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  1. Re:iphone is a police state on Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app · · Score: 1

    "Too bad it'll only work on two networks in the US, and only be sold for one." I have a feeling this open-source phone will be rather easy to jailbreak.

  2. Re:Debby on Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is no worse than if Microsoft didn't let you install Firefox. No biggie. IE is free.

  3. Re:'cause everyone knows on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    So how many times has the court agreed to hear a case that's already been decided by a previous court?

  4. Re:iphone is a police state on Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wish Google or someone would come out with a phone which is based on a completely open OS like Linux and where people can write their own programs and so on for it.

    What you want is an HTC Dream. It's being released Oct 17.

  5. Re:'cause everyone knows on YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK · · Score: 1

    I haven't heard Obama mention introducing any Constitutional Amendments. Or are you saying the Supreme Court that just verified the individual right to keep and bear arms and overturned a gun ban is going to allow Obama to ban guns? Your fears are irrational.

  6. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    Dancing babies require no inventiveness, so the idea is still obvious. It's general knowledge that these features could be added to this idea. It took no inventiveness on Apple's part and is thus obvious and unpatentable.

  7. Re:Not GPL, maybe not Free Software on Drop-In Replacement For Exchange Now Open Source · · Score: 1

    The principle is the same: you are not allowed to modify it in certain ways, even if you do not plan to distribute copies of it.

    No, the principle is entirely different. The version you initially quoted says you can't modify the parts of the code that provide access tot the source, if such a feature exists. The current version says you must provide access to the code remotely. It says nothing about that feature being part of the code, or about removing such a feature if it does exist. You can modify whatever you want, so long as you make the source available. Further, it specifically exempts you if you don't plan on distributing the work.

  8. Re:Changing people's mind on Political Viewpoints Linked To Fear · · Score: 1

    I have a pro abortion stance because I value the liberty of a grown adult more than the potential of an unborn fetus.

    That's not politics. That what politicians use to distract us from politics.

  9. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    I'm so glad my office banned Outlook.

  10. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you're confused over what obvious means. It means easily discovered, seen, or understood. An idea can be new, and still be obvious. I just thought of adding a dancing baby to this patented idea. Can I patent that? Nobody thought of it before me.

  11. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If it's obvious, it's not patentable.

  12. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Without the players, there is no game.

  13. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1

    Third parties already have to collect signatures

  14. Re:Finally! on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    So did I.

  15. Re:not illegal on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It has to be saved decoded somewhere, else it would not play. DeCSS just lengthens the time it is stored in a decoded state.

  16. Re:not illegal on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's test your theory. Put DeCSS up on a website hosted in the US with your name and address on it, then mail a link to the FBI.

  17. Re:It's a good thing on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Now let's get Dell, Gateway, etc. to start pre-installing Ubuntu with the extra media options.

    They already do. At least Dell does. Not sure about HP.

  18. Re:Somebody had to do it... on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Fuck that; at least using windows I get the same functionality for free,

    No, you don't. You paid for it. It's just that you didn't have a choice not to. Your OEM installed it for you or Microsoft licensed it and passed the cost on to the Windows license fee. If you installed it yourself without paying, you broke the law.

  19. Re:Finally! on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It IS included in the license fee for the DVD player.

  20. Re:Finally! on Canonical Offers Sale of Proprietary Codecs for Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    iPod drivers? I thought they used the USB driver.

  21. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only Mac Office customers who aren't pissed are the ones who haven't used the software yet.

  22. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 1

    Electro shock might even get RMS to use Windows.

  23. Re:New ads on Microsoft Uses "I'm a PC" Character In New Ads · · Score: 5, Funny

    Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.

    If you don't like your OS being like a religion, maybe you should get out of the Cathedral and visit the Bazaar.

  24. Re:I hope they're removed, on Barr Sues Over McCain's, Obama's Presence on Texas Ballot · · Score: 1

    I'd settle for removing the party line from the ballot, and not telling people who belongs to what party.

  25. Re:TF2 Clone? on How EA Built Battlefield Heroes To Be Free · · Score: 1

    I don't know, the pictures here don't look like they have hard lines, or 2d: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cel-shaded_animation And it says "Cel-shaded animation (also called cel-shading or toon shading) is a type of non-photorealistic rendering designed to make computer graphics appear to be hand-drawn." They are cell shaded games that utilise phong shading.