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  1. Re:Mobil card on Ads With Your Name On Them · · Score: 1

    But they can't look at your windshield and see your car registration with your name on it? And probably a lot more identifying info, like address and so forth?

  2. Re:TPB because NIN.com couldn't hack it on NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers · · Score: 1

    I was able to eventually get the flac version using repeated wget -c. Unfortunately it was corrupted in two places, rather than retry to get the file all over again(probably with similiar results), popped over to TPB and picked up the torrent and used it to fill in the missing pieces.

    The storefront did change the way the file was linked between when i first tried and when I succeeded, but I think they were still massively overwhelmed.

    You did notice that "Ghosts I-IV is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license."

  3. Re:Performance is really lacking on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, the usual answer is the pre release have extra stuff turned on to help enable debugging. That's why it's not a release where they turn that extra stuff off, or you can recompile the pre release kernels and such.

  4. Re:So... on Spore Hands-On Preview · · Score: 1
  5. Re:How about taking some of that subscription mone on World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Zul'Aman was never promised as part of the expansion, and neither was the upcoming Sunwell, or the massive amount of daily quests(which they are making more of when Sunwell comes out), or the improved Dustwallow Marsh area.

  6. Re:Accuracy? on World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers · · Score: 1

    There's a family in my guild that has 3 people and 5 accounts between them and for the most part they don't dual box except when leveling their characters, they do it because 10 per server wasn't enough, and this family all has full time jobs.

  7. Re:Actually, the real beef... on French Fine Amazon For Free Shipping · · Score: 1

    Yes, and his point was that Amazon isn't competing in that area, so the small bookstore that stocks 50 year old books isn't being threatened by someone buying the latest Harry Potter from Amazon.

  8. Re:Insurance would change drastically on GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018 · · Score: 1

    Speed limits are largely a revenue generating scheme more than an issue of safety.

    On my drive to work a road that starts off 25 MPH through residential turns into 35 MPH the next town over, the road isn't significantly more or less safe to drive or have more or less people and houses, the speed limit is lower simply to generate revenue. The highways near me are similar, near certain towns they drop for no explicable reason and go back up after it's passed a jurisdiction, and stay up even though the next town over has more on and off ramps and gets more congested.

  9. Re:Let's get the preliminary stuff out of the way. on XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The cards won't be made obsolete, any more than 2d cards are made obsolete, a number of my machines have 2d only cards and they work fine for a large amount of the non gaming I do.

    I don't think anyone advocates softmodems, so why do we tolerate mostly soft network cards.

  10. Google Browser Sync on Weave... Mozilla Is Trying To Be More Social · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google Browser Sync

    And it's about as secure as your Google account already is. Whatever that means.

  11. Re:Worrisome? on PI License May Soon Be Required for Computer Forensics · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depends on how vague it ends up being. Easy to imagine that your home machine gets hacked and then you "investigate" your own machine and give the info over to the FBI or Police, hey look you did forensic work without a license, go directly to jail do *not* pass go.

  12. Blizzard and other companies have already decided on The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    If you look around at bittorrent trackers you'll see maybe 50000 people that have downloaded a TV episode, now go look at Blizzard on patch day, you'll see over 100 times that many by the time everyone has their patch.

    They have 9 million subscribers, all those subscribers by default use bittorrent for their patches.

    Blizzard isn't the only company that is doing this either.

  13. Re:Dual license? on Netbeans 6 Dual-Licensed Under GPLv2, CDDL · · Score: 5, Informative

    If it's your code you can license it however you want, for example MySQL is dual licensed under both the GPL and a Commercial license. Anyone can download the GPL version make their modifications and as long as they follow the GPL redistribute according to the GPl, or if they license the commercial version for a fee from MySQL AB they can basically release a closed source version all closed up.

    If you were to dual license your code under the GPL and BSD people who wanted to redistribute modified code could follow either one they wanted, with BSD being one of the avaible choices they could close it up a lot if they so desired.

