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  1. Re:Turnabout! on Big Box Store Reps Push Unnecessary Recovery Discs · · Score: 1

    okay let me tell you why this is getting ripped off

    1 your usable hardrive space is smaller be cause a chunk of it is taken up with a "recovery partition" that doesn't work in a non trival number of cases
    2 the disc (which they need to make anyway) most likely cost them about US$0.20 a disc (oh and maybe US$0.05 to label)
    3 the building utilities tend to be some of the slowest most complicated things they can (oh and they have to make sure you don't make more than one copy)

  2. Re:Goa'uld on Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian Translator Created · · Score: 1

    Doctorate in Ancient Languages: US$100,000
    A Library of reference books (including that moron Budge): $200,000
    Plane ticket to [redacted]: $500
    Knowing that you are the only one on the PLANET that can read this tablet (and you have to save the world AGAIN):

    PRICELESS

  3. The Class way of doing this on How To Address A Visit from MPAA Senior VP Rich Taylor? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Before he speaks have a lawyer type give a 5 minute discussion on how the preceding speech is CopyRight (R) $date by $school and reproduction by any means
    will result in prosecution. Then Lock the doors (make loud slamming noises) and have him give his talk.

  4. Re:Cheapest Solution... on Teen Hacks $84 Million Porn Filter in 30 Minutes · · Score: 1

    easiest way to keep your Children from the "Vile Demons Of the Internet" (at least in your home)

    1 have the incoming cable run to a nice closet with a locking door
    2 place the Router and a nice shuttle box with twin nics in the closet
    3 wire it CM > SB > Router
    4 Install a nice logging/filter ap on the SB and have it respond to a set of paswords (it should somehow give you the "next password" when you use each password)
    5 lock the closet and pray

    6 hope the kids don't find out about any unsecured wifi in the area
    7 or get into that closet
    8 or get a WiMax module
    9 or....

    i figure the best way to solve this is to remove the need at all (if they see women as fellow beings an not as objects why would they need porn??)

  5. Re:I have the solution on The "Loudness War" and the Future of Music · · Score: 1

    What folks don't know is that a US$200 pair of Cans can absolutely shred a 9.5 set of US$200 speakers because combined with a good sound system that knows how to
    do the downmix properly The Fact of The Matter is YOU ONLY HAVE 2 EARS. So if the sound is shaped correctly and the Cans have a SubSonic module you can hear EVERYTHING.
    Given 2 setups with the only difference being Headphones and Speakers you will find a Player that uses headphones will always win against a Player using Speakers
    (unless the Headphones player sucks)

  6. its time for a Full Bore Shootout on Microsoft Axes 'Get The Facts' · · Score: 1

    Get a d6 and a large group of Amish farmers (where the number is NX6) divide them into 6 groups at random then give them a Computer , Network connection and a Geek
    (just to be fair lets use a single network type and a group of dell cheapo boxes) the Groups

    1 Windows XP Pro (with all current patches but NO THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE i will give a Push for MSO)
    2 Windows Vista Ultimate (same setup)
    3 Redhat WS (whichever is the current with all patches only direct Redhat repos)
    4 SUSE SLED 10.1? (same setup )
    5 Mandriva 2007.1 free (same setup no PLF)
    6 Ubuntu 7.04 (same setup)

    Then have them do some actual work /play/ (and install software as needed) see exactly how far they get before the farmer decides to Shun the computer and the geek.

    Who would win and who would end up with a Hoe divot on the side of the case??

  7. Re:Here's how the other companies would've done it on Google Re-Refunds Video Purchases · · Score: 1

    me i would say that it should be law that your drm method has a Non Revokeable permanent unlock code for just this kind of case (or have say 3 different folks split the method of breaking your drm with instructions to release if you don't do ACTION every 3 months)

  8. Re:Intentionally misleading on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    If you want to take ti to the extreme everything that you generate is actually CopyRight by you. And btw in the US anything that gets into the money stream or is an "executable document" and crosses state lines is a good way to get the interest of the MIB crowd (bonus round if you start talking some real money amounts).

    example you go to Vegas and do some gambling you then decide to clone your betting card and double your money it works and you then go home and tell your friends.
    The Heavy guys in the cheap suits are Family members wanting to talk to you the Slimmer guys with the good suits are Secret Service and they also want to talk with you
    (RUN NEO RUN!!!)

  9. Re:(Permanent) Temporary Solution. on D2 Updates, Text Message Notifcation · · Score: 1

    and what about the places that will FIRE YOU for having an unauthorized application on your system??

