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Comment Re:Freedom of speech .. (Score 3, Insightful) 187

Wow, look at all the fascists who came out to play. You guys fucking creep me out.

It helps if you actually read the Constitution. It only keeps the government from interfering with free speech of the citizenry. You can yell, write it on paper, whatever. But as soon as you use a private media outlet to stand on your soapbox, you are at the mercy of said media outlet. If the media outlet was owned by the govnernment, that would be a different story. Although, lately it is hard to tell the government from the corporate media.

Comment Re:I hope this is "uncrackable" DRM. (Score 4, Insightful) 1027

That way, when sales of Assassin's Creed 2 are pathetically low and there are no cracks available, then Ubisoft must be forced to accept that poor sales are due to poor products, not "piracy". Hopefully the movie, music and games industries will learn from Ubisoft's impending demise.

No, they will just concede that PC gaming is "dying". The sad part is, even if it isn't crackable on the PC, it most like will be for those with modded consoles.

Comment Re:Why not? (Score 1) 541

I'm sure that at some point in his tenure as King of Linux he will do things worthy of the Nobel Peace prize. Let's just give it to him now to get it out of the way.

Seems that was the reasoning for the most recent recipient.

Comment Re:Turn the tables (Score 1) 1364

Let's take away your ability to marry, and then see if you might be so inclined to lash out in any way. Perhaps when your loved one is dying in the hospital, and you are not allowed to go see her. Would you sit quietly by? I doubt it.

Wait...they have the right to marry anyone they want. Always have. Marriage is the function of the church, not government. Now if you want to benefit from the financial incentives provided by the government, then thats different. But dont say they are not ALLOWED to get married. And not allowing them to visit someone in a hospital is a policy of the hospital, not government.

Comment Re:It will never happen (Score 1) 567

And the Pacific Northwest needs their hydro power to feed what they hope to be all those computing centers.

No so fast...we here in the PNW are probably going to lose hydro power because of salmon. The feds are already discussing ripping out four dams on the Klamath river. All that leaves us up here is coal powered plants.

Comment Re:Autodesk will lose (Score 2, Interesting) 488

Yeah, unfortunately eBay will pretty much always follow through on a requested auction takedown from a content producer. They just don't want to be involved in their lawsuit.

eBay's business is in the second-hand sale. They have a strong interest in this practice to be legal.

You would think so. I tried to sell an "R4" cartridge for the Nintendo DS on ebay. It allows you to run homebrew software, play music, and watch movies on the DS. But because it *can* be used to run pirated software, ebay claimed my item violated the DMCA, canceled my auction, and threatened to pull my account if I relisted the item.

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