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  1. "No civilized society" on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    he adds, can endure 'purely voluntary payment for art, knowledge, and culture.'

    And he has peer-reviewed proof of this, of course.

  2. Re:Follow the money on Psystar "Definitely Still Shipping" Mac Clones · · Score: 1

    Judge kills company, orders money to be paid to apple. Oh, look we spent all of our money on "research and development" and property on mars

    That would be fine for Apple, they don't need some chump change settlement fee, they just want their business model intact.

  3. Re:Just science? on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    People don't know enough about anything to make an informed decision when it comes to the actual issues.

    That's fine, since their vote is worthless anyway. The real power, corporations, have made sure that whoever you vote for, at any level of government, things will pretty much not change at all.

  4. Re:correction: on Scientists Closer To Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    The locker room is not "good naked".

  5. untangling cables! on Get Ready For the Nerdlympics · · Score: 1

    That's amateur stuff. Let me know when they move on to Christmas lights.

    Bonus points if you have to find and replace the bad bulb.

  6. Re:hehe on Tufts Tells Judge, We Can't Tie IP To MAC Addresses · · Score: 1

    We should address the real issue here and provide sex to all students!

    Corrected for you.

    No need, the students are happily providing sex to each other.

  7. Re:WWJTWU on FISA and Border Searches of Laptops · · Score: 1

    Actually, he claimed he was king.

    They didn't take too kindly to Identity Fraud back then either.

  8. Re:Not necessarily on Towards an Exercise Pill · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the other hand, if you fake the signal which says, basically, "oi, we're doing lots of contracting here, we need more muscle fibers!", you'll get just that.

    Yes and no. In addition to chemical signals which move raw materials into place to construct new muscle, you also rely on physical damage to the muscles that tell normal housekeeping cells to clean up, and begin laying new tissue (unless you have not finished puberty). This new tissue is (hopefully) bigger and therefore stronger.

    The article didn't go into much detail, and they keep referring to muscle "tone", which is really a different thing than raw muscle. I'm still skeptical of the use of such a drug unless it is accompanied by actual exercise and used as simply a stimulant to improved muscle creation and repair.

  9. Re:A little more context... on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    The difference is, they're taking people's expensive computers and keeping them. Instead of 100 years ago, when they looked at your inexpensive papers, saw nothing, and gave them back.

    The other difference is, they're abusing their authority instead of exercising it with caution. I don't care about the law against jaywalking because cops only use it to stop people from causing problems, not simply crossing against the light. We don't mind searches at the border if they're reasonable. I don't count indefinite seizure of my computer as reasonable.

  10. Re:Their law versus ours on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 1

    You cannot fight global terrorism by turning the USA into a police-state.

    They're not trying to fight terrorism, they're trying to become the bigger, badder terrorist.

  11. Box office sales are NEVER impressive on WB Took Pains To "Delay" Pirating of Dark Knight · · Score: 1

    It should be based on tickets sold, per capita. That way a film from the 70s can be directly compared in popularity to one made today.

  12. Re:Good on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    we need less people on this earth that act like you just did.

    Would you make the same comment to the spam king? If so, you're kind of agreeing with the person you responded to without intending to.

  13. My bet is... on Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York · · Score: 1

    The kids will be the ones with the parental password, since they open the box and install the system. So really this will accomplish nothing.

  14. The cost is $249 on $250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You don't find out until you click purchase (twice I think). Not exactly as cheap as I was expecting.

  15. Re:I trained in Kung Fu for 6 years on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 1

    As someone who's been training in martial arts for years, my advice to anyone concerned with personal safety is to invest in a tazer. The ones the police use are around $500 and they are very effective.

  16. Re:How many years for the morals? on You, Too, Could Be Batman In 10 To 12 Years · · Score: 2, Funny

    Mod parent +1 ironic for a man driving a woman crazy.

  17. Re:Games and Marketshare on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most games ARE ported. FPS types typically take a couple months, many are released simultaneously. I know there's always a really good title or two that never crosses over (looking at you Far Cry) but most games make it to the Mac.

    You might just not see them as they don't carry Mac versions in most stores that sell PC software.

  18. Re:Vista: Unix's MVP on Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market · · Score: 1

    It seems that Linux won't be "ready" for prime time until it gets more support. And by that I mean, when you walk into Best Buy, what is the sales rep trying to push on you.

    Remember that the lay person may not even know what an OS is, or really understand what their choices are (beyond "Mac or PC"). Not enough to inquire about their choices anyway.

  19. Re:Ouf on Gmail Reveals the Names of All Users · · Score: 1

    But who was responsible? Let the Ginquisition begin!

    Nobody expect the Google Inquisition!

  20. The internet has edges? on P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet · · Score: 5, Funny

    I plan to prove this false once and for all, by sailing around the internet and arriving on east Asian web sites from the other side.

  21. Re:How about the reverse quotas? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    Well the thing is, there actually ARE an equal number of females vs males in the general population, to pool from. Not so with race, ethnicity, gender-preference, etc.

  22. Re:yep on Warhammer Online Sees Massive Content Removal To Make Launch · · Score: 1

    As far as Blizzard goes, I'm pretty sure they don't even give a release date until maybe 2-3 weeks before hand, specifically to avoid disappointing people.

    For their MMO, they've been hyping up the next expansion for possibly a year now, still no release date, not even a date when the beta will be available.

  23. Re:Research is practically a Moot Point on The State of R&D At HP, IBM, and Microsoft · · Score: 1

    1. No customers for new idea.
    2. No budget for some new idea.
    3. No "proven" market for new idea.
    4. No one is willing to risk their status taking a chance at a new product.

    This is one reason Apple can get away with new case/computer designs, and also why their prices are a bit higher. There is a higher R&D cost in their final product, but you get new features that aren't seen (at least not right away) in the PC world, and don't have to deal with legacy hardware.

    Even small things such as the design of the Mac Pro case is fairly sophisticated to what's commonly available in the PC world. Just for fun I tried to find an ATX case that had the properties of the Mac case (location of RAM, drives, air flow), and I only found a couple, and they were over $200 for just the case (no PSU).

  24. This is why MMOs have grown so much on Free Games As a Solution To Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    The cost of the CD is really irrelevant compared to the monthly fee, which isn't "piratable" in the sense that a CD is.

  25. Re:End up in court on Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law · · Score: 1

    or the mythical status of global warming

    What does the state demand (or suggest) you teach about global warming? I can imagine it being a topic of interest in a science class, just not sure what teachers are expected to say about it.

    I graduated high school in 1990, and environmental issues were largely absent from school. Which is understandable as there was (and still is) a lot of conflicting information out there.