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  1. Re:Cage on Court Rules Against Unlicensed Sampling · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here you go

    The root of the matter was that the person in question credited Cage in the liner notes. If that had not been done, the lawsuit would never have happened.

  2. Re:Not bad on The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III · · Score: 1

    I don't see anything wrong with the headline, since it is exactly the same as the title of the essay.

  3. Re:slashdot fails journalism 101 again on 1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another Explodes · · Score: 1
    The story I read and the video I watched is about the 48 inch rocket by Meier (not Armadillo) which was destroyed on impact when its chute failed to deploy. It did not explode in mid-air.
    Your reading comprehension isn't very good. The Meier rocket (Rubicon) is 38 inch diameter (and 23 ft long). The Armadillo rocket is the 48 inch diameter one.
    As far as I can tell, there are no videos of the Space Transport (Meier - Rubicon) launch. They also have not updated their website with news of the event. Every news article that I have read concerning the Rubicon uses the word "exploded". Note that exploding does not preclude the use of the parachute. The Rubicon has a cluster of seven solid fuel rocket engines. One or more of these could explode and still leave the main body capable of parachute landing.
  4. Re:doom3 on 1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another Explodes · · Score: 1

    There was no fuel in it, which is why it crashed.

    Originally it had a blend of peroxide and methanol.

  5. Re:stop-gap on Squeezing Coal To Reduce Emissions · · Score: 1
    nuc-gen'd electric is unsuitable because of our current transportation HABITS (versus technology).
    It's fine for mass-transit and for hybrid cars.


    Nitpick - Hybrid cars do not use grid power, all their electric needs are filled by onboard generators driven by the gas engine (or by regenerative braking).

    Pure electric vehicles would be a good recipient of that nuclear power, however.
  6. Re:This is an excellent quiz. on Phish Scams Fooling 28% of Users · · Score: 5, Informative

    Do you have Mozilla set up to forbid javascript from modifying the status bar (as you should)? If you do , then whether or not the javascript is IE specific, it still wouldn't show the bogus link. I had to view source to see what they wanted to appear down there (mainly because I forgot about that setting until most of the way through the quiz).

  7. Re:IP and phone numbers on Court Says Customers May Take IPs Away From ISP · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you actually read the TRO, you'll see that the plaintiff just wants the addresses for a limited time (ie, until he is done transitioning to the new IPs). And we aren't talking about a small chunk of addresses either, the plaintiff is a web-hosting company with around 400,000 IPs to transition.

    The short version is that according to the plaintiff, the defendant got greedy, which prompted the plaintiff to attempt to take his business elsewhere. Again according to the plaintiff, the defendant made threats to hinder the transfer, which prompted this suit.

    Not quite a cut-and-dried example of judicial idiocy.

  8. Re:This rocks! They will sell millions. on Apple Rolls Out AirPort Express, AirTunes · · Score: 1

    It might even be possible to feed this thing music from SlimServer, or at least to control it using the remote through a SLIMP3/SqueezeBox.

    I'm tempted to get one, just for the Printer capabilities. Hopefully someone will figure out a way to print to it from Linux.

  9. Re:Derivative works on Auto-Censoring DVD Player · · Score: 1

    How is the timing information about a movie a derivative work? The info in that ROM is something like this:
    DVDID-XXXXXXXX
    0:01:10-0:02:13 -- skip -- sex
    0:05:30-0:05:35 -- mute -- vulgar
    0:15:34-0:17:42 -- skip -- violence

  10. Re:Template Engines are bad on PHP Template Engines? · · Score: 1
    PHP templates separate logic from structure. HTML + CSS separates structure from presentation.

    Why not do both? PHP templates for the structure, CSS for the presentation. Nothing about templates says that you have to do the styling in them.
  11. Re:Did they give the maintainers a heads up? on Unhealthy Sniffing · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the article:
    Disclosure Timeline

    5 March 2004 Ethereal developers were contacted by email telling them about 10(of the 13) holes. 6 holes were closed the same day EIGRP, IGAP, ISUP and BGP.
    7 March 2004 IRDA hole closed (after checking specs)
    8 March 2004 PGM hole closed (after checking specs)
    9 March 2004 NetFlow hole closed (after checking specs)
    17 March 2004 UCP holes were discovered and mailed to vendor
    19 March 2004 UCP and TCAP holes closed (after checking specs)
    22 March 2004 Ethereal developers have releases a mini advisory urging their users to upgrade to version 0.10.3 which will be released later this week
    23 March 2004 Public Disclosure


    So, yes, they did let them know, and the holes have already been fixed.
  12. Re:Lottery Grants on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles · · Score: 1

    It boils down to personal preference. I'd much rather read from a book than a computer screen. So, while I own and have read many Dover books, I have yet to fully read anything from PG.

