Comment Re:This will go well.... (Score 1) 238
Humm... Kinky! Just hope the receiving lawyer is female!
Probably her name is Sue.
Comment Re:Heh (Score 1) 139
Apologies if this is a dumb question because I don't know anything about it.
Could this be done in reverse in a zero gravity environment to push someone/thing down to the floor?
The idea of course would be to create artificial 'gravity'.
Submission + - China Becoming Intellectual Property Powerhouse (chosun.com)
eldavojohn writes: A lot of Westerners view China as little more than the world's factory manufacturing anything with little regard to patents, copyrights and trademarks. But it seems as far as patents go, China is moving on up. According to the WIPO, the company that applied for the most patents in 2008 was not an American or Japanese company but China's Huawei Technologies. And China has made astonishing ground recently moving up to third place with 203,257 patent applications behind Japan (500,000) and the United States (390,000). It remains to be seen if these patents applications will come to fruition for China but it is evident that they are focusing on a new image as a leader in research and development. The Korean article concentrates on 2008 but you can find 2009 statistics at the WIPO's report on China along with some statistics breaking down applications by industry.
Comment Re:But what created the law of gravity? (Score 1) 1328
One could even say they were agnostic and leaning towards no god or gods and no souls, but to be honest they'd have to admit they can't prove those don't exist.
With that logic you'd have to believe in absolutely everything. Ghosts, Vampires, Aliens, FSM, Unicorns, goblins, drangons, orcs, elves (short and tall), Fraggles, Transformers, ninja turtles, Voltron, Zerg, absolutely anything that anyone could dream of.
Because you can't prove anything doesn't exist, all you can prove is you haven't seen them yet.
Atheism is a faith, it's a faith in things we can prove to exist, God and the above don't fall into this category.
Comment Re:WTF (Score 5, Insightful) 709
Because if the ISP can't say:
"Oh a packet from Google... that's a nice packet you got there Google, be a shame if something were to happen to it. Gimme $100 and I'll make sure it get's where it's going real quick... unlike "lucky Bing" over here"
That hurts my profits.
Comment Weather For Nerds. Stuff that Confuses (Score 4, Funny) 413
See that big bright ball in the sky? Thats the sun.
This wet stuff? It's called rain.
None of this happens in basements...
Comment I've been using this for a while. (Score 1) 114
Boobs I've been Boobs using this Boobs for a while Boobs and it does Boobs pretty well Boobs. But it Boobs sometimes takes longer Boobs to go back and Boobs edit my writing.
So I don't bother.
Boobs.
Submission + - Cdn Record Industry Facing $60B Copyright Lawsuit (michaelgeist.ca)
An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist is reporting
that the four major record labels that comprise the Canadian Recording
Industry Association have been hit with the largest copyright
infringement lawsuit in Canadian history. A class action claims
$60 billion in damages for unauthorized and unpaid uses of recordings.
The record labels openly admit at least $50 million in liability but
believe working to pay the outstanding amounts "would be an
unproductive use of time". The plaintiffs, led by the estate of
jazz musician Chet Baker, are also seeking punitive damages given the
strict enforcement of copyright by the same labels against consumers.
Submission + - RIAA: Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever (arstechnica.com)
Oracle Goddess writes: "Buying DRMed content, then having that content stop working later is fair writes Steven Metalitz, the lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office. "We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works." In other words, if it stops working, too bad. Not surprisingly, Metalitz also strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers."
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Expected Tomorrow 149
arcticstoat writes "After dishing out a few copies of the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 to select customers in October, Microsoft has now decided to let the general public get their hands on the beta of the service pack, starting from tomorrow. The beta of the service pack will be made available via Microsoft's Customer Preview Program on 4 December, and it includes all the updates since Service Pack 1, as well as a few other bits and pieces. Most notably, Microsoft says that Service Pack 2 'improves performance for Wi-Fi connection after resuming from sleep mode,' and adds the Bluetooth 2.1 Feature Pack, ID strings for VIA's Nano CPU and support for the exFAT file system for large flash devices."
