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  1. Re:I hope the wrong lesson isn't drawn... on Atari Sub-Sub-Contractor Used ScummVM For Wii Game · · Score: 1

    http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

    You'll notice there is a Wii port available. As well as a DS, Gamecube and 30 more platforms. They made no rules about where it can be ported to, only Nintendo is setting rules about the use of open source (not just GPLed) code. It's their loss, but to blame the ScummVM license is ludicrous.

  2. Re:Really? on DNA Suggests Three Basic Human Groups · · Score: 1

    It's classifying diversity as a superior or inferior trait that is entirely subjective and not worthy of serious debate.

  3. Re:Interesting! on 35,000-Year-Old Flute Is Oldest Music Instrument Ever Found · · Score: 1

    Indeed, clapsticks (sticks that hit each other as opposed to a drum) are probably quite ancient, but it would be hard to distinguish their remains as an instrument rather than a tool.

  4. Re:The developers are spreading FUD on The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S · · Score: 1

    Yep. They missed one comparison:

    Freedom to use your own device as you see fit.

    Before you yell 'Jailbreak!' I'm talking about what Apple vs. Commodore offers.

  5. Re:When Will the Average Consumer Learn? on Kindle, Zune DRM Restrictions Coming Into Focus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Squirt them.

  6. You're so naive on Researchers Find Gaps In Iranian Filtering · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the CIA could never organise an overthrow of Government in Iran.

  7. Re:Oh, quit whining on NSA Email Surveillance Pervasive and Ongoing · · Score: 1

    All politicians and public servants should be drafted military style. Every citizen must serve for a year or so starting between the ages of eighteen and twenty one. No position may be held for more than 3 years. Once a term is served, you may never serve again.

    A system like the one above wouldn't remove corruption but it would hopefully limit the impact that corruption has, as well as stifling hubris and minimising career politicians effectiveness.

  8. Re:Sounds like Cybersitter contributed on China's Green Dam, No Longer Compulsory, May Have Lifted Code · · Score: 1

    Why would working on a firewall with China be illegal? From your first quote:

    The U.S. currently has embargo restrictions against Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria

    How would this restrict trade with China? I have no idea what you are implying with the second quote, could you elaborate?

  9. Re:even makes calls back to Solid Oak's servers on China's Green Dam, No Longer Compulsory, May Have Lifted Code · · Score: 1

    Firstly, there is no botnet, just some idiotic bloggers who think potential security holes = omigod communist botnet. Secondly what you propose is still an immoral hijacking of peoples resources, and is not 'good' in any way.

  10. Re:The world's best christmas cards? on What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? · · Score: 1

    Just whatever you do everyone, don't make your ideas too good or he'll never be able to be better than himself again next year.

  11. Re:And yet on How American Homeless Stay Wired · · Score: 1

    I'd say just a case of English as a second language. It's easy to translate:

    'When I went down through the tubes' = 'When it all went down the tubes', 'closed friends' = 'close friends', 'On the other side, people fried their nerves so well, that it is impossible to have something workable out of the barbecue of their thinking.' = 'the aliens are coming!'

  12. Re:Facebook status: "LIVING UNDER A BRIDGE! HELP" on How American Homeless Stay Wired · · Score: 1

    We're not all blessed with people who care about us or anyone who we can turn to for help. For most people, when life takes a shit on them they don't end up on the street or anywhere near. The compounding factor is not drugs or hopelessness, they come later, it's simply having nobody who cares for you or who you can accept care from, having nowhere else to turn.

  13. Prepare to be blinded on Palm Pre Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Palm Pre on Sprint

    It's just... it's unspeakably horrific.

  14. Re:Seriously Java? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    Fine then, OpenSolaris > Unix. GP's point still stands.

  15. Re:THIS JUST IN on Microsoft Kills 3-App Limit For Windows 7 Starter Edition · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're right. We should continue the sensitive and respectful nature of the awards by presenting the parents with a trophy commemorating their childs achievements.

  16. Re:no. on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    They aren't just theories, they are what TFA should be about. Voluntary online collaboration is closest to anarchist collectivist principles than any other.

  17. Re:communism? on Dot-Communism Is Already Here · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Voluntary online collaboration is closest to anarchist collective principles if anything.

  18. Re:A question about logic... on Church of Scientology On Trial In France · · Score: 1

    OH SNAP!!

    Where's your beloved logic NOW?

  19. Re:because OSX is good, Apple hardware not so much on Mac Clone Maker Psystar Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, he's the sort that can still use the Mac they purchased seven years ago because it was upgradable and expandable. It would be obsolete dumpster filler without that option, just like how "Any slotless-Mac you buy right now will obsolete once the first USB 3 only peripheral ships."

  20. Re:The War on (some) Drugs on Cocaine Test Prompts Red Bull Removal In Germany · · Score: 1

    The meth lab wouldn't be there. People that need the police called on them will still need the police called on them. Someone high on drugs not bothering anyone won't get the cops called on them today, they still need to be doing something wrong. Legalisation and regulation is the sensible and civilized thing to do.

  21. Re:I'm confused. on Microbes 100M Years Old Found In Termite Guts · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's easy to find, it's north of Kampuchea, to the west of French Indochina and Siam and to the east of Hindustan and Bengal.

  22. Re:Angels and Demons on RIAA MediaSentry, Dead In US, Is Alive In Australia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a terrible but solid analogy. While I find modern copyright extensions unjust, they are trivial in comparison to human rights. Still, both disobeyed what in their eyes was an unjust law. It's certainly not a good analogy, but it's sound.

  23. Re:klingon? on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version · · Score: 1

    Browse some more at esolangs.org, and just imagine the pointless creativity has some sane, rational basis even though it doesn't.

  24. Re:FSF shows us how to handle infringement on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    I think the forgiving language there is the three conditions the BSD license imposes. With such trivial requests anyone violating should lose any and all protection afforded by the license.

  25. Re:Fear on FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco · · Score: 1

    Linking to libraries doesn't mean shit, it's only if you are modifying the libraries that anything kicks in. I can develop closed source all day with GNU utilities and merrily put my work under my sole dictatorial copyright without ever thinking of invoking the GPL. As long as I'm not modifying GPLed code, I can do what I want.

    It's idiots like you that give GCC a bad name. Developing using GNU tools does not mean you need to be creating a GPL licensed end product in any way, shape or form.