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  1. Re:He is pretty much spot on... on David Bowie on Music, Copyrights, Distribution · · Score: 2

    Agreed

    A person creates and created, get credit for and owns the work they do.

    A corporation is not a person. A corporation unto itself creates nothing.

  2. Re:redundancy on Trouble on the International Space Station · · Score: 2

    I bet that if a few super models - I think two could fit into a seat, now that is redundancy!

    We could get that replacement to them in the next shuttle.

    Then again Swedish Ski Team?

  3. Re:South Africa's mistake is... on South Africa Wants Control of .za · · Score: 2

    So the goverment is doing number 2. Just not paying him the $1. Claiming it is thiers.

    Since it is only forth a $1, what is the problem?

    He lives in South Africa, he is under thier authority, they win.

    Note: South African Government List is the Offical List. Just not preferred list.

  4. Re:35mm more 'natural'? -- yes on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters? · · Score: 2

    Actaul was 70 mm. Blowing up 35 is dumb. Kust like blowing up digital to 35.

    No point in blowing up... just makes the film grainy... see ATOC :=)

  5. Re:Similar to postal codes, world wide? on South Africa Wants Control of .za · · Score: 2

    HINT: the ZA administration is.

    A goverment disided how a business inside its boarders will do a job. That is it.

    It is not ICCAN'TS to deside what they like. They are a business too. The ZA authority has been moved to a goverment oversite, from a person on his own. It is done.

    If ICCAN'TS can't understand that - then either the internet is dead or ICAN'T is.

    jackb

  6. Re:35mm more 'natural'? -- yes on Will Digital Cinema Wipe-Out Today's Movie Theaters? · · Score: 2

    Amen!

    Digital is to low res for me. ATOC in ditigal looks like a super 8 home moive... just the grains are square.

    Remember STAR WARS, now called "A NEW HOPE" - was shot in 70mm -- to me about with about 64 times the res of ATOC.

    Boy, "A NEW HOPE" is a great name. Maybe some one needs to to bring back that old great tech.

  7. Re:Why store cc# at all? on Keeping Private Customer Data...Private? · · Score: 2

    Your database server should not be the machine processing the credit cards. That is billing. You encrypt your card number with the billing machine's public key (better yet the banks). When the billing machine access the data it can decode the credit card to readable form.

    If you need to search database by credit card number... just encrypt with public key and use that agianst the database encrypted card number. Same as checking your password in Unix -- a one way transformation. If you do not want to use that -- use 2 16 bit CRC (with different primes) makes a nice one way "finger print" -- very few matches.

  8. Re:Don't decrypt on Keeping Private Customer Data...Private? · · Score: 2

    Agreed.

    I just did a transfer function, GnuPG at 2048.

    Each end knows the other's public key and that is it. One way transmission.

    And just for that warm fuzzy feeling, we compress and use a secondary cypher just to make it a little harder.

  9. Re:Vinyl trumps CDs? on Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims · · Score: 2

    I do not find the same.

    Any quantization is only an approximation of the original signal. By increasing the sampling rate and bit depth improves the approximation, but it is still an approximation.

    Now, I can agree with digital helps in making recreation of wave more linear in amplification when compared to that of analog because of more "fudging" can be built in.

    But over all digital has lower resolution than that of analog.

  10. Re:Vinyl trumps CDs? on Director Attacks MPAA Piracy Claims · · Score: 2

    The unspoken, but insistent, assumption of all the digital hype is that "it all looks the same", and that audiences cannot tell the difference. In fact, the aesthetic issues of digital production and protection versus celluloid are far from being resolved.

    Vinyl is better, the clipping of the digial does not go away with filters. Just be cause you do not notice it does make it un-true.

    AotC in digial sucked. I think Lucus is needing glasses to think to the digial is better.

    The biggest problem is resultion. When you blowup a picture to size to of the big screen (now only two stories - was 6 for the true star wars) you see squares for people in long shots, with fast moving hands - fingers become disjointed. And the light sabures... Comedic.

