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  1. Re:Due to piracy? on Hard Drives Shipping with Star Trek · · Score: 1

    Forcing Somali pirates to watch Nacho Libre or GI Joe will finally make the seas safe for everyone, unless that is already against international conventions against torture.

  2. Re:That's not true everywhere on Red-Light Camera Ticket Revenue and Short Yellows · · Score: 4, Informative

    The rule here is that your car must cross the line before the light goes red.

    I was in court as a witness on a traffic ticket. A lady was ticketed for failure to yield right of way when she hit another car. She had a yield sign, the other car had a stop sign so the lady contested the ticket. The other car had already proceeded into the intersection when the lady moved past the yield sign and hit the other car. The prosecutor used the phrase "committed to the turn" to describe the other car, and the judge agreed so the ticket stood.

    I would think going into the intersection before red, and continuing through the intersection after red falls into the same category. You are committed and it is legal to move ahead.

  3. Re:Payroll cop fubar on Dirty Duty On the Front Lines of IT · · Score: 1

    50% of your solutions involve shooting people.

    Yeah! What a pussy! Real management could push that into the high 90s.

  4. Re:Why the hang-up with version numbers? on GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line · · Score: 1

    Before I get a bunch of "we don't care about binary only" drivers type responses: I'm talking about open source drivers, including those in the main kernel. The constant code churn means constant and frequent changes to driver internals are required just to keep up. New bugs are a frequent result. You are always chasing the latest change with bug fixes to compensate.

    Honestly, a well defined and stable interface is sometimes useful.

  5. Re:Why the hang-up with version numbers? on GNOME 2.30, End of the (2.x) Line · · Score: 1

    So I guess 2.9.99.99.999 will be the end of the line.

    With the current prohibition on a stable kernel/driver interface in the linux kernel, 2.9.99.99.998 drivers will be incompatible with 2.9.99.99.999

  6. Priorities on Wisconsin DA Threatens Arrests Over Sex Ed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Southworth also said 'I'm not looking to charge any teachers, I've got enough work to do.'"

    Apparently not. Like the recent nullification suits brought to defeat health care reform, not even the originators believe there is any merit to these actions. This is all about grandstanding to promote a particular ideology at tax payer expense. It's just a shame this guy is terrorizing teachers in the process.

  7. Re:maybe on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 0

    Maybe it was protected by Macrovision and CSS ;-)

  8. Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem on iPad Progress Report · · Score: 5, Informative

    From your link Apple suggests:
    1. update your router's firmware
    2. change your router's location
    3. set your router to operate on one 802.11 standard
    4. change your router's security
    5. rename your networks

    In the reported cases only the newly released iPad is having problems, but according to Apple the problem is with your router.

  9. Re:April Fools Jokes get old.. on NASA Launches Giant Magnifying Glass Into Space · · Score: 1

    Compared to this, I miss the ponies! Maybe next year we can get kitties. Cute, adorable kitties. Meow.

  10. Re:Better driving skills on "Supertaskers" Can Safely Use Mobile Phones While Driving · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder how many of those had a foreign driver's license.

    Are you trying to say non US drivers are worse or better?
    I've heard plenty of people say non-US are better, but my limited experience in Spain, Italy and Greece says otherwise. The study suggests what I believe: where ever you have humans, you have huge steaming mounds of stupidity.

  11. Re:Thorough and unbiased on House of Commons Finds No Evidence of Tampering In Climate E-mails · · Score: 1

    ...how many different investigations (and from whom) would be required to convince the doubters?

    How many elements are in the set of real numbers?

  12. Re:Good on Will Smith In For Independence Day 2 & 3 · · Score: 1

    As long as we are in the geriatric zone, throw in Betty White. Woo! Saggy!

  13. Re:Removing on Hacker Will Try To Restore Linux Support On PS3 · · Score: 1

    Sony thinks "Oh, it'll blow over and people will forget." The truth is a lot of people will, I won't.

    I think you said it best. This will be a deep grudge for the technically educated and vocal to kick around for years to come. Though many won't care in the short term, that grudge will have a long term corrosive effect on the brand as Sony becomes known as the company that remotely removes features of products already sold, as well as their other antics like distributing root kits.

