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  1. Hrmm... on Games They'd Like Us To Forget · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No Daikatana?

  2. Re:Me..? on The Last Games You'd Play? · · Score: 1

    Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn

  3. Re:Not an issue... on Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? · · Score: 1

    Right forgot about the water cycle (below post)

  4. Re:Not an issue... on Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? · · Score: 1

    Geothermal == Nuclear (decay produces heat) Hydroelectric == Tidal (when oceans were bigger) He did forget about the energy massed during the accretion of the material that makes up earth though

  5. Re:This confirms it. on 130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany · · Score: 1

    I think the grandparent implies that it is such corruption that had such laws brought forth in the first place.

  6. Re:My Question Is... on Holographic Storage Crams in 0.5TB Per Square Inch · · Score: 1

    The library of congress would take about 10 terabytes

  7. Re:What You Wanted To Hear on Info on Intel's Viiv DRM · · Score: 1

    And just who does it hurt to be paranoid? Paranoia is what it is until fears come true. At that point, paranoia becomes preparedness.

  8. Re:Sleazbags on PS2 Controller Suit Goes Badly For Sony · · Score: 4, Funny

    Prior art. After all, women have used vibrations to heighten a sensation since at least the early 1900's

  9. Re:a whole new eBay business model on HD DVD to Screw Early HDTV Adopters · · Score: 1

    Hence selling Chinese adapters. Since when is China subject to our DMCA?

  10. Re:But... on HP Developing Hybrid Tablet PC / Coffee Table · · Score: 1

    What part of "virtual" do you not understand?

  11. Re:Suborbital? on Space Race 2.0 has Begun · · Score: 1

    I gotta agree with rufus up there. Wake me up when they have red-eyes to the moon.

  12. Re:Drinking to much funny-juice on No Time Travel, Sorry · · Score: 2, Funny

    They forgot about dt/dx, with the function being:

          lim[t->88(mph)] t / x * v

    where v causes the limit to assume a superstate of
    both positive and negative infinity.

  13. Re:One solution: Gunganize him! on Open Letter To Star Wars Players · · Score: 1

    Erm... good idea, but I would refrain from using terminology such as "griefer". In my 8+ years of online gaming, the only place I have seen that used until now was a Microsoft site defining (or making up) online gaming terms.

  14. Re:humorless prigs on EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness? · · Score: 1

    Don't knock the Brown Ale

  15. Re:The day the music died (err was killed by Sony) on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    Ah thanks Though i know this probably doesnt have anything to do with that

  16. Re:The day the music died (err was killed by Sony) on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    dont i recall some senator or something who was advocating the right of a corporation to "mess up" the computer of anyone who has "stolen" their intellectual property

  17. Re:What? on No More Lunar Land for Sale · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's too late. I own the moon. And no one can take it from me. You don't believe me? Then come and try.

    Seriously though, it's in a way like the American old west. You can claim all you want. But it will be the guy with the bigger (legal in this case?) guns that has his cake and eats it.

  18. Re:Acetic acid? on BBC Commentator Goes After Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with vinegar? The heartburn...

  19. Re:Extremely cool, but... on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think that these would have little use in countries where there aren't even attempts to have an education system. What would be good is to have them sold to developing nations (Present day Iraq... sorta) to use for their education. Then their children will grow up knowing at least something useful. I have read said book (Snow Crash is a classic). Don't get the reference though.

  20. Re:Microsoft = better on $100 Million Marketing Push For Vista · · Score: 1

    ~Yawn~ Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't listening.

  21. Re:You can't top the original Nick Fury on Marvel Gets Cash to do 10 Films · · Score: 1

    Jeez Somebody remembers!

  22. Re:What about software under older GPL? Re:Taxatio on GPL to be Modified to Penalize Patents and DRM · · Score: 1
    And, sigh, all because people want to steal songs instead of pay for them. Maybe the real solution is a large increase in the quality of character of the average citizen.

    I would hate to turn another discussion to this, but it really depends on said average citizen's definition of theft. For example, let's take the old "You wouldn't steal a car/DVD/whatever" thing. Of course you wouldn't. These things take time, energy and resources to build, and these things cost money. So-called "Piracy" as it were requires no resources, just a little time and energy on the part of the "thief". Remember: making a copy of a song requires a few mouse clicks. "Theft" defined in this case would be the fact that instead of paying them for a service, which is what music basically is, you get it somewhere else.

    Another conjecture is the quality of the "stolen items". I distinctly remember most record companies not having a huge problems with bootleg cassetes of either concerts or album tracks, because they were always of inferior quality. So... have you listened to an mp3 file lately

    As for those with CD stamps making fake albums, then selling them for a reduced price; that is just wrong.

    Oh yeah, and does anyone know weather or not this would allow Microsoft to continue their Linux vs Windows TCO analysis?

  23. Re:What? on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    What about tape loop drives?

  24. What? on The First Killer App: VisiCalc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I thought the first killer app was email?

  25. Re:I hope not. Here is why. on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have seen said video. I have also seen the "extended cut" in which one of the "farmers" carries an RPG into the field and deposits it. Do a little more that to go by the name of the file.