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  1. Re:Not a MMORPG on The Million-Gnome March · · Score: 1

    They are RPing protesters in as much as they are RPing Gnomes that are protesting Deific Fiat... In response, said Deiies dealt with them harshly (albeit reasonably at the meta level).

    I'm all good with both sides of this one, really, quite amused....

  2. Fansubbers MADE the anime market. on Fansubbers Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I have purchased official DVDs with english subtitles of every anime I had fansubs of shortly after its initial release with english subtitles. Fansubs are the ONLY reason there is a viable anime market in the United States at this time, they are the meat and gravy of college anime clubs and can easily generate the base market needed to make the cost of licensing and subbing an obscure title worthwhile. Cracking down on fansubbers, before a license has been picked up for US distribution is insane. After it's been picked up, there shouldn't be any fansubs of the show available from any reputable fansubber so feel free to slaughter the basterds who continue to distribute it after you have announced some sort of licensing or plan to release a subtitled version. On a side note, it may be worthwhile in some cases to hire the fansubbers to do the subbing, I wish they had done so for Fushugi Yuugi, the fansub was better quality all around, that they didn't is lamentable but is still not an excuse for not downgrading to the comercial sub.

    Alternatively, try the Baen model and see if it works as well for anime as it does for books.

  3. Re:Do you think it was worth the money? on Half Life 2 Retail Sales Hit 1.7 Million · · Score: 1

    I dunno, I found Far Cry multiplayer to be laggy and unplayable even when it claimed a 30-40ms ping, heaven help you if you hit 100ms.

    CS:S Is smooth, responsive and a blast even at 100ms, it's bloody amazing at a 30-40ms.

    HL2 SP as compared to Far Cry SP, though in some ways more confined, had a much better story, a lot more variety/originality, better pacing, and the puzzles were actually fun. The only thing Far Cry had going was that it seemed longer, but that may be because I couldn't stop playing HL2 once I had it.

    Lets not even get started on the graphics.

  4. Re:Dear Creationists on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Err, thats not particularly usefull. Better to say:

    Dear Creationists,

    We'll put these stickers on our science textbooks when you put "God's existance is an untestable hypothesis that can never rise to the level of validity of a theory. Belief that 'God' created the universe is as demonstratable and testable as 'invisible pink elephants' created the universe."

  5. Re:I dunno, something smells fishy... on Pair Arrested After Telling Lawyer Jokes · · Score: 1

    I may despise hatefull speech with regards to many things, race and religion beign but a few, but I'll be DAMNED if I'm going to allow others to suppress said speech. Hate is a disease, if forced into hiding it festers untill it kills. The only solution is the searing light of open speech and public scrutiny.

  6. Re:Value on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 1

    Which is why I made the comment, the articles statements/arguments are ludicrouse.

  7. Re:Value on Dispute Continues Over Posthumous Yahoo! Mail · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Copyright is irelevent. Hypothetical, I run a mail service, where (as specified in the agreement signed when opening the, non transferrable, account), you give me a letter and I as a service, make a copies of the letter and send it to people you specify. Additionally, as another service, I allow you to examine, and make copies of, the letters you have given me. Now, if you die, your estate gets the copyrights to those letters, but the letters are mine, you gave them to me, copyright limits what I can do with them, but that doesn't mean the letters, as physical objects, are part of the estate, as they weren't yours even before you died, you had allready given them to me.

  8. Re:Only at the poles for half the year(getting OT) on Breakthrough Efficient, Paintable Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    Current:
    Accel (hydrocarbon -> thermal -> kinetic)
    Brake (kinetic -> thermal)
    Hybrid:
    Accel (hydrocarbon -> thermal -> kinetic)
    Accel (hydrogen -> electrical -> kinetic)
    Brake (kinetic -> electrical -> hyrdrogen)
    Charge (grid -> electrical -> hydrogen)
    Pure:
    Accel (hydrogen -> electrical -> kinetic)
    Brake (kinetic -> electrical -> hyrdrogen)
    Charge (grid -> electrical -> hydrogen)

    Adding in the fuel cell lets us reduce the amount of energy loss to the environment by closing the acceleration/braking loop. This adds some equipment mass, reducing overall efficiency. In turn, we drop the hydrocarbon --> kinetic chain to drop the mass of the mobile omponent of the system back down to the original mass (or less).

  9. Re:How Big Is The Bathtub? on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wasn't suggesting all at once, more like, if it goes over a 20 year span (quick I know, but inside some of the worst case estimates), then thats 1 Tsunami equivelent volume every 4 DAYS, now, most of that will be greatly spread out melt, but occasionally it will be the more violoent 'entire glacier slides into the north atlantic' sort of thing, and it just takes a few of those to wipe out large chunks of the UK.