    By the time the damage is done, it will be too late to do anything about it. The sad part is that they are doing this for no reason. The existing hardware will fade away soon enough and the feature is unavailable on the new hardware. Why piss off the existing loyal customers?

  14. Re:"Sue fucking everyone" on New Litigation Targets 20,000 BitTorrent-Using Downloaders · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if the legal copyright holders seed to you, they KNOW what was inside the encrypted stream.

    If the legal copyright holder is offering a free download (seeding) then should they sue you for accepting their offer?

  15. Re:Seven years for eight hours work on Novell Wins vs. SCO · · Score: 4, Funny

    You forgot the "I'll get modded down for this, but here goes..." line in your post.

  16. Re:Hooray on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 1

    We have no issues with Russia. We even buy them gas and oil.

    Really? No Europeans have any issues with Russia? None? Nada?

    I hope Russia turns out to be a reliable gas and oil source for Europe, free from any supply disruptions or political leveraging. Watch as the unfolding dependence of the US on China to finance debt demonstrates the folly of such arrangements.

  17. Re:Hooray on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...pretty soon WE won't be a superpower any longer

    OMG! You mean we will only be just another country in the world community, reduced to cooperation and diplomacy to further our goals? Madness.

  18. Re:So much slips past the filters... on Fixing Internet Censorship In Schools · · Score: 2, Informative

    Do a search for "yiff"...

    Geoffrey Chaucer:
    ...That yiff that god that hevene and erthe made
    Wolde haue a love For beaute and goodness
    And womanhede and trouthe and semelynesse ...

  19. Re:Andrew would be upset, again. on 10% Tax On Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut For Microsoft · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Andrew Stack would be upset at having to pay any taxes. He was also a loony. The selective 10% on custom software is a supremely stupid thing, but invoking the name of an anti-government crackpot isn't helpful.

  20. Re:Easy. on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 1

    Besides, for many setups, the signal isn't going to the same place anyway--video goes to the TV (up on the wall), sound goes to the amp (under the Mac.)

    Most modern amps have multiple switched HDMI inputs and one HDMI monitor output. My setup has multiple HDMI cables from multiple sources (DVR, PS3, Apple TV) going into the amp which decodes the audio and switches the inputs to a single HDMI cable going to the TV for video. Not having extra audio cables makes this much cleaner and allows playing the newer HD audio formats not supported by optical.

    Wikipedia:
    HDMI supports up to 8 channels of uncompressed audio at sample sizes of 16-bit, 20-bit, and 24-bit, with sample rates of 32 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, and 192 kHz.[19][44] HDMI also supports any IEC61937-compliant compressed audio stream, such as Dolby Digital and DTS, and up to 8 channels of one-bit DSD audio (used on Super Audio CDs) at rates up to four times that of Super Audio CD.[44] With version 1.3, HDMI supports lossless compressed audio streams Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.[44]

    TOSLINK
    Originally limited to 48 kHz at 20 bits. Extended to support all modern formats, except Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, and DTS HD audio streams.

  21. Re:Easy. on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 1

    Just get a DVI to HDMI cable.

    DVI does not carry the audio signals of HDMI. Using a separate optical audio cable is still not as good because then you have two cables and much lower audio bandwidth than HDMI.

  22. Re:Easy. on What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? · · Score: 1

    Mac mini, Apple remote, and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

    Maybe after a Mac mini gets HDMI output. It sucks the way Apple is dragging their feet on getting this standard onto the mini. It's as if there is some ego driven "visionary" in charge.

  23. Re:Conductive? on Dell To Leave China For India · · Score: 1

    The only way to know for sure is to test with Michael Dell, a diesel generator, and some industrial sized electrodes.

  24. Re:Dark stuff? on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 5, Informative

    Does this account for any missing mass and/or dark matter?

    FTFA: "...this has nothing to do with dark matter."

  25. Re:And what's the problem here? on US Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card · · Score: 3, Funny

    Native American: Papers please...
    European Colonist: Have a blanket!