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  1. Re:YouTube nearly bankrupt? on Sony Pictures in Talks With YouTube · · Score: 1

    I saw the HD part but assumed it was still flash.

    Though flash video can still contain content of decent quality, such as H.264 + AAC or something such (use &fmt=18.)

    May still have been re-encoded though, Vimeo let you download true original, not just a decent format.

  2. Re:YouTube nearly bankrupt? on Sony Pictures in Talks With YouTube · · Score: 1

    Except, like, you know, any such solutions will only save the re-encoded flash video and not the original video.

    Yeah, you can save the flash file.

  3. Re:YouTube nearly bankrupt? on Sony Pictures in Talks With YouTube · · Score: 1

    Still the free things kicks youtubes butt, they even let people download the original video!

  4. Re:YouTube nearly bankrupt? on Sony Pictures in Talks With YouTube · · Score: 1

    Though, I wonder how Vimeo does then? They only allow 1 HD video / week nowadays and "just" 500 MB / week or something such, but anyway, has always had much higher quality than youtube.

    Guess they may have much less people just browsing from video to video though.

  5. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about multiple countries having nukes is the simple fact that it prevents any one country from behaving too badly.

    Ah, good then, so why are you worried about north koreas potential of getting long distance nukes then? This should be celebrated!

    Oh, right, it's because YOUR side can't behave badly against them longer and dictate whatever conditions you like.

    Good luck with that ..

    Anyway, I guess nuclear powers can fight a war and just avoid nukes because starting to use them would be a bad thing. You don't think USA/Russia/China would even be able to fight a war against each others if kinda forced to even though they have nukes? Would you just accept you can't and sit there like a good boy? Somehow I doubt it ..

  6. Re:Countersuit on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    Don't the side who lose pay the other sides lawyer fees?

    If you decide to fight even if you was guilty and make the other side have to pay more money it makes sense.

  7. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why should they only remove them?

    Can I claim I believed everything I downloaded to be legal downloads since it's a crime to spread copyrighted work so it must have been ...

    And then get away with it except for removal of my copies?

    Sounds like an acceptable penalty but I doubt the copyright holders would agree in most cases.

    Anyway, he'd already told them how it was and they kept pushing it.

  8. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    I'll support us destroying our nuclear stockpile just as soon as I have 100% assurance that the rest of the nuclear-equipped nations are doing the same, simultaneously.

    Ok, so you admit that you don't want to live without the safe feeling possessing nukes give you in a world where the potential enemies got nukes.

    But why do you think others possess them? Why do russia and china need nukes?

    Why do Iran and North Korea get them? Bush attack on Iraq and deciding that Iran and North Korea was the next countries on the list can't have anything to do with it?

    If I lived in a country some other country told they where likely to attack next I'd try to bring my defences up as much as possible to ..

  9. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's important now is determining the likelihood that an aggressive nation bent on insane policy will use nuclear weapons on their neighbors... oh, wait, that seems to describe North Korea.

    Whatever, it's as stupid as giving Truman nukes or Bush tanks and bomb planes ...

    Yeah, whatever, mod me troll, I just want to get my point out and I will no matter what.

  10. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    So kill of the leaders? But maybe that's not so easy.

  11. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1

    As if china would be much better? Or the religious morons in the middle-east?

    But yeah, fuck him while you can then.

    But as I said in another post UN is useless thanks to the veto countries, back then I was thinking about them asking north korea to do anything at all when UN can't do shit vs other countries such as the USA. But in this case UN would never decide that north korea should be attacked either thanks to China (which is a veto country in UN isn't it?)

    So, useless, just do whatever you want then, you got the best weapon force so... Whatever fits USA should fit the world.

    I do wonder if you will reason the same WHEN China gets a bigger and better military than the USA.

  12. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No.... we're not "better," just much less likely to use them against others.

    Funny considering you're the only country who has actually used them in a war.

    And I doubt you'd hesitate once vs russia or china if they attacked first.

    Nothing say north korea will attack first either, but it will prevent them from getting attacked in the first place, as is the situation with all nuclear forces.

  13. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, I understand that it's much easier to decide what they should do before they have nuclear weapons and long distance missiles since they are so technically inferior to someone like the US so playing "clean" they would get owned immediately, but as soon as they have nukes it all fails since you don't want to play with nukes.

    So solving it before then makes sense.

    Anyway, lots of countries have nukes and eventually behave badly thanks to the extra insurance they give them. Imho you can't demand others should to..

    But then I live in one of those countries with no nukes, with no plans to invade other countries and with a shrinking defence. Call us stupid.

  14. Re:Outstanding. on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, U.N. sanctions don't really mean a whole lot these days (did they ever?)

    No, the countries with veto rights makes UN totally useless. North korea isn't one of those though.

  15. Re:Summary is hopelessly wrong... on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 0, Troll

    Banned by who? The countries which already have them? Where do one sign up?

    Whatever it's about environment, peoples rights, weapons or whatever the same rules apply: Clean up in your own backyard or shut the fuck up!

  16. Re:Coverage has been slow on North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket · · Score: 1, Funny

    What goes up must come down!

  17. Re:Um on Windows 95 Almost Autodetected Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    The amiga did it to, but try to use the drive every now and then I guess because it clicks quite often.

  18. Re:mac != unix on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IF you think installing a distro makes you elite, then perhaps you shouldn't be trying to judge such things.

    If you want to come out as a smart-ass maybe you should make sure you're not retarded in the first place?

  19. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 1

    Well, they are a great software company.

  20. Re:mac != unix on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But terminal.app is a GUI application, it's not unixy unless it scrolls build logs in text mode all the time!

    Installed Gentoo = UNIX elite
    Doing sys-admin stuff in OS X = Desktop noob

  21. Re:"commercial UNIX" on IBM About To Buy Sun For $7 Billion · · Score: 4, Informative

    MacOSX is just FreeBSD

    No.

  22. Re:WARP 10 on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    Super skidmarks!

  23. Re:improbability drive on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    With an improbability of 27591:1 it will.

    I assume it can take you anywhere in space at a reasonable time at a varying improbability.

  24. Re:Bloody hell! on Is Alcohol Killing Our Planet? · · Score: 1

    We are animals, we do affect the nature, we are part of the nature, heck, we are probably one of the most planet affecting species in nature.

    And then I read the god part ...

    I think we wear clothes because most people are so fucking ugly naked. The other animals are cute.

  25. Re:I missed it? on Wolverine Film Leaked a Month Before Release · · Score: 1

    So what?