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  1. Re:Oh great... on RFID Drivers' Licenses Debated · · Score: 1

    If people would just share and share alike, this whole plan would be instantly obselescent.

  2. Re:I'd like to see on MS To Offer Windows Sans WMP, If EU So Orders · · Score: 1

    three letters
    o e m

  3. Re:The Samba Team on Unsung Heroes of Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    samba wanna?

  4. Re:Choose Verdict Terms Carefully on DirecTV Extortion Program stopped by EFF · · Score: 1

    no
    not is unary
    not guilty is equivalent to innocence, because
    the constitution is fundamental. You are innocent
    until proven guilty. Base rule.
    since a not guilty verdict doesn't equal guilty,
    innocence is preserved.

    The only time innocence is not preserved is when proven guilty.

  5. Re:Hypercard on Programming For Terrified Adults? · · Score: 1

    one way to teach bash scripting is to quickly whip up a script out of someone's .bash_history in a good text editor.

    This kind of shows them that they have been "programming" all of the time.

  6. Re:You know they're scared when... on Walmart Begins Rollout of RFID and EPC Tags · · Score: 1

    "Better inventory control means a lowered cost of operating but who says the savings are going to be passed along to the consumer?"

    -- The CEO of the first corp. that decides it needs more market share.

  7. questron on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    i remember playing questron on the c64 with a joystick.
    you could change the active command by holding down the button until the menu changed colors.
    A short press would just perform the active command.
    that was around 1984-5.
    and that's just the earliest one off of the top of my head.

  8. wassenaar on Developing Open Source Defense Projects · · Score: 1

    http://www.wassenaar.org/

    look for prohibited software, and technology

  9. Re:Bah, a few days... on Subversion 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    deb http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson subversion-woody/
    deb-src http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson subversion-woody/

  10. Re:laws on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    -- Sorry, but in the United States of America driving is not a privilege -- it is a right.

    -- Perhaps you are willing to sign away your rights under the illusion that it makes you safer. I'm not.

    If you can't agree with what you have signed to, of what value is your signature. How can i trust you? You are either willing to sign away your rights, or make your agreement meaningless.

    You have a more fundamental conflict between deciding if you value your rights more than your word, or vice-versa.

    Then again, if you truly feel that driving in the USA is a right and not a privilege, why bother with licenses? Just drive. You have the right. Rights are not granted by the government, and also the government is supposed to be restricted from infringing your rights (except maybe a few of them and only through due process).

    No, you stand in self conflict. You say one thing to us (the choir), and another to the government. You tell us that driving is a right. Yet you sign papers to the effect that driving is a privelege granted by the government. How is the government to know that driving is a right, when on the surface you agree with privilege?

  11. Re:laws on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that you requested a privilege from the governement, which implies your consent to privileged treatment.

  12. Re:Low Cost on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    --- Considering how cheap CD-Rs are and how prevalent reusable storage devices are (usb keychain drives, for example), why would you ever use CD-RWs?

    testing remastered live-cd's, I have a small stack
    of unbootable cd-r's

  13. Re:Counterfeiting is a *federal* crime... on Currency Detection Discovered in More Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if that is the case, it's a bad crime to have on the books.

    There is no copyright on the denomination, as it's design is in the public domain. The right to reproduce the likeness is protected by the first amendment. The law should focus on the attempted (or possibly successful) entry of the counterfeit denominations into the marketplace.

    I see the act of writing 'usa' on monopoly money and attempting to make a purchase with it a far more serious crime than having you den wallpapered with $100 bills.

  14. Re:Windows 64 on 64-bit Linux On The Opteron · · Score: 1

    with an infinite clock speed, you can do realtime time :)

  15. wrote or released? on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    please keep your verbs in order.

  16. Re:Extremely proprietary? on Red Hat's CEO Suggests Windows For Home Users · · Score: 1

    -- The mac has the best, open, free develoment stuff out there... not sure where you get extremely proprietary from.

    he probably means that it is almost impossible to buy and assemble your own 'white box mac' from commodity parts and get it to run an AppleOS.

    At least that used to be the case, it may be easier these days. I don't really know anymore.

  17. Digital millennium Copyright act on Librarian of Congress Posts DMCA Exemptions · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i wonder--

    what is the smallest number that is copyrighted?
    what is the smallest number that can be copyrighted?
    if you add one to a copyrighted number, is it still protected by copyright ?

    if you take a's copyrighted number and keep adding ones to it until you get to b's copyrighted number, who is infringing on who's copyright (is it first come first serve).

    for an arbitrary copyrighted number, is there a range of numbers that is covered under the same protection as that number?

  18. Re:may I be first to say on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    i hate to break it to you, but the whole article is about a minor detail being changed. The fact that it is taking place at all indicates that the major components are already in place.

  19. Re:The real reason why Linux is better than Window on Cringley on Microsoft and Linux · · Score: 1

    --I think as OSS as some kind of "Public domain for software."

    Most of the OSS that you will find is not public domain, but distributed under the tyranny of copyright. Which means that ownership of the code is eternal and inherited by the families of the author perpetually. Copyrighted code can never attain public domain status, as the author has chosen to place themseleves in a monopolistic position relative to their peers.

