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Comment Re:Easy.... (Score 4, Insightful) 288

EULAs, like any contract, are limited to what is legal.
It IS legal, as per the DMCA, to bill for false takedowns.
Therefore, so long as the EULA otherwise survives Probate (and is a valid contract), then you can, in fact, bill people for wrongful takedowns.

However, in this case, it seems like these are just very loud complaints, not actual DMCAs. Complaints carry no legal weight, but may, say, convince your hosting company to turn you off.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 36

Fingerprint readers are a lot more expensive then a card reader. It's also trivial to install a second magstripe in an existing card reader, but it's a lot harder to mess with a fingerprint reader. Fingerprints aren't perfect (and fingerprint readers can certainly be broken), but they are a big step up from 4 or 6 numbers.

Comment Re:Not THE answer, but (Score 1) 432

That plant was correctly designed - according to original spec. The spec was modified some years later (citing concerns over the height of the wall, especially in case of Tsunami), and Fukushima was one of the plants which didn't update as they were supposed to. Strictly speaking, I suppose the plant simply stuck to the original design which turned out to be bad in this instance, but the core issue remains - if they had invested money instead of being cheap bastards, we wouldn't know or care about them today.

Comment Re:Not THE answer, but (Score 4, Insightful) 432

My concerns are not the original designs, or the engineers. It's the cheap profit seeking idiots who attempt to cut corners while running them. Fundamentally, Nuclear is a great idea! Unfortunately, Nuclear Power in the hands of a capitalist society which values immediate profit over the chance of blowing themselves up is actually really freaking dangerous.

This is what we saw with Fukushima. That reactor was well designed - and the others in the region held up decently. If the plant had been kept up even close to spec - there wouldn't have been a disaster. Hell, even if after the initial issue, if they had just dumped the core, it would of been a passing mention in the newspaper. Instead, somebody who valued money over other peoples lives, decided to make a profitable decision instead of a safe one.

It only takes one stupid idiot to ruin a good thing.

Comment Re:First my beloved Viper fighter, now this (Score 5, Informative) 820

It's called a right to bear arms. It's a right because it was considered necessary for the defense of our basic rights.

In addition, most gun related homicides stem from drug or gang violence - and a large percentage of those cases are using illegally obtained firearms.

Some of those "homicides" (depending on the statistic set you're using) may be self defense cases.

So, I'm going to argue that we shouldn't be banning magnets just because some kid is stupid enough to swallow one. I'm also going to argue that banning guns, opposed to banning Bucky balls, does more harm then good, if only because gun ownership does not correlate with homicide.. (Some recent numbers for you)

Comment Re:Trading is not stealing (Score 4, Interesting) 606

Actually, per US law, they have stolen money. They intentionally lead their client who was acting in good faith into a business deal which Goldman-Sachs could reasonably believe would go very badly, and without warning them - and they accepted money for this.

That *does* count as theft in the US.

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