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  1. Re:iPhone 4??? on iPhone 4 Beta Shows AT&T Tethering · · Score: 1

    The beta release is under NDA, of course, so they certainly could sue the individual who violated the agreement.
    Unlikely.

  2. Re:Journalist? on Police Seize Computers From Gizmodo Editor · · Score: 1

    They teach you this on Sesame Street: You have to either give it to the police to hold for 30 days or report it to the management of the place you found it.

    Whoa, Sesame Street must have gotten some serious steroids since I last watched it. I'll guess that Oscar is now an ex-con, Bert has filed a restraining order against Ernie, and probably the Count got deported.

  3. Re:Oh please on History Repeats Itself — Mac & the iPad · · Score: 1

    Maybe he likes their socks.

  4. Re:Only Apple on iPad Jailbroken · · Score: 2, Informative

    iBooks supports ePub, and you can add your own books via iTunes. I've got a couple of the free Baen books in my iPad's library already.
    A large number of Gutenberg's collection are in the iBooks bookstore for free (often with automated formatting), but you can get them directly from Gutenberg if you like.

  5. Re:There IS one setting on Best Buy Offers Bogus "3D Sync" Service · · Score: 1

    a bit less trivial than programming a VCR.

    What is this "VCR" that you speak of? Programmable, I take it. What languages does it support?

  6. Conflict? on Why the IRS Should Automatically Fill In Returns With What It Knows · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Intuit would probably argue that it's a conflict of interest to be both a tax payer and tax preparer.

  7. Who? on Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google · · Score: 1

    Who is Bing Murdoch?

  8. What? on Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No Linux?

  9. DoS? on XML Library Flaw — Sun, Apache, GNOME Affected · · Score: 1

    could result in successful denial-of-service attacks

    Ah yes, but could it result in successful denial-of-cellphone-service?

  10. Re:iPhone 3.0 software release date on Apple's WWDC Unveils iPhone 3.0, OpenCL, Laptop Updates, and More · · Score: 1

    That's GM seed. It doesn't ship until it ships.

  11. mgHz on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Nah, milligram-Hertz (mgHz) is an esoteric unit, typically used colloquially to express the efficiency of a processor - the weight of the processor multiplied by its clock-rate.

    By definition, it's the amount of energy it takes to oscillate a milligram at one hertz:
    350 mgHz will vibrate 350 mg at 1 Hz, or 1mg at 350Hz equally.
    350 mgHz may be expressed as 0.35 gHz (not to be confused with GHz).

    As such, I believe that the OP has misplaced the decimal. It's more expected to see something along the lines of 3.5e+12 mgHz.

  12. Might still happen on AT&T Changes TOS, Limits Streaming, Tethering · · Score: 1

    AT&T may have simply jumped the gun, and might still intend to promulgate these TOS in the future.
    Remember how on more than one occasion the free AT&T wireless for iPhone at Starbucks / other hotspots was announced, then retracted as a mistake?

  13. Re:armchair lawyers on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    (2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b) above the requisite intent is an intent to cause a modification of the contents of any computer and by so doing--
    (a) to impair the operation of any computer;
    (b) to prevent or hinder access to any program or data held in any computer; or
    (c) to impair the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data

    Obviously, they impaired the operation and reliability of the botnet software by uninstalling it.

  14. Re:A Strawman for the Symptom on Pirate Bay P2P Trial Begins In Sweden · · Score: 1

    $.10 per song? Boy do you have the wrong distribution company. With cdbaby, an artist gets $.60 per song, $6.50 per album.
    http://cdbaby.net/dd-faq2

  15. Streaming Audio on Turning an iPod Touch Into an iPhone · · Score: 1

    Something like FStream ought to work. Kinda depends on the QOS you get with your EDGE / 3G / Wi-MAX while driving.

  16. Re:Ignorance beyond words on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    This is a rhetorical answer, don't bother questioning.

  17. Re:"falsely accused"? on RICO Class Action Against RIAA In Missouri · · Score: 1

    Uhm... this is Slashdot. Your only mistake is expecting that sarcasm will be recognized without the appropriate tags.

  18. Homeland? on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else misread that as D.I.Y. Homeland Security?

  19. Re:Diminished Value? on Google Sued Over Privacy Invasion On Street View · · Score: 4, Informative
  20. fly the paper love house on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 1
    Well, Google translation just says "Your access to environmental information is not available here."
    Babelfish is more successful, but the original article still seems a bit mundane.

    Outer space -> the earth, fly the paper love house and Tokyo University verification test
    2008 January 14th 14:26

    The Japanese folded paper association and Tokyo large group have tackled the paper airplane making which gets off from the space station in the earth. On the 17th, using the same university wind tunnel, it does verification test.

    8 centimeters in length, those which do heatproof processing in the paper airplane which is snapped to space shuttle shape are used in experiment. Tokyo large Kashiwa campus (Chiba prefecture Kashiwa city) heat resistance and strength are inspected, inside high-speed flow of Mach 7 of the super high speed wind tunnel for experiment which is.

    Because space ship such as space shuttle when returning becomes Mach 20 thing speed, in friction with the air becomes high temperature, the special device of heat resistance is on the surface. Because the paper airplane is light, it can decelerate from the place where the air is thin, can land at low speed. You say that perhaps, it returns without blazing.

    Makoto two Tokyo great professor Suzuki (aerospace engineering) acquiring the message of peace "from the space station, we would like to throw. You do not know it lands somewhere of the world, but if it can have delivering to the person who is picked up "with you talk dream.

  21. Not Fair Use on RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict · · Score: 1

    Yes, making a copy of a CD for personal use is legal.
    No, it's not "fair use," as I understand it, if you're making a copy of the entire thing, because of test number 3 of 17 USC Sec. 107. (Go watch A Fair(y) Use Tale again, or check out the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use web site: Fair use is a copyright principle based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials forpurposes of commentary and criticism.)
    Rather, 17 USC Sec. 1008 provides an explicit exception for "noncommercial use by a consumer." Prior to the addition of Chapter 10 by the Audio Home Recording Act in 1992, ripping a CD was copyright infringement.

    "Fair use" doesn't mean, "that seems fair." It's a specific limitation on copyright law, and one that is not involved in ripping entire CD's.

  22. Re:Heh on The Pirate Bay Files Suit Against Big Media · · Score: 1

    I thought music was a drug?

    Roxy Music says "Love is the Drug"

  23. Re:Requirements on IBM Challenges Microsoft with Free Office Suite · · Score: 2

    Good god! RedHat5? That's gotta be 10 years old. They should really do themselves a favor and support 5.2

  24. Re:new word? on Users Trash Wal-Mart On Its Facebook Site · · Score: 1

    Yes, "foray" was probably intended. However, the archaic "forway," meaning "an error" is actually almost more appropriate.

  25. 1g! on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 1

    Starbucks' website lists 75mg per shot, so we're talking 1.05g (or 1.025 gi - darn those coffee manfacturers for not using standard binary units like the rest of the computer industry)