Comment Re:You have no idea how GOOD this is (Score 1) 528
Wait, if you hated FFM so much, why did you use it for a year and a half?
Comment Re:Shhh ... (Score 2, Informative) 327
I'm an inhuman monster who things we should sterilize everyone at 12. If they want kids some time later, have them pass a simple parenting test, and the process is reversed.
Deal! You rush off and solve that little "And the process is reversed" impossibility, and then we will open discussions on the rest of your plan.
reversing both vasectomys and tubal ligations are solved problems
Comment Didn't Richard Stallman come up with this idea? (Score 1) 398
Didn't RMS come up with this idea about twelve years ago? It's basically the same thing...
Comment Re:Much Faster Floppy Drive for the C64 (Score 3, Informative) 177
you mean like the 1541 ultimate ( http://www.1541ultimate.net/ )?
Comment Re:xscreensaver's Apple ][? (Score 1) 226
To be fair, VICE's PAL Emulation code is an implementation of the same stuff - especially the new pal emulation code in the 2.1 series
Comment Re:Two key differences (Score 1) 408
Trackers and
To some this might seem like nitpicking, but the distinction really isn't clear-cut here. We can't say that TPB is illegal and Google is not, and just use a plea to so-called common sense. Easy arguments such as "but TPB link to more illegal files" or "they have a Pirate in their name for chrissakes" just don't cut it here.
You are suffering the standard slashdot disease of "the law is a like computer and i can interpret it as computer code" syndrome. In reality, the law cares very deeply about intent - as you would expect for a system designed to deal with humans, and not code, and hence far cares less about technicality than would be nessesary for your argument to hold water.
This is why there are the crimes murder1, murder2, murder3, manslaughter, and negligent homicide, as well as the non-crime of self defence. They are all the same activity (killing a human), but the intent and motivations are what matters
Google shows a very clear intent, to indiscriminately index the web. They have been completely consistent in this regard. The pirate bay crew, on the other hand, have repeatedly said _publically_ that they exist to facilitate piracy, as a form of civil disobedience. As maddox says, civil disobedience is still disobedience, and the law treats it as such.
I do believe the law should be changed. But to say that the TPB crew did not break it as currently written is folly at best. And, to be honest, I think they knew that - it wouldn't be civil disobedience if they did not.
Comment Re:Getting rid of Windows (Score 1) 152
The research agrees with you - the 30fps limit thing is basically an urban legend, supported by nothing at all.
New Paper Offers Additional Reasoning for Fermi's Paradox 774
KentuckyFC writes "If the universe is teeming with advanced civilizations capable of communicating over interstellar distances, then surely we ought to have seen them by now. That's the gist of a paradoxical line of reasoning put forward by the physicist Enrico Fermi in 1950. The so-called Fermi Paradox has haunted SETI researchers ever since. Not least because if the number of intelligent civilizations capable of communication in our galaxy is greater than 1, then we should eventually hear from them. Now one astrophysicist says this thinking fails to take into account the limit to how far a signal from ET can travel before it becomes too faint to hear. Factor that in and everything changes. Assuming the average communicating civilization has a lifetime of 1,000 years, ten times longer than Earth has been broadcasting, and has a signal horizon of 1,000 light-years, you need a minimum of over 300 communicating civilizations in the Milky Way to ensure that you'll see one of them. Any less than that and the chances are that they'll live out their days entirely ignorant of each other's existence. Paradox solved, right?"
Comment Re:Bit of a tangent (Score 1) 231
Intel has a reputation as one of the most clued-up open source-friendly hardware companies,
That's interesting, because I've noticed that many of the FOSS folks I know (the ones that seem especially zealous) have a particular disdain for Intel or anything they've touched. Could anyone clue me in regarding why? Usually when one of my FOSS friends goes on a rant about this, he's too worked up to be comprehensible.
History, primarily. If you wind back the clock ten to fifteen years, intel were a bunch of evil motherfuckers to pretty much everyone they encountered - not to mention the "Wintel" alliance between intel and microsoft, back in the day (what, you thought that term just materialised out of fat air?)
As they say, redemption isn't all it's cracked up to be, and some people are having trouble getting past that shit. Personally, I think intel have succeeded at redemption - however, I can see where these guys are coming from. They are nothing if not a fairweather friend.
Comment Re:Simpsons porn is child porn too. (Score 1) 933
What I honestly don't get, is wouldn't simpsons porn make more sense if it was Marge, who is well of age?
I mean, seriously, how is it that simpsons porn automatically means bart and lisa now? Does that sound fucked up to anyone else?
