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  1. Re:Legalization on Philips Develops Roadside Drug-Testing Device · · Score: 1

    I think the best idea is to sit outside the bar, then pull over the people who drive like they're drunk on the way down the block. Simple, effective way to use our brains to solve a problem.

  2. Re:I might buy this book... on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    Too bad we publish literally everything imaginable on the internet.

  3. Re:The Fans DID Notice It Though on xkcd To Be Released In Book Form · · Score: 1

    Minus the reusability.....

  4. Re:And it doubles the loading time on Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others · · Score: 1

    Stupid Sony. Beyond the other problems with this, why couldn't they put the ad in front so it would play while the actual level was loading?

  5. Re:Guitar Hero World tour had ads also on Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others · · Score: 1

    Something that REALLY annoyed me was in Anarchy Online. They had tons of spots where ads went, but only 3 friggin ads to put on all of them. that makes it look totally unrealistic, and it sucked seeing "Sprite Zero" and "Motley Crue" on EVERY DAMN BILLBOARD IN THE GAME.

  6. Re:Guitar Hero World tour had ads also on Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others · · Score: 1

    The majority of the people playing this game that drive the same way in real life probably aren't too concerned about death.

  7. Re:ESRB on Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others · · Score: 1

    One problem is that the original content was rated, and the original content is still on the discs they sell. They aren't selling anything different, they're just making you update if you want to post scores online.

  8. Re:They tried that in the US on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: 1

    Occam's Razor! Corporation only exists to profit, said disconnections get more profit (in indirect manner, deceasing reliability and increasing their appeal relative to the competition), corporation would do it.

  9. Re:well on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: 1

    Yep. They should also allow equal access to different types of roads. For example, I can start my business on a one-lane local road, and easily move to a location next to an interstate without having a massive amount of hoops to jump through. This is obvious, and I think it works that way with the internet, but the obvious needs to be stated or else it loses it's magic. Then, it dies because someone forgot why it was there to begin with.

  10. Re:Don't forget the telco(s) on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just one thing I'd like to point out:

    Politicians are known for building a tower of lies. However, regardless as to how well you engineer the tower from the beginning, the materials you build the tower with can only support so much, and will only go so high before they come crashing down.

    The way I see it, they're the ones falling from the top of the damn thing. It's gonna hurt when they hit the ground.

  11. Re:This will kill P2P on Network Neutrality Back In Congress For 3rd Time · · Score: 1

    They are trying to implement this in the US, however. I know they aren't having much success in many places, but that doesn't change that they're putting the idea out there and hoping it catches.

  12. Words? on AP Will Sell You a "License" To Words It Doesn't Own · · Score: 1

    Ok, so how many people realize that there's only so many words and so many ways to combine them? When it comes to writing a Master's thesis, nobody's going to come up with the same exact thing, word for word. But for a small snippet of text 26 words long, it's bound to come up again sometime without hearing it in advance. Especially when it's an observation about the outside world. The point is, nobody should be charging for licenses for snippets of text. When you create an entire other world in a trilogy of books, that's one thing. When you write an article with a max of 1000 words, that's just silly.

  13. Re:driveways !public and neither are private docs on Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the exact reason why whistleblower laws exist: to prevent people from being sued for exposing ethics violations.

  14. Re:Interesting on Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland · · Score: 1

    ...to someone it may not be obvious to....

  15. Re:Meh on Carmack & Mustaine Talk Doom Resurrection For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Connect it to the iPhone with a bracket. Problem solved.

  16. No Mars? on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't anything involving Mars be irrelevant at the moment, as Congress decided to pass a bill saying no funding will go towards putting people on Mars?

  17. Re:Helium 3 on Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts · · Score: 1

    It's also a bad idea to take large amounts of material from the moon and bring them to Earth anyway. That's just begging for a calamity of some sort.

  18. Re:Can someone explain this guy's logic to me on Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users · · Score: 1

    But it's alot more lossful to transmit from their generator to your house than it is to transmit from your house to your neighbor's house.

  19. Re:Can someone explain this guy's logic to me on Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users · · Score: 1

    Of course. Since when do corporations do anything OTHER than make money?

  20. Re:Can someone explain this guy's logic to me on Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users · · Score: 1

    It's also reasonable to assume that since solar is catching on, the coal companies need to do everything they can to stay in business, such as :make it more expensive to get solar and keep solar, lobby for removal of subsidies, etc. We're talking about a corporation, they type of entity whose only concern is making money and staying alive.

  21. Re:More Fascism from Big Blue on IBM Uses Call-Detail Records To Identify "Friends" · · Score: 1

    So do the Iranians, as since they have something to deny having happened, it makes the Jews look worse for "lying".

  22. Re:Uh-oh on IBM Uses Call-Detail Records To Identify "Friends" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, change due to the will of a corporation!

  23. Re:someone just on RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial · · Score: 1

    the ones who have the most influence over government and the writing and enforcement of its laws.

    I wouldn't start so fast on that one. How many laws were made after 9/11? How many laws can people in the US make without that kind of incentive?

    Considering the entire goal of terrorism is to affect the laws of a government by creating high-security, low-freedom situations in a government, thus destroying it by popular opinion, why would you say terrorists are the ones who have the least influence?

  24. Re:Hrrm on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    It's more akin to them sneaking into you house unnoticed, stealing just the book, leaving and burning it. Burning down the house would be like frying every Kindle that had it by forcing a large current from the batteries.

  25. Re:Nope, just an opportunistic american. on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Litigation happens to be the only way we get things done.