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  1. Re:Collecovision on IBM's PC Junior Turns 30, Too · · Score: 1

    Not quite. It's true that if the printer failed the whole system was out of commission but this was because the power supply was located in the printer, not "the smarts".

  2. Re: Lincense wars in... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 2

    Even windows wouldn't be here (or at least not on the Internet) if not for open source. BSD/SystemV is not just the base for OSX but also large parts of VMS and subsequently NT as well as the BSD TCP/IP stack and the POSIX layer within NT.

    That's a myth.

  3. Re:...but if you want free software to improve... on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    Only if you own Mac hardware.

  4. Freedom? on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Richard Stallman is a terrible setback to freedom.

  5. Re:Fair but interesting fact... on Valve Offers Free Subscription To Debian Developers: Paying It Forward · · Score: 1

    Good luck activating and keeping Russian keys on US accounts.

  6. Re:I deciphered it last month. on Voynich Manuscript May Have Originated In the New World · · Score: 1

    There is no records of the romans having contact with China.

    Yes there are.

  7. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 2

    Well the 3DS and 2DS are new enough that their sales figures probably aren't included in the quarter being reported

    The 3DS is almost three years old.

  8. Re:Erm, the 3DS on How Can Nintendo Recover? · · Score: 3, Informative
  9. Re:Hmm on Controversial Execution In Ohio Uses New Lethal Drug Combination · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's a reason that independent third parties adjudicate trials and not friends and family of the victim and accused.

  10. Re:Someone please on Why the Major Labels Love (and Artists Hate) Music Streaming · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Some of us care about ethical sourcing, You are free to continue to buy your cheap Chinese crap made by the forced labor of political prisoners.

  11. Re:What I'd like on FISA Judges Oppose Intelligence Reform Proposals Aimed At Court · · Score: 1

    It's public knowledge. They're all current Federal judges

  12. Re:Sounds safe on Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online · · Score: 1

    Nice try. Only you forgot that it was actually you who brought the cryptocurrency subject up, when you proclaimed that "you will shop at Silk Road while you wait for your download", perhaps in an attempt to be the funny guy of this hour by throwing an unspecified 'joke' in the form of general mockery against 'all things cryptoanarchy', most probably because of your personal distaste and/or fear for them.

    Wow. The joke was that Silk Road was compromised and user data was gathered. Implying that the new Demonoid was likely compromised and being used as a honeypot as well. Bitcoin has exactly zero relevance to that. Considering Demonoid doesn't even involve currency I don't know how you're failing to grasp that.

    See how simple you are to figure out?

    That's rich from a guy who responded to being told he doesn't understand something by doubling down hard on not understanding. Never go full retard.

  13. Re:It's not the *coin dealers that are profiting on Target Hackers Have More Data Than They Can Sell · · Score: 1

    Where the hell do you bank? I once had a bank that charged me a very nominal fee (like $5) if I wanted to replace a card out of cycle because it was worn or damaged, but never for routine or fraud related replacements. A $50 charge would be outrageous and unheard of. My current bank just out of the blue sent my wife and I new cards with a letter about the compromise. Only one of our two cards had even been used at Target so I guess they just reissued en masse. We were certainly not charged,

  14. Re:tl;dr Phonebook? on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 1

    I'd be interested to hear the legal argument why a contract whose terms one party can rewrite at any time is enforceable, and remains enforceable after having been rewritten.

    There's no contract. A contract is an exchange of obligations. A license is unilateral permission to do something. A movie ticket is a license, you don't have a contractual right to sit through a whole movie. You can be removed from the theater at any time, for any reason. In the same vein you're being granted a license to use Google's services and you can accept it or not each time those license terms are changed.

  15. Re:Sounds safe on Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online · · Score: 1

    Oh good. In the future it will not be as easy.

    Well I live in the present, and "not as easy" is hardly a ringing endorsement anyway. But thanks for letting me know someone has reinvented decentralized DNS. That's certainly an idea that has never been tried before. Mentioning that as somehow relevant to a Tor hidden node being compromised leads me to believe you don't understand the topic anyway.

  16. Sounds safe on Demonoid BitTorrent Tracker Apparently Back Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll get right to downloading and shop on Silk Road while I wait.

  17. Re:Recusment and stock holding on Supreme Court To Hear Aereo Case · · Score: 1

    A large and direct financial stake, sure. That's what recusal is for. But a small and/or indirect stake? Who cares? Judges have to disclose all of their financial interests, so it's pretty obvious if a conflict exists. By the time someone progresses to a high level of the judiciary they have a demonstrated track record anyway.

  18. Re:Recusment and stock holding on Supreme Court To Hear Aereo Case · · Score: 1

    I propose we ban all judges and congress members from owning stock during their term in office.

    I would have to imagine that the intersection of the set of "People who don't own stock" and "People who are qualified to be judges" is vanishingly small.

  19. The quality of satellite imagery is limited by the optics that capture the images, not the medium the images are recorded on.

  20. Re:So does this explain... on Algorithm Aims To Predict Fiction Bestsellers · · Score: 1
  21. Re:You're not wrong. on Emmett Plant Talks About the Paper-Based RPG Game Business (Video) · · Score: 2

    In light of this new information I hereby update my response to an unqualified "maybe".

  22. No. on Emmett Plant Talks About the Paper-Based RPG Game Business (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He is not. I see no mention of any business experience. Working in a comic book store clerk as a teen doesn't count. In running an RPG company, the emphasis is on "running" and "company". Just like every alcoholic dreams of owning a bar, every gamer and comic book nerd dreams of opening their own game or comic store. Just about every one is disastrously unqualified. If you've never worked in a responsible position on the business side of the game industry you have no idea what you're getting in to.

  23. Re:We don't serve no giraffe here! on Ancient Pompeii Diet Consisted of Giraffe and Other "Exotic'" Delicacies · · Score: 1

    Seriously though, why would they speculate that it was something that was eaten, if they only found one?

    Because it was butchered and in kitchen garbage.

  24. Re:maybe its good... on Ancient Pompeii Diet Consisted of Giraffe and Other "Exotic'" Delicacies · · Score: 1

    i don't know why people here are assuming it doesn't taste good...we really have no idea.

    Of course "we" have an idea. Giraffe meat is eaten in parts of Africa

  25. Re:Skydrive is changing name? When? on UK Company Successfully Claims Ownership of "Pinterest" Trademark · · Score: 2