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  1. Re:Have you really thought this all the way throug on Can We Legislate Past the H.264 Debate? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Here is the thing.

    Software is the only industry that that is encumbered by both copyright and patents.

    Reasonable IP protection is a good thing.

    I like that there are patents and copyright.

    But they should not cover the same material in this way.

    Copyright is the more appropriate protection for software (though its duration is far to long).

  2. Re:No, at least on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    I am the poster of both those posts. The first of those posts is hardly insightful. Hence the humor I found that a post about abusing mod points had mod points abused on it (even if that abuse of mod points is favorable towards me).

  3. Re:What? on Air Force Treating Wounds With Lasers and Nanotech · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem with superglue/dermabond is that it is a bit toxic and is only really suitable for surface application. This new method looks like it is for internal use on deeper wounds.

  4. Re:No, at least on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 1

    You bastards! You think its so funny. You had to go ahead and abuse your mod points by modding parent up...

    So, is there any way to mod a moderator as funny for humorous use of mod points?

  5. Re:No, at least on Is HTML5 Ready To Take Over From Flash? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hate it when people abuse their mod points. Parent is making a quite reasonable assertion.

  6. Re:So What? on Scribd Switches To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Don't worry. 5 years from now, any major browser that has errors in dealing with elements of html5 will have those errors rolled into the standard according to the WHATWG design philosophy of "if you can't fix it, call it a feature".

  7. Re:Stupid question, but one that's always bugged m on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 1

    It isn't arrogance. Its just that sometimes I don't feel like explaining myself. Sometimes I am pressed for time, sometimes I am lazy, sometimes it won't do any good, sometimes it is part of my sense of humor and sometimes I feel that brevity is a virtue.

    Tangentially related:
    I hate it when people ask me to provide sources when common knowledge and some googling will do. Hell, half the time my sources are not from the internet and I would have to google just to find a different but related to provide.

  8. Re:False dichotomy on FCC Moving To Retain Control of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Fixed price does not equal open competition. I want them to compete with each other by offering lower prices and better features.

  9. Re:Value for money vs FanboiGasms on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am running an M4A78T-E with ATI HD 3300 integrated graphics. It does surprisingly well. I have not doled out any money for new high end games for a while, but it easily handles games that brought my previous graphics card to its knees (it was top of the line in 04). I am eventually going to get a modern graphics card so I can play around with OpenCL, but I really have not felt a pressing need for it with my gaming habits.

  10. Re:False dichotomy on FCC Moving To Retain Control of Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Break all monopoly agreements with the local governments.

    It probably won't be enough, but you are right, it is an excellent place to start.

  11. Re:Stupid question, but one that's always bugged m on Underwater Ocean Kites To Harvest Tidal Energy · · Score: 5, Informative

    short answers: No, there is. The sun. No.

  12. Re:BP? on Recession Cuts Operation That Uses Hair To Clean Up Oil · · Score: 1

    There is such a hair drive, saw it on the local news here in Florida. The average hair salon produces about a pound of hair each day, there are close to 400,000 salons in the US. It really won't take long to gather a huge amount of hair. So the bottleneck as according to this article is processing the hair into usable sponge, not gathering the hair.

  13. Re:Hardcore players on Estimating Game Piracy More Accurately · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would only be the case if I had agreed to such a limited license at the point of transfer. It would also be false advertising in that we are constantly asked to "buy" and almost never to "license" a game. These words have meaning, you can't get around that without some serious chicanery.

  14. Re:ATM machine on Hacker Develops ATM Rootkit · · Score: 1

    But is it his personal PIN number?

  15. Re:Hardcore players on Estimating Game Piracy More Accurately · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hold on there. Lending a game to a friend is not piracy. That may be what the media companies want you to think, but the first sale doctrine supports the right of the owner of the game to lend or sell his own property.

  16. Re:Games too on Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video? · · Score: -1, Troll

    What exactly has apple done that is new and innovative? All I see is a lot of old ideas repackaged in a shiny aluminum and acrylic shell with a helping condescension for good measure.

  17. Re:Is there a classic mode? on Microsoft Office 2010, Dissected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly, the only thing that would make me even consider a new microsoft application is if they provided a way to show normal menu's and hide that obnoxious ribbon. I can not even stand the new paintbrush, it is horrible.

  18. Re:BSD is *fully* supported: Mac OS X on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    SELinux, there. Beat your vaunted security by orders of magnitude.

    When I said best design, I meant pretty, not technically masterful. Mac OS X isn't anywhere near as good as you are claiming.

    It is good. But it isn't godlike compared the competition.

  19. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    True. Even after taxes, it is likely comparable to the salary he would have earned if he had stayed on at the math department.

    And he earned it working on his life goal, crafting video games. Whereas, I spend each and every day having my soul sucked out in a monotonous grind of code reviews and ever shifting and contradicting requirements.

  20. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    That and defeating the ai by making it realize that everyone looses in a full scale nuclear exchange.

  21. Re:Ayn Rand, do you hear me? on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    He isn't doing so bad. If he fails to pay taxes, he earned more money in those 20 months than my take home pay for my 9 to 5 programming gig.

  22. Re:BSD is *fully* supported: Mac OS X on The Humble Indie Bundle · · Score: 1

    You might get best designed and most usable (for point and clickers), but most secure and most reliable is kinda pushing it.

  23. Re:My personal favorite on Top 10 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do · · Score: 1

    I've mentioned wargames here before as well. It is unquestionable the most realistic depiction of hacking I have ever seen in a movie, ever.

  24. Re:Sadly he was preoccupied with ... on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 1

    He may have been preoccupied with wireless power transmission, but he was funded for wireless data transmission. After Marconi transmitted across the atlantic, his funding dried up before he could achieve either to an appreciable degree.

  25. Re:HTML5 will be a screw job. on Why IE9 Will Not Support Codecs Other Than H.264 · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons you might get a failed attempt to download a codec from a WMP is if the "codec" it attempts to install is really mal-ware that has had its distribution site shut down.