Comment: Re:Figure out where he is located (Score 1) 884
Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6
If you consider 12 people that can't get out of jury duty to be your peers.
Comment: Re:The hell it doesn't cost consumers! (Score 5, Informative) 195
Clearly, you missed the 60 Minutes report this week about Credit Rating companies and their dispute process (source).
In a nutshell, your dispute is never sent to someone who will approve it, and you basically have to sue them to fix it. Its a multi-year case and you better be well documented.
Comment: Re:Wow (Score 4, Funny) 376
Because it was safer for the rest of Naboo to have him off the planet.
Comment: Re:This is a good thing (Score 1) 712
Yeah, instead PSS just says "I don't know when the devs will have a fix for this issue..." then *crickets*.
Glad we pay MS all that money for SA!
Comment: Re:Ouch. (Score 1) 362
And IBM was raking it in because both sides were using their machines to do this.
Comment: Re:I do not trust Chinese manufacturing, BUT .... (Score 1) 288
Civil suit means the lawyers get shit tons of money and the defrauded consumers are given a check for $20 towards another replacement air bag, so they still lose.
Comment: Re:Probably (Score 2) 761
One could argue that civilized people don't imprison people for extended periods of time. One could also argue that civilized people don't imprison people at all. So what do you do with someone who is hellbent on killing everyone?
I vote for exile by trebuchet.
Comment: Madagascar? (Score 5, Funny) 105
Is Madagascar shut down yet?
Comment: Re:Maniacs, all maniacs (Score 1) 265
This just shows that FOSS fanatics are maniacs in real life too, and can't be trusted. I mean come on, you put your business into hands of these maniacs? Maniacs!
Just like every corporation is run by the likes of Kenneth Lay and Bernie Madoff.
Comment: Re:No designer outfits. (Score 1) 98
Is there really a need for the suits in the first place? For extra vehicular missions sure, but not all flights would have them and nor would all occupants need them? How many times have there been situations that the suit prevented injury or the lost of life? I don't call myself a Space historian, but from my recollection, having space suit did not help Apollo 1, Challenger or Columbia astronauts escape from their emergencies, nor were the Apollo 13 astronauts saved by theirs. Or is it really there to provide a false sense of security?
Comment: Re:Not really (Score 1) 286
Last I checked, YouTube doesn't try to extort $20000 from content owners that do choose to submit DMCA takedowns either.
Comment: Re:OK but... (Score 1) 181
Don't worry every site you visit will be sent to Microsoft so they can follow up with each site and make sure they are following DNT correctly.
Comment: Re:Face Palm (Score 2) 161
They invents a TON of technology, but everyone uses it without licensing. So they are dying.
They actually invent things,
People rip them off,
and on
The reason is that on
Comment: Re:Good reason not to go there... (Score 1) 202
The police don't bother with the central traffic control, they just flip their lights on to make all the lights turn green for them.
I figure it means Krispy Kreme just turned on their sign.
Comment: Re:hmm (Score 1) 280
The "DRM Infrastructure" is trivial for authors and publishers, I'd not dare to call it "Infrastructure" at all. Also, costs are usually insignificant: you usually protect an entire work, not individual copies.
Yes, the costs are so trivial that Wal-mart, Microsoft, and Yahoo all tried to shut down their DRM servers and only caved to the backlash, with no promises that they would remain on forever. If the costs are so trivial, then why bother with shuttering the services?