Comment Re:Yo dawg, I heard (Score 4, Insightful) 840
It is the word of two against the word of one. What makes his word worth more than theirs?
Innocent until proven guilty.
Comment Re:Great Work! (Score 1) 200
The AC is a straw man. Real "info wants to be free" people only want the info of companies, organizations, governments, etc. to be free. Julian Assange himself watches his own privacy very carefully.
Comment Re:what? (Score 1) 200
The companies that make these things are interested in interoperability, price, and security theater. Note that real security isn't on that list.
Comment Re:Here's Your Cocktail Napkin Business Plan (Score 1) 608
You don't understand. Citizendium's own policies actively promote pseudoscience in many areas.
Comment Re:Dropbox folder (Score 1) 307
If you're working with folders then symlinks are probably okay; if you're working with files a hard link may be the best of both worlds.
Comment Re:Here's Your Cocktail Napkin Business Plan (Score 1) 608
2. Hire real experts, real writers, professional editors. Toss the agenda-driven wankers and college kids.
Sanger tried that. It didn't work. Doesn't mean he hasn't given up yet. (NB: RationalWiki is NOT affiliated with Wikipedia; it was started as a response to Conservapedia (a large group of nutjobs with a wiki, also unaffiliated with Wikipedia)).
Comment Re:Oh come on (Score 1) 239
Wait.. we can block kdawson??
/me checks
Yes!
Comment Re:fail (Score 0) 307
Signed, Arthur XXII, King of Britain and Jupiter.
Well, I didn't vote for you!
Exactly, that's how democracy works. Oh, wait a minute, he's a king! Arthur! Get off that throne!
Comment Re:Its a shame (Score 1) 113
Sony has lots of lawyers and you don't. If you asked to suspend sales of the PS3 until "the legality is decided", Sony would sue you for damages.
PS3 Jailbreak Now Legal In Spain 113
deek writes "Spanish gamer site NicaGamerz.com have reported that it's now legal to sell the PS3 Jailbreak modchip in Spain (Google translation of Spanish original). According to the article, one reason for the legal ruling is because Sony removed the ability to run GNU/Linux on the console. One can only wonder if Sony will soon rush out a firmware update that will re-enable the OtherOS feature, and appeal the court decision. Oh the irony of that thought. The legal ruling was made on the 13th December (Google translation). There are only 5 days to appeal, starting from that date."
Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 161
I believe they do, but I don't have a link to back that up.
Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 161
IIRC the DMCA only applies to user-produced content. Drudge posts everything himself, so he's not subject to the safe-harbor at all.
IANAL, TINLA, I might be wrong.
Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 161
Second, there are penalties for bringing a lawsuit with not basis. See rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Frivolous litigation is unrelated to what everyone else it talking about (listing frivolous damages in an otherwise non-frivolous lawsuit).
Comment Re:Please Give Wikileaks story A Rest (Score 1) 385
If you don't like it, then don't read Politics stories.
Comment Re:Issue is Privacy from Other Countries (Score 1) 685
They are simply posting details about past things that the mainstream press conveniently "forgot" to tell us.
Interestingly enough, The NY Times has decided it doesn't like WikiLeaks. I would post a link, but they want a login (it's currently in the opinion section, where it belongs, but it may be archived eventually).
