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  1. Re:Scru Blu on HD Recorder Can Use Standard DVDs · · Score: 1, Informative

    They do have the same. But Blu-Ray also has the BD+ DRM in addition to the standard kind they both share.

  2. Re:You'd think geeks would know immediately on Powerful Blast Confuses Astronomers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Lesse, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away ... Yet somehow in the future.
  3. Re:No, jails are for security on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 0

    "having all of my hardware work..."

    I guess you are a windows fan then.

  4. Re:FreeBSD Jails on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 1, Informative

    If its used to lock you the computer owner out of the program, its DRM.

    If its used to lock the hackers out of the program (or in the program out of the rest of the system) its security.

    The big difference between protected processes and Jails is root on the main system can access anything in a jail where as I doubt you can do that in windows (if you can that its useless as DRM so the argument is moot).

  5. Re:maybe something modular? on Google Goes After Open Source Licensing Cruft · · Score: 0

    There isn't necessarily anything wrong with 50 billion incenses, but something really does need to be done about the compatibility problem. Optimally we need a license that is somehow compatible with both BSD and GPL, but I don't think thats even possible since GPL is restrictive and BSD is free.

  6. FreeBSD Jails on When Not to Use chroot · · Score: 3, Informative

    FreeBSD has a system called jails that do provide the security people are looking for in chroot. In addition to doing a chroot, they also prevent processes from seeing each other and can restrict network functionality.

    Its like a virtual machine, but shares the same kernel (with restrictions) so there isn't the performance of full emulation.

  7. Re:Well... on UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability · · Score: 0

    It'll be fun when somebody writes a crack for the PC version to work with console servers so just this can happen.

  8. Re:Not Censorship on Verizon Reverses Itself On Pro-Choice News Texting Ban · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you choose to not watch the movie that is a decision that affects only you. Movie theaters censoring affects their customers and the creators of the films. Just because its a business decision doesn't make it not censorship.

  9. Re:Well on Convicted VoIP Hacker Robert Moore Speaks · · Score: 0

    Or you could do better and set a password and turn off remote logins. Or just put it behind a NAT/Firewall.

  10. Re:Monorail! on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 0

    "Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!"

  11. Re:$8-$9 is too much on Review of Amazon's DRM-Less Music Download Store · · Score: 0

    The labels may be giving them a deal to gain leverage against apple.

  12. Re:Monorail! on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 0

    Have my pen knife my good man.

  13. Re:Yes, but... on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 0

    No it runs on magnetic fields.

  14. Re:Monorail! on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 0

    I call the big one Bitey.

  15. Re:Monorail! on Germany To Build New Maglev Railway · · Score: 0

    And Brockway and Ogdenville

  16. Re:no-win on Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved · · Score: 1

    Wholesale long distance to most of the world is less than one cent a minute. Its just pure profit for them.

  17. revolutionary? on Facebook Quietly Offers Storage to Developers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is it revolutionary? There are lots of sites that offer free storage.

  18. Re:didn't openbsd do the same thing in reverse? on Theo de Raadt On Relicensing BSD Code · · Score: 0

    The BSDs actually share a lot of code with each other (at least Free and Open do, not as sure about Net)

  19. Re:Yay! Fork GCC!!! on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? · · Score: 0

    Hmm, looks like you are right, gcc does appear to be part of the base system. I'm surprised this is allowed with the license incompatibility. My bad.

  20. Re:Hmm. on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 0

    Sounds good to me.

  21. Re:Get Real on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? · · Score: 0

    Darwin, the lower levels of OSX (the ones based off FreeBSD and OPENSTEP) are released open source under the Apple Public Source License.

    The nice upper layers of the OS are closed source, but they didn't really benefit from the open source comunity so its not like they are taking and not giving back.

  22. Re:Yay! Fork GCC!!! on Will GPLv3 Drive Users from Linux to FreeBSD? · · Score: 0

    There is: cc

    It's what FreeBSD (and afaik the other BSDs) use. GCC is available in ports (and is a dependancy of some ports) but isn't part of the base system.

  23. Re:Hmm. on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 0

    he ads aren't pay-per-view, they're pay per click. No click, no money... Many ads (most graphical ones) are pay per view not pay per click. The publisher still makes money if you don't click them.
  24. Re:Oh boo hoo on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 0

    Site with ads usually aren't selling anything -- the ads are the money. So the "customer" is the one who clicks/views the ads. Loss of a user base that uses resources without generating revenue isn't much of a loss. And web servers can serve a limited number of clients. It's not as direct as taking a chair in starbucks, but it certainly does affect things like page load times on a busy server.

  25. Re:Hot wet young star systems?? on Water Vapor Seen 'Raining' Onto Young Star System · · Score: 1, Informative

    Rule 34?