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  1. Re:Wrong motive on Swedish ISPs To Thwart EU Data Retention Law · · Score: 1

    I don't know what it is you want, to announce themselves as the lawless ISP or the pirate ISP or anything like that would only be foolish in so many ways.

    Why? For the record, the Swedish PirateISP seems to do just fine. Granted, they only offer services to one city currently, but that city has one of the largest Swedish universities, along with all of its student dorms. Honestly, I don't see why it'd be 'foolish' to have a pirate ISP, they are not responsible for their customers. If anything they're sure to get them, being the only company offering 1Gbps/1Gbps fiber connections to households (for $80/month).

  2. Re:Epic Fail? Hardly. on Playstation 3 Code Signing Cracked For Good · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, the PS3 was launched on November 11, 2006. Today's date is December 29, 2010. That means that it took over four years to be broken.

    Compared to DVD and Blu-Ray, that is actually pretty darn good.

    I was at the presentation in Berlin today. They did bring up this exact point.

    Their counter argument was that people don't take into consideration that the console did support homebrew until Sony declared they'd drop that. The argument for that action was they'd save money not having to support it for their then-new PS3 Slim models, which turned out to be bullshit after hackers discovered that the Slim (with some hacking) could actually run the same Linux distros as the PS3 Fat. They then disabled OtherOS on the PS3 Fat, too.

    This was 12 months ago (can't cite a source other than the slides), making it take only 12 months of actual effort for it to get cracked, as opposed to other (closed) platforms where the homebrew hacking efforts begin at day 0.

  3. Re:Facebook spam? on Iranian Crackdown Goes Global · · Score: 1

    The obvious counter-argument from average (ignorant) Joe is that "well, the criminals encrypting their harddrives shouldn't be regarded as freedom fighters, they should be put into jail, and since I'm not a criminal I don't need to encrypt my stuff"

  4. Re:Leaks like a sieve on Microsoft's Top Devs Don't Seem To Like Own Tools · · Score: 1
    I suspect the bug here is that Word95 would free a random pointer when started from a desktop shortcut. From the leaked Win2K source code, in private\ntos\rtl\heap.c,

    // The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
    // to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
    // shortcut.

    Sigh...

  5. Not that it matters... on From Turbines and Straw, Danish Self-Sufficiency · · Score: 1

    ... but it's 'Samsø.' And 'Søren Hermansen.'

  6. Re:So your point is? on After Sweden's New Law, a Major Drop In Internet Traffic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fair points which I certainly agree to. I rest my case, however: I will not let lobby organizations like the MPAA or RIAA have more power than any other company in the world. If they start acting like the police, some authority should stop them instead of making their lives easier.

  7. Re:Not fun anymore on After Sweden's New Law, a Major Drop In Internet Traffic · · Score: 2, Informative

    I play by the rules set by the industry.

    Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*.

  8. I wonder... on After Sweden's New Law, a Major Drop In Internet Traffic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... how they're going to stay online. The service itself has to be hosted somewhere where they won't have too much hassle with the constant influx of copyright complaints. The *AA companies will then be able to kill two of birds with one (or the cardinality of the userbase with one stone) by just getting whatever details about IPREDator they need and taking them to court for their illegal downloading. We have to remember: while The Pirate Bay remains legal, the illegal downloading has always been, and I'm very interested in details as to how they keep this service running in any country if they claim responsibility of their users' actions.

  9. Re:PC load letter?! on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whew. Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays.

  10. PC load letter?! on Stealing From Banks One Cent at a Time · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the fuck does that mean?!

  11. Whatever happened to good ol' on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 1

    User-agent: GoogleBot Disallow: /

  12. Corrected: Re: Outsource is now faster! on Google Buys a Piece of a Cable To Japan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Outsourcing jobs to Japan would be the dumbest movie ever. http://youtube.com/watch?v=09SAiBiD0ak

  13. Re:AEBS backups on Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Brings Welcome Fixes · · Score: 5, Informative

    1a) Wait. 1b) When your drive is full, watch the fireworks. TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes does NOT work correctly and is NOT supported (hence the "Unsupported"...)

  14. Astronomy software on Entry-Level Astronomy? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first thing I'd do would be to install Stellarium. That'd enable you to "tune in" on stars, even in cloudy weather.

  15. A small correction. on Music DRM in Critical Condition? · · Score: 1

    "RealNetwork's Rhapsody service will offer 256kbps tracks, the company said in a desperate statement."

    Corrected for your convenience.