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  1. Re:Psystar on Federal Court Says First-Sale Doctrine Covers Software, Too · · Score: 1

    And now they won't go after Psystar, because Psystar has the First Sale Doctrin on its side?

  2. Re:Proper Antenna on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Zillertal Valley in Austria has a 54 MBit/sec WLAN network, that just uses WLAN-antennas on all the mountain tops. The antennas bridge up to 15 mls (25 km), even though they use classic WLAN, just focussed to a beam to the next mountain top. The antennas are mostly from Alvarion (ex BreezeCOM).

  3. Re:defective by design... on Microsoft Acknowledges NBC's Wish is Its Command · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's old news.

    Douglas Adams is often quoted with something along this line:

    "Most TV stations are in the business to deliver customers to advertisers. The BBC is in the business to deliver TV programmes to people."

  4. Re:English grass on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    Bundling is illegal in the EU if one of the suppliers to the bundle has a market dominating position. Period.

    AsusTek knows this, and they still sell those bundles. So they got hurt. That's fine with me.

  5. Re:Lack of flexure observed before on Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    Mars has the smallest core from all earthlike planets. All three, Earth, Venus and Mercurius, have a larger core, compared with the overall size and also absolutely (yes, the small planet Mercurius has a larger core than Mars).

  6. Re:Lack of flexure observed before on Mars Harder and Colder Than Previously Thought · · Score: 1

    I had a book in the mid-80ies about the planet system where the author (L. Ksanformaliti) pointed out that the relative momentum of Mars was pretty close to 0.4 (2/5), which is expected for a ball or sphere consisting of a homogenous substance, and thus it was doubtful that Mars ever had something like a viscosous "Mars mantle" where the crust could sink in anyway. If such mantle would have existed, the Mars would have had some geochemical (ok... martiochemical) differentiation causing heavy elements like iron and nickel to form a planet core, and thus lowering the relative momentum considerably below the 0.4. The author thus expected the core to be relatively small, if existing, and the crust pretty thick.

  7. Re:Back To Reality on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know, there is something called "emotional distress", which exactly describes the fact that someone is not able to look for help. And especially teenagers often have problems to go to their parents for help, because puberty is exactly the phase in life where you have to learn to get independent from your parents.

    And a 13 year old girl is no adult. She is not fully able to make a concious decision between life and dead. That's something she has to learn first. You can even show with frontal lobe scans that people younger than ~20 years are not able to make those decisions conciously. (This is why trying teenager as adults for murder is quite questionable from a medical point of view. Teenagers are no adults, even when they get delinquent. Period.)

  8. Re:Recipricol Three Strikes on Canada Considering A Three Strikes And You're Off The Internet Policy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not simply have the same rules for companies? Every company that has been found guilty in court of copyright, trademark or patent infringment at least three times is banned from the Internet.

    Good bye, Sony BMG! Good bye, Microsoft! Good bye about nearly every larger editor or company!

    The internet will be again as we knew it in the pre-1990ies.

  9. Re:Math is HARD on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not exactly. We are talking purely payload, and the payload of an SMS is 1120 bit. We don't care about ethernet frames occuring while sending the SMS within the provider network, we don't care about traffic due to the database requests to find the actual location of the target mobile phone, we just want to know: Here we have a certain amount of information, expressed in a certain amount of bits. How much would it cost to transfer it from point A to point B via system S?

  10. Re:10 Dixitque Deus "Fiat lux" on What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running? · · Score: 2, Funny
  11. Re:He's Google obsessed on Does Ballmer Need To Go? · · Score: 1

    But even then Google has half a million of computers to run their engine on, and you have only one.

    So even if Google's engine is only 1/1000 as good as yours, they still beat you 500:1. It takes some time to gain momentum, and it takes some capital to hold out for that time. And not everyone has this time and this amout of capital.

  12. Re:Radar traps on the highway... on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 1

    --
    And the worms ate into his brain. So he's now growing radish out of his ears?

