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Comment Re:Well . . . (Score -1) 793

="My thoughts about this award is that it makes it quite clear that the average person posting on slashdot does not know anything about law."

yep. what should be clear to folks by now is that sharing files over the 'Net is not going to be excused as "private, non-commercial use". Sharing files on the net will be treated as copyright infringement: stare decisis: this matter is settled.

Comment Re:underground cells don't take trust lightly (Score 2, Interesting) 690

You say whoever organized the attack couldn't trust Bin Laden, because he could be in bed with the CIA. He is an asset to the CIA because he is an effective scapegoat. If you did not have the attacks, you would not need a scapegoat, so he wouldn't be an asset at all.

Drawing from your logic, Bin Laden only has value IF there is an attack. I'm sure you see where I'm going from there.

Comment Re:user-generated sites? (Score -1) 197

Viacom is, basically, trying to hold YouTube responsible for any videos on it that have Viacom-represented copyrights

not exactly

go back and read the article referenced in the lead post. Viacom is going after U-tube for contributory infringement, their argument being that U-tube is picking up readership and thus advertising revenue by winking at infringement. whether this is true or not will be up to the court to determine

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Journal Journal: Google Quietly Adds HTTPS Support to GMail 4

This may be old news, but I just noticed myself and thought I'd report it. I've been using the "New Version" of GMail for a couple of weeks (I hardly notice the difference from the "Old Version"), and happened to notice today that the inbox URL still used "http://", even after all the complaints that they didn't maintain "https://" after login. I decided a quick test was in order, and added the all-important "s" to the protocol indicator. It worked fine. After clicking around some, openin

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Journal Journal: Quake Wars

Today I bought my 2nd copy ov retail Quake wars. For full price (60$). On Friday when I get pay check I am going to buy 2 more copies. Also at full price. Just so I have a copy for every PC on my LAN that is able to play it.

And I am going to buy a copy for every person I know that has a computer. And if someone I know doesn't have a computer that can play it, I will buy them a new computer.

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