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  1. Re:My goodness on MPAA Chief Dodd Hints At Talks To Revive SOPA · · Score: 1

    Money.

  2. Re:Can't wait on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 1

    the implications of huge companies with lots of economic power targeting key politicians is kind of scary.

    You mean like massive campaign contributions from the recording and motion picture industries?

  3. Re:Better option -- Targeted blackout on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    As Google is already under some anti-trust scrutiny, selectively blocking results for specific companies for any reason would not be the smartest move for them.

  4. Re:Oh no! on EA's New User Agreement Bans Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Don't worry, you can sue them for unlimited amounts for IP, piracy and unauthorized use charges. You know, because they want to make sure you don't have to give that up:

    The only disputes that are not covered by this Section 17 are the following:

    1. a claim to enforce or protect, or concerning the validity of, any of your or EA’s (or any of EA’s licensors’) intellectual property rights;
    2. a claim related to, or arising from, allegations of theft, piracy, or unauthorized use;

  5. Re:Stupid Zuckerberg on Ceglia Sues For 50% Facebook, Old Emails as Evidence · · Score: 2

    Sounds to me like money doesn't change people.

  6. You don't receive any income after you're dead, which is all that's been extended since 1976.

  7. Re:Not terribly novel on Researchers Create Real Tractor Beams · · Score: 1

    I think you mean the 1870s.

  8. Re:Antidepressants can make people suicidal on Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal · · Score: 1

    Pharmaceuticals mostly get into the water through people's urine. The only way you could avoid that would be to not take them (or some really expensive solution, like distilling all the wastewater).

  9. Re:I like holding the mouse over fake holding one! on The Mouse Vanishes · · Score: 1

    For one, I find that the teflon pads on my mouse glide across the surface of my desk more easily than does the skin on my hand.

  10. Re:Grandfathered in on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    Think about it. That would actually result in people exhaling CO2 that wasn't already part of the biosphere. Plus, I imagine a power station would emit far more than even a very large greenhouse would consume.

  11. Re:Domestic vs. Foreign on ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones · · Score: 1

    As a member, I'm okay with my organization of half a million spending more time on all the other amendments when there's an organization of 4 million (the NRA) that focuses on the second amendment alone.

  12. Correction on US DoD Poll On Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    The sun is directly overhead at 1 PM for most of the year due to Daylight Savings Time.

  13. Re:not getting caught on What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime · · Score: 1

    OH! I get it! like the horrible economic reality that its in my best interests to steal cars as long as I don't get caught

    It would only be like that, if the punishment for stealing a car was less than the purchase price of that car.

    ... and you got to keep the car after getting caught.

  14. Re:Download Counter on Mozilla Outage On Firefox 3 Record Launch Day · · Score: 1

    I project 8.3 million, assuming the current rate is sustained (though it's likely to vary).

  15. Re:But on Nokia Unveils "World's Thinnest" QWERTY Smartphone · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm still waiting for a company to come out with a Dvorak smartphone. You may say so now, but what will you do when the type bars in your smartphone jam? What then?
  16. Re:Confidence Motion? on Canada's Proposed DMCA-Style Law Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Let me see if I have this straight: The Liberals have handed control over to the Conservatives because they're afraid of losing power that they don't even use? Or am I missing a key piece of political calculation here?

  17. Re:But what is going to be obsolete ? on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    Don't learn languages. Learn theory! Most of the people who've interviewed me for jobs would disagree with you there, but I find it holds true when you actually want to accomplish something.
  18. SP2 on Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Everybody's waiting for SP2 to come out before they upgrade to Vista, so Microsoft might as well just crank out the service packs.

  19. Re:One person, One vote only IN your state on Tweaking The Math Behind Political Representation · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong. Electoral votes are allocated by the number of Representatives plus the number of Senators (DC gets three when we pretend it has representation). Thus, the number of representatives in a state directly influences the number of electoral votes it gets.

  20. Re:I guess MSFT isn't behind intel on OLPC, Microsoft Working Toward Dual-Boot XO Laptops · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Perhaps Plan A failed and this is plan B.

  21. Re:52 buttons on The Curse of Knowledge Bogs Down Innovation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Binary boolean operators?

  22. Re:lets see.... on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 1

    Is ripway his ISP or something?

  23. Re:Now, for the most useful one on Gene Found to Explain Repeated Mistakes · · Score: 1

    This arrangement complicated matters a lot when a Swede was released from Guantanamo. The US demanded guarantees from the Swedish government that he would be supervised. Since the government is expressly forbidden from giving any such orders they couldn't give any such guarantees. Sounds to me like it simplified matters.
  24. Re:link to the actual article on Everyday Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    according to wiki it will expire in 2030 in the United States. Wikipedia says it is "scheduled to expire in 2030", which is an important distinction. True, under current copyright law it would expire in 2030, but the Mickey Mouse Protection Act is all but guaranteed to get another extension in 2018, and yet another extension each time the magic year 1923 is about to pass into the public domain.
  25. Re:not so much time as schedule, I think on Football Field-Sized Kite Powers Latest Freighter · · Score: 1

    I don't think it's so important how long it takes for a cargo to get somewhere Cargo sitting on a boat in the ocean is a type of overhead and costs a business just the same as any other overhead.