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  1. Re:Svlabard has a 5 TB cable? on Undersea Cable Map Shows Where The Data Pipes Are · · Score: 2

    And those residents need their porn. And lots of it!

    It's not like they can go outside and not freeze to death or anything

  2. Re:Maybe a million monkeys on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 1

    Next we look at what a copyright owner is. Must the holder be human? Where is that defined? Now we move on to the comparative aspects of non-human copyright.

    I'd like to point out that many patents are held by corporations. Last time I checked those were not human.

  3. Re:Plot? on Space Invaders: The Movie · · Score: 1

    At the end of the movie we find out it's an alien pilot defending his world from.... Humans!

  4. Re:Punish Trolls on Lawyer Attempts To Trademark Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Bitcoin is a "thing" not a brand and so it should not be eligible for trademark any more than "web browser" would be.

    Well, i doubt anyone has trademaked the term Dollar.... I'll be right back....

  5. Re:Last words... on FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO · · Score: 1

    No no, the last words heard were: "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn!!!!"

    Kirk: No, I'm from Iowa. I only work in outer space.

  6. Re:I declare vaporware. on Dr. Who's Sonic Screwdriver Exists · · Score: 1

    Of course it would be cool to see some of the potential applications make their way back into Dr. Who.

    ex. the Doctor using his screwdriver as an ultrasonic welder.

    Well in Empty Child/The Doctor Dances he uses the screwdriver to cut a chainlink fence and then has Rose use it to reconnect the cut fence

  7. Re:WTF? on Darth Vader Robs Long Island Bank · · Score: 1

    "Comedy is tragedy plus distance" -- my high school English teacher.

    "Comedy is just Tragedy plus time" - Owen
    "No time has passed! I'm holding my dead mother in my arms!" - Ani

  8. Re:Why do the best ones always leave early? on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    He was great as the invisible guy in Heroes, but I've never seen him anywhere else.

    I'm laughing, even if this wasn't a joke.

    I think he's playing John Lennon in some hbo or showtime special about Him and Yoko.

  9. Re:Why do the best ones always leave early? on Matt Smith Leaving Doctor Who Already? · · Score: 1

    I Know he was in G.I. Joe... As Destro according to IMDB... never actually watched that movie, but my wife always said "He's so hot" when we walked past the poster at the theater

    Also he was the invisible guy in the first season of heroes

  10. Who are we protecting? on FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors · · Score: 1

    I agree totally, we must join together in our effort to protect barrens chat from Little Johnny!

  11. Re:Welcome to the year 2000 on Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display · · Score: 1

    What are the tin cans for? My twine and light bright system has been doing just fine here.

    Light bright?
    In my day we only had twine.
    And no one had invented language yet either!

  12. Re:This proves one thing on Secret Copyright Treaty Leaks. It's Bad. Very Bad. · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

  13. Re:As I recall, about 2 years ago. SCOTUS on Tennesee Man Charged In "Virtual Pornography" Case · · Score: 1

    TFA:

    Tennessee's laws state that in prosecuting the offense of sexual exploitation of a minor, "the state is not required to prove the actual identity or age of the minor."

    I wonder if that's been tested. It sounds scary, in that it assumes the "minor" part.

    The wrinkley grey haired woman was wearing a diaper, it's child pornography! We don't care that she's in the court room in a hoverround as a defense witness

  14. Re:Sponsored gaming... the end is coming on How Pro Gaming Will Change World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    While I don't doubt that these people are having fun playing WoW and all that, but I need to ask... isn't going just a little too far to get corporate sponsorship for a game guild?


    But the gold farmers are raising their exchange rates, you need sponsors so you can buy teh goldz!
  15. Re:not supporting the RIAA on RIAA Can't Have Defendant's Son's Desktop · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a reasonable judge. Taking the defendant's computer would deprive them of it for a long period of time, whereas taking a copy of it's data only deprives them of it for a short time.


    It also forces the person making the copy into pirating the Operating system and every bit of software on the computer.
    I'd say the RIAA can copy my hard drive all it wants, but I'd be informing Microsoft that there's a juicy target out there making copies of it's warez. :)
  16. Re:Lockout chip business model on Videogame Decency Act in Congress · · Score: 1

    Several other companies found ways to defeat the lockout chip without using any proprietary information and Nintendo couldn't shut them down (IIRC Nintendo tried to shut down Color Dreams and failed)

    But the protection schemes on modern game consoles are far more sophisticated than that of the original NES, often involving digital signatures. It would probably take more capital to understand and defeat them than to just start a company selling gaming HTPCs.


