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  1. Piracy? on Instant Concert CDs? · · Score: 1

    Since RIAA interests' is to make the big companies money, they'll propably go against this. However if the artist get her money, I think this wil be nice. This way, live cd's might get extra special since you know that you was there and you did hear the sound realtime (well.Almost.). I don't know much about pressing a cd, but now adays you have 52 x burners. That means a cd in a few minutes. If you just had a bunch of those spitting out cd's...Well...Maybe not possible. But to press a cd should work I think.

  2. Re:The REAL Problem on Why Project Gutenberg Isn't There Yet · · Score: 1

    In norway, you have copyright as long as you live, even if you get (hypotetical) 200 yrs. Then the right is transfered, to the person stated in the will. This right is enduring for 70 yrs after death of the creator. This means that if I write a novel when I am 20, I am assured that me, and my relatives get the income for about 150 next years...This is some problems with, but in general it works fine.

  3. Some do. on Self-Regulating SSL Certificate Authority? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some ISP's make their own... Like zet.no (see cert author) They're a norwegian small isp, with a few hundred clients (mostly companies.).SO why not other could do this I wonder. What is wrong with making your own? At least it ensures that only the other end can read, not any sniffer, and at least for me it is the most important. Usually I don't think it is as easy to replace a entire site as to sniff. So for me it is most important to ensure that only 1st and 2nd part can read the message. However, I understand that some have a need for authentiacting that remote is the one it is claiming to be. But how many users would notice if it were zet.nu instead of zet.no? And how difficult would it be to replace the papers needed to get a VeriSign cert? Panaroid users could even request a mail (snail mail) with a floppy with the ssl pub cert on, so they could check! It would also not be a problem to enable something like the PGP keysigning, that sites sign each others certs. Then you, for example, would be pretty ensured that a site who had a cert signed by slashdot.org;) and Google you would be pretty ensured that it actually would bethe site it was claiming. I do not think it is right that you should pay for encryption. Encryption is a Human Right, it is a part of Freedom of speech, to be able to communicate without that 3rd part is reading!

  4. Re:That's why having resources in files is helpful on Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk · · Score: 1

    This is realy easy... MS already has got Office in bokmaal, which is wery near Nynorsk. Anyone that can read one of them can read the other... This means:
    There is no cultural differences
    No different currencies
    No different timeformat.
    Very much the same wordlenght.
    The same charset.
    The fact that it is JUST the interface they are going to translate, not the help.
    That Nynorsk users will be able to call the same support as other in norway.
    The fact that they only have to produce cd's. The install manual don't have to be translated.
    All this together makes it clear that it will be relativley cheap....

  5. This is not completly true... on Microsoft Forced To Translate Office Into Nynorsk · · Score: 1

    Norway is split...Two languages, altough they're pretty much the same. Nynorsk is about 30-35% of the people. However the organizations did not make about any high scool threaten microsoft. They made around the half. This is not that easy either...Earlier MS said that it would be to expencive, and that they would not earn in again.... Now they've changed they'r minds. I do think that it is in main due to that Skulelinux (In norwegian...) has translated Linux to Nynorsk, and even made their own distorbution. When MS saw that tthere was some schools that wanted to test out Skulelinux (Schoollinux), tehy got afraid, and decided that it might be better to translate it...Maybe the schools will realise that it is better and that even bokmaal schools will use Linux...

  6. Crack the gun on New Jersey Enacts 'Smart Gun' Law · · Score: 1

    Terrorist A:Weren't we supposed to go out shooting down some innocent people? Osama: No. Wait. I'll just have to find the serial port of this gun to crack the code... Well. Certainly, it would not be to difficult I should belive to
    A) Remove the protection electronicaly
    B) Remove it physicaly. If you had the sligthest knowledge about guns, it should not take to long to get the electronic stuff away from it. However, you might add a GPS when running, always reporting the posistion to a central. That way you would have to benefits: You would easily be able to track back a stolen gun, and it would be easy to determine what guns that where nearby when someone was shot!

  7. Re:Cables are securer? on UN Advised on Wireless Insecurity · · Score: 1

    Not realy. Because wireless you could track down from another building without that I got the fainthest idea of it ever was someone tracking my net.
    If I just strode over the box, I most certainly would know someone where trying to get data from me. Then I could go to the police. But If I did not know about it, it would be a bit lame.
    Imaginine an ordinary day at a police station;
    Me:Hello. It might be that someone is tapping my wireless ethernet.
    Police: What makes you belive so?
    Me: Nothing...But indeed they could. They could be standing outside the building. And if they do, how should I detect...
    Police:Well...As long as the crime is not done yet, it is not anything we can do.
    Me: But it is important. I am dealing with secure stuff. You have to post at least 10 man searching everyone who pass inside a 150 yard circle around the builing.
    Police: Sorry. We canæt do that.

  8. Secure? on UN Advised on Wireless Insecurity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What would be secure?
    Although it is encrypted, it is most likely that within two years, it will be possible to crack this.
    Cables are securer.

