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Comment Re:Good news comrad! (Score 1) 36

I guess they could have it, after an appropriate time without comms, key up on the ICAO emergency frequency and start broadcasting its intentions. "Thank you for jamming the satellite communications! This satellite will self-destruct in two minutes and 45 seconds."

"I'm a 30 second bomb! I'm a 30 second bomb! 29... 28... 27..."

Comment Re:Lawsuit Targets Samsung, others, price fixing. (Score 2) 26

that phrase has no meaning, especially in this context. Who is dying of thirst in a desert and is forced to pay a huge premium not to die? Samsung should absolutely get as much money now as it possibly can, eventually the profits will reduce to a trickle, they will need all of this extra fat to survive, good for them. You can build your own memory manufacturing plant if you don't like the prices and think you can sell memory cheaper in this current market, go, do it.

Comment Re:Parent's phone gets dialog to approve .... (Score 1) 120

If that's true, why are they typing my driver's license number into the cash register?

Some states require that, ironically, Texas doesn't.

I'm aware, but unless they're piping the input to /dev/null (which they of course are not) the data is almost certainly going to a "centralized purchase record database" which the grandparent has blithely assured us is not happening.

Comment Re:why? (Score 1) 95

"The very point of intellectual property laws is that they protect only against certain specific kinds of appropriation....All creators draw in part on the work of those who came before, referring to it, building on it, poking fun at it; we call this creativity, not piracy.... Intellectual property rights aren't free; They're imposed at the expense of future creators and of the public at large.... This is why intellectual property law is full of careful balances between what's set aside for the owners and what's left in the public domain for the rest of us....It may seem unfair that much of the fruit of a creator's labor may be used by others without compensation. But this is not some unforeseen byproduct of our intellectual property system; it is the system's very essence. Intellectual property law assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely on the ideas that underlie it. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate: It is the means by which intellectual property law advances the progress of science and art...."

- [Vanna] White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) (Kozinski, J., dissenting from denial of rehearing).

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