    But wouldn't circumventing a protection scheme (especially for commercial gain) be breaking the DMCA. Or could a company at least wave that over a developer's head to persuade them to stop? I'm sure the console makers could definitely convince some judge somewhere that once someone can run their own code on a console, then they can run any code on the console, including pirated software.
  17. Re:Like an episode of Twin Peaks on How He Found The Cube · · Score: 1

    I've read through the article twice now, and I have absolutely no idea what this all is about. Is the Cube some kind of treasure hunt, a fountain of youth, a cult?

    Singularity "education"
    inflicts a dog brain upon
    Students - ability to be
    taught servitude - but
    an inability to ever think
    opposite of brainwashing
    and indoctrination - very
    unlikely to ever recover
    to acknowledge Nature's
    Harmonic Simultaneous
    Rotating 4 Corner 24 Hr.
    Days in 1 Earth Rotation.
  18. Re:Zappa on RIAA Hires Artists, Then Sends In the SWAT team · · Score: 1

    Maybe some people do things and then learn afterwards the folley of their actions. Maybe this is called maturation.


    While failing to do things and learn afterwards is called masturbation?
  19. Re:slow down and think for a minute on Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare · · Score: 1

    I'd hope to at least get a song out of Boston before they were laughed out of the court room

  20. Re:If this was seen more in real life on EVE Devs Admit To Misconduct · · Score: 3, Funny

    But I just fail to see how you can make the world better by sitting on your ass playing WoW 12 hours a day.

    But just imagine the random acts of stupid/evil they would commit if they had those 12 hours free
    driving around in their hummers clubbing baby seals in darfur while wirelessly hacking bank accounts to transfer money to north korea to buy nukes to give the terrorists to kill endangered rain forests... Sounds like a fun weekend to me
  21. Re:slow down and think for a minute on Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare · · Score: 1

    The sign in question looked NOTHING like a bomb. Any idiot with two brain cells could have easily discerned that by examining one for five seconds.


    But it's boston... they don't have 2 brain cells between the guys calling the shots.

    Do you think a jury would have been able to look at the device and not laugh boston out of court for over-reacting?
  22. Re:Stop Spreading Terror! on Cartoon Network CEO Resigns Over Aqua Teen Scare · · Score: 1

    It makes me sick to think that there are people like you out there who would gladly see America cave in and pretend there's nothing out there going bump in the night.

    So do you get out of bed, grab your gun and go check everytime a car drives down the street, a dog barks on the block, or one of your children bumps into something heading for the bathroom?
    Of course things go bump in the night, you have to use some commong sense To determine which bumps need a responce, a magnetic litebrite shouldn't trigger a million dollar security crisis.
    TFA was the first time I saw a picture of the device up close and as a non-expert in explosives, it looks too thin to have explosives inside, or to have an inside

    Any post that is anti-diligence or anti-keep America safe gets high points

    Personally I'm more for anti-let's-not-be-dicks-and-make-people-want-to-9- 11-us.

    Feed the Trolls
  23. Re:So, typo or not? on MMOGs and Sandbox-Style Play · · Score: 1

    Is this a typo, a clever play on words, or an unintended pun?

    One of my favorite monsters from Munchkin was the Maul Rat...
  24. Re:pun intended on DICE '07 Underway in Las Vegas · · Score: 1

    DICE '07 Underway in Las Vegas


    Sounds like a pretty DICEy situation, if you ask me.


    That pun was a bit CRAPpy. teehee
  25. Re:if you want to bake a cake on Viacom Claims Copyright On Irrlicht Video · · Score: 1
    Wow, I did find it with all the stupid pointers in the law it's located at... 17 U.S.C. Section 512 (c)(3)(A)(vi)

    (A) To be effective under this subsection, a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the designated agent of a service provider that includes substantially the following:
     
    ...

    (ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.

    (iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
     
    ...

    (v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

    (vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
    for anyone who doesn't feel like searching through the mess.

    It looks like they [Viacom/the representative] has to provide an identification of both the allegedly infringing work (the adress on YouTube) and the allegedly infringed work (I can't think of anything since I haven't touched Irrlicht in more than a year so I don't think my tutorial 5 is the same)