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  1. Re:"While Creating Energy" on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Yes it "uses" the energy used to produce the stuff that is now trash as well as the energy used to move and process the trash to be used in the plant.

  2. Re:God Dammit on LucasArts, Bioware Announce Star Wars MMO · · Score: 1

    If the game remembers your "achievements" and mirrors them back at you ("Are you the same Syousef who saved the crop of old Farmed Bob?!") the game can successfully portray you becoming a hero.

  3. Re:F5 IRule on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 1

    But the scanning engine is called Luke Filewalker! Plus it's pretty fast and low on resources.

  4. Re:digital content is now free on Purported ACTA Wishlist Would Put DMCA To Shame · · Score: 1

    The failure rate is too high for replicators to become widespread!

  5. Re:it won't be a bad thing to have an Open Windows on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

    I understand SharePoint is doing pretty well.

  6. Re:Mod parent up! on MS To Become Open Source Friendly Post Gates · · Score: 1

    No, as opposed to the Mammoths!

  7. Working both ways on Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM · · Score: 1

    we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too It does doesn't it? You are not ready to play with our rules and we are not ready to play by yours!

  8. Re:Very defensive about Vista. on Bill Gates: Windows 95 Was 'A High Point' · · Score: 1

    Slackware..I had forgotten about that distro! It's somehow charming to remember that at some point using a pre-made distribution for installing a GNU/Linux system was considered "slack" :)

  9. Re:I shall answer the question! on Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group · · Score: 1

    100% agreed, the point of courses being in essence the knowledge on the subject you walk away with when the course is over.

  10. Re:Didn't knew Google was an EU company on EU to Investigate Google Doubleclick Acquisition · · Score: 1

    It's still an interesting question though.

  11. Re:not this again... on Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs? · · Score: 1

    Since the audio resolution of vinyl is limited my the molecular size of the material used, I doubt that it could somehow contain more data than can be represented in digital form.

  12. Re:Answer: Linux will never be GPL3. on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    Finnish and Swedish layouts are identical though. Which makes Swedish(Finland) layout supports the most needed things in the universe!

  13. Re:Wouldn't there be easier ways to sue him? on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    While we have a very similar law in Finland, the view on what is an effective access control seems to vary a lot from case to case. If you can photocopy the coupons as mentioned in the article, the copy control hardly seems effective. And even if you couldn't, deleting a few files and registry keys doesn't require any special tools or expertise. Still not very effective, I'd say.

  14. Re:a sad day on RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees · · Score: 1

    Buying a cd from cdbaby is worth it for the order confirmation email alone :)

  15. Re:Controlling the Westernised Russian Beast on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    Basically yes, but afaik every citizen can call for a referendum if he can collect 50,0000 signatures supporting the proposed new law within three months. So it's a bit more that that.

  16. Re:Controlling the Westernised Russian Beast on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Switzerland's variant on direct democracy is certainly the best contemporary example of how it could work.

  17. Re:The big problem is that... on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    What if I have used the product in good faith? If I have legally acquired and used a product, surely I have the right to expect I'm not doing anything wrong after all?

  18. Re:strange on Sweden Admits Tapping Citizens' Phones for Decades · · Score: 1

    Terrorism is about spreading fear into the general population. A single political murder cannot be classed as terrorism, regardless of how well liked the target was.

  19. Proving your innocene? on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren't going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence.

    You have to prove your innocence before actually doing anything right now? Eeek...thought crime, just like in that novel. What was it called again? 2007?

  20. Re:Only Lawyers may even think about law!!! (WOOT) on RIAA Admits 70 Cent Price is 'In the Range' · · Score: 1

    WoTC's Open Gaming License applicable to D&D 3rd edition and later is available here: http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html

  21. Re:The hypocracy of an Argument on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    Why make the obviously flawed drug analogy then?

  22. Re:The hypocracy of an Argument on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 1

    imagine I bought 50 lbs of good high quality sticky weed in Amsterdam (where it's legal), then I transfer that LEGAL product to the U.S. where it's illegal.. is it absurd that they arrest me?

    Is owning music illegal in the U.S.?

  23. Re:They'll "upgrade" when they buy new machines, d on Now Is Not the Time for Vista · · Score: 1

    Eww, why wouldn't they at least upgrade to something that is, you know, supported. Like windows 2000?

  24. Re:FYI on Sony Says Nobody Will Ever Use All the Power of a PS3 · · Score: 1

    FYI: 4mb would be four millibits not millibytes :)

  25. Re:"Never" is harsh language on Advice For Programmers Right Out of School · · Score: 1

    At least break is well defined: it can't take you to planet Zorg instead of just outside the loop. It's still ugly though. "Proving" feasibility depends on you definition of feasible. Is passing a boolean value checked in every loop not feasible? Why not? In most cases it certainly won't affect performance in any remotely meaningful way.

    Sometimes you just have to traverse a hypercube and sometimes the termination conditions of the loops are arcane enough without adding another check. Often if you feel the need to add a goto or a break it's a sign that something else is wrong, however. It might be more feasible to provide another way to access the data you are checking/modifying.