Comment: Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 187
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Comment: Re:New form of taxes! (Score 4, Insightful) 411
I'd rather have no justice.
Comment: Re:this is getting ridiculous (Score 1) 550
Doesn't work. The games force you to grab a special controller to play.
Comment: One of the reasons I hate the concept of patents (Score 1) 1
This is one of the reasons I hate the concept of patents. But, seeing as they are probably in a legal tightlock, these patents will remain in the face of this challenge.
SPAM: ACLU fights patents blocking cancer research 1
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destinyland writes "The ACLU joined 20 plaintiffs — including the Public Patent Office — fighting to invalidate an exclusive patent on the genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. The patent has given Myriad Genetics exclusive rights to diagnostic tests — which they sell for over $3,000 — plus control over the rights to even conduct experiments on these genes. "Gene patents undermine the free exchange of information and scientific freedom," argues the ACLU, saying the patents also compromise the integrity of our bodies and eventually our health. Ultimately this case could answer the question of whether it's legal to patent a gene."
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Comment: Re:Nonsense. (Score 1) 405
I think you dropped an 'r' somewhere in there.
Comment: Re:Nonsense. (Score 1) 405
This is one of the factors that quells jury nullification. Maybe some rich guy should fund a public service announcement informing people of jury nullification.
Comment: Re:Whooopeeeee (Score 1) 331
Seriously stop calling it OO.o, it makes 90% of military acronyms
actually make sense, and that is messed up.
Its proper name is OpenOffice.org. Thereby we derive the acronym OO.o. I'm
generally an advocate of calling products and people by their actual proper
nouns rather than a shorter or insulting name.
Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 835
What's the cost of data insecurity[...]
Use a text file and never save to the hard drives. Bring a flash drive with portable apps on it so you don't have to use insecure apps.
[...]of giving up freedoms[...]
You have the freedom not to go to the school, and thus not use the operating system if you like.
[...]and of supporting a criminal corporation?
I'm all for due process of the law. Will they violate the laws? Probably yes. But I as a consumer won't support them. I'll use Windows if it's given to me as a service, but I won't support them directly.
The bottom line is that freedom will probably cost something. If you have exotic values such as to never use proprietary standards, then you are going to have to make some sacrifices. Most people just don't give a shit. I use Windows at my college and Linux at home because I don't have enough money to grab Windows, nor is Windows actually a priority for me to own.
Comment: Re:We just need an alternative to X (Score 1) 360
I don't give a shit. Given that I have 1 GiB of RAM, 20 MB isn't going to impact my system. It's the 500 fucking MiB that Firefox keeps taking up because the Mozilla devs can't be bothered to optimize their code and cut their bloat, or make their config options actually do something. I need Firefox because of crappy web developers who can't understand that there's more than just the mainstream Firefox, IE, and Safari (and now coming up, Chrome).
If I compiled my Xorg to be tiny, then I might have less usage. But compiling with -O3 and -ggdb (among other options), I have a larger footprint. But, again, I don't care because of the system I have. If I had only 64 MiB of RAM, then I would be more wary about my memory.
If I compiled my Xorg to be tiny, then I might have less usage. But compiling with -O3 and -ggdb (among other options), I have a larger footprint. But, again, I don't care because of the system I have. If I had only 64 MiB of RAM, then I would be more wary about my memory.