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  1. Re:Good news for Google! on Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually drug figures here (The Netherlands) are lower than most other european countries and certainly lower than in the US. (Both for hard and soft drugs)

    Jeroen

  2. Re:Discrimenating!! on Dutch Portal Cleared of Copyright Infringement · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you read a textbook yourself you would have known that the Russians cleaned out most of the Nazis....

    Jeroen

  3. Re:Hogwash on New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago · · Score: 1

    Ofcourse you have a better theory that explains all the stuff they found.....

    Jeroen

  4. Re:Or how about on Vatican Astronomer Comments On Extraterrestrials · · Score: 1

    I personally don't believe in a live after this one. I believe we should be good and create heaven here.
    But suppose for a moment that there is a next something.... In your view living a good live doesn't matter unless you are kissing the ass of some egocentric god... At that point I choose hell since there would have to be a lot of decent people there :)

    Jeroen

  5. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    The reason for this difference is that those terrorists are a small group and not an entire country. (a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 at all btw)
    Those soldiers in Iraq are not just a bunch of random guys who fight for some ideology.
    They are the US army send there by the US government. They are the US.

    Jeroen

  6. Re:Get an SUV on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    Because you can get a diesel engine in practicly any kind of car (including diesel-electric hybrids).
    The average person doesn't need a car that looks and drives like a tank, its just a wast of energy (wheter its diesel or not)

    Jeroen

  7. Re:Get an SUV on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Does this mean I should get an SUV

    Ofcourse! Because if a hybrid is only doing better than a normal car instead of much better you should get the most polluting car you can get.

    Jeroen

  8. Re:10 to 15 years on Terrestrial Planet Finder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Finding another planet relativly nearby might result in an even bigger motivation to get there.....
    Remember not so long ago te sound barier was seen as unbreakable....
    There have already been planets discovered just tens of lightyears away... They are likely to still exist today.

    Jeroen

  9. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am afraid you might have to bias check yourself to... It is a US led occupation, no matter the reasons, the US invaded another nation and is occupying it. It even says so itself....
    And who else than the US is leading it?

    Jeroen

  10. Re:That must be it.... on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    It is partly the US's fault since most of those 'bad' regimes are either supported by the US or a direct result of the US supporting the previous 'bad' regime.....

    Jeroen

  11. Re:Feedback loop on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1

    Teenagers have parents for that, not a government...
    If a government needs to step in to prevent teenagers from spending to much time on something they have lousy parents.
    When you 'were there' what did your parents do? Nothing? Kick you in the butt?

    Jeroen

  12. Re:Better Try a Lower Wattage Bulb on Microbroadcasting Summer Camp · · Score: 1

    The 100 Watt station will indeed interfere.
    The difference is only a factor 100 and as such any place were the distance to the small station is ten times as small as the distance to the large station the small station will appear to be stronger.
    Even if it is more than ten there will be a substantional area were it will be in the same power range as the larger one.

    Jeroen

  13. Re:Oh come on, be a man on Sasser Worm Takes Down UK's Coastguard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The house owner should be held responsible for leaving unshielded wires which caused the kid to electrocute himself.

    Jeroen

  14. Re:3rd Largest? on Third Largest Supercomputer... at Weta Digital · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Weta's goal is to perform one very large task as quickly as possible.

    Maybe not, if you render frame by frame you end up with lots of independ tasks.

    Jeroen

  15. Re:Money fever. on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 1

    There is a difference in the way you end up at your destination.
    The 'free market' part of the definition is a very important part. A free market is a market where you are not bound by laws or status. In order for capitalism to work you need to sustain this free market. In a market you don't move capital you exchange it. Because of the accumulation you have to have a constant supply of new capital (eg by growing new crops or mining for new ore or having new bright ideas). The only way capitalism is sustainable is when the entire market accumulates capital, not just a small fraction. If not you will get an ever decreasing fraction that is acumulating capital until there is nobody left to gain from and it will collapse.

    Jeroen

  16. Re:Money fever. on Intel Chief: Don't Call Us Benedict Arnold CEOs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I find it funny that after all that time all the capitalist fanboys are just now learning that in their system there is no guarantee that money is flowing their way....

    Both communism and capitalism predict that ultimatly there will be some balance in which everyboddy has equal chance and oportunity.
    The problem is that everybody has to play by the rules and there is no place for protectionism.

    Our technological advances are slowly taking down the natural protecting boundries... Ever since that started we tried to build new ones by law (taxes on money going the wrong way) but the balance is already tipping due to our own greed.

