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  1. Re:Please correct me if I'm wrong... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be more like Scientology takes a publicity photo of Tom Cruise, releases it into the public domain, and then Tom gets all pissy that someone used it on a Pepsi advert. It's pretty obvious where his anger should be directed...

  2. Re:Broken News... on Astronaut Sues Dido For Album Cover · · Score: 1

    Aaah. You're an ass. Thanks for letting us know.

  3. Re:Well Duh on Firefighters Let House Burn Because Owner Didn't Pay Fee · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to live in that part of the world. It sounds like the fucking wild west, only now people know better. What's the fucking excuse for such a shitty attitude towards life? Money? Awesome.

  4. Re:I'd like to see the itemized medical bill on Doctors Save Premature Baby Using Sandwich Bag · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with people wanting to be happy? Most people are fine paying taxes if it is of benefit to them, which the taxes in question are. Healthcare, quality of life, security. Alien concepts to you, I'm sure.

  5. Re:I never said it would be soon on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    One civilisation has to be first. Just because it's not been done before doesn't mean it's impossible.

  6. Re:180,000 years on Can We Travel To That Exciting New Exoplanet? · · Score: 1

    I think it'll be a bit different. The colony ships will take off, and slowly build up to something approaching c over a great length of time. Thanks to special relativity, the faster they go the faster time is passing on Earth (relative to them). That means soon after they set off, relatively speaking (no pun intended) they'll be intercepted by FTL craft from Earth. Obviously we might not make FTL craft, but if we ever do, all those who left Earth before they were built will be picked up along the way by one. If I was on an interstellar ship, and arrived at my destination unmolested by human kind, I'd start worrying.

  7. Re:A corporation protecting its customers? on BT Seeks Moratorium On Internet Piracy Cases · · Score: 2, Informative

    They already have the ability to charge for the information, with each IP costing over £100. They're doing this now. They've been doing it for ages.

  8. Re:Wait a minute. on Stuxnet Analysis Backs Iran-Israel Connection · · Score: 1

    Anybody want a peanut?

  9. Re:You know what they say on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 1

    Abject fucking bullshit. Germans aren't trying to forget or ignore anything. Germans society is acutely aware of German history. I take it you are not from Germany. I live in Germany (in the same city as the writer of the game in question).

  10. Re:You know what they say on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 1

    If you don't know the answer, you should read more books on the subject.

  11. Re:Well that's stupid. on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They do when they blow something up. Oh, wait, is that why there's terrorism?

  12. Re:Well that's stupid. on Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From Medal of Honor Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    They should stop showing news from Afghanistan, too, then. Genius logic, Sparky.

  13. Re:The problem with safety systems like that on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    You guys don't have suits for working near high-voltage? Wow.

  14. Re:The problem with safety systems like that on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    So they just give fire fighters those suits. Problem solved. They're going to have to anyway, as there is no way in hell electric cars are going away. Lots of fire fighters have those suits anyway, as sometimes fire is in the same place as shit-loads of electricity.

  15. Re:JPEG XR on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    I thought everyone was locked in to MS stuff, and that the name didn't matter? I must have missed a memo ;)

  16. Re:Not as Sharp on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    That's the most retarded demonstration I've ever heard. Why not have a source PNG, and then what it looks like in JPEG (with various different compression settings), and WebP (with similar compression).

  17. Re:What budget? on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 1

    The car != the powertrain. I'm sure we've not heard the last of this sort of thing in a car.

  18. Re:The problem with safety systems like that on Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because right now cars don't have anything dangerous in them, running for the length of the car... :) I'd hazard a guess that wearing thick rubber gloves and an insulating suit (which fire fighters already do, as they deal with lots of dangerous stuff all the time) would offer pretty decent protection, unless the fire fighter in question is chewing on an exposed cable while simultaneously rubbing his dick on the road...

  19. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Why do all those computers need public IP addresses? Do office printers, or every VM, need a public IP? I highly doubt it.

  20. Re:The hand of Godel? on Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything' · · Score: 1

    His computer is not Turing-complete. Nowhere near. In fact, it's closer to not being a computer at all than it is to being Turing-complete.

  21. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1

    Exactly. If they accept this film, they'd have to deal with people asking for their YouTube videos to be listed, too.

  22. Re:Another Betamax ? on OCZ IBIS Introduces High Speed Data Link SSDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most people don't have SAS in their machines. And even if they did, 6Gb/s isn't enough for a lot of people.

  23. Re:sata (the channel) is NOT the issue on OCZ IBIS Introduces High Speed Data Link SSDs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You sure done fucked that one up, Sparky. The SATA 6Gb/s works out at about 768MB/s, which while decent, isn't good enough for many different uses. SATA 1.5Gb/s is only just over 140MB/s, something easily surpassed these days.

    I wonder how you know your SATA setup isn't at fault?

  24. Re:Game changer on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between your folks going out and finding new people, and new people finding you :)

  25. Re:Game changer on 100/1 Odds On 'First Contact' Within a Year · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be FTL. They could travel in a generation ship, and be about as technologically advanced as us.