Comment: There can be only one... (Score 1) 423
...and it's this.
Comment: Re:Again, the Internet routes around the damage... (Score 1) 359
The solution is for people to recognize that they are doing harm with piracy.
(peruses profile/previous comments) PROCESSING... PROCESSING... RIAA SHILL DETECTED...
Comment: Re:Again, the Internet routes around the damage... (Score 1) 359
Interesting....but, the shift in the way people view the concept of copyright that you speak of (and, yes, I sense it too) came about because of that romantic idea of defiance. You toss that away and people will just revert to ad hominem "MUST DO AS IMPORTANT PEOPLE TELL ME" thinking. The idea MUST hold that classically romantic feeling of "This is Right. This is Important"...otherwise, it's not interesting and, therefore, not worth fighting for.
Comment: Re:The scene from 24 (Score 1) 1200
SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE TIME!
Comment: Re:Yay! (Score 1) 175
The Leader is gratified that your prove his point that oppressed masses throughout the world laud the technological strides that makes the DPRK the leader in advancement and computer science (III) throughout the world.
He offers you a place at his side in the coming revolution.
[you are likely to be eaten by a grue]
Comment: Employee Zero... (Score 1) 342
...will vacate the human residence.
Comment: Re:Wonder how long he'll last (Score 1) 72
Usually courageous people like that get removed from office pretty quick.
Unfortunately true. It's like Tommy Lee Jones says in Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are dumb..."
If only there were more persons and less people...
Comment: Re:There were some damn fine games in that era... (Score 4, Funny) 274
and we didn't need gimmicks like motion controllers, photo-realistic graphics and high framerates to enjoy them.
...consarn it!
+ - 4chan Does Something Nice->
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Hugh Pickens writes "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on facebook had 3,956 "likes" and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members "were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes" and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. "They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.""
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Comment: Why would anyone... (Score 2, Insightful) 209
...bother downloading an entire porn movie? The innumerable porn versions of youtube that are out there provide plenty of free material for, er, whatever you need it for. Whether 5 minutes or an hour, it's out there and with all the variety you've come to expect. Er, so I hear.
Comment: What problem? (Score 2, Funny) 149
Just send up a guy with a jet pack and a baseball bat...let reentry take care of the rest.
Comment: Re:Speechless (Score 1) 282
At least in the soviet era, the brutal attack was expected...and even anticipated. After the fall of the "state," everyone expected change. Something like this is kinda like your grandmother hitting you with a baseball bat for eating a chocolate that she gave you.
Comment: "That's some mighty fine science, Lou." (Score 0, Redundant) 154
Since 1980 over a half million asteroids have been discovered, mostly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
Between Mars and Jupiter, huh? You mean right where the asteroid belt is? And there are asteroids in it? Wow.
+ - Lazy clause algorithm makes decisions faster-> 1
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schliz writes "Australian researchers have developed a 'combinatorial optimisation' algorithm called the lazy clause generator, which combines low- and high- level programming techniques to solve problems like rostering, resource allocation and Sudoku. The algorithm is part of Government-funded NICTA's G12 constraint programming project, and could speed industrial decision making processes by "orders of magnitude" — however, its developer does not expect it to replace human managers "because in the end, people want to feel like they're in control of the process"."
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+ - Confirmed: Steam Not Coming To Linux-> 5
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dkd903 writes "A rumor has been going around for about four months that Valve was working on a Linux version of Steam and this had a lot of people in the Linux community very excited. But, Valve has now officially killed the rumor. And it is not what people wants to hear – there is no Linux version of Steam in development. Doug Lombardi, the Marketing VP of Valve Corporation, in an interview, has put an end to all the rumors by saying that they are not working on Steam for Linux right now."
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