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  1. Re:I repudiated copyright, and recommend others do on Learning To Profit From Piracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know, I've been getting more into music lately and almost have a band together. The thing is, we're all college students, and then most of us are going to go on to be engineers and scientists, and if we keep up with it, we're not going to have time for many live performances, while recording can even be done long distance. I doubt #2 and #4 are going to be our product, and although it's for fun, making money at it is a good thing. We're probably going to go with the "Put everything up on a website as CC and beg for donations" route, or maybe the Jonathan Coulton "CC but you have to pay for it" route. but I can understand #1 being a big part. Music is EXPENSIVE to make well and I can understand people with other day jobs not being able to gig.

  2. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    If anything, Obama is nothing, and McCain is poison.

  3. Re:Both sides... on Obama & McCain Conflicting On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1
    He's less conservative, that's liberal enough for America.

    Sadly enough, for any real liberals, our choices are to vote for Obama, and hope he wins, or vote for someone else, who will not win, and will possibly get the worse of the two elected.

    From a liberal point of view, Obama is infinitely better than McCain, for the same reason that one meal a day is infinitely better than none. It might not be the best thing, but it is better than nothing.

  4. Re:ehh.. on Blu-ray Gone In Five Years, Samsung Claims · · Score: 1

    I wonder if PROM/EPROM is any cheaper than flash, as I suppose it would benefit from the same advances, and a movie only really needs to be flashed once.

  5. Re:My domains start with a on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1

    but then if you are a clever hacker, you'll start your attack at 'z'

  6. Re:Here in the US on Ray Bradbury Turns 88 · · Score: 1

    I remember reading all four of those during high school, which for me was 2001-2006, though I'm certain Animal Farm was for my own leisure. The remaining three I read for school, but the only one I'm sure that wasn't elective reading instead of required was Brave New World. I'm glad I read all of them though.

  7. Re:Speaking of passwords on Moving Beyond Passwords For Security · · Score: 2, Funny
    12345

    did it work?

  8. Re:who dual boots on a single hard drive anyways.. on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    laptop owners.

  9. I know I had this idea in 2002 on Home-Based Hydrogen Refueling Station · · Score: 1

    Or sometimes thereabouts. It's just a gaseous battery, effectively.

  10. Re:Wow. on Scientists Create Synthesized DNA Bases · · Score: 1

    Except it would be like 2 new colors that no one could see. There would have to be significant amounts present as rNTPs to transcribe it, and it would have to bond to specific tRNAs It would, in computer terms, be like adding two instructions, but the processor can't quite handle them.

  11. Re:I'm already paying tax on Amazon purchases on Will Amazon Get a Visit From the Tax Man? · · Score: 1

    Amazon.com's shipping for a small paperback book (manga, to be exact) comes to $3.99 I think that's the standard, and the tax reflects the amount plus shipping.

  12. I'm already paying tax on Amazon purchases on Will Amazon Get a Visit From the Tax Man? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The full 8.75% sales tax rate. Not only that, but the price taxed also includes the shipping. Not that that should surprise me but it certainly does annoy me. Amazon is suddenly becoming much less of a good buy than it was. Thank you Albany.

  13. Re:Why can't it be simple. on Safeguarding Data From Big Brother Sven? · · Score: 1

    Although usually it's just a hash of the message, not the entire message, due to processing constraints. At least that's how it was a while ago. Processors have gotten a LOT better.

  14. Re:Casualties of TMI on McCain Backs Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    As well, I have read that the stress due to the whole TMI incident caused increased levels of cancer to people nearby. So, worrying about TMI cost more lives than TMI.

  15. Re:Apple is not using TPM for security on Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy · · Score: 1

    I have a brand new Intel Macbook. No TPM.

  16. Re:Satanic on Estimated World Population to Pass 6,666,666,666 Today · · Score: 1

    Not to be pedantic, but Atheos doesn't exist. They have a wikipedia article about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarianism

  17. Re:Post Inducer on Mining the Cognitive Surplus · · Score: 1

    Not really.

  18. Re:If the Democrats were economically progressive on End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride? · · Score: 1
    What about stocks?

    A large percentage of the assets of the most wealthy is in stocks. Should they not be taxed fairly?

  19. Re:If the Democrats were economically progressive on End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride? · · Score: 1
    Uh...no. Progressive tax is the best tax idea.

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  20. Re:If the Democrats were economically progressive on End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride? · · Score: 1
    Sales tax is regressive. Those making less money spend a larger proportion of it.

    What I, at least, want is a progressive tax, where those who can afford more, pay more.

  21. If the Democrats were economically progressive on End of the Internet's Tax-Free Ride? · · Score: 1
    If the Democrats were really economically progressive, they would be opposed to the sales tax. It's one of the best examples of a regressive tax out there. The income tax is a lot better at taking from those who can afford it.

    However, as I'm sure others will note, Democrats tend to support sales taxes. New York is highly Democrat, and you see 8.75% sales tax. I still don't see the purpose of this.

    Tax the money once, when people earn it. Tax it well.

  22. Re:Old news on Virgin America Uses Linux to Entertain Inflight · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only if they look. Or use Gentoo.

  23. Re:Still, no re-write of the crappy calc charts on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I wanted to get full-page charts for a lab I was writing up. It took me a long time to figure out no commonly available free spreadsheet would give me full page charts where I can mouse over a data point and see its value.

  24. Re:As long as pcs have free online play and user m on DirectX Architect — Consoles as We Know Them Are Gone · · Score: 1

    Side point, but the wii I have is hooked up to a 13" tv and it still can accommodate at least 3 people at the same time easily.

  25. Been Done on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are sexy, sexy von Neumann Machines