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  1. Re:Interesting on Atari 1200XL Stacked Up Against a Dell Inspiron · · Score: 1

    I don't have an OED so I can't check the veracity of the Wikipedia citation, but newspeak it isn't:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#cite_ref-1

    I can never get it straight which British newspapers are supposed to be trustworthy, but the Globe and Mail backs up the wiki (but maybe they just read it, who knows these days):

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/archives/article800923.ece

  2. Re:Ever heard of Newegg? TigerDirect? Google? on Small, High-Resolution LCD Monitors? · · Score: 2

    I don't see a single 17" that does better than 1280x1024. The 19" top out at 1280x1024 or the vertically similar 1680x1050.

  3. Re:Theoretically quite close to zero ... on How Heavy Is a Petabyte? · · Score: 1

    The trick then becomes making your medium long enough that you can fit all of the information into it.

  4. Re:Why? on US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you look closely, you will see that they also provide the U.S. more electrical generation than France has.

  5. Re:Diamond Joe Quimby: "It Can Be Two Things" on Firefox To Get Multi-Process Browsing · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is the establishment, Apple doesn't need to worry about legitimizing them.

  6. Re:Have you read this? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    Read the law:

    http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106
    http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

    To me, it isn't at all clear where the reproduction occurs, and who is doing it (those acts are the infringement). Add in the absence of legal proceedings and one begins to wonder.

  7. Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    I would still describe that as being barely usable as a credential, the reset is going to be pretty inconvenient for most people.

  8. Re:Good. on Pickens Calls Off Massive Wind Farm In Texas · · Score: 1

    Big river hydroelectric isn't going anywhere (because of flood control and irrigation as much as anything else). It is however, insufficient to meet energy demands.

    Small dams inflict a great deal of environmental carnage compared to the amount of power they generate and are not real likely to make a comeback (in the U.S., they are being decommissioned far faster than they are being built).

  9. Re:Dynamic world on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 1

    Make the greedy thief slower. And make the police angrier.

  10. Re:Yup on Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" · · Score: 1

    Hopefully they are in a contiguous block so I can just get the range tattooed on my ass, instead of all of them.

  11. Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    Are you using her as an example of someone who is hard to contact, or as someone who has repeatedly had her phone number disclosed to the public?

  12. Re:Dynamic world on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 1

    Just to clarify, I threw in the stuff about how little I game to point out that I may not have a particularly useful perspective on this discussion, not to be Mr. "I haven't owned a TV for years".

  13. Re:Yup on Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" · · Score: 1

    As long as I can use other addresses on devices I connect to networks with. You know, my toaster, my refrigerator, my bike, etc.

  14. Re:Internet Sovereignty on Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites · · Score: 1

    I think that it easily could have taken longer, and Russia may have had an even stronger European presence after the war, but I don't think Germany had much hope of actually winning the war over the long term (hostile occupation is hard to do, especially when you start talking about entire continents). In the Pacific, I don't think the Japanese could have kept up with the industrial production of the U.S., which given the distances involved is a key strategic factor. So again, it may have taken longer for the U.S. to defeat the Japanese, but I don't think the eventual victory really hinged on luck, it just accelerated it. The Allies also had a huge lead on Sigint (from what I have read anyway, sending spotter planes out to get noticed by ships that needed attacking, and such).

    Given Truman's willingness to use atomic weapons, it is probably a good thing that the Allies had the advantage by the time the bombs were ready (or the deployment may have been much more widespread).

  15. Re:Internet Sovereignty on Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites · · Score: 1

    If they don't have electricity, they aren't a threat on the internet, where this all started. And I'm not really suggesting bombing the people, just the government and industrial production. Those things were key factors in WWI and WWII. Less so in later wars, but that largely because they were proxy wars.

  16. Re:Dynamic world on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 1

    Why not just take up pottery or some other craft that results in actual physical objects?

    (I barely play games anymore, with a strong bias towards games that last less than 5 minutes (the games generally stay interesting for far longer than 5 minutes, it just takes 5 minutes to play a round))

  17. Re:Dynamic world on Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content · · Score: 4, Funny

    Being a smith in that world sounds incredibly boring. Does he have a computer in his smithy that he can play Tetris on?

  18. Re:Look at Scandinavia versus US on Sahimo Hydrogen Vehicle Gets Over 1,300 mpg · · Score: 1

    One of the funniest things I have ever seen was a H2 with the whole front end sinking into some marsh like area on the side of a gravel road. Clearly they thought they were invincible on the icy gravel (it was early enough that the ground had not quite frozen yet, but traffic had packed the snow onto the road, making it pretty slick).

    I made sure to buy a digital camera that month (after I missed getting a photo of that).

  19. Re:Say what again on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesn't automatically happen the next month...

  20. Re:Have you read this? on Pandora Stabilizes, No Longer Completely Free · · Score: 1

    Well, it is almost certain that the person sending you the file does not have a license to distribute it.

    I still haven't decided if downloading songs from the internet is illegal in the U.S. (the RIAA cases that I have paid attention to have always gone after distribution). It seems like it is very similar to recording something off the television or radio (of course, in those cases, there is at least reason to believe that the content has been licensed for distribution, but does that even matter?).

  21. Re:Internet Sovereignty on Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The U.S. government was looking for an excuse to actively enter WWII. Pearl Harbor galvanized the people and then the Japanese had a problem on their hands (A huge, far away, resource independent, angry enemy).

    The North Korean people might be really pissed off if the U.S. bombed their country, but after the military was demolished, there would barely be any resources with which they could do anything.

  22. Re:Internet Sovereignty on Online Attack Hits US Government Web Sites · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There is little need for the U.S. to go into North Korea and establish a government (and we could just continue to bomb the shit out of any government we didn't like). If we did, we might even learn a lesson from Iraq and not bungle the shit out of the process. It is more likely that we would work with the Chinese and let the Chinese establish a government that they could live with. Maybe the South Koreans would also be involved.

    Anyway, the fun thing about Shock and Awe was that it was restrained. I would suggest using less restraint in North Korea.

  23. Re:What the hell? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 1

    Just making up a cute story doesn't mean that the prosecutor will be unable to bring charges and try to convince the jury that you are a lying slimeball.

  24. Re:"Right" to a private cell phone? on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A phone number is a pretty shitty credential. To the point that I'm not sure I would even call it a credential.

  25. Re:A question that needs answering in these cases. on Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People don't get convicted because their cell phone was or wasn't in one location or another, they get convicted because they have no plausible explanation for why their cell phone was in a location that fits in perfectly with the story the prosecution is telling and contradicts the story the defense is telling.