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  1. Re:Power of the People...fails again on TV Links Raided, Operator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Obviously this is something the general public like and want.

    I think you hit this on the head here. It seems that indexing this content is a place you can make money. Why don't the copyright holders make their own index (the best one out there, so everybody actually wants to use it) - linking to the same sites that tv-links linked to - letting others carry the overhead, and bring in some extra cash. Everybody wins! Granted, this may not bring in as much money as if they actually sold the movies, but they can expand the potential of this pretty far, I think.

  2. Re:Surely this includes the hallucinations on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    Even if he did nothing the Bible said but still had the same effects on the world at large (belief in him by Christians very much changed the world at the time), then I'd call him very real.

  3. SlashSwarm on SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome the new swarming overlords nearest...oh - I've just received word from the swarm that someone already posted this. Ok how about:

    In Soviet Russia, bots swarm...oh - that too? Ok, how about just a simple "Profit?"

    I think this swarm thing will take some getting used to

  4. Re:What Intel's gonna do on Intel Purchases Havok · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you're likely right. They can just use this acquisition to sell product.

    However, I wonder if they might do something along the lines of creating "Havok accelerated quad cores" (or whatever). Pull a Microsoft/Internet Explorer and bundle a bit of hardware Havok acceleration into all (and it really must be all or close to all of their high end chips) of their chips. This makes a large portion of the market adopt it by default (large enough to make companies code for optimizations just like with Nvidia/ATI) and it's something that AMD cannot do. Soon, they have a desirable feature that the competition does not have (because even if AMD adds physics acceleration, it won't be Havok) and will have gamers going for their chips even more for that extra edge. The question is whether the initial investment/potential bump in chip prices is worth it to them.

    Just a thought.

  5. Re:I usually stay out of gun control debates... on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    This is a US story, and they used kilometer as the unit of measurement for this story?

    Maybe they thought that saying .62 miles of fiber had been shot up sounded uneventful, but a whole kilometer??? ZOMG!!!!

  6. Alternate Headline? on Fox Hacks Fark · · Score: 1

    Fox F**ks Fark?

  7. Re:Star Wars on 3D Animations In Mid-Air Using Plasma Balls · · Score: 1

    wookies are too hairy for holo-chess based upon this. Think of what a wookie on fire would act like. You're better off always letting the wookie win - before you begin play

  8. Re:I LOVE this idea. on Google's $10 Local Search Play · · Score: 1

    I think this is wrong - you can get all the valid information from a grunt. You only need someone authorized to VERIFY the information. In some instances I think this will mean 2 bucks only. In many, I think it will net 10. I would go into it expecting 5 bucks per business average

  9. Re:Geeks do- everyone else doesn't. on The DRM Scorecard · · Score: 1

    Never assume stupidity for what can be explained as malice. To do otherwise is naive at best.

    I think that it is interesting that the actual "historical" quotation is the other way around. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_Razor

    In this case though, your way is certainly fitting.

  10. Re:So? on AT&T Deal With eMusic Excludes iPhones · · Score: 1

    I believe the word you are looking for is "hater"

  11. Re:Best. Project Name. Ever. on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 1

    first thing I thought of too. I figure they can call her 7 OR 7 of 9, just so long as she calls (the actress, not the operating system [yuck]).

  12. Re:You can have my desktop on The Desktop -- Time to Start Saying Goodbye? · · Score: 1

    My laptop is 11 years old and has been used rarely if at all.
    I don't think I'd use my laptop very much either if it was 11 years old
  13. Obvious followup on Free the iPhone from AT&T · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will it get me the iPoon?

  14. Re:Absolutely on Is Scientific Consensus a Threat to Democracy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why wasn't last year more severe? That was what was predicted, guess they were wrong....darn
    A single year does not make a trend. There are complex cycles on this planet and in given years they may act to dampen effects relative to the average and in others they act to intensify effects relative to the average (this goes for almost anything related to climate). They aren't saying EVERY year will be more intense, but that the average intensity of hurricanes will increase over time. We will still have calm years and intense years, but the center of them is going to move toward intensity.

    I guess they weren't wrong. Yet (which isn't to say they will be, but that it's too early to say). Never base a conclusion off a single sample.

  15. Re:Lies, not Truth, Appeal to the American Voter on McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet · · Score: 1

    and running Iraq as a colony on the basis of Western values (e.g., equality for women) will transform Iraq into a prosperous, liberal Western nation. At the end of 20 years of occupation, we can relinquish control to democratically elected Iraqi politicians who spent most of their youth in a Western-value-dominated colony.

    because that worked so very well in Africa? And Southeast Asia? I realize there were many other factors in play (how those colonies were run, etc) but running it as a colony with a completely different value system will create more violence (or more resentment of the country which uses soldiers to keep the violence down) and there will be little chance to spread the values to the youth - the values they will receive is a hatred of their oppressors

  16. Re:Hrm, and all this time I though it was... on The Man Behind Google's Ranking Algorithm · · Score: 4, Informative
  17. Re:I know! on Is Dedicated Hosting for Critical DTDs Necessary? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think you're right on the money here. DNS-like was my first thought as well. Have a root system where all updates are made, then have organizations which check for updates to a package of multiple critical DTDs on a weekly or monthly basis or something. Then people can have a list of DTD sources in the event that one goes down (though I'm pretty sure XML only supports one DTD in each document - someone correct me if I'm wrong). This would reduce the burden on any one person, allow organizations to manage their DTDs on their own if they like, etc.

  18. Re:Not very long... on Censoring a Number · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Remember.. on Principal Cancels Classes, Sues Over MySpace Prank · · Score: 4, Funny

    He has three friends? Amazing!

  20. Re:potential privacy concern? on Facebook's Cross-Language Network Library · · Score: 2, Informative

    Their API requires that a user authorize a site to collect their information. If, after a warning for each site, a user still authorizes it, then that's their own problem

  21. Re:I for one... on Amazon Patents Humans Assisting Computers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the computers told him to do it

  22. Re:The #1 Threat to America on Mars Rovers Moving After Winter Hibernation · · Score: 1

    it started with that right to bear arms and spiraled out of control from there

  23. Re:The darkest hour is just before the dawn on AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts · · Score: 1

    Dictatorship just don't work, it ain't the natural state of affairs
    Machiavelli might have a few things to say about that
  24. Re:Whaa? on Intel, IBM Announce Chip Breakthrough · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It would seem to be consensus of the analysts, but who knows how accurate that is if one company is disputing the information leading to the consensus.

  25. Re:Happily infringing... on RIAA Members Sue Allofmp3.com Over Infringement · · Score: 1

    I totally understand that, and was merely talking about the fact that payment for a cd must help cover all these expenses, whether directly or indirectly (through percentage cuts, or just general billing). I understand that the bands are getting screwed.