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  • On the post: National Motorists Association Challenges Cities To Prove Red-Light Cameras Are Safer

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2008 @ 02:17am

    Having gotten my only ticket in 30 years of driving from a red light camera I still like the idea of camera enforcement. They have to do something about the people who only stop two seconds into the red.

    If you get rear ended we the car in back is at fault. You need to leave room to actually stop if the car ahead does so. If he was going fast enough to rear end you he would have run the light as well.

    If Red light cameras pay for something useful along the way so be it.

  • On the post: Should RIAA Win Against Jammie Thomas Be Tossed After RIAA Admits It Misspoke On The Stand?

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2008 @ 04:20pm

    Re: Misspoke?

    ON the upside Parker should never be considered a reliable witness again for this sort of trial.

  • On the post: Microsoft Patents Making A List For Santa

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2008 @ 11:28am

    Re: WTF

    This should have failed on prior art. I have made lists when I was youth referencing which catalog I found something for the Hogfather's benefit.

  • On the post: Blame The Mobile Phone For Your Slow Commute?

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2008 @ 06:35am

    Re: Re:

    Never; America fucking rocks.

    Well that explains the population decline and all the illegal aliens needed to run the place now. It's the male and female doing it together that makes babies.

    It may not be expensive gas that does in the SUV but $10/pound hamburger. The ethanol from corn guys have upped the price on what used to be cheap animal feed. Of course corn isn't anywhere near the best source for ethanol.

  • On the post: How Pursuing Software Piracy Hurts Proprietary Software Firms

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 29 Dec, 2007 @ 03:19pm

    Re: FlightGear

    Plus you can run all your PC stuff on a modern intel Mac running windows under boot camp or one of the other PC emulators. It is now the fastest PC platform that you can pull out of a box.

  • On the post: IBM Patents 1-And-Only-1-Click Ordering

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 28 Dec, 2007 @ 07:02am

    A new height of idiocy from the PTO.

  • On the post: NCAA Puts Limits On Live Blogging Sports Events

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2007 @ 09:10am

    Yeah but what about twitter? IMs? Cell Phones?

  • On the post: Copyright, Defamation, Bloggers, DMCA, Safe Harbors, Cease-And-Desists And Anonymity… Oh My!

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2007 @ 06:08am

    Ok so what you need to do to get a legal letter copyright protection is to write something original. Perhaps a haiku or limerick form of the letter's content.

    Does it have to be written? Perhaps the lawyer in question needed to draw cute little bunnies on the letter and to have the copyrighted or use his Garfield stationary proclaiming that he hates mondays since I am sure that has been copyrighted.

    Oh and he needs to submit a copyright request prior to mailing the letter.

  • On the post: Forget Google, Watch Out For Chevron In The 700 MHz Auction

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2007 @ 08:53am

    It could be a good business to dump oil money into. Chevron already has lots of locations to place antennas. Sprint was initially based on old railroad right of way.

  • On the post: Facebook Settles Text Messaging Suit Even If It Probably Didn't Need To

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 19 Dec, 2007 @ 08:49am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Not Facebook's Fault..

    With 99% of these services, if you text "unsubsribe" or "stop" or something like that back to the message and you will be removed from the service. I guess it was easier for this person to sue than to send a text message.


    How do you send text from a landline?

  • On the post: Facebook Settles Text Messaging Suit Even If It Probably Didn't Need To

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2007 @ 08:21pm

    Re: Not Facebook's Fault..

    I've gotten calls from people who have gotten one of my old phone numbers complaining about the amount of junk calls they were getting in my name. This was several years after moving on from that number.

  • On the post: Getting Millions Of People Listening To Your Music, With Many Giving You Money Voluntarily, Is Dumb?

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 18 Dec, 2007 @ 07:47am

    Re:

    Yep I'd bet a few quatloos that Radio head made better money with this release than they would have with a standard money grubbing record label deal.

  • On the post: Ohio Finds All E-Voting Machines In The State Had Serious Flaws

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2007 @ 06:14am

    I don't mind the electronic machines if they are part of an easily audited ballot system.

    1- An electronic machine that marks a punch card with both a punch pattern and a typed name indicating for whom the vote was cast. This machine should also count the votes cast on it. These machines can be fairly elaborate touch screen machines with all the bells and whistles for assisting the handicapped.

    2- A separate ballot counting machine from a different vendor that takes and registers the votes and stores the ballot.

    3- At the end of the day all the votes are tallied from both machines. If there is a large enough discrepancy all the ballots are counted again. One would expect that the second machine could possibly come in low if someone neglects to put their ballot in machine 2. In no circumstances should the precinct vote be greater than the number of voters.

    4- If needed all the ballots could be sorted by machine and hand verified that the printed name actually matches the hole pattern.

  • On the post: Anything Goes Wrong Online? Yell 'Net Neutrality' As Loud As Possible!

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 17 Dec, 2007 @ 01:42am

    First we need to get competition to be ubiquitous. We finally have two players in wired TV/Internet where I live. FIOS is a wonderful threat against the cable company. Actually I fired the cable compnay so I would have to use them against Verizon.

  • On the post: Was Kindle's DRM Hacked?

    John Duncan Yoyo ( profile ), 14 Dec, 2007 @ 10:54am

    Re: The Kindle Would Be More Useful If

    I believe you can get files converted by Amazon by emailing the file to them and they either email back for free or send via wireless at a small charge.