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  1. no. on Can Star Wars Episode III Be Saved? · · Score: 5, Funny

    no.

  2. Re:Vectors..... on How Apple's Mail.app Junk Filter Works · · Score: 1

    The other really interesting thing about mail is that it implements clustering algorithms to rank and group which makes me wonder why more GIS software is not running on OS X. Image classification would be a no brainer for folks that spend their time examining images and multispectral datasets.

    Yes, that is important and all, but the real question is: "How fast does it play PORN?" Truly that is a real multispectral dataset that needs to be examined using floating points. heh.

  3. Re:From the article on New Wave Of File-Sharing Embraces Secrecy · · Score: 1

    there are 4 passwords to login. next queston? :)

  4. Re:FCC: Government actually working right? on FCC Plans to Allow Wireless Networking on Unused TV Channels · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, and loosening the rules on media conglomerates was a great, public-focused policy decision. Thanks Mike!

  5. Re:Service related to this on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    Seems kinda morbid that they have a 30 day trial. Either you must have really good planning (preparing for skydiving, war, etc) or you can just divinate your own death.

    Either way...weird.

  6. Re:This is too easy on New Online Ad Technology To Bypass Popup Blockers · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  7. Re:What this does on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 1

    ....which you can then re-import into iTunes, right-click on and say "convert to MP3"

  8. Re:Written in C# on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I actually like the irony of a Microsoft pushed technology being used to kill an Apple-pushed technology THEN getting GPL'd!

  9. This just in! on After DeCSS, DVD Jon Releases DeDRMS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Real, Inc.'s Realplayer now natively plays back iTMS purchases! It's Magic!

  10. Just like DARE! on MPAA Funds School Programs In Copyright Dogma · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I went through school DARE was just getting started. Everybody was jumping behind it as a way to target kids right in the classroom early-on and say "Don't do drugs." However, DARE has been an awesome failure. Some of the buggest potheads that I know sat right next to me in those classes, parroting the lines that "Officer Jim" told us.

    I believe that this program will have similar results; Little Suzie says "I'll never download, that's bad" at school then goes home and gets the whole new Britney Spears album because, ya know, it's free!

    Also, this part is particularly interesting:

    The ''fair use" doctrine allows the public to use copyrighted material for educational purposes. One can use another's work to parody, review, or critique that material. You can even legally swap material, as long as it's not for commercial gain, said Seltzer. ''People tape movies on their VCRs and swap it with friends without getting arrested for piracy," she said.

    so, by that logic, all P2P is legal. I'm not getting any commercial by sharing files out, nor are the people that I download from. What's the diff in having 3 friends that swap movies off HBO or 3 Billion friends swapping some AC/DC albums?

  11. SSH on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 1

    IF I use an SSH tunnel to bore out to a server outside their net would they also block SSH? Should we be blocking IP too? After all, bad things can go across TCP/IP networks!

  12. Simpson's Relationship? on Massachusetts Considering Desalination Plants · · Score: 4, Funny

    The city of Brockton, 20 miles south of Boston,

    I hear that Ogdenville and North Haverbrook have also installed desalinazation plants and look....it put them on the map!

  13. Re:Apple has no right on PlayFair Pulled Due to DMCA Request · · Score: 1

    It circumvents THEIR copyright protection scheme, which has been applied to all of the songs from other sources.

  14. Re:wow! on Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall · · Score: 1

    yes, I know ;)

  15. wow! on Chipset Integrates Gigabit Ethernet, RAID, Firewall · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...a Gigabit Ethernet MAC...

    I've always wanted a Mac inside my PC! I can't wait to pick up my nVidia G5/ia64-based computer!

  16. This ain't nothin' on Inside The Worst Videogame Arcade In The World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    My parents are both postal workers. One day I was vititing them and noticed that they had some arcade machines in the break room. One was a shooting game. The poor trigger had been worn down to a nub from all the people playing constantly, shooting villans and innocents on the game.

    nah. That's not totally true but it would have been hilarious if it was.

  17. My response: on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 1

    NOOOOOOOOOOO! WHY????????

    Why does it aleays happen to the wonderful things???? This is the best reason for going to LAN parties!!!

    NOOOOOOOO!!!

  18. Could it be.... on Loud Metallic Noise Heard at ISS · · Score: 4, Funny

    some type of alien space drummer trying, in vain, to be noticed doing the solo from inagaddadavida?

  19. Re:It's no lie.... on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    mods, please mod the parent up. he found some really interesting stuff about the gmail domain that people should see.

  20. Re:Google is gettting ready, but for what? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    Most likely it does. That's the whole basis for web hosts telling you that you have 500GB of xfer or 70GB of storage; everybody gets told that because most people don't use anywhere near that, allowing the host to oversell and make a profit.

    Once you start actually 'using' the full space, though, you can sometimes incur the wraith of the host and some have even been known to boot users for using what they paid for. sucks.

  21. It's no lie.... on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Check it out:

    http://www.gmail.com/

  22. Probably not Jabber-based on Cross-platform, Easy-to-Use Local LAN Chat? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm going to argue that iChat's LAN chatting mechanism probably isn't based upon Jabber at all. Jabber is a server that clients all connect to, whereas Rendezvous is a true P2P technology, where everybody connects to everybody else.

    And good luck on getting 3rd-party support for other protocols in iChat. Apple's got that bolted down to AIM and Local LAN chatting.

  23. This just in! on Australian Record Industry Has Best Year Ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    Record labels lie! Details at 11!

  24. Re:Porn for the people on Bush Says Americans 'Ought to Have' Broadband and a Pony by 2007 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never before has there been a stronger case. Just please don't unite behind me. That's gross and I don't swing that way...

  25. Re:Torrents for first two episodes on Thebroken Videos · · Score: 1

    Fuck that. I don't need to see Jar-Jar hacking wireless networks, thank you very much...