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Obama's Election Means a Return of Vampire Flicks 97

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 10, 2008 @05:57PM from the pet-monsters dept.

gyrogeerloose writes "In a column in Saturday's San Diego Union Tribune, Peter Rowe makes a connection between the popularity of horror movie genres and the political party in the White House. A Republican administration presides over a period of zombie movies while a Democrat in the Oval Office brings on a cycle of vampire movies. Why? Possibly because the two genres 'are really competing parables about class warfare.' Hmmmm, maybe. On the other hand, it might just be a coincidence." Socialists are best represented by lycanthropes, and the Libertarians are most closely tied to any sort of horror from space.

EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:58AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. 'There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,' said a note on EA's customer support site. Yes, they're serious. 'To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.

Comment Re:Eolas claims this isn't over (Score 1) 269

by francisu on Saturday March 06, 2004 @05:40PM (#8487103) Attached to: Feds Reject Eolas Browser Plug-In Patent

The patent laws and procedures are very clear about not being able to patent anything that has been published or publicly exists (that is, for sale) as prior art.

Actually, that's not quite true. Bizarrely, in the US you are allowed to publish up to 12 months before filing. Which doesn't make any sense, but there you go.

Yes, of course, as the US system (in contrast with the rest of the world) is based on first to invent rather than first to file. If you can show you invented it first, even though someone else filed it first, you win. Of course none of this has to do with this particular case.

However, my point had more to do with what was considered "prior art".

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