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  1. About time on USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent · · Score: 1

    Finally, some sanity is slowly creeping back into our patent system.

  2. But do you click on the ads? on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 1

    When you allow advertising for these smaller sites, do you click on any of the ads? If not, doesn't that defeat the purpose of allowing the advertising through your browser?

  3. Re:Sloppy Mistake or Sly Lie on NID Admits ATT/Verizon Help With Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    Oh please! Not this tired old line again: "Other non-American inside the USA include students, tourists, and Democrats."
    Can we please stop the "un-American(tm)" drivel? Can't you offer us something more constructive, perhaps contributing to the conversation, rather than lowering yourself to simple name calling?

    Back on-topic. Why has the National Intelligence Director decided to drop this little nugget now? This is not something that you would accidentally slip into a conversation with a reporter.

  4. Re:Bush is Freest President In Decades on Federal Science Gets More Politicized · · Score: 1


    d) Although the execution was botched, while Democrats and liberals bemoan dictatorships around the world, George Bush put 200,000 boots on the ground to try and bring about democracy in a severely troubled part of the world.

    ???
    Are you serious? Iraq was a democracy. But we intervened, by sponsoring the Baath party (of all the groups to pick, we chose the most ruthless and coldblooded), just so we could have a friendly (?) face in power. All in the name of 'stopping the spread of communism'.

  5. Re:You forgot to mention Bush three times... on Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration · · Score: 1

    Not only did they not want to know, they actively tried to suppress the flow of information and meaningful discussion. This is censorship, pure and simple. Our government hard at work again, trying to impose its beliefs upon the public.

  6. Re:Story of my life on Surgeon General Describes Censorship From Bush Administration · · Score: 1

    No comments about being a Bushie from me. However, please back up your statements with links or references to scientific work.

    When climate scientists find data that does not support global warming, they keep analyzing and compensating for it until it shows global warming.

    How do you know???
    Show us. Educate us. If you can't do that, then your opinions will simply be that; opinions.

  7. Re:ok answer this question. on UK Proposal To Restrict Internet Pornography Sparks Row · · Score: 1

    I would think a simple fix is to require continuous psychotherapy for victims like this

    But this is exactly the problem. There is no simple fix.

  8. Re:40 years?!? on Teacher Julie Amero Gets a New Trial · · Score: 1

    She did use the computer. It's not in TFA, but Amero admitted to looking for shoes online.

  9. Re:How is this appropriate for slashdot? on Surprise Arrest For Online Scientology Critic · · Score: 1

    Wow, all this flesh-eating zombie talk is making me reconsider being christian (I'm currently agnostic)

    Wow, all this flesh-eating zombie talk is making me hungry!

  10. Re:This is (now) a famous number-theory integer! on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1

    BAM!

  11. Re:Damn Straight! on Utah Bans Keyword Advertising · · Score: 1

    So what happens when 'Bob's Toyota' and 'Alice's Toyota' both pursue the electronic mark for 'Toyota dealership'?

  12. Re:This might be... on US Lags World In Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    Are you serious?!?
    I'm in suburban Dallas. Huge place, spread out. They have room to dig up the streets or footpath if necessary. Imagine trying to lay new cable in a densely populated urban location environment...

  13. Re:Shoulda seen this coming... on One Last Spamhaus Warning Before The End · · Score: 1

    Why on earth should a UK based volunteer organisation have to travel to Illinois to defend themselves? They haven't done anything wrong in the UK, hell, they weren't even sued in the UK!

    If you ran a legitimate, fully legal, website here in the States and someone in Russia sued you, would you go and defend yourself? I didn't think so. So how is this any different???

  14. Re:want to find it on Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Oh dude, you can't post links like that without a courtesy NSFW tag... I'm at work and almost clicked on it.