  10. what we need as consumers in these contracts on AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable · · Score: 1

    1 the ability to basically include a standard set of definitions ( define you and the company)
    2 standard blocks in the contracts with a hash before them (this means that a block in the contract with a given hash means the same as any block with that hash)
    3 Total banning of the practice of hiding funny clauses in deep or obscure parts of the contract (ie you agree to sell your first born in paragraph 13 section b)
    4 the whole contract must be A printed on the box (or attached to the outside) B smaller than 2 pages of 18 point type (single space US letter pages)
    5 if the contract is modified via changing a notice on a website then A all persons effected must be notified B All persons effected must be allowed to cancel or obtaine a CASH refund

  11. Re:Um on Alienware Won't Sell Consumers CableCard PCs · · Score: 1

    it was supposed to be a way for folks to buy %random manufacturers units and then your local cable company can load the crypto needed to unlock your channels

    but the problem is that these cards have DRM that slags the card if you so much as breath hard on the card oh and setting up the card requires talking to multiple techs and CSRs

  12. Re:That's not the unthinkable option on PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista · · Score: 1

    What any new Linux user needs to do is find the Local Linux Users Group i know for a fact that the Piedmont Linux Users Group has a command cheat sheet (http://www.piedmontlinux.org) floating around

  13. Re:What to do with all that waste heat... on Heat Wave Shuts Down Alabama Reactor · · Score: 1

    Correlation is what would get that person into a squad car and on ice
    Causation would be
    1 fingerprints of the man on the bullets in the gun (or on the gun in a valid manner)
    2 GSR testing showing that he recently fired a gun
    3 Blood or hair from him being found at the scene

    the CSI evidence trinity Victim -Weapon - Suspect (you have to have a victim a weapon and a suspect all linked)

  14. Re:Many cities only have 2 real choices on Comcast Hinders BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    can you say Ping times in the large fraction of a second?? for a sat link you need to uplink to the satellite downlink from the sat travel from the NOC to your remote server
    then reverse to return and how high up is geosyncronous orbit?? (just found a nasa source that puts it as 35,768 kilometers and each leg of the bounce nets you 0.11 seconds so each trip has an added 0.44 seconds)

    so no WoW or chats or anything "real time"

  15. Clue Phone its for you on ODF Vs. OOXML File Counts On the Web · · Score: 1

    The International Standards Organization Open Document Format is the primary "native" format for Open Office (in fact the format was developed with OO.o being the reference program).

  16. Re:Won't help on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 1

    besides with a "proper" watermark lets say you 'found" an mp3 of Amazing Grace on Bagpipes that moved you to tears you could then track down the original owner and oh maybe pay them for the track (and perhaps buy some of their other music)

    make being legit easier than being a pirate and the money will come to you

  17. Re:Think of the germphobes! on Anti-Bacterial Soap No Better Than Plain Soap · · Score: 1

    get a bunch of bottles of the correct size and just tell them its antibiotic soap (but use correctly colored normal soap and maybe spike it with lemon juice)

    heck a couple of bottles of water a few "power bars" the soap and a towel (with a small box of shop rags) and they could be set.

  18. Re:Watching movies is not physics homework... on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 2, Informative

    a minor "correction" in the bit about Stargate most of the Goa'uld names were Egyptian Gods but a number of them were not "Lord Yu" is a good example
    also the bit about the glowing eyes was explained via a radioactive mineral being in the "snakes" bodies. Very little about the show was explained as being "magic".

    Most of the time Dr jackson did mention in passing the where part of the names.

  19. Re:Actually on Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets · · Score: 1

    word is that Novell may just decide to require TSCOG to forfeit the 5% since that had to sue to get the 95%

  20. Re:Turns out to be uninteresting and irrelevant on Google Pack Adds StarOffice · · Score: 1

    yes but you do know that the best way of getting a clean download for a Windows System is to use a Linux/Unix system

  21. Re:More on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    Ebays newest "Power Seller" NVLtrader now featuring office furniture, supplies and other corporate assets (please note items listed as Darls office do not have a "buy it Now" price)

    Thats when this will be over but the Nazguls and the MoFos will also have some words with a certain Redmond Company.

  22. Re:And all of a sudden.... on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    part of the money that TSCOG used in this case was sourced possibly by Microsoft

    I would say that TSCOG gets to play Thanksgiving Turkey this year (and i think Novell will have first dibs on the carving)

  23. Re:Grok on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    No other topics are covered and Grok is exactly what is meant in the Name Grok Law

  24. Re:Is that all they're offering? on Google Rolls Out Online Storage Services · · Score: 1

    And to get closer to what google is overcharging for Laurencemartin.org is hosted by Lunar pages and its 350 gigs for US$99.40 a year

  25. Re:Brilliant! on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    You forget the whole Jack the original Code part