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  1. Re:DNF cannot be completed on Duke Nukem Forever Preview On Jace Hall Show · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're the guy who bought Daikatana.

  2. Re:fp on Jack Thompson Walks Out On Hearing · · Score: 1

    Analectomy? j/k

    abdominal-perineal resection

  3. I'd care IF on AMD Wants to Standardize PC Gaming · · Score: 1

    AMD was cooperating with Intel and Nvidia to make a standard without the AMD and ! in the name.

  4. I hate these settlements on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I remember Iomega's settlement for the click of death was "Sorry, we built a poor quality product that was supposed to back up your data, but lost it instead. How about you buy another product from us at a reduced priced"

    Give a check for $3.50 instead, but don't give me a discount on the same manufacturer's products.

    I haven't looked lately, but I thought a lot of manufacturers used GB*.
    *GB refers to 1,000,000,000 bytes. on their packages.

  5. Re:Obfuscate password entering process on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1

    While I'm not up to date on keyloggers, wouldn't any modern "keylogger" just copy any submitted text in a form, no matter how it was entered?

  6. Self-regulation on Comcast Proposes Self Regulation and P2P Bill of Rights · · Score: 1

    Note to Comcast: You've already had self-regulation. It didn't work and that's why you're in this mess.

  7. Re:Good for them on Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Duress codes are just a silent alarm.

    The criminal still has a gun pointed at you or your family.

  8. Re:couldn't possibly have negative consequences on Hacker Club Publishes German Official's Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Since the Home Secretary stated, that storing fingerprints is no privacy concern, he would be hard pressed to explain his stance. I know german law is byzantine, but surely they can find something along the lines of estoppel in there.

    Estoppel sounds more like the defense for the CCC, not for the Home Secretary.
  9. Re:Profits on ISPs Losing Interest In Citywide Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    I'd personally would prefer less extra energy being transmitted through the air, but that isn't going to happen.

    Plenty of problems besides physical, there's the actual business plan and the business you'd be competing against.

    Free wifi - small and large non-broadband ISPs put out of business in no time.
    Security of financial gains (same as Tesla) - black market receivers or spoofed mac addresses. People sharing or stealing premium accounts.
    Cell phone companies - In my area, for $59.99+ you get Sprint Mobile Broadband Network* (avg 600 kbps - 1.4 mbps download, 350 kbps - 500 kbps upload) While not super cheap, that's not prohibitively expensive either.

  10. I already have blue lights. on Blue Lights To Reset Internal Clocks · · Score: 2, Funny

    My dash is blue. My stereo is blue. The blue lights, they do nothing.

  11. Re:Potenially... on D Block Spectrum Auction Fraud Alleged · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Could it be that the contract signed with the Government had a clause for getting a percentage of the sales/lease price?


    No, they'd want a higher sale price then. You'd say that there was no fees and the government would give you tax breaks.
  12. Re:Add more shows! on Canadian TV to Adopt DRM-Free BitTorrents · · Score: 1

    It sucks that jPod is cancelled.

    AFAIK, The Border is being torrented around the world and The Guard had some episodes torrented.

  13. Re:Comcast on Comcast Says FCC Powerless to Stop P2P Blocking · · Score: 1

    Kick a dog and he might bite you. Back a dog into a corner and kick him, and he will bite you.

    Hopefully, Comcast gets bitten hard.

  14. Re:What about your own works? on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about how do I get paid for my works from this charge?

    Your band has an album, and you're pretty sure at least one person downloaded via P2P? How much should you get since there's nothing tracking the number of downloads of any album or song? If they actually did track, how much money could get by repeatedly downloading your album from different ip addresses?

  15. Problems of TV on the Web on NBC Still Down On P2P But Plans To Use It Themselves · · Score: 1

    Customers want access to all of the shows from any country with few if any commercials and they want to be able to play it on a tv with a variety of software.

    Studios
    want to protect their OTA, cable, and satellite business and advertising dollars
    want to protect their syndication money
    want to protect DVD sales

    The "standard" of one commercial per break for TV on the web is ok. I have no issue with watching tv shows this way compared to P2P commercial-free versions. The issue comes with when and what content is available, country restricted viewing, restrictions of what viewing software is or can be used, limitations of that software(compatibility with different setups).

