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  1. Time to change the law. on Apple Transfers Patents Through Shell Company To Sue All Phone Makers · · Score: 1

    Who is all for making patents non transferable. No more of this here buy these patents from us and sue all the things.

  2. Re:HEY hey on Can a Monkey Get a Copyright & Issue a Takedown? · · Score: 2

    And people say we monkey around....

  3. What was so crazy about this...God of War.. on Take-Two Faces $20 Million Settlement For "Hot Coffee" Scandal · · Score: 1

    God of war 1 and 2 were both rated the same as GTA: SA in the US that is M for Mature.

    God of war 1 and 2 both had sex minigames with nudity leading up to them that you didn't need to hack your system to view/play.

  4. Re:To remind people that government is fallible on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    It does cost something, it costs time the government could have spent doing something to improve the lot of their citizens. Time sucked up in debate on whether to do it or not, time spent doing it, and the cost of the 'event' itself.

    Regardless of whether they do it or not, its silly to think it costs nothing.

  5. Re:just Turing? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    "Apologizing for a past mis-deed is taking responsibility for doing something that is wrong. "

    Yes and nobody should be taking responsibility for doing something they didn't do. For example the current British government.

  6. Re:I wouldn't have considered piracy on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they will constantly communicate back and forth. Game packets are going to be peer to peer with the players playing and never leave the LAN to hit the internet.

  7. Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 1

    Game packets are peer to peer, not going up your 2MB line. Calm down Nancy.

  8. Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG on Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, if you have a fat enough pipe. Of course, then you still have to deal with lag issues,

    I keep seeing people say things like this. This is not true. The majority of the packets will be peer to peer and never leave your Local area network. Only the talking to the battle.net servers would go out to the internet, and this will not be happening hardly at all during game play. Having to maintain a connection to battle.net will not lag your game for the people who are connected all on one router,

  9. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    And then you have summer band, band camp, and instrument maintenance.

  10. Re:Just what the world needs... on Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software · · Score: 1

    What are you using as a reader on your BB?

    Wonder if they'll put kindle on the storm as well.

  11. flycast.fm replaced it for me. on Internet Killed the Satellite Radio Star · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can run flycast.fm on my office pc instead of my xm radio and they have also released a blackberry and iphone client.

    The blackberry client works well so long as I'm not moving. If I am signal fluctuates and the music drops out.

  12. Re:Think of it as health insurance on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    It was explained to my wife and I that banking our daughters cord blood would be more beneficial for future siblings than for her self.

  13. Re:Think of it as health insurance on Umbilical Cord Blood Banking? · · Score: 1

    After you're done yelling at the neighbors mow my lawn sonny.

  14. Do what I did. on Where Have All the Pagers Gone? · · Score: 1

    Get Blackberry alerts (makes your blackberry ping you if you haven't answered it)
    http://www.handango.com/catalog/ProductDetails.jsp;jsessionid=37239925D458872C11BCFC9520E8B5B0.worker6?storeId=2218&platformId=5&productId=199266&WT.mc_Id=programId11

    Also I recorded my skytel pager and then set it as a custom ringtone on my berry before giving the skytel pager back.

  15. Re:Final Post on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Someone appreciates me :P

  16. Re:Final Post on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Dear god no. No more linear crap like oblivion.

    Seriously though, with the install to HD capabilities of the PS3, and the soon to be capabilities of the 360. Blu-Ray doesn't matter as to whether you can be linear or not.

  17. Re:I have always been a Sony fanboy... on Final Fantasy XIII Is Coming To Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    Except of course Netflix is going to be available in the fall dashboard update

  18. Re:In other news on Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Exposing a child to an unclothed human body (of an adult) is horrible parenting and can certainly be psychogically damaging. "

    Uh oh, there goes breast feeding, and showering with mom and dad.

    Sarcasm aside, you're full of bs. Exposing a child to an unclothed adult is not horrible parenting and is in no way psychogically (sic) damaging.

  19. Its exactly like the 1 in 3 women raped. on Spreading "1 in 5" Number Does More Harm Than Good · · Score: 1

    Where the survey included consensual sex that they regretted the morning after.

  20. Re:WEP is pointless on Games Industry Things We Should Leave Behind in '07 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  21. Re:Tremulous second best? Hate to see the rest on Free Software FPS Games Compared · · Score: 1

    Having played Trem and Natural Selection (which is free, but not open). I vastly prefer Natural Selection.

    But it still has the same issues that you don't like in Trem.

    And fwiw, TF2 is brilliant.

  22. Re:Define rootkit on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Actually from the article 'polymorphic' is the new bogey man.

    Cause you know only viruses and rapists use polymorphic software.

  23. Re:Draconian EULA on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    We're talking about a program that millions of people download patches for without scanning them for viruses every month. Additionally in realistic terms blizzard could stick any bit of malicious code into the patch that wouldn't be identified by any virus scanner whatsoever if they really wanted.

    It is obviously not in their best interest to do so.

  24. Re:Draconian EULA on World of Warcraft's Brand New Rootkit · · Score: 1

    No privacy law applies.

    You agree to give out the information blizzard collects every time you click agree.

    Also - Click through agreements have been held legal so don't respond with 'well EULA's aren't upheld
    AlsoAlso - Asking you to give up some personal info in a EULA is not an illegal term so don't respond with 'Well the EULA could say Blizzard could kill my child'

  25. Re:Better solution on First Use of RIPA to Demand Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Sure about that? Its a big 'empty' file with random data across it. How do you know which part decrypts and which does not.