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  1. Re:How Ironic on Angry Birds Exec Says Console Games Are Dying · · Score: 1

    Castle Clout is the original (Armor Games even asked and received permission to copy). But your larger point stands.. as soon as I saw Angry Birds I was reminded of Castle Clout (which is the best of them in my opinion).

  2. Re:Feudalism and the new serfdom? on Facebook Buys a Private File Sharing Service · · Score: 1

    pity noone told Oracle that

  3. Re:Fatal flaw on Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines · · Score: 1

    Actually this would be a good limiter

  4. Re:HTML 5 Canvas tag on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 1

    Canvas will probably see more use for interactive stuff, but I don't think vector graphics programs are going to start storing images as a series of javascript instructions.

    Very good point... But then again, Windows Metafiles are just that, a dump of GDI api calls

  5. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    you can restrict to only the url in FF3.1 alpha by using "@"

    see => http://ed.agadak.net/2008/07/firefox-31-restricts-matches-keywords

    For Alpha 1, you can restrict the search to your history by typing "^", or bookmarks with "*", or tagged pages with "+". To make what you've typed match only in the URL type "@", and for title/tags only use "#".

  6. Re:SVG Animation on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    it is actually on-track for ff3.1

    bug -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216462

    latest ff3.1 status meeting (look for SMIL) -> http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/StatusMeetings/2008-07-22

  7. Re:Losing Anonymity? on Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live · · Score: 1

    If they are all creative commons then they can merge the parts they like.. or someone else can merge the best parts of both

  8. Re:Typical New Zealand on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 2, Informative

    Assault is illegal. The crimes act defines what is and what is not assault.
    http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/whole.html

    Is self defence legal? According to section 48 yes.
    Is using reasonable force to prevent someone from stealing my property legal? According to section 52 yes.

    This business of saying something is illegal yet one has a "legal defence" is muddleheaded. Either an act is legal or illegal.

    To defend oneself from an attack from a 'street thug' is not assault. To physically injure the 'street thug' for the purpose of revenge or punishment is an assault.

  9. Re:Typical New Zealand on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you are using sue bradfords line again.
    It *was* legal if it met the definitions of section 59 ("reasonable force" for the purpose of correction)

    You might as well say that self defence against a street thug is illegal (there is probably a section for self defence in the crimes act too).

  10. Re:Where is the proof? on Hack a Million Systems and Earn a Job · · Score: 5, Informative

    fyi: I heard a policeman say on the radio yesterday that he definitely has *not* been offered a job at this stage. dunno why all the news stories are running that one.

  11. Re:Robots also top humans at arm wrestling.. on Robots Aim To Top Humans At Air Hockey · · Score: 1

    yeah robots have been doing strength and precision for ages (think robotic assembly lines) but the cool thing about this project is linking robotic speed and precision with decent vision

  12. Re:iPhone on Google Docs Aims At Microsoft Office Live · · Score: 1

    It is open source (http://code.google.com/p/google-gears/) so that should be able to be changed

  13. Re:And Opera on Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    plugins (dlls) generally run in-process

  14. Re:Object databases? on Ask Database Guru Brian Aker · · Score: 2, Informative

    db4o (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Db4o) is an open source object database. Apparently BMW, Boeing, Intel and others think it is "industrial grade".

    It has a Java and a .NET version.

  15. Re:I'd thought this had already happened on Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well if you were using firefox it would probably alienate you. I am guessing he means if you are using IE6 and below it prompts you to upgrade..?

  16. Re:Mozilla? on Apple Sued For Using Tabs In OS X Tiger · · Score: 1

    Isnt Mozilla raking it in (via Google)?

  17. Re:Looks like it on VBootkit Bypasses Vista's Code Signing · · Score: 1

    I think the grandparent was referring to the boot sector of a hard drive. Which, if I am not sadly mistaken is another method of achieving the same thing.

  18. Re:Yeah, but Ford is boring now too on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1

    you obviously haven't seen Hollywood Homicide

  19. Re: Yea, Paypal Sucks...and that's on a good day on Paypal Won't Release Funds To Slain Soldier's Family · · Score: 1

    Dude, if you cant recognize hyperbole when you see it you will ah.. end up chastising people needlessly.

    Think about the ramifications!!! :@(

  20. Re:So who the fuck cares on Silicon Superconductors · · Score: 1, Interesting

    space is pretty cold, maybe they could use it up there?

  21. Re:it isn't that bad... on Draconian Anti-Piracy Law Looms Over Australia · · Score: 1

    No the music is pretty much exactly the same as the earlier published (and public domain) song "Good Morning To All". The words are somewhat modified however.

  22. Re:Oh Boy... on Soft Tissue Discovered In T-Rex Bone · · Score: 1

    That debate ended when we figured out carbon dating. The bones are old as their radioactivity says they are.

    assuming the bones started with a certain amount of c14, and assuming nothing interfered with the rate of change during the interval (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating#T he_need_for_calibration)

  23. Re:Yay, sterility! on Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference · · Score: 1

    Am I the only person out there who thinks that sterility is a good thing? I can buy thousands of high end laptops for what one kid costs.

    maybe not, but im sure noone is keen on blasting ones balls off to achvieve the desired effect

  24. Re:Every facet of our lives? on Will Yahoo! Go Be the Next Media Bridge? · · Score: 1
    how bout:
    if every_facet_of_our_lives == [tv]: we_are_doomed()
    sorry for some reason it stuck in my head that way

    ps. sorry its python i cant remember how to do it in c
  25. Re:Anticipated... on Livejournal Bans Ad-Blocking Software · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually the first version of adblock did exactly that (downloaded the ads but hid them).

    It was a pain though because noone wanted to waste their bandwidth on the stinky ads.