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  1. Re:Unless you're by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Reducing the TCO of IT with Linux?

    Why would we need up to write anything at all? Especially, you can find a perfectly good ready-made essay on this subject on the Web!

  2. Re:Good first step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on EFF Urges Support for Rep. Boucher's DMCRA
    Both measures are good steps towards repealing the DMCA, or at least nullifying its more damning effects.

    Not really. Check Eric Raymond's excellent write-up on the subject to see why.

  3. Re:Corrupt CDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll · on Philips & Sony To Purchase Intertrust DRM Tech
    So does this mean that Philips and Sony are now endorsing the production of digital audio discs that partially violate the Red Book standard?

    No, not really. Read Philips' whitepaper on the subject for more details on their position.

  4. The follow-up question: Will Palladium fail? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Interesting · on MS Backs Down On Encrypted Digital TV Recording

    Will the market really tolerate Palladium?

    An interesting newsgroup thread over at Google News.

    It's a question I've been asking myself. I mean, how will Microsoft succeed with their plans? Which manufacturer wish to be the first to have a huge disadvantage by supplying the initial Palladium-supporting hardware? How can we be sure that the manufacturers are simply going to release hardware supporting Palladium? Won't it just work like in the past instead, where mp3 players made it easier for piracy and DVD players often can be made region free, by a simple flip of a jumper? Where CD-burners often support low-level duplication and overburning they don't *need* to support, but manufacturers *know* that they're more likely to sell if their drive support CloneCD and similar programs that's used in 9 cases out of 10 for piracy. They never admit it, but everyone knows it.

    How will Palladium suddenly change this philosophy of the manufacters? Won't they be tempted to go the "dirty" path (of course not officially; they'll just "not include Palladium support") by looking into the enormous public interest that will arise in hardware not supporting hardware copy protections?

  5. Mobile positioning and the law by jonelf · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Using Cellular Traffic to Monitor Traffic Jams

    The police here in Sweden has been using mobile position for a couple of years now. It's been used in some high profile crimes like the murder of two police officers a couple of years back.
    (80% of the swedish has access to a cellular phone in their home, actually there are more celluars than cars)

    Here in Sweden we're not as concered as the USA citizens of the Big Brother/1984 scenarios. Just check out our national statistics also everyone in sweden has a nationwide unique number based on our birthdate. Great to use a unique identifier in databases...

    Swedens biggest mobile operator has a service where you can find your friends
    though I have no idea why you would use it.
    Mobile Friendfinder in swedish and only for swedish people.