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  1. Re:The article writer is a deaf idiot on Why Distributing Music As 24-bit/192kHz Downloads Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    The best part is that when people are arguing whether 192 is too much, he went over the top with 256 and 320!!! Another good reason to always put units after some arbitrary numbers.

  2. Re:But it won't be the studios that end up paying on Proposed Video Copy Protection Scheme For HTML5 Raises W3C Ire · · Score: 1

    The benefit is browser writers can now focus on anything non-DRM to make better browsers for non-DRM consumers.

  3. Re:mp3 stored records is material on Google Asks Court Not To Enjoin ReDigi · · Score: 1

    In that case, First Sale does not apply, as what is transferred is not the material itself. You can sell the drive which has the recording, but to move it to another material is copying, regardless of whether the copy from which it is copied from is destroyed or not.

  4. Re:throwaways are easy with gmail on Jerry Yang Resigns From Yahoo · · Score: 1

    What you suggest for people like me who's already used the address without the dots as the default?

  5. Re:This is good news! on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices · · Score: 1
    to requote parent:

    in the same way that SCEE aren't SME either.

  6. Re:What's a Samsung fan? on Apple Can't Block US Sales of Samsung Devices · · Score: 2

    but only if it has an MP4 extension, not if it has the more common M4V extension.

    You're joking, aren't you? M4V would only be common among those who have been using Apple's software and devices. All AVC+AAC videos I got from the internet are either in MP4 or MKV containers.

  7. Re:disincentive? on An Easy Way To Curb Smart-Phone Thieves, In Australia · · Score: 1

    Therefore it (the bricking of stolen phones) is a disincentive.

  8. Re:Dangerous? on Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice · · Score: 1

    Someone's gonna lose hundreds of bucks.

  9. Re:Advertisiing Standards don't seem to work on Dell's Misleading Graphics Card Buying Advice · · Score: 1

    Your second sentence implies we should stop blaming advertisers. It should have been "Learn to use it as you blame advertisers".

  10. Re:expensive cupcakes on Baker Has to Make 102,000 Cupcakes For Grouponers · · Score: 1

    Buying imports? Spending on foreign services (like, playing WoW)? All your money drains out of the country.

  11. Re:So... on Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 · · Score: 1

    Someone has to relay the mails, in the event that the recipient is offline. Or should the client try to resend only when both parties are online?

    Okay, maybe you can do it like most P2P networks (e.g. BitTorrent) do: A sends to B & C. If C was offline, only B gets it first. But as soon C gets online, C can get A's news from origin or from B.

  12. Re:So... on Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 · · Score: 1

    Does it refuse connections from modified source? Is it impossible for modified source to spoof as original?

  13. Re:So... on Diaspora Co-founder Dies At 22 · · Score: 1

    Okay I get to host my own pod, great. But is it good on its own? I still need to connect to other users to see their contents, and let them see my content, right? So it's either (A) I get users to sign up on my pod, or (B) I connect to users on other existing pods. The problem is, how do I get people to trust my pod? And if I connect to other pods, can I trust them enough that they won't abuse what I shared to the user on those pods? What if those pods run modified versions of Diaspora?

  14. Re:No, IT IS NOT MESED UP on When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That analogy itself is messed up. You made an assumption that money was based purely on work. But if you want to follow the history of money that way, you have to realize that at one point money was traded for commodity.

    Let's imagine that money is a measurement of favor. I lug you some rocks, then I will be entitled to some kind of favor from you tomorrow. Maybe you'd give me a feast with a whole chicken. But I wasn't in the mood for a chicken that time, so I decided to put off receiving favor from you. After two years, I expect to still be entitled to that feast of whole chicken. But with inflation, for some reason you'd only give me half of the chicken, because you claim that my favor has devalued over time. What gives?

  15. Re:Can anybody tell the difference? on Apple's Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) Now Open Source · · Score: 1
  16. Re:This answer makes no sense... on Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More · · Score: 1

    Yes you can do it in Javascript, but the code would be convoluted. Someone may want to create a library for that. It's like writing macros for LaTeX.

    Maybe the walls he was talking about was the walls he was talking about refers to the limit of how complex web authoring are allowed to be. At least that's how I see it, but it's easily mitigated by introducing a JS library for it.

  17. Re:This answer makes no sense... on Opera's Haakon Wium Lie On CSS, Web Standards, and More · · Score: 1

    Say for example, I want an image at a between certain paragraphs, and it spans two columns, and any text on the second column should wrap around the image instead of written over it. How do I go about doing that? In fact, someone else was also asking the same thing here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4577380/css3-columns-and-images

  18. Re:No longer a monopoly on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 1

    in Russian, there is a saying which translates as "If you can't defeat [them], lead [them]".

    In Microsoft, there is a saying "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"

  19. Re:Do not want on Next-Gen Game Consoles Still Years Off · · Score: 1

    I remember playing Jamestown on my bro's PC with three players, and he only owns one copy of the game. Or what, did you want your PC version of CoD to offer split-screen support?

  20. Re:I like it on Opera Proposes Switching Browser Scrolling For 'Pages' · · Score: 1

    I concur. When columns was first introduced to CSS, I was always toying with the idea of repaginating using JS to make wikipedia visually resemble a dead tree encyclopedia. Never managed to do it, I hope Opera will show the way

  21. Re:RIP Steve. on Steve Jobs Dead At 56 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work that way. First he has to come up with a new news portal software, then he buys back slashdot, and make use his new software. Then you only need to worry when he tenders his resignation for the second time.

  22. Re:Protection is already available on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    NoScript is pretty much the reason why I'm still on Firefox. While other browsers have started including Javascript whitelists, they still don't have this powerful feature of NoScript: the ABE.

  23. Re:Never considered the MMOs part of FF on Square Enix Admits Final Fantasy XIV Damaged Brand · · Score: 1

    Most game shops that rent out games usually charge by weekly basis. That shop that you rented from sure has some crazy business model! So how much did you have to pay for 13 hours?

  24. Re:Works with coal too on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    Slashdot ate all my subscripts! I suppose it doesn't support all kinds of unicodes

  25. Re:Works with coal too on Coffee-Powered Car Breaks World Record · · Score: 1

    The percentage of CO atmosphere is governed by the rate at which it is released and absorbed. A forest absorbs more CO than a farm. If you cut down a forest for a farm, the equilibrium percentage will shift towards having more CO. Let's say it was 390 ppmv before. After you cut down the forest, it might rise to 395. Then you plant the farm, it may reduce to 394. Harvesting and replanting the farm will cause the CO level to fluctuate between 394 and 395, but never returns to 390 like back when it was still a forest.