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  1. $20 on What Is The Real Cost of Spam? · · Score: 1

    Same as in Town!

  2. Re:Mozilla crash example on HTML Rendering Crashes IE · · Score: 1

    doesn't crash phoenix - i'm running a nightly from a couple of weeks back.

  3. Re:Multiverse to Nadaverse to Omniverse on Parallel Universes Are Real · · Score: 1

    "It goes like this: If something could have happened, it did, and the results exist. It just happens to be located in a parallell dimension along the "probaility-axises"."

    iirc, this is quite well-seated in reality, since empty space is actually a seething mass of constantly self-creating virtual particles (which is why black holes 'emit' gamma radiation).

    it seems fairly simple to me to assume that everything _is_ nothing more than these randomly created particles, who have become seperated from their brethren.

  4. Go tell the dude. on The Ethics of Stealing Wireless Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    It's somewhat similar to finding a mobile phone in the street, and using it to call a FREE number.

    It'd only be stealing if you didn't return the phone - in this case, you now have a responsibility to go educate this guy about his AP.

    Point out that you could have downloaded illegal material via his connection, which he'd likely be liable for.

    IaIn

  5. MGS2 on Putting A Lid On Chernobyl · · Score: 1

    did anyone else start thinking about the big shell when they saw the subject?

    scary.

  6. Re:Liable no more than Kinko's is on Internet Cafe Fined for Letting Users Burn Downloaded Music · · Score: 1

    >They reboot all the machines every few days which copys a fresh image over the entire harddrive.

    the glasgow store reboots each machine when you log off, wiping the disk (and any data you haven't copied onto the burning machine)

    s/present tense/past tense

    iain

  7. Re:With Power comes responsibility on Internet Cafe Fined for Letting Users Burn Downloaded Music · · Score: 1
    >It's not like there's anything else to do on the net, right?

    lemme see...

    linux

    game demos

    SDKs (java/perl etc) i used to use easyeverything regularly to download and burn lecture notes etc... there are infinite possibilities, including burning NONcopyright mp3s.

    iain

  8. Re:I'd like to see on PS2 Linux Kit Shipping in May · · Score: 1

    if i remember right, most cd games have a statement at the back along the lines of 'send us the busted disc along with some covering cash and we'll send a replacement'

    although it might not be the case anymore, i certainly saw this in a few ps1 games years ago.

    iain

  9. sony vaio pcg-fx-405 on Linux Laptop Recommendations for 2002? · · Score: 1

    very sweet, only problems are the modem and sound card. (both software/windows based)

    all the apm stuff seems to work fine as well.

    came bundled with XP as standard, i've left it running and am dual booting with debian.

  10. I have it now. on Court: ISPs Not Liable For Content · · Score: 1

    Bwah-ha-ha.