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  1. Re:Hitler's Germany and LoTR? on LOTR: War of the Ring Real-Time Strategy Game · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that Tolkien firmly denied accusations that his book drew upon events of WWII.

  2. Re:Code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act on P2P File Sharing Could Cost You A Bundle · · Score: 1

    If you commit a crime in a jurisdiction, then you will be prosecuted in that jurisdiction. That may require that a foreign country may be forced to extradite you to the place where the crime is committed.

    But if I'm sitting in my house in Canada, and I break US (but not Canadian) laws, then there is (or at least should be) no chance of me bing extradited.

  3. Re:Dropping CRTs may make sense (kinda) on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    As opposed to buying more expensive mp3 players?
    I rather listen to Atrac3 than mp3.

  4. Re:Dropping CRTs may make sense (kinda) on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    Minidisc may not be in the U.S., but the U.S. isn't the only market in the world.

  5. Re:Dropping CRTs may make sense (kinda) on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Yamaha. They stopped it a year ago, but previously they were the only major manufacturer to offer 2 year warrantees on audio equipment.

  6. Re:Costs can be small on How Much Does it Cost to Produce a Recording? · · Score: 0

    And what year did the police put out there first album? 1977? It's probably safe to assume that prices have gone up a bit since then. All that fancy new equipment costs more money.

    Plus, the is a probably a massive difference between the studio you recorded at, and a high-end studio. Including a much more expensive staff.

  7. Re:yes on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, it just reeks of environmental friendliness. Instead of recycling cases, motherboards, etc, just send them to a dump.

    What an utter waster.

  8. Re:Game Undefined on Turing Test Competition At CalTech · · Score: 2

    Or you alternatively say that game theory itself has uses in other fields of study.

    The program is a bit more complex than the standard two players/two options choices. If each player has 10 options, then does the Tit-for-tat strategy still work? If the payoffs aren't symmetical does Tit-for-tat still work? Seems a bit more complex, but probably not overly so.

  9. Re:Game Undefined on Turing Test Competition At CalTech · · Score: 5, Informative

    The game has been defined. It's fairly classic payoff matrix used in game theory. Look up the Prisoner's Dilemma (http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/pd.html) problem. The goal of the game is maximize your outcome (while minimizing the opponent's).

  10. Re:Yes, it is DRM. on Transmeta to Incorporate DRM in TM5800 Processor · · Score: 2

    I was under the impression that most encryption algorithms (ie DES) are almost always software based is for security. Having it hardware based makes it faster, which is bad because it allows for faster attacks.

  11. Re:Basic maths. on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 2

    If the absolute lifetime peak of your exertion, ever, is to put in 16 hours a day for a week, you *are* pathetic.

    Either that or you have incredibly bad luck finding a company that values their employees. If I have to work more than a standard work day on a regular basis, then something is wrong.

  12. Re:Based on the works of Tolkien on Ancanar Teaser Trailer Available · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think the other poster meant that "The Two Towers" was 100% percent Tolkien, 0% Peter Jackson. It was a joke refering to the book not the movie.

  13. Re:DRM Means Nothing. on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 2

    I take it you fail to understand Cage's music. 4'33 is about anything other than silence.

  14. Re:Low speed CPUs on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 2

    I yet fail to see the reason. Why refer to the order of magnitude? Why 10^2Mhz instead of 100Mhz?? What does it accomplish?

  15. Re:DRM for a present on Digital Rights Management on CD's This Christmas? · · Score: 4, Funny



    Well, you could burn the CDs. Plastic is just oil after all.

    Although, the various chemicals would probably kill you if you burned too many.

  16. Re:Low speed CPUs on China Forges Ahead With 'Dragon' CPU · · Score: 2

    "10^2 to 10^3MHz"

    You could have typed "100 to 1000MHz" and saved youself a keystroke. Now, while using exponential notation is useful when working with equations (or to save yourself from writing 1000000000) it generally isn't to useful otherwise.

  17. Re:Great idea! on Phish to Sell Downloads of Concerts · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow. That was largely uninformed. Sonically, a good live recording should not be much (if at all) different from a studio recording. The one exception might be background audience noise.

    And performance wise, live recordings have a tendency to be much better.

    A few extremely good examples spring to mind:

    Genesis - All of their live albums

    Renaisance - Day of the Dreamer

    Rush - Different Stages Live

    Celibidache - Bruckner - Sym. 8

  18. Re:On the last day of 1899.... on 85 Big Ideas that Changed the World · · Score: 1

    The people from the Times lived during the 19th century. I'm reasonably certain that they were well qualified to determine what the most important invention was.

  19. Re:BUSINESS breakthroughs on 85 Big Ideas that Changed the World · · Score: 1

    While the list does mention UNIX/C coming out of 1972, it does not list the formation of the FSF and the GPL in 1983.

    Probably because they're relatively insignificant, and haven't revolutionized the way we live.

  20. Re:I'm going tonight... on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, expect for that one asshole in theatre. You know, the one a couple seats over who goes "Ahhh. Hmmmmm. Ohhh?" every time a line of a dialog isn't verbatim from the book. Made me want to reach over and smack him.

  21. Re:Can anybody say Doctine of Laches? on Acacia Steps Up Content-Transfer Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    It says they filed the patent in 1991. But that doesn't mean the content providers they are going after have been doing since 1991. (Not that I don't think they're idiots)

  22. Re:ha ha, indeed. on Tech's Answer To Big Brotherism · · Score: 1

    I didn't claim it was a conspiracy, just a long series of bad decisions by foreign policy makers.

  23. Re:ha ha, indeed. on Tech's Answer To Big Brotherism · · Score: 1

    And if Klinton hadn't gutted the CIA and FBI and turned them into limpwristed shadows of usefulness, we might not be having this problem, eh?

    And if the previous 30 years of Presidents hadn't gone out of their way to piss off people in the middle east, then we might not be having this problem.

  24. Re:*sigh* on Cutting Security To Cut Costs? · · Score: 1

    Then the US authorities will likely inform the Portugese authorities, who will then likely arrest you.

  25. Re:Stop calling that a crime on More On Airplanes And Internet · · Score: 1

    So, gaining access to systems and stealing credit card or personal information isn't a crime?

    Stealing from the Wal-mart is a crime. It either causes peoples to lose jobs because the store is losing money or shuts down, or it causes prices to rise which in turn will make it even harder for those people just barely scraping by from paycheque to paycheque.

    Grow up.