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  1. Re:An educated public on A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones · · Score: 1

    How so?

  2. Re:Unprecedented doesn't begin to describe it on Verizon Wireless To Open Network · · Score: 1

    What might Verizon have up their sleeve on this one? 4G. Verizon announced that their choice of 4G technology (the one coming after EVD0 for CDMA-based networks and after WCDMA for GSM-based networks) will be LTE, which is the same technology chosen by the GSM-based 3G networks.

    If the new technology requires the use of SIM cards (like all GSM-compatible standards), this makes it near impossible to close up their network in the same way they have been doing it so far.
  3. Re:An educated public on A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones · · Score: 1

    This is an excellent example of the power of an educated public.

    How? The public had about zero effect on the SCO/Novell case. At least some of the GrokLaw analysis was used by both sides in the IBM case.
  4. Re:different freqs? on iPhone Signal Strength Problems In the UK · · Score: 1

    If you subtract the areas in the US where there's no GSM coverage, i.e. most of the country

    I don't think this is accurate. Most of the US has GSM coverage - you can check the AT&T coverage map...
  5. Psst - they have open job positions there! on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1
  6. itsatrap - Requires Windows Live ID on Microsoft Working On Health Information 'Vault' System · · Score: 1

    In order for the consumer to authorize a physician to see some of the data in the vault, both sides need to have a Windows Live ID.

  7. Re:Courage nothing on Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO · · Score: 1

    Can you show any evidence that PJ has ever claimed that Microsoft is currently bound by GPL V3 for distributing vouchers?

  8. Re:Pay-per-view is dead, isn't it? on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The only reason there are CPM ads out there, is for sites that spread malware - viruses, trojans, and other spammer tools. All those who claim that ad blocking is immoral, or even theft, are criminal spammers, who want to infect your computer and add it to their botnet.

  9. Re:Very Competitive: Walmart wins 3 of 4 on Wal-Mart Ditches DRM, Keeps Censorship · · Score: 1

    That is 2 out of 4 - i.e. tie. AFAIK, at the same bit-rate AAC files sound better than MP3 files.

  10. Re:An Inconvenient Truth on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    You are actually linking to an article of the "Washington Times" as supporting argument in a debate about the scientific merits of a book? The reverend Moon would be so insulted...

  11. Re:They apparently also sell your email on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Not here - I just upgraded to Workstation 6, and haven't received any spam at the address I used.

  12. Re:Problems on Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone · · Score: 1

    Even worse than that, no MMS. On AT&T's plans, there is no difference between SMS and MMS...

  13. Re:Who _deserves_ quality music?.. on Even Century Old Records Had Restrictive Licensing · · Score: 1

    Is there something in the Constitution, that I missed?

    Yes, from Article 1, Section 8, emphasis added:

    To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

    Seems to me that your question is showing blatant anti-Americanism and disregard for the Constitution. Please report youself to Guantanamo for re-evaluation of your fitness to possess US Citizenship.
  14. Re:Yeah, UCSD p-code Pascal! :) on The Apple II At 30 · · Score: 1

    Aha, a Pravetz 82...

  15. Re:A much better link on iPhone To Allow 3rd-Party Development · · Score: 1

    Apple has - they have one as part of OS X.

  16. VMWare from the physical partition... on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Released · · Score: 1

    Wow, I wasn't aware that this works for SATA drives. I need to check this out. I assume it works tha same with full VMWare workstation, not just with VMPplayer...

  17. Re:No Poll? on Dell Opens a Poll On Linux Options · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's working now...

  18. Re:Ignorance is just so wonderful to see in action on Why Dell Won't Offer Linux On Its PCs · · Score: 1

    What an apt title.
    This is because /etc/localtime should have been a symlink to the proper timezone file under /usr/share/zoneinfo. No manual setup was required on my Gentoo desktop, after emerging the timezone-data ebuild. Unfortunately, copying, and not linking, is in the current installation instructions...

  19. Re:While I would love an iPhone on Apple Turning Cell Phone Market Upside Down? · · Score: 2, Informative

    "T-Mobile and Cingular are both GSM so all their phones will work with the new service"
    Only if your T-mobile phone is a quadband phone. T-Mobile and Cingular do not generally use the same frequency bands for GSM. In the US, T-Mobile and Cingular use the same GSM bands. T-Mobile outside of North America uses different GSM bands.

  20. OT: Incomplete sig on Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD · · Score: 1

    Your sig is missing a significant piece:

    7 November 2006 - the day Americans forgot 11 September 2001 and remembered 4 July 1776.

  21. Re:Four easy steps on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1

    Finally a reasonable argument against my "suggestion" (which was meant mostly as a joke)...

  22. Re:Four easy steps on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1

    Why do you think the project needs to be run by the OpenBSD developers? There are plenty of US companies who specialize in providing secure solutions based on OpenBSD.

  23. Re:Four easy steps on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1

    Whee! And we can all be driving biodiesel cars next week.
    Oh please. Do you have any idea how long it would take to convert even one major US Govt department from Windows to [anything else]? This is not your mom's basement. There is no need to convert anything, except few of the procedures a large IT organization would follow anyway. Any large IT shop would have standard images that are put on the hard drives of the desktops or laptops they support. An image that has OpenBSD with disk encryption enabled, and setup to load the VMWare player with a standard Windows install, will require no more work to setup than a native Windows image. There is some upfront and maintenance work that would be required, but it would be done by dedicated IT staff that can easily be educated in supporting OpenBSD (after all, there are a lot of government agancies that run at least some flavor of Unix or Linux). This is one place, where the economy of scale of the federal government can pay off...
  24. Re:Four easy steps on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 1
    What does that have to do with encryption? Are virtual machines encrypted, or are you just advocating OpenBSD?

    OpenBSD's main focus is security. Among its many security features is complete disk encryption (including encryption of the swap partition). The virtual machine is there so that users can run Windows, MacOS, Linux, whatever - they don't have to know anything about OpenBSD itself...
  25. Four easy steps on U.S. Gov't To Use Full Disk Encryption On All Computers · · Score: 0

    1. Make VMWare Player work on OpenBSD
    2. Install OpenBSD on all government desktops and laptops.
    3. Users who need a different OS, get an image of it, and run it with VMWare Player.
    4. Profit!