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  1. Difference? on Affordable Workstation Graphics Card Shoot-Out · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure I'm not the only one who doesn't know... so can anybody explain the difference between a high-end workstation card and a high-end gaming card?

  2. Re:Inexpensive backup on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    ...and if you use all the numbers and letters, and make up a few new ones, you can go base64 and save three quarters of that space again!

    Ain't life wonderful?

  3. Re:Wouldn't the picture at least be copyrighted? on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1
    From a publication of the Swiss National Bank:

    C Copyright


    Banknotes are not protected by the Swiss Federal Copyright Statute. However,
    individual works reproduced on banknotes are subject to copyright protection
    provided they have not been reproduced recognisably as a part of the banknote.
    The works protected under copyright law may only be reproduced and adapted
    with the permission of the copyright holder.




    Whole text at http://www.snb.ch/en/mmr/reference/instr_rep_notes /source/instr_rep_notes.en.pdf, excuse the pdf.
  4. Re:Wouldn't the picture at least be copyrighted? on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1

    >In that case I'll start printing my own money... if the designs are public-domain, I will not need a license to do so.

    I promise you you won't be thrown into a PMITA-prison for breaking copyright.

    You will for counterfeiting money though...

  5. Re:Weird game on Erotic MMO Targets Female Audience · · Score: 1

    It isn't. The parent is talking about a Massively Multiplayer Porking and Online Roleplaying Game

  6. Re:nothing to see move along on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ...and royalties to Switzerland for using the Web, which was invented in Geneva (the original Geneva, not the one in NY).

    We'll be expecting your cheque/credit card number.

    Thank you for your business.
  7. I say... on U.S. Insists On Keeping Control Of Internet · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say let the UN have it. It is the Internet after all, to be handled internationally. The US can keep AOL in exchange...

  8. Re:Not surprising on A Portrait of the UK Game Pirate · · Score: 1

    ...and of course, they have to add the sex back in.

  9. Re:Similar question... on Preparing for the Broadcast Flag? · · Score: 1

    In a true democracy, you can.

  10. Re:Certificates changed? on The Evolution of the Phisher · · Score: 1

    ...and they supply the trusted SA themselves. If they can manipulate your hostfile, adding an additional "phishy" SA shouldn't be too hard.

    Of course, this doesn't apply if the hack the DNS. Then I agree, they won't. But they could conceivably manipulate the DNS entry for any trusted SA to one of their own servers and just - as it were - proxy the SA.

    Disclaimer: Haven't given this too much thought, it's before my morning coffee...

  11. Good idea... but... on Don't Nurse Old Hardware - Emulate It · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before I even R'd TFA, I thought about one big problem:

    How are you going to emulate a 5.25 inch drive to read old disks?

  12. Re:This is Seriously Fucked Up on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't know too much about US parties, being Swiss myself, but yeah, I was mainly pointing out what I perceived as a flaw in your reasoning. I'll take my pedant's hat off now...

  13. Re:This is Seriously Fucked Up on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I somehow disagree with your statement that the Republican Party [...] us actually a moderate party (after all, it is one of the top 2 parties). Would you say the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in Germany in 193something-45 was moderate just because it was the top party? The CPSU in the Soviet Union was moderate because it was the top party from 1917-1991? Didn't think so...

  14. Re:stupid acronyms on SVG And The Free Desktop(s) · · Score: 1

    Nah... there's no such thing as a FLA. You probably mean an ETLA (Extended Three-Letter Acronym). Of course, there's also the VETLA (Very Extended...) as the DUB-TLA (Doubled TLA).

  15. Human Interaction on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    Mainly for human interaction? Ah, I see... they want to try an approach they've never tried on the "real" earth so far.

  16. Re:The RIAA must not like this. on Portable MP3 Hardware Sales Up · · Score: 1
    It's not as if they haven't tried this already... If you want more, Google!
  17. Real life... on On Interpersonal Compatibility In MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    Besides, finding out they don't really own a Supreme Mace of Thwacking +40(tm) really sucks...

  18. Re:[OT] Short linguistics lesson on Segway Riders Get High on Mount Washington · · Score: 1

    Oh, go thank yourself, you bastard!

  19. Re:Of Anonymity on the Internet and in the Real Wo on WiFi Hotspots Elude RIAA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    > you don't even get notification that they are doing it...

    ...Ah, but you do. I get these warnings "Your computer is broadcasting an IP address" warnings all the time when I surf the web...

    Disclaimer: Not really. Using Firebird.

  20. On the other hand... on Bush Names New Cyber Security Czar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...that will make it easier for us (well, those of us in the States at least) to scream "Biased!" when he comes up with any closed-source/Microsoft advocacy. This could actually help.

  21. Re:Am I the only one on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    This post in a thread that mentions goatse.cx is slightly... scary.

  22. Re:Hey Jamie on Why (Most) Software is so Bad · · Score: 1

    Slashcode's source is open. please show us what you mean by improving on it.

  23. Re:what do you expect? on Steffi Graf Wins Case Vs. Microsoft · · Score: 1

    ...but I think the gun helps.

  24. The problem is... on The Crime of Sharing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ... that, in my opinion, loads of people who downloaded Morpheus or Kazaa don't do it to be able to share music, but just to get stuff without paying for it. When they see their favourite freeloading tool under attack, they're screaming blue murder.

    Don't get me wrong, I'd hate to see p2p go, and I'm ready to do something for it (EFF, here I come...). I just don't expect millions of other users to do so. Sad, innit?

  25. Sounds familiar on MS Squashes SQL Benchmarks · · Score: 1
    Aahhh... Microsoft trying to show the "superiority" of their products with dodgy benchmarks... Sounds familiar...

    I'm just fine with PostgreSQL, thank you.