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  1. Re:Consumer rights on Valve Responds to Steam Territory Deactivations · · Score: 0

    There were no territory restrictions when the game was purchased. The cross-territory access was blocked AFTER they bought the game, installed it, and had been playing.

  2. Re:Layers? on GIMP 2.4 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    GEGL, the new back end for GIMP, will add adjustment layers, deep color support, and all sorts of other awesome features that PS doesn't have. I am being patient, you should too.

  3. Re:Another one on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1

    Not many, which is why I don't buy many DVDs. Every one that I own is devoid of encryption. Ditto every one that I make.

  4. Re:Another one on Vista Vs. Gutsy Gibbon · · Score: 1, Informative

    Liar. Ubuntu won't decrypt CSS out of the box. It plays DVDs just fine.

  5. Re:My prediction on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 1

    Additional streaming solutions are silly when I already have UPnP players on all of my portable and non-portable devices. I can listen to any music, or watch any video, that is on my server from any device I own anywhere in my house, or from outside with some [write-once run-many] script trickery.

    I know about the size of the touch, which is why I mentioned 2x8GB SD cards.

  6. Re:My prediction on Nokia Takes Third Swing at Internet Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Until there is a UPnP media player for the iPod, so that I can listen to my 500GB+ of music from anywhere near my house, the n800 is a superior music device. Just stick a 4GB SD card in it and its got as much storage as the smaller iPod touch, or you can do two 8GB cards if you're crazy for on the go music.

  7. Re:It doesn't "remotely shut down vehicles" on Stalling Cars Via OnStar · · Score: 1

    the worst that can happen is that cars [carrying single women at night in deserted areas] start slowing down on the road [to a stop in the middle of nowhere, where a serial killer is waiting] There, fixed that for you.
  8. search / TLD on .Asia Internet Domain Launched · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who told them that TLDs have any effect on search with regards to keywords? I don't get more .net sites just by having "net" in my search terms (just had to go verify that).

  9. Re:Why not double blues? on Sony Launches 3mm Thin XEL-1 OLED TV · · Score: 1

    You are correct, in practice, of course. But think it through a little farther... What happens when you try to do subpixel rendering on such a display (for font smoothing, among other things)? Also, the dot pitch (a mostly useless term on a LCD) of the display would increase, reducing resolution.

  10. Re:Why not double blues? on Sony Launches 3mm Thin XEL-1 OLED TV · · Score: 1

    There are geometrical issues with having twice as many blue sub-pixels as red and green. Where do you PUT the extra blue, that won't leave 1/4-pixel-wide black lines across a white screen?

  11. Re:So... on Sony Launches 3mm Thin XEL-1 OLED TV · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with a wide variety of GUIs on devices with 640x480 and 480x640 and 800x480 screens. And that is mostly with touch screens, which require much larger widgets than a normal mouse based interface.

  12. Semantics on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I have a problem with the modern vernacular using a single word, "bullying", to encompass everything from name calling to practical jokes to mild or even violent physical abuse. Doing so robs descriptions of the latter of the weight they deserve.

  13. Re:And Google does it again! on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Didn't you hear? "m" is the new ligature for "rn"

    PS: Yes, I am making fun of the entire concept of ligatures. They are silly. I do not want "fi" replaced with a single glyph where the dot of the i is part of the - of the f. DO NOT WANT.

  14. Re:How do you "cyberbully" someone on UK Schools Will Fight Cyberbullying · · Score: 1

    All 4 of your examples are illegal and carry both civil and criminal penalties. Why does that have anything to do with school?

  15. RIAA Defense? on Virgin Digital To Close Up Shop · · Score: 1

    "I bought the song with DRM from Virgin, and then they went out of business. I am just exercising my license to have one copy after the first one got lost in a freak lightning storm." What's that? Now it was a copy and not a license? Great to hear!

  16. Re:What's the big deal? on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1

    A plausible interpretation. I consider P to be a given. And I take the second amendment to mean Q->R, so barring a constitutional amendment that is true. The crux of the matter is P->Q, which I believe is no longer true, thus P->R is not true.

  17. Re:What's the big deal? on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1

    I think that most people fail to realize that that sentence structure is a conditional.

    if (a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state) {
        the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed;
    }

  18. Re:What's the big deal? on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 2, Informative

    The point that some lawyers have tried to make is that the violator DID agree to the terms, and GOT permission. *THEN* they violated the terms during distribution. There ARE precedents that say that once permission is given, the only further recourse is as a contract violation, not as copyright infringement. And sadly, some judges think that is binding.

  19. Re:What's the big deal? on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Some [misguided] courts have held that because the GPL makes some "offers", the author gives up their rights to pursue copyright violations and is restricted to only pursuing the issue as a matter of contract breach. This has at least SOME logical basis, illustrated by this quite-oversimplified semantic example:

    I say {you can distribute my code} under the terms of the GPL.
    I say you can {distribute my code under the terms of the GPL}.

    In the former case, you have permission to distribute my code, but have violated our contract if you do so outside the terms of the GPL. In the latter case, you ONLY have permission to distribute my code if you do so under the terms of the GPL, and have violated my copyright if you do so without that conditional permission. Any sensible judge will understand that the latter is the only viable way to handle the issue, but we have some quite nonsensible judges on benches in various places these days.

  20. Re:Incoming calls are free in the UK on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    Why did you post this in reply to me instead of my parent (which was a reply to you)? Preaching to the choir.

  21. Re:Try lowering VAT on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    Three words for you...
    W T F?
    So if I start my own business that doesnt sell anything, then I can just get a refund of all my GST spent every year?

  22. Re:Incoming calls are free in the UK on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    And how much do you pay per month if you only use 30 minutes? Still $30? Sounds like the one getting hosed is you.

  23. Re:Habeas Corpus not "revoked" on US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    Only US citizens have a right to Habeas Corpus Wrong. Habeus Corpus is not a right of a person, it is a right of a *COURT*. This is neither implied nor logically deduced, it is explicitly stated in almost every law dealing with the subject. These laws do not say "[some person] can request a writ", they say "[some court] can grant a writ". If the law says that the Supreme Court can grant a write of habeus corpus for an enemy combatant (which it does), then they can. This is not a right of the enemy combatant, nor does it need to be. Even under the most citizen-oriented interpretation of the law that is not required for this to take place. The court has the power to issue the writ for any person who meets those criteria, and any entity under the jurisdiction of that court (and I am relatively sure that the military is within the jurisdiction of the supreme court (and no other courts but its own)) is liable for not obeying.
  24. Re:Proprioreception on Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" · · Score: 1

    That may be the most broken-layout page I have ever seen on a production website.

  25. Re:What happened to good OS design? on Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' · · Score: 1

    whatever happened to running something in a sandbox People kept writing sandboxes that weren't.