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    Pandora Plays Song 1.16M Times, Artist Gets $17

    What gets me is that you know the label is taking a HUGE chunk from the artist, and from what I recall, even more when it's through Pandora than other radio style services. The whole system is a scam. Don't blame Pandora... they're trying to play by the rules set out for them. When the RIAA...
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    New Borderlands 2 Krieg the Psycho Trailer

    Nope. The mission DLCs are all individually purchaseable, with no requirements on any of them except the base game. You can get the season pass without Krieg and still play all the content.
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    It's Time For Gaming's Contractors To Strike?

    If it sounds fun, it could also require a specialized skill set. I make pretty decent money programming with great benefits, and I think it's fun, without being bent over a barrel for anything. No mandatory overtime, no real requirements for ass in chair time, etc. As long as I get my work done...
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    New Borderlands 2 Krieg the Psycho Trailer

    So choose a different skill tree, Rusty. He doesn't have to. He's the most fun I've had in BL2, and I like it enough that I had 700 hours of play in it before he was released.
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    Bursting Bubbles At UC Berkeley: A Physics Simulation

    Too bad, aside from the fact that the higher the resolution, the slower the image capture, so it can get prohibitively expensive to get a high-resolution, high-speed camera? Maybe those mathematicians sometimes have budgets like the rest of us?
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    Computer Science Enrollments Soared Last Year

    This thread was done in one
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    Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers

    You're assuming everyone in prison for murder is there appropriately. That's a pretty poor assumption. Secondly, it's not even necessarily a deterrent. So... yeah. Back to the drawing board there, sparky.
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    FBI Employees Download Pirated Movies and TV-Shows

    Didn't you know? The police play by different rules than the rest of us. They're above the law.
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    Feds Say Megaupload’s Entrapment Claim Is ‘Baseless’

    No, he wasn't. He was brilliant and self directed at studying math, and doing geometry at 10 years old. He was just singularly focused, and didn't pay attention to subjects that didn't interest him, which is why people report that he was "dumb" in some form or another and had problems in school...
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    Traffic and Piracy Drop After Restricting Pirated Content

    Relevant: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130110/02454621625/yet-another-study-cracking-down-piracy-not-effective.shtml
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    Traffic and Piracy Drop After Restricting Pirated Content

    Does it increase sales, though? Because that's all that really matters. If you stop "piracy" with tons of side effects like massive censorship, and you don't increase sales... who wins?
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    Borderlands 2 Patch 1.3.1

    Gotta love their patch notes
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    AMD Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire Bundle Lucky Draw

    I like that they's fast. My 6950's are great, and I'd only trade them to get a new AMD card.
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    People Who Donate to Wikipedia Just Better People?

    By and large, Wikipedia's articles are very high quality. Higher than any encyclopedia's, and often better than many textbooks, especially on "new" information. Yes, people do get into political edit wars, there are questionable decisions from the directors, etc. But that happens everywhere...
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    Arduino Project Has Sega Rally Cabinets Steer RC Cars

    All the time. But you have to be aware of yourself enough to not ride the brake in regular traffic. Otherwise, there are some racing reasons you want to. I usually switch between the two, and use it more often in traffic or in bad conditions where I might need to switch between the two, or...
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    UFO Filmed By News Crew

    The wind can get pretty strong here, surprisingly. Sustained 20mph, gusts over 45mph, sometimes higher. It's not common, but it happens a couple times a year.
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    Apple Now Hiding Rewritten Court-Ordered Apology

    The issue isn't that they use responsive web design. It's that they're using responsive web design to explicitly hide the apology below the fold, no matter what the size of the browser AND that this design is unique to the UK version of the site AND that it's brand new, it appeared...
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    XFX AMD Radeon™ HD 7870 GHz Edition Graphics Card Lucky Draw

    w00t. Gotta love AMD chips.
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    Voice Activated Popcorn Launching Machine

    I wanna tweak it so it fires at any loud sound...
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    Violent Video Games Increase Your Pain Tolerance 65%

    Ice water is all you can get away with humanely ;) The cut didn't hurt because you severed the nerves. The lidocane did because they were just scratching/touching the nerves. Yup.
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    Google: We Are So Over Patents

    Exactly. They're just being pragmatic. I hate that I have to pay my taxes like I do, but I realize that I have to because I'm not rich enough to hide money in offshore accounts.
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    Zynga Sets Aside a Huge Pile of Stock for Employees

    Wasn't Zynga the same company that threatened to fire employees that didn't give back their pre-IPO shares? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904577018373223480802.html
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    Video Game Violence Strikes AGAIN!

