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  1. Re:Vanguard on Pirates of the Burning Sea Signs With SOE For Publishing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just you watch, first it's "absolute creative control", then it turns into "everybody can be a Jedi easily", then you get a raped crafting system and all the experienced players leave the game to the noobs.

  2. Re:Not about market share on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers · · Score: 2, Funny

    FF 0.1 beta was actually a text box on a plain Windows Form. It only supported the , , and
    tags. You could, of course, get extensions for it to handle most of the HTML 4.5 tags, but if you got the extension, it disabled the and tag extensions.

    Meh. Still better than IE.

  3. Re:What's the problem? on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    Your post is correct only so long as the power line is going through. At the most basic level, RAM is nothing more than a bistable vibrator. They require +V to maintain state. There are, of course, other forms of memory(i.e. flash drives, etc), but the RAM in a commodity-parts server would only use the normal kind. Unplug a server's RAM and the data is gone better than even the NSA can recover.

  4. Re:ridiculous premise. on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 1

    "if a physical item needs to be delivered, you have no choice but to use email."

    Now, please do include a picture of that.

  5. By all the gods, why is this "-1, Troll"? on Torvalds vs Schwartz GPL Wars · · Score: 1

    N/T

  6. Re:ridiculous premise. on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 1

    That's not at all obvious. An emailed copy of a document is not physical. It could, of course, be made physical(printed) once it reaches its destination, but at no time can you legitimately say you "emailed a physical object".

    Modern "education" is the cause of all of this. Pff.

  7. Re:ridiculous premise. on What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail? · · Score: 1

    Wait...
    email does "physical items" now?
    SOMEBODY EMAIL ME A PIZZA, STAT!

  8. Re:In the Words of Nelson: on Classified US Intel Budget Revealed Via Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    As somebody who was turned down for a top secret clearance, I can say that they go VERY in depth. First step was pulling all the federal records...credit report, medical, arrest record(yay.)
    Then they talked to my parents, every one of the five references I gave, and my neighbors. Then they put all that together in a file and interrogated me for half an hour under polygraph. Then they went out and talked to every person that my neighbors and references and parents talked about as being associated with me.

  9. Re:As always, Mirrordot on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 1

    That or maybe not every hobbyist/little blogger's website should be a full-blown database-driven three-stage uber-site on a dinky (or shared) CPU. Wordpress, of course, is the worst of these, but none of the others are terribly good. I'm busily writing a blog software(yes, in PHP, now shut up) that could very handily survive being Slashdotted. It, umm, ain't hard.

  10. Re:Because Windows is a pesthole. on A Windows-Based Packaging Mechanism · · Score: 1

    Don't blame windows for "targeted military espionage". Any operating system can be rooted, and you would not believe how sophisticated certain governments and NGOs are getting at remotely 0wning boxes.

  11. Re:geez then why keep paying to play it?? on Yet Another EVE Online Scandal? · · Score: 1

    Ding! Give the AC a cookie.

    (Used to play, quit after four months of grinding.)

  12. Re:spam filter not enough? on Is Email 'Bankrupt'? · · Score: 1

    I work for $LARGE_US_GOVERNMENT_AGENCY.
    Every single day my email inbox gets flooded with useless emails. For instance, outage reports on systems that don't concern me, error messages about reports, "Organization-All" messages about a pot-luck or road closure(at a location I don't work at), messages from leadership of different work sections, taskers to do job requirements that don't apply or have already been completed...and more.
    I'd estimate daily I get as many as 20 emails. Of those, 1-2 will need a response or action. I would find it very easy to believe that most people actually working have a very similar or worse experience.

  13. Re:Maybe I'm Wrong on Prosecutor Announces Charges Against Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    This comment showed up for me to meta-mod. I *KNEW* meta-mods weren't useless, otherwise I'd've not seen this comment.

