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  1. Not entirely accurate on MediaDefender's Parent Company Joins P2P Market · · Score: 1

    "There's nothing more difficult than trying to intercept a 3-gigabit file of a new movie release," says PiCast vice president of business development Jonathan Lee.

    *cough* Other than somehow making your group of companies appear less-than-evil. Good luck with that btw, :D

  2. Re:funding killed my project on How To Kill an Open Source Project With New Funding · · Score: 1

    Lol, an AC who presumably knows nothing about you or your situation appears to choose to believe something arbitrarily different.

  3. Re:It make sense to me on Cheaper Car Insurance For Gamers · · Score: 1

    The "mode" I think helps with this sort of driving is the "wide awareness" mode. And I think that for kids there's a big chasm to be crossed between that in a video game and that in real-iife-with-significant-consequences (car accident).

    Together with the GP's comment, this is an argument for multi-monitor games - so that the peripheral vision gets some exercise too.

  4. Re:passionless technician on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    I can testify that there are just two kinds of people in the music business: the creative musical talent, and those trying to get rich off the creative musical talent, usually "by whatever means necessary"

    These people are everywhere. Shiny happy types who have no humanity and will kill you as soon as blink. The survival instinct has a new form of expression within the modern world.
    Really, it's easy to see why so many people choose suicide rather than share the world with these ghouls.

    Oh well..

  5. Re:Well that's why you stop over-spending on milit on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    I think GP's point was that if you restricted your "Defense" budget to defence it wouldn't need to be nearly so big.

    As everyone knows, the best form of defense is humanitarian intervention ;)

  6. Re:Big Fricken Whoop De Woo on UK Gov't To Require ID Cards For Some Foreign Residents · · Score: 1

    It isn't a big thing. It's an ID card that holds a fingerprint record. How is it bad to tie a card to a person?

    Papers 'please'!

    *marches away, jackboots glistening in the moonlight*

  7. Re:Fake images on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 1

    One more reason why it's best to watch films at home.

  8. Re:Fake images on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, the purpose of a cinema is to sell popcorn. It's actually quite the opposite of karma whoring.

  9. Re:Fake images on Russian Town Puts Giant Smiley On Google Maps · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd much rather just see a stream of images from what is actually happening and make up my own mind. There less editorial control the better.

    Perhaps you've forgotten that the purpose of news isn't to inform, it's to coerce opinion.

  10. Re:The actual text on Popup Study Confirms Most Users Are Idiots · · Score: 1

    These error dialogs should have another button besides "OK"; "Download windows source, install, debug problem and submit patch to fort redmond."

  11. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Buying a $30 Blu-ray of a movie that you can buy in the $4.99 bargain bin at Wal-Mart is just plain not going to happen no matter how much better the picture quality is.

    You say that but I hear(*) that Sony are planning to start a series of ads featuring hypno toad.

    * this is not true

  12. Re:Noone likes DRM on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    i mean, if you look at the features of BDs, they all seem to primarily benefit the film industry and BD producers at the cost of consumer interests.

    You make that sound like a bad thing. Oh, wait..

  13. Buy this not that on Bad Signs For Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the ghost, there are several signs that Sony's rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance.

    Woa. It's almost as if consumers still have some power. Although, one would expect that back-room power-deals would be able to dictate consumer behavior, wouldn't one?

  14. Re:Sure, But Only the Paranoids Survive on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 2, Informative

    Good old politics - the attempt to fit all beliefs, opinions, wants and needs for everyone in a society into three data points on a single axis; left, right or centre. lol.

    No doubt once this problem has been solved, we will all be happy bunnies.

  15. Re:In related news... on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    Yeah, well easily scared pussies like you usually wind up bound with duct date and throat fucked until you suffocate and die!

    'Sounds' to me like you speak from experience.

  16. Re:Here's what I do on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    On a side note, what is up with W3C? They should BE the reference in web standards, but their documents are just so long, abstract and boring that you would have to read all day long to fit together all information you need. They should really release some good reference material.

    I completely agree although I hadn't really thought about it until you mentioned it.

  17. Umm on Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas.

    This seems to imply that the Church's "beliefs" are relevant in today's world. Curious; I was of the opinion that although they clearly control vast quantities of wealth of one form or another and have influence over a certain type of believer, that otherwise the Church's opinions on matters concerning the nature of the universe are considered realistic as those of astrologers (no offence to astrologers.)

    Hasn't science replaced religion? Has religion noticed? Didn't the Church itself stop evolving somewhere back in the dark ages or am I poorly informed?

  18. Re:I did RTFA and still can't tell much on New Study Links Plastics To Heart Disease, Diabetes · · Score: 1

    With each new generation of analytical equipment, we gain another decade of sensitivity. Almost anything can now be detected in anything.

    I challenge you to use said equipment to detect life in this thread.. :S

  19. Re:No, it is not reasonable. on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm. Surely being given an opportunity to demonstrate one's skill/flair isn't disrespectful? Don't you want to show off?

  20. Re:The realm of what shouldn't be... on Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers · · Score: 1

    Is the whole thing totally locked down and unable to function without Windows, or can you still get at the data by reading it as a normal USB device (i.e. from Linux) ?

    Hmm. I'm afraid to say that I've not yet gotten around to buying one. I saw it in a magazine a while back and popped a link into delicious. Email them?

  21. Re:What's the big deal? on Mozilla Demanding Firefox Display EULA In Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Blindly clicking through meaningless and offensive EULAs is standard practice in the Windows world.

    Mod parent up.. +1 insightful

  22. Re:The realm of what shouldn't be... on Apple Declares DRM War On Sneaker Hackers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's an example of something which looks like a USB stick with GPS - ideal for jogging:
      * http://trackstick.com/products/trackstick2/trackstick2.html

  23. Re:Your tax money at work on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    As it is there is too much government intervention in making sure their buddies are taken cared of.

    [Without wishing to use the there-fixed-that-for-you pattern]

    As it is there is too much government intervention in making sure their employers are taken care of.

  24. Re:Your tax money at work on Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Copyright Cops · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I kinda fail to see the public interest. Because that's what tax money should be spent on.

    I think you're being a little unfair. Considering the amount of bribe-money that's changed hands, they're entitled to a few laws which serve only them and allow them to ride roughshod over the public interest. Geez. Stop being so selfish!

  25. Re:Superstition can also cause great harm. on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 1

    True; although if they wiped out voles and whatever else owls eat, they're screwed; how many species do you know of which can succeed indepently of any other?