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Comment Re: DMCA (Defamation) (Score 5, Insightful) 245

Worst case they aren't decrypting it, they are just causing the option to encrypt not to be presented.

That's still circumvention in my books. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201

to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;

Comment Re: How much light? (Score 1) 79

Not necessarily as I understand it. Electrical energy currently has to be stored as a potential within a chemical element. They aren't heavy because of the electrons they are heavy because a higher capacity battery literally means a bigger battery filled with a larger quantity of heavy chemicals.

That's not the only way to store electricity, it's just the least leak prone method we currently have. It's also partially my point - just because light has negligible mass doesn't make the battery light either.

It's interesting that your lightweight optical battery description happens to be for a house (immobile) and ignores the conversion between electricity, treating that as a separate piece of hardware. Completely useless for a mobile device, which is where you actually care about the mass of the battery.

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