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  1. Re:Locking cars - Locking documents on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1

    My wife used to work for a photocopy sales/repair shop that also did document management / archival. They would take 5+ year old medical file and store them at a tremendus expense. THEN they would charge somethink like $1 a page min $10 to people who needed their old medical records, people would be paying hundreds of dollars sometimes because they couldn't just sort through and find which pages they needed. (And no my wife wasn't in on this, she disagreed but the boss was a jerk, she didn't work there very long)

  2. Re:Not really on Hoboken, NJ vs. Giant Parking Robot · · Score: 1

    Your falsly equating open source with Linux and Hackers. Either way whenever a company hires someone to develop a mission critical custom application the contact should be for the source code and all rights as well. It might cost you a little more upfront but it will save you loads of hassles in the long term.

    This issue on the other hand sounds a bit more interesting. Seems the city reached a deal with a startup who wanted to create automatic car garages and other robotics. The city basically said, ok you can have this free office building and will give you some startup money, but you need to build us an automated garage. Once the garage was built the city got greedy and figured they could now kick out the tenents and end the maintaince contract.

  3. Re:HL2? on Piracy Killing PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Problem was that most people are the time were still on dialup. People would buy it in the store then put in into their computer and it would NOT work untill they connected to the internet and downloaded several large files.

  4. Re:Censor on Bahrain's ISPs Must Block Google Earth · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bahrain is a little island between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It could be a military issue, they don't want their civilians being able to access satallite maps.

  5. Re: Copying Scorecard on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 2, Informative

    FROM BSD license

    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

    They didn't, thus they threw away the license.

  6. Re:I'm a mac fanboy but on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Previous versions atleast as so much as how 2003 server does it is fairly ineffective, at specific intervals (I have mine set twice a day as an example) you set it stores an image of the difference between the previous version. This is theoretically a bitwise diff but in practice it only works when the filesaves are done bitwise. Hopefully apples timemachine stores all changes and they are all bitwise. ie a intelligent comparison between each files versions.

  7. Re:My keynote thoughts so far... on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well it is like shadow copy on 2003, which provides a feature called previous versions. Previous versions stores bitwise (when the file is saved via bit changes otherwise filewise) changes at set time intervals (sadly not on every save) to all files up to a certain MB storage limit you set. You then can backtrack and see what your files looked like on such an such date in the past.

  8. Re: Copying Scorecard on Mac Pro, Mac OS X Virtual Desktops Announced at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Yes, use of free software is smart. Throwing out the license and pretending as if you made it your own is not.

  9. Re:The nanotechnologists I've spoken with... on Lifeboat Foundation Nanoshield · · Score: 1

    Exactly, but as the previous poster pointed out evolution has been working on creating bacteria/algie that can multiply rapidly and consume near anything for billions of years. What makes us think we can create something in the lab that will be able to do any better.

    Now given if we can develop some sorta energy technology that works on the nanometer scale that natural couldn't develop we might have a chance.

  10. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    No seriously, its illigal to sell fake drugs. Hell its illigal to pretend something is a drug. There has been several cases in the past of children being oregeno to school pretending its pot, not only do they get in trouble with the school but sometime they have been arrested and charged.

  11. Re:Or Maybe Not.. on Tracking the Congressional Attention Span · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh but just wait for a few days.
    Once google indexes this page and the linked articles page, and every copycat page.

  12. Cheap? on Affordable Laser Printers? · · Score: 1

    You can have your printer Good, Fast or Cheap.
    Pick 2

    But seriously I've personally fallen in love with our offices new Dell 3100cn its print cartriges are cheap (45 bucks for 4000 pages of black (the drum is a seperate unit))

    They seem to have replaced it with the 3010cn which looks the same but I can't personally vouch for it, its on sale for 299 right now though.

  13. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    But whos decision is it that they are benefiting the public. I mean I can see reasons to look the other way.

    Lets say a reporter was selling fake drugs to do a report on drug dealing. Yes its illigal to sell fake drugs, and he/she should be told so, but I can imagine a police officer letting something like that slide.

    Lets say a reporter sells real drugs.

    Lets say a reporter goes along during a bank robbery.

    There has to be a line there. In the past our society had a common sense to look the other way sometimes, but you just can't give someone a blank check because "they are benefiting the public in a profound way". Bullocks.

  14. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    But she didn't just know about the criminal activity she HELPED them by tipping them off.

    This is such a huge difference.

  15. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 1

    This person broke the law in providing the interviewie with information about a confisgation so that person could break the law and avoid it... Just like anyone else who breaks this law she is expected to give up her phone records.

  16. Bogus leads? on Search Companies Team Up Against Click Fraud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    advertisers have been collectively overcharged by more than $1 billion for bogus sales leads during the past four years.

    Then maybe those advertisers should think before they agree to be advertised on those get a free ipod sites. I mean seriously who doesn't cancel those agreements as soon as you sign up for them. I wouldn't pay these people a nickle if I was an advertiser, yet they make enough to cover the cost of free ipods or free laptops even.

  17. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So your saying that if I pass a law that says you can't run red lights, and some member of the press runs a redlight in presuit of their story, that law should be stricken from the books.

    Get real, reporters are NOT above the law.

  18. Re:Predator had it more apt... on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    Well with an array of cameras and leds it could be done with todays technology. Just at great expense and would harly be worth the effort for the effect you would get. I was using todays technology as a reference, the delay would be small, so one could assume with future technology you shouldn't expect any delay bigger than this.

  19. Re:The Truth Will Come Out on Ruling to Make Reporters Act Like Drug Dealers? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But they didn't make any laws. They simply stated that reporters are not above the law. Nothing new here, move along please.

  20. Re:Your staff are the jewels... on Nine Ways to Stop Industrial Espionage · · Score: 1

    Given, yes, you should limit security to those who only need it. The point is as well you shouldn't waste excessive amount of money on security when hiring good people and being a good team leader can do so much more. A tight knit community of workers will know which ones have the drug or gambling problems anyways. Its really not as easy to hide as you believe.

  21. Re:Great on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Do you have any other examples of old idea that you can trod out and pretend to make new?

  22. Re:true invisibility is impossible on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    Yes, a generally understoof problem. Though allowing a limited amount of light through would generally be enough to see while not destroying the effect. Think one way mirrors some light goes through but do you notice it.

  23. Re:Predator had it more apt... on How to Become Invisible · · Score: 1

    With modern technology you'd be talking about less that a millisecond delay. It simply wouldn't be noticable to the human eye, though your inner sense might know something is wrong. This would definatly be detectable by a computer though, atleast if the object was moving.

  24. Re:ISO 8601 Please! on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 1

    Damn you for making me google just to realize there is no spoon.

  25. Re:Psht! on The Next Three Days are the x86 Days · · Score: 1

    a computerized one duh. 20060802 is on day less than 20060803 the same as 1000 is 1 less than 1001.