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  1. Re:This is good...Maybe. on EA Is Now Officially On Steam, Spore Loses SecuROM · · Score: 1

    Steam has that major feature. It's called Steam Cloud and was initially implemented with Left 4 Dead.

  2. Re:Better Proposed Names... on Taking a Look at Nexenta's Blend of Solaris and Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    It's called Adipose.

  3. Re:pay double on Canadian DMCA Coming This Spring · · Score: 1

    You could just apply for Zero Rating exemption as provided by the same laws that implement the levy.

    Being in the music industry automatically qualifies you to purchase your media levy-exempt.

  4. Re:Ahte to tell ya, Joe, but on Apple/NVidia Driver Bug — Question Deleted · · Score: 1

    Since the Mac Pro isn't a laptop, I wonder what you are referring to?

  5. Re:It's Not Enough on Best Buy Working Towards Ending Mail-in Rebates · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting on my rebate from my Voodoo3 2000 card. Yeah, I'm lazy and stupid. Or, I was lied to. Since I don't have my rebate cheque, despite filling in and mailing the form, you decide.

  6. Re:Sleep Deprivation on Why Do Computer Games Claim Lives? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've done seven. No sleep, no food, and drinking nothing but coffee and booze. The light show near the end was freakin' amazing.

  7. Re:No one notices a well done security job... on Security's Shaky State · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had a similar experience. A major Canadian real estate company, which I was NOT IT support for, just the end user, decided to switch from a Unix local hosted solution to a web-based initiative.

    Props for looking to the future, major negatives for not thinking out their direction.

    I, well before implementation, pointed out that since this was WWW based, and our office connected to the web via an office about a thousand miles away, to connect then to an office about a mile away, casual lunch web surfers would interfere with the bandwidth I needed. I was called asinine.

    I suggested a plan to have each office that was using this new system (which worked great when we had the available bandwidth) have an independant ISP, outside of the intranet. Sure, it wasn't cheap, but it would remove the need for eight hours of downtime a day. Did I mention I worked eight hours a day?

    Six months later, after billing vast amounts of overtime clearing up backlog via my home DSL connection, the manager I was called asinine by, introduced a plan to resolve the problem. It was my plan, of course. While I should have quit right then, I rode it out, and was eventually fired for not giving a shit, anymore. I should have left first, but is it a surprise I ceased to care?

  8. Re:He figured he was going to be removed... on Jack Thompson Off Of Alabama Case · · Score: 1

    Actually, they are from Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  9. Human Head on Life After Doom · · Score: 1

    Human Head, the development house that created Rune has licensed the Doom 3 engine, or at the very least is hiring people with Doom 3 engine experience.

  10. Re:I knew it! on Newsflash: Gourmet Coffees Have Lots Of Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Of course. It's spelled 'kola'.

  11. Re:I knew it! on Newsflash: Gourmet Coffees Have Lots Of Caffeine · · Score: 1

    *Sigh* Espresso has less caffeine than an 8oz cup of coffee. Espresso is a technique, not a 'type of coffee'. Learn, then comment. TY.

  12. What about ICANN? on Congress Eyes Whois Crackdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ICANN already requires that "At least annually, a registrar must present to the registrant the current Whois information, and remind the registrant that provision of false Whois information can be grounds for cancellation of their domain name registration. Registrants must review their Whois data, and make any corrections."

    Isn't this just a case of US lawmakers legislating something that is already (supposedly) required?

  13. Re:I would just like on Canadians [Will] Pay Levy on MP3 Players - Updated · · Score: 1
    to see a deaf person try to get a case into the Canadian court system claiming it's unfair they have to pay these fees because they're incapable of pirating music.
    Considering there's already an exemption for the perceptually disabled, it would be a very short court case indeed.