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Comment Re:TLD Squatters? (Score 3, Insightful) 116

by ardyer on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @09:10AM (#40307831) Attached to: ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List

From what I understand the application fee is 6 figures, I can't imagine anyone can afford to TLD squat. He's probably an attorney who specializes in this kind of bureaucratic paperwork and has lots of different clients who want TLDs.

Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits 278

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:14PM from the night-of-the-lepus dept.

It turns out the soy-based wire covering on cars built after 2002 is irresistible to rodents. Nobody knows this better than those unlucky enough to park at DIA's Pikes Peak lot. The rabbits surrounding the area have been using the lot as an all-you-can-eat wiring buffet. Looks like it's time to break out The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Today's Children Are Officially Potty Mouths 449

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @10:32AM from the kids-say-the-#@^*est-things dept.

tetrahedrassface writes "When the Sociolinguistics Symposium met earlier this month swearing scholar Timothy Jay revealed that an increase in child swearing is directly related to an increase in adult swearing. It seems that vulgarity is increasing as pop culture continues to popularize vulgarities. The blame lies with media, public figures, politicians, but mostly ourselves. From the article: 'Children as young as two are now dropping f-bombs, with researchers reporting that more kids are using profanity — and at earlier ages — than has been recorded in at least three decades.'"

Politically Correct Zoology 218

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday May 16, 2010 @06:58PM from the cover-all-the-naughty-bits dept.

flynny51 writes "Dr. Dylan Evans of the School of Medicine, University College, Cork, Ireland, has had a two-year period of intensive monitoring and counseling imposed upon him and as a result his application for tenure is likely to be denied. His offense — sharing an article from a peer-reviewed journal on fellatio in fruit bats."

California's Santa Clara County Bans Happy Meal Toys 756

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @02:54PM from the when-self-righteousness-attacks dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "The L.A. Times is reporting that Santa Clara County officials have voted to ban toys and other promotions that restaurants offer with high-calorie children's meals. 'This ordinance prevents restaurants from preying on children's love of toys' to sell high-calorie, unhealthful food, said Supervisor Ken Yeager, who sponsored the measure. 'This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes.' Supervisor Donald Gage, who voted against the measure, said, 'If you can't control a 3-year-old child for a toy, God save you when they get to be teenagers.' The vote was 3 - 2 in favor of the ban."

Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release 984

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 27, 2010 @11:55AM from the stay-above-the-belt dept.

CyberDragon777 writes "Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1 kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000 kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."

Comment Re:Where's the... (Score 2, Informative) 507

by ardyer on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @12:42PM (#29980176) Attached to: Murderer With "Aggression Genes" Gets Reduced Sentence

Criminal sentences are NOT about revenge. Or at least they aren't supposed to be in theory.

Actually...there are many theories as to the purpose of criminal sentences and laws. We spent the first half of my Criminal Law class my 1L year in Law School discussing them. And revenge is most definitely a theory beyhind criminal law. It may be a bit out-dated, but it is there and there are many people who subsribe to it.

Comment Re:come on (Score 1) 266

by ardyer on Thursday October 15, 2009 @03:59PM (#29761531) Attached to: Should I Publish Or Patent?

Suing people is kind of the point of patents. Someone else uses the same idea, you get to use the force of law against them, assuming your patent is valid. Otherwise, I don't think there's a point, save for defensive purposes.

I think the point would be to license the patent instead of sitting on it and suing people when they infringe.

Comment Re:Little bit confused (Score 2, Informative) 213

by ardyer on Sunday April 29, 2007 @04:37PM (#18920921) Attached to: Kaleidescape Triumphant in Court Case, DVD Ripping Ruled Legal

No, you understand it right. The ruling only applies to the Contract signed between the two parties. Other contracts may be different, or heck, the appeals court may overrule anyways. However, Kaleidescape could still be liable for copyright violations. That will have to go to a federal court to be determined.

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