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  1. Re:The obvious question on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    Due to the whole derivative works clause that'd still be a matter of copyright as well.

  2. Re:Whether he improved on them is irrelevant on World's Best Chess Engine Outlawed and Disqualified · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand what open source means... Especially once you add Microsoft into the mixture.

  3. Re:beam in thine own eye on Facebook Locks Down Social Gift Giving Patent · · Score: 1

    This definition would include the community features in Steam. Of course Steam also supports gift giving.

  4. Re:beam in thine own eye on Facebook Locks Down Social Gift Giving Patent · · Score: 2

    That result may not necessarily be based on laws though (as in "you get beaten up by anybody passing by"). Try shouting "death to niggers" in a neighborhood with many blacks in the US and see how far appealing to the first amendment gets you.

  5. Re:Man some of these "activists" are dumb as rocks on Video Game Free Speech Ruling Aftermath · · Score: 2, Informative

    It teaches hate, that's not child friendly.

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

    Why does the media and general populous of the United States consider violent images and sexual images to be the same?

    They don't. Remember the uproar over the exposed nipple during the superbowl?

  7. Re:Magnetize! on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 1

    But gravity would do that, right? So let's just hold a huge mass sufficiently close to those objects to change their flight path... Maybe in circles around our huge mass.

  8. Re:Shielding Technology Need on ISS Nearly Clobbered By Space Debris · · Score: 2

    Problem is the HOW. E.g. a plasma cloud wouldn't really help much against high speed debris as they'd just punch through it with their sheer force, even if they do get vaporized they'd likely still hit the hull in that extremely hot state and cause a lot of damage (there's a concept for combining electric reactive armor with a strong magnetic field for tanks so projectiles are turned into plasma and the magnets assist with the deflection but I'm not sure that would stop a modern AP shell and I'm not sure how those even compare to space debris). I don't think there's a real concept for how energy bubbles could even work.

    If we could deliver payload to space more easily we could possibly build heavy armor on our spacecrafts that may be able to take some bigger hits than the current stuff (spacecrafts and suits are already armored with a thick foam layer but that won't stop more than tiny, low energy debris).

  9. Re:It's a good law... on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    He said Americans buy fast cars, doesn't mean they're designed in America.

  10. Re:don't do evil on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    I think most of the countries that complain about street view would be happy about it not being available there. However they'd expect that that also means there's no data recorded from their country, i.e. no other countries get streetview data of objecting countries either.

  11. Re:No one pays for Android applications anyway on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    Some people at my company make Android apps in their free time, they argue that paid apps in Germany are futile as you need a credit card to purchase them and people here don't have credit cards (we don't need them for anything except American companies who fail to adjust to the ways of the country).

  12. Re:User's fault for not reading app description on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    Too many people believe that the stuff shown on CSI is possible in real life. Just look at how many people demand perspective changes on photos at notalwaysright.com.

  13. Re:Hey Taiwan... on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    This is for all online orders, not just for 1$ apps. Sticking an exception for 1$ apps into a law seems silly to me.

  14. Re:Hey Taiwan... on Google Pulls Paid Apps From Taiwanese Android Market · · Score: 1

    That's why computer stores here no longer allow returning laptops (except for the usual defective product exchange)

  15. Re:Investment cf. spending on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    They invest it in the hope of increasing tax revenues.

  16. Re:This is good news on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    France is too proud to ever type something like that in English. They demand that all communication happens in French.

  17. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    German citizens would freeze to death if Russia decides to shut the gas off

    Nuclear power wouldn't fix that, the actual heatings in most houses run directly on gas or oil. You'd have to refit a ton of houses to use electricity for heating in the event of a gas shutoff and that would take way too long, by then the winter would already be here. And until the shutoff those things are unlikely to get replaced, you know how they say "if it isn't broke don't fix it" and that goes double when fixing would cost serious money.

    Euros are immune to inflation, while dollars get printed on a daily basis.

    Inflation really isn't the current worry for the Euro, it's the collapse of Greece and potentially other weak Euro nations.

  18. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    The big plan for building renewables is placing them in areas that weren't being used anyway. Solar panels in the desert (actually those large mirror-based plants, not photovoltaics), wind turbines out at sea. Plants placed in those locations produce more power than regular ones and don't take up space that's needed for anything else.

  19. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    The footprint of the windmills isn't terribly large, you have to space them out and keep them away from populated areas (in case they fall over) but they can overlap with farmland without making a big dent in the crop production. Also they can be placed out at sea where they're both more effective and taking up space that wasn't used anyway.

  20. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    I mostly heard about the winter causing problems with their nuke plants. Sounds like those things aren't as trouble-free as the proponents claim even during normal operation.

    As for import/export stuff, Germany will likely keep importing and also exporting power even on a balanced output since power can't easily be shipped all over the country so buying from a closer source can be useful even if it's out of the country while surplus capacity elsewhere is used to export power.

  21. Re:They will make a fortune on France To Invest One Billion Euros In Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    And which countries would that be? You know that Germany had all the necessary plans for successfully replacing the nuke plants for the last decade or so and have been building up other power production according to the old schedule that would have seen the nuclear shutdown quite soon already?

  22. Re:Necessary on Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning · · Score: 1

    It's not the current regime that's the problem. The taliban aren't extinct, they're just waiting for an opportunity to seize the country again and the democratic government is not strong enough to prevent that yet.

  23. Re:Siblings... on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 3, Informative

    What part of Resident Evil sounds like a game that children should play?

  24. Re:The Bickering on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    And hell, if the progression was meant to add longevity all they're doing is making used buyers sell it off faster so that the used copies stay in circulation and turn more interested buyers into disinterested former owners.

  25. Re:First! on Capcom Announces Unreplayable Game · · Score: 1

    All cart based games offer a save reset feature, there's just no reason not to do it. If they just couldn't be arsed to implement it why did they feel the need to specifically point it out in the manual?