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  1. Re:"Non-copyrighted"? on How Best Buy Tried To Whip The Geek Squad Into Shape · · Score: 1

    Public domain very clearly means that there is no copyright as the work belongs to the people.

  2. Re:Imminent destruction! on Everyday Copyright Violations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But a professionally-done tattoo is indeed a commercial use, which could potentially make the tattoo artist liable, giving John liability for knowingly aiding blah blah blah. And he's still the work, and thus subject to destruction.

  3. Re:They have design a webmail site... on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    http://www.consumingexperience.com/2005/02/gmail-username-tip-for-idle.html

    That's from a quick Google search, but I've been hearing about this for a while now.

  4. Re:They have design a webmail site... on What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    No comment regarding which is more likely to get spammed, but I would like to note that the full stops in the gmail address don't matter. Really. You can add and remove them to your heart's content and your email will still go to the same place.

  5. Re:First Post? on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 1

    shotgun's laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

  6. Re:View URL before open it on Do Tiny URL Services Weaken Net Architecture? · · Score: 1

    Consider the case where tinyURL gets taken completely offline. A lot of links on the Internet right now suddenly stop being functional.

  7. Re:MOD PARENT "FUNNY"! on The Last DC Power Grid Shut Down in NYC · · Score: 1

    Why discriminate against humor?

    Because it's far easier to make a funny post than an insightful or informative one.

  8. Re:I for one.. on Genetically Engineered Mouse is Not Scared of Cats · · Score: 1

    Okay, I see by your UID that you are in fact new here, but you really should know that /. memes are /. memes; you will never convince anyone on /. to stop posting them here.

  9. Re:No, you're right. on NIST Opens Competition for a New Hash Algorithm · · Score: 1

    While the term encryption usually implies a decryption method, it's not necessarily so. In fact, the etymology shows that "encrypt" basically means "to cause something to be hidden", which a hash function definitely succeeds at.

  10. Re:Who is Driving? on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 2, Funny
    You did it wrong anyway.

    Who is driving?
    Oh my god bear is driving! How can that be?

  11. Re:Not New on Game Reviews are Broken? · · Score: 1

    Drop the numbers, and lengthen reviews to actually point out the strengths and weaknesses as a game rather than as a product. Tell us why the game is good, not just that you think the game is the best thing since sliced bread.

  12. Re:At least it's a valuable object lesson on Google Video Store Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but with petrol the customer is given prior warning about the evaporation.

  13. Re:drug dealers everywhere on Mod Chip Raids In Perspective · · Score: 1
    *whoosh*

    The point wasn't that the individuals owning the company are wealthy, but rather that wealthy companies are owned by enough people that the theft of a loaf of bread will hurt each individual less than the sole owner of a small store would be hurt.

  14. Re:Fuck off whiners on Mod Chip Raids In Perspective · · Score: 1
    I'm going to stay out of the argument at large, but seriously, that's a crap argument.

    Trouble to pirate = approximately 0
    Trouble to buy = roughly $50

    Given that there are two widely different costs here, your argument makes no sense.

  15. Re:"That'll make good TV." on Dateline NBC Mole Outed At DefCon · · Score: 1
    Oh, lookee! It wasn't an ad hominem!

    Did he attack your person unnecessarily? Yes. Did he say your arguments were invalid because you're an idiot? No. Therefore, it was not an ad hominem. Learn the proper definition of these words before you use them and give good evidence to your idiocy.

  16. Re:Woot, another KDAWSON hater!! on Computer Program Learns Baby Talk in Any Language · · Score: 1

    You're right. On the other hand, zeketp didn't post anonymously anyway, so your post makes no sense.

  17. Re:Woot, another KDAWSON hater!! on Computer Program Learns Baby Talk in Any Language · · Score: 1
    Translation:
    "I'm a karma whore!"

    If you're on /. and you can't figure out that the binary string was the ASCII values in binary, you need to hand in your geek card and leave /. now.

  18. Re:Isn't all time travel impossible? on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    Actually, a negative second makes sense because time has a direction, so it would just be in the opposite direction from that which you define as positive. Similarly, negative velocity makes sense. However, even negative velocity has a positive speed. Like I said, magnitude is necessarily positive (the definition in use here is just the square root of the square of the quantity of the velocity vector).

    Of course, IANAP, I just play one in class, so there is a possibility that I am wrong.

  19. Re:Isn't all time travel impossible? on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    Well, speed is defined as the magnitude of velocity, and magnitude is defined as a positive quantity, so negative speed doesn't make any sense.

  20. Re:Isn't all time travel impossible? on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1

    *sigh* Traveling back in time doesn't require negative speed, it requires FTL speed. FTL speed is theoretically possible, it's crossing the threshold of light speed that is the tricky bit.

  21. Re:"Faster than light"... on Testing Einstein's 'Spooky Action at a Distance' · · Score: 1
    As a serious question, I still don't understand why light speed is the limit - my understanding of relativity goes that it starts with the assumption that light is the fastest thing and then moves from there.

    Nope, relativity starts with the assumption that the speed of light is the same in all inertial reference frames. In fact, there's nothing in relativity that says moving faster than light is impossible! The impossible part is merely moving *at* the speed of light (well, impossible for something massive -- electromagnetic waves can obviously move at the speed of light), and thereby so is crossing the threshold.

  22. Re:455FE10422CA29C4933F95052B792AB2 on True Random Number Generator Goes Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's the joke....

  23. Re:Computer Science != Software Engineering on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 1

    No, it just sounds like someone is British.

  24. Re:$7 on Arrest Under New NY Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    $5.25 for a matinee, $7 for an evening show here in southern Oregon.

  25. Re:Seems like a clean arrest on Arrest Under New NY Anti-Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    Oh! So that's where the idea for The Ring came from!