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  1. Re:Yes, see above on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 1

    Yup, bad comic!

  2. Re:Read the trademark! on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 1

    You did notice that hey have two registrations of the mark in USPTO, one made in 2009 for 'Comic books; Graphic novels; Novels.' and second in 2011 for 'Downloadable motion pictures and television shows about drama, carnival themes, fantasy, supernatural themes; Motion picture films about drama, carnival themes, fantasy, supernatural themes; Motion picture films and films for television featuring children's entertainment'

  3. Re:Why is this a story? on Torvalds Bemoans Size of RC7 For Linux Kernel 3.5 · · Score: 1

    Sure you can, just use bigger swap file :)

  4. Re:zip file support on Varnish Author Suggests SPDY Should Be Viewed As a Prototype · · Score: 1

    Nah, it would be much better if we could use rsync:// instead of http:/// it would handle nicely partial downloads, compression, slightly changed files etc.

  5. Re:Potential problem on YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google · · Score: 1

    You do know that even .de -sites can be accessed by international audience, even sites without domain names can be accessed by international audiences, the is the default behaviour of the internets....

  6. Re:Bitcoin hacked? Um no on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't with the code. It shouldn't be possible to alter the blocks/transactions in Bitcoin but now it seems that it is possible. How can anyone trust a currency where someone else can change after the fact your transactions? Who is going to repay any merchants who thought they were paid, shipped the products and then that money in their wallet was suddenly gone?

  7. Re:Bitcoin hacked? Um no on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 1

    This seems like a major flaw in Bitcoin, basicly the developers and pool operators can at any time they want nullify your transactions and invalidate your bitcoins. Doesn't sound very secure to me.

  8. Re: on A New C Standard Is On the Way · · Score: 1

    This new C standard IS a different language, so you should be happy.

  9. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I never had to trade with people when playing D1 and D2. The loot that was dropped was just fine and the game could be finished with the random drops. I never understood why people wanted to trade for some unique stuff. Nor do I understand why people keep trying to optimize their skill trees, perhaps that is required in the multiplayer modes, but not in singleplayer.

  10. Re:pretty tame "fud" on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Just saying that I think the Navicore on Nokia Communicator has been the best GPS software ever, partially due to the very wide aspect ratio of the screen, but also because the device has full keyboard, thus writing addresses is so easy compared to other devices. And btw, Communicator is a color device (Nokia E90), you must be thinking of the older Nokia Communicators which were grayscale. Too bad that Navicore got bought by a UK telco and the product was first turned into one that used online maps and now it seems to be totally gone. Their maps very often so much better compared to TomTom, especially on the rural areas. And having traffic warnings is also a very nice thing, and that often doesn't work here unless you have internet access from the device.

    So no iPhone syndrome here, it is just that every time I've had to use a TomTom (or some other GPS device) they've felt somewhat klunky or unpolished, compared to Navicore. Some are small things, like ability to first enter the street address and then be given a list a towns which can be sorted by distance from you. This was very handy in France when we knew the street address of our client, but just the name of the city. But on the GPS the city was splitted into zip code size areas which you needed to enter first so it took forever to zoom around the map until we found the street and the name of that part of the city.

    My current navigation solution is to use Navigon on both iPhone and Android, I would still prefer to use the Navigore on my Nokia E90 but the maps are getting too old for accurate navigation in many places.

  11. Re:pretty tame "fud" on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    I was actually referring to TomTom for iPhone and superior products like Navigon for iPhone/iPad and Navicore to Nokia Communicator. All of these use offline maps. The UI is just so much nicer to use than with the dedicated GPS devices which usually don't support pinch zooming etc.

  12. Re:pretty tame "fud" on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 2

    Actually the TomTom device usually is worse than the iPhone/Android versions due to not so polished UI and lesser hardware (slower cpu, less memory etc).

  13. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    Auction house doesn't prevent offline single player mode. It would just mean that you cannot use the single player character on those auctions, like with Diablo 2 you couldn't use single player characters on the battle.net servers.

  14. Re:Is This Progress vs Tradition? on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    Generally single player games don't require griefing protection.

  15. Re:Release Failure on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    Well, gosh, perhaps they should have prevented you from using the single player characters in the multiplayer play...

  16. Re:Hate to put a damper on the celebration on Diablo III Released · · Score: 1

    There is no monetization or cheating to be controlled on single player. They should have used similar setup as with Diablo II where you could play single player, or with friends with your own server (cheating very possible) and on the official servers.

  17. Re:This is how Peerblock comes in handy on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    I am fairly sure that this isn't a problem when you allow Azureus to open eg. 12000 connections like I do. Having that many connections also helps to saturate my download bandwidth and minimizing the required upload bandwidth. And sometimes helps to get past ISP's QoS schemes.

  18. Re:Other virtual currencies on Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins · · Score: 2

    At that point I am sure they would be more attracted to the man with food.

  19. Re:GPL vs BSD on DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    And BSD limits the freedom of users.

  20. Re:The Perfect Search Engine on Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down · · Score: 2

    It could be funded by EU, just to show that goverments sometimes, just sometimes, can make things work.

  21. Re:Bizarre and Confusing Summary on Major Bitcoin Exchange Ceases Operation · · Score: 1

    Even your graph says it did gave out more than 50 bitcoins in the beginning, otherwise the graph would be linear.

  22. Re:Bizarre and Confusing Summary on Major Bitcoin Exchange Ceases Operation · · Score: 1

    Also in the beginning Bitcoin gave out larger "wins" than just 50 bitcoins, so those few that joined first managed to mine more bitcoins for less effort.

  23. Re:"Linux Command Line Tirckery" HA! on Windows 8 Features With Linux Antecedents · · Score: 2

    Noh, but you should be able to mount random USB stick and access any files on it and run any executables on it with your user rights and the OS should ask for admin password if more rights are needed.

  24. Re:I agree on Sale Or License? Sister Sledge Sues Over ITunes · · Score: 1

    But they don't disagree, there just enough gray area on the issue that preliminary injuction cannot be set but the "defendant" can have their day in court.

  25. Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    Well, I did recognize the name and didn't think of Pink Floyd, though then figured out that I had confused him with Alan Partridge.