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  1. Umm.. yeah old news? on Blu-ray Protection Bypassed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How about checking out a previous story. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Not quite the same, but similar principal.

  2. Re:I'll grant you that 200kbps is slow, on CPI Sues FCC Over U.S. Broadband Competition · · Score: 1

    Yeah.. imagine what kind of letdown 54 or 108 is!

  3. Re:I'll grant you that 200kbps is slow, on CPI Sues FCC Over U.S. Broadband Competition · · Score: 1

    The bandwidth is 11Mbps. Throughput is the actual, usable speed. When you factor in the half-duplex nature (down to 5.5 Mpbs throughput), typical packetloss and error rates of the wireless nature, and header/frame info, ~40% efficiency is expected.

  4. Re:I'll grant you that 200kbps is slow, on CPI Sues FCC Over U.S. Broadband Competition · · Score: 1

    Time Warner Cable's Roadrunner just went 10mbps in NY. They give us that to justify 50+$ a month? I'd rather have 5Mbps and pay $25. Since I'm a wireless-B user anyway, I'm only getting 400KBps throughput anyway (3.2mbps). I also would rather have them up the upload speed. Running a TS server, VPN server, and a CSS server is a tad laggy.

  5. Re:He's a hack for crying out loud - who cares wha on Mossberg - Vista Is Worthy, Largely Unexciting · · Score: 1

    Paraphrase- yeah... its the best ever, but its exactly like XP. and its exactly like osx. There's not much thats cool. Its slow. Its buggy. its the best windows ever.

    its like saying that the zune looks like an ipod, and the iphone looks like the zune.

  6. Re:It promises to be an interesting battle on Docvert 3.0 Lessens Reliance On Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    Phew I hear you man... I'm staying up every night until I hear more! Its like that one time when the PS3 came out...

  7. Re:Where? on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Buy?

  8. Re:fine line between "moderate" and "apolitical" on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 1

    I think this thread just proves his point:

    People have very strong opinions. I have very strong opinions and they happen to be for different reasons than many other people. It ends up in a situation where people really like to argue -- and that very much includes me... I expect this to raise a lot of bad blood but at the same time, at the end of the day, I don't think it really matters that much.

    Even tho he wasn't referring to a /. post. I emphasize the last 1/2 of the last sentence. If we let DRM shape our lives, it has won. Like terrorism. RIght?

    Ooo.. there's a new analogy.

  9. Re:Shows it... on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I remember loving JHymn about 2 years ago.. I've heard of myFairTunes as well as others for stripping the DRM from iTunes music. If I buy it, I should be able to put it on whatever I want.

    Hence why I don't buy songs from iTunes anymore. Or Sony.

  10. When there's something strange... on Ghostbusters Game Confirmed, On Hold · · Score: 1

    Who ya gonna call- to get this published? I think a old-school TMNT OHV-type game would be fun...

  11. That'll be the day on Is A Bad Attitude Damaging The IT Profession? · · Score: 1

    The day a user figures out what I mean when I say that they are experiencing an ID-10T error is the day I'll stop insulting them. Who needs IT anyways, right? Its not like end users just don't download that anti-everything-ware in that ad anyway.

  12. Where are the pictures? on Women "Advertise" Fertility · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Too bad we can't actually the results. Then we could judge for ourselves.

  13. hmm on NMR Shows That Nuclear Storage Degrades · · Score: 0

    If the life of the containers was just a little bit shorter, it'd be a perfect gift for an ex- or inlaws.

    "Whats inside?"
    "Oh, just wait a little while and you'll find out"

  14. Re:Flash or HD? on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Thats what I thought- so its using the nano file storage system. It'd be interesting to see a 30gb version and, following current pricing schemes, should be about the same price as the 8gb!

    I know that compared to other phones, 8gb is a LOT- but are they forgetting that they're trying to be make more of a computer/mp3 player-type device, where 8gb is nothing.

  15. Flash or HD? on iPhone, Apple TV Headline MacWorld Keynote · · Score: 1

    Are they using flash memory or a hard drive? Its hot, its expensive, its probably something I'll never own. Wait 4 years for microsofts answer! the pune!

  16. Re:What if.... on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    Says the guy (right?) posting as anonymous?

  17. Mmm on Brightest Comet In Decades Now Visible · · Score: 2, Informative

    MMmm another good date night! Its nice and crisp outside too.

  18. Pssh... free software on Stallman — 20 Years of Explaining Free Software · · Score: 1

    He sums it up with his talks on pirating. There lies the free software thats worth buying without buying. As to the other free software, spyware and oss dominate. So what do you want? open source, pirated, or spyware-ridden? Each has weaknesses, but the freeware with spyware comes with cool mouse cursors and smileys!

  19. Re:Lawl on Dell's Secret Linux Fling · · Score: 1

    THANK YOU I understand now. At least its not spelled hOStS or something dumb like that

  20. Re:What if.... on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your example of irony is not irony at all, rather the fact that you claim to possess the quality of being able to discern irony when none exists, and vise versa, is a case for irony.

    Lets's review:
    * Tragic (or dramatic) irony occurs when a character onstage is ignorant, but the audience watching knows his or her eventual fate, as in Sophocles' play Oedipus the King.
    This is you, minus the eventual outcome (unless everyone knows you'll get modded down
    * Socratic irony takes place when someone (classically a teacher) pretends to be foolish or ignorant, but is not (and the teaching-audience, but not the student-victim, realizes the teacher's ploy).This would be me in my original post
    * Cosmic irony is a sharp incongruity between our expectation of an outcome and what actually occurs.My comparison between DHCP and HDCP

    So I think I've demonstrated fairly well that I understand the concept of irony, while you have a wildly distorted perspective of literary terms.

  21. Re:Lawl on Dell's Secret Linux Fling · · Score: 1

    But then the government would castrate you, take your wife, kill the one child that they let you have, and throw you in jail for the rest of your life. Not fun.

  22. Re:Lawl on Dell's Secret Linux Fling · · Score: 1

    haha.. yeah I see that. Good old wiki to the rescue. Learn something new everyday.

  23. Lawl on Dell's Secret Linux Fling · · Score: -1

    Red flag linux... Thats funny. if it had a HOSTS file (its linux) I'm sure that wikipedia.whatever would point to a censorship site, along with any blog authoring sites.

    Does linux offer something similar to a HOSTS file?

    Also, in this case, would ssh, https, and proxy settings be completely disabled/removed?

  24. Re:What if.... on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    by reversing the order of the first two letters of the anagram it reverses the role of who's in charge in another system.

  25. Re:What if.... on Some 'Next-Gen' DVDs May Not Work With Vista · · Score: 1

    ty for the clarification. The impression that came through was that the OS req'd the disk to be HDCP'd. Ironic since some networks require everyone to be DHCP'd