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  1. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 2

    No, it only applies to MOTOR VEHICLES which meet certain definitions. One of those definitions is that it must BURN or Combust,

    Where do you read that a motor vehicle must burn or combust?
    93B chapter 1 says

    “Motor vehicle”, any motor driven vehicle or house trailer required to be registered under chapter 90 regardless of curb weight ...

    Chapter 90 defines a motor vehicle:

    “Motor vehicles”, all vehicles constructed and designed for propulsion by power other than muscular power...

    This definition is quite long, but I see nothing that talks about burning or combusting.
    Perhaps chapter 60/61 discussing burning and combusting, but that chapter is related to taxes, and not the franchise laws in question.

  2. Re:Fuck those greedy bastards. on Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers · · Score: 1

    What does this have to do with Tesla selling cars in New York?

  3. Re:Hard on Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised. While Qualcomm might not sell you 10 LTE chips, they might just GIVE them to you.

  4. Re:The more patents the better on Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents · · Score: 0

    Allowing someone to take someone else's invention and profiting from it, isn't progress of Science and useful Arts.

  5. FOSS? on Mike Storey and His Plate Reverb (Video) · · Score: 1

    virtually every FOSS or proprietary sound-editing program

    Was there a need to list both types of software? Or is there another type of software, that has sound-editing programs that doesn't include this?
    Or was this just another way to toss "FOSS" out there?

  6. Re:Isn't that a bit of the fox guarding the chicke on Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info · · Score: 1

    Having sued or having been sued doesn't preclude you from jury duty at all.

    No it doesn't. BUT if the judge asks you if you have ever sued, or been sued, and you answer in the negative... When you have been sued, well that could be grounds for dismissal.

  7. Re:Well... on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    At least, that will be the argument used by the police to get a warrant to break down you door and pointlessly ruin your life.

    I am pretty sure that isn't enough information to justify a warrant. Otherwise the police would be breaking in lots of doors, even without the internet.

  8. Re:Not statistics on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    The "guilt by association" in the article is NOT the 'guilt by association" in that logical fallacy.
    What Google is saying is, "birds of a feather, flock together" (its a saying, and they got a patent for it?)
    If you are on a basketball team, chances are all your teammates are your "facebook friends" (or whatever) What Google is saying, is you like basketball, so there is a good chance your friends do as well. It seems pretty obvious to me, although I don't quite understand the patent enough, but it doesn't really seem to be saying anything more than that.
    What it comes down to, is you have a connection with your friend. They are claiming that they can guess what that connection is, and therefore know something about your friend.
    Still don't see what is patentable here.

  9. Re:Statistics on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    No, they patented labeling every teenager as a marijuana user - by association of course.

    Nothing illegal about that... at least over here in the great state of WA

  10. Re:This will probably kill people. on Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder · · Score: 1

    I have the feeling that people are going to try using this to perform techniques that are above their skill level. They will probably die.

    There are a lot of toys on the market, that if people use incorrectly to perform techniques outside their skill level, they will die.
    What is your point?

  11. Re:tech helps on Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder · · Score: 1

    Huh? The phone isn't driving the bike. The phone is just measuring what you did. You could have a coach standing on the sideline telling you to do things, is that cheating and living a lie? If you use lap times to help, are you living a lie?

  12. Re:Mmmmnnn... on Discovery of Early Human Tools Hint at Earlier Start · · Score: 2

    The suddenists think Something Wonderful Happened ~50,000 years ago,

    Isn't there another school of thought, that Something Wonderful Happened about 6,000 years ago?

  13. Re:The real problem on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 1

    The real problem here isn't the increased loss of freedom for sex offenders. I personally could give a shit less about them. The real problem is the ever increasing creep of the term "Sex offender"

    So wait... You can't give a shit about sec offenders... BUT you have a problem with the creep of the term? So YOU do care about being who are label "sex offenders?"
    The article indicates there are 73K sex offenders. That is about 1 for every 300 adults in CA!

  14. Sounds like you need a Content Management System. There are dozens out there.
    But GoogleDocs is NOT the answer.
    Curious though, how do old files get in the way?

  15. Re:not quite on Apple Loses Patent Case For FaceTime Tech, Owes $368 Million · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 2
    Yeah but:

    The actions he's taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid.

  17. Re:Facebook Chat killed it on Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype · · Score: 1

    And its frustrating, because I log into FB for a few minutes each day. A friend caught me online and said 'hey were are you, you are never here" I answered with "dude I sit in front of my computer almost 24/7... there are other ways to contact me than FB

  18. Re:DC - won't vote, doesn't matter on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    I don't live in a city (despite being inside a major metropolitan area) and thus have no mayor you insensitive clod.

  19. Re:DC - won't vote, doesn't matter on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    So wait, they ask you if you are a democrat, and if you aren't they toss your vote?
    Too many people say this, if they all voted..

  20. Re:GA- not allowed to vote due to id problems on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    A valid ID requirement for voting weeds out the illegals ...

    You are supposed to a US Citizen to vote. If you are an illegal, you shouldn't be voting. So what is the issue here?

  21. Re:GA- not allowed to vote due to id problems on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    not like voting matters anyhow due to electoral college bullshit

    Right, because the electoral college also picks your governor, your senator, your congressman, and approves or rejects all of your referendums.

  22. Re:Perspective on licensing on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    The main reason to buy something like this, is so your competitors can't license it.

  23. Re:Retire at 20 on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Imagine the coffin that will buy! Or think of the pyramid that will buy!

  24. Re:Retire at 20 on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    They are the ones with roll down windows

  25. Re:Retire at 20 on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    eh?
    That's 100K a year for 50 years, IF you don't earn any interest. A 4% Tbond would generate 200K a year... The average household income is about 50K.