  20. Re:What about those of us on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 1

    that's what the xml schema would be for.
    exporting and importing metadata _without_
    actually manipulating the file. moving/emailing/sharing a file would be more like transferrring both the metadata, and actual data a one file. The good thing is with a common metadata handling system, the sender can have a generic metadata manipulator to send the file through for exporting, and the receiver can use a generic metadate parser/translator to import the file.

    In a filesystem like reiser4, this becomes a very big win for email as better filters can be made to actually manipulate the email without having to export the darned thing to any number of wheels already made for it. While you have a larger amout of cpu usage compared to a simpler system, cpu ability is increasing much faster than i/o bandwidth, making the tradeoff generally worthwhile.

    (sorry if this is somewhat incoherent, i'm getting interrupted too much right now)

  21. Re:What about those of us on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 1

    id3 is a bad hack to store metadata in the file.
    I believe that if there were a semi standard way to store metadata in the fileystem when mp3 applications were first developed, there wouldm't be a need for id3 tags. All things equal though there would probably be versioned metadata schema to keep up with, similiar to id3v1, id3v2, etc. Make the explorer shell plugins easier to write, all sorts of neat things, less wires getting crossed.

  22. Re:And then there is Henry Ford on RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes? · · Score: 1

    "To villify Henery Ford (him being one of teh paragons of the American capitalist dream) would be to villify our whole system. This isn't to say that the man doesn't deserve to be a villain but as a tool he pales in comparison (especially at the time) to the commies or the facists."

    modus ponens

  23. Re:Legitimate purposes? on U.S. Supreme Court To Rule On Online Porn Law · · Score: 1

    "While I think imprisoning someone who's set up a meth lab is legitimate" -- why?, it can be made with common commodities just like a pc

    "We need to be specific, and our government has already shown that they cannot be trusted to interpret a law for themselves. " -- in a gov't of, by and for the people that basically says that we can't interpret our own law ourselves, or a least that we shouldn't be trusted to. (But you can trust the computer, it's you friend.;)

    "Perhaps there should indeed be a classification system for ratings... but it is important that we are A) very specific, and B) very understanding of what we are doing when we decide what is considered "adult entertainment", "mature information", etc. And dammit, no more "Oh, I didn't have time to read it properly" legislation! How many times have we read this in the news lately!?" -- Remember Elvis the Pelvis, Miniskirts, and HulaHoops?, or for that matter compare LeaveItToBeaver to MarriedWithChildren. Can you not tell we've done this before and either won or lost (depending on you view) years ago.

    These ideas have there roots close to our cowboy and indian days where practically destroyed a whole race of people across this contentent because of their manifest display of original sin.

    "Also, code might be put in place to warn off filtering software, which the parent is responsible for installing." -- this is very sensible. Placing the responsibility back on the parent is a much more responsible attitude. Although there should be no requirement a person to rate their own site, as that responsibility should also fall to the parent (or the parents chosen filtering service).

    I believe if there were any pictures that disturbed me as a child, it would have to be the pictures of casualties of war, accidents, and atricities. I really like the porn mags ;)

    If it's the porn that made me disturbed, it's certainly a relief. I thought it was the drugs. :)

  24. Re:LOAD "*",8,1 on C-64 Diehards Relive History · · Score: 1

    load"*",8: load
    run

    shift run/stop would type load
    run

    the above statement was a cheap autoload because the
    basic interper ignored the rest of the line after a load command, so you would basically be sticking run in the buffer. When the program finished loading (could take awhile, the io was slow), it would be automatically run.

    btw the ,1 told the interpreter to relocate the file rather than force it into 2048. But it was really the low bit that the interpreter was looking for. So my shortcut way of doingthings was load"*",8,9 (a little faster and easier on the fingers).

    that almost came out load@[@,8,9 ;)
    the fingers don't forget so easily

  25. it matters today... on C-64 Diehards Relive History · · Score: 1

    I did most of my papers in high school with Paperback Writer 64. Now they seem to be locked in a proprietary 'office' format. It seems to be easier to find games rather than general applications.

    There was a kernel jump table. You were requested to do system calls via the kernel jump table to ensure maximum compatablity throughout future revisions (i.e. $ffd2 was always device output and $ffe4 was always device input). This is probably the first i learned of an api (wasn't called that at the time as i remember). What this really meant is you could shadow the os in ram and trap the calls to the jump table (very useful).

    ~85-86, Friday nights, USO, Camp Foster.
    The Commodore User's Group had it's weekly meeting. These meetings were great. Everybody would bring their computer to the USO and set them up and get ready for Gil to arrive. Gil would always arrive with a big smile on his face and a few thousand 5.25 floppies under his arms. Shortly afterwards, FastHackem's were running on all the machines for a few hours :).

    Proprietary copy protection routines and sector based disk access kept me from putting my mighty collection of disks on a hard drive. I once thought about getting a 10MB Eagle hd, which would save much wear and tear on my floppies. Most of the games that i wanted on the harddrive were multidisk games, so Isepic'ing didn't work well on them. So most of what would be on the drive were the smaller games i didn't play as much, defeating the intended purpose. The protection schemes also made the drive heads rattle.

    So i guess i got my first exposure to proprietary file formats, copy protection schemes, file sharing, and programmable api's from the commodore. :)