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  1. There are private trackers on The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? · · Score: 1

    And you could certainly restrict them to paid accounts.

    But why would anyone want to pay for what they can get better for free?

  2. No. on The Pirate Bay to Become a Distributed Storage Cloud? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Running a tracker is hardly special or unique. If you put up a paywall, we will simply go elsewhere.

    We're happy to share bandwidth with each other, but we're not going to let you resell it.

  3. A keyboard on Best Mouse For Programming? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're welcome.

  4. "Not a member of the tribe" on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me like they made every attempt possible to invite him into the tribe, and yet he responded by consistently pissing on the campfire.

  5. Fix your tags on The Mathletes and the Miley Photoshop · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think those quotes are what you really want.

  6. Paid links are bid on by search term, I believe on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    It's not all that surprising that no one's interested in buying space on the search terms you listed (Amazon won't allow affiliates to do that, fyi). If you put the text of those books on a page with an adsense box, I'm sure Google would find something to put there.

  7. Inline documentation? on Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux · · Score: 1

    What happens to the commenting? Won't this turn into an unreadable turd?

  8. Last I checked on A Case Study of RMTs In EVE Online · · Score: 1

    People didn't pay $15 dollars a month to play at growing apples in the evenings.

  9. Except it won't on A Case Study of RMTs In EVE Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because you can hire third worlders to farm gold for 15 cents an hour, and thus there is an effectively infinite supply of player Cs.

  10. Google doesn't on HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash? · · Score: 1

    Google's dropped IE6 support from Gmail, and IE6 is roughly 20% of the browser population.

    Futher, Gmail is a relatively simple web app. It's just a mail client. There are things you simply cannot do with IE, no matter what compatibility hacks you throw in.

  11. Someone doesn't know what "clean room" means on Clean-Room RTMPE Spec Created From rtmpdump · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unless rtmpdump was itself a clean room implementation, nothing based on it can be.

  12. Don't be so sure on HTML 5 As a Viable Alternative To Flash? · · Score: 1

    With IE down to 65% or so, 20% of that being IE 6 users, and dropping at 5%/year the days of IE support being a necessity may be numbered.

  13. The same thing Apple does on Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your grammar is atrocious. Are you an imbecile?

  14. In other news... on Sony Pictures CEO Thinks the Net Wasn't Worth It · · Score: 1

    Buggy whip manufacturers see nothing good coming from the interstate highway system.

  15. Do you really think anyone hasn't heard of Amazon? on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People googling for your book aren't looking to pay for it.

    You may as well be complaining about librarians not suggesting people buy books instead.

  16. That is the very foundation of our legal system on NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That it is better to let ten guilty men go free than to convict a single innocent man.

    Throwing the case out is the discipline used when the police or prosecution step out of line.

  17. How about selling licenses at a reasonable cost? on Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can you really blame people for piracy when you set the retail price of a license at $100-$200 and the big OEM price at $10-$50?

    Pretty soon it'll be easier to get a windows license by buying a netbook and throwing the hardware away.

  18. You misunderstand the purpose of copyright on Music Copyright In EU Extended To 70 Years · · Score: 1

    It isn't to give the creator control over their work.

  19. Don't muddy the waters on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    There are some very good reasons to argue against filtering in schools.

    Introducing some crazy argument about 16 year olds not being children will just make people write off any reasonable arguments you make.

  20. Not enough info on Rugged Linux Server For Rural, Tropical Environment? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What exactly are you doing, and why does your server need to be on site?

    If you really need to be lugging all that around the wilderness, it's not going to be cheap.

  21. That's a very long winded tautology on Reflections On the Less-Cool Effects of Filesharing · · Score: 1

    Yes, TPB top 100 lists popular music. What is popular is popular.

    Torrenting in and of itself doesn't advertise music. Me telling my buddy "hey, go download X", and him being able to download X does.

    This treats nice indy labels and evil RIAA labels completely equally, because we don't give a damn about your copyright policies. We're going to ignore your claims no matter what.

    Now, when I do decide to spend money on music, I'm not going to give it to the evil bastard suing the nice folks running trackers.

  22. RHEL is what you want on He's a Mac, He's a PC, But We're Linux! · · Score: 1

    So pony up and give them money, and they'll give you a phone number where you can get the handholding you want.

  23. Unless you want them to wear a paper hat... on What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"? · · Score: 1

    You're not going to find someone willing to work part time. Professionals don't do that.

    Now, you could hire a contractor, but they're going to charge you through the nose if you can't manage the workflow in a way they can predict and plan for.

  24. What's a rolodex? on Your Business Card Is Crap · · Score: 1

    And why don't you want me to put your business card there?

  25. It's doomed as access control on Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed · · Score: 1

    But as a means of producing a bot to pass the Turing test, it's coming along swimmingly.