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  1. just imagine... on IPv4 Headers Investigated · · Score: 1

    ...a beowulf cluster of dupes!

    it must be a slow day

  2. Re:Finally!!! on Eclipse 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    it had before:
    create a plugin project, fire the wizard, choose xml editor, and you have one
    just associate it with your xml files, and your done.

  3. use it again spam on Broad Bills to Protect 'Communications Services' · · Score: 1

    to conceal ... from any communication service provider ... the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication

  4. Re:WRONG! on Strike on Iraq · · Score: 1

    ...because France guaranteed a veto...

    If us and british journalist made a little effort to learn french, and report correctly, you could not honestly write that.

  5. Re:My Proposal on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 1

    and some english speaking people wonder why the rest of the world don't like them...
    no need to reply, you troll.

  6. Re:My Proposal on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 1

    In a previous message, there was a reference to the logo, npw it is red book compliance. not the same thing. So I repeat: show me a valid cd that is copy protected. (double toc is not really copy protection, as one can bypass it with a little adhesive on the disk)
    And I was starting my previous comment by:
    don't know where you live, but in some country,...
    so you don't know how to read.
    as for my laughable illiteracy, let speak about it when you use the second foreign langage you learned (added to your mother tongue) to have a coherent conversation with someone I don't know if I must consider as a troll, or as s RIAA spin doctor.

  7. Re:My Proposal on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 1

    don't know where you live, but in some country, they are laws protecting consumer again deception.
    If it is marketed like a standard cd, in sale where standard cd are, the "not specially attentive consumer" tricked in buying it, believing it is the standard product(that is, the product he can play on his computer, in the car on the hifi, and everywhere else he want), is prodected.

  8. Re:My Proposal on Senator Calls For Copy-Protection Tags · · Score: 1

    Show me a copy protected cd respecting fully the spec for compact disc as defined by phillips and sony, and you have perhaps an argument

  9. It is probably the future, but... on There.com's Virtual World & Economy · · Score: 1

    ... in P2P and open source, creating a gift economy,
    not with one monopolistic company wanting to extend an exchange economy*, no matter how good and benevolent they are.
    The world is for all to create.

    * and during this time, GWB is trying to transform USoA in a command economy...

  10. manufacturers charge so much ... on Wireless Charging your Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    ...on additionnal chargers that I'm sure they don't want this type of solution.
    Or else, charger would have been compatible a long time ago.

  11. Re:does it do? on Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta · · Score: 1

    Face it, Ogg Vorbis is dead as disco.
    No, it isn't (disco neither, for that matter).
    Why I want ogg is because I have a lot of it allready encoded (far more than mp3) and I don't want to re-encode it (those are my CDs).
    Perhaps most people want mp3 because it is what is most used on kazaa and friends, but this reason is irrelevant for me.
    Now, saying I'm a statistic and ignoring me is in total contradiction with currents trends in marketing. They can, for a small cost, provide me with a solution using ogg, and make me and many others happy customers.
    But ogg support is only a small part of the question. What I deduce from their site is that geek are not a target for them at all, or else, my questions in the parent post would have been answered.

  12. does it do? on Wi-Fi Enabled Stereo From Philips In Beta · · Score: 1

    ogg?
    wep?
    pc link to a mac or a linux?
    can we have more than one on a network?
    any no is a show stopper for me.

  13. It is not open to all comers on Teach A Robot To Drive, Win A Million Bucks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    3.1 Team Must Be U.S. Entity

    The Challenge is open only to US entities. This includes U.S. corporations, U.S. non-profit organizations, U.S. universities, U.S. citizens, sole proprietors that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, and partnerships of U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

  14. Re:Sweet! on Forbes on Lessig and Eldred · · Score: 1

    the moral right of the crator is about the only right left to the creator once he has a contract with a publisher.

    What I said about Berne convention is: when I was young, it was death +25 , a few year later, death + 50, now death + 75 (and I'm not 50).
    All aspect being the same about the creator, I don't know who benefit except the publishing industry.
    The moral right of the creator is a little remnant of the fact that protection derive from creation, and so creator must have some compensation.
    What is the moral right? essentially three things:
    *no one except the creator can claim being the creator.
    *the creator can oppose usages of the work he consider does not repect the integrity of the work. ( this permit to have some films on tv without any advertising). Ok, this one is perhaps not good for the publishing industry.
    *the creator can retract one of his works , provided he pay the current owner of the (non moral) rights. Very costly to exerce.

    You seem to display a bias toward the old US system, where someone has to pay in order to have protection (sound like mafia ;). I live in the european one, and I'm fully in favor of automaticaly giving right to the creator. I'm completely against copyright extensions which are, if decided in Berne, decided not for the best interest of the public, but for the interest of the publishing industry. I don't speak about the creator, because in all cases(25,50,75 years), it is something that happen long after his death.

  15. Re:Sweet! on Forbes on Lessig and Eldred · · Score: 1

    no, it is on of the problem that arise from the fact that the only representatives who created the Berne convention where members of (or influenced by) the publishing industry, and not of the public.
    If the public have been represented, extention would not have occured.

  16. Re:Certification and SSL on Ask Security/Cryptography Expert Paul Kocher · · Score: 1
    Don't you think there should be an international organization that lists what are the CAs and then everyone should use them?

    I, for one, don't trust internationnal organizations. (Who elected them ? governments, money, NSA?)

  17. please explain us system on More on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    why :
    CALDERA SYSTEMS, INC.,
    a Delaware corporation d/b/a THE SCO GROUP,
    Plaintiff,

    vs.

    INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation,
    Defendant.

    take place in THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF SALT LAKE COUNTY
    STATE OF UTAH
    ?

    why not in Delaware?

  18. Re:Filesize of the pictures on 350 Megapixel Camera · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think we need some breakthrough in technology. I've heard about some technic using a silver based substrat. The file is written in parallel, using some light encoding. Total writing of the file can take as little as 1/1000 second. Calculate the througput, it is very impressing. Compression is lossy, and it is more similar to cd-r than to cd-rw, and long term stability is not guaranted. But give it a few years, and I'm sure we will have a solution derived from this principle.

  19. they use LOC... on Internet Traffic Still Growing Quickly · · Score: 4, Funny

    but if the Library Of Congress continue initiatives to archive the net, even if all traffic is not new content, the unit is not constant.

  20. Re:Yes, but.... on Microsoft Opens Source to China · · Score: 1

    yeh, I understand now what paladium and trusted computing is all about...

  21. Re:Open Office Outlawed on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    not so funny, MS "proved" in a law suit that internet explorer was to generic to be trademarked (by a small company not bougth by them)

  22. Re:Yes, but.... on Microsoft Opens Source to China · · Score: 2, Funny

    as long as you trust make, and take the time to verify configure, and you check all the programms called from here.
    Remember the article about the compiler who was specially adapted to introduce backdoor in login, which was not visible in the source of the compiler, cause the compiler added it to itself when it was self compiling?

  23. Re:Harrass them right back! on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    yes, but the legalese of the bsa email seems (from memory) directly extracted from the dcma

  24. Re:Harrass them right back! on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    It is stating under penalty of perjury that it has the authority to act on behalf of Joe Bob Copyright holder for preventing you to provide open office. It is an obvious lie.

  25. Re:Harrass them right back! on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    not for defamation, for perjury:

    from the mail :
    BSA represents that the information in this
    notification is accurate and states, under penalty of perjury, that it is
    authorized to act in this matter on behalf of the copyright owners listed
    above.

    they (BSA) obviously played it very softly(apologies and thanks), cause they feel a little weak on this one.