Comment Re:Recipes aren't necessarily copyrightable (Score 1) 565
(the GPL is a copyright license).
No, the GPL is a license. The creator of the work retains the copyright.
Comment Re:Easy for hackers to fix? (Score 1) 757
then the equivalent of "jamming in a penny" should be safe and effective
Except that the "eFuse" is inside one of the ICs, probably one of the processors, and is completely inaccessible. Since you won't be able to modify the code that checks the state of the fuse AND you can't physically "jam a penny" into the fuse, you're still shit out of luck.
Comment Re:so what? (Score 5, Insightful) 97
Losing credit card numbers or bank account numbers for large groups is bad; losing email addresses is not.
Losing email addresses is not AS BAD as losing more sensitive information, but it is still not good. I, for one, wouldn't be happy about that information being exposed.
Comment ASCAP v. RIAA (Score 5, Insightful) 483
It seems that the ASCAP should be going after the RIAA so that artists can actually make money on music recordings again. Forget about free. People are willing to pay for music, but even when they do, how much do the artists actually get anyway? Not much, if anything.
Comment I see no sig... (Score 2, Funny) 255
I'm sorry, my "Disable sigs" preference has completely cloaked your sig.
Comment Re:scours of users (Score 0) 314
Actually, it was used as a noun. According to the wiktionary, "scours" is described as "diarrhea in horses and cattle caused by intestinal infection." That sounds about right.
Comment Re:4chan (Score 5, Funny) 218
Mod parent +5,000, Insightful.
You missed your chance, dude. You should have said: Mod parent over 9000, Insightful.
Comment Nothing to do with the sea (Score 1) 675
I hate to be pedantic, but I am. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/sea.html
Comment Re:Everything but the first two films? (Score 1) 256
Forget "rebooting." What they need to do is to combine franchises. I'm anxiously awaiting the Alien vs. Terminator movie, myself. Its set in the future after the Terminators have wiped out all of the humans. Tag line: Alien vs. Terminator: Who ever wins, we're already dead, so we don't give a fuck anymore. It's going to be huge!
Comment Re:Heaven forbid... (Score 1) 517
Given how important a functioning judiciary is to society, jury service really ought to be better rewarded, so competent people don't have such a strong incentive to get out of it.
Even if I did want to serve on a jury (I've never been given the opportunity), one or the other of the lawyers would probably reject me as a juror. Its widely known that they don't want smart, well-informed people on the jury so that their bullshit can work better.
Comment Re:Here's one... (Score 1) 683
Don't be absurd. Even the lowliest code would know that it is "#define" and not "#DEFINE" and that there is NO equals sign! Gah!
Of Catty Rants and Copyrights 339
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A newspaper copies a rant from a girl's MySpace page and reprints it as a 'Letter to the Editor' without her permission. Could the girl sue for copyright violation? This question provoked much more disagreement among legal experts than I expected." Read on for the details.
Comment Re:Well, the cable industry should know. (Score 5, Funny) 442
I don't understand your medical analogy. Please restate in the form of a car analogy. Thanks!
FTC Shuts Down Calif. ISP For Botnets, Child Porn 224
An anonymous reader writes "The Federal Trade Commission has convinced a federal judge to pull the plug on a 3FN.net, a.k.a. 'Pricewert LLC,' a Northern California based hosting provider. The FTC alleges that 3FN/Pricewert was directly involved in setting up spam-spewing botnets, among other illegal activities, the Washington Post's Security Fix Blog writes. From the story: 'Pricewert hosts very little legitimate content and vast quantities of illegal, malicious, and harmful content, including child pornography, botnet command and control servers, spyware, viruses, trojans, phishing related sites, illegal online pharmacies, investment and other Web-based scams, and pornography featuring violence, bestiality, and incest.' The story quotes a former Justice Dept. expert saying the FTC action may be a smoke screen for a larger criminal investigation by the federal government in 3FN's activities."
Comment Re:This is only the beginning. (Score 1) 567
it is the only way to be sure, of course.
