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  1. Re:Do you even know what cervical caner is? on Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine · · Score: 1

    Come off it. Al he was saying was the guy was wrong to say it prevented 100% of cervical cancers, or even 100% of cervical cancers caused by HPV. Your post is off topic, unless it was somehow supposed to show a 100% vaccine.

  2. Re:YouTube, not TheirTube on YouTube Set To Filter Content · · Score: 1

    If you take out all of the copyrighted clips, and then take out all of the original clips that lifted their music from copyrighted sources, you are left with nothing but America's Funniest Home Videos and 911 Conspiracy Theory. My guess is this system won't go after clips with lifted music.

  3. Re:Mostly rubbish on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    You're right, my mistake. What the other thing I mentioned? Intel OS X keeps itself from installing even if you have the type of bios that it requires, right?

  4. Re:Nonsense on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    So how was $100 spent by a consumer $100 in profit for Baen?

  5. Re:Setting precedent? on Why Vanguard Sets a Bad Precedent for MMOGs · · Score: 1

    (and I'm thinking EQ expansions here more than PS3) EQ expansion 'problems' were entirely intentional. When Runes of Kunark was released, they made everything drop desirable items at intense rates. Their online store was also 'broken' such that you couldn't just buy the expansion pack. However, you *could* buy the full game + expansion pack combo. Within a few weeks, the store was fixed such that the expansion pack was once again for sale by itself, and everything stopped dropping such good items. Bait and switch if I've ever seen it.
  6. Re:Nonsense on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    And -- that hundred dollars is pure profit for Baen -- no paper costs, no distribution costs -- and a happy customer. The authors don't get any cut of the hundred dollars? They should find a new publisher.
  7. Re:Remember: 80% per year. on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Those rates include people who are actively trying not to have babies by timing their sex with the female's period. They also gay sex, men with vasectomies and women with their tubes tied.

  8. Re:Mostly rubbish on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    "And even Steve Jobs doesn't like DRM any longer"

    His claim is that he never did, and that they only used it because the record companies insisted. Funny, did the record companies insist that OSX require a serial number, or that it fail when it detects that it isn't being installed on Apple hardware?

  9. Re:Strength of their argument on Blizzard Officially Files Against WoW Glider · · Score: 1

    There are specific categories of tort; you don't say 'did you do damage to the person? if yes, does the manner in which the damage was caused fall under a specific exemption?'. Instead, you say 'did you do damage to the person? if yes, does the manner in which the damage was caused fall into a specific category of damage, to which tort law is applicable?' Allowing people to cheat doesn't fall into such a category. Neither does writing a bad review, or out competing a competitor.

  10. Re:Cryptic? Complex!? on Minimal Perl for Unix and Linux People · · Score: 1

    You also have to jump through hoops to just copy and paste the body of a function, or to copy a method of a class and paste it into the interpreter as a function. All the leading indentation screws it up. (yes I know about block select, but it isn't everywhere (like say the web, and no, I'm not going to load some crazy extension just for that)

  11. Re:Strength of their argument on Blizzard Officially Files Against WoW Glider · · Score: 1
    But look at your original statement:

    If Blizzard can prove that by allowing players to cheat Blizzard is being "injured" (in this case fiscally) then they have a strong argument that Glider is liable for the "injuries". Glider would need to prove to the court's satisfaction that their software had significant use and/or purpose other than circumventing Blizzard's TOS and causing this "injury". It's similar to the problems that the P2P software manufacturers face. Let's say I post a bad review on Amazon.com of some crappy product:

    If [maker of said product] can prove that by having customers read this review [maker of said product] is being "injured" (in this case fiscally) then they have a strong argument that [I am] liable for the "injuries". I would need to prove to the court's satisfaction that my review had significant use other than [causing "fiscal" injury]. It's similar to the problems that the P2P software manufacturers face. Now I'm sure you'll say there was another use: preventing fiscal harm to others who might by said crappy product. Well, in this case Glider has another use: providing cheaters with a cool way to cheat. The product review analogy isn't so crazy either, big companies have put clauses in their EULAs prohibiting 'benchmarking' which is the keystone of a serious review.
  12. Re:Consequences of Linux Demand on Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests · · Score: 1

    Looking for this?

  13. Re:Massive Backend Infrastructure and Processes on OLPC Has Kill-Switch Theft Deterrent · · Score: 1

    But that's the approach to everything in this project. Any time a problem is brought up, they brush it off. Techmology will solve it!

  14. Re:Strength of their argument on Blizzard Officially Files Against WoW Glider · · Score: 1

    If Blizzard can prove that by allowing players to cheat Blizzard is being "injured" (in this case fiscally) then they have a strong argument that Glider is liable for the "injuries".

    No they don't. If that was the case, you could sue for competitiveness. "Oh ouch your honor, we just can't compete with Burger King, it is killing McDonalds! Give us their money!"

    The damages will rely on how much injury Blizzard suffers, but the whether they are liable or not will not be based on how much the actions 'damage' Blizzard. It will be based almost solely on the tortuous interference with a contract bit of the whole thing.

  15. Re:The problem with single sign-on... on AOL Now Supports OpenID · · Score: 1
    So how is that different than spoofing? Remember, the parent said:

    spoof? Hell they won't need to spoof anything. AOL user will surf to a pr0n site, pr0n site will say "enter your openid to get 100% full free access!!111" or some such crap. AOL user will WILLINGLY give away their id to see pr0n. If they ask for the openid login information (as opposed to just the user's openid login URL), then they are effectively spoofing.
  16. Re:Configurable click behaviour of title bars?? on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    The only thing I'm missing is tabbed windows. Otherwise, I have used beryl to basically get all the fluxbox functionality as well.

  17. Re:The problem with single sign-on... on AOL Now Supports OpenID · · Score: 1

    Enter your openid? Enter a URL? How will that 'give away their id'?

  18. Re:Is addiction a valid safety-net anyhow? on IBM Sued for Firing Alleged Internet Addict · · Score: 1

    A trucking company can fire a trucker who goes blind and can no longer truck. A company like IBM can fire a guy whose job is to work on a computer all day if he has a disability that only lets him jack-off all day. What's the big deal?

  19. Re:I use Fluxbox why? on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    Now explain to them how to add something to the menu =). They'll have to learn yet another syntax for yet another config file.

  20. Re:Configurable click behaviour of title bars?? on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat · · Score: 1

    Just curious.. how do you get 'elements' of Fluxbox?

  21. Re:Video Games for Dummies on Comments From Miyamoto On Wii, Industry · · Score: 1

    You wear out a clutch more often than you wear out an automatic transition, yes. But that is a false comparison. An automatic transmission wears out much quicker than a manual transmission. And it cost much more to replace/repair. End then end, you pretty much break even on maintenance, and thus save $1000 net.

  22. Re:Like Golf? on Comments From Miyamoto On Wii, Industry · · Score: 1

    Actually, most adults don't play golf.

  23. Re:how fast things change on Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Search Giants · · Score: 1

    Yeah good theory--the Linux distribution space is extremely diluted.

  24. Re:how fast things change on Comparison of Working at the 3 Big Search Giants · · Score: 1

    Compare the max market cap of Redhat and VA combined, and then look at Google's current one. Look at Google's profits, and then look at the max profits of those two combined.

  25. Re:Did ancient greeks know about this? on Earth's Constant Hum Explained · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't a constant vibration cause waves? Is this correlation or causation?