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  1. Do they get it? on How Podcasting and Satellite Changed Radio · · Score: 1

    "...listeners are creating the future. In just seven months, podcasts have appeared, covering subjects from Delta blues to vegetarian cooking..."

    Naw:

    "It's possible to imagine people paying monthly fees to hear programming-on-demand on the phone, PC, or in the car. Listeners could buy a song they hear on the radio with the click of a button."

    Actually a pretty good overview from the 'business' viewpoint. The world it's a changing.

  2. Good training on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 1

    Certainly it is only a very few that transition for what ever nasty psychological reason from console to school cafeteria, but for those few there is no better way to train for a high body count...

  3. Hello?? Re:Internet Commerce On Its Way Out on New Vulnerabilities Discovered in Firefox 1.0 · · Score: 1

    There is fraud all the time outside the internet. They have not shutdown the banking system yet. It will be a balance of usefulness vs. problems. Internet commerce is not going away.

  4. Very smart marketing move on Battlestar Galactica Available for Download · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For this 'demo' it is unlikely to hurt eventual dvd sales, there'll probably be 2-3 special feature dvd's over the life of the product anyway. The show has enough hooks that it could very well give a big boost to the ratings.

    Ah, but ohhh that evil red dress robot!

  5. When oh when on Inside the Games Machines of the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    do we get total immersion? I want the total holodeck in my embedded (in my spine) iGamePod, just tap a spot on my chin and I'm deep in the game, who cares if everyone on the bus sees me twitching and drooling as I blow away those monsters...

  6. Good precedent here on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this is held up, it help define the precision of software patents. IsNot must be spelled exactly that, isnot would be ok. Ergo any innovation that contained a single letter different than the patten would be safe. Well that sounds silly but if it requires patent applications with every permutation of spelling a capitalization, each weighing in at 75 tons of paper, it may make the USPO revise some rulings. :-)

  7. No answer at LinuxWorld either on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1, Troll

    This was asked (actually a subset) at a LinuxWorld BOF this week. There seemed to be a lot of knowledgeable folk there, and the answer was... a lot of glazed stares. One guy said he'd been around the floor all day asking this query and found no real solution. Unfortunatly Linux is still for Hax0rs.

  8. Yea, crm on IBM Puts $100M Behind Linux Push · · Score: 1

    They had a huge booth at LinuxWorld Boston, but the hot displays were CRM and retail point of sale solutions. ;-) Beware of any open source labeled a "Solution".

    I had this visual fantasy of rms charging through the commercial side of the event like Carrie Nation with her ax.

  9. Re:No broken glasses? on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    Thank you, you make my point. Not everyone is as tough as you and if a dozen decided to gang up on you or maybe a government with guns... the story may be different.

  10. Auto-completion on MS Employee Calls for No More Passwords · · Score: 1, Funny

    ba ding :-)

  11. Please do bother on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 1

    Why? Same reason it's illegal to shout fire in a crowded theater. From past experience, people DIE. Not hurt feeling, not a flame war, death, injury, destitution. Words can't break my bones but if I can talk some idiot to come to your house and burn it down perhaps you should have paid attention?

  12. Rather simplistic explanation on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sheesh, solved a cultural problem that had injured an killed countless. How about, beat up on the weak, then steal their property? Maybe opportunistic sociopaths using ignorance to rabble rouse? There are many reasons, all bad, all wrong, all pathetic.

  13. No broken glasses? on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Defusing mean jokes is great, but you were lucky. The jokes would have hurt more if you had been beat up or had the glasses grabbed and stomped.

    Does happen and that is the problem with hate talk.

  14. Vagrancy laws on One Last Campout for Star Wars Fans · · Score: 1

    ... should kick in about a day before the opening, just a couple days in jail would really make the news.

  15. A few bounces left on Has The "Technology Bounceback" Begun? · · Score: 1

    Recently on a local (Boston) work search support email list there was a 'complaint' of only two responses to an SQL job posting. But that was probably due to a very restrictive set of criteria. I for one am still looking and would welcome new employment overlords. Anyone have an offer for an itinerant software dweeb?

  16. Take an average on WikiPedia Founder Wales Speaks About Wikinews · · Score: 1

    Do both extremes hate you? Good, close enough.

  17. Just one question on Cybernetic Prosthetics for Amputees · · Score: 1

    What do the children in Iraq get for their missing limbs?

  18. Well that puts it on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    out of the hands of most criminals.

    Erk, now where have all those SuperCriminals gone?

  19. Not a big issue as of last Sunday on Coast Guard to Track Ships Using Buoys · · Score: 1

    No more piracy for a while now. No more pirates.

  20. Re:I want a battery-powered hub on Battery-Powered USB Enclosure · · Score: 1

    You can't hang a sniffer off a switch. A hub shows all traffic, pretty important for debugging.

  21. Rediscovering client server computing on Google Suggest Dissected, Part II · · Score: 0

    Basically this is a hacky method of accessing fields. The code to do it is burdensome to say the least.

    Is there any work on a toolkit or API that allows relatively easy access to this technique?

  22. Octave: Why no development for SIX years? on Open Source Math Software For Education? · · Score: 1

    Seems like a dead project, although a useful and popular dead project.

    Ah, on a close look, there have been minor dot releases... but it seems like a 3.0 should be happening.

  23. Huh? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shouldn't there be a name change at a full dot release?

    Ba ding. :-) :-)

  24. Re:Pedagogy before gear, please on The Future of Student Films · · Score: 1

    Hey, cool job for a college kid, but how long has the camp been in business? Did it turn out any pros? Any work at a network? Studio? Any shown at Sundance, Slamdance or even Slumdance? The camp does look like a lot of fun though, wish I'd gone to one like it.

  25. Re:Pedagogy before gear, please on The Future of Student Films · · Score: 1

    Looks great except fot the alumni listings, one young woman that is shooting at a ski resort...