  15. Re:Anyone remember Ashton-Tate and Wordstar? on Worst Tech CEOs Earn the Most Money · · Score: 1

    Which is exactly the point the parent was trying to make. If the CEO had made better decisions then they wouldn't have blown all that cash on lawsuits and could have put it into developing their product...

  16. Re:lots of pictures on Work Around for New DVD Format Protections · · Score: 2, Informative

    30 frames/sec * 60 seconds/minute * 150 minute movie = 135000 pictures, no? That's an awful lot of times pushing the print screen button. Even if you can "print" to an image file, and use a script to "push" the button continuously, once you factor in reassembling it, that'll still take a while.

    Do you really think that no one will write a quick script to do this automatically???

  17. Re:Dear Land of the Free on EU Court Blocks Passenger Data Deal with U.S. · · Score: 1

    Please, enough with the outrage. The parent wasn't trying to dishonour the memory of those who fell on 9/11. You mistake poorly worded for something else. The poster was just looking at the number of deaths on 9/11 and comparing it to other issues (read murders, traffic accidents, heart disease etc).
    I get sick of people making bullshit comments and then justifying it in the name of "patriotism".

  18. Why the hell was the parent modded FUNNY?!? on MPAA training Dogs to Sniff Out DVDs · · Score: 1

    I would have thought insightful would have been more accurate...

  19. Re:Territorial claims? on China to Land on Moon Around 2017 · · Score: 1

    Actually, this is not an entirely silly idea. Who would own what? Who decides?
    Will we eventually have to create a Moon government (think 200+ years from now), or will countries simply setup outposts?

  20. Re:Some minor defenses... on The Problems with Broadband in America · · Score: 1

    You raise a valid point here, but is there any reason cities like New York and LA (with correspondingly higher population densities) should be offering bandwidth as low as smaller, rural cities?
    Doesn't this simply point to the big corporations milking the average Joe?

  21. Re:I feel for all our australian friends on DrinkOrDie Warez Trader to be Extradited to U.S. · · Score: 1


    I take offense at your comments. Perhaps you need to think before you post? You may not respect the government or the courts, but based on what little you have gleaned from /. you disrespect our entire country? Shame on you for being so narrow minded.

    And don't think that because of the action of our courts and government that we're ashamed of being australian. On the contrary, I'm an aussie living in america, and I think we're even more proud of simply 'being australian' than most americans are of being american. Yes americans wave lots of flags and sing the national anthem at every opportunity, but I believe most australians don't think that we need to be like that. We are simply Australian. And proud.

    Don't forget the population of australia is about 20 million, compared to the united states' 290 million. We have almost the same (80%) landmass as the united states but only 7% of the population of america!
    Our GDP is only 5% of america's as well. We are not a world power by any stretch of the imagination.
    Do you wonder why our government cooperates when asked?

  22. Bloatware on 6 Firms Form Holographic Versatile Disc Alliance · · Score: 2, Informative


    If the boys and girls at Redmond keep expanding the windows kernel at it's current rate we'll need all of that 1TB and more!

    There's a cool article here for those interested in a little windoze history.

  23. Anyone else suprised? on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 2


    I am. Honestly. I guess I underestimated the intelligence of the /. community.

    I was expecting a lot of True American(tm) sentiment and an awful lot of Canadian bashing in response to some of the pro Canadian views that have been expressed so far in this thread. But I haven't seen a lot of that. It's brilliant.
    [I guess it could be explained by some good modding, but I don't want to start thinking like that!]

    Thanks /.ers for restoring a little bit of faith

  24. Re:Not like Coke employees drinking pepsi. on iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus · · Score: 1


    MSFT doesn't fire people for wearing iPODs...

    ...yet.

  25. Re:Personal financial interest drives science? WTF on Public Relations Firm Shapes Opinion with Fake Science · · Score: 1

    You write
    (2) Any increase in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will change the radiation balance of the Earth and increase surface temperatures. This is basic and undisputed physics that has been known for over a hundred years.

    If this was undisputed we wouldn't be having this conversation, would we?