog on UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    The French.

  3. Ob on NASA Tests All-Composite Prototype Crew Module · · Score: 1

    Will this module work with a real crew, or one that are made of flesh and bone?

  4. Re:The 4th amendment grants government. on The Fourth Amendment and the Cloud · · Score: 1

    So why did they go to the trouble of writing the bit that starts with 'but upon probable cause...'?

    If they'd meant no warrants shall issue, period - no, not even little tiny ones, then it'd have been a lot easier to just end the sentence right there.

  5. Re:The 4th amendment grants government. on The Fourth Amendment and the Cloud · · Score: 4, Informative
    The actual text would appear to disagree.

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    The last bit seems to list a set of preconditions which, if met, do allow it.

  6. Odd that on NASA Finds Cocaine In Space Shuttle Hanger · · Score: 1

    This is particularly puzzling because that wasn't where they lost it.

  7. Napoleon the what? on Pat Robertson Says Haitians Made a Pact WithThe Devil · · Score: 1

    Did I hear him say, around 0:15, Napoleon the Third?

    There's one lone single historical fact in the whole diatribe and he can't even get that right.

    I bet he stinks of piss.

  8. Re:Cellphone yet? on Disaster Recovery For Haiti's Cell Phone Networks · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that there was a cellphone network in Haiti BEFORE the disaster... Otherwise, it's not DR, it's INSTALLATION.

    It'd be a pretty pointless installation absent a large number of handsets in circulation.

    One must therefore presume that:
        1) there were the aforementioned handsets already in circulation;
        2) therefore, there was already a supporting infrastructure (or nobody would've bought the handsets);
        3) Out of you and Trilogy International, exactly one has the IQ of a drunken marmoset;

    and last but not least:
        4) the entity referred to in 3) above isn't Trilogy International.

  9. Re:Many Avenues to Help on Disaster Recovery For Haiti's Cell Phone Networks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Getting supplies off the planes, onto some kind of vehicles, and out to refuge camps will take some planning and coordination.

    How about mules? Bonus - they're edible!

  10. Re:Very close to proving is not proving... on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    Maybe there are different levels of debunkedness?

    If you can have "most unique" I'd say anything's possible.

  11. Re:Get rid of unnecessary one and zero keys on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Notice that the number keys begin at '2'.

    So does it go up to 11?

  12. Re:I think the worse problem is the other way arou on China Luring Scientists Back Home · · Score: 1

    What you said is not what the comic says. Learn to read.

  13. Re:I think the worse problem is the other way arou on China Luring Scientists Back Home · · Score: 1

    Can someone explain what "maximum average" means in the link above?

  14. What's the odds... on Surgeon Makes Tutorial DVD For Conscious Open-Heart Surgery · · Score: 1

    The Chinese have already pirated it?

  15. Re:So Google will support AdBlock+ ... on France Considers 'Pirate Tax' For Online Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure it technically is one since it joins the separate phrases with conjunctions, which is one of the standard fixes: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/598/02/

    But perhaps when a sentence spans six lines one would expect slightly more than one comma.

  16. yo dawg on 2010 Will Be the Year of Sandboxing Apps · · Score: 1

    I herd u like sandboxing, so I put a sandbox in your sandbox so you can run in a sandbox when you're running in a sandbox.

  17. Re:SVG development? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    vi

  18. Re:Yes, nearby on Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star · · Score: 1

    No one wants to spend tons of money to send a group of people on a dangerous mission to a place that far away.

    Depends how dangerous - and which people you have in mind...

  19. Re:Communism on Cuba Jails US Worker Handing Out Laptops, Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they were Sony laptops and the intention was that they'd eventually end up in the hands of Senor Castro (senior or junior). It's probably the only assassination method the CIA haven't tried yet.

  20. Re:Fired him first? on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 1

    His obligations to them ended as soon as they fired him. He's under no obligation to work for free. As to the stealing things analogy, the network is still there, isn't it?

  21. Re:subject-verb agreement on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    they're collective nouns and could go either way

    That's why I included two alternatives, with "or" in between. It still doesn't mean you can say "they is" or "it are".

  22. Re:subject-verb agreement on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    Of course, it isn't technically a subject verb agreement thing

    What is it then, asshat?

  23. subject-verb agreement on Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1

    It's either "has released its" or "have released their".

  24. Re:I'll admit... on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 1

    If you were the sysadmin, you could rightly claim it was a security exercise specifically targeting the wetware.

  25. Re:I'm writing this comment from 2017 on LHC Knocked Out By Another Power Failure · · Score: 1

    Because he means approximately a quarter past eight in the evening.