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  1. One dissident, coming up. on World of Warcraft, the Restaurant · · Score: 1

    That's one way they dispose of executed dissidents.

  2. Given its location... on World of Warcraft, the Restaurant · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Would there be a goldfarming operation in the back, offering their services on occasion to select customers?

  3. When passing the event horizon, it's expected. on Astronomers Dissect a Supermassive Black Hole · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least they'd be able to say they worked closely together on the issue.

  4. No thanks, unless it's better than *-IPS/AFFS on HP and ASU Demo Prototype Flexible Display · · Score: 1

    Nice, but it's no replacement for high-quality laptop screens. Work on those first.

  5. For the fanatical on the right... on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    See Charlie Johnson at LGF and his corner of the web. Not only is it censorship by glut, it's also a feature complete echo chamber. No genuine dissent gets in or out.

    Of course, here might be the counter proof. However, the behavior of the original is still the same.

  6. May explain some other things on Censorship By Glut · · Score: 1

    ...such as declining quality - such as with laptops, where display technology has gone backward from S-IPS to age-old TN even though there were more than enough willing to pay for it.

  7. You'd be better served by regulation on IT Job Without a Degree? · · Score: 1

    ...that specifically drops that requirement from any consideration or makes working for the degree a lot less costly.

  8. As someone who has bought IBM personally... on Recourse For Poor Customer Service? · · Score: 1

    $1700 is no problem and $2800 is fine when the laptop has quality to it; $400 as a new laptop is asking for trouble. Now if $800-1000 can still get you a T60p that has Flexview, that's as low as one should (used, but for a higher quality than a Dell/HP/Sony laptop) go.

  9. Politics entered when they dealt with China. on Google's Gatekeepers · · Score: 1

    That would be like traffic lights turning green for BMW's.

    ...or bowing to a country instead of actively encouraging it to change.

  10. Nice, but can this be built and dropped in? on Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released · · Score: 1

    As for existing installs, can it be used as a drop-in replacement for an existing blob hal?

    This should have come a lot earlier, not when it is marked legacy.

  11. tagged this and others !murderfs, reiserfs on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: 1

    since some still don't know what the proper name of reiserfs is. It's getting a bit old.

  12. On accountability on Google's Gatekeepers · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I'm surprised the United States hasn't declared Google (and other major internet pieces) a national security asset and moved to place it under government protection.

    Perhaps it should go the other way and make them accountable to the citizens of the US. That means they can't have multiclass shares to stifle dissent and prevent accountability.

  13. Before you call choice on the Do Evil company.... on Google's Gatekeepers · · Score: 1

    ...consider that they are only a practical choice given the conditions. While other choices may exist, undue force (equivalent to but not from a gun) goes their way.

    So what is the big deal? Google censors some things, don't like it? Go to one of the thousands of other search engines.

    Seriously, censorship is bad but this is the internet, not the government-regulated airspace, there is no FCC, it is --

    That does not excuse a lack of accountability to the US government. Giving a private entity a shield from it is asking for trouble. No, anything related to markets does not count as accountability. Regulation is accountability.

    I must say I agree that Google is doing very well so far. There are restrictions that Google is applying to some countries' users because of local gov regulations. I once asked someone in Google, she told me a *standard answer*: Google will try to provide the most info to the people in that country as possible.

    That's a non-answer since their stock structure prevents any meaningful dissent. Perhaps it would mean something if one could use that to pull them out forcibly. Otherwise it is up to regulation to do so.

    But the key is, it *is* doing well. Not *will* do well. Corporates change their minds. We do not rely on their history to judge their future. (Convince me Google helped Yang when he was been kicked off if you can.)

    Well, I guess you love Google's version of the Jonestown kool-aid.

  14. The other kind of To[u]ho[u]. on The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla · · Score: 1

    "A Wired blog looks at the real monsters behind Godzilla: his lawyers. Do you think Godzilla is basically a glorified T. Rex? Guess again, as his lawyers have tirelessly argued:

    You decide -- just don't make a float of him or you'll find yourself paying an undisclosed sum to Toho Co. Ltd."

    At least they aren't defending the trademark with curtain fire.

    This is not overrated.

  15. Before someone brings it up... on FAA Greenlights Satellite-Based Air Traffic Control System · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...no, don't put the blame on just the unions that may have held it up.

  16. Only if you're not in competing territory on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    Being in AT&T territory, that's not going to happen short of regulation - and cable only came here when it was everywhere else. Not as a middle of nowhere, but a fairly large Midwestern city.

  17. Having a low opinion of exclusionist communities on Houses With Tails · · Score: 1

    managed in the same way that condominium and homeowners' associations currently manage the shared areas of condos and gated communities

    Which means very poorly and with a certain air of arrogance(from exclusionism) towards both the inside and outside.

  18. The other kind of Toho... on The Real Monsters Behind Godzilla · · Score: 0

    "A Wired blog looks at the real monsters behind Godzilla: his lawyers. Do you think Godzilla is basically a glorified T. Rex? Guess again, as his lawyers have tirelessly argued:

    You decide -- just don't make a float of him or you'll find yourself paying an undisclosed sum to Toho Co. Ltd."

    At least they aren't defending the trademark with curtain fire.

  19. Nice way to end the song... on Experts Tell Feds To Sign the DNS Root ASAP · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bind me, baby!

    The S in S&M does not stand for Security.

  20. Agreed, mod parent up. on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    If it runs only on Windows, all I can say is, I'm not going to touch it.

    While the client might require it, the server is less bound to such platform issues. Besides, bring out the network code already.

  21. It's missing the serial number generator on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    The problem is that they don't include the serial number generator.

    It's not as if the resulting package that was built could be compared to the official build to find it, and its source code.

  22. Missing the serial number generation, incomplete on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's missing the serial number generator, and is thus incomplete.

  23. ...but they do help. on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1


    Only a client running a Multi Theft Auto version that is released through this website or through our nightly build service generates a serial number. In other words, developer builds that are built manually by anyone will not be able to join servers that have serial verification turned on. For obvious reasons of course, as we would like to minimize the problem of people cheating through source code modifications.

    It will only be a matter of time before they do.

  24. Now it's open source... on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Only a client running a Multi Theft Auto version that is released through this website or through our nightly build service generates a serial number. In other words, developer builds that are built manually by anyone will not be able to join servers that have serial verification turned on. For obvious reasons of course, as we would like to minimize the problem of people cheating through source code modifications.

    ...Let the serial-less servers and serial verification bypasses go forth and multiply in number.

  25. Good. on Multi Theft Auto - San Andreas Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Now how far will the code history go, with respect to the closed source editions?