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  1. Re:I should not have to pay $35 on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    You can think of bit slavery as moral and legal, but it's not.

  2. Re:I should not have to pay $35 on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    Those that don't are bought up by ones that do.

  3. Re:easy solution on First Three-Strikes Copyright Court Case In NZ Falls Over · · Score: 1
    (1) It will help you survive troll mods. (2) Many readers ignore ACs by default. (3) Context of authorship is information.

    However suit yourself, a person's identity is their own resource.

  4. Re:What about my wants? on Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab · · Score: 1

    It's OK, that's why we come to slashdot, I mean the frustrated nerd support group.

  5. Two Points on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    (1) this is an unusual, though not unheard of, use of what is rule 404. However, it opens up the chance of a mistrial and appeal.
    (2) it also means the defense has opened the door to 404(a)(2)(B)(ii):
    (B) subject to the limitations in Rule 412, a defendant may offer evidence of an alleged victim’s pertinent trait, and if the evidence is admitted, the prosecutor may: (i) offer evidence to rebut it; and (ii) offer evidence of the defendant’s same trait; and

  6. Re:What about my wants? on Craig Venter Wants To Rebuild Martian Life In Earth Lab · · Score: 2

    Make a lot of money and you are an eccentric visionary. Until then, you are just a frustrated nerd.

  7. Re:easy solution on First Three-Strikes Copyright Court Case In NZ Falls Over · · Score: 0

    should get an account so you can harvest some karma.

  8. This is the result of the paper for oil economy on First Three-Strikes Copyright Court Case In NZ Falls Over · · Score: 1
    Those with resources sell them, and invest the profits back into the developed world, in return for paper. The paper is backed by debt servitude of people in the developed world –Mortgage Back Securities, student loans, etc. This is the price you pay for staying in a carbon economy. It can come to an end whenever people are willing to take the medium term hit of going to an electrical economy. But old people won't and they can rent enough not so old people for a while. Also, it would take a party of government, because only government has the taxing, organizing, buying, and in some cases fiat power, to do it.

    When techies stop being pro-property, the system won't last, because virtually every piece requires technologists. It will come to an end soonish, because the cash outs for building part of the system are going away.

  9. Now to get one with an Erdos Number... on Randomly Generated Math Article Accepted By 'Open-Access' Journal · · Score: 1

    that would be a coup

  10. Thanks on Making a Slashdot Omelet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    to people who generally have a thankless task.

  11. Re:careful what you wish for on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    Google is expensive advertising. It is free for people who are already getting robbed, sure. What you don't realize is that google was one of the factors that killed content providers getting paid anything unless they became a content farmer or click whore.

  12. Re:careful what you wish for on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    Not if it takes the economic value of the original it isn't.

  13. Re:careful what you wish for on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 0

    The traffic is not valuable if the ad revenue was already extracted from it, at that point, it is a cost. The change in traffic dynamics is being brought about by the change in ad rates. Since you, the public, neither want to pay taxes, nor pay for content, the fight is going to be over the pipe. It is the world you want to live in.

  14. Re:careful what you wish for on Google Threatens French Media Ban · · Score: 1

    And slag the ad rates. I'm sure that lots more people will show up at your place of work if you started offering a 99% discount. The basic problem right now is that information, itself, is close to 0 in marginal value, but the ability to find it is not. However, if information becomes valueless, the only providers will be those that create for personal needs. Or those that have a monetary interest. There was this guy, Adam Smith, he talked about this, maybe you should read his stuff one day.

  15. Re:I don't get it ... on Carbon Dating Gets an Update · · Score: 1

    Since most C14 is generated in the upper atmosphere, there is no telling when the Carbon in sea water was absorbed, meaning there's no base line.

  16. Re:All Fooy on Carbon Dating Gets an Update · · Score: 2

    Since the decay of fission products produces thermal neutrons, some of these can be absorbed by the very common N14 to become C14. Above ground atomic tests produced a spike of C14, for example.

  17. Re:All Fooy on Carbon Dating Gets an Update · · Score: 2

    Not correct, absorbing an electron would not change the atomic number. N14 absorbs a thermal neutron, and C14 decays by beta decay. K capture emits a neutrino.

  18. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 0

    Which until a few years ago was in favor of legalizing child prostitution, and many whose candidates are still evasive about the question.

  19. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    Same is true with libertarians.

  20. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    But they both agree that climate change is a hoax and that people should die for lack of health care, so they at least have that in common.

  21. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    They all believe in the ownership of government by another power, for the Tea Partiers, it is the churches, for the Libertarians it is the pot smoking bit coin miners.

  22. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    Tea partiers hate gays the most, dixiecrats hate blacks the most, and libertarians hate climatologists the most. All of them agree that a big state stops them from engaging in their preferred for of looting, so that has to go first.

  23. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 0
    That's right you printed those dollar yourself, built the whole internet yourself, and invented the quantum chromo dynamics just to build your own DRAM. Absolustely everything you've done is all by yourself.

    By the way, stop confusing technocrats with liberals.

  24. Re:Really? on Jill Stein and Gary Johnson Debate Online Tonight · · Score: 1

    While taking when in need herself after smoking like a chimney.

  25. Re:Gridlocked with No Way to Prime the Pump on Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used · · Score: 1

    The Risk free rate of returns is defined as bonds issued in the peg currency, because if that blows up, everything else will too. Please at least learn the basics of what you are spewing about.