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  1. Re:no mods? on Linux On Unmodded Xbox, Improved · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Be glad we have to physically remove the jumbers to write the flash. It also means Microsoft can't "upgrade" BIOSes when connecting to Xbox Live. :-)

  2. Re:Yet another revolutionary internal combustion e on Toroidal Engine Ready for Production · · Score: 1

    Page numbered 39 indicates performance would improve greatly if the residual volume were reduced. Couldn't that be acieved by making their sealing wheel hollow with the combustion chamber inside it? It would simplify the engine too.

  3. Re:Indie labels? Here's one better! on Indies Blossoming Despite RIAA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Like porn, music has become cheap to produce and distribute. There are lessons to be learned.

  4. Re:Piracy? on Windows Media 9 in Digital Theaters · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do the theatre operators realize that this strong DRM will cause the movies not to play when they loose network connectivity even though the movie is stored locally on hard disc?

  5. Re:Here's an idea... on Congress Asks Universities To Enforce Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Ipsos reported that 19% of Americans over 12 years old traded files in 2002. That is a lot of votes. If all you people would write your senators and representatives about repealing the NET Act maybe they would.

  6. Re:China's artists not receiving royalties on Music Industry's Future Foretold in China? · · Score: 1

    As a result, Wu said, there are fewer than 20 professional-quality albums produced per year in China

    Maybe I am too cynical, but I don't trust the numbers in this article. It wouldn't be the first time that western mass-media conveniently made factual mistakes to push their pet platoform item, excessive copyright.

  7. Re:openoffice, koffice, etc. on Digital Restrictions Management in Office 11 · · Score: 1
    Providing DRM using an unpublished standard is highly anti-competitive. How do we get our legislators, courts, and public to see that?

    Hollywood/MPAA/RIAA are so naive. When Microsoft's DRM become ubiquitious, they will suffer too.

  8. Re:Tunnel with freenet6 on IPv6 Friendly ISPs? · · Score: 1
    6to4 will drive the 6bone to extinction. There is already a proposal to shut down the 6bone.

    The Internet backbone has coded IPv4 into silicon to support the speeds it does. The backbone will never change, so 6to4 utilizes it as a layer2 unicast interconnect, but *way* more efficiently than 6bone.

  9. Re:You don't need an ISP, use a 6to4 tunnel on IPv6 Friendly ISPs? · · Score: 1

    As a 6to4 router you only use the 192.88.99.1
    address if you are sending to a non-6to4 address
    (i.e. non 2002::/70) and cannot reach it from
    your ipv6 side.

  10. Re: Not storage, snooping. on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 1

    Offline storage is not my concern. I want a memory module that looks just like a normal one so Palladium can't reject it. When the computer is up and running I want a second computer to snoop on the memory of the first. USB seems like the easiest option, but firewire would be fine too.

    I wonder if their north bridge will encrypt main memory. Will they shuffle the address too, to scatter the contents? I suspect that timing constraints will drastically constrain their cypher quality.

    In reality this is much easier implemented as a bus mastering PCI card, unless new bridge chips limit bus masters' memory access. They must or Paladium would be incompatible with existing cards, instead requiring new ones that cyrpographically authenticate. Even still each card can snoop on the PCI transfers of others.

    My speculation is that their TCPA BIOS is still a long way from a "trustworthy" computer. I can break into any computer I have physical access to.

  11. Re:Might be good on Insight Into The FCC's Triennial Review · · Score: 1

    Competitve access to the local loop is not my biggest fear. I do not want content-based billing.

    I know the broadband providers are asking for greater freedom to mettle with my service, but I don't want to pay for premium protocols (ports) or charged per event (e.g. each sent email). Their servers shall not rewrite my traffic, substituting ads.

    I want to hook my own equipment with only my software. The phone companies of course see profits in taking this away. Don't let them.

  12. USB readable DIMM on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 1

    If anyone is good with FPGA's and wants a project,
    I could really use a DIMM which is USB
    readable to hack this Palladium stuff.

  13. Re:I was wondering.. on Extending the Capacity of Creative Nomad IIc MP3 Players? · · Score: 1

    You stand a better chance getting a PDA with a
    PCMCIA slot for a microdrive (like a Compaq
    Jornada PC) and a USB to connect to the
    camera/MP3. Custom software on the PDA could
    retrieve/alter data automatically. Example
    code for exchanging with the camera is at gPhoto.

    For battery concerns, you could make the PDA sleep
    for 20 minutes at a time.

    Seriously, though, how much is your time worth? A
    new iPod starts to look attractive compared to
    two weeks of development.

  14. Back key on Redesigning The "Back" Button · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I use Alt-Left instead of the mouse, and my
    only real problem is Flash which sometimes
    grabs these keys. I know some Flash games
    use the keys, but advertisements need not.
    Shame on them if it is intentional. My prefered
    interface would be to right click and select
    "enable keyboard" on each flash. Mozilla
    could probably implement it without help from
    the plugin.

  15. Caroling our Representative on LinuX-Mas Caroling We Shall Go · · Score: 1

    This makes me want to go Xmas caroling.
    Does anyone know where Rep. Kirk (R-IL)
    lives? Care to join me?

  16. Re:Red herring? on Recent MSN Upgrades Causing Modem Problems? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right. It is probably spyware. Try downloading Ad-Aware. It will make your computer boot faster too.

  17. Congressmen beware on Will We Need A SmartCard to Watch Digital TV? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Americans love their television. Not even
    God can save a Congressmen who lets
    smartcards come between Americans and their
    free television.

  18. Charting? on Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there a better GUI app for charts than OpenOffice or Gnumeric? or do I have to learn the command line of gnuplot?

  19. Insurance rates on Spam King Lives Large off Others' E-Mail Troubles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if his homeowners' insurance provider knows how hated he is, and whether that would affect his rates?

  20. Re:This is big on Another Critical Microsoft Hole · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Removing Microsoft from the list is absurd. Microsoft should enhance the signature checking
    code to also check an internal list of revoked
    hashes.

  21. Re:According to the article, it's not open. on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds · · Score: 3, Informative

    Read the FAQ. You can alter them as long as you change the font name.

  22. Re:An apple for the teacher.. on Jaguar Free for K-12 Teachers · · Score: 1

    They are doing it to create a mailing list.

  23. Re:Embarras MS or educate audience - a win-win on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 1

    4. Will the computer misbehave in strange ways if I turn off Palladium due to insufficient testing or business motivations?

    5. Will the palladium turn-off option have a reasonable name, or be hidden in deep menus with a misleading title?

  24. Re:major palladium concerns on Questions for a Lecture on Microsoft's Palladium? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Great, the executables have a signature so they cannot be run when modified, but this will not stop the type of the buffer overruns people exploit today. Furthermore the ammount of code in jepardy will grow by several orders of magnitude, and was not engineered with the same hostile exposure in mind.

    Be honest. Palladium is not about protecting users from their software, but instead about protecting computer data in vaults from their users. right?

    Aren't the content industries naive for thinking Microsoft will not crush them once Microsofts DRM becomes established?

  25. Re:How about Bugzilla... on Open Source Requirements Management Systems? · · Score: 1

    We tried bugzilla but the developers didn't like their bug counts screwed up, and the project managers needed a tool which would total work estimates, so I hacked a modified version for them called FeatureKong