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  1. Nice idea but... on Ron Rivest Suggests Probability-Based Micropayments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people's number skills are so poor that they probably won't understanding or trust it.

  2. Contradiction on Buying a Small, Light Linux Notebook Computer? · · Score: 1

    "I'm looking for PC notebook computers that outperform the iBook" ...
    "Performance isn't a major concern"

    Make your mind up!

  3. Impressive... on uClinux Ported to the iPod · · Score: 1

    Very impressive. I thought it could be a hoax at first. Finally a way to get Ogg Vorbis on the iPod?

  4. Could someone explain... on When Will The Next Slammer Strike? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...why ATMs were affected? I've seen this mentioned in a few articles but I didn't think banks would use the Internet to connect ATMs on their systems.

  5. EVERY DVD TITLE IS _Q_UARANTEED TO BE IN STOCK!!!! on Hollywood Says No to Filtering DVD Player · · Score: 1

    So it says:

    http://www.cleanflicks.com/rentals/

    What do they do? Lock the DVDs in cages for 6 months until they're free of impurities?!

  6. Converted to metric for the rest of the world... on The Golden Age of Cup Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    8 U.S. fluid ounces is 236 ml.
    16 U.S. fluid ounces is 473 ml.
    20 U.S. fluid ounces is 591 ml.
    44 U.S. fluid ounces is 1301 ml.
    80 U.S. fluid ounces is 2366 ml.

  7. What's the problem? on Hack Your Phone, Go to Jail · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Are there any legitimate reasons for changing a phone's IMEI? It's like changing the vehicle identication code on the chassis of a car.

    As long as they don't make it illegal to unlock phones from a particular network I don't see the problem.

  8. Bad analogy on EFF Lists Wi-Fi-Friendly ISPs · · Score: 2
    Yeah, it makes sense. I mean if you ran an extension cord out your door and put a sign out "free electricity", I doubt the power company would have a problem with it at all.
    Electricity is metered. Broadband is not (yet).
  9. What we need... on EFF Lists Wi-Fi-Friendly ISPs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...is a site where people have/want broadband access and a wireless card can register to find other people in their area to share access with (by post/zip code).

  10. Interesting link... on Sneaking DRM Amendments Through the Back Door · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/plagiarism.html
    "The last straw, however, came when it turned out that twenty years earlier Biden had received a failing grade in a law school course for plagiarizing a legal article (he'd given a single footnote while lifting five full pages from the article). Biden said he'd been unaware of the appropriate standards for legal briefs, but the public was unimpressed. His campaign collapsed and he withdrew from the race."
  11. Fined for selling pirate games, NOT mod chip on Chip a Playstation, Go to Jail · · Score: 0, Redundant
    He was charged after an RCMP investigation found he was selling a line of 413 pirated video games and charging $30 to install "mod chips" in Sony PlayStation video game consoles.
  12. So far... on MIT Technology Review on Where Orwell Went Wrong · · Score: 5, Funny

    So far, the only thing we know for certain that Orwell was wrong about was the year.

  13. Author's Site SUCKS! on Built For Use · · Score: 4, Funny

    No DTD, no alt text for images, uses depracated FONT tags...

  14. Mass-produced CDs on Eminem #2 on Gracenote... Before Release · · Score: 1

    These must be mass-produced bootlegs, because CD-Rs would all have different IDs and would show up as different discs in on CDDB.com. Or am I wrong?

  15. Emacs on The Future of Ogg Vorbis · · Score: 3, Funny
    Sorry for the rambling. Writing in this little box is a little difficult and is not nearly as much fun as Emacs :). If anyone has any questions regarding you can contact emmett@xiph.org or myself if I don't respond to here.
    Can someone please teach this guy how to use 'copy and paste'!
  16. Remote on ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 7500 · · Score: 1

    [quote]IR Remote that will work from another room with no line of sight[/quote]

    That sounds like quite a feat... I wonder if they mean RF.

  17. Environmental Impact? on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Disposable cans are bad enough, but with a heating element there's much more waste to be disposed of. And I suspect these would be much harder to recycle - it would have to be dismantled into its component parts.

  18. Already available in UK on Self-Heating Can · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here are some people comments:

    http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/review/349432.html

  19. Re:Flash versus open standards on Macromedia Pushes Flash For All Things Web · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think this is what Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format is trying to achieve.

  20. Big Pussy? on Time on "Pirates of Primetime" · · Score: 1
    The MPAA counted more than 5,000 locations on the Internet last year where people could download episodes for free. Using custom software to track copyright violations, it also found 4,000 sites for The Simpsons and 2,000 for The Sopranos. Big Pussy is not going to like that

    WTF does that mean? Could someone explain to us non-Americans.

  21. Very Low Damages on Sony Crushes UK PS2 Mod Chip Developers · · Score: 1

    [blockquote]DAMAGES: £15,000 (on the basis of supplied upgrades)[/quote]

    That's about $21,000 - if a game costs about $40 then they are assuming only 500 people copied games and used the Neo chip to play them? That sounds very low - it's a popular mod chip. I would have expected the damaged to run into millions if Sony won.

  22. Yahoo Group on Review: Nex II CF MP3 Player · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is a Yahoo Group for discussion of this player at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nexiimp3/

  23. Re:15KB... on Slashback: Bandwidth, Animation, Gruvin' · · Score: 1

    The two main cable companies in the UK (NTL and Telewest) have both has an upload limit of 128kbps since they were introduced (the downstream is 512kbps).

    Hopefully, as P2P clients get smarter they will be able to spread load over multiple machines more efficiently so you still get full use of your 512kbps downstream.

  24. FrontierLabs Nex II on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players? · · Score: 1

    http://www.frontierlabs.com

    Fantastic little player from Hong Kong - uses CompactFlash, so you can just treat is as a removable drive. No SDMI crap.

  25. Re:Pathetic attempt on German State Alters DNS To Censor Web Sites [updated] · · Score: 1

    >(This would not work with sites that rely on
    >HTTP1.1 to tell them the name of the site, so >that many sites can be hosted on a single IP, >but that is less widely used than it might be.)

    Just add the server name to your local HOSTS file.