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  1. Re: Black hole? on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    OK so even when you do find out what a law is you demonstrate you don't know how to read them.

  2. Re: Black hole? on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    So you've also demonstrated you don't know what a law is.

  3. Re:Curious OS design shortcoming on LibreSSL PRNG Vulnerability Patched · · Score: 1

    It's a program tthat exits the grand parent process and then forks in a loop until it happens to get the same process id as the grand parent. Which is of course something that will never happen in a real program. Expanding the size of the pid will just make it take longer.

    You can always "echo 4194303 > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max" on linux if you want to wait longer for said program - though you will break old binaries though...

  4. Re:Hmm... perhaps a more passive review? on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 1

    So they're going to be rich once they sue all of those reviewers. Sounds like an easier business than running a restaurant.

  5. Re:I'm not an anti sharing nazi... on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 2

    No. Since it's understood that the reproduction is poor and that doesn't reflect the quality of the original (yeah yeah insert joke about quality of hollywood movies...).

    If the reproductions were passed of as the original then sure they might put people off the original, but they aren't in this case.

  6. Re:Outside of Valve I don't think many developers. on What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? · · Score: 1

    How can there possibly be so many pre-orders. Sure I'll grant that gamers probably pre-order once but surely that first time is the only time since it's almost certain the game will be nothing like what was hyped at pre-order time.

    Are gamers really stupid enough to pre-order something again? Or is the market growing fast enough for there to be enough new suckers each time?

    I'm was dumb enough to pre-order one game long ago... I'm not completely moronic and hence never have again.

  7. Re:Outside of Valve I don't think many developers. on What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? · · Score: 1

    How is that a contradiction?

    If 54 million copies of minecraft have been sold then people must be getting fed up with the grind-for-gear ooh shiny with shallow gameplay that it epitomizes by now.

  8. Re:"Auteurs" is a real word, fuckface. on What Happens When Gaming Auteurs Try To Go It Alone? · · Score: 1

    Except of course that it makes no sense in the sentence and hence is incorrect.

    Hint: games are not films.

    Just like if I say "What happens when gaming sous chefs try to make it on their own?" I make no sense, because games are also not food.

  9. Re:It's only fair on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 1

    That's not what I said. Maybe try reading comprehension next time?

  10. Re:It's only fair on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unsurprisingly you do not make up 100% of cable operator revenue. In fact you make up approximately 0% and hence your particular preferences mean exactly diddly squat to their decision on how to value the sports stations that drive a large portion of their revenue.

    You can still sit comfortable in your knowledge of your superiority to the people who do enjoy watching sports, of course.

  11. Re:Consipricy nuts, go! on Maldives Denies Russian Claims That Secret Service Kidnapped a Politician's Son · · Score: 1

    Clearly your usage and the government's usage of the term is different. And since they get to define it...

  12. Re:Consipricy nuts, go! on Maldives Denies Russian Claims That Secret Service Kidnapped a Politician's Son · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should learn what arrested means.

    Do you think if he had said the the US Secret Service, "I'd like to leave now, thanks. Am I free to go". They would have said "yes" and let him go?

    No they wouldn't have. Because he was under arrest. In other words he had been arrested and the US Secret Service was now depriving him of liberty.

  13. Re:Consipricy nuts, go! on Maldives Denies Russian Claims That Secret Service Kidnapped a Politician's Son · · Score: 1

    The US government stated "On July 5, 2014 the U.S. Secret Service arrested Roman Valerevich Seleznev." They didn't go into any details like where which seems like exactly what you would expect since that's irrelevant and you don't want to give out operational details in some cases (and thus don't want to give them out in general - so that the cases you have a reason not to don't obviously stand out).

    There's no interpolation to "arrested by the US Secret Service", it's just reordering the statement without changing the meaning in the slightest.

    Of course if Maledives authorities hand him over the the US Secret Service he enters US Secret Service custody and thus has been arrested but the US Secret Service.

  14. Re:Consipricy nuts, go! on Maldives Denies Russian Claims That Secret Service Kidnapped a Politician's Son · · Score: 1

    You have an amazing ability to ignore simple reasons and declare huge conspiracies as "the only conceivable" explanations for things.

  15. Since they states the exact opposite of that, you don't have to believe it.

  16. Re: Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    Because there's this thing called the internet. Which makes it surprisingly easy to install software that didn't come by default with the computer.

    If they want Windows native code they are doing it wrong anyway. Why would somebody wanting to do something simple add such a ridiculous and unnecessary technical requirement before they even start?

    What advantage do you see in microsoft qbasic over microsoft small basic anyway?

  17. Re:Probable cause on Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On · · Score: 1

    Ah OK. So police state behavior is all perfectly reasonable as long as it happens some place you aren't.

    You are quite the selfish prick. Congrats.

  18. Re:Probable cause on Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On · · Score: 1

    And of course you could be such a fanatic jihadist pretending to not even be muslim. So you want mind if the FBI goes through all your communications and belongings anytime they feel like it. And of course you won't mind the occasional week long questioning session..

  19. Re:Cry Me A River on Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software · · Score: 1

    It's a fair point if you are deluded.

    Programming has better tools for such uses now. It's easier for "regular people" to build useful software now.

  20. Re:Australian rating on New Zealand ISP's Anti-Geoblocking Service Makes Waves · · Score: 1

    Sure, if they wanted to sell it "in Australia". But since they don't and instead just have it available on things like gog.com outside of Australia, they don't have to worry about that.

  21. Re:It's here already? on The AI Boss That Deploys Hong Kong's Subway Engineers · · Score: 1

    Please provide some more details about "The Australia Project", which I guess was Australia's famous experiment with communism that somehow no one has ever heard of?

  22. Re:Star? on New Class of Stars Are Totally Metal, Says Astrophysicist · · Score: 1

    1. In astronomy all the elements except for Hydrogen and Helium are in the category "metals", so no.
    2. In astronomy planets are things which orbit stars (plus some other criteria), so no.

  23. Re:how is that supposed to work? on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 1

    When you are turning and hence going to drive across the pedestrian crossing that is counting down at that moment, which should be pretty obvious.

    But you are completely changing the claim being made in the first place. There's no claim that there's an increase in accidents with pedestrians. The claim is simply that collisions between cars, in particular rear-end accidents, increase. They propose that this is due to drivers seeing the counters and trying to make it through before the lights change and running into the car in front of them that instead of doing the same thing just stopped at the lights as they changed.

  24. Re:Back to square one please on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 4, Informative

    It has helped. Can you not read or something?

    The timers lowered the number of accidents involving pedestrians.

    So the opposite of "not helped", it worked just fine.

    However, in addition to reducing the number of pedestrian accidents it also increased the number of rear-end collisions.

  25. Re:the real question is... on Nathan Myhrvold's Recipe For a Better Oven · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who doesn't want to cast aluminium in their oven?