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  1. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    Maybe because it looks like he is mentally ill?

    Personally I say treat him like a criminal suspect until we find out if he is or is not as sick as many think he might be.

  2. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    Because from all outward signs he is a nutcase not a criminal. Crazy people are going to do things like this and throwing them in jail helps no one. It will not discourage other crazy folks, because they are mentally ill.

  3. Re:This one makes some sense on FBI Seeks Suspect's Web Game Records · · Score: 1

    There are channels that are very secure, wow is not one of them. To me it seems lots of folks had a chance to help this, mostly his parents. He was clearly mentally ill.

  4. Re:Smartphones lack buttons and cost lots on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    1. get a game gripper
    2. subsidized prices are all that consumers care about, and those are in the DS range or lower.

  5. Re:As powerful as the PS3? on Sony Says PSP2 "As Powerful as PS3" · · Score: 1

    The stack of games at my house disagrees. I do wish more Move games were available though.

  6. Re:YRO? on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Not sure about police, but many firefighters at age 50 are not exactly going to be capable of doing that work anymore. Since they have been doing that for the last 30 years they also can't get any other job that pays on the same level.

  7. Re:Insufficient... on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    Droid 1 was as well.
    No problem flashing a new OS on it at all.

  8. Re:So, h264 is on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    The MPEG-LA does not either do this either. It does not matter the odds. Both offer the same patent claim protection, that is only from themselves. For all you know Google now holds patents that H.264 infringes on. Until there is a law suit, and there has now been plenty of time for one, this is just FUD.

  9. Re:Ugh on Jimmy Wales Declares App Store Models a Threat · · Score: 0

    My droid has lots of apps from outside the market. ScummVM is one. I also don't run a carrier or vendor OS on it. What you speak of is only a problem for some phones and some users.

  10. Re:I do think people need to understand that on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    THE MONEY IS NOT THE ISSUE YOU FUCKING IDIOT.

    If Mozilla could get a license that would allow redistribution and not impact future users of that code base they could pay it. The problem is that you can't get such a license.

  11. Re:So, h264 is on Ars Thinks Google Takes a Step Backwards For Openness · · Score: 1

    Nope. The MPEG-LA does not guarantee you are getting all the patents either. They only state you are getting a license to the ones they hold. Stop spreading FUD.

  12. Re:Thanks for the compliment on How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream · · Score: 1

    I would have hoped something more practical. Perhaps even open to new views if it can aid them. This just shows that I was wrong.

  13. Re:Government Workers? on Catching Exam Cheats With a Spectrum Analyzer · · Score: 1

    You realize they could hide the items in something that confuses the machines or just do what prisoners do.

  14. Re:haha, what? on Microsoft To Disable Windows Phone 7 Unlocking · · Score: 1

    There is a desktop app that gets around this, does not even require rooting.

  15. Re:Government Workers? on Catching Exam Cheats With a Spectrum Analyzer · · Score: 1

    Far simpler, pass a law stating that if any employee of any organization has to do those things all the execs must too. Written in such a way that if a postal employee has to piss in a cup so does the President. This sort of crap would disappear overnight.

  16. Re:Expensive cheats on Catching Exam Cheats With a Spectrum Analyzer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cell Jammers are normally illegal.

    A far better idea is to make a test center room that is a faraday cage. Now you are blocking everything, not just cell phones.

  17. Re:Low success rate? on AMBER Alert Partners With Facebook · · Score: 1

    Maybe it needs to be better than other uses of the money. If we have the option to save 525 kids lives via these dollars or 1000 kids lives by spending the money on road repairs or after school programs clearly we should be doing one of the latter.

  18. Re:I wish.. on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 1

    And how much for a license for unlimited copies and redistribution?

  19. Re:Everyone else uses H264/MPEG4 on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 1

    But infinity less rate of me being sued for implementing it.

  20. Re:Everyone else uses H264/MPEG4 on Opera Supports Google Decision To Drop H.264 · · Score: 1

    Or want to read the fucking files. You have to pay to license their patents if you write or distribute a player.

  21. Re:How do people use Firefox? on Winners of Mozilla Open Data Competition · · Score: 1

    The only thing that really keeps me on it. Chrome and Chromium-browser are ok, but without a way to radically change the functionality in the way vimperator changes firefox I just can't use them.

  22. Re:I like Puppy Linux on How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream · · Score: 1

    It is indeed no cost. That has nothing to do with this topic though.

  23. Re:Thanks for the compliment on How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mangers and Executives via "Corporate Visions" of course, those other folks just do that trivial crap called actual work.

  24. Re:How do people use Firefox? on Winners of Mozilla Open Data Competition · · Score: 1

    With Vimperator, the only good way to use it. Is that what you meant?

  25. Re:Thanks for the compliment on How Open Source Might Finally Become Mainstream · · Score: 2

    He did not have to mention activists, he could have mentioned users instead. This article is written this way on purpose. It is because it fits the pre-conceived notions of WSJ readers. The WSJ has become just another part of the Murdoch echo chamber.