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  1. Re:More Importantly on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 1

    It just recently (a few months back) became free-to-play. You can still pay to get upgrades and weapons faster (which makes starting as a free player nearly impossible).

  2. Re:Gasoline-like energy density on IBM Creates 'Breathing' High-Density Lithium-Air Battery · · Score: 1

    I can't speak for other areas, but in Vancouver, Canada (and most surounding cities) ALL new homes are required to be wired for electric car chargers. They don't have chargers installed, but they have the wiring in place to add one easily.

  3. Re:Seems partly justified on Judge Grudgingly Awards $3.6 Million In DRM Circumvention Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    IT WAS NOT AN INFRINGEMENT SUIT! They were sued for circumventing DRM. completely different issue.

  4. Re:Good thing you said "perhaps"! on Open Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention most home-built EV's I've seen have kill switches installed (usually in very easy reach of the driver) that uses hardware to shut off the motor.

  5. Re:Open Source is good because YOU can fix bugs on Open Source Electric Cars — Good Idea Or Not? · · Score: 1

    This is great news, so can I submit a patch to make the backseat roomier for my passengers? or making the sedan a coupe? Ah... I forgot to ask. What do they want to make open source? The entertainment systems, the engine/injection CPU, the hardware?

    electric cars...

  6. Re:So... on In Calif. Study, Most Kids With Whooping Cough Were Fully Vaccinated · · Score: 1

    Those numbers mean absolutely NOTHING unless we know what percentage of the general population was vaccinated. If only 50% were vaccinated, then there is a problem. If 99% were vaccinated, then I'd say the vaccine did a DAMN good job.

  7. Re:Not hacking on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    Hmm, sounds like an IT-Crowd reference... Must investigate!

  8. Re:Very sad on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    It's not that hard to find unpublished work that is still copyrighted. Would you consider a poem you wrote for college to be a "published work"? What about the job proposal you wrote at work?

  9. Re:I'm glad they consulted the experts. on Man Builds 737 Simulator In a Garage · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can really only torpedo so many laser-firing sharks before it starts getting repetitive.

  10. Re:Cue the investigations.... on Man Builds 737 Simulator In a Garage · · Score: 1

    That's hilarious. What kind of idiot thinks the pilot needs a bottle of liquid explosives to crash their own plane? Then again, he could always use the scissors to take the co-pilot hostage...

  11. Re:Not surprised on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 1

    Right, because nobody immigrates there...

  12. Re:Not hacking on 15-Year-Old Arrested For Hacking 259 Companies · · Score: 4, Informative

    all words are made up. Muggle is a valid word. It is in the dictionary because people use it.

    http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/muggle?q=muggle

  13. His point is that they are *already* doing that, and they are already running out of "frequencies". There is a limited breadth of frequency that is useful for communication. Too low and you can't get any bandwidth out of it, too high and it doesn't go farther than 100 meters. A lot of the spectrum is also already licensed for other purposes (gps, consumer devices, VHF, UHF, government, etc).

  14. Re:it is turbulance on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    Those countries' militaries are pathetic compared to the arsenal of long-range weaponry the US military can launch at the push of a button (and I'm not even talking about nukes). A few drones is nothing compared to that.

  15. Re:We have two choices to make it go away.. on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of the Canadian CD Levy? A few more of those for HDD's, flash drives and DVD's and they could survive on nothing but taxes!

  16. Re:Very sad on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 1

    And books, music, poetry and paintings are not non-published forms of expression? You can buy books with dance steps just as easily as you can buy sheet music. Copyright has NOTHING to do with whether something was ever published, publishing is just a convenient way of proving you came up with it first!

  17. With a wireless connection, that IS an option. If you have twice as many towers running at half the transmission power, you have effectively doubled your bandwidth. This is of course assuming the towers use either wired or highly-direction wireless to connect to the main trunk line.

  18. Re:it is turbulance on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    Physical (armed) revolution + north american military budgets == slaughter. We no longer live in a world where a band of freedom fighters with rifles can fight the army.

  19. Re:We have two choices to make it go away.. on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They'll just scream pirates and demand a bail-out like the automotive companies did. Then they'll use the governments money to buy new laws.

  20. Re:Nope on Feds Shut Down Tor-Using Narcotics Store · · Score: 1

    But since bitcoin is not anonymous (only the account holder's name is), all they have to do is find an account receiving money for drugs, then find out which hotel that account paid for and pick the person up.

  21. Re:How smart? on Florida Thinks Their Students Are Too Stupid To Know the Right Answers · · Score: 1

    The only time I've ever heard of IQ tests being used for scholastic purposes (other than students doing research) is determining the type and degree of learning disabilities. They are fairly good at determining if a student is actually "slow" or if they simply are not taking in the material due to teaching methods/etc.

    I personally know people with diagnosed learning disabilities.

  22. Re:As A Canadian, I Just Want To Say... on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 1

    The problem is big media companies pay their execs (and apparently lawyers) too much money to be able to compete against it.

  23. Re:well, on The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's time to virus scan that computer you keep using for your online banking...

  24. Re:Also known as on FCC Wants To Fine Google $25K For WiFi Investigation · · Score: 1

    Whoops, left tcpdump running!

  25. Re:Honest curiosity on Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages · · Score: 1

    Disregarding the fact that she only recently became blind

    Note the first line of my comment.