Comment Re:Nope. Telstra was anti-censorship. (Score 3, Funny) 158
FFS, get back to work Sol...
Comment Re:I'm quite the opposite... (Score 1) 516
Diety forbid that the stupid sap actually take some personal fucking responsibility and slap on a condom or whatever.
The way you're spouting on, one would think that men had no specific actions they could take themselves, like slap on a condom, have a vasectomy etc. Way to make out that men are simple robots to their desire to hump anything that moves and can't help themselves. Only a numbnut would wait for the woman to "insist" he wear a comdom, and then clap his hands with glee when she didn't.
The way you're spouting on, one would think that men had no specific actions they could take themselves, like slap on a condom, have a vasectomy etc. Way to make out that men are simple robots to their desire to hump anything that moves and can't help themselves. Only a numbnut would wait for the woman to "insist" he wear a comdom, and then clap his hands with glee when she didn't.
Maybe such guys need the following message inked on the appropriate place on their dick so they can read it when they crack a fat - "Put on a rubber!"
Comment Re:Why Not? (Score 1) 516
Clearly that hasn't been the case for you...
Comment Re:Time to move... (Score 1) 314
I suspect fixing "I'll go as long as I can get internet access" to read "I'll go as long as I can get internet porn" is redundant...
after all, internet=porn (plus some other irrelevant stuff).
after all, internet=porn (plus some other irrelevant stuff).
Comment Re:Criminal intent? (Score 1) 400
Thanks to P and GP - some great sites there!
Submission + - 'Pwnage' Pwned!
lendude writes: Trademork, a 'Trademark Oddities, Information and News' site, has a story up on the Finnish software development company Futuremark filing to protect the trademark 'Pwnage' in what appears to be some fairly wide terms - Trademork 'Pwnage' Post.
The site links to the specific USPTO page, also linked following: - USPTO 'Pwnage' filing.
Is it April already, isn't this popular use by now, etc etc? WTF? (can I say that or is it trademarked?)
The site links to the specific USPTO page, also linked following: - USPTO 'Pwnage' filing.
Is it April already, isn't this popular use by now, etc etc? WTF? (can I say that or is it trademarked?)
BSA Software Piracy Fight Smacks of RIAA Crackdown 282
Ron Paul Dennis Kucinich writes "A Business Software Alliance raid on musical-instrument maker Ernie Ball Inc. cost the company $90,000 in a settlement. Soon after, Microsoft sent other businesses in the region around Ball's a flyer offering discounts on software licenses, along with a reminder not to wind up like Ernie Ball. Enraged, CEO Sterling Ball vowed never to use Microsoft software again, even if 'we have to buy 10,000 abacuses.' Similar BSA raids around the country have been provoking strong reactions from put-upon business owners, echoing similar reactions to music-lovers targeted by the RIAA."
Submission + - id's ET: Quake Wars And Carmack's MegaTextures (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "id Software continues to enhance the Doom 3 engine. The recent release
of their Enemy Territory: Quake Wars demo showcases a new texture compression
technology. The
screen shots here, taken on a Geforce 8800 with high quality details and 4X
anti-aliasing, show the first application of John Carmack's MegaTexture for
terrain mapping. This technology allows rendering of extremely large outdoor
terrain without the need to re-use or tile multiple smaller textures. The trick is
all in Carmack's compression algorithm where for example, a 6 gig environment landscape texture map can be compressed down to 8MB without any loss in image quality.
The
HDR-like lighting in the engine looks impressive as well."
Submission + - Microsoft Patents Uncrackable DRM
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has just received a little-known patent for a "Stealthy audio watermarking," which is seemingly uncrackable, since it uses spread-spectrum technology to hide its traces within music files. As the patent's abstract explains it: "The watermark identifies the content producer, providing a signature that is embedded in the audio signal and cannot be removed. The watermark is designed to survive all typical kinds of processing and malicious attacks." True, watermarking is not the same as file encrpyption. However, an end-to-end music system could use watermarking to verify ownership. Does this mean it might be time to revise the DRM scorecard?
Submission + - Halo 3 Cheaters to be Banned Till 9999 AD
Gary writes: "Anyone trying to sneak into the closed beta a few weeks before release will get slammed with the biggest ban hammer ever! Literally, they get there accounts banned till 9999 AD, some 7,447 years after the events of Halo 3 take place. This was discovered by a 17-year-old Minnesotan who goes by the name 'Scar' the hard way. An avid gamer with a GameScore of 61,000 got kicked because he got Epsilon from a friend's friend and tried to glitch it into his account using the two controller exploit."
Submission + - Apple Dislikes Gaming and Makes It Clear (osweekly.com)
akAPPLE writes: According to Brandon Watts, Apple doesn't like gaming and makes it clear with their actions. Quote: "Of course, Apple's negligence when it comes to gaming isn't only isolated to their operating system. For example, one of the most natural places for games to be is on your phone, and while the iPhone is a revolutionary device in many ways, it's not revolutionary in the sense that there are no native games on the device. Come on, not even a lousy Snake clone? That multi-touch display is just begging to play some games, but Apple once again acts like they've never even heard of these newfangled things called games. Instead, we're required to rely on outside developers to do the work for them.
Submission + - ACCC sues Google for selling rankings (news.com.au)
dogbolter writes: "The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is taking world-first legal action in the Australian Federal Court against Google Inc. The allegation is a case against the (Australian) Trading Post and Google(including subsidiaries Google Australia and Google Ireland) for potentially misleading consumers by failing to differentiate between sponsored links and "relevant" links."
Submission + - Linus: "I've never used Debian" (oneopensource.it) 1
javipas writes: "On a recent interview, Linus has confessed a surprising fact: "the only major distribution I've never used has actually been Debian, exactly because that has traditionally been harder to install". Torvalds seems to be running Fedora 7 on most of his systems, though he has used a bunch of other well known distros. He also has comments on GPLv3, patent violation and the future of Linux on the desktop. "I think it just needs more time. We basically have all the pieces, but we can improve on them"."
