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  1. Re:I'll tell you a secret... on Canadian Coins Not Nano-Tech Espionage Devices · · Score: 1

    He was the leader of Canada's most powerful terrorism/espionage cell for seven years.

  2. Re:What the hell...my two cents on Beating WoW At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    You're the reason crossover fanfics suck

  3. Re:Step 1: better artwork, not better graphics on Beating WoW At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    Good artwork and good graphics aren't mutually exclusive, but too many games are trying to imitate Doom3's "realistic" darkness, which gets annoying quickly much the same way as BSG's shaky camera does.

  4. Re:How will they market this? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    If there is one thing that Apple can do, it is market anything as an improvement. Apple managed to launch a successful marketing campaign for the Shuffle by focusing on one of its drawbacks. Compared to that, this will be easy.

  5. Re:Defeats the point on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    And the cost of albums isn't going up, except maybe for 10-song albums which will increase a whopping 9 cents...

  6. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    Most people fall into two categories: 1) the people who don't know what DRM is and 2) the people who know what it is but don't care about it because they know how to break it.
    The small number of people who don't buy DRMed music out of principle also seem to be the people who only buy RIAA CDs used out of principle. Not much increased sales there. The concept of dollar diplomacy is flawed on every scale.

  7. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    Jimi Hendrix was a one-hit wonder.
    Also, even when I like an album there's usually one or two tracks I end up just not liking.

  8. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    He said, "keeping inflation in mind". Keeping inflation in mind, those vinyl singles start looking a lot more expensive.

  9. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 1

    If you only like 6 songs then you don't like the band.
    Even if that were true, which it isn't, what's your point? Also: Even with my favorite bands there are a few songs I don't like. And more and more modern bands seem to have one or two "good" songs and a lot of filler, though there are still exceptions to the rule. (Actually, I think that soon those bands won't be releasing albums, instead releasing songs when they're done with them, only making an album when they want to make an album, due to things like iTunes)
  10. Re:Are consumers that dumb? on Jobs to Labels- Lose the DRM & We'll Talk Price · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if you do buy it from the RIAA, the artist gets about a tenth of a cent from your ten-dollar purchase. If you want to support the artist, go watch a live show.

  11. Re:abolish copyright on You Can't Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, plagiarizing ideas isn't enough for copyright infringement.

    While I'm not a lawyer, I can tell you the understanding that I have: Unless it can be shown that a work uses about a third of the written language of the source, or closely paraphrases it for many long passages, there is nothing actionable under the law. Ideas can't be copyrighted, nor can titles (titles can only be trademarked, and then only if you're using them for merchandising, and even then only if it's not a common word).
  12. Re:I know I wouldn't last long on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    (Although most OOP diehards probably disagree :-)
    I'd say most anyone who's seen your debates thinks you're a lousy debator, including even fans of relational.
  13. Re:Champoined Needed - Sounds Good To Me on Bill Gates' Management Style · · Score: 1

    Information "wants" to be free the same way gas "wants" to expand to fill up any available container.

    Also, the whole "kill the bully" thing reminds me of the beginning of Ender's Game.

  14. Re:Not alone on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 1

    I pity you if you have an 8GB password to type, period.

  15. Re:This matters how? on Fallout 3 Van Buren Tech Demo Released · · Score: 1

    I could be wrong, but I thought Bethesda announced that they were not going to use any of Van Buren.
    Yeah, I heard they were going to use Fallout 3 Harrison instead, but it crashed after only 8 hours and they had to replace it with Fallout 3 John Tyler.
  16. Re:just to be clear on Reiser Murder Case Gets Stranger · · Score: 1

    In addition, there's an entire company(Namesys) working on ReiserFS.

  17. Re:What is an obama? on Obama's MySpace Drama · · Score: 1

    Where did you get these questions?

  18. Re:What are car keys? on The Internet of Things - What is a Spime? · · Score: 1

    Renewable, maybe, but when cars were introduced they were considered to be cleaner than horses for one very simple reason: Nobody likes to deal with horse poop.

  19. Re:Screw digg! on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Except that you generally don't give out those numbers, whereas that code has been on every HD-DVD released. This is like screaming out your Social Security number then being surprised that people know it now.

  20. Re:Shocking! on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    That's not a definition of censorship. That's a Constitutional amendment prohibiting governmental censorship. Nowhere did it say that organizations that are not governments were semantically incapable of censorship.

  21. Re:Ah, how timely on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Interesting, my favorite random number generator is this!

  22. Re:Credibility on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Yes, but not a number of only 128 bits. There are length requirements for copyright--for example, the Jeopardy song has those two notes at the end so it will be longer than 30 seconds and therefore eligible for copyright.

  23. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Actually, Diggers used to post huge stories about Alexa ratings and Slashdot.

  24. Re:I did that! on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    He could have used Windows 2000 in 2002.

  25. Re:I'd like to say... on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    Except that the purpose of this key isn't to facilitate infringement(infringement isn't even made any easier by this key, given that the whole HD-DVD image could have been shared before this) but instead to run HD-DVDs on Linux.