  14. Re:Xbox 360 is on shelves. Wii is not. on How Wii Is Creaming the Competition · · Score: 1

    Lucky bastige.
    Out here in Hawaii, they're still doing the crazy early-morning lines every time a new shipment comes in. I finally caved to a gray-marketer off eBay.

  15. Re:submitter's conflict of interest on Canada's Wayne Crookes Sues the Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's worth noting that only one individual is responsible for the blanking, and the current protection. More telling, this individual didn't make a note on the talk page about his actions, and hasn't responded on that page to requests for clarification.

    Remember that anybody can edit Wikipedia. And anybody who makes an effort of it can become an admin. It could be someone working for either side of the lawsuits, or simply a green party supporter. There's no way to know.

  16. Re:The ISPs were right all along on Boston Bans Boing Boing From City Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Exactly.
    The "Internet" and all the corresponding technologies were created by schools and government researchers, for the government. The goal was a network that could 'survive' multiple nuke strikes, and still let the government communicate. Then they let college students onto the thing, and they lost control of it.

    That was never a public good created with your tax dollars, that was a defense requirement, just like F-16s and an aircraft carrier. And I dunno, but only idiots claim the US has never needed a war machine.

  17. Re:Java is not YET Free software on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released · · Score: 1

    Second utterly BRILLANT post I've seen today.

    Must be something in the water....wish I had mod points.

  18. Re:me too on Proving You Are Not a Spammer? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely fucking BRILLIANT.

  19. Re:My connection works just fine on National Projects Aim to Reboot the Internet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I could see that working really well. All the advertisers would move over to the approved "internet", and the intarweb would be left with only lesbians, porn, indie rock, and warez. Perfect!

  20. Re:eInk on Finding a Display You Can Read in the Sun? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's a store nearby that has one of those on a demo stand. I wouldn't use that particular type of screen, the refresh rate is abysmal. Switching between pages has a noticeable and aggravating delay.

  21. Re:They done pulled a Hillary !! on Thousands of White House E-mails Deleted · · Score: 1

    I note you're already at -1, so I won't waste a modpoint on you.
    But you're a flying retard who is incapable of anything but spewing republican lies. Clinton stonewalled about delivering emails located on the official servers. Congress took them both to court, they won, she handed them over. That's the rule of law working as it should.
    The Incontinent Shrub--I mean President Bush(easy typo to make)--was asked to deliver some emails, and instead of stalling, claiming he doesn't have to, or any other semi-valid tactic, he deleted them. I'd like to note that deleting any correspondence associated with the office of the President is a crime. Pound-me-in-the-ass Federal jail time.
    What Bush did is like going to negotiate with the army that's already taken over your country, but instead of signing the treaty, your briefcase is full of plastic explosive.

  22. Re:funny on The Real Reasons Phones Are Kept Off Planes · · Score: 0

    If your phone interferes with your stereo system, I'd look into buying a phone made sometime within the last decade.

  23. Re:e^(i*pi)+1=0 and Limpwristed heathens? on Humans Hardwired to Believe in Supernatural Deity? · · Score: 1

    As a limp-wristed bi myself...

    Where were you when I was still dating?

  24. Re:Region Free DVD players on Vista Security The 'Longest Suicide Note in History'? · · Score: 1

    A point of fact you may not be aware of:
    Many, perhaps most, US Citizens lack any overseas attachments. No friends in the UK, no acquaintances in Austria, no old college buddies in Spain. The chance of the average American consumer ever even seeing a non region-1 DVD is frighteningly low. I'm tempted to make myself out as different, but...the only people I know from outside the US are people I met over IRC.

    Incidentally...why does the Firefox spell checker twinge on those two three-letter acronyms?

  25. Re:How is this saving energy? on Cringely's Shameless Self-Promotion · · Score: 1

    Power != Electricity used.

    You're ignoring the fact that spin-up requires a certain bulk of motor. A larger motor will always use more watts than a small one. Reduce the cost of spin-up, and you'd be able to put a more parsimonious motor in the drive.