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  1. Re:Still isn't theft on Australian Record Industry Has Best Year Ever · · Score: 1

    2. It only gives you the right to copy CD's you already own, for personal fair-use reasons like backup and format-shifting. It's still just as unlawful to procure copies of music you haven't paid for from friends or via P2P.

    If that were true, how would they justify the levy?

  2. real hosting? on Latest Chernobyl Motorcycle Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why don't we, as a community, set her up with some real hosting for her pics.. maybe something with moveable type and plenty of room for pictures.

  3. Re:Old growth lumber on Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine · · Score: 1

    Yeh, but its not great because it has been underwater is it? I was under the impression that the wood was great because it was old growth stuff that didn't have knots that newer-softer woods have.

  4. Re:Old growth lumber on Chainsaw-wielding Robotic Submarine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Old growth lumber, at the bottom of a lake, is going to rot, and is subject to parasites - ask the Japanese this. They tried to store logs underwater and found them infested with bugs when they brought them up.

    What are the upside to storing wood underwater? I can't think of any good reason to store wood underwater.

  5. Re:Neat device, but the price had better be good.. on Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April · · Score: 1

    you could set it to autoscroll.

  6. i have a hard time feeling sorry for you.. on Dealing with False AOL Spam Reports? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If a large amount of your mailings are "mistaken" as spam, they probably are spam.

  7. Re:Easy answer on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    yeh.. honestly I probably wouldn't have kept it, but I would have seriously considered it before shipping it back.

  8. Re:Neat device, but the price had better be good.. on Sony To Launch E Ink-based eBook In April · · Score: 1

    I wonder why someone hasn't already hacked up an e-reader for the ipod.. 20 gigs or whatever of storage would hold quite a few ebooks.

  9. Re:Easy answer on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    his is a $1500 package and Dell had it shipped without signature required?

    I would have kept it.

  10. Re:Pluto and Sedna as planets on Pluto's Discoverer's Backyard Telescope For Sale · · Score: 1

    There are only 5 planets that can been seen wandering in the sky with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

    And Earth obviously.

  11. Re:Pricing on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 · · Score: 1

    http://kde-cygwin.sourceforge.net/qt3-win32/featur es.php

  12. the most compelling reason to upgrade ms office on MPAA Puts Words in Mouth of CA Attorney General · · Score: 1

    is the ability to permanently remove meta data such as this.

  13. hmm.. on Build a Robot out of a Car? · · Score: 1

    It would be way cooler if it was a transforming robot.

  14. atariage is great. on Atari 2600 Joystick To USB Adapter Announced · · Score: 1

    atariage is great, they are always release remade and new games and sponsering contests to design new labels and such. it's awesome how much interest lives on today for such an old console.

  15. Re:There are a few sites around on An Open Source Alternative to Verizon's GetItNow? · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's all well and good except the poster is asking about verizon phones which do not and cannot run java apps.

    Brew is the only was short of possibly assembler to make an app for a verizon phone, and you have to pay to have the brew apps signed so that they will even run once you copy them to the phone.

  16. Re:lg vx 6000 on An Open Source Alternative to Verizon's GetItNow? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, there is no way to get non-brew/non-verizon approved apps to work on the phone, which is mostly what the poster was asking about. Ringtones are just .mid files that you can copy over using a cheap (look on ebay) cable or mp3's on the newer models that get copied over the same way.

  17. Re:If You Like This... on Super Mario Bros Record Broken · · Score: 1

    It was a video of some guy beating Mario 3 in perfect time (the fastest possible time, basically, I think it was about a half an hour?

    No it was a little over 11 minutes.. unless that is different video and that guy isn't as good as the 11 minute guy.

  18. alienware on Just What is a Custom Configured Server? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alienware and several small time pc sellers take a similar stance on 'customized' hardware, even when the customization is just adding harddrives or ram. It's pretty bad that Apple is doing this though, what would happen is Dell acted like this, every pc they sell is customized based on this logic.

  19. Re:The last time I did an install of Debian.... on Debian Prepares To Vote On Non-Free Software · · Score: 1

    What would make the most sense would be to have an option to install non-free software but install that software from a non debian site such as apt-get.org instead of the main debian site. That way debian developers don't have to support non-free, but users can install non-free.

  20. movies not games. on Copyrights, Videogames, and LAN Parties? · · Score: 1

    I was quite confused as to why they needed this, and their only answer was that it would be considered a 'public showing of copyrighted work', and therefore I must secure permission.

    That applies to movies, not pc games. Assuming you have enough liceneses for everyone or you have everyone bring their own, it doesn't matter that it's in a public area.

  21. Re:Great! on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 1

    $79.95 DSL (1.5m/256k)

    Wow.. I pay $29.99 a month for my SBC dsl of the same speed. They kept screwing us over of phone and dsl stuff so my gf called and kept talking to people until someone decided to make a special promotion to make us happy.

  22. I wish sbc would do that.. on Qwest To Offer 'Naked DSL' · · Score: 1

    I could probably count the number of times I've used my landline on 1 hand. DSL is the only reason we haven't gotten rid of our landline.

  23. Re:You know what ? on Apache says ASL2.0 is GPL-compatible · · Score: 1

    actually my understanding is that the BSD tcp/ip stack wasn't (and isn't?) highly multi-threaded, whereas windows's stack is. That's a re-write that seems worth doing, don't you think ?

    That's correct, that's why the openbeos people can't just use the bsd stack that nearly every other operating system uses.

  24. neat on Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project · · Score: 1

    That Slashdot.jp site is cool.. all of the articles are ?????????????

  25. Re:Been there, done that.. on Working Around Bad Luck on the Resume? · · Score: 1

    I took a new position in Nortel 2 weeks before they declared a hiring freeze & mass layoffs.

    The VPN client people? Could fix the problem where it kills all of my networking when I reinstall it?