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  1. Re:How about the even more useless keys? on Does Your PC Really Need a SysRq Button Anymore? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with that? It's a useful additional modifier key for mapping keystrokes to window manager functions. I use it for switching desktops.

  2. Re:Too soon. on Spider-Man 4 Scrapped, Franchise Reboot Planned · · Score: 1

    The problem was they insisted on including 3 villains (so they had 3 times as many toys to sell?) so didn't really get to fully explore any of them. With Harry knowing Spider-man's identity, they really had no choice but to include the second green goblin, but I guess they decided that another spider-man vs. green goblin would be too close to the original. They should have left out Sandman, introduced the black suit, and left Venom as just a sequel hook.

  3. Re:Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars on What SciFi Should Get the Reboot Treatment Next? · · Score: 1

    As long as they get rid of the annoying kid that tags along with them.

  4. Re:Now, if only... on World's First Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camcorder · · Score: 1

    I was hoping by then my brain implant could just take a feed right off the optic nerve and archive that. After adding 32x optical zoom and perfect focus to my eyes, of course.

  5. Re:How about a couple of.... on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    Make the airlines remove the ridiculous charges on checked baggage, and then ban all carryon luggage that can't fit under the seat. If you can fit it under the seat, you can easily carry it over the turnstile.

  6. Re:Man, If I had a nickle... on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    no foam? What is wrong with you? Foam is the one and only reason to go to Starbucks (the coffee itself isn't that great). Just give me a big cup of nothing but foamed milk. And another cup with HIS foamed milk, since he doesn't want it.

  7. Re:not surprising on DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany · · Score: 1

    They've done it for years, haven't they? It's just now that they finally can encrypt it, they think that they should.

  8. Re:Not a particularly helpful summary on NYT's "Games To Avoid" an Ironic, Perfect Gamer Wish List · · Score: 1

    Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony Frequent and ruthless violence, gratuitous sex, lawlessness, drinking, drugs -- this isn't a game for kids. But the fully interactive open world offers an immersive diversion for hardcore gamers.
    Alternative: Batman:Arkham Asylum

    No, it does look like they are directly recommending Batman as an alternative specifically to GTA. If it was just a list of games that ARE good for kid, the list would have been separate.

    I would have liked some points out the alternatives about why they thought they'd be good alternatives, though.

  9. Re:Net Neutrality for what service on AT&T's Net Neutrality Doublethink · · Score: 1

    What non-paying services? The user is paying for his internet access, whoever owns the servers are paying for their internet access. Why should the ISP get another cut just because they're trying to compete themselves?

  10. Re:So Wait... on Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense · · Score: 1

    No, there's no requirement for the conversation to turn to drinking. If you're making any overtures of friendship at all, "anything that would make it easier or more probable for a young person to be taken advantage of", you're building up the child's trust and could be prosecuted on the grounds that you could go on to abuse him if you aren't stopped.

  11. Re:Unfriending due to Farmville on Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction · · Score: 1

    My current biggest turnoff from Facebook is the friends that link their Twitter to Facebook, and so post 50 times a day...

  12. Re:Not a play, just on William Gibson's Neuromancer Staged With Porn Star · · Score: 1

    Have a look at Johnny Mnemonic if you want to know what Hollywood would do with a Gibson movie.

  13. Re:Annoyance ads on Apple Patents "Enforceable" Ad Viewing On Devices · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What annoys me is sites which have an ad before each video that they make you watch. But it's the SAME AD EVERY TIME. And I still don't know what they're advertising.

  14. Re:Wow on Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More · · Score: 1

    If they can tell the difference between the services in order to charge them in different ways, they should be able to tell the difference to block one or the other on request. But this way makes them a little more money, so why should they change?

  15. Re:Hackers Diet FTW. on Why Doesn't Exercise Lead To Weight Loss? · · Score: 1

    So I should keep my liver busy? To the bar!

  16. So it's worthless, then? on Terminator Franchise To Be Auctioned Off · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The auction will include rights to everything but the first two films.

    I don't get it. Why would someone pay for rights that exclude everything of value?

  17. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Or the one where Elaine gets stuck on the train with the power out... Actually, the subway featured fairly often. Generally bad things happened when they were there, but pretty much they only showed travel time when something bad happened.

  18. Re:You're against the post office? on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Jefferson was in France during the Constitutional Convention. The Constitution was mostly written by Madison and Hamilton.

  19. Re:Force Feedback? on Toyota Experimenting With Joystick Control For Cars · · Score: 1

    So I'm supposed to drink my coffee, and change my CDs with my left hand?

  20. Re:It is kind of sad to think on Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing · · Score: 1

    No, it was clearly meant to be a Caricature of a model to attract attention (it worked, didn't it). No one would believe that's what she really looked like.

  21. Re:Call me a cynic.. on New Graphical Representation of the Periodic Table · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is "Towards the center is the smaller" easier than "The top is smaller"? The other trend in atomic sizes is size decreases as you go, right, and this new chart totally destroys that. It looks like Lithium and Neon should be similar in size (since they're right next to each other), but Lithium is the largest in its row and Neon the smallest. If they wanted to show the center is smaller, they shouldn't have shown the elements in circular rings, but as sort of a spiral-shape. All the Noble gases should be shown as closer to the center than the Alkali Metals (Lithium and its column, excluding Hydrogen)

  22. Re:Textbook Scam on New Bill Proposes Open Source Requirement for Publicly Funded Books · · Score: 1

    Do you really expect them to continue to publish every old edition of their textbook? They can't afford to produce a dozen different versions of each text book, it only makes sense to only produce the newest edition of each.

  23. For your High School Textbook, I doubt the school was keeping up on all those new editions. Since it's the school itself buying the books rather than the students, they have no incentive to upgrade editions until the books are too physically worn out to use.

  24. Re:Hmmm... on The Kafka-esque Nightmare of Palm App Submission · · Score: 1

    But that is the case, the pay catalog is live, and we have no pay apps... That still doesn't explain why people need paypal accounts to submit their free apps.

  25. Some solution on Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute · · Score: 4, Insightful

    'This case shows there are solutions to the problem Carol Shloss faced other than simple capitulation,' says Fair Use Project Executive Director Anthony Falzone, who led the litigation team

    Yes, there are solutions. If you can afford to put out $400k in lawyers fees upfront, and then only receive $240k of that back for a $160k loss.