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  1. Re:Come on people on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    She lied about her hard drive, thinking it would get her off. I don't like the RIAA, but she deserved this.

    Um, no. For lying under oath she deserves to face perjury charges, not have her punishment be magnified 1000 times.

  2. A Little Perspective on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Assuming a price of $15 per album, the defendant could have stolen 128,000 CDs and resold them and it would have been less damage than what they are collecting for two dozen songs.

  3. Pictures of Memories on First Images of Memories Being Made · · Score: 2, Funny

    Memories, light the corners of my mind
    Misty watercolor memories of the way we were.
    Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind
    smiles we give to one another
    for the way we were.
    Can it be that it was all so simple then
    or has time rewritten every line?
    If we had the chance to do it all again
    tell me would we? Could we?
    Memories, may be beautiful and yet
    what's too painful to remember
    we simply choose to forget
    So it's the laughter we will remember
    whenever we remember
    the way we were.

  4. Re:Doesn't die.... on Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD · · Score: 1

    Paying for extra in an area that you won't need/use it, is a waste of money.

    You sound exactly like my boss when they cut the disaster recovery budget.

  5. Strange on Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Focusing on doing one thing well yields better results than trying to do everything. Who'd have thought?

  6. Oblig. on Sedate Your Kids While They Play · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bender: And so I ask you this one question: Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?

  7. Donwloadable Content on New Fable II DLC Coming May 12th · · Score: 1

    Donwloadable Content.

  8. Metered Service on Think-Tank Warns of Internet "Brownouts" Starting Next Year · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We would see massive power brownouts if electricity was being billed as an unlimited service too. The fact the internet service is still this way is silly. Meter it and move on.

  9. Re:Cue the Second Life expert (but not a lawyer) on Can Avatars Make Contracts? · · Score: 1

    Of course I didn't RTFA! Anyway, it seems like their just might be some prior art on this.

  10. Re:Can Avatars Make Contracts? on Can Avatars Make Contracts? · · Score: 0

    Hey, if androids can dream of electric sheep, why shouldn't avatars get into the fun? ;)

    Perhaps you are an avatar and you don't even know it.

  11. Re:Cue the Second Life expert (but not a lawyer) on Can Avatars Make Contracts? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    IANAL, but I'm pretty sure a contract isn't valid, if it is for an illegal activity (e.g. you can't uphold a contract to be a slave, you can't uphold a contract for prostitution [cybersex], etc).

  12. Cyberlaw on Can Avatars Make Contracts? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Trying to get the long arm of the law around cybersex cases could be a really sticky situation.

    You've got to hand it to them though.

  13. Re:Interactive porn in... on A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons · · Score: 4, Funny

    They already have interactive porn. The problem is you constantly have to buy it dinner and feign interest while it talks about its day.

  14. More distractions. on A Touch Screen With Morphing Buttons · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They say this type of screen could be particularly useful when a simple, flat touch-screen is too distracting, for example in a vehicle dashboard.

    I know we are obsessed with multitasking more and more, but no. Almost every automobile "accident" is caused by one or more people simply not paying attention, and I don't think we need to give them even more stuff to play with while driving.

    If a touch screen is going to be too distracting for some situation, then mighty morphin power buttons are not the answer. The answer is wait until you are done with whatever you are doing, then use them.

  15. Sealed? on Papers Sealed In Class Action Against RIAA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not a legal expert. Does sealed mean that during the course of the proceedings they won't be disclosed? Or does sealed mean that they will never be revealed, even after this is out of the courts?

  16. Re:Police Abuse Videos on Cops To Start CrimeTube To Report Offenses · · Score: 3, Informative

    They already had something very much like this, Rate My Cop.

    Police complained and GoDaddy pulled the site.

  17. Re:it was a commentary on a long running debate: on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    You are right, it was frame-by-frame... if you ignore all the frames they didn't use.

  18. Re:it was a commentary on a long running debate: on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    This movie was not a frame-by-frame remake of the comic. They left out huge chunks of storyline, such as the newsstand interactions, the Tales of the Black Freighter, pretty much the complete history of every single mask in the movie, and more.

  19. C.R.E.A.M. on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    When did money become the primary criteria for determining the merit of an artistic project? Sheesh, what a capitalist society we live in.

    Fixed that for you.

  20. Re:Good and bad on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    The more I think about it the less I like it. There was practically zero character development. In the comic each and every mask is real. No matter how flat they may seem on the surface, they have rich pasts and experiences. The movie barely scratches the surface of the Comedian, Doctor Manhattan, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, etc.

  21. Good and bad on Watchmen 50 Days On, Was It Worth the Gamble? · · Score: 1

    They did what I feared they would; they turned it into a superhero movie.

    Because of time limitations they had to cut parts, and of course the parts they cut are all the non-action scenes which set 75% of the mood. The newstand? The Tales of the Black Freighter? Long developed characters and interactions that drive home points a little more involved that BIFF! and POW!

    And don't get me started on how they completely removed the alien and inserted a bomb instead. Ugh.

  22. A history of evil on Biotech Company To Patent Pigs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    God help you if one of their seeds blows onto your property and one of their pigs eat it.

  23. Re:Hawking has proposed a solution on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it was a fry-hole...

    HAWKING

    I call it a "Hawking Hole".

    FRY

    No fair! I saw it first!

    HAWKING

    Who is The Journal Of Quantum Physics going to believe?

  24. Re:Hawking has proposed a solution on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    If we can launch him into space, and get him traveling fast enough, he'll seem to live nearly forever from our perspective.

    That is dangerous thinking. He could very easily create a Hawking Hole, and that would be the end of us all.

  25. Re:Only from the classroom on Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure you understand his post. Without the turbo button a great many games (and other types of applications) would run so fast as to be completely unusable. Imagine Pacman at 100x the speed for example. By pressing the turbo button and effectively underclocking the CPU you could run those applications much closer to their correct speed.