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  1. Re:Emergent Solution on Who Will Pay For Open Access? · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about relying on Google and archive.org?

  2. Re:Court documents on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 1

    This is, of course, under the assumption that the court documents on the unicast.org page linked to above are real. I don't intend to accuse its poster of lying, but there are many possible hidden motives and too many questions unanswered for my liking.

    Skepticism is good. But in this case you can go to Pacer and download the documents yourself from the original source -- the total cost is around $10.

  3. Court documents on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's perfectly real. I downloaded the court documents from Pacer (the online docket system of the US Courts) and put on my website. It includes the permanent injunction signed by the judge that closed the case.

  4. DoS on Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Creating 911 Worm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps he wanted to create a Denial of Service attack against the 911 system.

  5. Re:a small point... on Sir Peter Molyneux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not true. The Queen will not normally make additions to the OBE list.

    The honour that she can award personally, e.g. to palace staff, is the Royal Victorial Order (MVO, CVO, etc).

  6. Re:Hydrogen grid? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 1

    Sure. Is there really a nationwide oil pipeline system in the US that covers most major populated areas?

  7. Re:Hydrogen grid? on Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When the current Danish natural gas pipeline network (the one that connects cities and houses) was designed, one of the requirements was that the network could carry hydrogen instead of natural gas.

  8. Kyoto-area companies may benefit on U.S. Continues Opposition to Kyoto Environmental Treaty · · Score: 1

    This article from The Economist suggests that Kyoto-land companies may not lose out compared to American companies if an efficient emissions trading system is set up. This means that businesses will make emissions cuts where it makes most economic sense to do so. Also many multinationals that do business in Kyoto-land may choose to implement new Kyoto-related measures across the corporation. For example DuPont has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 65% compared with 1990.

  9. Re:No penalty of perjury on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 1

    Sorry, parent doesn't make sense because I made a mistake in the posting. The first couple of sentences have been repeated.

  10. Re:No penalty of perjury on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 1

    I found another Diebold DMCA notice at chillingeffects.org. The "under penalty of perjury" part actually doesn't include an identification of Diebold as copyright holder. The exact text is: under penalty of perjury, I certify that I am authorized to act on behalf of Diebold. This is all that's required by at chillingeffects.org. The "under penalty of perjury" part actually doesn't include an identification of Diebold as copyright holder. The exact text is: under penalty of perjury, I certify that I am authorized to act on behalf of Diebold. I'm not sure that's sufficient to meet the standards of 17 USC 512 (c)(3)(vi), not being a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that what's being represented under penalty of perjury in the MIT notice does not include a claim that Diebold owns any copyrights.

  11. Re:No penalty of perjury on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 1

    It is abuse of the DMCA. But it's not perjury.

  12. Re:No penalty of perjury on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you wouldn't be guilty of perjury. You would however be abusing the DMCA, and (IANAL) I think non-perjury-related sanctions would be appropriate.

  13. No penalty of perjury on Diebold Rejected in Copyright Takedown Attempt · · Score: 4, Informative

    This issue was covered in a Slashdot interview with a DoJ lawyer a while ago. DMCA does not require the statements about infringement in notices to be made under penalty of perjury. Only the statement that the issuer is a representative of the copyright holder is made under penalty of perjury.

  14. Re:Root Servers... on Faster Updates for DNS Root Servers Arrive · · Score: 1

    Yes, but most registrars update live.

  15. Re:Don't quite grasp it on China Will Monitor, Censor SMS Messages · · Score: 1

    Most mobile phone users in China never use credit cards or IDs when buying their phone, SIM card or recharging their accounts. It can be done completely without a paper trail.

    However, since They can have a record of all SMS messages you've ever sent, everywhere your phone has been and (potentially) listen to your conversations, a good policeman should be able to find out who you are.

  16. Re:It's not just that the poster is a moron on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    c is not a natural constant in the SI system. The speed of light is exactly 299 792 458 m/s because the meter is defined in terms of the speed of light.

  17. Re:American bashing? on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    In fact, it's been suggested that "gram" is not correct within the SI. It should be "milli-kilogram". :-)

  18. Re:You don't have to give up SUV's on Creator of the Gaia Hypothesis Urges Nuclear Power · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm not aware of any "normal" 2WD vehicle on sale in the UK which would get 22mpg, even given the 1US gallon = 0.8 UK gallons conversion.

    I don't know a lot about cars sold in the UK (I live in Denmark), but I went to Toyota's British website and picked out a random car (Avensis Hatchback 5 door). They range from 5.8 l/100 km to 9.5 l/100 km. According to Google Calculator that corresponds to a range of 25 mpg to 40 mpg. I'm sure that there are other cars in the UK, even "normal" ones, with better fuel economy than that.

  19. HP Digital Sender on Large-Scale Paper-To-Digital Conversion? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The HP Digital Sender series are really great for this stuff. You feed it a stack of paper and it scans it, 15 pages per minute, and can store the PDF on a file server or you can send an email with the PDF attached directly from the network sender! It's a bit expensive, but try to look around for one, maybe the local copyshop? Guan

  20. Re:The OFFICIAL torrent on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    But the MD5SUM file is signed by the Fedora Project (fedora@redhat.com)! You can verify it using GPG and a copy of the Fedora GPG key.

  21. Re:The OFFICIAL torrent on Fedora Core 2 released to Mirrors, Bittorrent · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wouldn't worry. MD5sums signed by the Fedora project are included with the images.

  22. Re:One Winner on 100-Year Domain Renewals? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember that you can renew domain names before they expire. Therefore you wouldn't have to remember to renew it in exactly 10 years; you only need to remember this at least once in every 10-year period.

  23. Re:Ballots should have test vote on More E-voting Problems in California · · Score: 1

    How about asking:
    Are you a US citizen?
    or
    Are you entitled to vote?

  24. Re:A little touchy, aren't we? on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    He had previously been a customer of the ISP that he worked for.

  25. OEM on WiFi Phone Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's actually just a BCM WLAN600 (from a Taiwanese manufacturer) that's rebranded. ZyXEL develops very few of their products themselves.