Comment: Re:Pitchforks (Score 1) 853
All others count as 2/3 of a packet.
Comment: Re:stereo not the relevant point (Score 1) 261
Yeah, this. Everything I've read up to this point says that the Hobbit will never come off, since the labor issues are now personal instead of business.
iPad Steering Wheel Mount 230
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samzenpus
from the dr.-lampe's-christmas-gift dept.
from the dr.-lampe's-christmas-gift dept.
kevin7kal writes "The Apple iPad is the ideal automotive communications and entertainment device. It is sized perfectly to mount using the iPad Steering Wheel Mount without obscuring the driver's view. 'I don't think that I am exaggerating when I say that the iPad Steering Wheel Mount probably has saved my life...'"
Nintendo To Take On Piracy In 3-D 249
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Soulskill
from the dee-arrrrrr!-emm dept.
from the dee-arrrrrr!-emm dept.
crimeandpunishment writes "Nintendo says when its new handheld game device with 3-D technology comes out, it will have beefed-up anti-piracy measures. For obvious reasons, the company is keeping tight-lipped on the specifics. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata says they're not only concerned about software piracy, but also a growing tolerance for it. He said, 'We fear a kind of thinking is become widespread that paying for software is meaningless.'"
Comment: Re:Well, Yes (Score 1) 532
Actually, there were $90 videotapes, that was often the selling price of a movie that was only available as a rental. A lot of movies were $90 until the tape got re-released to the general public.
Sometimes, the rental movies never made it to general release, which is why my first copy of Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh cost $90. Totally worth it, though!
The Murky Origins of Zork's Name 70
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Soulskill
from the murky-enough-for-a-grue dept.
from the murky-enough-for-a-grue dept.
mjn writes "Computational media researcher Nick Montfort traces the murky origins of Zork's name. It's well known that the word was used in MIT hacker jargon around that time, but how did it get there? Candidates are the term 'zorch' from late 1950s DIY electronics slang, the use of the term as a placeholder in some early 1970s textbooks, the typo a QWERTY user would get if he typed 'work' on an AZERTY keyboard, and several uses in obscure sci-fi. No solid answers so far, though, as there are problems with many of the possible explanations that would have made MIT hackers unlikely to have run across them at the right time."
Comment: Re:Damn, I've booked my time off already (Score 1) 244
Whoever downmodded this needs to read some Niven and Pournelle.
Comment: Re:Even the criminals have rights (Score 1) 193
>> OK, since you got a copy you can "share" it with me.
can != will
Comment: Re:Phoenix has done screwed up. (Score 1) 515
It's just as likely that a police station is a front for drug dealing. Better alert the DEA.
+ - Jack Thompson threatens Bill Gates and MS
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smitty_srs writes "Looks like old Jackie hasn't learned his lesson yet. Now he's threatening Bill Gates over Halo 3. [gamealmimghty.com]
From the letter: 'Here's the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.'
So, the question is: Why go after Microsoft and not retailers as he's done 'successfully' before?"
From the letter: 'Here's the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.'
So, the question is: Why go after Microsoft and not retailers as he's done 'successfully' before?"
+ - Copyright Misuse Claim Against RIAA Upheld
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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's attempt to dismiss a "copyright misuse" counterclaim against it has been rejected by Judge Charles L. Brieant, in a White Plains, New York, case, Lava v. Amurao. The counterclaim (pdf) calls for the record labels to forfeit their copyrights on the ground that they "are competitors in the business of recorded music.....[and] are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust
laws and public policy, by litigating and settling all cases similar to this one together, and by entering into an unlawful agreement among themselves to prosecute and to dispose of all cases in an identical manner and through common lawyers..... Such actions represent an attempt....to secure for themselves rights far exceeding those provided by copyright laws......Such acts constitute misuse of copyrights, and lead to a forfeiture of the exclusive rights.....".
The judge also upheld (pdf) a counterclaim for declaratory judgment of non-infringement, and granted the motion for leave to file an amicus curiae brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation."