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  1. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as the purchaser agrees to purchase at his own risk it is peaceful. Otherwise if I am making any false claim of safety or fail to mention what should obviously be mentioned it's no longer peaceful. If I kill people when I produce my product it makes me a murderer, it has nothing to do with trade, you are mixing different issues here.

  2. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nope capitalism is man's way that what's make it moral.

  3. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 4, Informative

    Communism is a phase that is supposed to follow socialism. In communism the means of production are allegedly shared by everyone but this is preceded by socialism which consist in the dictatorship of the proletariat and state ownership of means of production.

    Sweden, Denmark are social-democracies, not socialist countries even though they do rely on socialism as an ideology.

  4. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Socialism killed millions of people and impoverished billions. Regulation is a violent intervention in peaceful trade, it's legitimate to oppose it, with force if necessary.

  5. Re:Cool! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    What kind of "innovation"? iPod wasn't about innovation, it was about: "Hey you can have a mp3 player without being a geek, you'll be hip we swear". Similarly iPhone doesn't look at all innovative to me, it's just brand impact, and the Chinese can't take that away from Apple.

  6. Adopt standards on It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up · · Score: 1

    Ok FOAF isn't really up to par with facebook, but I think it gives the right direction. RDF would allow people to create networking sites that'd be open to everyone, encryption might enable information to be available only to member of special groups etc. The key idea is to decentralize information.

  7. The fact on A Year In Prison For a 20-Second Film Clip? · · Score: 1

    that I can imagine them very well doing so *noisily* in the theater makes me feel no pity at all. Let them go to the special jail.

  8. Suprising on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    Very dumb women are much *less* likely to have sex than very dumb men. I would have thought the opposite.

  9. Re:Oblig. on Futurama Movie Set For November 27 · · Score: 1

    Sure they come in genetic statistical cluster created by natural geographical inbreeding. But we don't call them "races" cuz that'd be fascist or something like it.

  10. Re:Um... on IBM to Regulate Employee Second Life Behavior · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wish I could mod you up. The vision of Internet as a 3D cyberworld completly lacks of imagination, it reuuses what we have to try and predict the future... The internet forum for example has evolved to a specific form which is extremely efficient to handle its task. Absolutely nothing looked like an internet forum 50 years ago...

    A cyberspace import limitation of the physical world that get in the way... brought to you by the same people who imagined giant network of tubes to deliver mails.

  11. Taser fud... on Homeland Security Funds LED Light That Blinds, Disorients · · Score: 1

    From wikipedia:

    Between June 2001 and June 2007, there were at least 245 cases of deaths of subjects soon after having been shocked using Tasers [6]. Of these cases:

            * In 7 cases, medical examiners said Tasers were a cause or a contributing factor or could not be ruled out as a cause of death.
            * In 16 cases coroners and other officials stated that a taser was a secondary or contributory factor of death.
            * In most of the cases, the victims had been using drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine or PCP.
            * In dozens of cases, coroners cited excited delirium as cause of death. Excited delirium has been questioned as a medical diagnosis [7].
            * Several deaths occurred as a result of injuries sustained in struggles. In a few of these cases head injury due to falling after being shocked contributed to later death. Some police departments, like that of Clearwater, Florida, have tried to eradicate such incidents by prohibiting taser use when the suspect is in danger of falling [8].

    These incidents form a very small percentage of many tens of thousands of operational uses of tasers.[15]

  12. Re:Ok, the end of the Internet is here... on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    If you can't support an accusation without any form of proof, I have no reason whatsoever to believe you.

  13. Re:Ok, the end of the Internet is here... on Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I mostly agree with you but what has insider trading to do with it? Who needs insider trading when you can directly pick pockets... why expose yourself to a dangerous lawsuit when you can legally steal.

  14. random idea #2453 on Public Discussion Opened on Space Solar Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    Build a giant parabolic mirror on the moon, from moon material and use (solar powered) motors to make it point to a specific location on earth. Alternatively, point it on the Whitehouse unless they pay $1,000,000,000,000,000,000

  15. Single buyer ? on Google Pledging to Bid $4.6bn to Open Spectrum · · Score: 1

    It looks from the summary that the is FCC selling all of the 700MHz band to a single bidder. Why don't they sell geographical junks of it? It's very hard for a monopoly to arise on a limited resource because the price of each additional unit goes up as you are trying to bid for the next on. What the FCC is doing here is
    a) stealing the resource (the FCC don't own the band, they're not selling it they are holding it hostage for a ransom)
    b) selling it as a whole, making it possible for a inefficient monopoly to arise

  16. emacs on Five Finger Keyboards · · Score: 1

    I suggest using the following five keys: compose meta shift control escape

  17. Re:Possible fix on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 1

    please read: manually entered logins

  18. Re:Possible fix on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 1

    In the case you describe (user javascript on the same page as the login form) manually entered javascript is also affected... there's not much you can do about that in the browser.

  19. Re:Secure Login extension on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 1

    The nice thing with a contextual menu is that it could provide you with the list of all possible login you have for this website.

  20. Possible fix on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do not use a pull model but a push model like the bugmenot extension. A right click in the login form would allow you to automatically enter saved information. It's much safer.

  21. Re:I miss Aurthur Anderson too on The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan · · Score: 1

    SOx is based on the presumption of guilt, it requires company to take proactive measures to prove they're not guilty. The crime of some managements does not justify destroying the very basis of justice.

  22. Re:SOx blows -- I miss Enron on The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan · · Score: 1

    Enron cheating stockholders is as much a reason to pass SOx as rapist being caught is a reason to emasculate everyone.

  23. gotta love on The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How SOx is presented as an "obviously good" thing. It's killing ipos, it's preventing the little companies from going public and getting funding. Now they can't turn to the public anymore and can only rely on big institutional investors. Yeah, hurray for Sox.

  24. photonic crystals ? on Chameleon Liquid Could Replace LCDs · · Score: 2, Funny

    For Aiur !

  25. Re:Emotion and the human spirit on MIT Finds Cure For Fear · · Score: 1

    There is a metaphysics view known as compatibilism holding that men's action are deterministic and that they enjoy free will. I think human can indeed be reduced to physical law, I don't believe in a creator and I do hold that there are inalienable human rights. Right is a self contained concept, rights merely say that you may or may not do certain things, they do exist, but just have no consequence on the physical world. If you want to define rights that are compatible with human nature, you end up with natural right. They just say what is legitimate and what is not, they say you *should* abide by them, that's what right do, they're not saying that you will. You cannot contest this on the grounds of determinism or chemical brain, because then "should" doesn't even mean anything.