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  1. Re:Why Japan first on Nintendo 3DS To Be Released In February/March · · Score: 1

    No, they can release anywhere first. However the DS is stagnating more in Japan than other territories so Japan needs a new system now, the West could live with just the DS for another year and will likely keep buying the DS long after the 3DS has come out (as happened with the GBA).

  2. Re:Viva La Libre Office! on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 1

    Reminds me more of Freedom Fries.

  3. Re:Shanghai's Air Quality on NASA Data Reveals China's Industrial Air Pollution · · Score: 1

    I guess that's because sanctioning Africa would just come off as big, rich white men stomping on poor black people trying to eke out a living instead of remaining the cheap farm slaves of the west.

  4. Re:First Union? on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    Star power is very valuable for films so losing access to all big name actors would do more damage to the film makers than the actors.

  5. Re:One does not... on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Might be something like "everybody working there must be a union member".

  6. Re:One does not... on Unions Urging Actors Not To Work On Hobbit Movie · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't "liberal" used mostly as an insult for any non-conservative politicians?

  7. Re:The Law - Something to consider on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 1

    Podcast is used as a generic term though so selling a product and advertising it as "plays podcasts" would not be trademark infringement. If Apple wanted to avoid that they should have killed the podcast term.

  8. Re:The Law on Apple, Startup Go To Trial Over 'Pod' Trademark · · Score: 1

    It's iPod, not Pod that they're advertising. Looks similar but makes a big difference phonetically.

  9. Re:It's about blackmail on JPL Scientists Take NASA To the Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Most hilarious would be publishing ALL that potential blackmail material and have people see that just because their neighbor has a nice house and car doesn't mean he isn't into more stimulating sex than what the church allows.

  10. Re:Why not boycott PS3s on PS3 Hacked Using Official Controller · · Score: 1

    The thing was originally sold as running Linux and being very open, they removed that in a firmware update so people who bought the system before then got screwed. No wonder they want to unlock their system again.

  11. Re:I bet "The Industry" loves it.... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    Not really, the IQ isn't being adjusted often enough to really keep the average at 100. It may be intended to average at 100 but it doesn't.

  12. Re:I Won't on Blockbuster Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    I've never seen late fees when it comes to video rentals, in Germany we always pay when returning the video so they bill us for every day we had it, no matter how long that was. Maybe that has to do with better enforceability of collections though.

  13. Re:I bet "The Industry" loves it.... on CD Sales Continue To Plummet, Vinyl Records Soar · · Score: 1

    Depends, what are the projections for IQ development for the next hundred years?

  14. Re:Drones on CIA Drones May Have Used Illegal, Inaccurate Code · · Score: 1

    Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if most of those explosives could kill you from 13 meters away, especially with line of sight (shrapnel).

  15. Re:On the other hand... on Most Software Patent Trolls Lose Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Patent trolls usually buy up inventions of other people. They're purely parasitic on society.

  16. Re:Just ninety percent? on Most Software Patent Trolls Lose Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    A problem with SW patents is that they are broader than physical patents. Physical patents cover implementations, SW patents often cover mere ideas. A patent covering an implementation can be worked around by devising another implementation but patenting an algorithm means there is no way around the patent and whoever patented it first can screw over the whole world. Patenting MP3 encoding should only be able to patent a specific implementation (not limited to a specific language but specifying e.g. using arrays for specific purposes, etc), not the algorithm itself.

  17. Re:The checks and balances don't work for software on Most Software Patent Trolls Lose Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Guns favor the guy with more guns and men. Guns certainly aren't the solution to organized crime. Having a police force means at least the most guns are in the hands of people who are at least somewhat accountable to the people.

  18. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    They'd probably find a way to instill a "us vs them" mentality and make most non-revolutionaries believe that the revolutionaries are evil scum that must be killed to protect the freedoms.

  19. Re:Immature and Gun Happy on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Seriously? Wikipedia makes that book sound like the American equivalent to Mein Kampf.

  20. Re:Immature? on Hunters Shot Down Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    Or we need to stick those guys into jail for shooting at cable poles. If it has insulators it's likely a high voltage line and making that touch the ground can cause a forest fire or electrocute humans. This kind of behaviour should be heavily punished and taken seriously by the police.

  21. Re:But how precise is it? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    Yes but is South Africa de-facto free to that extent?

  22. Re:Moving the camera ? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    Telling people where all the speed traps are is ineffective because then they can be certain nobody is going to check when none are announced on their road. Of course having people cause accidents just to brake for a speed trap isn't good either but those people should be thrown in jail for that.

  23. Re:But how precise is it? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    So roughly one third is limited to 120-130 km/h (75-80mph) and some stretches even to 100km/h (60mph)?

  24. Re:But how precise is it? on Criminal Charges Against Speed Trap Tweeter · · Score: 1

    Who's going to stop them? Well, if the judiciary is failing that job there's still the legislative.In other words, it's the job of those dirty lying scumbags you elected so put some pressure on them.

  25. Re:Wow on Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Yeah but that costs extra. A contractor that can make a lower quote by omitting special steps like that has an advantage when selling to people who don't know whether certain security features are necessary.