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  1. Depending On Your Needs -- If Comics, Then No on When Should I Buy an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    My sole reason for owning a table would be for digital comics. comiXology is excellent on both Android and iOS (and your purchases are cross-platform!) While comiXology has Marvel and DC, they don't have some of the smaller and well known publishers like Dark Horse and IDW. Those are only on iOS and PSP.

  2. Built-in Secure Wipe Like the iPhone? on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    As far as login security goes, the iPhone can be pretty slick. It can be setup so if someone enters the password wrong five times a secure wipe begins. Does anyone know of something that gives XP similar functionality? Tiggering remote wipe functionality like Exchange or MobileMe would be a huge plus too.

  3. Re:well that explains it... on MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a senior year class we actually used the leaked direct feed bootleg of Episode II to compare the CG to original trilogy and discuss the evolution of technology in film.

  4. Don't Froget About ARC and Video Games on American Red Cross Sued For Using a Red Cross · · Score: 1

    Because of the ARC you are no longer allowed to use the logo on health packs in video games, correct?

  5. o_O on Professor Bans Laptops from the Classroom · · Score: 1

    So, you can write without looking at the paper, but not type without looking at the keyboard/screen? Is this lady for real?

  6. Re:What's the Problem? on Sony DRM and the New Digital Hole · · Score: 1

    Honestly guys. Give creidt to Sony for taking the right step there. Just becuase they've made mistakes in the past doesn't mean you should slam them for something good.

  7. What's the Problem? on Sony DRM and the New Digital Hole · · Score: 2, Informative

    The first eight Sony blu-ray discs will play in full resolution over componet cables. That's an awesome standing on copy protection sonsidering HDCP is suppose to kill the resolution for any analog singal.

  8. Re:Uhm, no. on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I thought he had two monitors set-up next to each other. I guess it was his TV and not a second monitor. Either way, he was focused on the movie and not the game, which sounds "unattended" to me. I have played WoW. For five months. I know what girding is like, but the tedium comes with MMORPGs. It's the price of admission. If his macros make him seem like he's not there and then when Blizzard whipsers him and they get no response -- how can you defend against that?

  9. Re:Uhm, no. on Banned From WoW For WINE & Programmable Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Obvisouly if he's able to watch a movie the game is playing itself unattended wether or not you're sitting at the computer or not. Duh. Is that hard to understand? The game is unattended, not your computer and that is the TOS violation. And he's a moron for saying that to Blizzard thinking that he's defending himself. "My macro works so well I can just let it do its thing while I watch a movie." Plus, saying that you've researched bot programs and wether or not the run on Linux cannot possibly help yourself. Bilzzard is right in this case. Sorry dude.

  10. Re:Summary correction: on EFF Pushes Consumers to Claim Rootkit Compensation · · Score: 1

    That was pretty much the point I was making. You own the disc, the paper, the case -- but not the data that's on the disc or the artwork that's on the liner notes.

  11. Re:Summary correction: on EFF Pushes Consumers to Claim Rootkit Compensation · · Score: 1

    Except that it's not your music at all. The only thing you get by buying a movie, music, or game is the right to watch/listen/play. Purchasing copyrighted material is nothing more than a "lifetime rental fee".

  12. Pay Per Use on TiVo to Let Users Record Shows Via Cellphone · · Score: 1

    Not that I want to pay at all. It should be free. But, if they're going to charge for this service, it should be like $0.50 a scheduling session. No one will do enough TiVo scheduling via their phone to make it worth $5/month. At $0.50 you suddenly have everyone recoding that one show they forgot to set.

  13. Re:Downward spiral. on CNET Accuses Apple of Over-Hyping Launch · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. *claps*

  14. Re:I love Slashdot, but.. on RFID, Sign of the (End) Times? · · Score: 1

    These is getting press the same way Jack Thompson's luncay gets press -- it's pisses people off.

  15. Re:Awarding not-yet-released games? Boo! on Spike TV Video Game Award Winners · · Score: 1

    It's like giving an Oscar to an actor who had a role in a move that is yet to be released. Just plain lame.

  16. AOL? Bleh. on Consumer Friendly Downloads? · · Score: 1

    Of all companies, I do not want AOL to verify what I download. I think that they know they are dead and the only thing that is keeping them alive is their free IM client. You know we're going to have to pay for it soon...

  17. Apple? on Cingular to Offer Radio Service · · Score: 1

    What does Apple think about this? I wonder if future ROKR phones will be raped of the streaming music function...

  18. So? on Disney Encrypting Screener DVDs to Prevent Piracy · · Score: 1

    I don't really see a problem with this. Pre-release copies should be DRM'd. Retail should not.

  19. Xbox Game? on Doom Takes A Shot At Gamers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Did they just say Doom is an Xbox game? PC port if anything.

  20. Uniform Ratings on ESRB Should Stand Down? · · Score: 0

    I think there just needs to be a uniform rating system for music, movies, TV, and games, radio -- pretty much any type of media. (Save the interent.)

  21. Re:It's spyware on Spyware or Researchware? · · Score: 0

    I totally agree. A program that watches my usage without permission is still spyware.

  22. Re:Great news... on Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard · · Score: 0

    Okay, to be clear, the feature does have it's place for games like Rez or The Stone of Agony in OoT, but not being teathered to my console far outweighs the majority of force feedback games. Beiseds, if the controllers have the battery life of the Logitech PS2 and Xbox controllers they make life would be good. You can make your hands shake at will and still go a few months on a set of batteries.

  23. Re:Great news... on Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard · · Score: 0

    I've played both of those and I agree. But I meant, over all... Is it a feature that is or would be really that missed?

  24. Re:Great news... on Xbox 2 to Have Wireless Controllers Standard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Rumble features are overrated and rarely useful. Do you even miss it when you play a game without the rumble feature?

  25. Good on DC Could Ban 'Mature' Video Game Sales to Minors · · Score: 0

    Good. I hope they do. Kids that haven't hit puberty don't need GTA.