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  1. Privelege versus Right on Driver's Licenses to Become National ID Cards · · Score: 2

    I am peeved to no end that the government attaches so many strings (Trackability) to the services/priveleges it provides (Roads). The government should serve the people in a nearly transparent manner. We already sacrifice income taxes to pay for those services. At what point does a service or privelege become a right? I'm seriously wondering. Must I retreat to a 19th century standard of living to maintain my privacy?

  2. Vertical Use? on New iMac Announced · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are they gonna update OSX so the display could be easily rotated 90 deg. for long web pages and the like? That'd be cool.

  3. Easy way to check authenticity on MS Struggles to Discredit Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a mailto:lnxteam in there. Send a mail to lnxteam@microsoft.com, see if it bounces. It doesn't necesarily mean the email is real, but it will debunk it if it's not.

  4. No common sense at k-tech on KT-Tech Challenges Nancy and MPEG-4 for Wireless Video · · Score: 5, Funny

    A look at k-tech's still image compression shows them touting the advantages of their image format over jpegs. With jpegs of what both formats look like. They aren't the best marketers.

  5. Re:japan on KT-Tech Challenges Nancy and MPEG-4 for Wireless Video · · Score: 2

    Of course one would need to be in a fairly quiet setting to be able to hear and be heard via a phone that is being held at arms length pointed at the user. Otherwise the caller would just see a picture of somebody's ear canal the whole time.

  6. Clones on Clarification on RedHat's Trademark Policies? · · Score: 2

    Just write "clone of RH x.x". Or "Burned from RH iso". Just so long as you don't imply RH condones your copy there's no reasonable reason RH could fault you.

  7. Have you asked Fluent? on Selecting Computing Hardware for CFD Research? · · Score: 2

    Seems your primary software providers might be able to offer some recommendations which should carry a bit more weight than what us weenies on Slashdot think.

    (IMO SGI forever)

  8. Just ignore him on Correcting Common Linux Misconceptions? · · Score: 1

    Say they'll be dual boot or some similar hooey to get the ip's and whatever else you may need to connect these computers. If you get yelled at later, say you couldn't get the windows partition to work well, so you deleted it.

  9. Try cygwin on Mounting .ISO's Into An NT File System? · · Score: 2

    I don't have .iso's to test this on, but in cygwin mount so far looks just like I'd excpect. This may only mount your iso's in the cygwin directory structure though, in which case you'd need to run samba or something like that in cygwin. Samba on windows! Ha! That'd suck if that's the best solution. . .

  10. Re:New Markets on Talk to the Man Who Wants to Oversee Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Yes, but the original phrasing said something to the effect of "What will you do to prevent Microsoft from having multiple monopolies?" My point being, they may have multiple monopolies as long as they don't abuse said monopolies, which is not to say they have never done so.

  11. Re:New Markets on Talk to the Man Who Wants to Oversee Microsoft · · Score: 2

    (IANAL) It's not illegal to have a monopoly in more than one market, just to use a monopoly in one market to gain a monopoly in another market.

  12. Re:How I do it: on Game Consoles on Your Monitor? · · Score: 2

    Not only that, but my AIW (I don't know about the ATI-TV) has s-video in, for that slight gain in picture quality (And it comes with many useful cables for every possible type of input :).

    Or go the other route, put your Computer into a TV. A quick stop at Best Buy should yield a few if not several alternatives for the option.

  13. Doom rated M? on Dirty Dozen- The Most Dangerous Toys of 2001 · · Score: 2

    I didn't realize there even were video game ratings when doom came out. Was Doom really rated mature for the PC? Maybe they meant to say Doom 2, or "we assume it was rated M." I guess the BFG put it over the edge . . .

  14. Re:Ugly Flash on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's quite possible that they were the submittors, the submittor doesn't even exist on slashdot.

  15. Just don't link on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 2

    Use client executed Javascript to generate the link. Then you're not linking to their page, the people browsing your site are linking to their page.

  16. Worst Case? on VP3, Open Source Video at 200kbs · · Score: 2

    The page says datarate as low as 200kb, but what's the average datarate and what's the worst case scenario datarate?

  17. Similar stuff on Quantum Holography · · Score: 2

    a tad OT, but: Text search for GUENTER NIMTZ on http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2612time. html Similar, but not the same . . .

  18. Kinda defeats the purpose on Flat-panel iMacs in Apple's Future? · · Score: 2

    IMO, imacs are cool because of the translucent plastic that lets you see the inside of the CRTs. A flat panel would just be like any thin PC spray painted fruity.

    15 to 1 says it's got some sort of water cooling.

  19. My mistake on SONICblue Granted Broad Patent on DVR Technology · · Score: 3, Informative

    The patent. This reads as if it's only the interface they're patenting IMHO.

    Best line:
    13. The method as recited by claim 10 wherein the default channel is CNN Headline News.

  20. Re:Prior Art? on SONICblue Granted Broad Patent on DVR Technology · · Score: 2

    The link is unclear, but it appears to only affect DVRs, not PCs . . . I couldn't find it easily on uspto.gov either.

  21. High Impedance on Gibson Guitars and Ethernet · · Score: 2

    Anybody who doesn't want the sound affected by the basic 1/8" cable just uses low-z mic cables anyways. Plenty of (acoustic) guitars are available which have mic-type outputs built in (washburn, for one).

  22. Wine on Running Solaris IE Binaries in FreeBSD? · · Score: 3, Insightful
  23. Get your kid some building blocks on Learning Software for Toddlers? · · Score: 2

    . . . and they won't be blind by the time they're 19 years old (unless you've got LCDs).

    Seriously, get your kid to run around and play a lot, before she/he turns into a fat fourth grader (those kids are often ostrascized). Introduce computers and qbasic around eight or ten after they've begun to appreciate the real world first.

  24. A suggestion for the path variable on Rage Against the File System Standard · · Score: 2

    Why not add in the ability to use subdirectories of dirs in the path variable. I propose use of \+ or something similar at the end of a directory entry to indicate subdirectories should be searched too.

  25. Re:Some more information on C# From a Java Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Personally I think enumerations are for readability only (that said I've written 20x more Java than C++). I don't believe they offer enough extra readability to change the learning curve that much. I did not say it was an advantage or disadvantage.

    foo.size++ using get/set is pretty nifty tho', but since there's no performance advantage I don't see it as an advantage.