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  1. Re:Not so Nice on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A camera in a house turns it from private space into public space where common morality demands different behaviour. CCTV in public spaces has significantly less impact.

  2. Re:Laser Pointers! on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mess with the police's equipment and see how long it'll take them to care. Do you want to be thrown into prison for that?

  3. Re:Any excuse serves a tyrant. on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 1

    This IS France we're talking about.

  4. Re:Revenue Collection on French City To Use CCTV For Parking Fines · · Score: 1

    "DUI exception". The courts will just let them get away with it.

  5. Re:Seriously? on Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7 Lineup · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So basically leveraging all their existing monopolies. Wonder when and how much the EU will fine them?

  6. Re:The REAL crime here on In Australia, Rising VoIP Attacks Mean Huge Bills For Victims · · Score: 1

    To be fair, most landlines these days come with cheap flatrates too, you only pay for calling other networks or countries (the telco probably has to pay an extra charge for those).

  7. Re:Why personal autonomous cars will never arrive on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    Question: Why does a cab cost $80?
    Answer: The driver.

    In capitalism the answer is usually "because people will pay that" but then again I have to wonder how you get a $80 fare just from the bar to your home, where I live bars are common enough that you can walk to the nearest one.

  8. Re:I wold love a car that drives itself... on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    The local university (DARPA Urban Challenge finalist) just did a city traffic test with their autonomous car in a city near me, looks like it won't be limited to freeways.

  9. Re:Now to bring them back on Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved · · Score: 1

    Short of necromancy I don't think you can bring dead animals back. If there's no bees around you have to wait until a hive gets built nearby, either by a wild colony or beekeepers. Alternatively set up nesting places for bumblebees, those things work just as well for pollination.

  10. Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    Also some vendors do charge extra for new firmware revisions so customers might think Sony is one of those and the 30$ charge is for that. Without knowing the PS3 specifically customers cannot tell they are being ripped off.

  11. Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    Games that need a newer firmware install that firmware automatically. I'm not sure newer firmware adds anything that you can benefit from without having an online connection anyway.

  12. Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    Making money is not the ethic, it's the goal. Ethics are the rules you apply while going for your goal.

  13. Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    That the system would do that automatically if you just connect it to the internet?

  14. Re:How 'Green'? on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Railroads are also major electricity consumers.

  15. Re:Are they sure? on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    You're running into a perfect solution fallacy, the methods we use right now are quite a bit worse than geothermal so the upgrade is worth it.

  16. Re:Earthquakes on West Virginia Is Geothermically Active · · Score: 1

    Would earthquakes really hurt those things? Seems to me it's mostly man-made structures that suffer.

  17. Re:History on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The holocaust started before the war went bad. Many of the concentration camps were for slave labor, not killing so they actually supported the war effort. Also the holocaust wasn't people starving to death (though that happened), it was about systematic execution.

  18. Re:not "innocent civilians" on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ah but the country that passed those laws was considered an illegal Soviet occupation by the neighboring country that it later became a part of. And said neighboring country does not allow the death penalty under any circumstances while having no movement restriction across the border of the occupation zone.

  19. Re:You know what they say on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 2, Funny

    The game pits Germans vs Germans fleeing from Germany to Germany, really a useful spoiler...

  20. Re:But who is re-writing history here? on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 1

    Wasn't that just legal trickery as the West German government simply considered the GDR part of its territory and hence under its own jurisdiction? Sure, it didn't have any de-facto power over the GDR while it existed but to West Germany and later the united Germany anything that happened in the GDR happened in Germany and was subject to (west) German law.

  21. Re:You know what they say on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These are "art games", they aren't really games at all, more like simplified simulations. There's not necessarily a win condition in these games.

  22. Re:You know what they say on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since A. it does not force you to kill the escapees and B. gives you a bad ending for doing so I don't think the courts would decide that it glorifies violence. Of course the tabloids can claim what they want, as can the politicians but only a court decision can result in an actual ban or punishment.

  23. Re:Crime doens't pay well on US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring · · Score: 1

    Your Nazi agenda aside, crime usually doesn't require many qualifications so people who don't have the degrees for a regular job will get a crime job. Money laundering seems less degrading than burger flipping.

  24. Re:Your definition of movie may vary... on Torrent-Only Movie Denied IMDb Listing · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia's notability requirements end up deleting a lot of information like that as well.

  25. Re:gonna be pricey to on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    250$ is more likely since the US usually gets everything the cheapest out of all the territories. In Europe it'll probably cost 250€ and I can tell you I'm not paying that. To me it's not even worth 200€.