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  1. Enabling? on Vista Followup Already in the Works · · Score: 1

    Isn't the main benefit of Vista not geared at the user but at copyright holders, by providing a system that is built from the ground up with DRM?

    I'm tagging this one Disabling.

  2. Great on AMD's Showcases Quad-Core Barcelona CPU · · Score: 2, Funny

    So now I'll see four penguins at startup!

  3. Re:This meme irritates me. on Warner Rejects Jobs' DRM Position · · Score: 1

    Thank you.

    Someone had to say it. Just, thank you.

  4. Re:ugh on Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War · · Score: 1

    From some guy in the '50s:

    'No way do I want to see any of these "actors" in colour.'

  5. But on Porn Industry May Not Decide Format War · · Score: 1

    Did anyone here really believe that pornography ever *was* a driver of technology?

  6. Re:I guess my wife and I are a rare breed... on The Economist, DVD Jon On Apple's DRM Stand · · Score: 1

    If you are going to listen to the music, then you should pay for it...

    So long as the copyright holder wants money for it, ie commercial music.

    Not all music is locked up like that and can be freely shared without fear or recrimination.

  7. Re:I guess my wife and I are a rare breed... on The Economist, DVD Jon On Apple's DRM Stand · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Is that a problem?

  8. Re:Uh... on PS3 Oblivion Approaching PC Quality Visuals · · Score: 0

    What a silly comment. How long do you think they had to tweak Halo for the XBox?

  9. Upside-down texting? Meh on Upside Down Phone Patent · · Score: 1

    I still prefer good old sideways texting.

    Feels much more natural and less typing due to the qwerty keyboard. I don't get why this style seems to have vanished in current generations.

  10. Re:It makes sense on Wii Outsells PS3, Blue-ray Outsells HD DVD · · Score: 1

    ...going by the sales, most people seem to prefer the games on Wii. ... or just can't afford a PS3.

  11. Re:MP3 License on Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support · · Score: 1

    I thought it was perhaps a VS1000 series, encompassing model numbers from VS1001 to VS1999 would. Note that all those chips are VS10xx. That's pretty common in manufacturing AFAIK.

    *shrugs* just a thought.

    It would be nice though to see a full feature set for what's on that price list to see which ones (if not all) do have the dreaded Thompson Tax.

    Does anyone know if these guys do samples?

  12. Ah yes, Vorbis on Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ogg Vorbis is a wonderful format with lots of nifty features. My little Samsung YP-U1 plays my oggs perfectly well, but my Pioneer car stereo won't.

    Does anyone here remember back in 2001 when Ogg Vorbis proponents were touting Bitrate Peeling as a big must-have feature? Well it's 2007 and I'm still waiting to see a single workable implementation of it.

  13. Re:Thank goodness... on DNS Root Servers Attacked · · Score: 1

    Please suggest one! NSCD doesn't work worth a damn.

    Thanks

  14. Re:1,000,000 + PS3 systems on Wii Outsells PS3, Blue-ray Outsells HD DVD · · Score: 1

    After seeing Blu-Ray vs DVD side-by-side on good quality TVs there is no doubt that I would be buying Blu-Ray titles over DVD without flinching if I didn't know or care about DRM.

  15. Re:It makes sense on Wii Outsells PS3, Blue-ray Outsells HD DVD · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well given this list of games for the PS3, perhaps 50% of which are crap, and this list for the Wii, about 90% of which are crap (or at least implemented poorly), I'd say you're talking nonsense.

    Another thought: how many good Wii games are there that don't rely on that gimmicky remote control?

  16. Ahoy there on Cloning the Smell of the Sea · · Score: 1

    What's that new cologne you're wearing? It has a smell. A kind of smelly smell that smells.... ...
    smelly.

  17. Re:Predictions from the past ... on Remote Exploit of Vista Speech Control · · Score: 1

    You missed my favourite.

  18. Didn't we learn on Remote Exploit of Vista Speech Control · · Score: 1

    this lesson back in the '90s? Remember when Apple Macs shipped with Voice Recognition, and everyone figured out that it was a lame-ass fad the novelty of which wore off after ten minutes. (A bit like the Wiimote, I guess).

    Congratulations MS, you're truly the innovators.

  19. Re:I tried to replicate the bug, but all I got was on Remote Exploit of Vista Speech Control · · Score: 1

    Eventually I just got Cod Ham Pizza Ship.

  20. Re:Linux is Inhibited by Greed on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait, are you that shampoo guy?

  21. Re:That's hardly an exploit on Remote Exploit of Vista Speech Control · · Score: 1

    That's nice, but I for one am grateful for web pages that allow me to listen to how foreign words are pronounced, or to a segment of music based on a particular key.

    I wonder if you also kicked up a stink when everyone shifted away from Gopher. And you can't believe that a grown man would click on small coloured pictures to operate a computer, am I right?

  22. Re:Bitterness on Sony Open to Considering PS3 Price Cuts · · Score: 1

    Peoples memories are too damn short...

    Yes, absolutely they are. Now I assume you're also buycotting the Wii and the XBox 360?

  23. Re:PS-3 on Linux 2.6.20-rc6 Kernel Performance · · Score: 1

    Fascinating. So, for bragging rights, how many whetstones do you get?

    See http://fresh.t-systems-sfr.com/linux/src/whetstone _linux.tar.gz:t/whets.c

  24. Re:This puts a grin on my face. on Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion · · Score: 1

    I guess you missed the part where Bush declared that the Gitmoees aren't POWs, German soldiers in WW2 aren't enemy combatants, and we aren't actually at war with anyone in particular.

    Technically he's right. The US hasn't made a formal declaration of war since 1942. When you declare war there are certain international conventions you must adhere to. Everything since WWII has been classed as a military conflict.

  25. Re:Reasonable suspicion on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brings Boston to a Halt · · Score: 1

    Wait I've seen that one!

    Next the President's face is supposed to get scarred with his own electricity or something, and he starts waving a red laser pointer about the place.