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  1. AWN on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do wonder how this will affect the AWN project https://launchpad.net/awn personally I stopped using AWN because they could never get full screen windowing to work to my satisfaction, but I would hate to see a productive and lively OSS project shut down because of Job's intellectual greed.

  2. Why watch video (let alone go online) on your PS3? on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    Why do we want everything to be our PC these days? Personally I don;t want every device I own connected and online. just doesn't seem like a good idea.

  3. Re:Rental only on Playstation 3 Video DRM Only Allows One Download · · Score: 1

    if you can't backup the file with the utilities that you are locked in to using, then yes. Besides you still possess the license for that material. having the file or not has no implications on your rights under the licensing agreement.

    you did not buy the file, you bought a license, and it is impossible to throw one of those away, except by breaching it's terms. BTW what does that have to do with calling a rental a sale being felonious fraud?

  4. Re:NewSpeak on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    why not? Life is never simple enough for one single literary reference. I posit in fact, that any expression of existence is a mixed metaphor, as you put it.

  5. NewSpeak on Mozilla Admits Firefox EULA Is Flawed · · Score: 1

    well we found that we like license agreements, but no one else does, so we thought that we'd rename they 'Beer', because people like 'Beer'. so three cheers for 'Beer'! oh! it's time to take our soma....

  6. Re:Hardware Acceleration on Answers from Harald Welte, "VIA's Open Source Representative" · · Score: 1

    this is exactly why imaginary property needs to be abolished. Thanks Harald for some interesting insight into how royalties work.

  7. Re:Capacitors on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    nope. they we're pretty much worked out of the market by '04. the problem appearently had something to do with poor industrial espionage, leading to Korean factories producing sub-par caps (one that did not allow hydrogen to escape as needed). Hence the reason my BIOS splash reminds me daily that my Mobo was made with 100% Japanese capicators.

  8. Re:Gamers use DRUGS? on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    ok fair enough. I'm belittling, in your eyes. so be it. my intention is not to appear cool as you put it, but rail against the stupidity I see in TFA.

  9. Re:Gamers use DRUGS? on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: 1

    I'm not belittling them.
    I would guess that you are the one that assumes pot use is bad afterall. I don't happen to believe that.
    I just think that the hype over drug testing in any competition is getting most tedious.

  10. Gamers use DRUGS? on WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sports · · Score: -1, Troll

    if you can spend 12 hours playing a game, then you're stoned. anyone else would get bored and go out.

    They must miss that their lead demographic coincides with the lead demographic for marijuana use.

    fools. These are the people who bought GTA? do you honestly think that they don;t toke?

  11. Re:OpenGL is NOT only games on OpenGL 3.0 Released, Developers Furious · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, your desire to be lazy and not update your code is pre-empting my dream of a fully functional desktop linux world, and not I won't forgive you for it.

  12. Re:Informative??? on Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes · · Score: 1

    largly because the originator of this particular contraversy did find correctly that the bios malfunctioned but did not find the correct reason. by changing what he believed we're memory addresses we're actually time out values, he caused the callback to wait indefinitely, rather than for just 1000ms. this appeared to have benificial affects, but has nothing to do with the table. the first operand to the call specifies the table, not teh second hexidecimal value.
    basically what this needed was sunshine, not a new DSDT table.
    regardless I'm grateful that the issue arose. My thanks to everyone involved.

  13. Re:Nothing. on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    of course they are, but they face up. thats why they need the party plane.

  14. Re:Only a problem if you have TPM? on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    yeah, I usually heard it as trusted computing until a few years ago when m$ started campaigning on the topic. they changed it to trustworthy, thought it is the same sheep in wolf's clothing

  15. Re:Nothing. on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    obviously Google doesn't think any of their trade secrets should remain secret then do they.

  16. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    welcome to /., the home of the categorical syllogism.
    but yes, power corrupts....

  17. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 1

    yes

  18. Re:You wonder? on Citizens Spy On Big Brother · · Score: 3, Informative

    well that would be non-violent drug offenders, the fastest growing majority in our prison systems.

  19. Re:Except that... on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 1

    do you have Vista Enterprise or Ultimate on you laptop? if not, then your fine. it only affects BL capable systems.

  20. Re:Only a problem if you have TPM? on Dual Boot Not Trusted, Rejected By Vista SP1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    no, you just have to have a version of Vista that supports BitLocker, whether it is on or off. Enterpise and ultimate are the only versions that support BL, so they are the ones that need the KB which is prerequisite to SP1 install (because SP1 upgrades some bitlocker features). Never Trust Trustworthy computing. it hasn't earned it.

  21. Re:NASA is 50. And a big disappointment. on NASA Turns 50 · · Score: 1

    agreed. NASA has helped us a ton. we just need to help them back, by providing decent funding.

  22. Re:Specific Linux support REQUIRED? on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    because unlike most BIOS features that are abstracted away under the kernel, ACPI must establish a 2-way information flow, so that the software can control the hardware, but also recieve information from the bios about how the hardware should be run.

  23. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    great sig dude

  24. Re:An the solution is.... on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 1

    I've always had good luck with ASUS and Abit. Gigabyte took a spill, but I think their bringing the quality back up.

    I think your on the write track. good luck

  25. Re:Copyright infringement, too on Why ISPs' "Stand" Against Child Porn Is Actually Not a Stand Against Child Porn · · Score: 1

    interesting idea. I like it, but I think bandwidth is going to be your problem there. uplink on consumer lines are pretty limited (at least around here). besides, since it would be fully decentralized and (i assume) redundant, we would probably just be recreating bittorrent.