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  1. Re:Not the good professor on Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Zombie Jack Valenti is only mildly decomposed by now. I say we use him.

  2. Re:Heuristic: on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Don't Let This Die on Microsoft Moves To Quash Case, End E-mail Revelations · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is Microsoft going to defend itself by insinuating that little old ladies should have informed themselves by reading reviews of beta software, rather than by reading the label and believing what the clueless Best Buy drone told her?

    I hope so. That is a court case I would watch.

  4. Re:Not a tech support issue? on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    Because my own site doesn't get much traffic from users (and potential users) of the manufacturer's product.

    If a third-party forum exists, then bully. But not all manufacturers and service providers are unlucky enough to have a community-run forum to watchdog 'em.

  5. Re:Heuristic: on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    BT don't have to give you the soapbox, it's up to YOU to supply that.

    We have obviously confused "rights" with "courtesies".

    BT is under no obligation to provide the soapbox.
    The fact that they have provided the soapbox for at least 100 years, suddenly to deny it to people who want to talk about this one specific issue is, while well within their rights, an astonishing show of bad faith.

  6. Re:Quick note... on Can You Be Denied the Right To Support OSS? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Notice where the OP makes exactly this distinction in the last setntence?

  7. Re:oblig on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 2, Informative

    With a lengthy court case, obviously.

  8. Re:Holy crap. on Dark Matter Discovered Near Solar System? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Over there, next to your regular one.

  9. Re:oblig on After Columbine, Eric Holder Advocated Internet "Restrictions" · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    this is the cancer that is killing /b/.

  10. Does this program terminate, smartypants? on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    void main() {
          int x = 0;
          while (isTheGodelNumberOfAValidDerivationOfTheRiemannZetaHypothesis(x) == 0)
                x++;
          return x;
    }

  11. Re:Relevant to my interests on DARPA's IBM-Led Neural Network Project Seeks To Imitate Brain · · Score: 1

    Yale Leaves No Illiterate Behind.
    http://www.nndb.com/people/360/000022294/

  12. Re:Before you start cheering them on... on Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    You never go ass to mouth.

  13. Re:Jukebox on Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    Jukebox song revenues as a percentage of total performance royalties:

    (approximately 0%)

  14. Mod parent up on Lessig, Zittrain, Barlow To Square Off Against RIAA · · Score: 1

    In the hold of a ship.

  15. Re:Abolish the CRTC on CRTC Rules Bell Can Squeeze Downloads · · Score: 1

    ICBC for our car insurance in BC, everyone either doesn't care or does actually like them.

    Oh, I promise. Lots of people hate 'em.

    Consider the situation when 2 motorists get into a crash and it was one's fault and not the other's.

    "Total damage is $4250."
    "Okay, whose fault is it?"
    "Who cares? We're paying out $4250 either way. 50% each."

  16. Re:Define soul. on Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls? · · Score: 1

    because you're so familiar with the words that you don't think of the definition any more, you just intuitively know what it means.

    You just described what religious belief is.

  17. Re:Yeah, because our brains are light based on DNA Strands Modified Into Tiny Fiber-Optic Cables · · Score: 1

    I think it's yer axons and dendrites growin' tin whiskers.

  18. Re:Yeah, because our brains are light based on DNA Strands Modified Into Tiny Fiber-Optic Cables · · Score: 1

    It's a step in the direction of distributing signals across disparate parts of the brain without disturbing the brain itself. Sure, at the end of the fiber we'd have to have a device which turns some light into electricity but if they can get the light there using a single molecular chain, that means they can fit more of 'em into your skull without displacing your invaluable brainmeats.

  19. note: on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 1

    _Sprocket_ used the idiom "[to] wash one's hands of it", which is a double meaning because we were already discussing the process of hand-washing.

    Just so there's no confusion.

  20. maybe the 'rite' didn't properly convey my intent on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 1

    sigh.

  21. Re:too late, I won't buy nvidia now on NVIDIA Releases New Video API For Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's grammer. Get it rite.

  22. Re:Irrational Fear on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, if there's another successful nation on the planet, we're dooooooomed.

    For your sentiment to make sense, you'd have to be confident that America still has what it takes to go to the moon. Is that the case?

  23. parent is funny on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 1

    The probe's population is entirely microbial, mods.

  24. Re:Landing? on India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon · · Score: 1

    "Landing, with extreme prejudice?"

    Falling, with style.

  25. Re:The library blogosphere is up in arms! on Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here's the part where AC comes in and tells us what happens when you stare into the abyss