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  1. Re:Yeah, but... on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    ..and what happens when the next Windows virus sends out the remote disable code to all your expensive hifi gear?

    The lawyers will be the only ones smiling on that day.

  2. Re:Same old Sony Story on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    I was gutted to find the european PSPs aren't hackable, and may never be... there's only about half a dozen (lame) games available over here and I wanted to play emulators etc... the thing is already sitting barely used (the battery life doesn't help... damn thing drains battery when it's switched off so unless it's plugged in all the time it'll be dead when you next want to use it.. 0/10 for portability there guys.).

  3. Re:Wait a moment... on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    Tell the average AOL user why their new Bluray player won't work until they hire a techie to run cable from the spare room where the computer is to the liviing room. And they they have to buy a broadband router when their 56k dialup has been fine for checking their emails.

    If that's a requirement the format will fail.. I just can't see it.

  4. Re:If they did it right, they'd get you on Blu-Ray To Punish Users for Modifying Hardware · · Score: 1

    The encryption on the physical disk isn't going to change.. why on earth do you think it would need a live connection to the server to get keys?

    Get the keys once and be done with it. The average chinese knockoff would probably do this anyway.

  5. Re:That Answers My Question on MySQL and SCO Join Forces · · Score: 1

    Try SQLite if it's only processing small amounts of data.

    It's *really* fast and small, much like mysql used to be, and is a nice standard SQL which supports lots of features.

  6. Re:Uh - Best of Both Worlds? on MySQL and SCO Join Forces · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not small companies... unless you're 100% GPL MySql is not an option (OK you can fudge it by sticking to 3.23 which is what we do (we're about 95% GPL but that 5% is *important*) but if you want decent features Sqlite is better, and Postgresql is *much* better for enterprise stuff).

  7. Re:New Playing Field on MySQL and SCO Join Forces · · Score: 1

    True.. they need to sort out their win32 installer though... in craps all over system32 (before anyone says it I *know* I need to report it to them or post a fix... it just hasn't annoyed me yet enough as we primarily use MSDE on win32 anyway).

  8. Re:Excuse the lunatic fringe rant, but... on Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More? · · Score: 1

    If you think that start doing some research and bark up the *right* tree!

    If a certain german math teacher hadn't started doing that we wouldn't have much of modern physics.

  9. Re:How dimensions wrap themselves up on Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More? · · Score: 1

    String theory/M theory (which from my limited undersdanding are basically the same thing but scientists violently disagree which one is correct) apparently give rise to the idea of multiple universes (google for multiverse).. so what's on the other side might just be another universe. Of course there's no way of proving that even theoretically...

  10. Re:May seem unneeded and cruel.... on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1, Troll

    Umm.. If I'd had no water for 3 days and another day would likely kill half my family I'm damned sure I *would* murder, hijack an ambulance, etc. Probably shoot at a few helicopters too to see if I could hijack one of those.

    It's easy to say you'd stay civilised from your nice comfy chair.

  11. Re:n/t on Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've got a free version of Windows 2003 (currently situated under my coffee mug).

    Is that dead too? >g<

  12. Re:Yet Another Bullshit Patent Dispute on Apple Is Accused of Violating Software Patent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Patents shouldn't be just for the rich.

    Newsflash.. they are. Deal with it.

    The fees are a *tiny* fraction of the money needed to defend a patent. If you can't afford the legal fees to defend it, don't bother with the patent, because it's useless anyway. The first company with money that likes your idea will steal it, and probably sue you for violation of a few other patents in the process.

  13. Re:What will Gandhi Say? - get the quotee right on Apple Is Accused of Violating Software Patent · · Score: 1

    There's a specific grant of right of quoting at the front... for the NIV it's 500 verses maximum (with some limitations eg. you can't quote an entire book).

  14. Re:Integrated on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 4, Informative

    If 'ls -l' is doing a lookup for each line then your nscd is not running or broken.

    All user information (and host) on Unix is cached - and the cache is *not* a linear lookup.

    Username/PAM lookup is *not* linear. If I call getpwnam for example it goes to pam -> active directory -> username lookup. There's no searching involved.

  15. Re:Integrated on Microsoft to Stop Releasing Services for Unix · · Score: 1

    There is one... http://pgina.xpasystems.com/

    I was using it for quite a while.. have an AD running under VMware now.

  16. Re:Magic and ID on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't even go as far as to say it's christianity in disguise.

    It's something completely new, that borrows from christian texts also off the new age, being presented as christianty in the US.. an lots of people are falling for it.

    As a european I was wondering *why* do such a thing, then I read http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166478,00.html

    'Christian' leaders in the US weilding enough power to publicly order the murder of someone and not get arrested. That's what it's been all about from the start - power. Now they have it. Be scared. It's about as far from any traditional understanding of christianity than it could get, but the US has been so preconditioned that they just accept it.

  17. Re:Religious right attacks "theory" of gravity on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    Fantastic! Unfortunately I shouldn't have been reading that whilst drinking tea. Gotta clean my keyboard now.

  18. Re:I'm a Christian, and this scares me to death on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    I'm impressed... a US Chrstian who isn't (to put it politely) a raving lunatic. On slashdot, too!

    Greetings from the UK.. it's nice to know there's still some sanity over there.

  19. Re:Choice on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 1

    Where did that come from?

    The phrase "militant gays" comes straight out of the fundie campaign handbook, and who gives a crap about gay marriage? If they want to do it let 'em.

    You're betraying your fundie roots (I don't like the term 'religious right' as most of the christians I've known have been more left wing... anti war, etc. not right wing).

  20. Re: Christians like Newton, Darwin and Galileo. on The Decline of Science and Technology in America · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes eventually, but he was funded by christians to do much of his research.

    Christianity isn't one monolithic entity.. never has been... there's always been a strong pro-learning streak in it (spreading education throughout the world, establishing hospitals - we still have 'sisters' in hospitals today even though they're not nuns any more), and there's always been the stuck up gits who care more about their own power than anything else.

    Actually not much different from today... they call them Senators now not Bishops, but the principle is the same.

  21. Re:Women everywhere moan on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Women don't have to actually *be* tired to actually be tired, nor do they actually have to have a headache.

    It's their way of telling you to smeg off, in a way that doesn't offend.

  22. Re:Coming soon... on Drug Reverses Effects of Sleep Deprivation · · Score: 1

    Out entire programming team was threatened with the sack unless we got eye tests. With our own money. On our own time.

    Yes, companies do demand ridiculous things.. it's not even ucommon.

  23. Re:VOIP dialing from buddy list on Google Instant Messenger Coming Really (or Not?) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can make money on the interconnection on VOIP.

    Let everyone in your network use it for free, then charge for the PSTN gateways. If you have enough presence in each country you can undercut the competition and still make a profit.

  24. Re:You build it, one is born every minute to buy i on New 1 Kilowatt PSU - Too Much Power? · · Score: 1

    Never heard of them? wow..

    They make nice PSUs... most of the ones I've used in the past have been enermax, since they're the only reliable PSUs you can buy off the shell around here (the other brands being coolermaster, that have a shitty reputation, and a collection of noname chinese ones).

  25. Re:Money on Congress to Overhaul Patent Law · · Score: 1

    That's always been true.

    Patents are the province of those with the money. They have *never* had anything to do with the 'little guy'.