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  1. Re:I've Still Yet to See the Code from Them on SFLC Says Microsoft Violated the GPL · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can put any license you want on the binaries and still comply with the gpl as long as the sourcecode is available, compilable, and has no such restriction.

  2. Re:Qwest on Verizon FiOS/DSL Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Across US · · Score: 1

    According to Quest tech support you can use it without windows too (you need your username name and password). Haven't tried it yet though.

  3. Re:Where the profit goes. on Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing · · Score: 1

    The artist pays production costs on recording sales (inflated costs too, you could build a studio for less than what the studios claim it cost to do the recording). Most artists lose money on record sales as a result, or make very little. Ticket sales are usually 10% of the gross, so even if you play a mostly empty concert you can still expect a check.

  4. Re:The glaciers are retreating! on Formerly Classified Global Warming Spy Photos Released · · Score: 1

    Erm, this isn't terribly good evidence of climate change, as the fUD says the ice has been melting for 10,000 years.

    What it will do (eventually) is tell us if its getting faster due to the warming we know about for totally different reasons.

  5. Where the profit goes. on Music Industry Thriving In an Era of File Sharing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ticket sale money doesn't line the same pockets as CD sale money (for one, the artist gets a cut).

  6. Re:Seriously, what the hell? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    The judge's ruling against fair use as a defense is spot-on.

    Except that judges aren't supposed to rule if its fair use or not, thats a jury question.

  7. Re:NIST - Public Domain on Copyright Status of Thermodynamic Properties? · · Score: 1

    It means you need to have some sort of creativity.

    So if I take tabulated data and arrange it in a pattern that I think looks neat, I can copyright that. But if its just arranged alphabetically, I can't.

  8. Re:FAQ claims copyright on Copyright Status of Thermodynamic Properties? · · Score: 1

    Its possible that the contractors retain copyright, or they licensed someone else's code (these tend to block open source releases), but the government itself can't have copyright under US law, regardless of who wrote it.

  9. Re:A false positive is front page news? on AVG Update Breaks iTunes · · Score: 1

    1 - Inherently, an anti-virus can only scan against a database of known problems. New problems won't be detected.

    Most anti viruses have had behavior based virus protection for years. Even AVG has it these days.

  10. Re:best first language? on The Best First Language For a Young Programmer · · Score: 1

    My favorite languages are Lisp and Perl. Doing that to a 15 year old would just be wrong though.

    I'd say c++ for a teaching language, i's not something I use myself a lot, but it can be used to explore most aspects of programming, and there are huge chunks of open code in it to learn from.

  11. Re:Liability on Bars' Scanning of ID Violates BC Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Mine has a barcode instead of a magstrip.

  12. Re:Wrong comparison ? on New Zealand Tree Stuck In Evolutionary Time Warp · · Score: 1

    Mutations brought in by retrovirus are pretty distinct, and almost always non coding.

    I'm not really an expert in mutations, just a dabbler, but the ones I know are either flipped sequences (IE ACG to GCA) or single base pair changes (ACG to AAG).

  13. Re:Security through obscurity. Again. on IBM Seeks Patent On Digital Witch Hunts · · Score: 1

    This is a time honored counter intelligence technique. It does work in my experience, not every time maybe (I've only been involved, or aware of it, once with this), but often enough to be useful. Its even more effective if you have a small list of possible moles.

  14. Re:This is a common stack in wifi APs on Critical Flaw Discovered In DD-WRT · · Score: 1

    I almost never update the DD-WRT firmware on mine.

    According to TFA the problem is with remote web gui control though, and thats pretty trivial to turn off (and since its off by default, I don't even have to do it).

  15. Re:Ratios for overseeded torrents? on Researchers Outline Targeted Content Poisoning For P2P Data · · Score: 1

    Whenever someone adds a new download to the tracker, the potential share ratio for everyone in the network increases.

    Only for the person who added the download. Anybody else needs to download it before they can start sharing, making it zero sum for them.

    Whenever a new member joins, the potential share ratio for everyone on the network increases.

    Except for the new guy, whose share ratio will be lower because he has to download something before he can upload it.

    The average share ratio for a given download will *always* equal n/(n+1) where n is the number of downloaders. It will never quite reach 100%, its certainley impossible for everyone to have 100%, since there are selfish people like me with high seed ratios.

    You also have to factor in that the tracking is extremely flawed. I have a total upload on demonoid of 144.61 GB, but *just* the uploads of one seed total 166, so the tracker isn't terribly accurate.

    Finally, if everyone seeds everything they download like you describe that will actually jam up the network, since you'll have 100s of seeds on a download that your client will waste time trying to make contact with because the seed's network is congested with all the things its uploading.

  16. Re:NO MORE BLOAT..... on Gaming On Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    As long as they did away with the hand-holding that was pervasive in Vista

    They didn't (at least not as of RC1).

  17. Re:US? on Amazon UK Refunds Windows License Fee, With Little Hassle · · Score: 1

    They do not however have the right to force you into a contract after the fact. If I get a contract and decline it, I expect my money back (or a contract that I find acceptable).

    I might not like the DIMMs the system comes with either (in fact I usually buy low RAM systems and upgrade from Newegg, cheaper that way), but they are mine for the cost of the system, there is no additional onus on me to use them.

  18. Re:Mod parent up on Microsoft's Code Contribution Due To GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    You get free lube?! Where do I sign up?

    Try your nearest voting booth.

  19. Re:Apple is the new Microsoft on Apple Backs Off DMCA Threats Against Wiki · · Score: 1

    No Apple is the old MS. Hell, Microsoft pretty much rescued us from Apple and the others like it.

  20. Re:Mod parent up on Microsoft's Code Contribution Due To GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it took me 3 hours to read the EULA on my xbox (or rather xbox live), I still don't understand some of it.

  21. Re:Which seems to make sense over all on F-22 Raptor Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Remote flying is far less efficient, look at the trouble that experienced pilots have landing the things without computer assistance.

  22. Re:Serious Music Games on Music Game Genre On the Decline · · Score: 1

    DDR is nowhere near as popular as it used to be.

  23. Re:Encryption on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    They make netbooks with VIA processors, which have encryption functions built into the processor instruction sets.

    I'm not sure if truecrypt would take advantage but if it did it would help immensely.

  24. Re:IANARS but... on Early Abort of Ares I Rocket Would Kill Crew · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm sure a lot more people die in the US country from insurance rejecting their claim than from the hospital not having enough blood.

  25. Re:I don't see the point about GPL on A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? · · Score: 1

    You also need to provide the installation and compiling scripts. Relevant in this case, since said scripts are what you need in order to do the porting.