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  1. Re:Why is on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 2

    David Mitchell rant about "could care less" explains it better than I could https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  2. Re:WTF? on UK Man Jailed For 'Offensive Tweets' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Correct, in fact the first ever UK twitter libel case just concluded a few days ago. Chris Cairns (New Zealand) vs Lalit Modi (India) http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/558806.html

  3. Shorter Video on Martin Jetpack Climbs 5000 Feet Above Sea Level · · Score: 2
  4. Re:Did any of you actually read the complaint?! on Man Arrested For Linking To Online Videos · · Score: 1

    According to http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/dhscomplaint/ the subject is actually accused of EMBEDDING, not linking. That is, he is alleged to have embedded copyrighted video streams (and/or their surrounding pages) inside his own site with surrounding ad content, instead of linking the user to the actual hosting web site. The major mistake by ICE appears to be a failure to actually use the word "embed" in their complaint. I would expect a takedown or lawsuit if I did this, so it's difficult for me to be surprised. Of course, that's no reason not to retrieve the links from the Internet Wayback Machine and (properly) link them from all of our home pages.

    Kind of like how Google Images embeds my copyright images without my consent?

  5. Not so great for the victim on London Police Credit CCTV Cameras With Six Solved Crimes Per Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If someone wanted to murder and rob me I would rather a policeman standing where the camera is rather than the camera recording me getting murdered.

  6. Roots on Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages · · Score: 1

    Are Google forgetting how they managed to take number one from AltaVista? Fast, clean and accurate results trumps all.

  7. Re:Warrant CANCELED on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 2, Informative

    "Swedish authorities have cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11049316

  8. why isn't there any ad campain? on Interview With a Convicted 419 Scammer · · Score: 1

    When was the last time there was a major government sponsored ad campain on TV/radio/print warning people about scammers/spammers and the like?

  9. Page rank is broke. on Target.com's Aggressive SEO Tactic Spams Google · · Score: 1

    Page rank is broke and to be honest it always has been. "These terms only appear in links pointing to this page".

  10. Emus on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 1

    "Thomas Givnish, a plant ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, adds that the hypothesis could be strengthened by "exposing these plants to ... emus or ostriches to demonstrate that these traits deter browsing by birds" When I was studying evolution at Canterbury University in 2000 one such scientist from the US was about to conduct this experiment with emus I believe. I finished uni the following year and never did find out the results of the experiemnet, anyone know?

  11. Re:Effects of Cannabis on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    It really does effect people differently. Me, I lose my appetite, get hyperactive and I seem to concentrate better. I particularly like and believe I am better playing table tennis and pinball stoned.

  12. Re:When in Rome... on Google's Street View Meets Resistance In France · · Score: 1

    "Computer giant Microsoft refused police requests for information on a suspected burglary ring, claiming as a United States-based company that it was not subject to New Zealand laws." http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/02/microsoft_the_burglars_friend.html

  13. The sooner a steak is grown in a petri dish .. on US FDA Deems Cloned Animals Edible · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The sooner a steak is grown in a petri dish the better. No more farms = less deforestation, less farm runoff polluting rivers, less greenhouse gases etc

  14. Re:The Text I Actually Submitted on Publishers Seek Change in Search Result Content · · Score: 1

    But why is it opt out when every other media is opt in?

  15. Re:Well, he's over 40. on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes · · Score: 1

    "Conservative by the time you're 35" "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! And would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal?" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=112

  16. About to make the switch on Do You Recommend Google Maps API or Microsoft Live Maps? · · Score: 3, Informative

    About to make the switch to Microsoft Live Maps, I find Google maps to slow to load, if they load at all. Of course there isn't anything stopping you trying both and choosing the best that suits your needs.

  17. Re:Neither good nor bad. It's immaterial. on Wikipedia Adds No Follow to Links · · Score: 1

    The worse thing they did was put the little green pagerank on the toolbar. They should also get rid of the link operator link:http.....

  18. Re:Anti-trust against Google? on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    Links are one of the things but when you have dozons of authoritative sites competing for number one the title is very important. It's not all about the page rank. Look at the sites above local.live, they almost hall have maps in their title.

  19. Re:Anti-trust against Google? on When Your Site Ceases To Exist · · Score: 1

    No its because they don't have "maps" in their page title among other things, how does "Live Local Search" as a title relate to maps?