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Comment Re:In other words... (Score 1) 453

by l3ert (#28967169) Attached to: <em>StarCraft II</em> Delayed Until 2010
Those bug you describe were there about a year ago and have long since been resolved. WoW is relatively bug free when compared to most games nowadays. I'd say its comparable to console games when patching was not an option. Sure, when new content patches come out, some bugs slip through beta but are quickly resolved. Blizzard may have faults but releasing buggy software isn't one of them.

Comment Re:First Vote (Score 5, Insightful) 394

by l3ert (#28586439) Attached to: Pirate Party Coming To Canada
I generally agree with you except for:

It's all very well saying that if the content is good people will go out and buy it anyway - but once you make it legal, mainstream hardware manufacturers will come along with P2P-enabled set-top boxes which will bring convenience to the mass market, and there will be no reason for anyone to go out and buy any content. It would destroy the content creators overnight, and then we'd get no quality content.

It would destroy the content industry not the content creators. Not that artists wouldn't be affected but it will not kill the arts. And, in any cases, if protecting IP rights involves any of DRM, communication monitoring, restrictions on technological development, taxes that go mainly to companies and a handful of top (already rich) artists then I'd rather see the whole entertainment industry die.

Comment Re:Don't play dead (Score 1) 803

by l3ert (#28242355) Attached to: How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial?
I hope that beings sufficiently advanced to be able to come visit us would be immune to such silly propaganda. And the idea that we would be able to defend ourselves in any way is laughable. The best we could do if aliens showed off today is acknowledge to them that we are relatively immature and inferior but we would like to take the opportunity to speed up our evolution so that one day we may sit as equals to them. If they are hostile, then so be it, it was a good 200,000 years, time to die.

Comment Re:Already have it on Android (Score 1) 90

by l3ert (#28151561) Attached to: Classic <em>Doom</em> Coming To the iPhone Next Month
Meh. At the time I had a SNES my computer was an ancient Amstrad 512. So, apart from Sierra adventure games most of my gaming was done on consoles. Me and a friend rented Doom for the SNES, we kept it for 2 weeks. We played several hours a day. Each time one would die we switched player. It might not have being a great port but it was definitely a good game for me.
Networking

Time Warner Shutting Off Austin Accounts For Heavy Usage 591

Posted by Soulskill from the somebody-threw-them-a-shovel dept.
mariushm writes "After deciding to shelve metered broadband plans, it looks like Time Warner is cutting off, with no warning, the accounts of customers whom they deem to have used too much bandwidth. 'Austin Stop The Cap reader Ryan Howard reports that his Road Runner service was cut off yesterday without warning. According to Ryan, it took four calls to technical support, two visits to the cable store to try two new cable modems (all to no avail), before someone at Time Warner finally told him to call the company's "Security and Abuse" center. "I called the number and had to leave a voice mail, and about an hour later a Time Warner technician called me back and lectured me for using 44 gigabytes in one week," Howard wrote. Howard was then "educated" about his usage. "According to her, that is more than most people use in a year," Howard said.'"

Comment Re:We need to start passing laws... (Score 1) 515

by l3ert (#27458957) Attached to: Phoenix Police Seize PCs of a Blogger Critical of the Department

What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?

We do nothing. The police doesn't need protection from rantings.

It works both ways, this guy could have easily avoided whats happening to him, IF it IS a bullying session.

No bullying warrants a police raid.
Privacy

Submission + - Individual Privacy Under Threat in Europe and U.S. (iht.com) 1

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Mike writes: "Individual privacy is under greater threat than ever before in both the United States and across the European Union, the international rights group Privacy International has said in a report. "The general trend is that privacy is being extinguished in country after country," said Simon Davies, director of Privacy International. "Even those countries where we expected ongoing strong privacy protection, like Germany and Canada, are sinking into the mire." And things are getting worse, not better, the report concludes."

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