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  1. Re:Limewire strictly prohibits it! on RIAA Says P2P Encourages Illegal Downloads · · Score: 1

    No supreme court says it has to do with intent. Apples sells music through iTunes showing their obvious profit motive in making ipods easy to use. This shows pro copywrite intent. Most P2P apps atleast untill recently stated openly that you could download copyrighted music all you want freely (and they tried to say legally too. haha) this shows the opposite intent. They are changing their tune recently though, but it doesn't nessesary absolve them.

  2. Re:Zonk on Plotting the Revolution's Arc · · Score: 1

    Actually most people think he works for Nintendo because so far he has been posting so many Xbox 360things that we are tired of hearing about it. These theories apparently were true.

  3. Re:PS on A Gimp In Photoshop's Clothing · · Score: 1

    I suggest a foundation be made to fund open source projects better than we've seen. Apply and they bankroll your project if you've got something hot.

    [sarcasm mode] Wow this has never been thought of before!! Genius!! [/sarcasm mode]

  4. Re:Wy only during high gas/petrol prices? on Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth? · · Score: 1

    Benevolent dictators generally lead to corruption. Either way if one truly wants to fix the system first one has to look at our federal system and how it can be changed.
    If you want better planning should you increase federal control or increase state/local control. I would argue that a local government can effectivly plan for efficieny of the system better than the federal governement. Of course given commuting as an example of a problem, the local government would never waste its time with buses etc that lead to neighboring communities that don't pay city taxes. So in effect something above them, say the state government needs to be there, and to connect different states the federal government needs to be there. But then you have the same problem as we have today, with the recently transportation bill that designated only a small percentage to public transportation.

    Personally I'm thinking we should move to more state control with federal programs only existing by state approval. These state governments then should be able to completly choose their local government style of choice. California can have its communist system, while Texas can have their system. And some states can even have life long elected goveners just for the reasons as you statd earlier.. If they want to that is.

  5. Re:Call me offtopic, but... on Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth? · · Score: 1

    http://www.zapworld.com/

    They sell electric cars as well as modified cars for fairly decent prices.

  6. Re:Wy only during high gas/petrol prices? on Promoting Telecommuting During the Gas Dearth? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, we have a market based system and a planned system. Many cities have public transportation, these are planned systems, the roads you drive on are also planned. Unfortunatly the problems is the planners are morons. While one could argue that the planners are effected by market forces, realisticaly they are more effected by votes or their ability to keep their jobs. How can you expect a planned system to ever work when the planners won't do their job.

  7. Re:The Government is the Biggest Culprit... on Data Still Left on Storage Devices for Sale · · Score: 1

    Hey I recently snagged a bunch of highend dell poweredge power supplies from state surplus ebay not going so well for getting rid of them. Email me.

  8. Re:Who's on first? on Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser · · Score: 4, Informative

    XFS beta came out 9/22/2000 (its source code was first publically available on 3/30/2000) The first journaling version of reiserFS was release in november of 1999.

    JFS came later than XFS though I can't find the date.

    Of course officially ext3 came out before reiserFS in september of 1999, though ext3 is the real winner. Which produced workable code first I have no idea.

  9. Re:this gives the perfect opportunity... on Canada's Do-Not-Hesitate-To-Call List · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which was even better when I gained a mother-in-law that blocks Caller ID and doesn't understand *82.

    Thought your post needed a bit of editing.

  10. Re:What apple should do now on Ars Technica's iPod nano Dissection · · Score: 5, Interesting

    firewire (assuming thats what you meant by fw) is the choice for digital video tranfer on apple. Apple has a lot invested in being the digital video editing platform of choice. There is no way they are going to give up on firewire. For connections to random devices that don't need the speeds of firewire, and benifit from PC connectivity, USB is the obvious choice.

  11. Re:Amount of work in design on Microsoft Aims for Hack-Proof 360 · · Score: 1

    What if the identification was just random, but the identification was then signed by microsofts SSL signature or something to that effect. Could this be broken if the software and Operating system both check this signature?

  12. Re:AVG free on Virus Prevention in the Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 1

    They do offer discounts for charity organizations and they are very resonably prices as is.

  13. Re:It's for a church? on Virus Prevention in the Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, but he won't protect you from your idiocy. Just as if you decided to swimming in NOLA right now. Your gonna get sick.. Unless of course he told you to swim in NOLA, and promised you that you wouldn't get sick.. On the other hand, I doupt God made any such promises about these computers. Maybe they can throw holy water on them.. That would make them safe, in the same way a dead man is safe.

  14. Re:Amount of work in design on Microsoft Aims for Hack-Proof 360 · · Score: 1

    Most likly a crypto / unique identifier chip. One chip that has the purpose of allowing games to be played and providing indentification to games that this is an unmodded box. You might be able to unlock the system, but you will be limited to running linux or something hand made to run on this unlocked system.

  15. Re: Skype on Ebay Rumored to be Buying Skype · · Score: 1

    I was using inter ebay messages.

  16. Re:To steal a joke from Fark on Ebay Rumored to be Buying Skype · · Score: 1

    There exists some positive integer N that you are the Nth person to read this signature.

    Hey as a time traveler, I'm upset by this implication.

  17. Re:sKYPE on Ebay Rumored to be Buying Skype · · Score: 1

    Timly? Hell I have one buyer who in mid shipment I messaged him telling him I sent him the wrong item. He didn't reply till 2 weeks after receiving the shipment. His reply? "Why havn't you replied to my request for a refund".
    I send him another message offering him some options. its been another 2 weeks havn't receieved a reply yet :)

  18. Re:that's odd... on No Publisher Love For Darwinia · · Score: 1

    As stated the US market is about 10 times bigger. This fact alone is what causes most US publishers to reject anything independant, because of the larger risk. Though I don't see why you can't do a reginal smaller publish or something limited here. Hopfully they can get some US advertising and the internet publishing should be enough.

  19. Re:that's odd... on No Publisher Love For Darwinia · · Score: 2, Informative

    They stated that they did publish in the UK, but couldn't find a US publisher.

  20. Re:And this is new? on No Publisher Love For Darwinia · · Score: 1

    Hopfully Nintendo will also allow easy indie publishing through their download service.

  21. Re:Highly recommended game on No Publisher Love For Darwinia · · Score: 1

    Shrugs, demo crashes on me on launch with no indication as to why.

  22. Re:Gambling down? on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    Just curious, would you say that the average small time player would be perfectly safe if they stayed in the PL 0.25 tables or even the 5/10 tables, that poker bots arn't going to bother. Would the 1/10 tournament tables be same?

  23. Re:I never started playing. on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    While not exactly scanitily-clad the new york hotel (in vegas) provided good drinks when I was there atleast. Hell when I was broke I went to the penny slot machine and got 5 drinks over 3 hours for 3 bucks of gambling loss.

  24. Re:The company is using futuristing computing also on Company to Settle and Mine Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Dude parent was joking.. And yes he was talking about those things.

  25. Re:Interesting they will be at CES 2006 on 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop? · · Score: 1

    And of course the real humor is that all their email addresses are @optonline.net (A cable internet provider).