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  1. Re:Let me see if I understand... on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    where others can associate it with a purchased movie.

    Or not.

    Because more people can now understand the dialogue, more movies might get downloaded.

    or

    Because more people can now understand the dialogue, more movies might get bought at a lower price.

  2. Re:Derivative work on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    It was not uncommon for DVDs here in Europe to have forced subtitles a few years back, apparantly they sold the distribution rights per country and didn't want people from say UK to buy a copy from Sweden (since they would be annoyed by the forced subtitles).

    Part of that is also down to them re-using old masters with burned-in subs (which personally I often prefer as they are usually in a style of their time, and don't look like digital overlays).

  3. Re:Translation is a copyright owner's exclusive ri on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    I can invent a contrived language that maps the dialog of one movie directly into the dialog of another movie (at least if there are only two speakers).

    Not getting it...

  4. TL;DR on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    Please seed!!!!1!

  5. Re:Real War on The Air Force's Love For Fighter Pilots Is Too Big To Fail · · Score: 1

    I don't think drones will be successful in dog fights.

    When was the last time the US picked a fight against anyone who had planes?

  6. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    as in this case I would think murder is the proper charge

    Based on what? Reading a couple of articles? How about we leave this to someone who'll spend more than five minutes on the case and gets to read the reports of everyone involved and see all the photos and interview all the witnesses?

  7. Re:When you ride at night, on Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run · · Score: 1

    New York State does not have any offense called 'hit and run'.

    Does anywhere? I thought it was just a colloquialism.

  8. Re:how about on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Mr T invented the moon in 1976.

  9. Re:how about on House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Speaking of which, the Nacotchtank want to know when they can move back into the whitehouse.

    Did they have a flag?

  10. Error in summary? on UK Government Surveillance Faces Legal Challenge.. In Secret Court · · Score: 1

    UK government access to Privacy

    Should that be "access to PRISM"?

  11. Re:Open Source... on Sent To Jail Because of a Software Bug · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I reveal this source code to the sub-post offices and continue to buy from the vendor...

    then...?

  12. Re:One page book on Book Review: Programming PHP 3rd Edition · · Score: 1

    Yeah, only idiots use PHP -- that's why it's only used by 80% of the web

    While I agree with your point about language snobbery, popularity doesn't imply user intelligence. There was a time when 80% of the web was written in Comic Sans with green text on a yellow background ;)

    Disclaimer: I actually do like PHP, in spite of the inconsistencies that do admittedly plague it.

  13. What Weev did on Security Researchers Submit Brief For Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer · · Score: 5, Informative

    It may have been pertinent to briefly explain what he actually did in the summary - he was the guy who got hold of 114,000 AT&T customer email addresses. Beyond that I don't know much, except that there is some argument over whether what he did was any kind of "hack" - he may have just navigated some exposed folders. Either way, you still probably get less than 41 months for kicking a puppy to death.

  14. It would be trivial to make a waterproof (or at least water resistant) phone.

    Have you tried?

  15. Re:Survivor Story on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    They should call me Mario because I just got 1UP'd.

  16. Inscribed on a bronze disk? on Smell Camera Snapshots Scents For the Future · · Score: 1

    Inscribed on a bronze disk? Is this a research project or an art installation?

  17. Name change on Researchers Complete New Gondwana Map · · Score: 1

    When did they change it from Gondwanaland to Gondwana? Was no-one looking after the sign?

  18. But is it fuel efficient? on Real Version of Homer Simpson's Dream Car Built · · Score: 0

    My car gets fourteen rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.

  19. Irish pilot on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 0

    I just heard this joke the other day. An Irish/Polish/{insert chosen nationality of stupid as decided by your own culture} lands the plane, and slams on the brakes sending all the passengers into the seats in front. He turns to his copilot and says, "Damn, that's the shortest runway I ever landed on." Then he looks left and right out of the window and says,

    "Sure is wide, though."

  20. Re:Survivor Story on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 2

    If you've watched any of what passes for "news" at all in the past fifteen years, it's full of talking heads speculating on every possible thing

    FTFY.

  21. Re:surely... on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    What does it matter if the guy's a butt doctor or not?

  22. Re:No Cartwheeling on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    It's amazing that at least two are dead?

  23. Re:news for nerds on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    No, that's the other grey skinned lizard-necked race of inhuman freaks.

  24. Title/summary mismatch on SpaceX Grasshopper Launch Filmed From Drone Helicopter · · Score: 1

    So what's the story here? That the test happened, or that it was filmed by a drone? The title suggests it's the latter, but there's not mention of the drone footage in the summary.

  25. News? on Patching Software on Another Planet · · Score: 1

    More like "olds," am I right? Huh? Ahhh.