  13. Re:Civilian use? on Stealth Paint From German Inventor Werner Nickel · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you had RTFA, then you would have stumbled upon the following lines:

    In one respect, however, Essen's message is disappointing. Drivers can't expect to become invisible to police radar traps anytime soon. "When an object is moving at such close range," he admits, "even the best shield paint doesn't do any good."
  14. And your point is...? on Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nowhere the GPL forbids making a profit from GPLled software, as long as you adhere to the conditions of the GPL.

  15. Re:A price on it on Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy" · · Score: 1

    It stands for "interconnection of networks" in fact, because the Internet is a connection of about 40.000 different networks, all IP-based.

  16. Re:Actually the Web is older than 15 years on Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy" · · Score: 1

    1992 sounds likely to me, I had my first contacts with the Web in 1993, and 1994/95 a friend of mine was maintainer of the Mosaic (TueV).

  17. Re:Yes, they should do it. on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    I am not sure about that. In this case the computer-botnetslave asks your computer-botnetinfiltrator for a specified file (the new botware), and your computer just sends the requested file. I don't know if that actually falls under the "Computer Misuse Act".

  18. Re:Where have I heard this before? on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, a ticket pointing out the error would be send back with "works as designed".
    But the design is flawed. The idea was that user interaction shouldn't be able to autostart a program which is able to modify system functions. But it is sufficient to have an autostart program remote control another autostart program to get exactly this behaviour.

  19. Re:Easy, but it's Not, but it is? on Coding Around UAC's Security Limitations · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the problem with Blogs. It looks like journalism, but it isn't. You saying, a journalist would provide a counter point from Microsoft? Because glaring logical gaps are nothing new for journalism.
  20. Re:WMDs were always a bit of a red herring. on Senate Proposal To Clarify 'State Secrets' Doctrine · · Score: 1

    As someone grown up in a dictatorship, my answer would have been: "Until the whole thing breaks down because not even the inner circle of power cares anymore." Just simple containment and enough weapon power around the enemy worked wonders for Communism, and if I may attempt an uneducated guess, it would have solved the Saddam Hussein problem within the next four or five years anyway.
    As Tariq Aziz was telling in an interview later, Saddam Hussein was already caring more for the different love novels he was writing then about actually ruling Iraq.

  21. Re:Ridiculous lawyers. on BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA · · Score: 1

    I stand corrected.

  22. Re:Ridiculous lawyers. on BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Which inevitabely leads to the Obligatory Joke:

    In Soviet Russia portraits of Marley frame you.

  23. Re:Ridiculous lawyers. on BusinessWeek Takes On the RIAA · · Score: 1

    Hitler was in fact Austrian.

    There is an old saying about the three mayor achievements of Austria in history.

    1) Making everyone believe they were a victim in WWII.
    2) Making everyone believe Ludwig van Beethoven was from Austria.
    3) Making everyone believe Hitler was German.

  24. Re:Only the integers on Is Mathematics Discovered Or Invented? · · Score: 1

    Those axioms being the Archimedical one and the Cauchy/Dirichlet/WeierstraÃY one.

  25. Re:I got $5 on fail, anyone want some? on Senate Proposal To Clarify 'State Secrets' Doctrine · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have the facts to back it up.

    1) The Duelfer Report, clearly stating that there was no connection between the Baathist movement and al Qaeda, and just the dysfunctional remainings of a weapons program.
    2) An interview with the Number Two of al Qaeda, al Zawahiri.
    3) The history of the Baath Party as a secular, socialist and nationalist Arab movement.
    4) The biography of the Number Two of Iraq, Tariq Aziz, who is no muslim at all, but a Chaldean Catholic. So whatever Iraq was, it was surely not ruled by islamistic jihadists.
    5) All the alleged evidence brought before the war being debunked, from the Yellow Cake Story to the British dossier on Iraq's WMD program being just a rip of of Ibrahim al-Marashi's doctoral thesis.
    6) The fact that Donald Rumsfeld even created his own intelligence unit because the CIA was still unable to uncover anything supporting, what the administration was believing to be true.
    7) The fact that Colin Powell's address at the U.N. didn't convince neither Hans Blix, head of the U.N.'s inspectors of Iraq's WMD program nor the "old Europeans", with Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs, J.Fischer, publicly stating his doubts.