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Comment Re:chanel bags 2011 (Score 2) 202

Maybe it could rot13 the text of the comment, and then have a javascript autotranslate on click thing. That way it would be worthless for SEO type stuff.

If it got any positive mods whatsoever it wouldn't do it to avoid it being used as a "I disagree" option on otherwise decent posts.

Comment Re:They deserve any late fees they get? (Score 1) 195

Actually they would hate not being able to charge the 150-200% of the owed amount penalties and late fees. I would love to be able to tell Payroll that since they had a glitch, and didn't get me my check till a day late they have to pay me extra. $30 fee versus $0.00001 interest? Sign me up for that.

Comment Re:FBI? O RLY? (Score 1) 236

From the FBI's website

The FBI investigates matters relating to fraud, theft, or embezzlement occurring within or against the national and international financial community. These crimes are characterized by deceit, concealment, or violation of trust and are not dependent upon the application or threat of physical force or violence. Such acts are committed by individuals and organizations to obtain personal or business advantage. The FBI focuses its financial crimes investigations on such criminal activities as corporate fraud, securities and commodities fraud, health care fraud, financial institution fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, mass marketing fraud, and money laundering. These are the identified priority crime problem areas of the Financial Crimes Section (FCS) of the FBI.

Comment Re:19-0? (Score 1) 390

The ISPs will be required to not resolve the domain name, and the registars will be required to redirect the domain name to the government's control. Yes this means if you type in the IP address this does nothing. The *IAA are idiots as are the representatives.

Comment Re:What we really need is punishment for violation (Score 1) 222

So ruining someone's life by making it easy for someone to ring up thousands of dollars of debt in their name just gets a slap on the wrist, but try touching their woobally bits and we throw the book at you? How does that make any sense? Also what would keep the EFF from launching the spurious lawsuits?

Comment Re:All the wrong reason (Score 1) 443

One day my heart may stop, and then I won't be able to play any games at all. Whats your point? I have bought many games over the years that I can't play anymore. I have sitting on my desk right now the CD Case for Homeworld: Cataclysm without a disk in it. I have no idea where the disc is. Thus I have a license to play it; I own it in every sense of the word as it is used for software, but I can not play it without downloading the iso and a third party CD crack for it. When Steam does die then if it is the only form of DRM on these games, the single point of failure that you decry, then people will be able to break the protection for all the games with a single stroke by breaking the Steam DRM.

 

Comment Re:A store? What's that? (Score 1) 443

Yeah I've become kind of a Steam Sniper recently. Games I've been wanting to play for ages show up for cheap, and I grab them. Like this. Can you believe that? Commander Keen? What is the chance that you can walk into a retail store, and find something like that? It would have to be somewhere in the range of -20%. No retail store can ever hope to match the selection of an online distributor. Bandwidth and storage are a lot cheaper than real-estate, and once you get the licensing worked out you are golden on inventory.

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