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  1. Re:Similar things have happened before... on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Servers for games that have direct connections between players?

    How long have you been PC gaming?

  2. Re:Similar things have happened before... on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    Really, the only company I trust with digital distribution these days is GOG, who don't use DRM in any of their games

    While looking at the details of some of the recent sales and additions, I found out that at least some of the games do

  3. Re:that's the magic of auto updates on The Dark Side of Digital Distribution · · Score: 1

    You mean like that update to the NYT in the cloud...

    Or the Gannett one. Yup, free all right.

  4. Re:Oh dear. on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guess which branch funds the TSA and ask that question again.

  5. Re:Wow, you are stupid on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 1

    Point. I have the slim though, so that was never an option.

    This generation has been closer to general purpose than any before it, so there's going to be some friction there.

  6. Re:Gabe Newell should treat them to lunch... on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 2

    These guys are walking billboards highlighting the value of Steam vs the crap DRM-ware of Ubi, Origin, MS Games, etc.

    Not enough of a value obviously. FTFA: Even the Steam version includes this nice 'feature.'

  7. Re:Wow, you are stupid on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Consoles aren't general purpose, they're game appliances.

    DRM on the console won't interfere with my ability to do other things that aren't related to games.

  8. Re:Wikimedia still discussing on White House Opposes Key SOPA Provisions · · Score: 2

    Oh, good.

    A clickthrough blackout in the rest of the world isn't a bad idea though.

  9. Re:I don't think it's X-Rays on DHS X-ray Car Scanners Now At Border Crossings · · Score: 1

    Java? So they're breaking the EULA too?

    Or does control of radiographic equipment not count as a nuclear facility?

  10. Re:Wikimedia still discussing on White House Opposes Key SOPA Provisions · · Score: 1

    That's about as much as Wiki can do, as they're pretty essential

    That's the freaking POINT of making it an utter blackout. Make people understand what it would be like if it passed. A click through isn't going to change squat.

  11. Re:False supposition on Why Do All Movie Tickets Cost the Same? · · Score: 1

    Supply is sort of an issue, at least from the consumer's point of view.

    Not all movies are in all theaters.

  12. Re:Religious symbolism? on Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap · · Score: 1

    There ain't nothing about carving it in KJV

  13. Re:Notable excerpt on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 1

    That's the closest he's come to admitting failure.

    He was fully able to control the customer, but that requires controlling yourself which he can't manage.

  14. Re:Still continues to be an asshole on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 2

    He's psychopathic, not schizophrenic.

  15. Re:Religious symbolism? on Amazon Patents Deducing Religion From Gift Wrap · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Then why is there a Bible verse banning them?

  16. I don't think I'd call this remote on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Remote to me means "it's connected, you're vulnerable". This requires the user to take an action, getting some local data. From the description, you could have the same files on the file system and it would work.

    Bad? Yeah. But not "plug it in, computer is pwned" bad.

  17. Re:Samsung... on Apple Outsources A5 Chip Manufacture ... To Texas · · Score: 1

    From 10 feet

  18. Re:"Content" is a business model. on Penguin Yanking Kindle Books From Libraries · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, it's not.

    The content gives you something to sell, exactly what you do with it is the business model.

  19. Re:Anti-Trust on MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    MAC

    (and I don't mean the computers from Cupertino)

  20. Re:52-minutes is 'quick-look'? on The Elder Scrolls Return With Skyrim · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When that 52 minutes is much less than 1% of the content? Yeah.

  21. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines · · Score: 1

    That view makes others insecure in their own person.

    Who wins, the one or the many?

  22. Methinks it is like a weasel on A Few Million Monkeys Finish Recreating Shakespeare's Works · · Score: 1

    The early 80's wants its program back.

    The only thing this has demonstrated is computing power has increased. Whoop de doo.

  23. Re:An underlying Anti-Open-source agenda on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 1

    RTFA. It's bald propaganda FOR open source software.

    Provide the source, no liability over cost.

  24. Re:Sure on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 0

    Because GTA III is of the same complexity as Atari 2600 Space Invaders. Gotcha.

  25. Re:Sure on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 4, Informative

    What liability?

    Clause 1. If you deliver software with complete and buildable source code and a license that allows disabling any functionality or code by the licensee, then your liability is limited to a refund.