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• Mar 30th, 2011 @ 1:26pm

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  on Drug Companies Overestimate Cost Of Developing A New Drug By Merely $1.26 Billion
  This is just the drug companies' usual markup practice. Isn't the usual price of a drug 2300% of what it takes to produce?
• Mar 23rd, 2011 @ 1:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: 100 mile strip search

  on Homeland Security Says They Could Strip Search Every Airline Passenger If They Wanted To
  Just to split hairs, it's also not French...
• Mar 15th, 2011 @ 1:34pm

  Re: Re: Re: Piracy violates creators' rights. It gives money to pirate websites that have no rights. What else is there?

  on No Info Can Be Found About Mysterious Report Claiming Australia As A 'Nation Of Pirates'
  I will give you the benefit of the doubt of a single person globablly. 1/global population is very different to 1/5. If you want more than that you'll have to provide some sort of evidence.
• Feb 1st, 2011 @ 12:27pm

  Re: Re: The downside is...

  on The Impact Of Egypt Cutting Itself Off From The Internet
  So when the US set it up, all the terrorists need to do to shut down the whole country's economy is to score a few bot-nets and attack the key infrastructure? So who's not thinking things through?
• Jan 15th, 2011 @ 1:18am

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  on Treasury Dept. Won't Put Wikileaks On Terrorist List; Tells Rep. King It Doesn't Meet The Criteria
  So... you have spare resources to harass Treasury but can't even come up with a charge... Which section are you from? We need to re-examine your budget...
• Jan 3rd, 2011 @ 12:42pm

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  on Time For Google To Leave Italy? Italy Announces That YouTube Responsible For All Content
  I'm sorry... I thought I said "ALL". I meant ALL. Including YouTube, Google Docs, Google Maps, Gmail and Android Marketplace.
• Jan 3rd, 2011 @ 11:09am

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  on Time For Google To Leave Italy? Italy Announces That YouTube Responsible For All Content
  They should just block all Google services in Italy. Replace Google with a page that just says "due to recent decisions of Italian courts, Google find operating in Italy too expensive." Leave it a week and see what happens.
• Dec 28th, 2010 @ 12:19pm

  Re: Sadly Enough

  on Would Twitter Be Liable For Links To Infringing Material?
  If I sell road maps and you buy one and use it to find a bank to rob, am I complicit?
• Dec 23rd, 2010 @ 7:11pm

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  on TSA Punishes Pilot For Videotaping Security Problems At Airports
  Sounds like he got off lightly. Isn't standard practice for whistle-blowing in the US 6 months in solitary confinement with no trial?
• Dec 20th, 2010 @ 3:43pm

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  on Appeals Court Says (Again) That Diagnostic Tests Are Patentable
  If a human gene is patented, does that mean carriers would have to pay for cell division?
• Dec 17th, 2010 @ 2:27pm

  Re: Re: Re: Remember Why Britain Started Using Australia To Send Its Convicts To

  on Australia Realizes That Including Intellectual Property In Trade Agreements Makes No Sense
  Darryl, where do you hail from? I'd be interested to know where about you live that so many people *actually* go to church.
  
  I believe that the AC was referring to the US being religious nutters.
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 8:44pm

  Re: Remember Why Britain Started Using Australia To Send Its Convicts To

  on Australia Realizes That Including Intellectual Property In Trade Agreements Makes No Sense
  Yes, I am well aware of Australian history. The English sent its overflow of convicts to an island paradise, realised their mistake and many of them moved here themselves. Lots of immigration too.
  
  The AC might have been spouting ignorance about other matters, for example there are a number of people who believe that a Queenslander (aka Assange) "stole" a bunch of embarrassing documents and could be confusing him with the rest of the Australian population.
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 7:57pm

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  on Australia Realizes That Including Intellectual Property In Trade Agreements Makes No Sense
  I'm sorry, would you please clarify what you mean by "nation of thieves"?
  
  It would also be nice to know how you conflate "recommending removal of a foreign country's copyright infringement law from international trade agreements" with "defending stealing".
• Dec 16th, 2010 @ 7:51pm

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  on Australia Realizes That Including Intellectual Property In Trade Agreements Makes No Sense
  As I understand it, the Productivity Commission are mostly economists. They provide reports on questions requested by Government. They are occasionally listened to. They are more useful for ignoring and putting spin on the results for the electorate.
• Dec 13th, 2010 @ 6:42pm

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  on New Competition For Wikileaks Shows Up -- Say Hello To OpenLeaks
  Sounds like a simple fork to me.
• Dec 13th, 2010 @ 8:16am

  Re: No Worries

  on Congressional Research Service Notes That There Are Serious Challenges To Charging Assange
  The problem with this is that he's not actually in the US and the world is watching. Even if the US is ok with looking bad by making up charges, Sweden also has to be ok with looking bad. They have to make up something that will stand up to scrutiny.
• Dec 13th, 2010 @ 6:21am

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  on Journalists Continue To Rely On Bogus Research About File Sharing As If It Were Factual
  To be fair, the article was written by a film critic. http://about.theage.com.au/view_profile.php?intid=1331
  
  I don't think it's so much that the media are blindly believing it as having a vested interest in believing it.
  
  You may also rest assured that Ballarat is far from a hub of academic research. The best and brightest migrate to Melbourne.
• Dec 10th, 2010 @ 12:25am

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  on New Competition For Wikileaks Shows Up -- Say Hello To OpenLeaks
  Sounds like a simple fork to me.
• Dec 6th, 2010 @ 5:39am

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  on Australia Might Finally Let Adults Play Video Games They Want To Play
  I think it's not so much a stupid censorship policy as it is a stupid classification policy. If they had game classifications matching film classifications then it wouldn't be an issue.
• Dec 2nd, 2010 @ 3:11am

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  on More Extremely Silly Trademark Lawsuits: Mars vs. Hershey Over Totally Different Looking Wrappers
  I'm sorry, maybe I'm just not seeing it but other than being rectangles and having the words: peanut butter milk chocolate on them are there ANY similarities?

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