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  1. Single Player Access on Sony Introduces 'PSN Pass' To Fight Used Game Sales · · Score: 1

    Game company using this technology to restrict any access to the game whatsoever to the first buyer in 3... 2...

  2. I'm afraid you're going to have to come over here. on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    We're going to need to give you a cavity search.

    *straps passenger to table, puts on gloves, grabs scalpel*

    A deep cavity search.

  3. Re:Long-run implications of not being evil on Facebook Blocks Google+ App, Google Removes Twitter From Real Time Search · · Score: 1

    "Don't be evil" died with the IPO. Don't kid yourself.

  4. Already Replaced on BitTorrent Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    People in the know, who don't want to be sued, have already replaced it (albeit with an older technology).

  5. Re:Good fucking luck on WikiLeaks To Sue Visa/MasterCard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Realistically one of two things will happen. One: The trial will be over quickly as the CC companies find a way to short circuit the case, with an early dismissal or something similar. Chances: 60%. Two: The trial will take forever because the CC companies will drag it out, and Wikileaks will run out of money (since they control their primary source of donations) and settle. Chances: 39.9%.

  6. Re:But ... on Linaro 11.06 Release Brings Unity 3D Port To ARM · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. Why would I want Unity?

  7. Good fucking luck on WikiLeaks To Sue Visa/MasterCard · · Score: 1

    The CC companies' lawyers will crush Wikileaks into the ground, with 99% certainty. They're just not big enough to get justice here.

  8. Re:No amount of security will prevent terrorism on Time To Close the Security Theater · · Score: 1

    Prove it. A terrorist could simply switch to someone with a more favorable race, and thus gain the advantage of the "wave-through".

  9. Re:Latest CEM Hall of Fame Entrant on RIM Responds To an Employee's Open Letter · · Score: 1

    Actually, if I ran a competing tech company and RIM fired this guy, I'd be calling him up as soon as I heard about it.

    I assume a company like RIM is smart enough to put non-competes in their employment contracts. Then again, I did just read that letter...

  10. Re:EXACT series of steps to KILL THIS ROOTKIT on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    You look around. To your NORTH, you see a LARGE WALL OF CAPITALIZED TEXT. You figure that someone got OVEREXCITED in their Slashdot post, and didn't stop to think that it MAKES THEM LOOK LIKE A SPAZ.

    What do you do?

    > set fire to text

    Luckily the text is made of wood, and burns HOTTER THAN THE GRITS ON NATALIE PORTMAN.

  11. This is very easy to verify on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    If the author still claims his software is original, he should release the source code to the panel under an NDA strictly for the purposes of evaluation.

  12. Re:Credit Where Credit Is Due on Groupon Deal of the Day: 300,000 Customer Accounts · · Score: 2

    Plus, to encrypt client-side, you'd have to give away your salt.

  13. Re:No, that's a job for the police! on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I really feel for your situation. That said, I'm still going to trust people. I trust people knowing that that trust could blow up in my face at any time; that's just a risk one takes. I will continue to trust people because without trust, there is only suspicion and paranoia, and I don't really want to live in a world where paranoia rules anyway.

  14. Re:Soon it may not even matter. on The Enterprise Is Wrong, Not Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Google could decide to move their Mozilla money to the Chrome team right now (and frankly, I'm shocked that they haven't already).

  15. Re:Wasting time on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 2

    Some. Go on, try it. Some Christians. There are literally thousands of sects of Christianity, all believing something slightly different. Painting them all with the brush of, say, the Westboro "Baptists" is a huge, sweeping, unfounded generalization.

  16. Re:Wasting time on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 1

    If "the Old Testament, as it stands, is now a history book that we can learn from, not a body of law that we are to strictly follow" then why do people keep quoting it while claiming that we are violating God's laws?

    Because extremists will use any form of failed logic to prop up their viewpoints.

    If the Old Testament is not binding law, then why is it quoted to say that homosexuality is wrong? Why is it quoted to say same-sex marriage is an abomination? Why is it quoted to say that sex before marriage is wrong? The Ten Commandments? etc. It would see that you are still "picking and choosing" bits and pieces that you want to follow because you agree with them, and then throwing away the bits and pieces you don't agree with.

    I'm pretty sure the idea is that Jesus and the apostles set out new laws that overrode the old ones (though I'm 99.999% sure that the Ten Commandments still apply). If you believe it's entirely fiction (which, let's be honest, it looks like you do), than the "picking and choosing" bit makes sense, but if you at least believe in some truth value in the New Testament, the explanation is in there.

    Either the bible is a body of laws to follow in which you must follow it all, or the bible is not a body of laws to follow in which don't follow the laws in it. You can't claim that it's just a history book and not a body of law....except for the parts that we want to still be laws...

    Who's the fundamentalist now?

  17. Re:Windows? on One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Huh, crazy. You learn something new every day. I assume this is specific to Gnome but I could be wrong. In any case, this message was entered with no mouse interaction at all from Ubuntu 11.04.

    (BTW, plus seems to be "click".)

  18. Re:motorauthority.com? on Volkswagon Shows Off Self-Driving Auto-Pilot For Cars · · Score: 1

    It's (usually) solved by being completely ignored. Cruise control has no driver monitoring feature; it just stays on until you turn it off or break.

  19. Re:How will this impact hardcore infringers? on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    That would work, especially since an ISP could do a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL pretty easily; it would just require more resources since they'd have to be looking for the connection and handshake and recording the keys passed, then decrypting the stream on the fly. I think if they disallowed any encryption other than SSL, most people wouldn't complain because they'd still be able to access their website and email.

  20. Re:WTF? on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    It's cool to make fun of PHP here. *shrugs* It's making me a fair bit of money to ignore them. ;^)

  21. Re:Legally stream the entire album for free! on Weird Al Says "Twitter Saved My Album" · · Score: 1

    Cool. Sorry about that. Being from Canada, I know exactly how annoying GeoIP blocking can be.

  22. Re:How will this impact hardcore infringers? on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    Hint: The next step is outlawing encryption on home connections.

  23. Re:contracts? on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    Your ToS allows the company to do whatever it wants, whenever it wants. Guaranteed.

  24. Re:CONSUMERS will burden the costs of the system on US ISPs, Big Content Reaching Antipiracy Agreement · · Score: 1

    If you think the RIAA will actually take on any part of the cost of this, you're insane. They're run by lawyers; the agreement will allow them to slip out of any required contribution.

  25. There oughta be a standard! on There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies · · Score: 1

    Also, that standard should license proprietary designs from a single company with money I conjure from thin air.