Comment: Re:WoW tax (Score 1) 234
They won't take silver notes. They won't take some precious coins. They may take silver dimes and quarters at face value. They base this on a snarling rats nest of US laws.
Comment: Re:I never understood (Score 1) 67
I like my hand hacked python front end that calls whatever is needed to play the music I pick. All of it's command line players which are sox, flac, ogg123, mpg321 etc etc even some rooshin abomination send by the evil commies to seduce me with Russian DISCO!
Comment: Re:Much awaited.. (Score 1) 244
I thought he did fairly well at playing a broke down sheriff in a small town in Last Stand. It was not perfect and I'm not sure of budget or take. I rented it.
Ortiz-Heymann: the Prior Generation 57
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theodp writes "Two decades before the White House was petitioned to remove U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz and her Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Heymann from their jobs for the allegedly overzealous prosecution of Aaron Swartz, the Boston Globe reported on allegations of 'sometimes heavy-handed tactics and inaccuracies' of an NFL investigation into sexual harassment charges made by a sportswriter against the New England Patriots that was led by Watergate prosecutor Philip Heymann (Stephen's father) and included Ortiz. 'From the day Philip Heymann and his colleagues walked into Foxboro Stadium to investigate Lisa Olson's charges of sexual harassment,' the Globe reported, 'the New England Patriots were on the defensive, and apparently, they stayed there to the end. One day after conducting a preliminary six-hour interview with Olson, Heymann introduced each investigator to the Patriots and outlined their backgrounds at a meeting he later called benign. Yet he also said two weeks ago, "They were frightened from the beginning by the way I introduced people. I said that Jerry O'Sullivan had been US Attorney. I said Jim Ring had been FBI special agent in charge of organized crime."'
Regarding Ortiz, the Globe reported, 'Heymann investigator Carmen Ortiz wrote in a memo of her Oct. 18, 1990, interview with [Lisa Olson] that she took no notes and did not tape-record the conversation. Yet she used direct quotes when writing up her 15-page report on the session. When asked to explain, she referred the Globe to Heymann.' Aside from transcripts of two interviews (the tapes of which were destroyed), the Globe reported the NFL kept no notes on its interviews with 89 other people. '"It was contemplated that there would be a motion such as this [a lawsuit by Olson] and we did not want to create that type of document," an NFL attorney explained. According to the Globe, an attorney representing the Patriots said that 'one reason the tapes were destroyed may be that the NFL did not want anyone to hear raised voices or pounding of tables. He said some of those interviewed were not allowed to leave the room and had their livelihoods threatened if they did not cooperate.' Curiously, the elder Heymann featured prominently in a recently-upheld DOJ motion to keep the names of key people involved in the Aaron Swartz case secret — a postcard threat received by Philip Heymann was cited by Ortiz's office as evidence of why such secrecy was necessary."
Regarding Ortiz, the Globe reported, 'Heymann investigator Carmen Ortiz wrote in a memo of her Oct. 18, 1990, interview with [Lisa Olson] that she took no notes and did not tape-record the conversation. Yet she used direct quotes when writing up her 15-page report on the session. When asked to explain, she referred the Globe to Heymann.' Aside from transcripts of two interviews (the tapes of which were destroyed), the Globe reported the NFL kept no notes on its interviews with 89 other people. '"It was contemplated that there would be a motion such as this [a lawsuit by Olson] and we did not want to create that type of document," an NFL attorney explained. According to the Globe, an attorney representing the Patriots said that 'one reason the tapes were destroyed may be that the NFL did not want anyone to hear raised voices or pounding of tables. He said some of those interviewed were not allowed to leave the room and had their livelihoods threatened if they did not cooperate.' Curiously, the elder Heymann featured prominently in a recently-upheld DOJ motion to keep the names of key people involved in the Aaron Swartz case secret — a postcard threat received by Philip Heymann was cited by Ortiz's office as evidence of why such secrecy was necessary."
Comment: Re:doesn't help people take games seriously either (Score 1) 729
It will sell games to guys. Figure out what thing you can stick in your game companies cubicle other than a generic robot and a pasty faced smile.
I suggest a pony with rainbow colored mane. That will draw women and bronies and probably some furries though I may have them confused with zoophiles. That should boost up your coverage to 50% of gamers. You cannot lose.
Comment: Deinvent cycle. (Score -1) 302
Google is dumbing down and de-inventing itself, closing up, monetizing and ossifying.
Facebook wants to be Google yet NotGoogle.
Apple wants to suck off the unconvicted criminals at Intel some more rather than do any hardware innovation.
All of them suck off the NSA on command.
I don't see anything but the tinker groups who are doing anything cool with a chance of being the next big thing. 3D printing and various microcontroller hacking has a lot of potential but there are other types of tinkers and I'm sure we'll hear from them soon.
Comment: I never understood (Score 3, Interesting) 67
I never understood how they were going to monetize that. There were enough players that were good enough and free that I didn't see the point.
Comment: Re:Much awaited.. (Score 1) 244
Yep he sure sucked which is why his movies make so much money.
It's like writers who vomit out a decalogy that suck yet become billionaires.
Comment: Re:Much awaited.. (Score 1) 244
YES PAYCHECK! YES! CGI PLASTIQUE SURGERY!
What we won't see is:
Good acting from the cast other than Arnold.
Good script
Tastefully and expertly used CGI
Good script
A final ending to the madness!
Comment: Re:MATE or Cinnamon (Score 1) 169
And now comes the grammer gnazi. Like their political counterpart the grammer gnazi is incapable of understanding anything not codified in strict stifling rules. There is no such thing as an organic and changing language based on cultural changes over time. It Must Be Fixed and It Must Be Obeyed. Nothing human shall interfere with ORDER!!! It is fortunate that their political counterparts are for the most part dead or we'd all be gassed for our linguistic transgressions.
Comment: Re:Copper? (Score 1) 347
OMG SEND ME THAT PHONE!. With a simple LCD display and it's Just A Phucking Phone and as many weeks standby and talk time as I can get. I want it to be like my Sony Erickson which I threw at a cretin and knocked out but better. 1600ma NiMH battery. I called 911 on it after. I saw the article about that phone but lost track of it if it would work on GSM with an unlocked sim I'll smuggle it in
Comment: Re:Copper? (Score 1) 347
If someone were to dig out the copper everywhere else and sell it to pay for their T1 it has multiple benefits.
Comment: Re:Copper? (Score 1) 347
In some areas that's true but I was going by Verizon and others ripping out copper and putting in fiber. I had thought the price of copper was at peak but there's still a lot of it in the ground in Africa but it's development is slowed due to copper prices.
When not if metals go up there will be incentive to rip and replace as the price of the metal can pay for the fiber.
It will most likely be a snowy day in hell for fiber to reach rural areas. In areas where the established utilities are NOT upgrading the local community should have the power to kick them the hell out and create their own monopoly.
Comment: Copper? (Score 4, Interesting) 347
All of that wiring will be reclaimed. It's not worth as much as wiring as it is in thousands of other items. Even the copper coated steel wiring is worth more as other things. You have fiber and wireless and I don't see anything else soon.
Comment: Re:must be a joke (Score 1) 316
The main stream media is a joke. When you see their product in a dispenser and you seen an empty 2" boarder on each side it's indicative of decay. When they cut the comics section down instead of inflating it with ads it's a sign of insanity. When they give us polemics instead of the news it's a tragedy. When they support authorized news organizations sanctified by the government all of us have failed and all of us will suffer.