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  1. DRM on Kaleidescape Settles With DVD CCA But No Victory For DRM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Has DRM ever worked? One instance? I've never heard of it lasting longer than a few days.

  2. Re:Mr. Burns thought of it first. on NASA's Plan To Block Light From Distant Stars To Find 'Earth 2.0' · · Score: 2

    SIMPSONS DID IT!

  3. Re:Rich Republicans... on James Cameron and Eric Schmidt's SOI Grieve Loss of Nereus ROV · · Score: 1

    Did you just claim that "All republicans stereotype?" It should be clear that I align myself with neither party, as their views increasingly diverge from that of the average American.

  4. Re:Rich Republicans... on James Cameron and Eric Schmidt's SOI Grieve Loss of Nereus ROV · · Score: 2

    Allow me to refer you to this infographic.

  5. Re:Own medicine on The Technical Difficulty In Porting a PS3 Game To the PS4 · · Score: 1

    Well, if they were EA games meant to be played online, many of the servers are already offline.

    Failed to keep up with the latest yearly sports release? TS.

  6. Re:Will computers ever be as smart as us? Briefly. on Understanding an AI's Timescale · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, 1 second is an arbitrarily huge length of time in the context of both CPU cycles and neural transmission.

  7. Re:Somebody needs to buy... on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 1

    Technically speaking, paper isn't microwave safe by default (though much is certified as such so you'd be ok if it said so on the package). A lot of paper is chemically treated, and sticking it in a microwave can release these chemicals into your food (just as with plastics or Styrofoam).

  8. Re:GIABT FROARIT S THE REAS)Oklsm! on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!!

  9. Microwave trays on The Physics of Hot Pockets · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also those with rotating microwave trays (because microwaves tend to heat unevenly) ought to be aware that anything at the center of the tray will not get the benefit of rotation and heat at the same rate the entire time. To roll around in a (relatively) even distribution, none of your food should sit in the center of the tray.

  10. Re:Snowden does NOT... on Sony To Make Movie of Edward Snowden Story · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I suppose you deserve neither liberty nor security.

  11. Re:Unworkable on EU Court Backs 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 1

    And that politician is named "Richard Santorum"

  12. Re:Slashdot stories obviously have that right, too on EU Court Backs 'Right To Be Forgotten' · · Score: 3, Funny

    This guy was really disappointed by Revolutions.

  13. Re: Victory..? on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    I think he meant that it would also benefit wealthy content-providers like Netflix who could afford to pay the extortional costs, where a new startup wouldn't. So while they could stick around, new entrants would be nearly impossible, and soon we're back to 100-channels-with-nothing-on.

  14. Re:ALL ISPs should be treated as "common carriers" on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    Cartels are the new monopolies. They've figured out how to split it into 2/3 major corps that never lose control, never compete and constantly raise prices.

  15. Re:Tears of a clown on From FCC Head Wheeler, a Yellow Light For Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you can't. But you certainly don't allow the ISPs to pick and choose what they want to let through and for what price.

  16. Re:Not Illogical on New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff · · Score: 2

    NZ is one of the "Five Eyes" in the ECHELON group, also sometimes referred to as AUSCANNZUKUS for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and US. It's likely that they don't just emulate the USA and keep the info, they most likely turn it right over to the NSA and their counterparts in those countries.

  17. MGS4 on A Look at Smart Gun Technology · · Score: 1

    Might want to try a playthrough of Metal Gear Solid 4 before going all-in on this idea.

  18. Re: When Al Franken...hard core liberal on Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" · · Score: 2

    You'd probably run into this problem in many parts of the country. Hell, Comcast tried using the fact that they don't cover most of the area covered by Time Warner as justification for their merger, when this ought to reveal how noncompetitive they have always been.

  19. Re:Parent is a Troll on Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" · · Score: 1

    This is America. We don't know who voted for whom.

  20. Re:Congress on Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" · · Score: 1

    It's not only the public's fault that we are mired in a two-party system. It seems the one thing the RNC and DNC can agree on is that no other party should even stand a chance.

  21. Congress on Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those congresspeople are well paid (lobbied) to hold those confusing, illogical views and spout whatever uneducated claims they can to defend them.

  22. Re:WHERE THE HELL... on Duo Sneak an Oculus Rift Onto Roller Coaster For a Wild Ride · · Score: 1
  23. Re:Oh yeah right on Average American Cable Subscriber Gets 189 Channels and Views 17 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Could spend maybe $20 and get what I want and saved like $60

    Exactly why they won't let you.

  24. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would seem they simply consider the environmental detriment more significant than the economic detriment.

  25. Re:WTF Is "Dead"? on The Feature Phone Is Dead: Long Live the 'Basic Smartphone' · · Score: 1

    Perhaps billstewart is a petite woman.