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  1. Re:I must be missing something.? on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Personally, that'd be awesome if a major label decided to do that.
    Realistically, Hell will freeze over several times before that happens.

  2. Re:I must be missing something.? on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't think you realize what's going on here....
    Virgin (nor any other big lable) will not sell non-drm music.
    If their DRM music can't be played on the iPod they lose out on millions of potential customers.

  3. Re:I must be missing something.? on Virgin Accuses Apple of Abusing Monopoly · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes you are missing something, it's called DRM!
    the whole point of NOT using mp3s is to restrict people to when/where/how they can use their purchase.

  4. And of course most of the office is away today... on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    Like Rodney Dangerfield said: "I don't get any respect".

  5. Re:Good way to get sued/put out of bussiness on Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    Bingo.
    And with the near insanity of the US patent system it would be all to easy to point at code that acomplishes the same thing, in an entirely different way.
    But wasn't this inevtiable under the current patent system? I mean it's completly legal for them to do just this, no?

  6. Re:Linux developers must certify they haven't seen on Microsoft Expands Access to Windows Source Code · · Score: 1

    what about the billion other proprietary software sources they have viewed?
    You want people to sign a disclaimer and do what? Send it to Billy the kid that released his daemon under the GPL?
    And we've all got to wait for that patch because the guy that contributed it lives in Japan and Billy lives in the US and mail takes an awful long time?

    me thinks there a WAY to many problems with a suggestion like that.

  7. Re:Over heating on Doom 3 System Requirements Revealed · · Score: 1

    Spec a cooling system? Why don't they just tell you what model of Compaq you should buy.
    But seriously, probably because they assume anyone who builds their own system would know enough to keep cooling in mind when building it.

  8. Re:Rap music... no instrumental talent? on When Videogames Publishers Go 'Street' · · Score: 1

    Way to lump it all together.
    There is plenty of good hip hop out there (and even some that play instruments), you just have to look for it.
    And just moving the dial will not (usually) find it.

  9. Re:Doesn't everyone's company pay for broadband? on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Actually when on a service call my company pays per km plus all meals.
    A salary is compenstating you for your time, by purchasing things you need to do your job with it your basically donating it back to the company.
    They could at least be honest and cover the expense and lower the salary.

  10. And while your at it.... on P2P Networks Blamed For Software Losses Doubling · · Score: 1

    could you guys fix up them gun laws, guns are killing a lot of people. And in this case, peoples lives would be saved, not an increase in profits for corportations ;)

  11. Re:Boot to USB? on Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    it is possible to boot via usb only with systems that have support in their BIOS. This would not be the case here.
    "I have an IBM Thinkpad 390 Laptop, PII 266Mhz, 128 MB RAM, with USB 1.0 port and a 3.5 floppy"

  12. Re:Will it be ready in time? on Panasonic's Blu-ray Recorder To Hit Market In July · · Score: 1

    yes, but they have the wealth of like 3 billion people :-|

  13. Re:Better than IPSec over wi-fi... on IEEE Approves 802.11i · · Score: 1

    how was he incorrect? IPsec clearly is for end to end encryption. The fact that it could be used between two "route points" shows one of the many applications (i.e. l2tp between to IPSec hosts).

    End to end meaning if I setup IPsec between two hosts accross the internet, the data stays encrypted and unaltered during the transmission.

  14. Re:Dangers of using ATA or SATA for Raid on SATA vs ATA? · · Score: 1

    how can it not be an issue? If the drive was given a series of write operations that it stored in its own memory and returned to the OS that it completed it, when in fact the drive is still writing the cache to the disk and the disk dies, what happens to that data? The OS (or even the RAID controller) assumes it has been written.

  15. Re:US Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 2, Funny

    You wouldn't call firing cruise missles from hundreds of kms away, camping?

  16. Re:Are TV tuners becoming obsolete? on TV Tuners For The PC: Internal Or External · · Score: 1

    Well TV tuners can be used in the "future" if the "future" has RF based cable.
    Last time I checked *a lot* more people have RF cable and not digital cable. I doubt that it will disapear any time soon. Even 10 years from now you'll probably be able to use your 30+ year old TV.

  17. Re:Dangers of using ATA or SATA for Raid on SATA vs ATA? · · Score: 1

    I don't believe he is speaking about a general power failure, but a failure of a drive that has say 8mb cache memory.
    From the standpoint of the OS, the data has been written to the HD but it is actually "lost".
    Of course if you were building a real server (i.e. not for hosting large amounts of mp3s, porn, movies, etc.) you'd probably disable the cache on the drives and let the RAID controller do its job (assuming you bought a RAID controller with cache).
    But a better solution, for a storage only server, would be to use regular ATA drives (or SATA if you really feel the need for some reason) attached to regular controllers and use software RAID.

  18. Re:In Canada.. on EU Pushes to Limit Internet Speech · · Score: 1

    only if you believe religious beliefs should be allowed to oppress minorities in a secular society. But that wouldn't be a secular society then, would it?

  19. Re:Best way to boot software RAID? on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    yes, it's entirely possible. I use it on a number of servers.
    check out http://www.tldp.org/
    they have howtos for Root on RAID

  20. Re:Oh come on...... on Ars Technica Interviews Scott Collins · · Score: 1

    But unlike those people, he can't force you to use an inferior browser by "integrating" it into the OS.
    And on top of that, if you use Windows 98 you won't be left out in the cold by mozilla..

  21. Re:Open-source medicine? on Open Source for Biotechnology · · Score: 1

    but all that is moot if you can prove negligence.
    i.e. if the a drug company pushes the drug for another off label use, and it causes serious health problems, they'd be liable....

  22. Re:Might wanna use BumperCar... on Setting Up Mac OS X for a Teenage Coffeehouse? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shouldn't the vatican be releasing an banned list of websites that will automatically send people to hell for going to them?

  23. Finally name that can spread some fear! on Windows Users Fear Korgo Virus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Korgo sounds so much better then sasser.
    Not quite fear-of-god inducing, but whatever.

  24. Re:Ext3 journal on World's Fastest Flash Memory Card? · · Score: 1

    well afaik the journal is updated before and after each write operation. that would equal a lot. I believe most flash memory is usable for 1m writes in total.

  25. Re:Missing the real story on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 1

    you speak as if Linux = Windows.
    Linux is your GUI, Linux isn't really your OS, it's your kernel.
    Your kernel don't give a shit about copy/pasting
    This would be an X/KDE/GNOME/other issue.