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  1. Re:Hell Yeah on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    One Glearing problem with you theroy, Amazon isn't broadcasting, they're unicasting, to the registered user of the cloud drive, and only data they themselves uploaded. They are not charging money for basic service, no matter how loud you claim they are. They have a ToS that spells out exactly what they will do with your data. Do I believe they just store it and never look at it again? No that would be naive. But really what they're doing isn't a whole lot different that what dropbox does, and its exactly what Ubuntu One does. Its also what Google and Apple are planing on doing. (The difference being Amazon has enough clout/balls to not be bullied by **AA.) The rest of your analogy, while intresting only serves as a reminder of how broken that model is in TODAYS market. (if it ever really worked.) The part you left out, is when the Hollywood studio gets sued for infringement. You want to dawn you tinfoil hat and hide in the conner from Gmail, Amazon and the like, thats fine. But stomping your feet, whining about getting paid and fear mongering, only makes you look foolish at best, a sympathetic shill at worst.

  2. Re:...and pay £100,000 on Tesla Sues BBC's Top Gear For Libel · · Score: 2

    Tesla simply wants Top Gear to stop rebroadcasting the particular episode and to correct the record ...The firm expects to recover not more than £100,000 in damages

    Fixed that for you!

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/30/tesla-sue-top-gear

    Fixed that for you! The guardian doesn't say £100,000, it says "up to" In fact the claim lists exactly what the OP says it does and the "value" is not more than £100,000. But nice try.

  3. Re:what happened to you Samsung on Samsung Plants Keyloggers On Laptops · · Score: 1

    I was just talking to my wife last night about how I liked Samsung products. Its getting harder to find anything from a company that Hasn't fucked its customers somehow.

  4. Re:Hell Yeah on Amazon's Cloud Player: We Don't Need a License · · Score: 1

    Your an idiot, Amazon isn't reselling you your music by streaming. Just giving you easy access to storage you paid Amazon for. (or storage they are offering for free.) There is no restriction on what you store there and no else has access to your storage. (baring a security breach.) For all intents and purposes Amazon is a external HDD with long range capabilities. You say you write software and don't appreciate people stealing it? based on your arguments I'd bet you consider using a VPN or remote server theft then?

  5. Re:F..... Rogers/Bell on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    MLPPP baby Full speed day and night. Now if only we could get bell to honour the speed matching rulings we'd be set.

  6. Re:So they're being anticompetitive on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 1

    frickin batteries were dying on my keyboard. Its an MS keyboard so I'll just blame bill.

  7. Re:Ugh.. on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 1

    Well said, I tend to base my decisions on the platforms, not so much left or right ideals. I only brought up the greens, because they are radically different then any of the mainline parties. (and similar to the pirate party.) I think having too many parties in the race muddies the waters, and makes it difficult to form effective government. I mean this is what, three in seven years? Here's hoping no matter the outcome, they figure out a way to make it work for a full term.

  8. Re:So they're being anticompetitive on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 1

    Sorry I prefer o have my links transprent

  9. Re:Ugh.. on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 1

    nope I'm just not tat good at smellng. ;)

  10. Re:So they're being anticompetitive on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 1

    Seven words is a run on sentence? Do you communicate in grunts? How the hell did you get modded up for that?

  11. Re:Ugh.. on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 1

    Gilles Duceppe Has done some great things for Quebec, and surprisingly the rest of Canada. By virtue of taking a stand on provincial rights in Canadian government, he have improved federal dealing for all the provinces. He's a smart well spoken man, your not the only non Quebecois would vote for him. As of late he's even relented on separatism, because his people arn't really interested at the moment. Isn't that what a good politician is supposed to do? Follow the will of the people that elected them.

  12. Re:Ugh.. on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Seeing as I'm Canadian as well I'll give up modding in this thread to say this. We have fresh blood in the green party. (witch happens to agree with a lot of what pirate parties have traditional stood for.) Win or lose, voting the party you truly have the most ideals in common with is more important than ever. In Canada each party now receives funding based on what percentage of the vote they receive. As opposed to the way it was a few years ago, where they only got funding based on the number seats they won. No vote is a throw away vote any more.

  13. Re:So they're being anticompetitive on If Search Is Google's Castle, Android Is the Moat · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Not first! on India To Ban .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    You must be new here hehe

  15. Re:DMCA broken on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    I don't think it sucked per say, just they ran out time to make it work, it would have also ment there was nothing familar in the ps3, witch would slowed the first wave of games even more than their "revolutionary" design already had. Your also forgetting the whole setup is memory starved, putting extra pressure on the cell to have high throughput, leaving little room on the cells to do graphics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#Video_processing_card it can be done, just not in any way we're used to. Ground up development is slow.

  16. Re:Can you imagine on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    It says 360 right in the link address and the title of the chart "bo 360 System Performance - Draft" granted it appears to be and old link, from before the 360 was actually released. Maybe that is the source of your confusion? It was the first hit on Google anyhow. And Google couldn't be wrong could it? /scarcasm

  17. Re:Can you imagine on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 1

    Um, arn't the 360's 3 core cell's? I'm sure they'd be capable if you managed to scrape Micosoft out them. http://hardware.teamxbox.com/articles/xbox/1144/The-Xbox-360-System-Specifications/p1

  18. Re:DMCA broken on Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AFAK The original design of the ps3 didn't even have a GPU, the cell is more than capable. Those 10,000$ IBM cell blades, they are designed for high level graphics processing, to be sold to the likes of Pixar and such. (Note: I do not know if Pixar is using them, its an example.) I'm not sure why Sony ended up going with Nvidia GPU's. Possibly because they were already late to the game, the game dev's were pretty pissed off about having almost nothing they could port easily, and Nvidia was the compromise. I had Linux in mine, with a bit of hacking you could get the frame buffer to run out of the GPU's memory, witch made the memory crunch suck less. Had Other OS remained I'm sure some one could have built a 3D driver on top of a couple of the cells. I read rumours that a plan was being hatched before Sony pissed on the fire and raised a stink.

  19. Re:Earth is BIG on Sludge In Flask Gives Clues To Origin of Life · · Score: 2

    The article points to a few methods the amino acids could be produced in nature, (including underwater vents) and the experiment seems to back that up. So given that amino acids are not that hard to produce, the question of life isn't what caused the amino acids to form (because similar conditions exist on other planets in our own solar system and beyond.) The question is what caused the amino acids to begin to form the complex chains that actually are life.

  20. Re:Not to get too political... on IBM Charged With Bribing Korean, Chinese Officials · · Score: 1

    That's kind of the definition of ethics isn't it? that you stand by them even when it gets hard or your not forced to.

  21. Re:Nice on Using Kinect With Your PS3 · · Score: 1

    wish I had mod points ^^^ should have been in TFA in the first place! +!

  22. Re:Didn't try to use the story to raise money? on Righthaven Copyright Lawsuit Backfires · · Score: 2

    Sure you can, schools to that sort of thing all the time, mostly with newpapers. That is the point of fair use.

  23. Re:Well of course on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1, Insightful

    blow me

  24. Re:Has Timmeh lost his mind? on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1

    Must be a typo, there are no women on the internet

  25. Re:Well of course on 2011 MacBook Pros Confirmed To Crash Under Load · · Score: 1

    Where have I heard that before?? Oh ya "it only drops calls if you hold it wrong..."