  14. Re:My recent experience... on How to Dodge the Chinese Internet Censor · · Score: 1

    The great firewall acts differently between natives and foreigners, and you likely didn't go to the sites(mainly in Chinese) that are outright banned.

  15. Re:It will always be alive on Who Says 2D Gaming is Dead? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you liked that you might like Armadillo Run or Pontifex One or Two. OK they drift from 2D, but are still very fun construction type games.

  16. Re:Mod parent up. on Cisco Offices Raided, Execs Arrested In Brazil · · Score: 1

    For those not aware of your acronym and are too lazy to look it up.

    FCPA = Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

    Basically what this says is that if you(US citizen) pay a bribe in a foreign country, you're committing an illegal act back in the US.

  17. Re:Pay you for what? on Ballmer Suggests Linux Distros Will Soon Have to Pay Up · · Score: 1

    If you don't want to give them money anymore then I suggest you not only stop using a computer entirely but move yourself to a completely agrarian or hunter/gatherer society. I can guarantee you pay Microsoft somewhere along the line of your internet and monetary transactions.

  18. Humans have lower body temp than most mammals. on Rate of Evolution Metrics Observed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting to note that humans have a lower body temperature than most mammals, actually that's one of the reasons we can get leprosy and almost no other animal can carry it, armadillos being the exception, it thrives in cooler temperatures.

  19. Re:This is a terrible idea. on Out With E-Voting, In With M-Voting · · Score: 1

    If you're referring to Starship Troopers, it wasn't compulsory military service it was compulsory government service, in the book it gives indications that the vast majority of the people who get the vote did so through non military service, or at the very least stuff that wouldn't be a front line grunt, like working for the postal service or some such.

    I also agree that serving the people before you get to lead them is not a bad idea.

  20. Re:Depends on what you mean by "right". on Copyright Alliance Says Fair Use Not a Consumer Right · · Score: 4, Informative

    If the titles appeal to you, check out Baen's books, never had DRM, never will, one purchase gives you the ebooks in many formats usually HTML, RTF, DOC, RB, PRC, and LIT.

    Many of the authors who deal with Baen even give them away, either through the website or with CDs distributed on first run hardcovers. The CDs while copyrighted are freely redistributable and are all found at BaenCD.

  21. Re:Yes... on California Blocks RFID Implants In Workers · · Score: 1

    You agreed to have children, no one forced you to, and that comes with all the inherent risks having children has.

    Why should anyone be forced to cater to your decision to have children in any way shape or form.

  22. Re:I remember that on MMORPG Used to Model Real World Disease · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unrealistic transportation methods? A good part of the populated North America could be infected in less than a day by a single patient zero carrier, Europe is the same way. And infectious diseases chain from one person to another, you wouldn't even have to leave the airport, just let other people from the airport fly away and infect others for you. In less than a week a single patient zero could easily infect the world, yes it isn't the same as World of Warcraft, but people don't die in minutes from infectious diseases either, otherwise they'd have a hard time being transmitted.

  23. Re:Remind me why I give a shit? on Microsoft Launches OSS Site, Submits License For Approval · · Score: 1

    You obviously give enough of a shit to comment.

  24. Re:No anonymity, no free speech, no truth. on CEO Questionably Used Pseudonym to Post Online · · Score: 1

    Who said that was my pen name? It could easily be my initials, or my parents might not be the kind of people who name their kids John, Joe, and Brian. The artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince had a damn symbol for a name, so what makes you believe it is a pen name?

    And of course I have more fun not telling you whether it is or isn't.

    Not like you could find me in the phone book or pretty much any directory of information with whatever my real name is anyway.

  25. Re:Ask Benjamin Franklin on CEO Questionably Used Pseudonym to Post Online · · Score: 1

    Uhm, have you read anything "she" wrote?

    "She" wrote about many things, including the oh my gosh topic of petticoats and Harvard, he surely would have been put to death if anyone ever found out is young Ben wrote about those.

    He used the pseudonym because his brother would not allow him to use his own name, not because he was afraid of his life.

    Maybe you should lrn2google.