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  1. Didn't make money, not a problem. on Warez Suspect To Be Extradited, After All · · Score: 1

    Morally this guy is just fine with me.

  2. Check anandtech.com on Apple Introduces New G5 iMac · · Score: 1

    They had a really good breakdown of CPU versus GPU in Doom 3. The CPU still matters, especially at low resolutions.

  3. Named means not anonymous on Microsoft to Launch Online Music Store · · Score: 1

    Best example I can think of is Primary Colors, which was not free, but was anonymous. Linux is free, but not anonymous. Information wants to be free is an anthem for highly intelligent people.

  4. Information wants to be anonymous... on Microsoft to Launch Online Music Store · · Score: 1

    and free. Seems like this will be neither. I wonder if they will be even anonymous. Closest to that is some traditional tunes, but everyone seems to want to attach a name to a recording or tune.

  5. Still waiting for voice of reality. on Open-Destination Quantum Teleportation · · Score: 1

    You still get way too many wide-eyed futurists with this stuff. Wasn't voice supposed to be on the internet a decade ago? Dazzled by the elegance here again?

    Quantum computing may work for specific, useful applications.

  6. Copy from iPod. on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 1

    Is blocked unless you use third party or get directly at the directory structure. You can of course copy it directly on the iPod hard drive, but that's a hoop to jump through.

  7. DRM check. on 5.5 oz. MPEG-4/Audio Portable From Archos · · Score: 1, Troll

    Will it let you do something as copy a video to the computer? What about your own video? Let's see, on the iPod you can compose a piece, put it on your iPod, and cannot put it on a different computer from the iPod without jumping through hoops.

  8. Silly DRM in it? on Examining the Treo 650 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Many phones I've tried have a big "lock" symbol to let you know that you can't send that three tone jingle ring. How far does the siliness extend to this line?

  9. Overrated? on TrackIR3 Pro Head-Tracking System For Gamers · · Score: 1

    You won't have a choice when facing a sentient being with a built in guass gun activated at a single thought.

  10. We're all disabled. on TrackIR3 Pro Head-Tracking System For Gamers · · Score: 0

    It gets irritating hearing how the latest technology is planned for the "disabled". We are all born disabled. Our disability can be summed up into two categories--lack of control of information going into our consciousness, and lack of knowledge of what is coming out of our consciousness. This is a step towards knowing what comes out of our consciousness. If we could only experience for just awhile what we will become, we will know just how disable we all are now.

  11. Science geeks love elegance. on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 1

    And metric is elegant. But it can be used with any base--decimal is only involved with prefixes. For me there's no point in getting mad at how things are. We're neither systematic nor hexadecimal fully. I just smile a bit when I hear about pints and (force) ounces.

  12. No, geeks hate decimal. on NSLU2 Now More Useful · · Score: 1

    10,000,000 is meaningless. The big post came will be 100000000h.

  13. Misleading on Nvidia 6600 Series Examined · · Score: 1

    That is going to be on the very best other components of the system. In the slow spots on the demo, the CPU will make it go very fast, averaging out with a higher FPS. I really doubt that's a "steady" figure. Look at the minimum FPS figures.

  14. Waiting for 6800 PCIE 200h MB cards! on Nvidia 6600 Series Examined · · Score: 1

    That's when you get all the drools at the hardware pages. SLI plus double the ram should up the highest of the benchmarks.

  15. Pessemism is overrated. on Disney Suggests Mandating DRM On All Media · · Score: 1

    For one, it just might not happen. For another, there's a bigger revolution than intellectual property brewing.

  16. Consider abolishing patents? on Patents Versus Your Health · · Score: 2

    It's sort of a Keep It Simple Stupid choice, isn't it? It'll happen.

  17. Small piece of the picture on Australia to Get Software Patents and Anti-Circumvention Laws · · Score: 1

    I used to get really mad about this stuff too. But it's a smaller piece of the picture. IP is just silly and will go away as part of a much larger revolution--eventually we'll be hosted on computers and we'll look back and laugh. I've started with castration.

  18. Really simple solution on Designing Videogames For The Wage Slave · · Score: 1

    Fixed saves are very important for pacing. An easy way to keep them is to having the ability to save anywhere but load that save only once. FF tactics advance does this.

  19. Config files on Videogame Piracy - Is a Stricter Approach Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Entirely possible the bootleg spread some config files or registry updates that disabled the legit copy. Try a clean pc?

  20. Wrong Wrong Wrong on SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You host consciousness just as the thalamus does, but on silicon instead of carbon. Its consciousness hosted on a computer, not a conscious computer.

  21. Host humans on computers first. on SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There's one side that says sending humans like this is a dangerous waste. And the other just wants robots for now until we can terraform other planets and such. The better solution is to host consciousness on a computer. Assuming the requirements (assumedly duplicating the electrical signals in the third ventricle between the lobes of the thalamus) allow for durable containers, we can travel to the center of the sun even!

  22. Big picture integration on Apple, Motorola Plan An iTunes-Friendly Phone · · Score: 1

    Of course we'll get iPod-phones someday. But I'm still waiting to be uploaded to a computer. All your data will be a thought away, not a click away. I've already started on the transhuman route (check my sig).

  23. Constitutional solution on Maybe Software Patents Won't Kill FOSS After All · · Score: 0
    Section 8, Clause 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries

    Amendment 1: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

    Amendment 1 strikes down section 8, clause 8. Patents and copyrights are unconstitutional.

  24. Could be tiniest sentient too on World's Tiniest Vertebrate Found · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sentience is theorized to exist in the thalamus, which is a feature that evolved with vertabrates. You are in the cerebral spinal fluid in the third ventricle between the lobes of the thalamus.

  25. A eunuch's view on Experiences with Laser Eye Surgery? · · Score: 1

    Myopia, mild (around 2.5). My vision was excellent in about a month, but the halos persisted for three years. It may have been my eyes--not eveyond gets halos.