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Comment Re:Um, what? (Score 2, Insightful) 492

by fishtorte on Thursday March 12, 2009 @03:44PM (#27171805) Attached to: So Amazing, So Illegal

what if your reaction is "this looks and sounds like ass" ?

You'd be correct.

Comment Re:funny, it booted faster (Score 1) 296

by fishtorte on Saturday January 24, 2009 @12:00AM (#26585209) Attached to: Happy 25th, Macintosh!

In the first Macs, the system software was stored in the ROM

False.

Comment Re:Not right if you're paying for school (Score 1) 383

by fishtorte on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:42AM (#26320227) Attached to: Universities Patenting More Student Ideas

I believe the argument is that if the technology was developed with "significant" school resources, the school should get something out of it.

Comment Welcome to capitalism. (Score 1) 383

by fishtorte on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:38AM (#26320197) Attached to: Universities Patenting More Student Ideas

There was a time when states effectively funded universities. Now that they don't (with our permission), and they're forced to play games with intellectual property and patents, who are we to complain?

Call your fucking legislators and have them pony up for your schools.

Comment Utterly irrelevant. (Score 1) 517

by fishtorte on Sunday November 02, 2008 @05:16PM (#25605243) Attached to: How We Used To Vote

Not everyone can kick the shit out of fascists trying to steal their vote. Nor are they necessarily aware that it's happening.

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