  10. Re:How Big Is The Bathtub? on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uhm, how do you go from 1200 Km * 100 Km * 10m to 1200000 Km^3? Your off by several orders of magnitude. Using the 10m assumption, that 1200 Km^3 (100 Km * 10 m = 1 Km^2)

    On the other hand, your ice cap volume looks right, so, we are talking about over 2000 tsunamis worth of water (on average with the potential energy of a kilometer of altitude)

  11. Re:Any Excuse to Say "We're Tough on Terror" on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Range finder. Is that a 777 at 5000ft at 5 miles or something much smaller at 1000ft and 1 mile?

  12. Re:Does not compute on Judge Rejects Guilty Plea From AOL Employee · · Score: 1

    Email address can't be trade secrets as they are known to people who have not agreed to keep them confidential and thus have not been protected. You only get one chance at the trade secret suit, and that chance was gone as soon as they gave out an email address to a user (who has not agreed to keep it confidential).

  13. Re:Does not compute on Judge Rejects Guilty Plea From AOL Employee · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which is cause for a civel action against him by AOL with regards to his employment contract, and possibly an 'unauthorized use of a protected computer system' charge, but certainly doesn't hold up to the requirements for much of anything else.

  14. Re:Oft heard...whatever! on How Important is a Well-Known CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like my Western Washington University experience.

  15. Re:CD hack? on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    Err, except the CD really is irrelevent, you can't play the game without associating a particular CDkey with a particular steam account and updating/activating the installed copy.
    One account can't play with itself (and trying to do so is a good way to get the account disabled).

  16. Re:but... on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 2, Informative

    The whole stolen election thing isn't with regards to winning or losing the popular vote. It's the opinion that Bush one Florida in 2000 on Fraud.

    So long as there is the appearance of impropriaty, thats all you'll get. Same goes of Kerry, except it wasn't people close to Kerry disenfranchising the voters of Ohio and it wasn't people close to Gore disenfranchising the voters of Florida.

  17. Re:What they oughtta do on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 1

    As a libertarien, I can more easily accept the federal government disallowing a state from infringing upon individual liberties by means of discrimination than I can accept the federal government discriminating itself.

    I am uncertain that the state has the right to do anything based on marriage, but I am certain that if the state does have that right, it does not have the right to descriminate based on the form of a particular marriage.

  18. Re:hmm on Evoting Problems in Ohio · · Score: 0, Troll

    No recounts. Nothing to recount. No Audit trail.

    Consider the following:
    "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Walden O'Dell, CEO Diebold Inc.

    The presidency has been stolen again, and this time they apear to have pulled it off without they lesser evil giving it the good fight.

  19. Re:You didn't say equally bad on Kerry's Record On Electronic And Civil Rights · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At this point it's not even a question of being better, so long as the badness is different, we have a chance of recovering from some of the damage Bush has done to our standing as a sane nation. If we reelect Bush, we are confirming to the world that 'We the people of the United States of America agree with and aprove of the actions taken by George W. Bush'.

    Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

    On the other hand, we need Badnerick or someone else whose issues are civil liberties. I'm still weighing things to see if I can risk voting Libertarien this year.

  20. Re:One question... on Flying By Brain · · Score: 1

    The same way your legs identify your true intentions with regards to jumping off buildings.

  21. Re:An important security sidenote on IE Shines On Broken Code · · Score: 1

    Not really, it just means that it's corrupting the heap as opposed to corrupting the stack. This will lead to Heisenbugs as the initial state of the heap will be effectively random and dependent on every page you have previosly viewed and the timing of input.

  22. Re:Doctrine of Laches on Libertarians Lose Case to Block Presidential Debate · · Score: 1

    Mathmatical possibility is not the same thing as probability.

    Badnarik could possibly gain sufficient electoral votes to win. In converse, Amondson could not win, even if he took every state in which he is on the ballot.

  23. Re:WTF on iTunes(UK) Targeted By The Office of Fair Trading · · Score: 1

    But the 20% doesn't cover the VAT, so the real, pre tax price, is .92 euro (61p). This is a direct result of global prices, local taxs, if anything they are under charging for iTunes compared to the cost in europe.

  24. Re:Well... on Republican Senators May 'Go Nuclear' · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot, what exactly is wrong with the hackish solution? Isn't this evidence that we are the memetic descendents of those who put the hacks into the senate in the first place?

  25. Re:Where's the problem here? on University Bans Wireless Access Points · · Score: 1

    Oh that ones easy to explain:
    Unacceptable terms in the RezNet AUP