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  1. Re:Pay $31M, Made $300M on Hitachi Fined $31 Million For LCD Price Fixing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, pay back the full amount taken. But punitive fees for people can be much more than the cost of damage (in mp3s case many 1000x). I don't think wipeing a company of thousands of employees off the face of the earth is a good idea when the act was perpetrated by a select few. And as the article states the people directly involved are getting hefty fines AND prison time. So lesson learned without having to devalue the company.

  2. Re:Pay $31M, Made $300M on Hitachi Fined $31 Million For LCD Price Fixing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To be fair companies are people. Punitive charges don't make as much sense. Charging the people who made the decisions punitive amounts does and I believe they have/will do so. Hurting a company of thousands of employees for the actions of 2~3 people is pretty pointless. The people that made the decision will be replaced so it doesn't matter.

  3. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm sure it'd be modded +1 scalpel-sharp were there such an option

  4. Re:hmmm on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 1

    *laughs* CS is in the math faculty in my school.

  5. Re:Translation:Cycles. on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    Hah, found the orangutan. It gets even better apparently shes even stolen keys to use to get food.

    http://anaturalistinborneo.blogspot.com/2008/09/princess-and-pee.html
    http://anaturalistinborneo.blogspot.com/2008/09/princess-and-pee.html

  6. Re:Translation:Cycles. on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    How about.... http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/04_05/apeMS2604_800x575.jpg I think it was just mimicry not understanding the purpose of what he was doing but still a cool shot.

    I also read a journal once about I believe an orangutan that was involved in a study. It had a serious soap eating addiction. One day it escaped from the lab and stole a canoe type boat, used its hands to paddle and made it across the stream where some native people washed clothes every day and stole some soap. I don't know how much forethought or planning this shows. But it clearly demonstrates intelligence and persistence ability to use very complex tools and so on.

  7. Re:Translation on Chimp Found Plotting Against Zoo Guests · · Score: 1

    Joking I know but ... Monkeys or orangutans at least have been recorded to keep pets. I've heard birds that get injured in their enclosure they will nurse back to health.

  8. hmmm on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hasn't the worlds largest laser always been completed? Or at least since the first laser was created..

  9. Re:Why Parent Sucks on Human Exoskeletons Getting Closer · · Score: 1

    I don't know why they don't just rename it the second bible and get it over with already. Ever think things may have changed in a few hundred years or that you got some things wrong? Its not some higher powers will, you are allowed to question it. You know it was written by fallible men.. Yet so many americans treat it as otherwise.

  10. Re:I wonder on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure I just heard a loud WOOSH. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(Star_Trek)

    Also you are on /. commenting about particle physics. Sorry but I've got some news for you. While homeschooling might not be the cause..... you are indeed a nerd. Even if you didn't pick up the reference.

  11. Re:And on Fermilab Not Dead Yet, Discovers Rare Single Top Quark · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think this whole interaction is weak. Anti-funny really, sorry to be so negative my mother was a muon.

  12. Re:Without having RTFA... on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    Well then I retract any feeling of malice I may have had towards you. Sorry if I came on a bit ... assholeish

  13. Re:Without having RTFA... on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    FLAC was invented to burn HDD space so i suppose it could be applied in this situation. But according to the 50,000songs I have the average size per song is 5.006MB per song not 65MB as you suggest. Really I could record the music at 500MB/s and fill the server with one song but that's pretty stupid too.

    And again with DVDs 9GBs? The average I have is 786.4MB over 200movies. All DVD quality not screeners or anything like that. Bluray compress to under 5GB. A season of TV 24eps*20mins is around 5GB in HDTV.

    Bump all the sizes up 50% if you want and they will be indistinguishable from uncompressed files. I don't mean you wont be able to tell differences side by side just that you will never pass a double blind test so it doesn't really matter. But then you sound like a person who would spend 200$+ on cables for your TV so it doesn't really matter what I say.

