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  1. Re:Colorblindness? on Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Being that the purpose of the signage is mostly used by government officials in legal matters, such details can be handled by paperwork as necessary. I don't seriously think there's such a thing as red/white colorblind, so differentiating between autonomous and traditional cars should be trivial even for the colorblind.

  2. Re:IOS, Android and on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 1

    First, it's just humorous, not an actual contradiction of the GGGP's principles. Second, yes deploying to a platform does, in fact, increase the effective value of that platform, thus indirectly giving earnings to Apple. It's not a serious issue, and I hope this isn't a debate.

  3. Re:IOS, Android and on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 1

    the relevant context is that 2 of the 5 platforms are apple products. That's all.

  4. Re:Traditional Publisher on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 2

    Not currently legal in the United States. Kickstarter is expressly a money->product business. Buying shares or bonds of a start-up this way would be illegal, and you'd probably land in hot water with both the IRS and the FEC. If you believe legislators could be elected to fix this problem, go for it.

  5. Can you ascribe a monetary value to these assets on Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? · · Score: 2

    If yes, just tell your lawyer that number. Don't have a lawyer? Stop wasting time asking the Internet for advice and get one.

    Secondarily, do they sentimental value? Most courts are willing to take that into account as well.

  6. Re:iOS = DRM on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 1

    They said that there will be a DRM free version, not that all versions will have no DRM.

  7. Re:IOS, Android and on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 2

    I find your sig + your statement + the context an amusing combination.

  8. Re:shit commentary on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 1

    We'll start with yours. Editorializing about editorials are the worst.

  9. Re:Traditional Publisher on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Be optimistic. One of the "promises of the web" is coming true. We actually have democratization of a process that used to be limited by the wealthy. Just don't be irrational, and don't expect this to end the existing model which works just fine for what it is (able to produce highly marketed, general audience games).

  10. Re:IOS, Android and on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 1

    In spite of this being a joke, Java is not allowed on IOS, so no.

  11. Re:IOS, Android and on Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mac, Linux, and PC. With both Steam and DRM-free versions to be available for all-purpose platforms.

  12. Re:"The GPS is there in case you need to dial 911! on Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users · · Score: 1

    To be completely fair, while you are crazy and using made up facts to support your argument, tower triangulation can pretty much be used trivially to locate any one self-identifying broadcast signal(i.e. a cell phone keep-alive) with relatively accuracy. Tracking you does not require a GPS, just good coverage.

  13. Keep working hard kids on Foxconn's Other Dirty Secret: the World's Largest "Internship" Program · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One day you might get paid!

  14. Re:Am I missing something? on Megaupload Co-Founder Allowed Bail · · Score: 1

    Probably since 1940. FDR created an administrative branch called the international legal attachés, who were responsible for investigations in cooperation with foreign police forces. I just love answering rhetorical questions.

  15. That's the point on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Microsoft has said that they don't want their reputation as a retailer ruined by games requiring numerous patches that not all users can get. They say they consider it a fine on premature releases. It's also to "encourage" dlc to be charged for through their store system, so they can get a cut. If you release the content through a patch then use some sort of exterior store to unlock it, MS doesn't get a piece of the action. Part of the idea is good: companies pay for the "deliver first, make it work later" attitude that has been a little to prevalent. Part of it is money grubbing. I'm pretty neutral on the concept.

  16. Very reasonable on Germany Delays ACTA Signature, Wants More Discussion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I never grasped how copyright changes could be considered legally urgent. This doesn't mean the treaty will be blocked(it won't be), but at least Germany is taking their time.

  17. Re:You get what you pay for on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week · · Score: 1

    Well they aren't the only ones, but they are the ones on the forefront of ruining my enjoyment of things to hurt pirates.

  18. Re:Well, now the "refine theory" part of science on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 1

    Can you cite the statement in question, please? I have my doubts that any reasonable person would make such a claim given the fact that the kind of warming involved has been happening for 2 centuries already. Asserting the next decade as especially relevant seems to fly in the face of the literature I've read. I've looked for any hint of gore referring to the next decade, and all I can find is one misinformed op-ed by Sarah Palin. I won't even go into the whole idiotic cult of personality that conservatives have created around Al Gore.

  19. Re:Well, now the "refine theory" part of science on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? From what part of my post did you glean the idea that I was endorsing your viewpoint? I was reiterating the point made in the article that localized short-term trends do not give an indication of the shifts we are expecting from the rate of warming that is occurring globally. Antarctica was the talking point a decade ago(through maybe five years ago) when the southern ice caps were more or less stable, while arctic glaciers receded at an unprecedented pace.

    I don't know, but this goes in my "Conservatives having a completely separate discussion from the one I actually posted" bin. It's getting eerie how often I see that.

  20. Well, now the "refine theory" part of science on The Himalayas and Nearby Peaks Have Lost No Ice In Past 10 Years, Study Shows · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just remember that 10 years ago "skeptics"(how exactly they define that term, I don't know) were pointing to how little ice was being lost from Antarctica in the preceding 5 years as indisputable evidence of a hoax.

    As evidence that people believed this: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=antarctica+gaining+ice&source=newssearch&cd=1&ved=0CDMQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csmonitor.com%2F2002%2F0118%2Fp02s01-usgn.html&ei=Yko0T6zmIYrXtgegk4mwAg&usg=AFQjCNHtA3NtryZuUSi1k3FLEueaP9NWfg

    Whoops, right?

  21. Re:I have to agree on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 1

    It's really not a belief system either. A quick dictionary check shows a belief system is the framework upon which beliefs are based. Most atheists would identify their belief system as rational skepticism or humanism or more rarely something semi-religious like Buddhism. Atheism tends to be an artifact of the belief system, rather than the belief system itself.

    The term is a response to the typical expectation of religious belief in society, not a whole-cloth concept in and of itself. This kind of equivocation helps no one.

  22. Re:You get what you pay for on Thanks to DRM, Some Ubisoft Games Won't Work Next Week · · Score: 2

    I already have. When I'm browsing steam these days, a EA or Ubi logo means I instantly go back and look for something better.

  23. Re:Commerce maximalists? on FDA Regulating Your Stem Cells As Interstate Commerce · · Score: 1

    Yes they could. Except in as much as the 1st and 9th amendments stand in opposition to doing that.

  24. Re:And that is what really stiffles innovation on Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy · · Score: 2

    Now we're getting somewhere. The elimination of ruling by precedent would have profound implications without necessarily doing in the rights and protections of individuals. I would just like to point out, however, that you're talking about overturning common law, the basis for judgement throughout U.S. history. This is an example of a reform that should be seriously considered, but never will because of the difficulty of fighting tradition. We literally have more hope of tossing out all laws as the ancestors suggested. It's a sad state of affairs.

  25. Re:And that is what really stiffles innovation on Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy · · Score: 1

    I just responded with my thoughts on this general concept above. I won't repeat myself, but there are fairness concerns to this general approach.