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  1. Re:Grooveshark on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 2

    It won't, if everyone using it is blocking the advertisements.

  2. Re:pay artists??? don't the labels take a big cut on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. Re:Nope on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The number of good music acts is increasing as the wealth that was centralized by Labels becomes decentralized.

    Huh? No, technology has advanced such that good musicians/songwriters/performers can become good acts without a middleman. That's all. The Labels are not becoming decentralized, they are becoming deprecated.

  4. Re:It's a doomed race against time on Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off · · Score: 1

    Six feet? Nah, just dust them over. They deserve to have their bones picked at.

  5. Re:Not how i'd do it. on Visual Guide – the Making of a DIY Space Capsule · · Score: 2

    Darwin will quickly show you the error of your ways.

  6. Re:contributions to open source products should be on German Court: Open Source Project Liable For 3rd Party DRM-Busting Coding · · Score: 2

    What do you mean "was all about?" I think you mean "is all about."

    They have not given up, they have just been using different acronyms.

  7. Re:Why on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 1

    When components like the motherboard start flaking out is when it starts getting expensive to do. Someone has to pay for the work - it may not be you, but the organization certainly pays those people and purchases the parts.

    Failed hard drives happen to new machines. Failed motherboards should not.

  8. Re:production and development cost on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 1

    Big wins? Everyone I know who's touched either hates them. The PHBs might love them, but the people who have to touch them certainly don't.

  9. Re:Microsoft is running out of milk cows on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 1

    The original Sidewinder Precision Pro was awesome. The others, not so much - and MS dropped gameport support after XP (and the USB adapter did not use standard/HID protocols)

    Thanks, MS. Thanks.

  10. Re:Small Connectors on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    Sure, if the port was naked and hanging outside of the case, and there was no screen etc nearby. How about flash drives? Bluetooth dongles? I'm sure you've seen those tiny wireless mouse/keyboard connectors who have a casing at all (not just the port itself) simply to give you something to grasp for handling?

  11. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, I can't come up with a real reason either, only fuzzy things like "innocence" which are rooted in culture as well.

  12. Re:Jurisdiction on Hotfile Settles With MPAA, Drops Countersuit Against Warner Bros · · Score: 1

    (due to, say, international agreements)

    That, exactly, is what gives.

  13. Re:Importance on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 2

    I like to point people at this nifty bit of reading.

  14. Re:Importance on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    Yes, because the same rules that apply to ending someone's life should apply to inconveniencing a website for a few minutes...

  15. Re:Importance on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 1

    Even if they are morally right? I'd have a problem with that.

  16. Re:And they wonder why... on Anonymous Member Sentenced For Joining DDoS Attack For One Minute · · Score: 2

    ... and this is why people have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get the legislature to do something about the CFAA and such for years. It's massively abused, but nobody wants to fix it.

  17. Re:Durability? on Yota Phone Launches With Secondary E-Ink Display · · Score: 3, Informative

    When was the last time you found a cellphone case that wasn't custom shaped for the phone? It's not like they have uniform physical characteristics.

  18. Re:Sounds so wrong on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 1

    You are aware that NAZI actually means "National Socialist German Workers' Party" right?

    Don't get me wrong as I am not claiming they are at all related, but a Republican is a Republican no matter what you call it - I don't see why this would be any different. It's a political ideology, and what you call it does not change the ideology.

  19. Re:Freedom of thought on App Detects Neo-Nazis Using Their Music · · Score: 0

    It's one thing to have porn laying about in the open and hedonism on open display, but it's just as bad to go Full Catholic about it. Like so many other things, either extreme is bad.

  20. Re:Atari would be proud on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    So because a desktop from the early 90s couldn't do what a modern one can, there's no possible way the modern desktop is descended from the 90s one?

  21. Re:Small Connectors on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 2

    Not when the device you're trying to connect is smaller than said port!

  22. Re:When you have a bad driver ... on Is the Porsche Carrera GT Too Dangerous? · · Score: 1

    That's not so bad when you're talking about a vehicle that costs $20,000 - something like 3% if I'm not failing horribly at math today (which is entirely possible)

  23. Re:Personal EMP cannons - it's about time on RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse · · Score: 1

    Yes, allowing that the range on these things can be improved enough. I think I read 5 meters? You'd have to be sitting out on the runway to pull that one off.

  24. Re:Is this any real surprise? on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 1

    It always pisses me off when people toss around names like that. There's no fucking wings, there's idiots, assholes, and morons.

  25. Re:What country is Shanghai? on New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates · · Score: 1

    So you believe comparing two different things on the same level is even approaching accuracy or responsible reporting?