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  1. Re:If the GPLv3 real motive is so clear... on Lawyer Thinks Microsoft Can Evade GPL 3 · · Score: 1

    I've been looking for that kind of license, sort of, with little success. What I want is a license that allows app to be used with/compiled for free oses (Linux, BSDs, e.t.c.) only. Didn't find any...

  2. Oblig on What Does the 'Next Internet' Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Bender: Behold: the Internet!
    Fry: My God. It's full of ads!

  3. Re:weird ideas on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    You have an odd definition of "not so far away", 93 million miles.
    That's by design. Can't be serious all the time...

  4. Re:What goes up must come down. on Web 2.0 Bubble May Be Worst Burst Yet · · Score: 1

    Do we see any sillines getting investors' money in China?

  5. Re:weird ideas on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    Research reactor? I was talking about the Sun

  6. weird ideas on "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy? · · Score: 1

    We've got a frigging huge thermonuclear reactor not so far away. Just capture a part of the energy it radiates and be happy. No, we need to recycle the energy that's already here (humans walking, humans farting - attach the methane hose, whatever next weird idea we have) for the sake of I don't know what. You can't conserve that thing in the sky, it burns away. Use it or loose it. There are so many ways, and not all of them involve fossil fuels (for those who have an illusion that we can keep the planet cool).

  7. 12 hours/day ! on On the Widespread Misuse of the Mouse · · Score: 1

    There's barely any skin left on the ... uhm... device... (pointing device?)

  8. 40 columns! on Are 80 Columns Enough? · · Score: 1

    40 columns (and 25 rows) should be enough for anybody, you insensitive clod!

  9. So.... on Military Running a Parallel Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    1. Sink the world into chaos
    2. Witness no Muhammad whatever his name appear on the stage
    3. Islamic problem solved?

  10. why not Venus? on Scientist Calls Mars a Terraforming Target · · Score: 1

    Venus is closer, more Earth-like in just about every way we can imagine. We just need to get rid of the exessive atmosphere (far easier than bringing an atmosphere somewhere) - just sweep it under the carpet (store liquified in inderground vault or something), and apply a lot of sunscreen.

  11. Re:Why does America need farms? on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 1

    US has farms because americans are pretty good when it comes to framing. US farms are just more productive. Part of the reason, I suspect, is that people who run those farms are smarter then you are.

  12. Re:Teleporter death on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 1

    Teleportation = creation of a clone + killing of the original person. It makes sence to keep the poor guy alive, I think. Also, why would you need such clone? Life's gonna be much more complicated once you do. Anyway, it's not gonna work: you need to measure the quantum state of every atom in your body, and they all will change as a result. I wouldn't want to be you when it happens! I may be dead wrong, of course - I'm not a physicist.

  13. how long till we can say on Venter Institute Claims Patent on Synthetic Life · · Score: 1

    in Venter Institute geneticists patent you
    ?

  14. Re:Does it really even matter? on Hackers Dodge Xbox Live Shutout · · Score: 1

    I play Call of Duty. First of all, PunkBuster does a good job on catching an aimbot, and second, aimbot users are so naive that you're almost always behind their back... unless you run around mindlessly shooting anyone on sight...

  15. Re:Declining?! on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    They aren't exactly fleeing western countries for Russia. Where would you rather be, in Baghdad, Kabul or Moscow? Russia is not so picky about who is permitted to enter the country as western countries are.

  16. Re:Declining?! on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    US is encouraging immigration, Russia does not. Look at the results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_ immigrant_population
    It's quite likely that that Russia will start to attract immigrants 'cos the gummint wants it. Those who are not happy will be simply ignored, just like it was during abolishment of freedom of speech, or is now, when private property is on its way to be abolished.

  17. Re:Does it really even matter? on Hackers Dodge Xbox Live Shutout · · Score: 1

    I mostly play on a server that's aggressively monitored for cheaters, so when a cheater's caught (happens almost daily) a can see how good I am comparing to him. The cheaters routinely get owned by me, and I'm just a mediocre player. Perhaps if you move from mindless shooting to more advanced tactics you'll experience the same effect?

  18. in Soviet Russia on iPod Casualties Offer New-In-Box Bargains · · Score: -1, Troll

    iPods are embarassment to their owners, so most of the owners are Mac zealots, and Mac isn't strong in this country. Coincidentally there's no advertising campaign. That's a strong evidence for hype as a major factor in iPod sells. There are lots of people with smartphones or pdas that cost more that iPod, so price can't explain it as well.

  19. a question on Microsoft, Sue Me First · · Score: 1

    Is it possible for a person to nullify MS patents (provided that patents user infringes on are known) in court because MS isn't protecting them without MS suing that person?

  20. Re:This is a good thing on Microsoft Bans Modified Xbox 360s From Xbox Live · · Score: 1

    I mostly play cod1 on a server that is very agressively monitored for the cheaters. Either your PB works perfecly and delivers good screenshots with nothing non-standard, or you're banned for life. Is it a problem to find such server for cod2?

  21. Re:Hmm.. on Who Owns The Linux Trademark? · · Score: 1

    Effective manager? Clear vision? It's a penguin, for God's sake! What next? Linus'es great marketing skills because he named Linux "Linux" ?

  22. Re:Actually, this is good news on Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This may sound weird for you, but Soviet Union was more or less like teocratic state, with religion replaced by communism. There was a set of nonsense beliefs you couldn't question that governed everyone's life. Gorbachev's time was a time when this system suffered a great erosion (toward a free country). Now it's more or less feudal state (before Magna Carta), but because the rulers want to look nice in Europe, there's a lot of brainwashing and Potemkins villages to pretend it's a nice democratic state. The people from the class above you (there's a hierarchy) can do whatever they want to you (including murdering you, or taking away your propery) effectively with no penalty, but the system will make it look to like nothing bad happened. Interestingly, the brainwashing machine started under Yeltsin, who showed no autocratic tendencies: during the time of his reelection he has extremely low prospects for reelection, so major entrepreneurs (who later became known as oligarchs) have build a brainwashing machine to reelect him. Later, ex-KGB goons took over it.

  23. Re:Actually, this is good news on Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship · · Score: 1

    I'm being anal, but Khlebnikov most likely has been killed by Chechen rebels, you can hardly blame the state here. That doesn't mean that the state is good, of course. Politkovskaya is the victim of pro-Kremlin Chechens, Litvininko, while not being a journalist is a victim of FSB (KGB), and lots of journalist are abused in many ways once they say something a Big Brother doesn't want them to say.

  24. Re:This is a good thing on Microsoft Bans Modified Xbox 360s From Xbox Live · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My experience with Call of Duty that the ratio of people perceived as cheaters to actual cheaters is somewhere around 1000 to 1. Could this also be true with other games?

  25. Re:Gee.. on Microsoft Says Your Phone is Your Next PC · · Score: 1

    Well, they've been moving in that direction for years. WinCE, compact .net framework...
    Expect to pay ms tax when you buy your new phone...