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  1. Re:Hey, I *am* a nice guy! :-) on Viacom Yields to YouTuber Who DMCA Counterclaimed · · Score: 1

    "Never start a fight, but always finish it." -- John Sheridan Technically (and poetically considering these events) John Sheridan was himself quoting the advice his father, David Sheridan, gave him, which John and Delenn in turn passed on in a recording to their son, also named David Sheridan. So...

    "`Never start a fight, but always finish it.'" -- John Sheridan quoting his father's, David Sheridan's, advice to him

    Unless of course you're in the UK where the single and double quotes have their order reversed.

    However, I don't think this is the first time a counter-notice has been filed. I recall there was one other, and a second DMCA takedown notice was filed and the clip taken down a second time, which was a violation of procedure both by the sender of the second takedown and of the service provider honoring the second takedown. Then serious damages attach. It was mentioned on slashdot, but I don't recall whether there was any resolution thereafter. (I wish I had time to search for the link, but I gotta get away from the computer for awhile now.)
  2. Re:The digital TV switch isn't going to happen on FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012 · · Score: 1

    TWC does not require a converter to view the basic cable stations, depending on location, that can be anything from channel 1 to channel 70ish. Yeah, but those tend to be the analog channels. If they're digital, they have to be broadcast channels for them to offer them unencrypted. I hooked up my Series3 TiVo without CableCARDs initially and could only get analog channels and broadcast digital channels (except one CW HD channel I could not locate).

    Starting in the 90's now are digital-only channels, except for one analog public access channel actually at 99 but remapped to 80.
  3. Re:The digital TV switch isn't going to happen on FCC Says Analog TV Lives Until 2012 · · Score: 1

    If I am buying cable, all channels are premium. Some are just more premium than others. Even Animal Planet?
  4. Re:Ridge Flyover GIF(shameless selflink) on Cassini's Iapetus Flyby · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the opening credit sequence of the last series of Blake's 7.

  5. Re:NBC Offers Their Shows on Their Site on TV Torrents — When Piracy Is Easier Than Purchase · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just connect my Mac to my cable box with a Firewire cable and use it to record the episode in HD as it airs. If I want to I can transcode it to anamorphic DVD with 5.1 sound or to 3x DVD. And the websites for TV series provide assets that can be readily turned into homebrew DVD menus and extras as long as they're not too Flash-dependent.

    Unfortunately, when some networks decide to cancel a series, rather than airing the remaining episodes, they sit on them or only show them on the web, like Fox with Drive, so even homebrewers can't get a complete series. And will they even bother to release such a short-run series to standard DVD let alone HD? (With TV contracts as they are, can they if they were never broadcast? I'm still waiting for a US release of the Fox Doctor Who TV-movie, apparently held up by a contract requiring one more broadcast airing by Fox before a Region 1 release can be made. FX and other cable channels apparently don't count.)

    My ethics demand that if I make my own set and later they release it commercially, I buy that version too. After all, it should have features I couldn't get for myself.

  6. Re:Tattoos? on HP's Inkjet Technology Used to Administer Drugs · · Score: 1

    Could this be used to make a tattoo printer? Maybe they could release a laser tattoo remover as well. Sure, just feed your arm in from the paper tray and up through the pinch rollers.
  7. Re:Excellent idea! on EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search · · Score: 1

    Next thing you'll be telling me is I have to learn how to use the three seashells.

  8. CYA on EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search · · Score: 1

    "prevent people from... searching dangerous words like bomb, kill, genocide or terrorism They'd better put "treason", "war crime", and "corruption" in that list too. Those are things you also wouldn't want the populace to know about.

    Oh, and don't forget to put "censorship" in the list. That should be right at the top!
  9. Games and Colors on Pre-TGS Microsoft Press Conferences Features Rez, Ninja Gaiden 2 · · Score: 1

    more titles for Xbox Live including Every Extend Extra Extreme, Ikaruga, Trigger Heart, Exit and Omega Five, What, no Johnny's Xtreme Adventure ?

    two new Xbox controller colors (blue and pink) It's not pink! It's lightish red!
  10. Re:Personal Computer, Politically Correct... on Study Finds That 'M'-Rated Games Sell Best · · Score: 1

    Basically making AO the NC-17 of the game industry and making a new X rating? Look how well that worked for NC-17 movies. No, that's different. R wasn't stigmatized before NC-17 was created. NC-17 inherited stigma from X (not an official MPAA rating). An official ESRB rating higher than AO would clean up AO.

    An unofficial non-ESRB rating similar to movies' X might also have lifted stigma from AO if not for the NC-17 experiment serving as a counter-example.

