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  1. Re:People need to stop equating software to buildi on Outlining a World Where Software Makers Are Liable For Flaws · · Score: 1

    Is there not a programing language by the name of ADA specifically designed for this? Used by the US military for mission critical software/firmware?

  2. Re:M-Disc on Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? · · Score: 1

    Not sure i see how that is astroturfing.

  3. Re:Performance on Zotac Releases GeForce GT 520 With Classic PCI Connector · · Score: 1

    this is why RMS started GNU in the first place...

  4. Re:Science 1000000001, god 0 on HIV Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Immune Response · · Score: 1

    i actually lol-ed...

  5. Re:Kids aren't that good at it on Smarter Robot Arms · · Score: 1

    Not helping that our sensory processing is not really built for anything beyond a walk. Running, much less driving a vehicle at highway speed, can't be properly processed beyond a straight and flat path.

  6. Re:This would be illegal in the EU on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    You sure? I could have sworn there was a high profile lawsuit going on back in the day.

  7. Re:Wow, what a unforseeable shocker on Justification For Canadian Copyright Reform Revealed · · Score: 1

    Indeed, this because the "first" world can via those laws take rent from the "third" world. Just observe Monsanto to see the first attempts.

  8. Re:Wow, what a unforseeable shocker on Justification For Canadian Copyright Reform Revealed · · Score: 1

    And that agreement, and others like it, is why no nation outside of "rogue states" will be seen altering their copyright law for the good of the community any time soon.

  9. Hello BIOS... on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget that when the IBM PC first launched, the BIOS was the only proprietary component in there.

    Only with the reverse engineering and clean room implementation from Compaq did we see the commodity home computer we now know and "love".

  10. Re:This would be illegal in the EU on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 1

    From a historical point of view the IBM PC was also a device, that happened to use mostly off the shelf parts. It because "general purpose" only when Compaq and others reverse engineered the one thing held proprietary by IBM, the BIOS, and was successful in their clean room implementation claim.

  11. Re:Caveat Emptor on How Microsoft Can Lock Linux Off Windows 8 PCs · · Score: 2

    in essence, your life is rented to you at birth. Fail a payment and your body is repoed and used for medical spare parts...

  12. Re:Of course not on RMS: 'Is Android Really Free Software?' · · Score: 1

    Google already do this, and why the Amazon store is so interesting.

    If you want to bundle the GApps and Market on a Android device, there is a checklist of things you need to have before Google gives the thumbs up. This list is why we are seeing non-phone Andoid device only recently.

    http://source.android.com/compatibility/index.html

    Google makes little noise about this on stage, as they want to appear as the thinker friendly corporation.

  13. Re:Yes, but will it support multiple users...? on Google Preps Devs For One-Size-Fits-All Android · · Score: 1

    Funnily, that other Google OS project has this exact feature...

  14. Re:Players do bad things because: on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    Heh, it was my first run trying to be non-lethal. I expected the guard to raise the alarm, not wake the guy up. Still, when they are woken up they are cautious for a moment but do not raise the alarm, so there is that. And as i discovered, simply stuffing a body under a desk may work as the AI has a hard time spotting things under desks (i hid under one during a firefight, to their great confusion). But dragging them down vents may be a bad idea, as there seems to be some kind of bug that causes them to go from ZZZ to dead. Noticed that when dragging a guard out of the way in a apartment complex.

  15. Re:Video Games = School Shootings on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps heretics?

  16. Re:Players do bad things because: on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    Nitrogen tank, as in say a fire extinguisher?

  17. Re:I had a different experience on Japan's Richest Man Outlines Renewable Energy Plan · · Score: 1

    So this is how one claim the iphone as a "smartphone" these days, by defining the others as dumb? ye deities...

  18. Re:Up to 10x more ... must be a fraud on Boosting Battery Storage With Seaweed · · Score: 1

    I think the insane range thing is a very US thing, as there one can hit the road and basically drive away from ones troubles. Try that in Europe and you quickly find yourself somewhere that may not even talk the same language.

  19. Re:Heaven forbid on Authors' Guild Goes After University Book Digitization Projects · · Score: 1

    The best option i can see is to tack a levy on the net connection, and feed that into a creative support pool. Sure, it is not as fine grained as having a sum lifted on every download or every read/listen/view (what the laywers like to define as consumption, even tho nothing is really consumed). But in the end i think the only people that will loose out are the fat cat execs and their lawyers.

    Thing is tho that for there to be a slice of the pool i think there is a need for a work to be registered rather then just uploaded somewhere and the pool petitioned. There has to be a way to prove that one is the creator of something to benefit from the pool.

  20. Re:Players do bad things because: on Why Aren't There More Civilians In Military Video Games? · · Score: 1

    One pain in the behind about going pacifist in DXHR is that other NPCs can wake up knocked out enemies. Always fun when some guard you missed out come across his fellows and start waking them up, cutting of any escape route. That, and them having no compulsion against using lethal force matter how much you try to not kill them.

  21. Re:Extension == Theft on EU Extends Music Copyright to 70 Years · · Score: 2

    And this all or nothing attitude is why there will be no solution in the near term...

  22. Re:Battery vrs capacitor on Polymer Gel Shows Promise For Smaller, Cheaper Batteries · · Score: 1

    Let me guess, it uses carbon nanotubes or graphene.

    It is something of a cognitive dissonance between the coolness of tech we could have with nanotubes, and the sadness about how freaking hard they are to mass produce.

  23. Re:HERETICS! on Why We Don't Need Gigabit Networks (Yet) · · Score: 1

    There have already been legal wranglings regarding CDNs and such in various ISP networks.

  24. Re:Shutting down the internet had other results on How Killing the Internet Helped Revolutionaries · · Score: 1

    Not surprising as it was likely the most authoritarian of the groups involved. As such, they are likely to be fastest at getting organized.

    This is why the Right always seems to have a more coherent direction then the Left, as your more likely to find people accepting authoritarian control there.

  25. Re:real numbers on The Coming Energy Turnaround In Germany · · Score: 0

    What real estate? Deserts, man, deserts.