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  1. Hopefully on Sony Wants To Put Your Game Saves In the Cloud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Saves aren't automatically forced to the cloud if you're someone who will be without internet access for a time. Also, they hopefully won't use this to deter piracy by holding people's save games hostage.

  2. Porn. on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 3, Funny

    So much porn. I'd be downloading about one hundred times more than I do now.

  3. Great idea! on Internet Kill Switch Back On the US Legislative Agenda · · Score: 2

    So when China takes over our internet, they can't use our machines to gold farm in World of Warcraft! Sarcasm aside, what would the BENEFIT of such a thing be? All it seems to be good for is pretending we don't have a Bill of Rights, specifically the first amendment.

  4. I'm amazed on Stem Cell Research Running Into IP Brick Walls · · Score: 2

    We've stayed far ahead in Science at all for the past fifty years. Capitalism really isn't the best way to build the future.

  5. Re:STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS! on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Don't be sexist. Women can't park. It's Asians that can't drive.

  6. Re:Franken is the common man on Senators Bash ISP and Push Extensive Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Comedy is pretty tough, and it's nigh impossible to be sucessful as one and be an idiot at the same time. Even the Blue Collar Comedy guys aren't stupid, I think all but one of them have a college education of some kind or another. In fact, with the amount their tickets cost, there's no way they could be stupid.

  7. I dare say on Daniel Ellsberg On WikiLeaks, Google and Facebook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those companies shouldn't have all our information either.

  8. We might stop making fun of him on Fake Steve Jobs Says 'Leave the Real One Alone' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If every Apple press conference thing wasn't really just about him in the end. He wouldn't get up there and tell people what they already know if he didn't want to be in the spotlight.

  9. Re:Too fucking bad.. on Palin's E-Mail Hacker Imprisoned Against Judge's Wishes · · Score: 1

    Mmm, which would be nice if there weren't a double standard, but this case would not have been pursued nearly as much if Sarah Palin weren't famous. Had he done this to some unimportant person, he probably could've gotten off with a slap on the wrists.

  10. Re:What's next? on Florida Man Sues WikiLeaks For Scaring Him · · Score: 1

    If you paid attention in that episode, the guy that plays Frank Costanza has trouble saying Del Boca Vista. Well, apparently they did those takes several times as he would get tongue tied, and just went with the best one.

  11. Re:Abandonware? on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 1

    Yeah I was just thinking, isn't their view on this the exact OPPOSITE of how it works?

  12. Re:Same as Social Security on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 1

    That wasn't added until the sixth or so sequel, and even then it still didn't throw them.

  13. Same as Social Security on Obama Eyeing Internet ID For Americans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Which they were constantly telling us, "No, it'll only be for the program!" Don't trust these people farther than you can throw them.

  14. What? on Will Touch Screens Kill the Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    How am I supposed to play video games if my hands have to be on the screen? These things are meat-paws! I can hardly hit the tiny keys already!

  15. They're right! on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Vaccines will make you autistic to the point where you'll believe anything! Like the first sentence in this post.

  16. Re:timothy... on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who got a divorce when some people that didn't like her on World of Warcraft went around telling people telling her husband she was cheating on him. She lost the case because of this "evidence". You don't even need browser history, because apparently, any conjecture on the internet will do. That said, Sarah Palin shot Kennedy.

  17. Re:Will it be programed to say... on 'Jeopardy!' To Pit Humans Against IBM Machine · · Score: 1

    No, but it will be programmed to make terrible jokes about his mother. He is a momma's boy, after all.

  18. Re:This isn't activism on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    Again, assuming anything about an Anon is wrong. Newfags and oldfags are pointless nametags created by bored Anons to fuck with newfags, because it just doesn't matter. People will do what they want, when they want. It's not like everyone that's an oldfag is a monster of a human being, and anyone new is a shining example of humanity. They're all just people, and anyone who thinks having been around the past four years makes you intrinsically better is just an elitist. Don't make assumptions about the group other than that they're disorganized to the point of anarchy, and you can motivate some of them to a common goal with the right words like you could in any anarchaic situation.

  19. Re:This isn't activism on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, the media that rich people own? How fast did we forget about the massacres in Darfur? Libya? How about Rwanda? These things, although they are far more important than 'America's Top Model', don't get reported on because they're inconvinient. Remember, this is the same media that doesn't have the balls to question anything, anymore. We just have talking heads that will go along with anything, without looking for the corruption. We won't have another Watergate scandal because no one will be informed it happened. And if you're defending the companies' right to freedom of speech, I've got two things: They're not people, and they are killing freedom of speech.

  20. Re:Wikileaks did it to themselves on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    That's not correct, which means you didn't read any of the information, which means you're spouting information you heard without questioning it, which is why we need Wikileaks in the first place.

  21. Re:It is Not DDoS on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    To be fair, they didn't start it, and they won't get to finish it. They don't have the money, or legal power that their enemies, say the RIAA, MPAA, or Scientology have. They're not gonna be able to take down Amazon, or Visa, or anyone else, and I'm fairly sure that was never the intention. I don't know if you work for Visa or something, but do remember that there really is no legal way to combat what is going on. Or when everyone else called for transparency, did you mumble something about how you didn't want it because you actually realized the implications of actually having it? I'd rather have freedom and be unsafe, than have no freedom and be unsafe because I have no freedom.

  22. Re:That's because you deny access on Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 · · Score: 1

    Actually, in most places you CAN block someone for a short amount of time. The amount of time you're allowed to make them waste depends on where you are. I'll leave the speculation to you.

  23. Re:OT: Why is that? on Righthaven Sues For Control of Drudge Report Domain · · Score: 1

    What's not to like? That all the people who can't think for themselves take the propaganda and spin as fact.

  24. That's not how Anonymous works on 4chan Declares War On Snow · · Score: 1

    Because it's a completely autonomous collection of individuals, anyone can CLAIM the group says, or will do, something. Until you see something actually happen, don't assume it's anything more than trolling. Operation Payback is an example of how the group will sometimes come together to focus on a goal, but other than that, it's like a fancy party where everyone wears the same costume and mask, and everyone is really, really drunk.

  25. Re:EasyDNS on Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised · · Score: 1

    Right, but none of us were really surprised. I mean, really. Gizmodo and Kotaku? The bar wasn't set high on any of these jerks.