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  1. I wonder who has better lawyers? on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 1

    Microsoft or Sunbelt Software Systems? I doubt this is a serious issue with Microsoft.

  2. Different issue on Bob Cringely's Predictions For 2005 · · Score: 0

    Wifi vendors are reluctant to release drivers because adapters are actually programable radio devices. Someone so inclined, and with the source, go out and jam police and fire communication systems. The FCC wouldn't like that and the manufacturers would probably get sued.

  3. 88 posts, and none about linux drivers. on Belkin Offering Pre-802.11N Products · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anyone know if any of the 802.11n products have non-ndiswrapper drivers?

  4. Where are the naked coeds? on Google Exposes Web Surveillance Cams · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ok, I've clicked on the links mentioned and the results from google and I'm getting weather cams and empty offices.

    We all know why we jumped on this story so now somebody needes to deliver!

  5. Bzzt on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Fifth Amendment 'can be asserted in any proceeding, civil or criminal, administrative or judicial, investigatory or adjudicatory; and it protects against any disclosures which the witness reasonably believes could be used in a criminal prosecution or could lead to other evidence that might be so used.' Kastigar v. U.S., 406 U.S. 441, 44-45 ('72).

    A reasonable belief that information concerning income or assets might be used to establish criminal failure to file a tax return can support a claim of Fifth Amendment privilege. See U.S. v. Rendahl, 746 F.2d 553, 55-56 (9th Cir.'84).

  6. Here we go again. on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 1

    Whose property has been taken?
    Apple's.

    Are you claiming that information is property?
    It can be.

    On what basis do you make that claim?

    "property." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2005. http://www.merriam-webster.com (8 Jan. 2005).

    1 a : a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing b : an effect that an object has on another object or on the senses c : VIRTUE 3 d : an attribute common to all members of a class

    2 a : something owned or possessed; specifically : a piece of real estate b : the exclusive right to possess, enjoy, and dispose of a thing : OWNERSHIP c : something to which a person or business has a legal title d : one (as a performer) under contract whose work is especially valuable

    3 : an article or object used in a play or motion picture except painted scenery and costumes

  7. From Merriam Webster on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 1

    "steal." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2005. http://www.merriam-webster.com (8 Jan. 2005).

    1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as an habitual or regular practice

    2 : to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly

    3 : to steal or attempt to steal a base

    transitive senses

    1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully b : to take away by force or unjust means c : to take surreptitiously or without permission d : to appropriate to oneself or beyond one's proper share : make oneself the focus of

    2 a : to move, convey, or introduce secretly : SMUGGLE b : to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner

    3 a : to seize, gain, or win by trickery, skill, or daring b of a base runner : to reach (a base) safely solely by running and usually catching the opposing team off guard

    Stealing is when you deprive someone of property

    Sorry. I'm afraid I don't see anything resembling your definition. What the article describes does seem to fit definition 1.

  8. Why arent we teaching kids that stealing is wrong? on Apple Defendants Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Whence came this sense of entitlement?

  9. Is this the $500 headless mac? on WikiPedia Founder Wales Speaks About Wikinews · · Score: 1

    I wonder.

  10. The Cooling World : Newsweek April 28, 1975 on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: 3, Informative

    here are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production- with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas - parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia - where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

    The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree - a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

    To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. "A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."

    A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

    To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras - and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 - years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

    Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."

    Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of west

  11. Too bad Canada doesn't have a military. on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or they might be able to defend it.

  12. I thought centrino was the supporting chipset. on AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't the CPU a Pentium III M?

  13. Will it facilitate bringing down jetliners? on Intel Researchers Build Laser on Chip · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just curious.

  14. Good Eats on TiVo Moves to Bypass Cable · · Score: 1

    You're basically correct about the propaganda. Now instead of thinking for myself I just ask "What would Alton Brown do?"

    Kinda scary, but I must admit my french Onion Soup has been turning out much better.

  15. What is there is a tsunami in Pennsylvania? on Gigabit Transfer Rates Over Power Lines? · · Score: 1

    What would the hams do then?

  16. Does ABC allow you to prioritize files? on Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    I.e. pick which files in the torrent to download first?

  17. firing dust particles on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    You're joking right?

  18. Loyalty never meant anything in finance. on Conspiring Against Your Employer? Watch What You Email · · Score: 1

    Exceptions abound, but the prevailing mindset in the world of finance is "How do I best screw the suckers out of their money?"

  19. Voodoo Extreme is back? on Interplay Forced to Liquidate (France) · · Score: 1

    That's even bigger news!

  20. Europeans sure have an inferiority complex. on Infogrames Could Help Ubisoft vs. EA · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    One mega publisher buys a medium sized publisher and suddenly they feel their europeanness threatened.

    Kinda sad.

  21. Nope on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    I wasn't commenting on the specific case.

  22. "I'm not sure why so many were used this month" on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 1

    Then you're extrordinarily dense. The difference is intent. One scenario indicates a malicious person who will seek out ways to harm. The other may simply be a moment of stupidity. See mens rea

  23. Artifact of my own existence on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1

    I think a more meaningful question is how much of it is an artifact? I'd say either extreme is unlikely, i.e. we aren't entirely in Plato's cave nor entirely out of it.

  24. That's federal pound me in the ass prison. on Laser Painting Could Lead to 25-Year Prison Term · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't sound like fun anymore, does it?

  25. Re:512kbit? on Producing a Quiz Show from Multiple Locations? · · Score: 1

    Becuase geographical distance often translates to number of hops. While that doesn't affect the bandwith it does hurt latency, which is just as important for things like videoconfrencing.