    Ebert came out with digial better for AotC but not becuase of digial as that sounds to imply. But because the original was filmed in low res digial, but take a film transfer to digial (hi to low res convertion) nice, but take digial and go to film (low to high) fuzzy junk.

    If you want to se digial AotC go to a small theater and sit in the back. Then it will like TV (an even lower res).

    Remember Star Wars: A New Hope was filmed in not 35mm but 70mm - 4 times the res! must likely more than 16 times the res of AotC.

  11. How is true? on A Libel Suit May Establish E-Jurisdiction · · Score: 2

    The law as it is generally interpreted makes sense to Mr. Young, the warden. "I've never been to Connecticut in my life," he said. "These articles came to Virginia. These articles came to my community." How did the articles come to Virginia? To his community? He accessed the website and brought them to Virginia. If I called a friend to get a newspaper and mail to me, then I transported them, not the orginal pubisher. jackb

  12. Re:It's a buyers market right now ... AGREED on Which IT Certifications for Specific IT Jobs? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you KNOW your stuff, you can write your ticket.

    But asking "what certs will help?" Shows one thing - you don't.

    That is harsh. I know. I from the other end of 20+ years of experience, with no degree, no certs AND DO NOT WANT THEM.

    All certs prove is that you can read a manual and type answers. You too could be MENSA, same entrance exam, and same benfits (none).

    The only proof is showing your skills, that means taking over the interview controling thier attention, showing you have some thing to provide.

    But the orginal writer said that he got a CS degree and can not code, then what good is it? Why not have history degree instead? Gives you the same advange, in the tech world.

    Remember, tech breaks down to operators and designers.

    If you can not code, design a database (500+ tables) or build a network (1000+ seats in multiple locations) then you are an operator.

    There is a lot of operators out there. That is what is a buyers market.

  13. It fun on Building A Computer From Scratch? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have two of them. Both still work. Z-80 Wire Wrap Motherboards. The first one took almost 6 months to build. The second only a month.

    IT IS VERY BORING TO DO. The first machine has almost 4,000 wires. I made 6 mistakes.

    I got the plans from Kilobaud Mag. They did a three part artical.

  14. Re:Good Luck on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 1

    OH BEST PART... (must read before submit)

    Saved across the board - able to buy and install an extra machine for every 4 new machines. No need for M$ Tax and Office Pro.

  15. Re:Good Luck on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just do it.

    Help a company with 240 Employees and 130 Machines. They had the BSA coming and desided - not way. In 30 days, all converted except two machines - Specail Test Software.

    Issues:
    Cheap Motherboards - with video on board. Very slow opening StarOffice. -- Install PCI Video Cards.

    Brand new machines (high end) with Video Cards that where not supported yet. Replaced with supported cards.

  16. Re:Everything *NOT* is okay... on Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy · · Score: 1

    YAHOO! made a pay service out of a "FREE EMAIL FOR LIFE".

    1) WebMail is not EMAIL.

    2) YAHOO! Wallet is not secure by their view. Why else would you require a user to "HOLD YAHOO! HARMLESS" if they happen loose your Credit Card?

    3) Not all users have Credit Cards. Are you dumb enough to place a DEBIT CARD in their hands? Or if you are under 18 - you can not make a contract - but YAHOO! allowed to sign-up and then take away your service.

    4) Over charging for EMAIL. Going rate is $5/yr per account. If you had two emails acounts with YAHOO!, it would be $60 per year - more than their family rate -- but a paying family still can not use POP/SMTP.

  17. Re:I downloaded LOTR, what a mistake on Bootleg Star Wars AotC Debuts on Internet · · Score: 1

    Wife: Degree in Screen Writing.
    I: 5 years Theater Tech, with freinds working at ILM.
    Kids: watch Shrek 5-6 times each weekend.

    Takes a couple of passes to see beyond the "mistakes".

