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  1. Re:Actually they are right on eBay To Disallow Checks and Money Orders In US · · Score: 2, Funny

    So on top of the fee that they charge you for selling your item on eBay, they get to take another few percents off the buyer for using Paypal.

    Eventually, if they don't ban the other methods of payment, they would charge a few percents on using the other payment methods as an "inconvenience charge".

    Well, this is the beginning of the end of another good idea.

  2. Delay access? Not good enough. on Nevada Businesses Must Start Encrypting E-Mail By Oct. 1st · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Prevent, impede, delay or disrupt access to any data, information, image, program, signal or sound;

    Under this definition of "encryption", I could argue that by compressing the file it would "delay access" by making them wait for the time 7zip takes to unzip. So now zipped files are encrypted?

  3. About this Karaoke++ on Using Computers for Sophisticated Music Analysis · · Score: 1

    genre

    Classical - lots of orchestral instruments
    Hip-hop - repetitive loops of drum / bass with melodic lyrics
    Rap - repititive loops of drum / bass with unmelodic lyrics
    Techno - Synthetic (simple wavelength) instruments

    etc.

    mood

    Major and minor chords.

    composer or title

    Huge music database + measuring contours, with "almost match" working. This doesn't sound incredibly sophisticated to me.

  4. Re:The answer is simple on Mars Polar Cap Mystery Solved · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, that's Lockheed Martin for using Imperial units.

  5. Re:This is actually quite educational on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 1

    Murder the president? I think most people on /. wouldn't mind. A few might even encourage you.

  6. Re:All hail the new king, same as the old king. on Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions · · Score: 1

    As a congress critter, if there is a part of a bill you don't like IT IS YOUR JOB TO VOTE AGAINST THE WHOLE THING!!!!

    If we don't have this, bills will never get past Congress, because there's always a small little tiny bit in the hundreds of pages of legal gibberish that someone disagrees with, but it is too small to veto the whole bill (a few months of work) for, or even too small to notice. That's how earmarks get through.

  7. Re:This is actually quite educational on Judge Munley is So Out of My Top 8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The right to free speech" in reality translates to "The right to conventional, relatively non-controversial speech in a setting that will not upset anyone or be particularly noticed by anyone who might be offended or threatened by said speech." The second you attempt to break out of any one of those tight boundaries, you WILL find yourself in jail/kicked out of school/fired/persecuted or in some way silenced or punished.

    The right to free speech does not include the right to libel anyone.

    But this being the Internet, I think the valuable "life lesson" that the kid should have learned is that she should have been more careful in covering her own tracks.

  8. Still the same problem with buying CDs on SanDisk, Music Publishers Push DRM-free SlotMusic Format · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the biggest problem, he said, may be that Apple's iTunes and other download services have made customers used to buying a song at a time, not an album, and making their own compilations.

    The horror! Now we don't have to pay for the album fillers that comes with the one song that we want?

  9. Re:The public internet is not private or personal on 10 Percent of Colleges Check Applicants' Social Profiles · · Score: 1

    Untag yourself. If it's not listed under your name, colleges won't find it.