  9. Re:This is not a job for the government! on WA Wins First Case Against Deceptive Spammer · · Score: 0

    Indeed.No big brother is ideal.
    I do not want anyone who I dont know to read trough my mail.Therefor every user should install this themself.I have spamassassin, and I run only on my account.Therefor I know that no one else is reading my mail...Except for the person with the very common, 4 letter name, and a difficult passwd.

  10. Re:fsck times on Reaching Beyond Two-Terabyte Filesystems · · Score: 0

    This would not be a huge problem, because we are talking about raided systems, not about one harddrive with 2TB.
    When u have multiple drives, it only have to scan each drive, which will take the same time if u have one 60 gig disk or 1000 of them mounted in a raid!

  11. Re:That leads to DoS...Does it? on Crappy Passwords Very Common · · Score: 0

    Yes.
    But you can add that it only is on the same TTY
    So if someone do that on TTY1, then root can login on TTY2.
    That would be easy to make, and then the DoS people got to change TTY to disable it at all TTY's.And you can say that root f. exkample _always_ are allowed to logon on TTY1 on physical computer...Then it would not be a problem...Or use trusted IP's.
    If you first are on the physical computer it is not hard to get in.... Boot lilo with single mode or simply use a boot floppy.

  12. Re:Evaluation: Dubious on AOL To Finally Switch To Mozilla? · · Score: 0

    Does it?
    I have never discovered that.
    I think you get it cheap, but you have to pay for it

  13. Will they do? on Judge Says Microsoft Must Give States Windows Code · · Score: 0

    What if then M$ flags out to a island with no laws about computer crime.What will happend then?
    Well:
    They do not have to release source
    They do not (maybe not atleast) have to pay so much taxes

  14. News? on Intel C/C++ Compiler Beats GCC · · Score: 0

    This has been published long time ago...M,A LinuxMagasinet in Norway. GCC has about an third of the performance of comercial compilers

  15. Re:My complaint to CmdrTaco and his response. on KaZaa Suspends Downloads · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This has, as far as I can see, nothing to do with Oracle debate going on. This is something that should be put in AskSlashdot.

  16. Re:So why do I need 64bits? on 64-bit Computing: Looking Forward to 2002 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Maybe, but not completly true.
    Linux does some hacks to work around this...
    But things will be made easier with 64 bits.
    Like Intel X86 32bits does support in Linux support up to 8 gb memory.
    This is a hack, and is not native for X86

  17. Re:A sodium atmosphear?? on Alien Atmosphere Hubbled · · Score: 0

    You're rigt.
    But that don't say that we will be able to colonize it.
    Like pluto has a atmosfere, we could colonize it.
    But of course, if ve invented fire on pluto, the metan+oxygen we would need to brieve, you'll get an astronomical bigbaddaboom.

  18. Upgrade on Linux 2.4.15 is out; Linux 2.5.0 has also begun. · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damn. Downloaded 2.4.14 over a 56K link yesterday... Well.Patches suck but..
    I suppose we realy need all those new kernels on 2 year old pcs?
    Most normal pcs don't need this at all.
    Unless you're a freak

  19. Re:does this even make sence?? on .biz Open For Biz · · Score: 1

    Well. Certanily Microsoft has NOT registered their name (microsoft.biz).

  20. Re:But what if... on Aluminum Server Case Review · · Score: 1

    then u should look at GOLD pc cases...A bit expecive, but they leads away energy wery fast.
    And will weigh aprox. 50 kg.

    SGI made some cases from magnesium, I saw a page were there was a HOWTO to put them on fire:-)

  21. The first email. on Happy Birthday! Email Is 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    I think that any of the comments under is right.
    But you'll have to define whats email and whatsfile sharing.
    But if u say that a email shall contain a adress, for example needing to include a @ sign and a domain, then can u say "That is the first email".
    And I do not know the details of this message in 1971, but I suppose it is /almost/ right.
    It is not a big lie if u say this is the first email,thus there might be older emails than that.

  22. Re:Not surprising on Netcraft Survey Updated · · Score: 1

    Well.
    A unqualified admin, has worse work under win2k, since u need to admin it 24*7.
    With *nix and apache, admin is an unknown word, other than to maintenance and set up.

  23. Re:I bet the wife was pissed on What Are Microsoft And Napster Talking About? · · Score: 1

    Well.Actually Microsoft tried (and (sob, sob) did) to buy Corel.
    But Micrsoft's program for protecting any files maked by them , make them maybe think that Napster could be used to copy those files.
    And of course.
    I could tar,bzip2 for instance MS Office 2000 and send it to you.Via NAPSTER.
    Therefor it's important to know that MS do NOT DO this without some rule for it.
    And I hope Napster could be used for just mp3 and oggVorbis:-)

  24. Just in case... on The Quest For Cool Cases Continues · · Score: 1

    I should be needed to play Xkobo without bugfix! Just fix it!