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  1. Re:No mention of DRM on Is Vista a Trap? · · Score: 1

    I'd really like someone to explain this. What does Vista DRM do differently than XP that will keep me from enjoying my media?

  2. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For anyone else interested in a primer to good British swearing, watch some cooking shows with Gordon Ramsay. He pretty much runs the gamut.

  3. Re:I've got a bad feeling about this on Star Trek To Return Christmas 2008 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sorry, but did you even watch Enterprise?

  4. Re:It all comes down to the parents' responsibilit on Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as 'Porn Portal' · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what this Christian group is doing? Educating parents?

  5. Bullying job interview on Cyberbullying Laws Raise Free Speech Questions · · Score: 1

    I had one of those job interviews once. "Goodnight, ding-ding-ding-ding-ding. Goodnight, ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding."

  6. Re:i guess they better stop eating altogether on Suppressed Report Shows Cancer Link to GM Potatoes · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but one of the chief criticisms of this study was that mice who were fed the non-GM potatoes did indeed suffer ill effects. Whether that means cancer or not I'm uncertain.

  7. Re:Nice Suttle FUD in the article. on The Pirated Software Problem in the 3rd World · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That's great for the people that get them first-hand from the group's FTP server.

    What about the schmoes who have to wait until the release has changed hands dozens of times before it hits a public site or the newsgroups?

  8. This could have been prevented on University Professor Chastised For Using Tor · · Score: 3, Funny

    If he had only used Log Deleter 5.0, there would have been no record of his router hopping.

  9. Re:Flawed system or flawed usage? on Study Finds Bank of America SiteKey is Flawed · · Score: 1

    You can thank/blame the societal "safety net" for that, thus ensuring that civilization progresses at the speed of its slowest constituents.

  10. Re:No Damage? on MySpace Worm Creator Sentenced · · Score: 1

    Would you sentence a 19 year old who spray painted his name on a wall to 3 years probation, and make the crime a felony...No you would not. We recognize that people sometimes do stupid things. Yes there is real damage Myspace network admins and DBAs probably had to do some clean up, just like you probably need to repaint that wall.

    Yes, except that he defaced some 1,000,000+ walls.

  11. Re:Perhaps smug? on Verizon Rejected iPhone Deal · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or is there not a way to show the year comments were posted?

  12. THAAD? on US Missle Interceptor Tests a Success · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that better than THAC0?

  13. Re:WHy is this a problem? on EU Countries Call Out iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    Not iTunes the program, iTunes the music service.

  14. Re:Using Vista for a bit on Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues" · · Score: 1

    You were told then, as I'll tell you now. The problem is the decoder, not the OS.

  15. Re:Freespace on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 1

    Criticizing Freespace would be kind of like panning The Godfather or Apocalypse Now. It just makes you look like a nincompoop.

  16. Re:"Liberal media" on The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? · · Score: 1
    It's more than that. If your company is on that blackout list, that means you are expressly forbidding your advertisements from running during Air America programming, even if the radio station owes you the spot.

    Air America has been successfully demonized to the point where these companies do not want to be associated with them.

  17. Re:Does This Mean on The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? · · Score: 1

    Kilborn? If I want to watch a stuck up, smarmy, unfunny, pompous ass with an overinflated ego that thinks he's better than everyone in the room, I can watch CSPAN.

  18. Re:Protect Reputation or Shoot Foot? on Adult Film Industry Moving To HD DVD · · Score: 1
    However, hearing that Sony itself has been pressuring the porn industry away from the Blu-Ray format, it seems they've shot themselves in the foot and mooted their brand from competition.

    It does seems that they've made a habit of doing that lately, doesn't it?

  19. MOD PARENT UP on Study Claims Offshoring Doesn't Cost US Jobs · · Score: 1

    I was going to make the same analogy.

  20. Re:How can they be that confident? on No Ceasefire in DVD Format Battle · · Score: 1

    The software. Can a PS3 stream video from your PC?

  21. Re:A game that succeeded on Star Trek Legacy Review · · Score: 1
    THIS is the kind of game that works with trek. It puts the player in the game as themselves, not as Kirk or Archer or Picard.

    These are the voyages of Captain Mary Sue.

  22. V'Ger and the Borg on Star Trek Legacy Review · · Score: 1
    To give you a horrible taste, it mentions V'ger, from the first Star Trek movie, in connection with the Borg's origin.

    That bit of fanciful storytelling (that the machine intelligence Voyager VI encountered was the Borg) has been explored in Shatner's "The Return" series of books.

    There's also a possibly apocryphal account of Gene Roddenberry suggesting something similar, though Roddenberry had descended into smiling at passersby and shitting on himself by the time the Borg made it to TV.

  23. Re:Kirk on Star Trek Legacy Review · · Score: 1

    Chances are you're thinking of Star Trek 25th Anniversary/Judgment Rites and/or TNG: A Final Unity. All terrific games.

  24. Re:The idea that human life begins at conception on 'Plentiful' Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Found · · Score: 1
    An embryo is either alive or dead.

    It is either human or it is not.

    Science should treat these as binary questions.

  25. Re:artists statement on Columbine Game Kicked From Slamdance Festival · · Score: 1

    The statement attempts to rationalize Klebold's and Harris' actions, absolve them of much blame, and even portray them as the brave heroes of the story. Fuck that, and fuck him. He should have crawled in a hole and just listened to more Linkin Park.