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  1. Re:Umm... WHY??? on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 1

    I remember a few years ago when Notch was going on and on about getting a new oscilloscope. I sort of hoped he'd gotten a Tek 547 or maybe a nice 475.

  2. Re:Umm... WHY??? on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 1

    I read Snowcrash. About 14 years ago. Lots of us here probably did. There's a lot more in that book than the metaverse. Gargoyles have materialized in r.l. as glassholes, for example.

    Read 'The Big U'. It's fun, it's from before N.S. got such an attitude. He finally allowed it to be reissued.

  3. Re:Seems fine to me. on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, too many people have surrendered or abandoned all other means of distance communicating. We're stuck with cellphones, I'm afraid.

  4. No. on Report: Microsoft To Buy Minecraft Studio For $2bn+ · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please. No.

  5. Re:So what exactly is the market here. on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Pretty soon (line up at the Apple Store!) wristwatches will be cool again.

    Seriously, Steve would be pissed about a LOT of this. But bizzness is bizzness*, and Steve's gone.

    (*there's a lot of money in selling sugar water to kids!)

  6. Re:So what exactly is the market here. on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    And the bluetooth headphone that speaks caller ID means that a watch device where your wrist has to stay easily bareable just seems stupid, because you already (should) have the headphone. Right?

  7. Re:So what exactly is the market here. on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    I hold little dinner partys with my phone. My sister even knitted little outfits to dress it up in.

  8. Re:So what exactly is the market here. on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    They couldn't even play music unless you had a Mac with a firewire connection to load the music.

  9. Re:Lame on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's from Apple. So it needs to have a splashy adjective (great, awesome, insanely great, etc.) to prepend the word that names it. Becuz: hype.

  10. Re:Lame on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    It's very possible that this method of charging was mandated by safety considerations. A direct electric connection to a sweaty wrist worn device is sort of scary. Apple has to assume some of their customers (they bought Apple products , duh) will foolishly charge the watch while wearing it. This reduces the risk when they do.

  11. Re:Lame on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Real transformers have VERY closely coupled magnetic domains. Particularly transformers designed to be efficient. This is essentially a wall wart grade device where efficiency is fairly irrelevant.

    Don't kid yourself that this method of coupling relates at all to efficient transformer design. Now, we know it's Apple, but it's not the second coming of the Altivec.

  12. Re:Trust us with your payments on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    Anybody dumb enough to use 'the cloud' for privatepersonal information is the victim.

    Further, anybody dumb enough to buy a mobile device that doesn't have robust removable storage inthe form of some industry standard (i.e. an SD card slot) is a victim of a craven device vendor (i.e Apple or Google) who is deliberately trying to coerce them into putting their personal private information out on'the cloud.'

    The meme needs to be: 'The cloud? How stupid!'

    Sorry data miners. Now go foad.

  13. Re:Voliunteer workers for the IRS? on Protesters Blockade Microsoft's Seattle Headquarters Over Tax Breaks · · Score: 1

    What the heck, I can jump in on this too.

    If big corporations decide to pay as many taxes as they can, they'll have to get the money somewhere, so they will raise their prices, and it'll be you and me footing the bill.

  14. Re:ELI5 please on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    His code was GPL in name only. Since the body of code contained a part that was not GPL, the decompiled Mojang code, it is at most released under a tainted psuedo-GPL license.

  15. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    Mojang hired a number of the key Bukkit devs and rights to the Bukkit name. A guy who works for Joe's Plumbing and hacks code on his day off could be decompiling and prepping the Mojang binary.

  16. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    Succintly, a number of people have been profitting by putting up mulitplayer servers using in part Mojangs code, combined with Buckit and other what-not mod code. They sell Minecraft players access to their servers. This is not allowed by Mojang, who distribute the server binary free for noncommercial use. Mojang takes control of situation by hiring key Buckitt devs and bringing the codebase closer to in-house.

    Butthurt dev lashes out in way he considers possible.

  17. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    What makes it even more intricate is that the GPL project makes use of the decompiled code to hook into the proprietary binary. In other words, the decompiled and deobfuscated 'code' block needs to be re-created sort of from scratch with each new binary release from Mojang. That's why with each new release from Mojang all the mods have to be 'retweaked' to work with the new release, which results in an awkward resynch of everything that is mod based. The 'decompiled and deobfuscated' code has to re redone each time Mojang has a new release.

  18. Re:Stevenson estate on Deadmau5 Accuses Disney of Pirating His Music · · Score: 2

    The Grimm brothers themselves were collectors and aggregators of oral tradition stories. They certainly never pretended that they wrote the stories in their collections. That is part of what makes their story collections so rich.

  19. Re:ELI5 please on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 2

    Since the Minecraft devs have full access to the source code, they are probably uniquely equipped to plug in new code to replace the sections of Bukkit that are GPL'd. Whether they'll need to use a 'cleanroom' approach is interesting to speculate on.

  20. Re:Bass Ackward on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 2

    The worst thing I can see coming out of this is the stigma it would attach to companies purchasing companies with GPL'd code. One of the worst, most hyped up fears that anti-GPL forces toss out there is the idea that 'touching' GPL'd code can yank a companies whole codebase under a GPL license. Which is unfounded, but those sorts of people already rely on distorted interpretations to make their case. This whole instance is just a handout to anti-GPL. Sadly.

  21. Re:This is BS on Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola · · Score: 2

    Keep it up. More and more people will figure out what fever-swamp nuts you are. Keep damaging you brand and maybe we'll be rid of you soon.

  22. Telephone Sanitisers won't suffice. This is too big a job for just them.

  23. Re:should be an interesting history of computers on Bill Gates Wants To Remake the Way History Is Taught. Should We Let Him? · · Score: 2

    You misspelled 'Apple' in above paragraph.

    I am hoping, though, based on the rising buzz, that I've mentioned 'Apple' here for the last time they'll be mentioned on Slashdot for a week. There's a whole shitsludge avalanche of Apple hype sliding out this coming week that badly needs to be contained.

  24. Re:Deblasio has been working hard on NYPD Starts Body Camera Pilot Program · · Score: 1

    No human being is ever completely disarmed. Also, some versions of the story of what happened in Ferguson say the the man killed was vigorously struggling to become the armed man, i.e. trying to wrest the policeman's gun away from him.

    The truth is going to be determined eventually. When it is, we'll all need to settle for it and we will ALL need to stfu about our prejudices. Ah, I'm such a dreamer....

  25. Re:Shareware via IAP on Google To Refund $19M In In-App Purchases Made By Kids · · Score: 3, Informative

    The concept of shareware, as originally envisioned by Buttonware back when the term was first coined, is that the software is totally available, and people should donate money in an honor system, if they wanted to support the software. Partially functional software that has to be paid for to get the whole use is called crippleware.