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  1. Re:Wrong conclusions on Chrome Users Are Best With Numbers, IE Users Worst · · Score: 1

    Whereas at work, I find that Chrome is the infinitely crashier one than IE (although Firefox beats them both out for sheer crashy shittiness).

  2. Re:GAMBLING FUNDS TERRORISM!!!11! on US Shuts Down Canadian Gambling Site With Verisign's Help · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Canada needs to go burn down another White House.

  3. Re:$30,000 a month on Megaupload Founder Dodges Jail Again; Wife Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    It's been reported in one or two articles from the early days of the trial.

  4. Re:Gee, That's Too Bad... on Megaupload Founder Dodges Jail Again; Wife Under Investigation · · Score: 2

    New Zealand isn't America. For anything beyond a painkiller or two, our prisons just stick you in a van to the nearest city hospital - she'd give birth the same place as everyone else just under guard, and the baby would likely be taken into protective services custody immediately after.

  5. Re:$30,000 a month on Megaupload Founder Dodges Jail Again; Wife Under Investigation · · Score: 1

    You know, it's because he has Diabetes or something like that right, not because he eats a lot? (He has lost 16kg in jail though, for what it's worth).

  6. Re:It's not enough... on Paypal Forces E-Book Publisher To Censor Erotic Content · · Score: 2

    Using services other than PayPal (an eBay, Inc, company) on eBay is a violation of eBay's terms of service, and can get you banned.

  7. Re:Wheel clamper committed a crime on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Yes, but trespassing on a rail line is a criminal offence. Not a tort.

  8. Re:Is it legal? on Police Find Apple Branded Stoves In China · · Score: 2

    Mickey Mouse is copyrighted, not trademarked. And yes, you can use another company's trademark in a field they aren't in. In my country, we have McDonald's Family Restaurants (hah!) but we also have McDonald's Sewage. McDonald's Sewage uses the same arches logo as the fast food chain.

  9. Re:Wheel clamper committed a crime on 4 UK Urban Explorers Face Orders Not To Talk With Each Other For 10 Years · · Score: 2

    The idea that freedom of speech is so low, that trespass (which is not a crime BTW) trumps it? Who decided this? Parliament? No, one layperson. All it takes for rights to disappear is one layperson in the UK it seems.

    In many countries, trespassing on a rail line is a special offence. Where I am, it's an instant $10,000 fine. It's all meant to discourage you walking on railway lines in front of 80 tonne metal bricks which require an entire kilometre to stop. The Underground is also likely electrified, further increasing that risk.

  10. Re:Profit & Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 0

    Youtube doesn't get a cut of the ad proceeds, Youtube is owned by Google. Google gets all of the ad proceeds. Then they optionally give a bit to the "content owner".

  11. Re:So what is your suggestion then? on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    I'm told there can be. And there definitely can be those dumb pop-over ads (which suck major donkey balls too).

  12. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Diplomatic Immunity I'm afraid. Can't arrest a politician for doing their job. Best you can do is ask for permission to sue the Federal Government.

  13. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    Wow, what country is this where they get the tax right even a majority of the time?!?

  14. Re:So what is your suggestion then? on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's incorrect. If the video is configured to run a pre-roll ad, it can only be played in Flash on Youtube.

  15. Re:So what is your suggestion then? on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    Who is this mythical "we"? Tim Berners-Lee? The W3C? The ITU? The IEEE? DARPA? The DoD?

    You represent no more than yourself, and you have no right to speak on behalf of anyone else without their consent. That's as arrogant as your belief that you have the right to dictate what the internet can be used for.

  16. Re:Would be great... if it worked on How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    I guess they're representations of KML data or something... You know, geographic shapes?

  17. Re:Dear Google on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 1

    Actually, no the working group does appear to have Microsoft as a member, but the lead contributor is not Microsoft. That they can't even adhere to the spec themselves would definitely indicate that they didn't write it since Microsoft's modus operandi is to make specs so confusing that only they can adhere to them. So I counter your bullshit masquerading as facts.

  18. Re:Would be great... if it worked on How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation · · Score: 1

    That's not how GTFS works. Basically it's 8 CSV files in a zip file. Agency, Calendar, Calendar Dates, Routes, Shapes, Stop Times, Stops, and Trips. A very ugly, hard to parse format.

  19. Re:Dear Google on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 1

    If by Microsoft you mean W3C, then yes. Otherwise, bullshit.

  20. Re:misleading/wrong question on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 2

    Bullshit. You know where P3P actually comes from? The World Wide Web Consortium [w3.org] (W3C). The people who brought us HTML, and CSS. Where does it not come from? Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft isn't even one of the contributors (AT&T, IBM, ETH, MIT and the University of Venice are though). Funnily enough, the author didn't even imply in that G+ post you link to that Microsoft invented P3P.

  21. Re:misleading/wrong question on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. You know where P3P actually comes from? The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The people who brought us HTML, and CSS. Where does it not come from? Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft isn't even one of the contributors (AT&T, IBM, ETH, MIT and the University of Venice are though). Funnily enough, the author didn't even imply in that G+ post you link to that Microsoft invented P3P.

    So, your focus on "ohhh, Microsoft!" is a false focus in comparison.

  22. Re:Do as you like on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Your flaw is to assume that all people pirating the software are not potential customers. Some of them are.

  23. Re:Do as you like on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Or instead of exporting the project, export Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".

  24. Re:Umm.... key only? on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    No, that isn't why they do it. They do it that way because activation and shit like that frustrates the crud out of the target market of Visual Studio - developers. VS 2002 and VS 2003 had activation, and it annoyed so many developers that they no longer do it. What they do for mindshare and market penetration is give away VS Express editions. They have the functionality you need to make apps, they just can't load plugins (who cares) or use stuff like IntelliTrace (cool, but if you're using it you're probably doing so in a pro capacity so can afford it).

  25. Re:Two words: on Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but you didn't NEED to crack WinZip, just like WinRAR. It just sits there saying "please stop using me. You're 4535365 days past your evaluation period!"