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  1. Spoiler warning: on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 1

    <spoiler>
    But will the RIAA get to the point of realizing that laughter is more potent than fear?
    </spoiler>

  2. Re:girlie mp3 warez shutdown on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Find what album it was on, go to cdnow.com, buy the CD, and rip and encode it. Suggestion: use ogg for your own encodes; it sounds better at the same data rate.

  3. Fox being one of the four on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your grain of salt for the article:

    Fox is one of the four motion picture studios in the MPAA that do not share revenue with a major U.S. record label. (The others are Disney, MGM, and Paramount.) Anything that makes the RIAA look like the bad guy benefits Fox indirectly, as every dollar spent on recorded music is a dollar not spent on a Fox movie.

  4. DMCA on Judge OKs Competitive Pop-Up Ads · · Score: 1

    Making a web browser that doesn't reproduce the websites in the way the authors intended it is an absolutely legal thing to do.

    Not in the USA it isn't. The USA has a law, 17 USC 1201, that prohibits circumvention of access controls around a copyrighted work in the general case.

  5. Land rights? on Why VoIP Makes Telecom Regulations Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    the upstart. uses tunnels drilled 1000 feet under ground

    How did the upstart gain permission from each landowner to drill such tunnels? Some of the gas tax and license plate fees go toward compensation for the landowners who gave up their land to run a road across it.

  6. Bursts vs. streams on Why VoIP Makes Telecom Regulations Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    VOIP users aren't creating digital ruts in the information superhighway, now, are they?

    Most popular Internet services are burst-based. The Web, e-mail, and the like operate by sending bursts of data. The Internet protocols were designed for such bursts.

    VoIP, on the other hand, requires a constant two-way stream of a few kilobytes per second each way and usually needs some sort of quality-of-service improvement technique to keep the stream's latency from fluctuating wildly when stream packets get queued up behind big bursts.

    So yes, VoIP traffic is fundamentally different from that of other popular Internet services, and if the routing algorithms aren't tweaked to accommodate it, there will be ruts.

  7. Re:What about port 25? on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Blocking egress port 25 ought to be standard for all residential ISPs.

    Why should an ISP block a customer from sending an e-mail message through his employer's SMTP server? Why should an ISP block a customer from sending an e-mail message through a subscription SMTP server?

  8. What alternative is there to well-known ports? on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then how is an application supposed to discover on what port a machine is offering a service? What if you didn't know on which port Slashdot was running its HTTP server?

  9. Biometrics can't be revoked on Users feel Password Rage · · Score: 1

    A biometric authentication key, if compromised, cannot be revoked. You can't just be issued a new thumb.

  10. Re:More like Losing Nemo on Need Milk? Get Yourself A Supercow. · · Score: 1

    How about these? Do they look "poorly rewritten" to you?

    Reason #1 | Reason #2 | Reason #3

  11. More like Losing Nemo on Need Milk? Get Yourself A Supercow. · · Score: 1

    Please don't advertise The Walt Disney Company on a web site that advocates free speech and copyright reform. Disney has horrible track record concerning ethics.

    ObTopic: Yogurt does a body good.

  12. Bundled Office on Microsoft Issues Five New Security Warnings · · Score: 1

    The network support comes in default when you install Windows. MsOffice does not

    Most Windows users who run an Internet connection without an external firewall are home users. Most home users who "install Windows" do so by buying a computer with Windows installed. Microsoft Office, or at least the Microsoft Word component of the Works Suite, comes as part of many PC makers' bundles.

    You said, "You can install MsWindows without MsOffice." You did not say, "You are financially encouraged not to install MsWindows without MsOffice." A while ago (Windows 3.x days), users were financially encouraged not to install networking support because the Trumpet Winsock was sold separately.

    Whether it's bundled with the base install of the home edition of the operating system is not nearly as important as whether it installs itself as a core OS service and has security holes.

  13. Re:Worse on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    I use the example of "upcoming" star, Hilary Duff

    What's worse is that her name is spelled the same as that of an RIAA head.

  14. Mens rea on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: 1

    He might be able to prove or suggest no criminal intent, which would give the lenient sentence.

    No intent means no mens rea which means no imprisonment.

  15. No display on Everyone Needs a Personal Server · · Score: 1

    And I don't think that this personal server thingie would be much cheaper than a laptop, do you?

    A "personal server thingie" would not need a complicated display controller nor a large display. It would also not need the batteries to run those components.

  16. And get TOSsed off on Everyone Needs a Personal Server · · Score: 1

    you conect to it

    Not with most cable Internet providers.

  17. M$ on Everyone Needs a Personal Server · · Score: 2, Funny

    refering to Microsoft as "M$" is retarded.

    10 LET M$ = "Microsoft"

    It saves typing.

  18. Acceptable Use Policy on Everyone Needs a Personal Server · · Score: 1

    my servers at home

    Most residential users don't have the money for an Internet connection with that kind of acceptable use policy.

  19. Go directly to jail. on FreeBSD Jails · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does Linux offer something similar [to chroot jails]?

    Linux has a chroot jail.

    SCO has the other kind of jail too, unless you pay $699 to Darl McBribe [sic].

  20. Re:bind? on FreeBSD Jails · · Score: 1

    What, specifically, can Sendmail do that Postfix cannot?

  21. Suave shampoo on Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV · · Score: 1

    can you post a link to everything I want to know about SUAVE?

    Clean your hair with Suave and pay less.

  22. We're done with the dish. on Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV · · Score: 1

    directv just happens to have the best programming and prices.

    Programming doesn't matter if one can't get it. Here are the two reasons why I stay with Comcast cable rather than the dish: 1. There are problems with dish technology even with professional installation. Branches blow into the signal, you lose signal when it rains, you can't get it if there's a tall building south of you, etc. 2. For those who can get cable Internet access but can't or won't get DSL or terrestrial fixed wireless Internet access (reasons include geography), DirecTV's Internet access has latency worse than dial-up for even web surfing, let alone action games.

    We're done with the dish.

  23. Limitations in the home edition on 'Storage' to Replace Traditional Filesystems? · · Score: 5, Informative

    What then happens to SQL as a MS product? If its built in to every OS, why then would anyone buy it.

    Remember how Windows XP Home and Pro editions can serve files only to less than a dozen simultaneous clients? This is to boost sales of the IIS bundled with Windows 2000 Server and now Windows Server 2003. Microsoft SQL Server Home Edition will probably be limited.

  24. South Park allusion on RIAA Offers Amnesty to File Sharers · · Score: 4, Informative

    In an episode of Comedy Central's South Park animated series, "Fuck you; that is all" was a TV network executive's response to the mob of angry parents who wanted a show pulled from the air.

  25. Re:It's obvious on Slashback: Ascent, Patents, Transferability · · Score: 1

    Heck, I'm thinking about recording a tune or two for that sorta money.

    What agent do you have lined up to represent you to the songwriters' music publishers?