  18. Re:I downloaded LOTR, what a mistake on Bootleg Star Wars AotC Debuts on Internet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What AHH?

    I loss big interest in the first 10 minutes when they could no keep the prespectest right.

    The "tall" people on stilts - with "short" arms
    Then not on stilts - with "normal" arms
    Then all corrected (computer) with wrong walk/run rythm.

    The "short" poeple - with "normal" arms
    Then with "short" arms (kids)
    Then all corrected (computer) with wrong walk/run rythm.

    I may to grow to like the movie later... but not worth the "price of the ticket"

    I had same reaction to "Roger Rabbit" and the first street car (bus to made to look like tolley). You could see the bus wheels between the tolley wheels.

    Sherk ahd problems with feet and hands interacting with other objects. Most computer shots can be known by the way objects "touch" on another. It just looks wrong.

  19. Adobe on Three Years Under the DMCA · · Score: 1

    It is ironic that they released in a PDF format and note that Abode is using the DMCA to "hurt" people.

    Opps?

  20. Re:Bozos on When IT and Bad Government Meet, Everyone Loses · · Score: 1

    The BOZO thing was not calling IBM to repair the machine. OR any of 3 different layers of supports from VARS to after market support.

    IBM equipment has for me been the most stable hardware around. I know of systems that are approching twenty years of 7x24 operations.

    I have had customers for years run without support. They know the downside, of delays in getting service and premium cost on parts - but normally a valid cost justification was made. Yes some were hurt with a two day time, but for a tax office that would be minor. For the Police, that would be major.

    City could replace the whole machine for less than 1/3 to 1/2 of that annual cost via an after market VAR.

    A little simple planning can go along way.

  21. Re:very disappointing on Venter's DNA Major Source of Celera's Database · · Score: 1

    There was not 6 inidividuals sequenced for each and every sequence. If that was true then the sciencist would only be 1/6 of the total data.

    In the end there is no gnome map. There is this sciencist map. My family tree has not been included, so any guess of the meaning of this data to my family is nill.

  22. MAN vs PUPPET on Chess: Man vs. Machine Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    When two people play - normal method of play is find a weakness and explote it. For a master is offer a weakness as a trap.

    With Man vs Machine, the machine can use that same trick. Offer a weakness allow the human to attact it, and then close the box and kill.

    But with BLUE - the weakness where real, the programmers seeing the weakness, and corrected program. Making weakness into a trap (or at least not a weakness anymore). In estances BLUE was cheating by getting outside help.

    So the best we can say about the event -- the hamun was debugging the software. There was no Man vs Machine Match.

  23. Re:Programming is not creative? on Chess: Man vs. Machine Debate Continues · · Score: 1

    "BLUE" was reprogrammed DURING the games. Humans were adjusting the program based on how the match was going.

    "BLUE" was not MAN vs MACHINE, but MAN vs A PUPPET.

  24. Re:Um on Gamespot Goes to Subscription Model · · Score: 1

    That is may not be the issue.

    If you do not have a method of paying for the service, then you will lose access.

    Salgons like: "We take PayPal!", make my not want to user that vendor or site. Also forcing only one method of payment, make it so people can not join.

    Example: I am 14. I do not have a Credit Card. I am legally not allowed to enter into a contract. Can not signup for service. But I can still buy a game CD from allounce.

    Example: I do not have a credit card. I have lost the ability to download mail from yahoo because I have to no credit card to place in Yahoo! Wallet. Yahoo! Wallet is the only form of payment Yahoo! will accept.

    Example: I had a credit card stolen via NETCOM many years ago. NETCOM keep access to credit card database accessable via the Internet. I today do not trust ANY internet based payment systems that allow for ANY kind of display or passing of Credit Card after the fact. Yahoo! Wallet, MS Passport.

  25. Re:Legality in doing this? on Shakedown: How the Business Software Alliance Operates · · Score: 1

    Which is why an airlien or a building owner can search your baggage. But the government can not. Remember that the next time you fly.