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  1. Re:Didn't we just leave this party? on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 1

    Poor vendors and their driver certifications. Well at least someone will be buying 7 I guess.

  2. Re:Oh crap... on University of Kansas Adopts 'One Strike' Copyright Infringement Policy · · Score: 1

    I'll be waiting at the staff copier pool, ready to remove the violators.

  3. Unbeatable? on Checkers Solved, Unbeatable Database Created · · Score: 1

    Its a proof for 'unbeatable'? I thought its result was no win, stalemate.

  4. Golden on eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past? · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is awesome, truly we are living in a age of golden prosperity.

  5. Re:90 GB? on Retailers Leak New TiVo HD Specs and Price · · Score: 1

    When people quote these numbers they are translating HDDVD space used with HDMovie size. You dont 'tivo' a the dvdspace. Just the format you downloaded from the hd-cable/dsat provider. This can be much less than a HDDVD

  6. Re:Summary? on The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan · · Score: 1

    Seems like a commercial for http://gunbroker.com/ to me

  7. Re:Doing MS's job for them on Sun Releases ODF Plugin for MS Office · · Score: 1

    Yes this was part of the anti-trust. Even though most of the formats can be preserved they choose to degrade them. Sow hy should this be any different.

  8. Re:Standing on DOJ Accidentally Gives Lawyer Wiretap Transcript · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This from a guy who has the drudgereport has his url

  9. Re:I hope so-Fruit juice. on Ubuntu Linux Validates As Genuine Windows · · Score: 1

    the tco on apple desktops and laptops is superior to microsoft boxes. most apple users can easily throw away their install media and never need it for the life of their machine (many years).

    the benefits of mated os and hardware yields quite a bit over any proprietary issues, especially when looking at keeping the os inter-operable. we are talking about an company that since macos you can easily tool your own script to interact with any textfield for example for spell check or whatnot. that's the type of interop that you seem to leave out of 'oss'

    s/apple regularly lies/industry regularly lies/

    apple uses solaris and windows because of superior stability? koolaid please

  10. Re:It's a good thing, then... on MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search · · Score: 1

    The answer is myspace doesn't care. They gambled on the positive press of 'pioneering sex offerer reporting' and had no plan for the downside -- if they even see this as a downside.

  11. Re:The advantage then of buying real CD's on Apple Hides Account Info in DRM-Free Music · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Its not a prevention mechanism, it never claimed to be. Just like a license plate doesn't prevent a car from speeding.

  12. Re:Specifics please. on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    The problem I see in your solution is raw access to the disk, with a a minimal network of 50 clients clawing at that $2000 home brew setup are going to be painful, much less 300 or so clients. An EMC/Filer isn't going to blink. There is a lot more than an controler, drives and a nic going on.

  13. Re:RAID controller failure on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Agreed, the controller just doesn't 'stop' it sort of goes on a rampage for a bit. Making you wish you went through another layer of abstraction or redundancy.

  14. Re:Not the same market! on RPG Devs Should Beware MMOGs · · Score: 1

    Before WoW I bought a game and a dvd every two weeks when I got paid, maybe two -- pc / console whatever, the chances of be buying a game now are so slim. Some of the new games look pretty cool, but I will beat the game and be done with it in a few days and be out $50. Most likely the game will suck with some horrid unplayable flaw.

  15. Re:our brains aren't wired to think in parallel on Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard? · · Score: 1

    I doubt a modern crawler processes anything beyond network, server responses and protocol nuisances (redirection, mime, etags, modifications, etc). Paying any attention to the data 'fetched' its actually scheduled to go fetch would be stupid. Push that stuff back for some other chain of things to take apart.

    I don't even see how parallel crawling is even worthwhile, the protocol is so thin for http that the protocol to manage the parallel cluster possibly would be thicker.

  16. Re:Exactly what I was wondering on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Likely has a good idea on 'unknown' word as well, the example "This aged portion of society were distinguished from" the OCR didn't cut it but it did did kick start a guess. At least on "This -> niis" it can see its not 'ZOMG' or 'Fark' easy enough.

    Also it wouldn't take much to add some grammar to pad the guessing. While we wee two words the system sees them in at least two contexts.

    Obviously it has the actual dictionary to help it basically spell check the words we submit to it. If the words we give it are completely garbage, its unlikely to go for it. Which is where knowing that "niis" needs a correction.

  17. Re:It's only a server validation solution on Bye Bye Spam and Phishing with DKIM? · · Score: 1

    How does PGP stop spam? Just because someone is listed on a key server doesn't mean much.

    DK tells me that the mail message actually belongs to the domain and its mail server. Its not user to user but rather server to server (a server validating a server's output). It also doesn't use a CA or other notary, it uses a dns record.

  18. Re:Fine: Define email on Senator Warns of Email Tax This Fall · · Score: 1

    Agreed the subby messed up, we need a independent investigation of such misrepresentation.

  19. Re:No thanks to you, Slashdot. on Penguin Car Earns Indy500 Spot · · Score: 1

    This just in Mark Webber sitting in for Stephan Gregoire. Suddenly Aussies everywhere gone wild.

  20. Re:Infuriating on Threat To Free, Legal Guitar Tablature Online · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hey when the RIAA claims earnings from music they are not holding contracts for and if you write a song and provide the tabs for free and you get a SAD order it is infuriating.

    Its just a 'machine' like spam, it just gaming the largest distribution of cheap opportunities and attempting to get a few hits. Its also maximizing any other opportunities it can along the way that may come of it, charging more for licenses, and creating markets for DRM.

    Some day they will make a 'legal' mechanism against this 'rackets', just need one of these guys to fall first so racketeering charges can be brought.

  21. Re:Yes. on Congress May Outlaw 'Attempted Piracy' · · Score: 1

    Rove better have his Oracle licenses squared away.

  22. Re:The big fight LIVE! on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    If MS accidentally makes the GPL/BSD/etc invalid and those copyrights revert back to the authors, suddenly MS is networking with netbios over serial on a good day.

    This is one of those classy items that just blows up in one's face.

  23. whoaaaa ... thwack on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    clearly a ninja conspiracy.

  24. Re:this does NOT suck on Two US States Restrict Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    Draconian laws are good, so we notice the draconian laws?

    Dude we are already rolled back to before The New Deal, much further and we are looking at a time when we didn't drive cars much less buy and sell used CDs.

  25. Re:We'll see about that. on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 0

    Look how well people got their wow passwords stolen from simple spyware ads. Imagine how much banking evil goes on. This ends nothing, I causes more issues if anything. Makes money for Intuit/MSMoney, not they can push a new version thats '.BANK' version.