    TV studios are conservative when it comes to the web as a new money source.

  16. Here's a bread analogy on The Semantics of File Sharing · · Score: 0

    Person A buys some friendship bread from Company B then adds some ingredients and gives it to Person B who then adds some ingredients and gives it to Person C and the chain continues on and on.

    In case you can't connect the dots on your own
    Person A legally purchased music then added bandwidth and computer time to pass along the music to others.

    I wonder if that's the first bread analogy on /.

  17. Re:My top challenges on The Century's Top Engineering Challenges · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Socks that don't have to be paired every time they're washed.
    2. A device to selectively block out the sound of an episode of "The Golden Girls" my wife insists on putting on to fall asleep to
    3. A device that detects reality tv and automatically adds a warning "This show is for morons. Watching by non-morons may lead to brain damage" across the screen
    4. A filter for slashdot trolls.
    5. A robot capable of doing all your arguing for you in a flame war.
    6. An irrationality meter that warns you how irrational a person you're talking to is being at the time.
    7. A superstition meter
    8. Something to prevent assholes on public transport from touching my personal property (especially people bumping my laptop with oversized baggage and not even realizing it)


    1. Buy the same socks
    2. Get a divorce
    3. TV Guide
    4. Done
    5. In a flame war, you don't have to respond to the person or have an intellectual viewpoint. Just write a script for it.
    6. meter is pegged already
    7. no clue
    8. It's called a car
  18. Re:The Irony Is... on Leaked RIAA Training Video · · Score: 1

    I don't think many of the 'artists' are actually hardcore repeat offender criminals, that's just what their record label wants you to think. I do agree that it should be ok to pirate any records that promote illegal activity after all I'm on the grizzy, my nizzy.

  19. Re:Looks cool... on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    Depends on what you want for a final design.

    1. a strap or bracket attached to a wall. The same sort of thing is used for tall bookcases.
    2. wide flat base - a design like a large + could be set halfway between the front of the couch and the wall with the side "legs" going underneath the furniture
    3. complete floor to ceiling light
    4. Variation of the design - light set at angle in a bracket(not sure of feasibility)

  20. Wow on Sci-Fi Tech We Could Have Right Now (For a Price) · · Score: 1

    $70 billion to let New Yorkers visit Los Angeles in less time than it takes now. Great.
    If you start throwing in stops, and the security checks,resulting offloads, onloads, time to speed up and time to slow down. You'd end up with a slightly better Amtrak.

  21. Re:I'm waiting on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Forgot to mention in the first post that internet through wifi was also a requirement that's why options like the Zune and other ipods are not an option.

  22. Re:I'm waiting on Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch · · Score: 1

    Here's my debate on the iTouch and alternatives for video, I can get a

    iTouch - sweet looking, but expensive and video has to be converted
    Archos 605 wifi - bulkier, not as slick but it has more space and is capable of multiple formats
    Laptop - large, definitely not a pocket video player but more capable than either

  23. Re:Third cut? on Third Undersea Cable Cut · · Score: 1

    Sigh...more fairy tales from teh Intarweb...

    We all know that colorblind people can see colors correctly underwater while those who have correct vision cannot.

    First scuba: "Hey dude! I found the cables!" Second scuba: "Cool. Now cut the red one. No, not that one, the other one. No not this one!" First scuba: "Hey man! Sorry, I'm colorblind.." Second scuba: "Sh.t! That's 2 dude. We were simply supposed to cut the good one... Now gimme those scissors. There you go."


    Exactly! The non-colorblind person couldn't see the colors correctly so he was pointing out the wrong cables. Duh!
  24. What was that game? on The History of the Apple II as a Gaming Platform · · Score: 1

    It was a typing game where a spaceship in a 8x8? street grid pattern with enemies spawning at the edge of the screen where one hand flew and one hand shot. Does anyone remember the name?

  25. Re:Great, another tax on Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing · · Score: 1

    I don't have to pay health insurance in the US. In Canada, you do.

    How about comparing it to a Crown corporations like CBC then? Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't tax money help pay for that. Isn't it similar to the BBC? The UK requires tv owners to pay a television license fee in order to support the BBC.