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  1. Re:Welcome on TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure · · Score: 2, Informative

    TV Tropes has a donation page, and a small Zazzle store. Neither generate nearly enough funding to break even at the moment.

  2. Re:1st amendment at work on TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure · · Score: 1

    TV Tropes has decided that profit is more important than keeping the warning labels off their content.

    More accurately, "continuing to exist without choking levels of advertising or cutting back on community" has been deemed more important than keeping the warning labels off.

  3. Re:Google on TV Tropes Self-Censoring Under Google Pressure · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's also a form of Natter we'd prefer was avoided.

  4. Re:Good, sensible decision on US Senate Passes 'Libel Tourism' Bill · · Score: 1

    Of course not. But if the local pigeon lady wanders in and asks to speak with Elvis, it is perhaps overreacting to call the SWAT team.

  5. Re:3D WTF on Sony Developing 3D Screen-Sharing Technology For Two Players · · Score: 1

    Not really more complex, anyways. At most, you just have two video streams instead of one. YouTube doesn't even bother with that; you upload 3D by simply stacking the left and right images side by side in the same frame.

  6. How??? on MPEG LA Extends H.264 Royalty-Free Period · · Score: 1

    Have you read the HTML5 standard? It makes things more open than the Flash mess we have now. They don't define any open codecs, no, but neither do they mandate closed ones.

  7. Re:I don't get the kind of people, who call sun "s on "Tube Map" Created For the Milky Way · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, "The Sun" and "The Moon" were in fact the official terms. Ironic that astronomers can be a tad geocentric like that.

    "Sol" and sometimes "Luna" are just overwhelmingly popular sci-fi terms, but yes, probably would be the terms eventually adopted by colonists.

  8. Re:Nuisance of free software on Digsby IM Client Quietly Installs Badware · · Score: 1

    Logic bomb!

  9. Re:It's their own fault on Wikipedia Approaches Its Limits · · Score: 1

    It also extends the concept of design patterns to literature/media.

  10. Re:Solution? on US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just a sales tax is the flat tax. The proper-noun "Fair Tax" is also a sales tax, but adds a rebate equivalent to the tax that would statistically be paid by somebody at the poverty line.

  11. Re:Show of hands not self-enforcing on Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols · · Score: 1

    If you don't wish to vote (may seem foolish, but better the apathetic not vote than drown out the signal), just don't enter the room.

  12. Re:Show of hands not self-enforcing on Schneier On Self-Enforcing Protocols · · Score: 1

    If there are 120 people in the room, and 135 glow sticks are counted, then you know something's up, and can repeat the procedure until everybody plays along.

  13. Re:No, you misunderstand on GPLv2 Libraries — Is There a Point? · · Score: 1

    So, adhering to the GPL gives you the right to redistribute the GPL'd code- but you don't need permission for the linking itself?

    That actually makes sense.

    IANAL, but I don't think (in the U.S.) that the end user is infringing by creating a derivative work at load time, either- see Galoob vs Nintendo.

  14. Re:What's the video codec ? on New Chrome Beta Adds Themes, Speed, & HTML 5 Video · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they were going with Theora.

  15. Re:Sigh. Someone else who complains without using on Preview the Office 2007 Ribbon-Like UI Floated For OpenOffice.Org · · Score: 1

    Outlook and IE don't use the ribbon. Hardly evidence that the Ribbon is inconsistent.

  16. Re:What we don't know on Major New Function Discovered For the Spleen · · Score: 1

    But why does mass cause these ripples in the first place?

  17. Re:No, they don't need to raise taxes.. on Arizona Considers Selling Capitol Buildings · · Score: 1

    Then switch to a sales tax. Illegal immigrants still go to the supermarket.

  18. Re:others trying to force their morales on us on Reprogrammed Skin Cells Turned Into Baby Mice · · Score: 1

    Let's hear these rational arguments against murder, while we're at it. Not assertions, circular arguments, personal opinion or taste, or religion.

  19. Re:That May Work as a South Africa Satire on District 9 Rises From the Ashes of Halo · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fuss back then was that British citizens were not given representation.

    A Green Card holder is still a citizen of another country, and is thus denied a vote on the basis of national sovereignty.

  20. Re:DIY on Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time · · Score: 1

    I haven't had much luck finding such sites, but from my limited experience you're right.

    In fact, if you have sufficiently small software to run, you could just put that in the initrd and skip the main filesystem completely...

  21. Re:Air on Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners · · Score: 1

    While Chrome supports both, Google is in the h264 camp for serving video. Still, video tag works for them.

  22. Re:The web is NOT the OS on Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010 · · Score: 1

    Two words: Google Gears.

  23. Re:It's just MAD not to assure mutual destruction on US, Russia Reach Nuclear Arsenal Agreement · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Magnetic Field Issues on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm... semi-serious-question: how much would it cost to just surround the Martian equator with a closed circuit of solar cells? And would that current generate a sufficient magnetic field?

  25. Don't have them store their code. on NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars · · Score: 1

    Design them with only the storage capacity for caching a subset of the replication/operation program, and just continually broadcast the whole thing. Allows for quick bugfixes while you're at it. Now, good luck figuring out the receiver...