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Comment Re:Pirates (Score 1) 424

by Belgaren (#38166028) Attached to: Ubisoft Blames Piracy For Non-Release of PC Game

I'm more interested how many of them actually own their games and downloaded the cracked version just to escape the horrid DRM...

As an example, I had to get a crack for Bioshock and Fallout III. I spent over a week on Bioshock going back and forth between CS agents until I finally said "screw it," and got a crack. The solution I was given when the same thing happened in Fallout III was to "upgrade" some parts of my system to something the DRM wouldn't choke on or go pound sand, so I got a crack for it too.

In both cases the games still ran off of the CD/DVD, the only thing that was different was the DRM was bypassed. It sucks that I've missed out on some releases since then but I've started checking up on what releases have what types of DRM before I buy and I've stopped buying games with bad DRM.
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JSC writes "Anne McCaffrey died Monday at her home after suffering a stroke. 'In the late 1960s she became the first woman to win a Hugo Award for a work of fiction and the first woman to win a Nebula Award. She was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2006.' She will be missed by Dragons and their Riders the world over."

Comment Re:For non-Canadians (Score 1) 641

by Belgaren (#31960436) Attached to: Climate Researchers Fight Back

I've just got to ask, what's a "liberal fact"? Facts don't have political leanings. Facts aren't ideological. That's like saying gravity is right wing or red shift is centrist.

Ask Ruby Dhalla, MP.

In a recent letter to the editor in the Toronto Sun she accused one of their writers of disseminating "incorrect facts" about a bill she had proposed.

Forget political leanings, here in Canada facts can, apparently, be wrong!

Comment Re:Article Biased... (Score 1) 541

by Belgaren (#25765845) Attached to: Online Carpooling Service Fined In Canada

Are they going to fine the phone company when I call my friend up and we arrange a road trip where he agrees to pay for half the gas?

This is a bad analogy because the phone company does not charge you for the service of connecting you with unknown persons for the explicit purpose of arranging the road trip. You are using their service for the purposes of doing so. That's not the same thing.

What about the message boards at colleges where drivers and passengers arrange for long trips back home? Sue the college?

The message boards (a) are provided by the schools for postings by students, students take the responsibility for the contents of their posts; and (b) are provided at no charge (in every case I am aware of).

Between the driver and passenger, which is a private transaction that has nothing to do with PickupPal. It is not a transaction between the driver, passenger, and 'arranging' entity (taxicab company). Now, if you want to go after a driver because he is accepting money for a ride without having a taxi license, then go ahead. But going after PickupPal is just absurd.

Except that PickupPal is, like a dispatcher, acting as an agent to connect the driver to the passenger and charging both for the service. That is the complaint. If two people meet by chance, either online or in person, and decide to carpool then yes, it's nobody's business. That is not the case here.

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