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  1. Re:The Pirate Bay on The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you don't understand either the definition of theft or what Pirate Bay actually does, sure.

  2. Re:And this is why there's traffic... on Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents · · Score: 1

    Ca allows lane-splitting. Moped FTW.

  3. Re:A step too far? on Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain · · Score: 1

    Heck, Google cut loose Twitter when it came to having to pay for it and that was something that it probably was worth paying for. Don't mess with the G.

  4. Re: Short sighted on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 1

    There is also a registry setting you can make which means the option in the start menu is set at whatever it was last time. Thus, if it was "shutdown" last time, it will be "shutdown" this time, even if there are updates pending.

    Can't find that one but there are other options too. Here's one:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto...

  5. Re:What Native American is supposed to mean on Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices · · Score: 1

    Wow, you stole land? No wonder you're posting AC. I bought mine.

  6. Re:Can you say... on Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine · · Score: 1

    So all the drug companies will do is spin off small sub-companies that own the rights to the drugs in question then defund and de-personnel them.

    And make sure to "campaign contribute" to the right politicians to ensure this remains legal.

    The correct response is to pass laws that removes patent protection on these drugs and allow generics to enter the market. Probably at a tiny fraction of the price of the original drug also. If the new drug really is that much better than the old one, it will succeed in any case.

  7. Re:Can you say... on Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine · · Score: 1

    It makes sense to write the laws based on that intent and to interpret the laws based on how they are written.

    This is a horrible thing being done by the drug company but the correct action is to fix the laws, not allow judges to create new ones out of thin air.

  8. Re:Just let them test out! on Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices · · Score: 1

    I've often read about the classes being marked on a curve. That always seemed a little weird to me.

  9. Re:What Native American is supposed to mean on Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Here is a scientific way to find out: Walk up to one of them and say "Hi, my name is Tepples, what's yours?". Drop that whole collectivist bullshit.

  10. Re:Not really missing vinyl on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 2

    DAC smoothing was explained to me by an audiophile doctor during the first couple of years of my physics degree. This would have been around 1990-91. I think your father may have just been mistaken.

  11. "No consistent reason"... on Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever · · Score: 0

    "that wouldn't conflict with my preconceptions so I won't even consider them"

  12. Re: simple on Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market · · Score: 1

    Then you're back into the "break as soon as you look at it" territory. Don't move the goalposts.

  13. Re:Consumers are cheap on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will be "Freemium". $0 for the OS then extra for items as you need them:

    $5 Clippy
    $5 That search dog/Einstein/Whatever that was
    $10 Autumn leaves wallpaper
    $15 Turn off animated window effects
    $20 Control Panel with things named as you remember them
    $30 Remove Evony advertising from dialog boxes
    $60 Start menu

  14. Death Spiral on Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' · · Score: 1

    Death Spiral

    This is how it starts (or at least continues).

  15. Re:Did they look at 'lol'? on Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Hah, clever. You used fancy language pedantry to totally fail to address my point.

  16. Re:Just emulation anyway, not a reimplementation on Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past · · Score: 1

    I'm big on nostalgia for the Spectrum but I'm not sure too much is gained from a direct reimplementation. Original Spectrums can be had and emulators are good enough. Really though, it's old tech and very limiting A "next next next (by now) generation Spectrum" would probably be interesting but I think that's what the Raspberry Pi is aiming for (and doing a reasonable job of). Though it needs some cool games.

  17. Re:Yeah, well ... on James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million · · Score: 1

    Well, for a start, you immediately qualified "Irish". That should be enough to end this but let's run with "Gaelic Irish". What of those from the same gene pool who are not Irish? They could be Germans, Americans or even Japanese. Many of those genes probably came from the vikings anyway.

    "Irish" is not a race. Though as others have said, the notion of race is stupid anyway. All you have are locally adapted phenotypes of the one human race.

  18. Re:Yeah, well ... on James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million · · Score: 1

    "Irish" is a race now?

  19. Re:Did they look at 'lol'? on Cultural Fault Lines Determine How New Words Spread On Twitter · · Score: 1

    The LOL is that "American cheese" is not real cheese but something scraped out of a chemical silo.

  20. Re:Games were the death of programming on Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Emulator or Reimplementation? on Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past · · Score: 1

    There's no reason it couldn't be almost identical to the original. The Spectrum's display was not as complicated as that as the C64 or BBC for example. Full speed emulation was available on 486s back in the early 90s (I used the excellent z80 by Art Gunter but there have been many other good emulators since).

  22. Re:The thing that made the Sinclairs popular ... on Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past · · Score: 1

    These things have already been done. It's a solved problem. Some of the emulators even allowed you to load directly from tape with a simple interface.

  23. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    You forgot the quotes around "petition". And maybe some italics also.

  24. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Sure. The public utility just raises prices so their profit remains the same. Benefits of being a government sanctioned monopoly.

    There's a point where that stops working of course but they're not expecting to get there in a hurry. In the meantime, they no doubt get nice fat subsidies to push the green stuff.

  25. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately not in mine.

    The kicker? They're so busy with cutting people off (what with the economy right now) that there's a huge backlog of work. When you pay and want to be turned back on, the wait can be up to ten days.

    Of course, you can pay to "Expedite" things.

    Name & shame: This is Tennessee.

    (Just to be clear, this has not affected me personally but wrong is wrong)