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  1. Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    With free energy and raw materials ("dilithium" magic and particle replication), which nation wouldn't become communist? Everyone can have everything. The first replicator will essentially end manufacturing, commerce, and trade, as replicators are replicated for all to use.

    But wait! Then the IP Cops would turn up, having been lobbied by the RIAA (Replicator Industry Association of America) to arrest everyone with their free replicators, as they didn't pay the RIAA a license fee to use the replicated goods!

    IT'S LIKE STEALING FROM THE INVENTOR, DAWG!

    Sorry.

  2. Re:Scalzi on Stross on ST on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Some daft bugger of a Chief Engineer creates a Sherlock Holmes character which is specified to tax the only sentient android in existence?

  3. Re:Copyrights are going to be forgotten on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 1

    ... Or, you could encapsulate the words "separate" and "studies" in an anchor and help some folk out.

    Your profs sound like wankers.

  4. Re:Schrodinger's Cookies on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    Holy shit, we slashdotted the NYT?!

  5. Re:I dunno on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that means you should be thinking outside the box, and the scientist should be in the box... "Bring out the Gimp" indeed.

  6. Re:Back in high school creative writing class ... on The LHC, the Higgs Boson, and Fate · · Score: 1

    Which is why after the convincer, you walk away. "Big enough to bring them back" is often big enough. Getting greedy is when you lose all your money.

  7. Re:Copyrights are going to be forgotten on 100 Years of Copyright Hysteria · · Score: 1

    Your signature needs citations.

  8. Re:What? on New Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K · · Score: 1

    I'm nothing related to this field, but my google-fu is strong today.

    This article (bottom of page) explains the 4-number notation to represent numbers of insulating, spacing, separating, and conducting layers. It even has a picture.

    No, I have no idea what that means. I can guess at what the fourth number means, though...

  9. Re:And she should get a year on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    You can set your FB profile to be viewable to friends only, so people in your networks can't view your profile.

    One of the first things I did after setting up an account (So I'd have an account which I could state was mine, and nobody could state otherwise) was to set all permissions from "Everyone" to "Just my friends" and to add friends which would add plausibility to any claim that the profile was my own. No other information is on there.

  10. Re:In an interview on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    Sharon Jackson: I just want to say, in my defense, that I am for real. I never meant to make their daughter cry! I apologise a trillion times...

  11. Re:Duh, that's what a restraining order is on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    I thought "quantum" and then I didn't.

  12. Re:Slightly Offtopic: Not Genotype on New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because the average guy is mean?

    Here all night!

  13. Re:Warning on New Ad-Aware Offers Behavioral Detection · · Score: 1

    This program has encountered an unexpected error and needs to close. Would you like to send an error report?

    [Ok] [Cancel]

  14. Re:Statistically worthless on BSA Says 41% of Software On Personal Computers Is Pirated · · Score: 1

    You're preaching to the choir.

    The trouble is, we can't explain it in words small enough for the voting population, and the politicians are already bought out with lobbying, donations, and mutual back-scratching, and they, or the ones sponsoring them, are the ones with the advertising space between the X Factor and re-runs of Everybody Loves Raymond.

  15. Re:Moderators, are you all friggin' retards? on SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros · · Score: 0, Troll

    Xvaq bs yvxr hfvat n ebgngvbany plcure

  16. Re:A little Chinese wisdom on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight

    No jokes about trashy vampire novels, please.

  17. Re:Dear Australian Gamers, on Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits · · Score: 1

    True, but at least Valve get the money for the fully licensed product as opposed to just downloading a .torrent for the executables ripped from the very same version.

    It's about making a point to the censors, not to the distributor.

  18. Re:Criminal vs Civil on Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal · · Score: 1

    Because he was telling everyone the answer?

  19. Re:That's bright! on Patent Claim Could Block Import of Toyota's Hybrid Cars · · Score: 1

    Maybe he'll get made redundant ("Corporate right-sizing, current economic climate, budget adjustments, here's a cardboard box.") and get hit by a car on the way out, just as his company-sponsored medi-care expires.

    Some people are assholes because they've not been exposed to the situation they describe. Sometimes, it does take a sledgehammer to the face to wake some people up.

  20. Re:Criminal vs Civil on Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    IANFIJ (I am not fluent in Japanese).

    WBWTAIYGTEIA?! (Why bother with the acronym if you're going to explain it anyway?!)

  21. Re:Where? on More Water Out There — Ice Found On an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Hydrogen + Oxygen + Heat = Water Something tells me that at 2.7 Kelvin it wouldn't take much for water to condense on any surface it found.

  22. Dear Australian Gamers, on Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits · · Score: 1

    FYI: Left4Dead US Retail Box on Amazon.com

    Sincerely,

    A gamer against censorship.

  23. Re:But will it let me buy stuff using paypal? on Microsoft Plans Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but please visit this website prior to your visit. An installation and a quick change of browser will be required to implement the enhanced security.

  24. Re:So we can't afford Patrolling Police Officers.. on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 1

    Well done on paragraphing. Now, if you could just fully-justify your text, we'd be most appreciative.

  25. Re:One is reminded of this happening before on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 1

    Shit, I just posted about this in a new comment. Parsons in 1984 had just this happen to him. He talked in his sleep.