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  1. Re: End copyright and all kinds of IP protection t on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    If you don't lose a copyright lawsuit, it's original?

  2. Re:End copyright and all kinds of IP protection to on $7.4 Million Blurred Lines Verdict Likely To Alter Music Business · · Score: 1

    How about you start making free music and show us how it's done.

    People have been making free music since pre-history. It's the natural state of music. Non-free music only started with the invention of enclosed concert halls and later blossomed with audio recordings. But during the rise of non-free music, humanity has continued to hum, tap, sing, or play instruments on their own.

  3. It's sad that the Golden Girls spammer missed this on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 1

    "Golden" Mean, and a space theme for the "cosmonaut" misunderstood lyric. Too bad.

  4. Re:OnOff star? on Strange Stars Pulse To the Golden Mean · · Score: 0
  5. Re:System worked, then? on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    sooner or later the police will be able to match everybodys DNA

    To the X number of people that are a 99.9% match.

  6. Re:Never heard of it on Gigaom Closes Shop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. Seems like there was a reason they closed shop.

  7. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    I bought a cheap camera three years ago. It's wireless and has a battery. Everything after that is just a matter of using a UPS and hiding the computer or DVR somewhere. I use a computer, and can set some free software I found to upload images and alert me when ever it detects something. Newer cameras are better, and have all that stuff built in. There's no "line" to cut anymore.

    Hopefully you disabled the UPS alarm. Nothing says "hey, look here!" like beeping in the kitchen when the power is cut.

  8. Re:DRM stands for on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    "I used this KVM* the other day to set up KVM^"

    *switch
    ^hypervisor.

  9. Re:DRM stands for on Google Introduces Freon, a Replacement For X11 On Chrome OS · · Score: 1

    Don't get me started on KVM.

  10. Brain damage isn't cool on NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool · · Score: 1

    When the horse has a brain and the damage is like I don't think that's good. Boxing makes the horse. Know'm'sayin'?

  11. Re:There might be hope for a decent adaptation on 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' Coming To the Big Screen · · Score: 1

    Starship Troopers (the movie) was an excellent parody of WWII propaganda movies riding on the coattails of Desert Storm. That's what i went into it thinking it was, and I was happy with the result.

  12. Re:Passed Time on Supreme Court Gives Tacit Approval To Warrantless DNA Collection · · Score: 1

    beyond a shadow of a doubt

    reasonable doubt. Different standard.

  13. Re:Characters can be trademarked on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    I forgot about derivative works. That would fall under copyright violation for derivative work. But a story similar to Harry Potter which centered around "Leonard Puttering, boy programmer" would work as long as the Trademark is obvious that it is different. Again, not a lawyer.

  14. Re:Characters can be trademarked on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    No one reads the subject. Of course, I didn't remember "derivative work" for copyright. Whether these are the same characters and similar story would make the difference.

  15. Re:Characters can be trademarked on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    That would be a violation of trademark. If you were selling a self-published copy of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" then you would be violating copyright.

  16. Characters can be trademarked on Gritty 'Power Rangers' Short Is Not Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Characters can not be copyrighted. Creative works with those characters can be copyrighted. i am not a lawyer.

  17. Re:chinese anti-satellite lasers on 20-Year-Old Military Weather Satellite Explodes In Orbit · · Score: 1

    And you're telling me someone out there is firing a 500kW laser into space

    Or a *lot* of smaller ones. Either way, multi-targeting or power, it would have to be someone with a lot of money and organization.

  18. Re:How does one pronounce this? on Xfce 4.12 Released · · Score: 2

    Ex Face (faster than ex ef see ee)

  19. Re:Illogical on Leonard Nimoy Dies At 83 · · Score: 2

    Kirk: Bones, you've got to save Spock!
    Bones: I'm dead, Jim.

  20. Re:He's being polite. on Schneier: Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them · · Score: 1

    FYI, if your windows admins don;t know it yet, Windows 2003 is EOL soon.

  21. Re:Are we calling this one Gamma? on Xeroxed Gene May Have Paved the Way For Large Human Brain · · Score: 2

    Could you repeat that? The bottom line of your post merged with the "reply" and "share" links.

  22. Re:Get ready for metered service on FCC Approves Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Is that how land-line phones work?

  23. Re:Politely Disagree on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 2

    And DOS commands are still quite useful. I find myself teaching younger admins DOS stuff on 'doze cmd.exe more and more. Sure, Powershell exists, but it's not ubiquitous yet, and oft-times Powershell running files as scripts is disabled by default, so batch files are still pretty useful (even if it's just a batch file to enable Powershell scripts and run the argument as a script).

  24. Stable? on Amazon Files Patent For Mobile 3D Printing Delivery Trucks · · Score: 1

    I thought 3d printers and CNC machines required stable platforms. Even a guy whittlin' with a knife has the sense not to do it in a moving truck.

  25. Re:Oh bullshit! on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    How do professional gunsmiths get their tools if no one will ship them? Is Fed Ex refusing to deliver only this specific gunsmithing tool because the intended users are amateur gunsmiths?