    I think that falls under "blame the victim". Women who wear revealing clothing bear some responsibility for being raped too, right? :rolleyes: The responsibility for action depends ENTIRELY on the attacker. He could have walked away any time, stopped engaging, whatever. Life is full of...
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    Video Game Violence Strikes AGAIN!

    RTFA. The 17 year old did shoot at him, but he missed. No wonder he was being made fun of in the game... he must suck ;)
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    AMD Announces Preliminary Second Quarter Results

    Don't forget Kepler. That hit AMD's graphics unit right in the gut. Took the wind out of the 7000 series' sails.
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    Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon

    Oh right, thoughtcrimes. Forgot we can be imprisoned for those now. Why aren't the executives at Google imprisoned? Or Microsoft/Bing? Or any other site where you can find illegal material? I personally want to live in a world governed by laws, not by "feelings" of what's bad and what's...
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    Pirate Bay Founder Submits Emotional Plea for Pardon

    Yes, they should go to prison because of a non-crime, on the false charges for things he didn't do, fabricated "evidence", where the prosecutor was hired by the recording industry before the trial even finished, where the judges had vested interest in either Pirate Bay competitors or the...
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    Mozilla Pulling the Plug on Thunderbird Development

    Damn, really? So I'll basically have no choice but to use Outlook on Windows? Ugh.
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    Best Buy To Combat "Showrooming"

    That's why you don't buy McMansions built on parcels of land barely large enough to hold the house, jammed up all on top of one another.
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    Too Much Video Game Violence At E3

    I think her point might be that gore in place of gameplay is... puerile. I can agree with that. How she wrote about it? Not so much. But that's the same reason I'd generally rather watch a PG-13 movie instead of an R. They actually have a plot in PG-13 movies most of the time, instead of...
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    AMD to Stop Monthly Catalyst Driver Updates

    I haven't seen major monthly improvements lately. Most of them have been pushed via the CAPs if anything. It all depends on their internal management. I hope they're starting to realize that drivers are their Achille's Heel. Their hardware has been great for a number of years now, eclipsing...
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    GIGABYTE is First With Validated 7.032GHz on Ivy Bridge

    Sure it means something. It's just that overclocking like this are like funny cars. Or does drag racing not count unless you're in a mass-market car? Hell, what about the moon? Does going to the moon not count since we don't have passenger ferries taking us up there? It's not mass market, but...
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    Jay Leno and NBC Steal Video, Block Rightful Owner

    The problem is, why should he have to do that shit in the first place? Apparently, there's no such thing as "benefit of the doubt" in America any more unless you're a corporation. Then you can just buy whatever laws you want.
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    Fried Computer of the Day

    The product is still WD-40 ;) WD = Water Displacer, the 40 is because it's the 40th formula they tried.
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    Clean Your Damn COMPUTER!!!!

    It helps a lot if you make sure your case is positive pressure and not negative pressure, too. More intake than output fans.
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    HP Laying off 27,000 Workers in Restructuring

    Ok... if they cut that many workers, who exactly to the expect to produce anything of value for the company to sell? Sure, it'll turn a profit for the next few quarters until their product quality suffers yet again. Anyone else where remember when you couldn't go wrong buying a LaserJet for...
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    Facebook IPO 'Like Kissing Your Sister'

    I'm reasonably certain that it means the IPO was priced properly. Facebook made out like a bandit. Everyone else who bought in? Not so much.
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    Watch Out, Google: Bing Nabs 30% of Search Market

    Pretty sure Bing Desktop was in the latest round of optional updates from Microsoft... wonder how much that influences things?
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    Talking On Phone While Walking = Bad

    Hate to tell you, but the Chinese aren't unique in that It's hard to be racist when confronted with facts though.
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    Cool Video of the Day

    This was the first time I'd seen the video. I'm glad you're proud that you saw it first like a hipster, but I thought it was interesting.
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