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Comment Yes. (Score 0) 371

Good. Because free speech does not equal freedom of responsibility. If the government prevented him from posting it in the first place, then it is a freedom of speech issue. In this case, they charge him/her with disorderly conduct after he/she posted it. Note they have not order the post erased, although I am sure the sites will remove the posts anyway for TOS harassment violations if they haven't done so already.

Comment Re:Hardware mixing (Score 1) 520

That is well and good. But try to play two programs at once that access the sound device at the same time and all the CPU in the world won't help you there. Who would want to play more then one sound at a time? Try playing some music while the desktop plays a notification sound. Or while online in a vitriol world, play a media stream while attending a music event.

Submission + - "jailbreaking" now allowed in USA (loc.gov)

TechwoIf writes: The Library of Congress just put out new rules for "exemptions" of the DCMA.
Allow owners of used cell phones to break access controls on their phones in order to switch wireless carriers.
Allow people to break technical protections on video games to investigate or correct security flaws.
Allow college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to break copy-protection measures on DVDs so they can embed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.
Allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.

Comment Another one spotted last night. (Score 3, Interesting) 163

I was on my way home last night very late, around 11pm and saw a meter streak about 1/4 the way across the sky. Normally I see them flash a white streak across the sky and burn up quickly, but this one stayed non-white burning stage for a long time and rather slow across the sky. I lost sight of it near the horizon and wonder if that one hit the ground. My location was south central west Indiana and looking east.

Comment Auto headlamps. (Score 4, Interesting) 134

The same thing was done in the past. Only 6 inch round headlamps was allowed in cars manufactured and sold in America. It was the best back then, but what happen in the following years is that it stop innovation all together in America and Europe started to make better headlamps. Years ago was the law was repealed and non 6 inch headlamps was allowed to be installed on autos. Took years for America to catch up.

Comment AP news (Score 1) 237

That's due to over 90% of them are regurgitated AP feeds. I was in favor of AP forcing google to filter out there copyrighted AP stories and was hoping AP and google did not streak a deal. But they did. :-( Would have been nice to have a short list of oredgenale reporting stories.

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