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  1. Re:But they didn't say ,"Stop!" on Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV · · Score: 1
    The function of the Judicial system is to interpret laws

    While interpretting laws is definitely part of the purpose of the judiciary it is hardly "the" singular function. A primary function of the judicial system is to make laws. Note Roe v Wade as a prime example.

  2. Re:We should all get together on Top 100 Gadgets of All Time · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a great idea, but I didn't see a flashlight on the list so it might be a bit pointless.

  3. Re:wow on Review: Halo 2 And The MagicBox XFPS · · Score: 1

    The Halo controls are actually very poor, at least if you are used to playing with the left analog stick mapped to free look and the right analog stick to the z-plane movement. In this configuration it is nearly impossible to run and jump or to quickly pick up a weapon or enter a vehicle since you have to take your thumb off of the movement stick to hit any of the buttons. A problem they would not have had if d-pad were able to be mapped to the commands on the A,B,X,Y buttons. Hardly "intuitive" to make an entire control setup unuseable because of something so stupid, though I seem to be about the only one left playing in that configuration.

  4. Re:Uhh. on Arcade Kit Seller Applies for MAME Trademark [updated] · · Score: 2, Informative
    That's not anything like what is going on here. In your example the VFAT implementation is completely irrelevent. Since you wouldn't be trademarking it, you would be trademarking the name that you use to resell a version of that VFAT implementation.

    It's much more similar to you being a reseller of HP computers and applying for a trademark on their case design.

  5. been seeing this a while on The Return Of The Pop-Up Ad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been coming across popup ads in firefox even with popup blocking on for a couple of months now, though luckily not too many.

  6. Re:Money? on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance · · Score: 0
    You're a fucking moron. He was using "PX" sarcastically because he IS running XP on it and "alright" is a perfectly legitimate way to spell it though it is considered non-standard.

    See here and here, then do not post on /. for one year or until you are no longer a moron, whichever comes second.

  7. Re:cool stuff on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance · · Score: 0

    Did someone wake up on the wrong side of his dad this morning?

  8. Re:Not true. on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 0

    I have been under a rock. It was really heavy so it took extra time to get out from under it. I've been mostly out from under it since 2002, but I dropped it on my foot as I tried to crawl out and it has taken me that long to saw off my foot with threads pulled from my clothing.

  9. Re:Not a problem (yet) on SHA-1 Broken · · Score: 0

    Didn't we all just learn from microsoft that passwords are insecure and should be instead replaced with more reliable, yet equally easy to remember pages/chapters from novels?

  10. Re:You have to understand.. on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 0

    I understand that, but I was also kind of curious. Because at some point someone must have said something like that seriously.

  11. Re:We need to tighten up web certificates on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 0

    Doesn't it change the colour of the text in the address bar or something? I think that's how you tell the difference.

  12. Re:You have to understand.. on Mozilla Drops Support for International Domains · · Score: 0

    When was the last time an legitimate expert said to switch to IE?

  13. Re:UTSA and other considerations on EFF Joins Fight Against Apple Lawsuit · · Score: 0

    Perhaps if Apple had better trade secrets than that they were releasing a 500$ headless mac with stripped down ram and that they were putting out a flash mp3 player maybe someone would care? But leaking that kind of information should hardly be considered a trade secret. I mean, it's like Joe in accounting leaking that The Lord Steve Jobs shall be eating eggs and bacon for breakfast with a glass of orange juice.

  14. Re:Um, duh? on Xbox 2 to Release in Fall of This Year · · Score: 0

    Except that Gamecube actually has quality exclusive titles and a controller that doesn't look and feel like a refugee from the Atari Jaguar designers.

  15. Re:Um, duh? on Xbox 2 to Release in Fall of This Year · · Score: 0

    They didn't shut down their sports division because they got shut out of baseball and football. In fact they aren't shut out of baseball at all, being as how they are a first party developer. The reason they shut down their sports division is because their sports games blow and were getting spanked all over the place by the competition.

  16. Re:According to "sources". on Xbox 2 to Release in Fall of This Year · · Score: 0

    Was released in North America in the fall of 1995.

  17. Re:360? on Next Generation Xbox To Be Called Xbox 360? · · Score: 0

    Also all of the games are designed with one button in mind at at best you get some weak after-thought functionality on the additional buttons you add to it. Not that this is necessarily bad, since 2600 owns all of you and your moms.

  18. Re:Pseudo Tie-In to Cell phones? on Nintendo With Possible Palm OS Capabilities · · Score: 0

    Which is really useful to the three people who own one.

  19. Re:First post! on Are Betas Taking On Lives of Their Own? · · Score: 0

    That's funny, it reminds me of windows.

  20. Re:What PhD would do this? on Microsoft Researching Patent Law with New Experts · · Score: 0

    Maybe their job just got offshored and they're desperate?

  21. Re:Not at the US Patent office it doesn't! on Microsoft Researching Patent Law with New Experts · · Score: 0

    Also, the rubber stamp pad is cheaper than actually looking anything up.

  22. Re:When will we say "enough"? on Microsoft Researching Patent Law with New Experts · · Score: 0

    And in fact we need copyright laws to protect open source software. Otherwise someone would steal it and find some way to roll it into a proprietary package of one sort or another.

  23. Re:Worst internet worm ever? on Image Causes Exploitable Overflow in Microsoft Products · · Score: 0

    Everyone I know who runs windows does. Most of them are too stupid to even realise anything else exists, though. Which means microsoft's bundling must really be working.

  24. Re:Safari on Browser Speed Comparisons · · Score: 0

    Yes, using KDE's KHTML rendering engine was a good move.

  25. Re:What about on MS Security Chief Says Windows is Safer Than Linux · · Score: 0

    Man, let's compare the TCO for the entire microsoft "distro" to any Linux. You're looking at a couple grand just to install the system and you'll still be missing a lot of software that microsoft just doesn't make.