    Once electronic paper is out of the vaporware stage things might change for me, but for now Dover wins for me.

  13. Re:Lottery Grants on Project Gutenberg 2 Raises Some Hackles · · Score: 1

    I don't see PG as competition for Dover. PG provides electronic texts of public domain works while Dover provides printed and bound versions of those works. Sure, you could print it out yourself from the PG version but I think you'd have a hard time beating the price and quality of the Dover version.

    Dover in fact could make use of PG to get the text of public domain works for subsequent printing and sale.

  14. Re:How Ironic on Melting Europa · · Score: 1
    I am curious as to how they plan to keep the hole thawed after it breaks through to the ocean below. Seems to me that the upwelling water would freeze in the hole and lock the probe in place.


    There are no plans to attempt to keep the hole open after the probe. The article even mentions the possibility of the probe melting its way back up to the surface. One of the worries about the current design is how to keep the water from re-freezing around the probe itself.
  15. Re:Even with new owners... on Amiga Sells AmigaOS · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a logical in VMS, which can also include search lists.

    Could you also use assigns in assigns? For example, could that Iain device be an assign for Work:Iain?

  16. Re:Our new macrobrew overlords on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I guess I should have used the more sophisticated sounding "jigger" or possibly "finger" as the unit of measurement for my Scotch purchase.

    I think the actual glass used was a highball glass, the shot was just referring to the amount in the glass. And yes, I did sip it slowly so as to appreciate it.

    So how would you recommend describing a single serving of Scotch?

  17. Re:Our new macrobrew overlords on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    I'd say your best bet with Scotch would be to go to a lot of Irish or English pubs. They frequently have decent selections, but the cost can be pretty prohibitive (the last place I ordered a glass was 8 bucks for a shot).

    Ideally though, you should get a relative to work as a liquor distributor. That's how I got a free bottle of 30yr old Laphroag.

  18. Re:corn and rice are adjuncts on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    At a guess, he probably mistook your semi-colon after barley as a comma. Easy enough to do, especially at smaller font sizes.

  19. Re:It doesn't matter for the most part on Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible · · Score: 1

    You might want to read the paragraph above that one. And maybe also read the part where he explains about section 4 of the ASL.

    The summary, the Apache Software Foundation won't ever dual-license its software, but that doesn't mean that third parties can't dual license a derivative of the ASF software.

    The original ASF software can only be distributed under the ASL. Derivatives based on that software can be distributed under whatever license the deriver wants (including the GPL, hence the claim of GPL compatability).

  20. Re:BBC Q&A on Microsoft Source Follow-Up · · Score: 1
    My question to all the IANALs out there is this: whilst a copyrighted work cannot be released under (eg) the GPL if someone were to break into MS.com, steal the code, slap a license.txt file in there and slap it up on sourceforge, once something's out in the open it becomes de facto public domain - ie OUT OF COPYRIGHT.


    For a real world example of this not being the case, see any number of free weekly newspapers in most major metropolitan areas. All the stories in those papers are still protected by copyright, despite the fact that anybody can get a copy of the paper for free.
  21. Re:Gee Whiz? Gee, don't on Good Demo System For A High-Bandwidth Link? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The point he was making was that there are different ways of stating amounts of binary data, and that sometimes it is difficult to remember how exactly they relate to one another.

    The inconsistency was deliberate and appropriate.

  22. Re:Complain to the abuse@ of the filtering system on Anti-Virus Companies: Tenacious Spammers · · Score: 1

    I imagine they mean Bouncer in the sense of a dude that sits out in front of your club and keeps the riff-raff out.

  23. Re:Simple on Why Hasn't the DVI Interface Replaced D-Sub? · · Score: 1

    It depends more on the water you are buying. If you buy the single serving bottles, sure, you might as well ingest them goatse-style. However, if you buy the big 5 gallon (19 liter) water-cooler bottles, then you will most likely be paying a lot less on a per-liter basis.

  24. Re:I am not looking at porn on Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's a little hint, it isn't Slashdot that collapses your two spaces into one, it is your browser, which is following the HTML specification concerning white space.

    Now, the case of <code> elements is different. Although it doesn't say so in the HTML spec, most browsers handle them with white space being preserved.

  25. Re:Windows users, repeat after me: on Announcing Cooperative Linux · · Score: 1

    The implication I got from his post was that Eudora fell into the crapware category, more specifically the spyware category.

    I used Eudora for a long time, until I finally got sick of something (I forget what) and switched to Mozilla (now thunderbird).