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  1. Re:It's a numbers game on Why Is US Grad School Mainly Non-US Students? · · Score: 1

    Await pickup? The internet's not like a truck, you can't just dump things into it.

  2. Re:THANK GOODNESS! on Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time · · Score: 1

    The point is that IP theft isn't wrong, it's just illegal. So we shouldn't really punish them, just technically punish them.

  3. Re:"4 wire unloaded circuit" on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work :/

  4. Re:Oops! on MIT's SAT Math Error · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Your intelligence doesn't determine how ready you are for school. I have a high IQ but I score badly because other people put more work into school than I do.

  5. Re:Interesting... on EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, you can have a monopoly unless the government interferes. How would you say microsoft assists microsoft? .. other than buying their products I guess

  6. Re:"4 wire unloaded circuit" on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    wow that was fast o_O Google's spider must get the rss feed or something.

  7. Re:Berne Convention on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    Apparently not in sweden.

  8. Re:wrong? on Man Wins Partial Victory In Circuit City Arrest · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point was to set a legal precedent, not to get a huge payout from the city. And what's your point, that governments shouldn't be responsible to their citizens becuase it's ultimately the citizens who pay? You're technically right, but governments are still liable for damages.. when you entrust a police force with weapons and right to assert force, there need to be strong penalties for them violating your rights. It's important for trust in the police to exist for citizens to be confident that if their rights are violated then they're entitled to huge amounts of money. The mechanics of where it comes from is irrelevant, it's a matter of rights, and the psychology of societies.

  9. Re:What really stiffens their niplples... on Intel Salivates Over Virtual World Processing Demands · · Score: 1

    Wow. We all know that stops griefers.

  10. Re:What really stiffens their niplples... on Intel Salivates Over Virtual World Processing Demands · · Score: 1

    Wait a second, you can write scripts that are executed on the server? What's to keep you from blowing 10000 smoke rings per second and crashing the server?

  11. Re:It depends on the provider, has nothing to do w on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's about Apple because they force you to use O2...

  12. Re:Here is a list of great open source games... on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    *woosh*

  13. Re:Sigh. on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    Yeah I looked through the source for half an hour or so and got frustrated.. you try to figure out their keyboard implementation (I have no idea how to capture keystrokes) and find the relevant source.

  14. Re:Too lazy... on TransUnion to Offer Credit Freezes Nationwide · · Score: 1

    Identity theft?...

  15. Re:Habeas Corpus not "revoked" on US Senate Fails To Reinstate Habeas Corpus · · Score: 1

    is != ought

    Whether or not it's a cosmic rule that it's immoral to deprive humans of these rights, the constitution only legally guarantees them to US citizens. If the guy's not a citizen (or legal immigrant etc) yes, you're doing wrong, but you're not doing illegal- another dimension to the Is-Ought problem.

  16. Re:Too lazy... on TransUnion to Offer Credit Freezes Nationwide · · Score: 1

    People don't care about corporate corruption. Corporate corruption doesn't ruin their lives. Their life savings vanishing and finding themselves in a million dollars of debt 5 years before retirement does.

  17. Re:Here is a list of great open source games... on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    It's just the demo, if you upgrade the pro version is amazing. Fully 3D graphics!

  18. Re:Sigh. on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    But the controls make the game hard :) I agree, neverball's only challenge is in the controls. I'm stuck on an insanely difficult level close to the end of the Hards, and I could do it in 15 seconds flat with solid keyboard controls. And the developers seem very hush-hush about a cheat key that could help me immensely- their reasoning is along the lines of "The player doesn't know what he wants. He really wants to beat it fairly."

  19. Re:Here is a list of great open source games... on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    How is that offtopic? Someone give him an underrated point and bump it back up to 2..

  20. Re:Incompatibility between CC and GNU licenses on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 0, Troll

    Forget copyleft in this case, just go with a permissive license. After all, if you're going to be sucking in non-GNU work into your application, you shouldn't relicense it with the GNU virus and take their work. That clause is in the GNU license for a reason; even RMS realized that it's unfair to take others' free work and glob it together with restrictions the original author didn't intend. Copyleft is fundamentally incompatible with what you're looking to do. If you want to copyleft your own code then it's your own business and I don't mean to say that's wrong.. but when people make their work freely available you simply cannot put it in your executable and relicense the whole thing.

  21. Re:Here is a list of great open source games... on Status Report From the Open Source Games Community · · Score: 1

    .....xeyes?

  22. Re:Strike Three on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    The lady jumping up and screaming "WTF TASER? ARE YOU CRAZY? !!!" is what I would have expected out of all of those students. If the police want to get ripped to pieces then they'd do stupid stuff like tasing a student for taking too much time. The crowd knows what they have to do but only that one woman has the guts to do it.

  23. Re:Strike Three on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    He wasn't really moving toward kerry. When he started to pull away he must have noticed immediately the alarm that the police officers showed and realized he was basically backpedaling toward the stage, so he immediately threw up his hands and turned into an aisle.

    Yeah he was clearly trying to get the crowd to help him (technically inciting a riot I suppose), but even though it's against the law it's not like they can really expect him to do otherwise. He clearly thought that his rights are being violated in a major way; nobody would just go down without a fight if they were as upset as he obviously was. It's like the international war code on POWs which actually says it's a war crime to punish POWs for trying to escape, since "come on, you really don't expect them to sit there like good prisioners do you?"

  24. Re:Strike Three on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 0

    There were more than 10 giant cops looming over him and they couldn't get him under control? They had to taser him?

  25. A linux solution... on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 1

    ...to spyware? Doubt it.