Comment Re:Freedom of speech...if you can afford it! (Score 1) 1695
I believe this man has accomplished it for well under a nickel.
Comment Re:Don't worry Microsoft (Score 1) 295
Hmm, when I Bing "Google" I get "Google Invents Most Annoying Bug of All Time"
Comment Re:Journalism (Score 1) 703
I can scream names and cherry pick too
Ahem. The names in bold are commentators on NBC
May 3, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by Chris Matthews
October 9, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by Chris Matthews and Maria Bartiromo.
January 24, 2008: Republican Debate, moderated by Brian Williams and Tim Russert.
Sorry to ruin your decisive and solid evidence. Wanna take a look at the democrat side now?
Ahem. The names in bold are commentators on NBC
May 3, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by Chris Matthews
October 9, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by Chris Matthews and Maria Bartiromo.
January 24, 2008: Republican Debate, moderated by Brian Williams and Tim Russert.
Sorry to ruin your decisive and solid evidence. Wanna take a look at the democrat side now?
Comment Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score 1) 309
Forgot to mention about those shotguns.
After US vs Olofson Precedent was set that even if a firearm that was manufactured as a semiautomatic and malfunctioned so that more than one round was fired with a single pull of the trigger deemed the firearm to be an automatic machine gun. This also follows suit such that a shotgun that fires both chambered shells through the means of one trigger pull is thus an illegal machine gun. Yes, the ATF is on record saying that.
After US vs Olofson Precedent was set that even if a firearm that was manufactured as a semiautomatic and malfunctioned so that more than one round was fired with a single pull of the trigger deemed the firearm to be an automatic machine gun. This also follows suit such that a shotgun that fires both chambered shells through the means of one trigger pull is thus an illegal machine gun. Yes, the ATF is on record saying that.
Comment Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean (Score 1) 309
This also includes devices such as a shoe string or rubber band.
Behold, the yellow thing is a registered machine gun
ATF decision here
Behold, the yellow thing is a registered machine gun
ATF decision here
Comment From TFA (Score 1) 305
Sure, technology causes its share of headaches, but human error accounts for roughly 70% of all data-center problems.
And 70% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Comment Re:You've got to be shitting me. (Score 1) 422
But, But, if it were not for all the rules, the CSI team on the TV would get the bad guy all the time.
/sarcasm
/sarcasm
Comment Re:You could... (Score 1) 437
Asking a lawyer for advice on not to suing?
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Comment Re:Does this apply to everything? (Score 1) 266
The Arizona circuit court found that a copy in RAM was indeed a copy as applied under the DMCA. The RAM copy did not infringe on it's own, but became infringing when MDY's product skirted Blizzards warden technology(anti-circumvention device) which refuses content access to those who do not pass the algorithms hash checks.
Comment Re:Does this apply to everything? (Score 3, Informative) 266
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993)
and more recently
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc and Vivendi Games, Inc. No. 06-2555, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53988, 2008 WL 2757357 (D. Ariz. Jul. 14, 2008)
and more recently
MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc and Vivendi Games, Inc. No. 06-2555, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 53988, 2008 WL 2757357 (D. Ariz. Jul. 14, 2008)
Comment Re:How is this legal? (Score 1) 757
Comment Re:So, are there reasons for this? (Score 1) 757
While it is technically true that they did "sell a phone", allowing the user to mod their phone extends the overall life cycle of the hardware and locks moto out of a secondary sale when they arbitrary choose to not support the device anymore.
Comment Re:No degree, bad citizen (Score 1) 612
university, one is exposed to a variety of ideas
And chemicals.
Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers 612
theodp writes "When it comes to tech academic credentials, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu has The Right Stuff: a Ph.D. in EE from Princeton. But Vembu has eschewed Google's Army-of-Ph.D.s approach to software development in favor of tapping into the ranks of high school grads who would not normally go to college for Zoho. Seeing his youngest brother succeed at programming without a college degree convinced Vembu that others could follow that example with the proper training and guidance. And studying the best employees in his own company led to another epiphany: 'What if the college degree itself is not really that useful?' thought Vembu. 'What if we took kids after high school, train them ourselves?'"
