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  1. Do these guys look for new ways to get sued? on City of Heroes Mission Creator Explained · · Score: 1

    I mean this is a cool idea and all, but it seems like any quest that could be considered a rip-off of a comic book plot could be another invitation for Marvel to sue. And with 60 years or so of comic books it's not likely that any story, even one that is an *entirely* original creation, will have great similarity to something, somewhere, in that massive pile.

  2. Anti-capitalist? Sure, why not. on Sun's McNealy Wants Obama to Push Open Source · · Score: 4, Insightful

    open-source development project ... during which a federal official said "that open source was anti-capitalist."

    OSS is anti-capitalist if when you say 'capitalist' you really mean 'Plutocracy'.

  3. Re:USA is losing because we think we're winning on Bunnie Huang on China's "Shanzai" Mash-Up Design Shops · · Score: 2, Funny

    It amuses me that the average hater of "American Cultural Imperialism" knows more about those shows than I do.

  4. Re:No oldies on The Most Influential Games In History? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This isn't the most influential games list, it's a favs list from someone born in 1990.

    True enough, but it's a console list - plenty of the games you list had no or shitty console ports.

  5. Re:Skimming article text on Darkfall Set For Launch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Their main customer base is going to be the people upset that WoW pvp isn't hardcore enough, so I think you can replace "generally" with "always" in this case.

  6. Re:Mod parent up on Gamer Claims Identifying As a Lesbian Led To Xbox Live Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the assumption that being gay is the defining aspect of a person's life is much more offensive than declaring that discussion of sexuality may not be appropriate in all settings.

  7. Re:There, I've saved you a Google search... on Whither the 19th IOCCC? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever put YHBT YHL HTH HAND in an authorize header? Are you, or have you ever been, a regular at the scary devil monastery?

  8. Re:The GeoCities of China? on The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought 'QQ' was "round eyes filled with tears".

  9. Re:Thunderbird Public Service Announcement on Outage Knocks Gmail Offline For Many Users · · Score: 1

    Many years ago I used telnet (and then an except script I hacked into mutt) to access hotmail via raw imap commands. Calendar and folder commands where accessible via (mostly) standard protocol.

    Maybe they explicitly removed support for standards since then, but that's kind of aggressive foolishness seems unlikely. But I've always been surprised by the lengths people will go to in pursuit of fucking idiocy.

  10. Re:THANK YOU on Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin · · Score: 1

    I don't care that console games are retreads. It does irritate me that mediocre games, Halo for example, are hailed as wonderful games. I hate dual-development brain damage in UIs. I hate seeing marketing tie-ins lead to technology decisions to use shitty systems like games for windows live.

  11. Re:You mean... on Users' Admin Logins Make Most Windows Malware Worse · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Anecdotal evidence sucks.

    Yes, but the user experience is what counts. All it takes is one video game to pitch a fit that it doesn't have admin privileges and hundreds of thousands of users have learned the lesson "just run as admin, it's less bother". The last couple months Fallout3 has been the popular game of the moment teaching users that security is painful to use.

  12. Re:Worst naming scheme: on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It gives your customers something to chuckle over during traceroutes too. Why settle for letting them discover they traversed v11s0p1.dal01.blahblahblah.net, when you could let them know that they went through thebeast.bbb.net or ratbastard.wehateourjobs.com?

  13. Re:Why the hell isn't it on Steam...? on Fallout 3 DLC and Games For Windows Live Woes · · Score: 1

    Putting on my tinfoil hat, might the 360 approved sticker require Bethesda to give Live an exclusive lead time on providing the DLC. So retail disks or Steam might be a possibility in 6 months or so.

  14. Re:Adaptation rights != copyrights on Judge Rules Fox Has Copyright Claim To Watchmen · · Score: 1

    I think the copyright issue is that they licensed the right to make a specific type of derivative work from the copyright holder. Whether they purchased that right outright or only for a specific film that was never made is unclear.