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  1. Re:You're approaching it all wrong. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    Shrink wrap licenses are legally binding contracts in the US, at least in the 7th Cir.

    The case is ProCD v Zeidenberg

  2. Re:They're making the same mistakes as the Wii on Microsoft Announces Halo 4, TV For Xbox Live, Kinect Star Wars · · Score: 1

    My bad. I thought it was a native Wii game.

    Why do you think it's better?

  3. Re:They're making the same mistakes as the Wii on Microsoft Announces Halo 4, TV For Xbox Live, Kinect Star Wars · · Score: 1

    That's a nice idea except for the fact that each control system is disparate.

    Stand in front of your kinect. Now extend each arm straight out like wings.
    Now pick up your Wii controller w/ chuck. Now extend each arm straight out like wings.

  4. Re:They're making the same mistakes as the Wii on Microsoft Announces Halo 4, TV For Xbox Live, Kinect Star Wars · · Score: 1

    "Depends on the game, Metroid prime is definitely a better game with the wand."

    Yes that's the point I was making. Thank you for repeating it.

  5. They're making the same mistakes as the Wii on Microsoft Announces Halo 4, TV For Xbox Live, Kinect Star Wars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fable game where you can cast spells with your hands? Star Wars Kinect game?

    I remember the exact moment the Wii went from Cool to Lame for me. About 20 minutes into Spiderman 2. Likely the best spiderman game released. Captured the look and feel. Had great voice acting. Top notch product. I highly recommend it. That is on a traditional controller. After 20 minutes of punching the air in front of me, to mimic shooting webs, the Wii went from Must Buy to Never Buy.

    Waving your hands to play a game sounds cool but sucks in reality. Better put you need to design the game from the first word in the design document to be a motion game. Tacking motion control onto other games is a waste of time.

    The problem is that if you follow that advice you end up with a single platform game. Really a single sub-platform because if you've done your design work right the game will suck if played with a traditional controller. People don't want to take that risk.

  6. Re:Palin was right on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's a flat out lie. Paul Revere's own words contradict your position.

    She said "warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms"

    Paul Revere said, from his letter describing it, "there would be five hundred Americans there in a short time for I had alarmed the Country all the way up."

    In her case she has him with a specific agenda and message. Paul's own account lists no such message nor agenda.

  7. Re:Somewhere Democrats are praying she runs on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    The Republicans were never looking at Trump. Trump was never going to run.

    What exactly was the debacles for the Republicans with Trump?

     

  8. Re:First in a long line I hope! on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    How many species would be killed due to environmental disruption and alteration?

  9. Viruses are a social disease on Apple Support Forums Suggest Malware Explosion · · Score: 1

    Assuming they're similar to windows "viruses" Mac users will have to adjust their behavior.

    Practice mindful computer use.
    Don't download every little amusing flashing light.
    Is this really something your friend would be sending you?

    Install a JS blocker. Simply the best thing I've ever done to better my web browsing experience. The majority of JS on a page are the things on a page you hate. Many many pages work perfectly well without it and the rest work with white listing the main domain and maybe a resource domain.

  10. Re:Tabloid trash on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Amendment 9 means the exact opposite of what you claim.

    "The Constitution is explicit in saying that the right to print money is Congress's domain."

    Amendment 9 explicitly states that even though it's congress' domain ("The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights") the people are not denied it("shall not be construed to deny").

  11. Re:The story says they are traceable. on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    So the article is simply wrong?

    Thank you. This is what I was asking for.

  12. Re:The story says they are traceable. on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    They are traceable within the system, but not to an actual person.

    That's flat wrong since it uses unique keys for signatures. If you can get a person's signature, which you can, you can show they had it. Repeat and you have the whole chain.

  13. The story says they are traceable. on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    "A month ago I heard folks talking online about a virtual currency called bitcoin that is untraceable and un-hackable."
    "A payee can verify the signatures to verify the chain of ownership."

    If you can verify a chain of ownership then they are by definition traceable.

    Is the author missing something? If so what?

  14. Re:Tabloid trash on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 1

    Amendment 9 clearly says the exact opposite of what you claim.

    Amendment 9
    The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed
    to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

    Amendment 10 is not even applicable since we're talking about something that is delegated. A10 only covers "The powers not delegated . . ."

    Amendment 10
    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
    prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
    the people.

  15. Re:Civil war? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    That's my point exactly. We need a sarcasm punctuation mark.

  16. Re:How is this possible? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about hacking the VM or hacking the host OS?

  17. Re:How is this possible? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    You could still hack the VM and gain control of it. Sure they can just revert it but if you got in the first time you can get in a second time with zero effort unless they rebuild it. In which case you're at the exact same place Sony is right now.

    Why do you think VMs are hack proof?

  18. Re:Stealing IP addresses? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    Also don't forget the joys of unsecured wireless. So much better than proxies.

  19. Re:It was only a matter of time on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 2

    If there is no way to define anonymous then it is perfectly logical to blame anything done under the tag to anyone who uses the tag. By anonymous' own words anyone who uses the anonymous tag is anonymous. It's impossible for anonymous to deny anything attributed to anonymous.

  20. Re:Civil war? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    Anonymous has no leadership or ranks so they can't have any of what you mention.

  21. So they do have leadership on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    Either Anonymous has no leadership or this entire article is false.

  22. Re:!Anonymous on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1

    lol

  23. Re:!Anonymous on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 2, Informative

    Anonymous disagrees with you.

    "The attackers went one better than this, however: they dumped the user database for rootkit.com, listing the e-mail addresses and password hashes for everyone who'd ever registered on the site."

    There was also the little bit about posting personal info about spouses and children of HBGary employees.

  24. Re:!Anonymous on Sony Officially Blames Anonymous For PSN Hack · · Score: 1
  25. Re:There's some karma for you, Mikey on PSN Outage Continues, Console Hack Claimed To Be Responsible · · Score: 2

    But you can't. That's the point of the article.