    Seriously (since PC as Prurient Content should have been an obvious joke about Political Correctness), an official ESRB rating that restricted games under it to ages 21 or over could make stores consider serving the [18-21) market with AO games on the shelf.
  11. Re:Please explain on Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Why are they using Tor? on Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords · · Score: 1

    E.g. the CIA could have used Tor to hide that it was them making bizarre edits to the Wiki page about the Pope (poss. to communicate secret code messages to undercover agents in the field--spookipedia).

  13. Re:Heh on Tor Used To Collect Embassy Email Passwords · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can use it in a personally identifying way if what you want to conceal is not your identity but rather your location, or you have a need to communicate securely at your local end so that others at your end won't know where you're going.

    There's a balance to be struck with anonymity and security and where you strike it depends on what aspects need to be anonymous and what other aspects need to be secure.

  14. Re:What is this, anyway? on Microsoft's Consent-or-Die Patent · · Score: 1

    Unlike copyright, patents do eventually expire.

  15. Personal Computer, Politically Correct... on Study Finds That 'M'-Rated Games Sell Best · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there is a catch-22 with AO games. Publishers know they won't be able to sell or advertise them much, so they're not willing to take much risk with them. What if there was another category higher than AO that can move the stigma to the higher rating? How about PC for Prurient Content?
  16. Re:As big an RT fan as I am... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 1

    To Be In Love
    Lynn Minmei

    To be in love, must be the sweetest feeling that a girl can feel
    To be in love, to live a dream, with somebody you care about like no one else
    A special man, a dearest man, who needs to share his life with you alone
      Who'll hold you close and feel things,
      That only love brings
    To know that he is all your own...

    To be my love, my love must be much more than any other man
    To be my love, to share my dream, my hero he must take me where no other can
    Where we will find, a brand new world, a world of things we've never seen before
      Where silver suns have golden moons,
      Each year has 13 Junes,
    That's what must be for me
    To be in love...

  17. Re:What the? on Solar Craft Flies Through Two Nights · · Score: 1

    Indeed, engouh is enouhh!

  18. Re:As big an RT fan as I am... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 1

    The only time I want to hear that song again is when sung by Exedore.

  19. Re:As big an RT fan as I am... on Robotech Heading to Big Screen, Starring Toby Maguire · · Score: 1

    I liked the music.... Oh, yes! I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was particularly effective.
  20. Re:Ansible on "Spooky" Science Points Towards Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    In this way, not only can't eavesdroppers listen on the message, but you can detect their presence once they try, even if they send the data they receive onwards. What if the goal is not eavesdropping but communication disruption? Can a third party cause a problem requiring the exchange of a new entangled key? How involved is that?

    And if this encrypting and decryption is performed in a black box which neither the sender nor receiver can look inside lest the entanglement be collapsed, wouldn't that be the ultimate solution to DRM: knowing the key invalidates the key? 42?
  21. Re:Ansible on "Spooky" Science Points Towards Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    You can't transmit information across an entanglement. Might I ask an impertinent question: what's the point in doing it then?
  22. Re:i said it before, i'll say it again... on Jack Thompson Sends Subpoena to Bush · · Score: 5, Funny

    jack thompson: greatest troll who ever lived Perhaps we can build a bridge to nowhere for him to live under?
  23. Re:Pfff! on Wheelchair Controlled by Thought · · Score: 1

    You will agree, I think, that voice control is a remarkable step forward. However, the best is yet to come. Nyder?

  24. Re:Good on ESA Seeks Money For Legal Fees From CA · · Score: 1

    I only hope that the court forces Arnold to personally pay the fees - as opposed to passing the cost onto the people of CA At least for any additional fees incurred from his personally appealing the ruling he should personally be on the hook for.
  25. Re:Good on ESA Seeks Money For Legal Fees From CA · · Score: 1

    His campaign used his celebrity, not well-reasoned thought. He had almost no formal education, little experience politically, and was basically voted in because he was famous. It's not enough just to be "informed", "think critically", and be "well reasoned". He also had a long name amongst a large list of candidates on the same ballot reordered to an alternate alphabet (RWQ...) and rotated between districts for "fairness", making searching for "long straw" names(*) the easiest method to find his name while disadvantaging shorter names(**).

    (*) The only names to be printed longer on the ballot were Lawrence Steven Strauss; William "Bill" S. Chambers; D. (Logan Darrow) Clements; Nathan Whitecloud Walton; Kurt E. "Tachikaze" Rightmyer (the longest); Charles "Chuck" Pineda Jr.; James M. Vandeventer, Jr.; and John Christopher Burton. Lorraine (Abner Zurd) Fontanes and David Laughing Horse Robinson were wrapped to two lines.

    (**) S. Issa was the shortest as printed, shorter than both Van Vo and Angelyne.