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  1. Re:I hate it when this happens on NCSoft To Close North American Lineage Servers · · Score: 1

    It should, but it will never happen as long as people keeping voting the Business Party into power.

    Copyright law needs to be seriously reformed, if not done away with altogether -- and, yes, serious study has been done in that direction, and not only is it feasible, but it is actually more beneficial to society overall.

  2. Re:User perception on Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced · · Score: 2

    Google certainly deserves to make money off of Honeycomb

    Google certainly has created the opportunity for itself to make money off of Honeycomb, but it certainly does not deserve to make money off of Honeycomb. No corporation deserves anything, no matter how much time and money it has put into developing a product.

    It's this kind of thinking that is part of the greed-based problems that are destroying society and retarding the development of civilization today.

  3. Re:DHS chose the wrong people on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 3, Funny

    But, don't you see?? The media pirates are not spending money on the stuff they STEAL, and that means they have more disposable income to give to the TERRORISTS!!!

  4. Re:Pffft on Chinese iPad Factory Staff Forced To Sign 'No Suicide' Pledge · · Score: 1

    "Old", "New", and "Third"? That doesn't even make sense. It's "First", "Second", and "Third".

    In Mao's "Three World Theory", the three worlds are in reference to:

    • First = The super-powers
    • Second = The allies of the super-powers
    • Third = Non-aligned nations.

    In the more familiar Western version invented during the Cold War it was (roughly):

    • First: Industrialized, democratic, capitalistic nations (or the US and its allies)
    • Second: Industrialized, communist nations. (or the USSR, China, and their allies)
    • Third: Everyone else.

    Since the fall of the USSR, the terms refer more to a country's level of wealth or development.

    The terms "old world" and "new world" have nothing to do with this.

  5. Idiot on Idle: Fairytale Character Map Raises Ire In Russia and Ukraine · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Unfortunately, folkloric heritage is not regulated by international norms or by intellectual property rights," Marina Primenko, the creator of the Ukrainian map, said.

    No, that's actually a very, very good thing.

  6. Re:Won't Happen on If You're Going To Kill It, Open Source It · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You forgot a third reason:
    - Corporations have no intention of ever fulfilling their obligation to the public domain as demanded by copyright law.

  7. Re:Well on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 1

    blame yet another expensive election on the other parties

    What most people don't seem to understand is that Canadian elections are *cheap* compared to the boondoggles that get passed in majority governments (e.g. the gun registry). It irks me to no end end politicians try to get votes by claiming Canadians hate voting and that elections are expensive.

  8. Re:Some advantages... on Wikileaks Says Public Forced Canadian DMCA Delay · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right, because deregulating an industry is a "great" idea. *rollseyes*

    The problem with the CRTC is not that it exists, but that it is a captured regulator. It is a regulatory body controlled by the industry it's supposed to regulate.

  9. Stupid on Dollar Apps Killing Traditional Gaming? · · Score: 1

    "The prevalence of free and 99-cent apps has changed consumers' perception of value"

    No it hasn't.

    'If there's anything that's killing us [in the traditional games business] it's dollar apps. How do you sell someone a $60 game that's really worth it? They're used to 99 cents.

    And you're president of Epic Games? I think the reason your company is being "killed in the traditional gaming business" just became obvious...

  10. Carpentry on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    I would suggest keeping Imperial measurements for carpentry (pretty much the only endeavor where the Imperial system beats the metric system) and move everything else to metric.

  11. Sure, but... on Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game · · Score: 1

    Robot Throws First Pitch At Phillies Game

    Sure, but can it love?

  12. Campy Cartoon on Google Sends Repeat Infringers To Copyright School · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Yup on DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games · · Score: 2

    Why would you be allergic to rootkits from DRM, but not from modified executables?

    Because he, like most others, I would imagine, has had his system hosed by DRM from software publishers more often than he has by cracked EXEs from cracking groups.

    It has gotten to the point that I, for one, literally trust the crackers more than the video game publishers. I cringe at the thought of installing new, store-bought games. You're almost guaranteed to have your system compromised by some DRM garbage that will mess up your system (sometimes even to the point of damaging hardware). The inverse is true with cracks, I find.

    The interests of software crackers at least coincide with mine (i.e. playing video games). Software publishers are not interested in games; they are only interested in trying to get my money, whether by hook or by crook.

  14. Re:So the question is... on The New Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Because it's there!

  15. Re:Why DDOS? on Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony · · Score: 1

    Isn't there a better way to get back at Sony then DDOSing there web page?

    I recommend fire -- and lots of it.

  16. Re:TRON needed more TRON on Creating the Software Art In Tron Legacy · · Score: 2

    TRON: Legacy should have had a lot of things. It should have had more lightcycle action. It should have had some Recognizer action. It should have had some tank action. It should have had sets that looked like they were from a computer world and less like the real world. It should have had the feel of a computer world instead of just a futuristic world. It should have had a good story.

    It should have had a lot of things.

    Twenty-eight fucking years...

  17. Re:The VCR? No on RIAA/MPAA: the Greatest Threat To Tech Innovation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Check out Johannes Gutenberg (of Project Gutenberg fame

    Yeah, his online archive of out-of-copyright books was a great idea, but what has he done lately?

  18. The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useless on MakerBot Introduces Printable Vinyl Records · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  19. The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useless on Facebook and Zynga Team Up To Merge Romance and Social Gaming · · Score: 2, Informative

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  20. The one day of the year Slashdot becomes useless on Glasses Purge 3rd D From Films · · Score: 2, Interesting

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  21. Re:That's correct from a legal standpoint on Ultima IV — EA Takedowns Precede Official Reboot · · Score: 1

    The renewal fee should be a percentage of the gross income from the protected work, not a flat fee. Otherwise it hurts the small copyright holder and is ineffectual against the large copyright holder.

  22. Re:That's correct from a legal standpoint on Ultima IV — EA Takedowns Precede Official Reboot · · Score: 1

    Fourteen years is still far too long in today's world (and twenty-eight years is beyond an eternity).

    According to typical sales records, maybe two or, at most, five years is more than enough protection.

  23. Re:Solution on Enlisting Game Hackers Instead of Fighting Them · · Score: 1

    If the game has DRM or is too expensive, don't buy it. Pirate it!

    This attitude doesn't help. If lots of people steal a game...

    The parent wasn't advocating stealing anything.

  24. Re:Voting is a waste of effort on 'Canadian DMCA' Copyright Bill Dead Again · · Score: 2

    What pisses me off about voting in "democracies" dominated by political parties is that you're not given the choice to vote on individual issues. Instead, you can only vote on groups of stances on issues in the form of political parties.

    e.g. Choose One:

    Party #1

    • * Lower Taxes
    • * Daily ass-rapings for everyone

    Party #2

    • * More Accessible Education
    • * Daily mouth-rapings for everyone

    Party #3

    • * More open government
    • * Daily genital mutilation for everyone

    Gee. Great options. :-\

    Minority governments in Canada end up being a godsend.

  25. Re:Hmmm ... on CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman · · Score: 2

    Good god -- is there any human endeavor that doesn't turn people into raging douchebags?