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  1. Re: on Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project · · Score: -1

    Apple was very smart in creating their specific dock connector and then upselling it to other companies.There's no reason a standard USB interface couldn't have been decided upon by various media players that allowed digital playback and user interface to be exposed in both directions, but instead we have the iPhone dock connector in cars and on stereos.

  2. Re: on Ted Stevens Loses Senate Re-Election Bid · · Score: -1

    Meanwhile, I think our 'larger than the entire rest of the world combined' military budget is perhaps slighty to large unless there's some alien menace we don't know about, and I'll disagree there. I'm right there with you, politically. But a slight fact-check might be in order. Last I looked, the US defense budget is about 45% of the entire world. So we spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined, and about as much as the next 14 or so countries, combined. And that list of 14 countries inc

  3. Re: on Gaming Benchmarks For the New MacBook Pros · · Score: -1

    Truth is, we all just want to know how well will it handle WotLK.Now back to grinding to 80.

  4. Re:Are you out of your mind? on Stardock Tried To Make Star Control, Master of Orion Sequels · · Score: -1

    Just because it's a Civ-type game with spells oriented around 5 "colors" does not mean it's MoM2. It's missing several things that helped make the game interesting, like races other than humans and the mirror world. MoM-like games have been done before.That said, it doesn't look like a bad game at all, and even MoM wasn't all that original

  5. Re: on McColo Takedown, Vigilantes Or Neighborhood Watch? · · Score: -1

    Vigilantism would be action like that employed by the Lad Vampire. This was just a bunch of experts asking companies to enforce their TOS.

  6. Re: on Boycott Novell Protesters Manhandled In India · · Score: -1

    Lol.. NO, that is the premise of the set up. In the example I created that you objected to, I went into an area known to be violent while making every attempt I could to entice someone into a fit of violence just so I could video tape me killing them in a claim of self defense. My self defense claim would probably result in a premeditated murder charge or at least one of the manslaughter charges.Perhaps I wasn't clear in my first rendition.

  7. Re: on On the Economics of the Kindle · · Score: -1

    The thing is that there are already tons of "no-profit" textbooks out there - books that professors wrote because they didn't like any of the existing texts, and wanted something different for their classes. I had a number of classes with texts like this. Generally, the profs are prohibited from earning profits on these things... but the publishing companies and bookstores are not, and they don't end up being much cheaper than any other text. This sort of thing would be perfect for e-book distro - the prof

  8. Re: on IP Rights For Games Made In School? · · Score: -1

    I'm just askin'.

  9. Almost had me.. on YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  10. Almost had me.. on YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A 'Good' Video · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  11. Time warp? on VR Snow Game Functions As Pain Management · · Score: -1

    Can you write your name with virtual pee in the snow? Because if you can't, it will not be hard to distinguish it from real world, thus negating immersion.

  12. Re: on Job and Internship Salary Comparisons? · · Score: -1

    ...To all interns or even experienced tech workers looking to relocate: Stay the hell out of California. We have plenty of talent and we don't need ass-backward inbred Midwestern or Southern mindsets contributing nothing to the talent pool while driving up our property costs. We don't need cheap, stinky H1-B labor or its competition

  13. Re: on Hubble's Exoplanet Pics Outshined by Keck's · · Score: -1

    I think the interesting / meaningful distinction is that humans design and create things, rather than simply "building" them. While some animals do make use of very basic tools, humans take it to a whole new level. The process for creating a microcomputer, for example, is far removed from actually performing the tasks we use them as tools to accomplish.Definitely agree with the post above yours though

  14. When the head becomes ludicrous in size on Scientists Discover Proteins Controlling Evolution · · Score: -1

    Eggs are there from birth.Sperm are not.

  15. Before /. starts to panic about free speech... on Argentine Judges Disappear Celebrities From Internet · · Score: -1

    "In the case of forced disappearance the word disappear, which is properly an intransitive verb, becomes transitive."

  16. So how much did they make? on 3 Firms Confess To Fixing LCD Prices, Agree To Pay $585M Fine · · Score: -1

    Imbalance of information is only one of the three major failure modes of the free market. Externalities both positive and negative, and natural monopolies are the other two.

  17. Re: on 40-Gbps DDoS Attacks Worry Even Tier-1 ISPs · · Score: -1

    First, Greenspan expected banks to make choices in their own self-interest... but instead bank executives made decisions that were in their own self interests. He forgot that corporations are not actual decision-makers, individuals are, and individuals tend to make the choices that are best for them, not the choices that are best for their company.All the more reason to eliminate corporations as an entity in the eyes of the law.

  18. Re: on EU Council Refuses To Release ACTA Documents · · Score: -1

    it is democratic as long as the people doing the negociations are democraticly elected. That is called representative democracy. "We the people" can punish the leaders if they f- up by not re-electing them.

  19. Re: on U-Turn On UK ID Cards · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  20. Re: on China Defines Internet Addiction · · Score: -1

    difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress.

  21. Re: on Irish GSM Providers Asked to Track Users' Web Use · · Score: -1

    The Guards in my experience are a highly professional group of men and women who make a habit of nipping trouble in the bud.

  22. Re: on Good Cross-Platform Speech-Recognition Programs? · · Score: -1

    Yes, seriously, do what the rest of us do when we need to do tissue culture - use a lab book, and prepare your experimental plan carefully ahead of time. Write out the quantities of stuff you need (remembering this was always hardest for me). Unless it's something like splitting cells you should be writing the experiment down for legal reasons anyway.You'll probably need to bring things in/out of the hood occasionally in almost any experiment, so just make use of that opportunity to look over your notes aga

  23. Re: on Yahoo Interested In a Microsoft Buyout, But Microsoft Isn't · · Score: -1

    Am I the only one that is completely confused?

  24. Re:Portable Furnace on Toshiba Launches Laptop With Three GPUs · · Score: -1

    The whole point of this is to improve battery life compared to laptops that only have the higher performance GPU: you use the more efficient GPU when you do not need the performance, and the better performance one only when you do.

  25. Re: on Red Hat & AMD Demo Live VM Migration Across CPU Vendors · · Score: -1

    And, when you think about it, any instruction that you would have to trap if the VM used to be running on a different processor must be trapped at all times.This is because you have no way of knowing which processor type the VM was first started on. When this happened, it's likely the OS did some hardware checking and figured out which instructions it could (and could not) use. Moving the VM isn't going to change what the OS believes is the processor, and that's the problem.Overall, VMware's Enhanced VMot