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  1. Re:Maybe... on Was the Amazon De-Listing Situation a Glitch Or a Hack? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think they're using the term glitch to cover "bad idea implemented with a horribly flawed design and worse implementation".

  2. Re:Flying? on Flying Micro-Robot Takes Off · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because most journalists look at you funny if you call it a wireless waldo.

  3. Re:do their own then... on Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support · · Score: 1

    Those sandboxing restrictions remind me a little of the restrictions already in place for applets.

  4. Re:Gold selling is a good idea on Game Developers On Gold Selling · · Score: 1

    Actually pawn shops have to charge such a large margin as a risk load to account for the fact that the merchandise might be stolen and get confiscated.

  5. Re:Microsoft has an "Australia" problem on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it was IBM who came up with the 20% thing.

  6. Re:Sad reality on Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub · · Score: 1

    Sounds possible to me. On the other hand members of the LDS church have never been ones to let the "word of wisdom" as grandpa called it get in the way of more important goals in my limited experience.

  7. Re:People just don't understand Linux on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  8. Re:People just don't understand Linux on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it DOES mean we have to get Photoshop ported. Or at least get the GIMP to the point of real feature parody in areas like high bit-depth and color management. There are entire KINDS of application stacks that are sketchy at best on Linux. With the incomplete support for color management and color management devices professional photography is one of those.

  9. Re:Deep pocket lobbyists will get you everything on Copyright Scholar Challenges RIAA/DOJ Position · · Score: 1

    If they want those damages they can sue the person making them. Otherwise it's using pyramid-scheme logic to justify things.

  10. Re:WOW on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that the local bribed governments have control over all the land you'd need to run cables to build a new network.

  11. Re:A.C. on Slashdot Mentioned In Virginia Terrorism Report · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is a stand alone complex without the need for brain-altering cybernetics. People keep acting like it's some enormous organization with a hidden leadership structure. In reality it seems to be some sort of strange internet/society gestalt intelligence.

  12. Re:negative spin much? on Climate Engineering As US Policy? · · Score: 1

    Honestly I consider the biggest problem with global warming is political. Namely that we let it get political. We let people show glacial calving and present it to the public as images of our melting icecaps (when the glaciers that no longer even reach the water may be the most disturbing thing in reality). We let this become international treaty territory instead of simple enlightened self-interest when there are a great many people who distrust the entire international diplomatic community. And we let Al Gore use it to grab the limelight for himself. Seriously Al Gore? About the only way you could screw the pooch and polarize the issue more irrationally in American politics would be for Hillary to have done it.

  13. Re:Idea on Data Centers Work To Reduce Water Usage · · Score: 1

    I think he was talking salt water in this case. I think that's doable and I'm pretty sure that's what the San Onofre nuclear power plant uses. They certainly don't have steam towers.

  14. Re:One can dream on Microsoft Ordered To Pay $388 Million In Patent Case · · Score: 1

    Contract law?

  15. Re:negative spin much? on Climate Engineering As US Policy? · · Score: 1

    Actually just try to measure water flow in a rapids by placing a few random flow sensors in the water. I'm not sure you'd be able to calculate an accurate flow rate for the entire river unless you got lucky. As far as I've heard that's what we're doing right now for global warming. We needed that satellite we just lost.

  16. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    That's why you build the cameras with individual key pairs. I think that's how the old evidence camera kits worked. Epson had one for an 800z or whatever it was way back, and Canon has sold one in the past for dSLRs. Totally useless for this app, but it was very good for showing an image came out of a given camera unmolested by Photoshop. Pointless for that too as if I recall the rules actually rested the might of the evidence on the photographer testifying they took that picture, not on the camera.

  17. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    Works for me. Better yet. "I've got raw's bracketed +- 2 stops." Even with a fully hacked raw format (not out of the question given the existence of 3rd-party raw converters) there's no way to get information that never made it into the exposure of the "keeper".

  18. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 1

    Yes, but how easy is it to duplicate them with good resolution? I assume there's some loss of detail even from a slide copier, and especially from a film recorder. At least that's what I always heard. Plus, if you bracket that's even more proof as you may have adjacent images that record more shadow or highlight data and if you've managed to recreate the scene you arguably haven't broken copyright in the first place.

  19. Re:Moving parts are the main problem on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that make the best approach to virtualize the entire OS and application so it can be migrated or restored to new hardware at a moments notice? That is one of the big selling points of virtualization isn't it?

  20. Re:Moving parts are the main problem on How Do I Provide a Workstation To Last 15 Years? · · Score: 1

    That might just be the difference between SLC and MLC flash.

  21. Re:This is not a bad thing! on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually damages may be limited if he never registered his copyrights. If so this should be a lesson: always file your image copyrights, it's one small fee for as many images as you can cram on a disk.

  22. Re:that was fast on Designer Accused of Copying His Own Work By Stock Art Website · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At least once upon a time stock photography had a decent argument. "I've got negatives, what do you have." Not that film is impossible to fake, it's just that it's a pain to do and very difficult to do well.

  23. Re:Duh on Larrabee ISA Revealed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Raytracers are surprisingly easy to code. There ought to at least be a demo app when the time comes.

  24. Re:Quite clever on New Entrant In the Race For Wafer-Thin Speakers · · Score: 1

    You wish they were coupon machines. In my experience these days they're a little video player with a pre-loaded commercial on them if you press the button.

  25. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    You would likely get some police questioning though.