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  1. Re:Piracy? What Piracy? on Nintendo Asks For Government Help To Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    And then get bought by the kind of idiots who cancel a nearly complete Ghostbusters game because they can't figure out how to make it into a franchise like Madden.

  2. Re:It's just a simple paraglider...so what? on Flying Car Flies From London To Africa · · Score: 1

    That's because they have.

  3. Re:Yes on Do Video Games Cost Too Much? · · Score: 1

    That's not my experience. I was decent enough in Quake 3 and got torn to pieces in Unreal Tournament. Similarly I doubt what little skill I have in playing TF2 will now let me join Quake Wars and play at a level useful to the squad.

  4. Re:Yes on Do Video Games Cost Too Much? · · Score: 1

    Worse. Playing last years game is asking to get your but handed to you fully cooked. Everyone who's still playing has had a year to perfect their skills at making the game NOT fun for you.

  5. Re:Psion is still around???!??!?!? on Dell Accuses Psion of "Fraud" Over Netbook · · Score: 1

    They sell PocketPC wireless barcode guns for retail IT setups. I've seen a few deployed at Petco recently.

  6. Re:neodarwinism on Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live · · Score: 1

    Much more likely a strawman than by any need to associate a godling with the other side.

  7. Re:It works! on ACTA Could Make Nonprofit P2Ps Face Criminal Penalties · · Score: 1

    You mean the legal alternative that they break every six months to make a new alternative?

  8. Re:Doubt it. on Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS? · · Score: 1
    Things I don't like:

    VM only - either it's slow on some hardware like dynamic instruction translation or it's slow on all hardware like Java. Also killing C and Assembler just shows they're the kind of language purists who can't write a practical powerful system, same as Java again.

    Memory compactness - serialized objects done right are tiny.

    Interaction with other computers - if you want to do it you WILL need to write data to disk in a process and system independent format. We in the real world call it a file.

    It's not GPL - seriously it's going to be next to impossible to drum up support for an underdog system that doesn't give people the code to tinker with these days. Think BeOS: sure it was pretty cool but it died real easily.

  9. Re:Nonsense on Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's still there it's just been amortized over 8 years. New computers need new OEM licenses so there will always be a trickle coming in. Unfortunately for MS they killed their upgrade market by allowing XP to stay around long enough that early XP computers couldn't viably run Vista.

  10. Re:Respect on Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All of them? We don't do military conquest anymore, only economic ones.

  11. Re:~obscurity = security? on US Dept. of Defense Creates Its Own Sourceforge · · Score: 1

    And tells you not to use them.

  12. Re:from the article.. on Workable Fusion Starship Proposed · · Score: 1

    It's even scarier. When you do the math this thing puts out petawatts!

  13. Re:Time to tighten our belts on IBM Hides the Bodies, Eyes US Government Billions · · Score: 1

    At lower income levels withholding's closer to 5-10% and you'd still get a refund on that.

  14. Re:Hmm on PC's Waste Heat Could Add To Processing Power · · Score: 1

    I'd assume it would have to operate at pretty high frequencies constantly being refreshed or not at all.

  15. Re:No Shit. on The Case Against Web Apps · · Score: 1

    Except that my Palm doesn't have a JVM. So at my work I can enter my reports and write my schedule with the browser-based app, but I can't do my java timecard without a Windows box (the Java app doesn't like Firefox either.).

  16. Re:Dead horse vapour on OLPC 2.0 — One Laptop Foundation Reboots · · Score: 2, Informative

    The intent was to prevent the OLPC's from being stolen. In order to do that they had to make it so that there was no such thing as a legitimate second-hand unit. If they allowed a market in the first world it was reasoned that all the student machines would get swiped and sold. As it is, with no actual proper supply chain built, there's little proof that's not what happened anyway.

  17. Re:What?! on Teachers Need an Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    As if there ever was a teacher that worked less than 80 hours.

  18. Re:What?! on Teachers Need an Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    Not everywhere is New York!

  19. Re:Just do it! on Senate Approves 4-Month Delay In Digital TV Switch · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but just about every electronics purchase that isn't made by Intel or AMD just goes to further screwing our balance of trade.

  20. Re:A reasoned analysis? That's good. on Linus Switches From KDE To Gnome · · Score: 1

    No, it was released while still in Alpha, at least a year early.

  21. Re:cosmic rays on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 1

    Since I doubt CERN will be firing nuclear explosions down the LHC how are they getting black holes to last that long? If a one-minute mark black hole is already a bomb they'd have to somehow be artificially extending the lifespan of one MUCH closer to flashout. Either there's a LOT of factors I don't know about or your math disagrees with theirs.

  22. Re:How much is self intereference? on Comcast's Congestion Catch-22 · · Score: 1

    That's really really weird because the design the WRT54G used, that I'd think would be something of the model other implementations are based on, didn't even need a second ethernet adapter. In that design the WAN and LAN ports are just different VLANs on the same 10/100 switch.

  23. Re:cosmic rays on Black Holes From the LHC Could Last For Minutes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What I find more interesting is that if these miniature black holes can give off a minute of Hawking radiation then it means the final seconds of a black hole look less like a bomb and more like a really bright flashbulb. This is great news for some science fiction authors as it means potential Hawking radiation reactors are actually NOT suicidal for a species to build.

  24. Re:Indeed, innocents accused have ruined lives. on UK Child Abuse Investigators Resent Being Charged For ISP Data · · Score: 1

    Which promotes the alley.

  25. Re:Fencing on An FBI Agent's 3 Years Undercover With Identity Thieves · · Score: 1

    The real flaw with chip and pin is that we've known it was possible to extract keys from these things with targeted damage for about the last 15 years to my memory. I remember hearing about cracking "smartcards" in Science News sometime in middle school.