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  1. Re:Don't assume they'll be just be used for good on David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop · · Score: 1

    But, in others, it can inspire resentment and envy.

    Being just a little bit paranoid?

  2. Bio on Sony BMG Says Ripping CDs is Stealing · · Score: 1
    You can always call her, Jennifer L. Pariser

    more

    She acts as a witness as well.

  3. Re:Right? on Survey Finds Canadians Support Net Neutrality Law · · Score: 1

    A society has the right to determine the parameters by which a business must operate. This is especially true of large of these large semi-monopolistic organizations for which there is little competition.

  4. Re:Hero to the public, Villain to the industry... on Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero" · · Score: 1

    The WTO will be around to see him shortly. You are right this is anti-competitive and a danger to the market economy^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdemocracy.

  5. Re:Clause not needed on AT&T Denies Censorship, Won't Change Contract · · Score: 2, Insightful
    clause C (make AT&T look bad)

    should actually be stated

    clause C (make AT&T look worse)

    which is actually not really feasible, so it should be impossible for them to shut you off

  6. Re:This is just the European guild model, NOT on Silicon Valley Culture Originated In Radio Days · · Score: 3, Informative

    This was a highly dynamic and constantly changing environment where new companies and partnerships were created based on new ideas. The guild system was highly static and very closed. It's purpose was to limit competition, not foster new ideas. Most workers in the guild system were skilled in a particular trade, not because they had a special talent, but that they got in to the trade via family or other relationships.

  7. Re:What if the US just doesn't piss other people o on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1
    The government paying private contractors does not constitute privatization., true

    But, the government paying private contractors often does constitute nepotism and cronyism.

    By the way privatization is not usually about making things more efficient, but transferring the waste to a private interest as opposed to a government interest.

  8. Re:Solve the wrong problem, with maths on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1

    It's not intended to solve any problems, just make you more aware of security, keep you afraid.

  9. Re:Government vs Commercial on LA Airport Uses Random Numbers To Catch Terrorists · · Score: 1
    This has nothing to do with government vs private industry. This is because the "provider" of security is not related to the provider of the actual product. Besides, there are just too many differences, including the perceived threat, to even consider a simple comparison.

    This is also used by the government to keep you in fear of a terrorist attack.

  10. Re:Because a majority of US citizens are poor? on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Most Americans end up paying for their education with massive debt. They cannot afford to go to graduate school. They are forced to find a job. Foreign students usually pay their own, either via their governments or their parents.

  11. Re:Clippy on Michael Meeks On ODF and OOXML · · Score: 1

    here are the appropriate instructions clippy

  12. Re:Because it's a substitute for actual action? on Satellite Images Used to Monitor Burmese Junta · · Score: 1

    The reality is that most major nations, especially the US just don't give a damn. It just does not have enough oil. US intervention is rarely (ever?) intended for humanitarian purposes, but to protect US interests. At the moment there really isn't much to get out of Burma or Darfur or North Korea (until the US wants to fuck up South Korea by the devastation to the SK economy that a unification would cause.).

  13. Re:Couldn't the cities just deploy the Wimax? on Mobile WiMAX to Succeed Where Muni WiFi Failed? · · Score: 1

    No, no, no, It's If there's one thing history has taught us, it's that government is just as ineffective as private enterprise.

  14. Re:Patents Working as Legal System Intends on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 1

    I think that the actual figure is 4.17 every second or about 250 per minute.

  15. Re:Damn... on Vonage Hit With $69.5M Judgement · · Score: 1

    It's not this simple. Jury selection is made by lawyers who want jurors that they can manipulate. They don't want jurors that can think for themselves. So the court room becomes a big stage performing a farce, with half-assed actor-attorneys playing to the emotions of the jurors.

  16. Re:frigging idiots on Law Firm Fighting For White Collar (IT) Overtime · · Score: 1

    The chronic forced overtime many employers push so heavily actually substantially reduces per-hour productivity. This is especially true when it is unpaid. The morale of these places is usually very low and passive aggressive behavior increases. The point of overtime pay, is that if employers want to gain the extra 5% productivity by pushing their employees to work substantial overtime, then they should compensate them. The "perfectly efficient economy" simply does not work after a certain point (it actually never really works). This makes them reconsider their poor planning and inefficient policies.

  17. Re:Batteries on Method for $1/Watt Solar Panels Will Soon See Commercial Use · · Score: 1
    invalid syntax, that's

    <psst/><whisper>fuel cells</whisper><psst/>

  18. Re:Not entirely a Bad Thing on Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous, the only way that immunity would make them more cooperative would be if they immunity was contingent on full disclosure of what has happened. The immunity is intended to allow them to keep silent because they have no threat of prosecution. These are not people who want to "come clean" but those who wish to sweep everything under the rug and pretend that it didn't happen.

  19. Re:Hah! on Telecom Companies Seek Retroactive Immunity · · Score: 1

    Of course this is true as the corporations have owned congress for a long time.

  20. Re:What about manned? on New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed · · Score: 1

    Dampen means exactly what he was trying to say. The infinitive of the verb he used is "to dampen". dampen

  21. Re:You know... on U.S. Airport Screeners Are Watching What You Read · · Score: 1

    Now you're going to get your first flight, right down to a sunny little resort in Cuba. All expenses paid. No need for the macbook but feel free to bring the copy of Muscle and Fitness.

  22. Adds to GDP! on Cybercrime Now Worth $105 Billion, Bypasses Drug Trade · · Score: 1

    This is absolute proof that Microsoft is good for the economy. Without them, this substantial addition to the world economic growth would be much smaller. Open source just cannot match this.

  23. Re:Lusrs are already "forked" on Fork the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1

    I think that you lost most people on the first step (i.e. throw 2 new hard drives into the box). This is not to say that it's not useful for them if it could be setup.

  24. Re:Fork? on Fork the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 1
    Generally, if it's good enough for enterprise, it's good enough for home use.

    This is just BS. The "home" user is not a single type of who "just browses a few web sites and checks their email." They do things like play games and run multimedia software for which the use in the corporation is non existent or minimal. Even the multimedia software used in corporations is usually pretty simple. These applications a home user uses are often substantially more taxing on a system that what the corporate user uses.

    As far as server use, there is no emphasis whatsoever on the user experience, so it's not even relevant.

    Even so, I don't think a fork would be the right way to go. Linux has a long tradition of making the kernel highly configurable.

    Plus, a fork would require a huge dissatisfaction in the process with no reasonable hope for correction and a large body of developers willing to take on massive work of beginning a fork. Most of the complaints in Linux are usually concerning hardware support (i.e. WIFI).

  25. Re:I hope not. Re:Wikipedia? on Misleading Data Undermines Counterfeiting Claims · · Score: 3, Informative
    While their number is ridiculous (about $1000 per Canadian), the Canadian economy is over 1 trillion. So their estimate is less than 3%.

    $1000 is not really plausible, especially since this includes a large part of the population (small children and the elderly etc.) who do not purchase any or very little media and who do not have the capability to "pirate".