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  1. Re:The RIAA sucks on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They have these rights because they were given them by you.

    Then where do I sign up to take them away?

  2. Re:It's not so bad on Star Wars Galaxies Forums Turn Player-Only · · Score: 1

    ... I would definatly not buy it after reading them. Then again, I'm about to cancel anyway, I don't recommend it. Wait for World of Warcraft.

    Totally, the forums are a scattered, but complete list of every problem in the game (believe me, this game is still pratically a beta). I cancelled my subscription after viewing problems in my classes in game, and then finding that every class is equally as broken on the forums. SoE wants you to buy without knowing what a worthless product you're getting.

  3. Re:the problem with F-ZERO.... on Challenge In Games Is Not A Dirty Word · · Score: 1

    It's a game that rewards skill, rather than the perserverence through inane tedium. And the only way to get skill, is to practice.
    Right on. I actually just unlocked the AX courses this morning. When an unlockable is hard to get, it is a lot more satisfying. Like in AV's Super Monkey Ball 2, you could get 99 lives per continue just by playing the game on any difficulty enough times. But this game made me feel a lot better in that I earned something not by repeating a mindless task lots of times, but an impossible task just once.

  4. Re:I don't buy into any of this... on Will Internet Users Pay for Content? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you think the freeloader mentality on the Internet is ready for change? Have you noticed the way whenever a /. article is from the NYT, a google link pops up within the first several comments?

  5. Re:it's about time... on SARS Contained · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I may have a chance of slipping in the bathtub, but I can also take steps to prevent it. Especially since slipping in your bathtub is usually your own fault. Running into a person with SARS usually is not. Things which can harm you without personal error tend to frighten me more.

  6. Re:Terminatrix was surpisingly cool on Review of T3: Rise of the Machines · · Score: 1

    Negative, my mission is to protect him.

  7. Re:Terminatrix was surpisingly cool on Review of T3: Rise of the Machines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are, of course, some frustrating sequences in the movie. That's the problem with having such an overpowered villian: they show off all their powerful weapons to make you afraid, but then they can never use them against the heroes.

  8. Re:Yes... on Telemarketers Plan Counterattack · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I took every penis enlargement I've been spammed with, mine would be at least 42,000 inches. What am I supposed to do with that?!

  9. Re:sounds like... on DARPA Developing 'Combat Zones That See' · · Score: 1

    Orwell was off by 20 years, but it looks like its starting.

  10. Stuck out here on Speakeasy Introduces Broadband WiFi Sharing Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I doubt any technology like this will get to ISPs in Iowa any time soon. :(

  11. Re:Solution to all spam on On The Trail Of Super-Zonda · · Score: 1

    A while ago, I heard an idea about making all e-mails cost 1 cent to send. In this way, a normal person can send lots of e-mail for a relatively low cost, but mailing millions of letters every day becomes impossible. Do you think this is a valid solution?

  12. Re:Hooked on Phonics alright on Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy · · Score: 1

    Now that the kids are able to read their spam e-mails, they're see Hooked on Phonics was worth the time immediately!

  13. Re:Fight spam... on Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy · · Score: 1

    Not even reading spam would be more advisable. Taking the profit out of spamming would surely cut down on its use as a marketing tool.

  14. Re:Duh...no joke on Web Firms Choose Profit Over Privacy · · Score: 1

    Businesses choose profit over anything else!?! I'm afraid some businesses have already reached this point.

  15. Re:I'm hosed... on eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers · · Score: 0

    Heh, trying to sell a stable version of Windows is the only thing more outrageous than selling nothing.

  16. Re:Hmm, could ebay be opening itself to liability? on eBay Provides No Privacy For Sellers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As if credit card and identity theft weren't easy enough already...

  17. Re:Ingoring the threat on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 0

    You're right, apparently the moderators here don't appreciate people speaking their minds. I thought it was pretty un-arguable that ignoring something doesn't make it go away.

  18. Ingoring the threat on Bill Gates On Linux · · Score: 0

    If Gates thinks he can ignore Linux and make it dissappear, he's quite mistaken.

  19. Re:the women on Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux · · Score: 0

    I used Macintosh for about 6 years before I switched to Windows. Been there, done that. I don't miss it a bit.

  20. Re:the women on Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's no better for Windows users *sigh*.

  21. Linux Quality on Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux · · Score: 1

    Why exactly is Linux being preferred here? Is it the OS or the apps that can run on Linux?

  22. Re:The inplications go WAY beyond that on Writing Viruses for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    SPAMMERS right now are crowing that "we're not doing anything illegal". What if it were made illegal? The United States government just started an anti-telemarketer registry to protect privacy. Could the same be applied to spammers?

  23. Re:Obligatory on Blizzard North Co-Founders Leave Company · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the judgment of a game company be based on the games it makes, not its executives?