    The only question remaining is will we keep oscilating around this ideal forever or will things stable out after a while and reach a point of stability where everyboddy is happy?

    Jeroen

  17. Re:Gee... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Methinks you didn't notice I got the joke (hence the 'indy' reference).

  18. Re:Gee... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Different ark, indy found a box, not a ship.

    Jeroen

  19. Re:Amazing Screenshots on First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Simple, instead of an image you simply include a piece of code that generates it think of it like those small programs that create enormous fractal images.

    Jeroen

  20. Re:Is this legal? on VIA Releases Source To Custom WASTE Client · · Score: 1

    If the guy who added the GPL blurb and posted it on the nullsoft website was at the time a nullsoft employee any outstander (ie person not in on the scam) can safely assume this person to be a representative of nullsoft.
    That person can still be held responsible for the act, but the outsider can't be blamed.
    This sounds like the legal person nullsoft claiming to have had a temporary case of multiple personality disorder....

    Jeroen

  21. Re:how private? on VIA Releases Source To Custom WASTE Client · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think revoking their ftp access will convince them to stop using it very fast..... Or just throttle the ftp connections down using some scheduling filters :)

    Jeroen

  22. Re:Unsettling on Interview With The MPEG Committee's Founder · · Score: 2, Informative

    In some countries violating someones copyright is criminal... However still another part of criminal law.

    Atleast he wasn't comparing it to committing theft in the high seas...

    Jeroen

  23. Re:Training Costs on 2004: Year of the Penguin? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Training guy: Remember that white plane Word had were you typed your text?

    Luser: Yeah...

    Training guy: Your new word processor also has it...

    Luser: ........

    Training guy: You know how you used 'open' and 'save' and 'print' in that 'file' menu in the top of the window?

    Luser: Yeah....

    Training guy: Good, keep doing that.

    Luser: Ok....

    Training guy: Remember how above the white plane you could select the font and its size? And whit those funny buttons with italic and bold text you could make the text in the white plane turn to italic and bold?

    Luser: Uhuh...

    Training guy: Great! NEXT!

  24. Re:For Once I don't Agree on Playfair Relocates to India · · Score: 1

    • You seem to suffer from a lack of imagination...
      You seem to suffer from lack of a clue.

      How about playing the files on non apple hardware such as a portable mp3 player? Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car?
      Burning to unlimited CDs is explicitly allowed by apple's DRM (as long as you change a playlist if you want to make more than 10 CDs from it).
      Converting to MP3 is perfectly possible without cracking the DRM, and cracking the DRM does absolutely nothing to reduce the minor quality degradation involved in transcoding from one
      compressed codec (AAC) to another (MP3).

    Ok, I was not aware of the option to burn to CD since I am neither Steve's nor Bill's buttmonkey.... Could you also tell if there is an option to burn it to DVD-SA? Unless you can burn it to any audio media or file format (present or future) the same argument still stands.


    • What if you were searching for hidden messages and wanted to play it backwards? (I don't know for sure, but I don't think apple currently lets you do that)
      Yes, you DON'T know, but don't let that get in the way of your assumptions.
      You can listen to iTMS music in any program that uses Quicktime on an authorized machine. You could write your own app to manipulate the audio pretty much any way you wanted without breaking the DRM, but in this case you don't have to. Open the m4p music in Quicktime Player, select "Loop Back and Forth" from the Movie menu, and go ahead and listen to your music backwards.

    Ok, now I want it to play backwards, twice as fast mixed with another song and above all I want to do it on a platform for which there is no official apple quicktime codec or sdk.


    • Or play it on your network-enabled-but-not-approved-by-apple-home-ste reo.
      Again, every network enabled home stereo that I'm aware of that plays AAC does it by transcoding to MP3 on the server. Thus there is no benefit, in this scenario, to breaking the DRM to produce an unencrypted ACC, as opposed to working within the DRM to re-encode to MP3

    It doesn't matter you haven't heard of a system that doesn't transcode. I want it to be possible, just in case I might find such a system or build it myself.

    Jeroen
  25. Re:For Once I don't Agree on Playfair Relocates to India · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have yet to find a time where I would need to strip out the DRM unless to share with the masses.

    You seem to suffer from a lack of imagination...
    How about playing the files on non apple hardware such as a portable mp3 player? Or even to burn it to cd and play it in your car?
    What if you were searching for hidden messages and wanted to play it backwards? (I don't know for sure, but I don't think apple currently lets you do that) Or play it on your network-enabled-but-not-approved-by-apple-home-ste reo.

    Jeroen