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  1. Re:EMusic and Bitrot on How DRM Won · · Score: 1

    It is? That's good to know, thanks!

  2. Re:Fuck 'em on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    Everything he said assumed people were getting copies of the movies themselves without paying for them.

    Subtitles are not the movie, they're text versions of translated text of the voice track of a movie.

  3. Re:How was this data calculated? on India To Overtake US On Number of Developers By 2017 · · Score: 5, Funny

    They don't know either, the survey was outsourced to India.

  4. Re:Derivative work on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And it's not only about language barriers but also about the disabled. If I were them I'd look up to see if there's any laws about making works accessible to the deaf. There's laws about government websites in the USA, surely there's a loophole somewhere about deaf people and movies.

  5. Re:Fuck 'em on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: -1, Troll

    Either you're a troll or a fucking asshole who didn't even care to read the topic before posting his pro-RIAA/MPAA bullshit.

  6. Re:Dooomed on City-Sized Ice Shelf Breaks Free Of Antarctica · · Score: 1

    We are? I better tape this flashlight to my gun, then.

  7. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 2

    The problem is that we live in a world of scarcity, we can't get all that stuff that we want, or need. The communist system tries to make everything equal, however that means everyone will be living in scarcity, and not really having what they need or want. Because everyone will be wanting, it will open the door for someone(s) to cheat the system and try to get more, once they have more they will hold on to it. And the system begins to fail.

    This is your typical right-wing FUD right there. You don't understand the principle and then you go and make your own mind about so-called "facts".

    Communism isn't about giving everyone a fucking Hummer and a fucking five-story house with a lot the size of ten football fields and gold jewelry.

    You need to understand that making everyone equals doesn't mean there will be scarcity. Communism isn't about what people *want*, it's about what people *need*. Everybody should have free basic food, free basic housing, free potable water, free transportation, free health care, etc. You want extra? That's where the capitalism should kick in.

    With more and more jobs going to automated factories, I'm pretty sure that's where we're headed. Too lazy and want to be passive? You don't get anything extra but you can live your life peacefully without sickness and hunger. You want more than the basics? You work to get it.

  8. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 0

    Where the hell is it written that your reward is subsistence living? The reward is everyone living up to the same standards.

  9. Re:Okay on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    We should just rename it once and for all, to end the debate.

    I suggest Davydium.

  10. Re:Okay on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    So, it's spelled properly in all modern countries and spelled improperly in third-world countries.

  11. Re:Wrong hemisphere on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's the problem. Some parts were made by subcontractors in Australia, where up is down, rats are as tall as humans and hop around and flat-chested 30-years-old women are classified as underage teenagers.

  12. Re:The quality conrol problems... on Upside-Down Sensors Caused Proton-M Rocket Crash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a difference between true communism and corrupt, dictatorial regimes.

    For those too lazy to click on the link:

    Communism (from Latin communis - common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

    A perfect example of true communism applied to a specific field would be open-source software.
    A perfect example of corruption (on the capitalism side, too) would be Microsoft, threatening computer manufacturers about increasing the cost of Windows if they offered Linux options.

  13. Re:Abusing their monopoly power on Judge Rules Apple Colluded With Publishers to Fix Ebook Prices · · Score: 1

    But how do you prosecute and incarcerate dead people?

    You hire Cole Sear.

  14. Re:Come with me if you want to live. on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 1

    Indeed it has, in 1991.

  15. Re:Please print a gun and youtube it...pretty plea on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Americans are obsessed with guns. They supposedly have the right to own them in case they need to overthrow a corrupt government but for the last two or three decades they haven't even blinked.

  16. Re:Okay on 3-D Structures Built Out of Liquid Metal At Room Temperature · · Score: 0

    Why do you write aluminum but you don't write gallum?

    Because it's aluminium and gallium.

  17. Re:Free or open source? on French Parliament Votes To Give Priority To Free Software · · Score: 1

    I use "libre-sex" all the time.

  18. Re:Better yet! on Arduino Enables a Low-Cost Space Revolution · · Score: 1

    Follow the path to the Dragon's Lair!

  19. Re:Better yet! on Arduino Enables a Low-Cost Space Revolution · · Score: 0

    And you can probably afford a spell checker. Every lair contains a villain. Every layer adds complexity.

  20. Fuck you RIAA and fuck you France, eh?

  21. Re:Makes sense on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 4, Funny

    As they say, HTTP 1.1 isn't going anywhere -- this'll be a dual-stack web with 2.0 being used by new browsers and 1.1 still available for old browsers/people.

    In Korea, HTTP 1.1 is for old people.

  22. Re:Economic Development Administration? on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 1

    Contractors are there to just milk as much money as they can out of the system. They do a pretty good job.

    Imagine how good they'd be if they were farmers.

  23. Re:I remember being puzzled by that chapter on Malcolm Gladwell On Culture and Airplane Crashes · · Score: 1

    We can last longer in bed because we're less sensitive, erm, down there.

  24. Re:Economic Development Administration? on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And why the hell would there be $2.3 million in service costs to destroy $170,500 worth of equipment?

  25. Economic Development Administration? on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Sounds more like Fucking Retards Money Wasting Administration to me.