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  1. Gag me with a spoon. on ARM Hopes To Lure Microsoft Away From Intel · · Score: 0, Troll

    nt;

  2. And, while we're at it, no free advertising. on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Should be needless to say, but while we're boycotting the RIAA, we should quit giving them free advertising, too.

    Take our seeds down.

    Leave the seeds up for the artists who tell us they don't mind.

  3. appeal on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One might suppose the judge is just speeding the process up for appeal, so that the case can be moved up to a court with competence on the Constitutionality.

  4. Fail sharing is the cause of the bad economy? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    That's what you're saying?

    This whole economic downturn has been caused by file sharing?

    (Actually, that is not as far-fetched an idea as it seems, but pursuing that idea to the end in no way vindicates the Artists' Associations.)

  5. Re:gosh on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the "lots more people would do it" reasoning is specious.

    Even with the software available, setting up the servers and posting stuff takes time and money.

    Come to think of it, Joel Tenenbaum was giving the artists free advertising partly at his own expense.

  6. He? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Or did you mean that in the gender-neutral sense?

  7. costs? No. on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    If you want to take about non-provable costs of lost sales, you'd better start also talking about the just-as-tangible gratis advertising.

    One of the problems here is that it's hard to advertise the product without giving part of it away.

    But it is probably the civil thing to do to refrain from advertising for an artist who repeatedly asks you (through his or her "Artists' Association") not to advertise.

  8. ... unable ... on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    I think you figured out how they got to her.

    Threatened to have her performance examined.

    So she is now unable to think independently.

  9. Re:gosh on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    No, a closer analogy is
    'Leaving the door open. enabling your music CD's to be stolen

    ... and copied ...

    and then illegaly played in a neighbour club, thus breaking copyright'

    I really don't care for the RIAA, and the copyright law has to change, but if people don't want us advertising their music for them, we probably shouldn't.

  10. everybody loves a little control on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    I don't know why, though. I have a hard enough time with self-control.

  11. The world is very complicated. on Temperature Data Wants To Be Free · · Score: 1

    Global warming is happening. It is in part caused be things we do.

    There are those who would love to have an excuse to micro-manage the entire population of earth, and they are quite happy with this state of affairs. The climate changes give them an excuse they think they can use to get everyone to let them micromanage.

    Money is nothing. Power is everything.

    And the funny thing is that micro-management is one of the things that has cause global warming. The most recent excuse was market competition, and look at the excesses that has lead us to.

    Anyway, global warming goes way beyond an excuse to micro-manage just a corporation.

  12. high altitudes? on Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify · · Score: 1

    Shoot, I've been reading this with a strange tickling of memory, and now it comes back.

    Forty or more years ago, when I was a kid in west Texas, I would see clouds that glowed at night, and the explanation was light picked up from the sun which was below the horizon.

    Low storm clouds.

    I think this is just something no one has noticed before. Or, perhaps, no one has written an article about the phenomenae in a "scholarly journal" for several years.

  13. Re:gi? kandera? naoi? on Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin · · Score: 1

    Actually, I was going to rip it apart, but, as I was going through the errors, I realized that the possibilities I suggested were, in fact, possibilities.

    You'd be amazed at the deliberately non-standard Romanization I've seen in use by native Japanese who think it's cool to break rules. (And the particles I mentioned are actually fairly good evidence that it might indeed be cool to break the rules.)

    And, while I don't know of specific dialects in which the odd pronunciations and grammar I pointed out are common, I have heard dialects that do similar strange things. Strange, until you think about it.

    Anyway, that was not intended as a rip. Manga can really be strange, in an interesting sort of way. (Not meaning the soft porn, either.)

  14. at work on IE6? on Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin · · Score: 1

    Man. I hardly dare look at lyrics sites from behind a thick filter when I'm using any browser at all on MSWindows.

  15. mod anonymous parent up! on New Firefox Vulnerability Revealed · · Score: 1

    The design of javascript has not been magically fixed.

    So many of the flaws in the internet technologies were induced by people trying to hit an artificially early market window induced by Microsoft's snake-oil marketing claims.

  16. no reason? on New Firefox Vulnerability Revealed · · Score: 1

    You mean, besides the problems that occur because Javascript was not really designed with security in mind?

    The current bug under discussion is a programing error. It can be fixed.

  17. gi? kandera? naoi? on Free Rainbow Tables Looking For New Admin · · Score: 1

    "amai agi" as in soft "g"? Romanized by an Italian, maybe?

    "hanawo kandara" would be when you bite flowers,
    "hanawo kaidara" would be when you smell them.

    "iina nioi" would be sloppy grammar, but "ii naoi"?

    "ha" and "wo", while not standard, are more literal Romanizations of the two particles.

    Some sort of dialect?

    Author of a manga deliberately breaking rules?

  18. shill on Ultra-Thin Laptops To Be Next Intel-AMD Battleground · · Score: 1

    Of course, 10w is not what we are targeting at USD 500 and below.

    Which kind of eliminates INTEL entirely, unless they buy Marvell back.

  19. Garbage Processor Unit? on Java's New G1 Collector Not For-Pay After All · · Score: 1

    Hmm.

  20. ppc on linux on Java's New G1 Collector Not For-Pay After All · · Score: 1

    Java is slow on PPC on Linux right now.

    I guess. Or maybe it's just Netbeans. But a 1.2GHz Mac Mini running Netbeans on Mac OS X is (subjectively) about half as fast as a 1.7 GHz Sempron running Netbeans on Linux. But Netbeans on the same 1.2GHz PPC processor running Linux is dead slow.

  21. speculating? on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    Anyone who says that INTEL is not going to keep doing what it has been doing for the last ten+ years is just speculating.

    We're not talking about punishment for things that haven't yet been done, Shill.

    This sale should not go through unless INTEL signs some sort of hands-off agreement to allow Wind River to maintain equivalent support for all makers.

    Or Wind Rivers should be required to sacrifice its certification.

  22. certified, but on INTEL CPUs? on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    I wonder, can they keep that certification on an x86?

    von Neumann equivalence only works when you know that marketing can generate enough of that green fertilizer called funding to push the timing and memory limits back on the next generation.

  23. proof of intent, mod parent up! on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    But we should already know from recent history that INTEL wants to own your pipes.

  24. global warming on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    is reminding us that we are that some other schmuck.

    What comes around goes around. These are not the times for more power hungry chips, and the economic climate is not going to be forgiving of attempts to put x86-magnitude-or-greater-power chips in embedded stuff.

    (Not to say that INTEL won't try.)

    But, no, INTEL just wants to own your pipes.

  25. the pipes on Intel Buys Embedded Software Vendor Wind River · · Score: 1

    It ought to be clear by now.

    INTEL wants to own your pipes.

    The monopoly Microsoft has is trivial, compared to what INTEL is after.