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  1. Re:Facebook is not private on Emergency Dispatcher Fired For Facebook Drug Joke · · Score: 1

    I killed a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

    I hope my employer and future employers don't have a problem with that.

  2. Re:Hey, on Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Wi-Fi Data While Mapping · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, this is more akin to a drunkenly passed out girl, who passed out on the front lawn, naked, being photographed by the camera's on the street view vehicle.

  3. Re:Murphy's law on Car Hits Utility Pole, Takes Out EC2 Datacenter · · Score: 1

    Grammar Nazi's are nothing, its the Grammaton Clerics you have to look out for.

  4. Re:I am happy. on Steam Client for Mac Launches, Linux Client On the Way · · Score: 1

    It had been using OpenAL, but they rewrote it to use a different library because Apple's implementation of that had bugs.

  5. Re:Nail on the head on Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D · · Score: 1

    Not quite all MMORPGs, Guild Wars for example, you buy once and don't pay monthly fees.

    Some MMOs offer 'demos' for free, and then to keep playing after the demo is over you simply start paying the monthly fee.

  6. Re:DRM on Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues · · Score: 1

    Well, at $3000 per gallon, and 5lbs per gallon, 7000lbs per car, it would be 4.2million per car. Ink varies wildly, between 2.5k to 8k per gallon, so probably between 4 and 11million to print.

  7. Re: Price elasticity of demand on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 1

    Or Apple could allow prices ending in things other than .99.

  8. Re:Taking out capital ships? on New Russian Weapon Hides In Shipping Container · · Score: 1

    Personally, I wouldn't put the system on my own ships. I'd put them on my target's ships. That way if they want to blow up the source, they're destroying their own resources.

  9. Re:Republicans stealing music again? I'm shocked. on Parody and Satire Videos, Which Is Fair Use? · · Score: 1

    Gentlemen we have the technology. We can rebuild him.

  10. Re:Did Google Find Its Balls? on Google Backs Yahoo In Privacy Fight With DoJ · · Score: 1

    But....Think of the Children!

  11. Re:Talk about planning for peak usage... on Crunch Time For IRS Data Centers · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't. Because of people who earn no income, but get a company car, house, gulfstream jet and expense account. Those would be simple expenditures for the company, not income for the employee.

    But you could fit that instance into the 5 pages, but what about the next loophole, and then the next?

  12. Re:Punish Activision on Activision Countersues Modern Warfare 2 Execs · · Score: 4, Funny
  13. Re:Most nonsensical argument on The Economist Weighs In For Shorter Copyright Terms · · Score: 1

    But the rights holders would already be due that money. Just like The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony" all the money they made on it they lost, and they lost the rights to it. Disney wouldn't have enough money to pay off anyone.

    For their animated feature films, the following they didn't have to get rights for but would have had to with a 500 year copyright term:

    Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
    Alice in Wonderland
    Beauty and the Beast
    Cinderella
    Fantasia
    Fantasia 2000
    Hunchback of Notre Dame
    Jungle Book
    Lion King
    Little Mermaid
    Make Mine Music
    Oliver & Company
    Pinocchio
    possbibly Aladdin
    possibly Fun and Fancy Free
    Princess and the Frog
    Sleeping beauty
    Snow White
    Tarzan
    Treasure Planet
    the yet to be released Tangled

    And that doesn't even touch on their live action stuff, or on things where they didn't get the music rights to classical music.

  14. Re:health are energy are the keys on Can a Video Game Solve Hunger, Disease and Poverty? · · Score: 1

    Well, we need to start development on red matter right away, it sounds like the perfect solution.

  15. Re:Did you type this on a manual typewriter? on Toyota Accelerator Data Skewed Toward Elderly · · Score: 1

    The reasons I prefer driving a manual are:
    1)When starting from a stop in icy conditions you have the option of starting in 2nd reducing the chances of losing traction.
    2)When accelerating up to freeway speeds from an on ramp (from 40-60/65) you can choose to shift down two gears to get more acceleration if you want, where with an automatic, it has a harder time deciding if you want to shift down one or two gears, and may shift one, then a couple seconds later another providing initially less acceleration than desired, then another pause with no acceleration then fine after that as long as its in time.
    3) Engine braking.
    4) They are more fun to drive.

    I do usually drive the automatic I have more however, as it has more power to make it up hills and also more cargo room. I definitely agree on the cruise control count for long trips, that's why I have it in both my automatic and manual vehicles.

  16. Re:On the other hand... on IE8, Safari, iPhone All Fall At Pwn2Own Contest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I usually aim for perfection, though I don't wait until then to release. Aiming for perfection is fine. Waiting for it is not, as attaining perfection isn't possible.

  17. Re:Typical /. summary on Tracking Pedophiles By Their Typing Habits · · Score: 1

    Forget copy pasting, speech recognition. Its use is actually plausible, and would throw things off.

  18. Re:blood brain barrier is not... on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 1

    Or just make the particle target the blood brain barrier itself.

  19. Re:Isn't this... on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 2, Funny
  20. Re:Sad on DarkPlaces Dev Forest Hale Corrects Nexuiz GPL Stance · · Score: 1

    I believe he was referring to software, not just game software.

  21. Re:"Scholars"? on Supersizing the "Last Supper" · · Score: 1

    And here I would have guessed "something's fishy" refers to the smell more 'Something doesn't smell right"

  22. Re:Sketchy. on Medical Professionals Aren't Leaping For E-Medicine · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget MS, an Apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  23. Re:It's not a kick in the teeth for anyone. on UK ID Cards Could Be Upgraded To Super ID Cards · · Score: 1

    Aside from first class, I'm not sure that planes would be more comfortable these days.

  24. Re:More headaches? on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    Profitable, not watchable.

  25. Re:Like the games themselves on The Problems With Video Game Voice Acting · · Score: 1

    I suppose I should clarify, that I meant to reply to the your parent post.