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  1. Re:The party of big government on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Could someone tell me what this "economic conservatism" thing means? Looking at the national debt it's not tied to a balanced budget, I know that much...

  2. Re:I'll Tell You What It Means on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Dems may actually get 60. They're at 56 now and there's still 4 seats in the "too close to tell right now" territory.

  3. Re:SecuROM? Fail. on Fallout 3 Launches Amidst Controversy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Funny thing. The SecuRom is only on the launcher. You can instead use the setup.exe on the DVD, which is clean, to install the game. Then use Fallout3.exe instead of FalloutLauncher.exe to run the game. You don't even need to have the disc in the drive that way.

    Bethesda hasn't been evil so much as plain silly on this one...

  4. Re:So how many subscribers they have again? on Vendetta Online Lets Users Create New Game Content · · Score: 1

    Actually, City of Heroes has something similar in the works... It might not be the biggest MMO out there, but there's roughly 150k subscribers there.

  5. Re:750,000?? on Commerce Department Pushing For New "Copyright Czar" · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, not anymore, obviously ;)

  6. Re:True on both sides of the aisle on DOJ Opposes Extending DOJ Copyright Authority · · Score: 1

    Yes. Being checked because you can't just do something without at least talking to the other side helps a lot. You know, all the US really needs is a third party the same size of the Dems and Reps and there'll always be at least two parties involved. I hear the Netherlands have a funds for helping developing countries set up a multiparty system...

  7. Re:200,000? on FBI ISP Letters May Have Violated Free Speech · · Score: 1

    The list for flying is over a million names. At 200k to 1 million I'd say the terrorists should start their own country already so we can just nuke them :)

  8. Re:Pick your favorite intelligence agency on US No Longer the World's Internet Hub · · Score: 1

    That *might* have been semi-reassuring say, ten years ago.

  9. Re:Not pompous enough on Fuel-Cell Car Racing Series Aims To Spur Green Motoring · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't help but note they carefully avoid answering how long it actually takes to refill the batteries beyond 'over night'. That's not going to help much if I find the battery's low when I want to be at home for dinner and find the battery's a bit low.

  10. Re:What I like on Wall-E Lookalike Wins British War Robot Showdown · · Score: 4, Funny

    But... but... But it's an enemy village! And that would be HARD! =P

  11. gotta wonder... on Watchmen Delayed, Or Worse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why the hell didn't Fox realise this before?

  12. Re:This is where customers put their foot down. on DPI and Net Neutrality's Overseas Weak Spot · · Score: 1

    In the meantime we have to use every single democratic and diplomatic means at our disposal to force government to make the decisions that serve the larger population's wishes, and not the small special interest groups that want to shut the rest of the world up.

    We're filthy rich business lobby groups that can throw money at the politicians? When did that happen?

  13. Re:C# and BSD license? on An Intro To OpenSim, the Apache of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 4, Funny

    With all the crap English written on websites today, do you really want to set this standard loose on important literary works?

    the "Sorry Shakespeare" M

  14. Re:Not needed. on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    It's not a problem under NAT, where you shouldn't actually HAVE to renumber the network because the range you're using is private.

  15. Re:My gut feeling? on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    So stick it behind a firewall that blocks incoming connections to all IP-addresses assigned to you unless you allow them?

    Ah, but that's more work than I'd be doing now. There's also the fact that with NAT nobody outside knows for sure there's more than the single machine connected. Security through obscurity may not work in most situations, but it IS an additional layer.

  16. Re:Do we really need notification? on KDE 4.1 Released, Reviewed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not normally, but in this case the 4.0 release was mostly to let people know they could work from that - 4.1 is supposedly the usable version :-)

  17. Re:What's the big deal? on Retroactive Telco Immunity Opponents Buying TV Ad · · Score: 1

    In the words of Robert Lund: I'll support your right to bare arms and legs and mammaries :-)

  18. Re:Here's betting it doesn't work on US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Makes you wonder about the interpreting judges, doesn't it?

  19. Heh... on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Looks like one of our favorite sayings is evolving. The internet recognizes a problem and routes around it. Now also available in undersea cables rather than just software packets. Admittedly, that places US policy as the problem...

  20. Re:This guy has a point. on Telecom Amnesty Foes On the Move · · Score: 3, Informative

    To add some perspective to your forgiveness, as an aside to making it illegal (well, MORE illegal) it makes doing it legally laughably easy.

  21. Re:Figures. on Wikileaks Gets Hold of Counterinsurgency Manual · · Score: 1

    Why have your elite forces actually playing by the book when you can fight dirty, be more effective and just blank over it if you're ever asked? This IS the book they're playing by. That's pretty much the worrying part.
  22. Re:Eve on the low end, even wireless carriers beat on Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use · · Score: 1

    Why didn't they try somewhere that there are enough people who will voice their opinions that the idea is garbage and just a money extraction? You've just answered your own question. Because it's a money extraction. "Why no sir, I don't see why you're complaining, nobody in our testing area did."
  23. Re:NBC and Microsoft pattern on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 1

    Here's my stab in the dark: The Zune store is closed, a shiny new MS store opened with the content formerly on the Zune store, the Zune DRM keys get yanked, and we can all buy the same content all over again?

  24. Uhrrr.. on CoreCodec Apologizes For CoreAVC Takedown · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's already back up, you know. http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/

  25. Re:That's not true on Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying · · Score: 1

    Being the minority and having enough votes to block a *two-thirds* majority are not mutually exclusive. There's a good sixth of the votes in between those two numbers.