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  1. Not MD5! on Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot? · · Score: 1

    MD5 is not what Apple will be using, since every different bitrate and/or encoder will yield different files and thus different md5 sums for the same song. AND you will never know from the perspective of apple, which song we are looking at, if there are no meta information. So Apple will use some kind of audio fingerprinting system like MusicDNS or whatever. Look it up in Wikipedia. Probably they can even reuse information gathered by iTunes genius.

  2. Makes you immune to... on Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers · · Score: 1

    Just ignore spam. It's trival to track and Hitler will eat your socks. Makes you immune to the next Michael Jackson. What a bullshit.

  3. Nuclear waste leak in germany on Avoiding GM Foods? Monsanto Says You're Overly Fussy · · Score: 1

    I really hope you live up to your signature. Nuclear power will provide us with plenty of surprises in the future. Here in Germany we have such a thing right now. And politics don't even care that nuclear waste is leaking into the ground water.
    Read it on wikipedia

  4. "None" is the right answer for me. on Picking the Right Eclipse Distribution · · Score: 1

    After trying to upgrade my eclipse environment I was left with a non working installation, that will spill out Java errors like hell. Since I knew how long it would take to set up all the plugins again in a new installation of eclipse, I hat to think about what it was that I really need as a developer. Since I used Emacs before switching to Eclipse, it is really an Editor need. Komodo Edit seems the right choice for me right now. Different language support is available out of the box. That tastes good enough to me. Good bye eclipse for now.

  5. It's a scam! on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey Sun, don't fall for this scam. It doesn't even support full outer joins.

  6. Why not move Internet Archive to Europe ? on Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption · · Score: 1

    Hmm... why not sweeden and forget about DMCA altogether ?
    Europe would be pleased I guess. And we need good lobbyist
    against software patents :-)

  7. It is already DRMed. Was:Only one thing on Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod · · Score: 1

    - You can't retrieve Songs from the iPod. (yes there are programms available)
    - Content purchased at iTunes has DRM on it. (yes there are programms or
          you could burn a purchased track and then rip/mix/burn it to remove
          the DRM.

    Clueless people are wondering about it, but hey it's an iPod.

  8. The pig and the box. A kids' book. A modern fable. on Explaining DRM to a Less-Experienced PC User? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't know if this has been mentioned here before.

    There is a very nice book written for kids with great illustrations available at "The pig and the box".

    from the page: The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig becomes so protective of it, and so suspicious of anyone that wants to use it, that he makes people take their copied items home in special buckets that act as... well, they're basically DRM. It's like a fable, except the moral of the story is very modern in tone.

    a funny read :-)
  9. Sounds neat, but... on The Multi-Pointer X server · · Score: 1

    there are already applications that support multiple cursors. Take a software audio mixer for example. With a decent usb mixer controller you have so much input devices available that are mappable to one or two dimensional sliders to control your musique.

    But sure. Multiple input devices in X would be great. The new API could be used to model the above application.

    But don't forget to support my usb mixer input device.

  10. Re:Why emacs? Because all you need is curses on The Future of Emacs · · Score: 1

    I use it, because even with a simple telnet login I have all editing features available. Even syntax highlighting works. Just great.

  11. Re:I always liked PGs createuser and createdb on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 1

    That should read:

    $ createdb -U mom divorcedb

  12. I always liked PGs createuser and createdb on Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL 2 · · Score: 1

    >The one good thing I have to say about mysql is that its multi->user friendly for hundreds of accounts.

    We started out as a "mom and pop ISP" 10 years ago and mysql administration was always a pain in the ass to me. Maybe I don't get it, but I really think a debian box with postgresql installation is a breeze to administer.

    $ createuser mom
    $ dropuser pop
    $ createdb -U mom

    And psql is your friend. It really suffices for most database work.

    At least on debian postgresql is a very good out of the box experience.

  13. Watermarking is more sophisticated than that. on IBM, Sony and others agree on DVD watermaking · · Score: 1

    I second that. A friend of mine is working on AAC encoding. He told me about watermarking that will still be present even with noise being twice the volume of the original watermarked signal.