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  1. Re:Not how BitTorrent works on How Proxied Torrents Could End ISP Subpoenas · · Score: 2

    You're more correct than the OP, in pointing out that The Pirate Bay only transfers metadata. However, The Pirate Bay hasn't run a tracker since 2009: http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tracker-shuts-down-for-good-091117/

  2. Re:Netflix on Gabe Newell Reveals More About Steam Boxes, New Input Devices · · Score: 1

    I think they can, but it will require a similar agreement to the one I assume that the people that make game consoles, chromebooks, and set top blu ray players have to sign in order to have a client that can access Netflix. (Not sure which way the money goes there.) If all he's saying is that the system won't prevent you from running other programs besides Steam, like a web browser, that's not the same thing as supporting Netflix. I agree that he might have meant that it would support a web browser in addition to Netflix, in which case so much the better.

  3. Netflix on Gabe Newell Reveals More About Steam Boxes, New Input Devices · · Score: 2
    From the article:

    "So... Netflix on the Steam Box?" "Oh absolutely. You can fire up a web browser, you can do whatever you want."

    Until Netflix runs in something other than silverlight, this isn't going to work the way Gabe seems to think it is.

  4. Re:How Pointless.... on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    ...Why stop there? Let sponsors have characters "As Captain 'Pizza Hut' Ahab looked out over the sea, he saw her, Moby Dick, brought to you by Target."

    Don't you mean The Hut?

  5. Re:The solution is easy on NZ File-Sharers, Remixers Guilty Upon Accusation · · Score: 1

    First become a valid copyright owner. Release a song you record and own the copyright to. THEN accuse everybody in NZ of pirating it. Then you have a claim to make.

  6. Aha! on World Bank Under Cybersiege In "Unprecedented Crisis" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At the end there's an update that has a comment from World Bank:

    UPDATE: After FOX News published its story, a World Bank spokesman issued the following statement: "The Fox News story is wrong and is riddled with falsehoods and errors. The story cites misinformation from unattributed sources and leaked emails that are taken out of context. "Like other public and private institutions, the World Bank has repeatedly experienced hacking attacks on its computer systems and is constantly updating its security to defeat these. But at no point has a hacking attack accessed sensitive information in the World Bank's Treasury, procurement, anti-corruption or human resources departments."

    Is this World Bank trying to reduce the damage, or is Fox as sorry as we know it is?

  7. Re:I'd be pissed. on Stanford To Offer Free CS and Robotics Courses · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope, you can also get the video from YouTube, Itunes, Vyew (not working with Firefox 3.0), and WMV and MP4 video files that are being torrented. I feel like the bases are covered pretty well.

  8. Re:Programmers? on California Can't Perform Pay Cut Because of COBOL · · Score: 1

    Oblig: You must be new here...

  9. Re:It's A Trap on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 1

    That's a really old blog post (2004), even before a lot of the Novell Microsoft noncompetition agreements. They seem to be playing nice so far. They've got to get C# developers somehow. Where better than leeching from the *NIX community?

  10. Re:One sad conclusion on Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, we could have found out exactly what Martian soil is like beforehand. We should just send up a robot to scoop some up and analyze it...oh wait.

  11. ASUS on MoBo Manufacturer Foxconn Refuses To Support Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had an ASUS motherboard (M2N32 Sli Deluxe) that sounds like it had nearly the same problem back in 2006. I had to disable ACPI, APM, smp, and a bunch of other stuff to get Knoppix or any other liveCD to boot, and then it was still giving kernel errors. Five months or so after the board was released, ASUS pushed a BIOS update that just said "Fixed Linux". Sure enough after a quick reflash everything worked like a charm. Maybe Microsoft stopped paying their protection fee to ASUS?

  12. Re:Vista vs XP on What Does It Take To Get a PC With XP? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can connect to the *cough* neighbours AP within 5 seconds from any state.

    Even Alaska? That must be some router!

  13. O RLY? on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    Have you seen MTV recently?

  14. Not quite... on Memristor Based RAM Could Be Out By 2009 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "If this were possible, it could basically become unnecessary to actually *shut down* your computer." Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the effects to take effect. Do you want to restart your computer now?

  15. Re:What is a grocery store? on Microsoft Will Stream Ads To Grocery Carts · · Score: 1

    Sounds like your kids need more discipline and less fedexed poptarts.