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  1. Re:RIAA = Scientology on Ray Beckerman Sued By the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't aware of the business model of a company, especially when it's the attached insurance arm.

  2. Re:Inductive sensors on National Car Tracking System Proposed For US · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that just make it easier with enough intercommunication as now each and every car has a constantly slowly changing unique magnetic "scent" that probably keeps similar enough to identify it between stops?

  3. Re:The Great White North on Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search · · Score: 1

    I doubt most of those have Euros to spend.

  4. Re:US Citizens only on Bill To Add Accountability To Border Laptop Search · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't worry too much. If English is your first language you've got your own "slightly fascist police state" to worry about. "Secure beneath the watchful eyes" anyone?

  5. Re:How does that work? on NASA Patents To Be Auctioned · · Score: 1

    Actually that got little $40 gift cards sent out to anyone who wants them.

  6. Re:EA management on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Not only are their people still playing Starcraft, you can still go into many stores and buy it! It's the Anti-Madden. So of course EA doesn't get it.

  7. Re:Some Compromise! on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    So they're going to react to the loss of potential sales by spending real money on call centers? Even at Indian rates this is downright lunacy!

  8. Re:Yeah, sure its because of some comments on Amaz on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    It's a license. You never owned it in the first place. At least that's what their lawyers tell them.

  9. Re:How is this a compromise? on Spore DRM Protest Makes EA Ease Red Alert 3 Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Exactly. We should let them know that install-limited games are only worth microtransaction prices.

  10. Re:no on Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code · · Score: 2

    The problem is most Americans are bad at judging accents so the South Africans frequently sound English.

  11. Re:EA Spindoctoring on What Modern Games Are DRM-Free? · · Score: 1

    No they aren't. They'll just keep re-skinning Madden and meanwhile bemoan how the PC game market is dead.

  12. Re:Lest we get excited. on HP May Be Developing Its Own Version of Linux · · Score: 1

    But where are the cars in your metaphor?

  13. Re:Steve will fix it, don't worry. on Apple Losing Touchscreen War · · Score: 1

    So you're saying he's a Spark?

  14. Re:Fist on Has Superstition Evolved To Help Mankind Survive? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remember a novel where a character used Taro. Not because he believed it, but because when you were looking for problems from A and B, the taro deck would pull a card and tell you to look at D

  15. Re:Legal consequence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 1

    http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516 gives sentencing. Check the states with mandatory. Montana for example goes to felony on second possession.

  16. How about preventing short-selling instead. on Automated News Crawling Evaporates $1.14B · · Score: 1

    I think many problems could actually be solved by eliminating the market features that make it possible to make money on a tanking stock. Without short selling the market would probably have a much stronger tendency to self correct. A greater tendency to self correct would yield less volatility overall and less volatility could yield less reactionary bidding as the consequences of not reacting immediately wouldn't be as severe.

  17. Re:IT Wins? on IT Vs. the Permanent Energy Crisis · · Score: 1

    Did you seriously just choose heating as an example for energy reduction? The ONE thing that runs at virtually 100% efficiency. Heck, even just about everything else we ever do with energy is still a nearly 100% efficient heater. That's half our problem with energy consumption in the first place.

  18. Re:Data Theft on TransferJet Consortium Works Towards Touch Data Transfer Tech · · Score: 1

    Also I think the 3cm range might give some serious headaches in terms of antenna design. Remember alot of antenna gain is actually by changing the sensitivity pattern. With a signal that weak you pattern would have to really, really tight to pick it out, which would probably require foolishly rigid placement of the antenna to get the device in the focus point.

  19. Re:What would happen on Hacking Esquire's E-ink Cover · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Doesn't mean this one has the contacts laid out for addressable pixels.

  20. Re:Legal consequence? on 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In civilized states. In others the potheads go to prison and consume money like water for a few years. Later they come out, discover they can't get a job because of their record, and live off the dole if they can. If they can't they have to steal, or panhandle, or just give up.

  21. Re:Sorta. Almost. Well, ok, not really. Sorry. on A Chinese Challenge To Intel · · Score: 1

    I can just imagine some guy in China running Vista on some hyper-advanced DOSbox fork.

  22. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA.. on ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years · · Score: 1

    Someone call debris section!

  23. Re:been there twice on Vegas Star Trek Experience Closing Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you're going to bombard buildings from space you really ought to do it in Salt Lake City. The grid system makes it easy, they even give you a nice big target at the center of the coordinate system to zero your sight with.

  24. Re:tier? on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sure they do: snotty, good, small, and fake.

  25. Re:Non free is always this way. on A Device to Grab Data From Cell Phones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a failure of security through obscurity. The cell phone companies have concentrated so much on selling the syncing systems for absurd amounts that they never bothered to actually secure the interface.