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  1. Re:Not a surprise on Amazon "Invades" College Campus With Media Center (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm surprised only 40% of packages come from Amazon. Students are already hooked. I'd imagine most of the other 60% comes from clothing stores that refuse to market through Amazon and I'm sure Amazon has a plan to assimilate them.

  2. You can be fired and unofficially blacklisted. Academia can be more political than D.C.

  3. It would never happen in the US on Ontario Parents Refusing To Vaccinate Their Children Could Be Forced to Take Science Class (qz.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh ya...u jus try to lern me them ther science and I'll lern you 'bout my rifle.

  4. Re:Easier way on Bing Bans 'Computer Support' Ads From Its Network (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    My mother called Microsoft and they tried to sell her a support. She got me on a conference call with him after she had already been on the call for quite a while. I actually listened to him until I realized he was blatantly lying to her to sell her some bogus overpriced piece of shit support plan that would have never actually solved her problem. Microsoft doesn't want their ad business to hurt their shitty support business.

  5. Re:What about infringement? on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullying with patents doesn't require a defendable patent, just a legal system which creates incentives to settle due to the price of fighting. Violators aren't treated as a class, so each defendant has to cough up their own lawyer fees.

  6. Re:What about infringement? on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Then you inherit all the worker rights violations which makes Chinese companies so attractive from an economic standpoint.

  7. Re: Slashdot sucks on Apple Invests $1 Billion In Uber's Chinese Rival Didi (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope. Just new editors.

  8. Re: Is it a slowdown? on Tech Layoffs More Than Double In Bay Area (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    No facts. Just speculation. These tech workers had the wrong tech skills

  9. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    the defendant in a trademark infringement . . . case must use
    the mark in connection with the goods or services of a competing
    producer, not merely to make a comment on the trademark owner's
    goods or services

    In Googe's case the defendant is using the mark in connection with the defendant's service. This service is Googe's political activity. You have failed to show that political activity is not considered a service.

    Radiance's use is protected under the first ammendment. Googe's is not. Clear and simple.

  10. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    All snark aside, politics is not commerce.

    Not true. Look at Radiance Foundation v. NAACP and Hershey v Hershey. Political activity is a service.

    Like in Hershey v Hershey there is no first ammendment case here. Googe is trying to co-opt a brand like Hershey was.

  11. Re:As it should be, false headline. on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    Yet another case of sensational headlines trying to sell a non-story.

    Evidently, that's all /. is good for these days.

  12. Re:Thats really cheap on Germany Had So Much Renewable Energy That It Had To Pay People To Use Electricity (qz.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, it doesn't. The global wind average is not a constant.

  13. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Trademark law would be useless if you could just drop a little bit of a trademark and call it your own.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    You could try to prove parody, but it's going to cost you a lot in legal fees if they try to sue. It's not an easy defense.

  14. Re:Next Up... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    RTFA. You're not that clever.

  15. Re:Sure, whatever... on Sue Googe Uses Google's Font To Run For US Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Googe's intent was to use a font is clearly similar to Google's trademark.

    It may have a potential to hurt Google's brand. That's enough for Google to win a lawsuit. They can afford really good lawyers. Trademark infringement cases have been won on shakier grounds.

  16. Average American watches about 5 hours per day. You're the weird one.

  17. Re: You wouldn't believe how a teenager discovered on 15-Year-Old Boy Discovers Long-Lost Ancient Mayan City Using Constellations And Google (nzherald.co.nz) · · Score: 1

    In general, since we know of several environmental facts that influenced the location of Maya settlements, the idea correlating them with stars is utterly unlikely.

    I bet Ivan's original response was much more colorful.

  18. Re:Too late on 11 Years After Git, BitKeeper Is Open-Sourced (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Perforce to stay relevant had to create a p4 git fusion and created a Web UI called git swarm. I still think it's a terrible VCS that breaks every tool that you try to integrate with it, but at least they have a solution for those hardcore perforce guys who won't give up the reigns who need to work with real developers.

  19. A little bit of Googling could have prevented you from publicly revealing you are a moron.

    https://support.t-mobile.com/d...

  20. Re: Does The Paper Account For Regenerative Brakin on Scientists: Electric Vehicles Produce As Many Toxins As Dirty Diesels (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You haven't seen the way I drive a hybrid.

  21. Re: Finally on Debian Dropping Support For Older CPUs (distrowatch.com) · · Score: 1

    i686 a.k.a. Pentium II is only 19 years old

    If someone can manage to run current debian distributions on a pentium II then that would be news worthy. If you can't even do that it's not worth talking pre-pentium II.

  22. Re: Redlining... on Amazon Bows To Pressure To Bring Same-Day Deliveries To Poor Areas (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Retail is the wrong word. For some reason we all forgot this stuff is called e-commerce.

    Second Amazon is in the business of selling everything and logistically shipment is the last bit to be truly optimized with the kinds of data analytics that they are running in the rest of the distribution chain.

    They can predict you will buy something before you buy it. The parcel companies can't optimize for that because they don't have the data.

  23. The real crime is that someone has to pay for these surveys and it's either the taxpayer collectively or the group that is suffering from an unfair disproportionate application of the law. It's a crime because the surveys sweep a problem under a rug and it's costing that community money.

    Why do we elect these knuckleheads?

  24. Re: One could argue that the clue is in the name.. on Facebook's Newest Privacy Problem: 'Faceprint' Data (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Don't worry. These millenials have no concept of privacy and will glady jump into your photo. It's hard to care about faceprints when most of them have a dick pic or a public intoxication photo floating around that will be haunting them forever. By the way they are already working on a dickprints. I think millenials are the Miley Cyrus generation. Eventually they'll jump into your photos clothed or not and we all just let it happen.

    Privacy is dead. I'm sure there are places you can keep your privacy, but no one knows how to find them anymore because it's not on Facebook.

  25. Re:While their people starve on India Plans To Spend $6 Billion On Creating New Forests (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    That's almost as stupid as Trump's wall. Have you read a history book? Go read about Frederick Douglass.