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  1. Re:Legislation on Dutch Court: Bothered by SPAM? Get A New Email Address · · Score: 1

    Spam is inherently different from the other things you list in that spammers effectively steal from their recipients by making them pay for bandwidth.

  2. Re:Anybody on Real Will Include Ogg Vorbis Support · · Score: 1

    There was a thing in Xiph cvs for a while called libsnatch that did just that (actually it grabs the audio/video on its way to the kernel).

  3. Re:Is evolution inevitable? on PalmOS 5 Turns Gold · · Score: 1

    And lug them around along with your tent and all your other assorted hiking/survival gear?

  4. Re:Microsoft will Go, one way or another on What's the Business Case for Microsoft and Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Now that we see M$ junk running faster under WineX than native

    You misread. Linux Quake 3 runs faster in Linux than Windows Q3 does in Windows. Windows Q3 on Linux via WineX still gets half the framerate.

  5. Re:Lyrics on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 1

    Ohh... I'll bet it is locks (as in technological content locks).

  6. Re:Lyrics on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I heard that too but that just doesn't make any sense, although I suppose it does rhyme.

  7. Lyrics on EFF Releases "The Tinseltown Club" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't get to their main page now, so I'm trying to figure out the lyrics. This is the best I can come up with so far. Anyone know what these words I couldn't figure out are?

    Ooh, sing along kids!

    Tinsel town glow[?]
    Tinsel town glow
    Tinsel town glow
    Tinsel town glow

    Who believes the average chains a criminal on the ???
    Disney and his show biz friends
    Who have a lot at stake
    Who with their laws turn back the clocks
    The rights we have today
    The entertainment moguls and CBDTPA

    And they stell us stuff (it's overpriced!)
    They lock it up (and that's not nice!)
    So they can keep their profits in the sky (sky high!)
    So join the fight, defend your rights
    Before they're whisked away
    Speak up fast! Don't let them pass CBDTPA

    Numbers count (they make Congress pay attention!)
    Tell all your friends about that old CBDTPA

  8. Re:Microsoft Lock-In All Your Boxen Belong To M$FT on Microsoft vs. Northwest Schools Part III · · Score: 1

    For example, you cannot run ANY Open Source software. This extends to Corporate users as well, and also voids the warrenty and the license.

    This is a pretty strong accusation: Do you have evidence to back it up? (If so, I'd like to see it).

  9. Re:WTF???? on Microsoft's Goal, Security Through Obscurity? · · Score: 1

    If you have Visual C++ it comes with an ActiveX control test container that can be used to register/unregister controls. It's just a matter of calling one of the functions exported by the control itself. I'm surprised there's no UI for listing and unregistering ActiveX controls built into Explorer or something.

  10. Type is not cat on Teaching Linux/Unix Basics to Microsoft Junkies? · · Score: 1

    due to the fact that type puts the name of each file you list if there is more than one. To get the equivilent of cat you have to use copy /b file1 + file2 + ... + filen outfile, and then pipe the output file into the program you want. This, of course, takes disk space.

  11. Re:i'm really scared of this... on MusicCity's Morpheus violating GPL · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you know as well as I that the majority of files on those programs are illegal ...

    I fail to see how this makes Gnutella itself illegal. Almost anything can be used to commit a crime, and yet cars, computers, crowbars, you name it aren't illegal. Why should software be any different?

  12. Re:Newbie question.. on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    You can always use some sort of 6 to 4 NATting, although I hate to bring up NAT. It COULD be an effective way to let a whole bunch of IPv6-only computers make outgoing connections to IPv4-only hosts through one dual-stack machine. It's not great, but at least it works.

  13. Re:Well, it's here already on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    I, personally, run several servers on my machine, and I find even that limiting. What I really need is another machine. With a static, globally unique IP. Having the entire campus behind NAT is not acceptible; too many people are running servers. Adding port forwarding to a NAT box is just plain rediculous because all you're really doing is extending the IP address space to include port numbres as well. Why not just give every machine a globally-unique IPv6 address and be done with it? That way you don't have to worry about one machine NATting for an entire network of thousands of computers, and the users are happier as well because they don't have to go through some beauraucratic system to get ports forwarded.

    Also, claiming that protocols that require the client to have a real IP are "bad programming" is just flamebait. Stop it.

  14. Re:Well, it's here already (slightly OT) on What About IPv6? How Long Until Widespread Deployment? · · Score: 1

    Network 10 is class A, because 10 = 127.

    I.e., it's 10.x.x.x, where x is between 0 and 255. I'm pretty sure there's also a private class C, but nobody ever uses it and I'm too lazy to look it up right now.

  15. Re:NAT & Firewalls on HTTP's Days Numbered · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. Nothing is preventing there from being a central firewall. If all the traffic for a network is going through one firewall, that firewall can do whatever it wants regardless of whether the packets are NATted or not. My statement still stands: NAT is a horrible kludge. Firewalls, on the other hand, are good. Don't confuse the two.

  16. Re:NAT & Firewalls on HTTP's Days Numbered · · Score: 2, Informative

    NAT is a horrible kludge that should never have existed. Using IPv6 with good OS- and application-level support would make network administrators' jobs a lot easier. I can see companies using IPv6 internally and over WAN's to simplify and improve the performance of their networks.

  17. Re:Hiking on Foot-Powered Laptop · · Score: 1

    Or a satellite link, if you're made of cash.

  18. Hiking on Foot-Powered Laptop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I suppose this could be good for long hiking trips for people who just have to get their email fix.

    That would kind of defeat the purpose of a hiking trip, though.

  19. Re:Double standard. on Violent Video Game Protection Act · · Score: 1

    I think the point is that in both cases, children are being exposed to images of graphic violence. According to the text of the bill, simply being exposed to images of violence contributes to violent behavior. Therefore, graphic violence should be eliminated not just from games, but from everywhere else by extension. This includes news.

  20. Re:Why the PhatBox doesn't support Ogg on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1
    From here:
    "However, Xiphophorus and the Ogg project (xiph.org) reserve the right to set the Ogg/Vorbis specification and certify specification compliance."
  21. Why doesn't the gov't insist on open code? on Open Code in Public Procurement · · Score: 0, Troll

    I seriously don't understand why they put up with closed source.

  22. Re:Why the PhatBox doesn't support Ogg on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1

    In the meantime I'm not happy about Ogg as a format anymore.

    Why not? The Xiph libs are still free, and so's the format. If enough competent developers are available and interested, I'm sure somebody will make a free ARM port.

  23. Re:DivX vs Ogg Tarkin on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I tried this yesterday and it's actually really cool! You can convert pretty much any video source to a w3d .ogg and you can play a .ogg file as video, albeit really slowly. The quality leaves something to be desired, but the coolness factor is way up there.

  24. Why the PhatBox doesn't support Ogg on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 3, Informative

    The reason these guys don't support Ogg on the decoder end yet is that they're waiting for a free port of the Vorbis codec to the ARM7. Apparently, several ports exist but all are commercial and require a license fee, which Kenwood appears to be unwilling to pay.

  25. Re:DivX vs Ogg Tarkin on Good News On Two Open-Codec Fronts · · Score: 1

    Tarkin is nowhere near complete and is not very usable yet.