  14. Re:Deep Thought version 0.1? on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    In case you didn't know.

    http://lmgtfy.com/?q=the+answer+to+life%2C+the+universe+and+everything

  15. Re:A.I. on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    and obama... :/ so it seems fairly not robust.

  16. Re:65 TB?!?! *gasp* on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 1

    It corresponds to 70,000 Olympic football pitches.

  17. Re:Without having RTFA... on Big Swedish Filesharing Server Seized · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, that's like the price of a used car... 10k US for the drives. Probably another few hundred for the computers. The rest is internet fees. $500/mnth in donations is pretty normal for these things. So it is doable.

    My suspicion comes here. What could the server have? 65TB isn't just a lot, it is a suspicious amount. Lets break it down.

    Say he has 800,000songs he serves (around 7years solid of music) that is 4TB of space. And lets say the rest is videos. That is about 88,000 DVDs. That since movies began there would be 880 movies a year worth watching. Movies werent that big until recently but I bet this year hollywood isn't going to release 880movies to theaters. This figure also blows away what netflix has to offer. Ignoring the fact that you would have to watch like 6 movies a day to get through the list. It doesn't make any sense.

  18. causation is not correlation on UK Government Ads Link Games With "Early Death" · · Score: 0

    Really? Lazy people that don't go out and play games EXCESSIVELY tend to turn fat or wither. And i'm sure the effects of high BMI or no muscle mass can be proven to decrease life expectancy.

    That said I think the ad campaign is offensive but probably not to the degree many people on /. probably do. It is over the top and exaggerating but its not complete lies. Sort of like smoking kills. The cigarettes aren't sticks of dynamite, they are deadly and so forth but the ads seem excessive at times. Though I guess cigarettes even in moderation are terrible for you while a weekend of gaming wont have any lasting effects... Anyways...

    ALL THINGS IN MODERATION.

  19. Re:Boxee is not like RSS in a browser on Hulu Again Removed From Boxee and Again Added Back · · Score: 1

    LOL that's hilariously ignorant. There has got to be a good quote for that.

  20. Re:Security on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 1

    National Reconnaissance Association not gunnns are goood

  21. Re:Bush's ban actually did more good than harm on Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work · · Score: 1

    The reason they have a high chance to become cancerous is because they are much more variable. Stem cells from other sources are not as valuable at esc yet. We may find a way in future but ot do so we need to research esc.

  22. Re:Why? on Obama To Reverse Bush Limits On Stem Cell Work · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pst, pro-lifers/religious right.... pretty much all of their belief system is built on the idea of a giant invisible man telling them how to live. If that's not ignorant I dunno what is. I know you think pointing out a logical fallacy will help but really it'll just make them lash out in frustration. Living as a hypocrite is hard when people shove it in your face. And it'll never get them to rethink their ways anyways you are just testing their faith(aka ability to ignore logic).

  23. Security on US Cybersecurity Chief Beckstrom Resigns · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The US security system(s) always amaze me. OkOk so the military gets infantry, navy and special ops divisions. But in the US you guys have like at least 10 other organizations. And all of their objectives are vague. Why not just close/merge a bunch of them. CIA FBI NSA NCSC US SS DoH DIA NRA really I could just start picking random letters (and i'm sure there are more than i've listed). They each get like 10billion a year. You see the same things happening with science. Cept the total for science is like 30b instead of 100. Its kind of amazingly wasteful. Even assuming they worked together well with no overlap. It is hard for a government to properly overview that many pointless departments if you don't even know what they are supposed to be doing.

  24. Re:Long time coming on Guitar Hero, On a Real Guitar, To Hit Shelves In 2009 · · Score: 1

    The EWI?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVp9kmjbzI

  25. Re:OU Student Here on Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution · · Score: 1

    Is the bible/God ok with you having genitalia? Is it therefore ok to post pictures of genitals across town? If no, you should get to chopping off your junk. If yes feel free to start posting, see how it works out.