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  1. Re:Go ahead on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Nothing about IPv6 changes that other than there are more individual addresses under oversight and managed allocation.

  2. Re:Screw them! on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    I will **woosh** you and educate you:
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw...

  3. Re:BitDNS? on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    I think they're referring to something like Namecoin.

  4. Re:black DNS? on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    Welcome to IPv6. If your ISP doesn't support it there are still plenty of ways to get access.

  5. Re:Go ahead on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 1

    So is IP address allocation. What's left of the Internet when you take that away?

  6. Re:Stop it with this crap. on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 0

    The vast majority of them are to the point where the few exception simply don't matter, and the couple of exceptions aren't doing enough to change the culture.

    That's called racism.

  7. Re:Easier method on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    The problem is that it's a position of authority and it is coveted by the very people who would abuse it.

  8. Re:I bet... on Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies · · Score: 1

    Poor AC isn't getting any visible light from the mods. I thought it was funny.

  9. Re:You're drunk, America. Go home and sleep it off on Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland · · Score: 1

    So you're saying Obama is infallible and that there's no valid way to criticize a black president? That's a bit short sighted. And I didn't see that in the OP post at all. I'm disgusted with my country, and I was before our current president was elected.

  10. Re:A matter of procedure... on Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland · · Score: 1

    In other words, they don't have enough data to build their parallel constructed justification yet.

  11. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    Which makes my response related to the hypothetical example just like his, not the actual story. Whether it lines up with what actually happened is sort of off-topic.

  12. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    The person I was responding to said that a hold was placed on the cancellation. I merely trusted them to be telling the story correctly.

  13. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    But the converse of that is not saying that they must continue. I would assume that means they may stop, but are not obligated to. I can't imagine that NASA doesn't have enough self-governance to not spend money.

  14. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 1

    That's interesting. I didn't know a senator was in charge of NASA.

  15. Re:Quoted from TFA on NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe they didn't put enough outs in the contract with the builders for termination. It's possible they were contractually obligated to finish building it because they never thought anything might be cancelled.

  16. Re:If Sony keeps doing it on Sony Demands Press Destroy Leaked Documents · · Score: 1

    Pandora's Box

    Sony is evil, but I don't now about all the evil in the world.

  17. Re:Not really missing vinyl on Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand · · Score: 1

    The ADC isn't what's different - it's the DAC that matters. The sampling didn't change that much, but reconstructing the original waveform in the DAC is improved. That means that CD's from the 80's sound better on today's equipment.

    You'd need better much than average hearing to tell the difference - not really superhuman.

  18. Re:Wasn't there a book about this? on How Birds Lost Their Teeth · · Score: 1

    The first gender based, non-single cell organism would have had to been born with the ability to successfully reproduce the first time AND so would its compatible mate and have the ability to sustain that new life.

    Flowers. Both sex organs on one plant, but now can exchange genetic information. But diversity wins out, so genders become a distinct genetic advantage. I assume that the same with animals would be convergent evolution, but probably the same starting path.

  19. Re:Float? on Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future · · Score: 1

    rather than gumming up my accounts

    Or maybe that just means you don't reconcile your transactions and count on your bank balance to always be correct. The downside of that is that it's very difficult to spot a transaction that posted incorrectly or to the wrong account.

    This is why I always take receipts into a budgeting system and reconcile against my downloaded transaction data. Don't trust anyone but yourself with something that important.

  20. Re:Is IP address = SketchFactor? on Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think they use multiple weighted factors. I doubt you'd get flagged on one factor alone unless it was a pretty severe anomaly.

  21. Re:Fake torrents don't work on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 1

    If popularity is based on seeder count, it's easy for Sony to game that on a single computer with multiple IP addresses.

  22. Re:Because it doesn't work? on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 1

    The Imitation Game I went to see in the cinema - my first cinema movie in about 10 years. Unless I want to pay full-price again, I have to wait until the DVD comes out to watch a movie I'm interested in again. When will that be? God knows. But I can't watch it until they choose to bring it out. And then it will be region-protected, copy-protected and almost certainly won't work on my laptop (like most Disney movies).

    I wish the economy worked on a "shut up and take my money" system for digital content.

    There is an obscure show that I want to watch the second season of, but the company that owns the rights to distribute in the U.S. are not producing a DVD and there are neither discs in other regions nor are the episodes even available via BitTorrent. This after finding the first season on the Netflix streaming library.

    And the second season aired in the UK over a year ago. If anyone's curious, it's a very well-produced children's series called The Sparticle Mystery. For a kid's show, it's quite a good dystopian future mystery.

  23. Re:IANAL, but... on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 2

    There are crimes against intellectual property and there are crimes against humanity. I think your example falls under the latter.

  24. Re:Dangerous faking on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 2

    But the fake ivory is still fraud, just as Sony's upload would be. Just nothing you can do about it.

    Of course downloading the fraudulent files wouldn't be illegal if you actually know it's uploaded by Sony...

  25. Re:Best idea ever! on Sony Pictures Leak Reveals Quashed Plan To Upload Phony Torrents · · Score: 4, Informative

    The real problem with CP is that it's made, not that it's consumed. I think you have the entire issue backwards.

    Pedosexual is more accurate and respectful of diversity of sexual orientation. The LGBTP community lead the way to a more progressive society.

    This "diversity" is the kind that belongs in the DSM-V. It's a condition that must be managed.