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  1. Publisher price fixing on Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing · · Score: 1

    One thing that should be illegal is Recommended Retail Prices and Manufacturers Retail Price "guides" for price control of books (and indeed any other product including computer / console games). It is up to the retailer to decide what price they wish to sell it at. If they ask too much people just walk out and order elsewhere or online. If they ask less then they get more customers. Isnt that what competition is about?

  2. Re:About time... on Book Publishers Agree to Online Browsing · · Score: 1

    Why do you pay full price in the book store? Dont you order online?

  3. Re:Gettng Godwin's law over with (appropriately!) on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 1

    They already do decide where and when I go, if I drive and if somebody else drives. Its called traffic police, traffic control and so on. They also control us via the financial system, money, is a means of control. Nationality is a means of control, borders are for segregation and containment. Credit checks, forms of control.

  4. Zero G bra designed by NASA (patent pending) on Hawking to Take Zero Gravity Ride · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  5. Re:Does this mean its open to everyone? on Hawking to Take Zero Gravity Ride · · Score: 1

    Easy, he watched GATACCA and found a way to hack the sytem.

  6. Re:Gettng Godwin's law over with (appropriately!) on Homeland Security Offers Details on Real ID · · Score: 1

    What do you think you need when you drive your car? papers (Driving License) What do you think you need when you fly on a plane? papers (Photo ID / Pasport) What do you think you need when you board that bus? Papers (Ticket) What do you think you need when you board that train? Papers (Ticket) You carry your "papers" with you every day in one form or another.

  7. Re:We wanted everything FREE.. well. on Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models · · Score: 1

    Basically you want to get benifit from ad supported products, such as 1) cheaper prices and or 2) money back for viewing or acting on ads. Right? I doubt that will happen for ingame adverts unless they give the games free and take their revenue from ad's, I doubt this will happen from companies such as Electronic Arts as they are greedy money grabbing companies and want it all for themselves. Just look at the franchises episodic model of games nowdays. They want their cake and eat it and they will get it too, unless you stop giving them money.

  8. No no ofcourse not on Tax Accounting Evil at Google? · · Score: 1

    Neither is Dell, nor Apple, nor any of the other umpteen investigations the SEC does continiously.

  9. Re:DRM is the only way to get conrtent. on Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No he could buy her the stuffed cuddly toy and take her to the cinema instead.

  10. Re:We wanted everything FREE.. well. on Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models · · Score: 1

    And look how Viacom is telling them to take down their unlicensed content.

  11. We wanted everything FREE.. well. on Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .. that is what we are getting now.. Zecco.com - Free stock trading Joost - Free video content YouTube - Free video content etc etc We cried for things to be free, well now it is happening things are becoming FREE, due to a new business model, ADVERTISEMENT SUPPORTED business model. Now that is not enough we want our cake and eat it, we dont want ads now. So can you suggest a new business model that we wont cry about?

  12. DRM is the only way to get conrtent. on Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models · · Score: 1

    Just tell Joost that (www.joost.com), they managed to get Viacom's portfolio signed up, now Viacom is issuing takedown notices to their content hosted on YouTube and clones but Joost has their content because they have a DRM delivery method.

  13. Re:Why on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes but you will be doing that every time, once you got the algorithm you just have to seed it (most likely a hash of your computer configuration) to generate valid keys. They cannot go and redo the algorithm without impacting a LARGE amount of their customers, they can black list numbers but so what, with the algorithm you just genereate a new valid one. GAME OVER. Isnt that what we want to render it TOTALLY useless FOR GOOD? This is the way, not some bypass thats just temporary. THINK BIGGER!

  14. Re:clouds on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Invade Scotland then. Rule Britania!

  15. Re:Key gen or not.. on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I wasnt trolling just voicing my opinion on Vista. I see no compelling reason to use it for now. Perhaps in a year down the line after patches and more Vista specific products. Until then , nope. Can't recommend it. But I can always tell you what you WANT to hear, yes Vista is great, it will solve all your problems and its worth every penny. I strongly recommend you drop everything and go out and purcahse it and migrate all your machines to it. You wont regret it. Feel better now?

  16. Re:OEM_BIOS_Emulation_Toolkit on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Dell D820's have them as do most business sold laptops I imagine. They also come with smart card readers as standard.

  17. Re:Time information on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 2, Funny

    Be afraid of those clouds look like 2 fists grabbing the moon's disc :) Lunar goatse!

  18. Thats no moon!. on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 1

    How appropraite since I am having a Space 1999 weekend here after I downloaded all episodes :)

  19. Re:Panic?! on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Homeland security thread-o-meter is now set to "Lunar white"

  20. Imagine the advertising revenue! on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really hope if there is no law now there will be in the future that bans beaming advertisements off stellar bodies. Last thing I want to see through my telescope is 1) goatse and 2) some advert.

  21. When where.. on Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend · · Score: 5, Informative
  22. Re:OEM_BIOS_Emulation_Toolkit on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Wont TPM and EFI make this harder?

  23. Re:Why on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 1

    Yes but if they can get the algorithm then GAME OVER without hacks :)

  24. Key gen or not.. on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows Fista is not worth it, stick with what you have that works until they get it working and you actually MUST need it. I see no reason to install it.

  25. Why on Windows Vista Keygen a Hoax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    .. doesnt somebody actually create a distributed brute force on Windows activation. How many windows machinès in the world? That adds up to some pretty powerful attack.