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  1. pretty dry, except... on Benchmarking Linux Filesystems Part II · · Score: 1, Funny

    wow, what a dry article.

    However, scroll to the bottom. More latin translations than you can shake a stick at, including my personal favorite:

    I have a terrible hangover.
        Crapulam terriblem habeo.

    -S

  2. Re:Oh no!! on Your Cell Records For Sale Online, Cheap · · Score: 2, Interesting

    we-eel, not exactly.

    I can follow you, right? So, I can sit outside your house, wait for you to come out, follow you to the store, your office, etc, and wait outside until you come out and then follow you some more. I didn't impinge on your privacy because I didn't follow you _in_ or watch what you were doing or listen to your conversations.

    So it is here. I can purchase a list of your telephone calls - in other words, follow the path your phone took. But, I'm not purchasing recordings or transcripts of the calls themselves.

    I don't think the 4th amendment applies here.

    -S

  3. Re:We still don't have a lot of 'em.... on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 3, Informative

    Am I missing something?

    This feature has been available since the early 90s in the UK to anyone with a http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/rds.htmlRDS (Radio Data System) enabled set.

  4. here come's the story on Amazing Things Your Automobile Can't Do · · Score: 1

    /me wonders how many times the GM ceo versus Bill Gates story is going to be posted now. Hell, I bet it even gets modded up.

  5. Re:And what of battery? on Samsung Producing 5 Megapixel Camera Phone · · Score: 1

    Good question. It's certainly one of the major reasons that palm-based devices couldn't get their foot in the door in the pda-phone-camera market. That and, I suppose, that the picture quality wasn't there, back then.

  6. CIPA on Whopping-Big Data Theft At U.C. Berkeley · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming that the full-page advertisement saying "yeah, we got hacked, and you're all screwed" - as required by the new CIPA - will be coming to a newspaper near you very soon?

  7. Re:The article got it wrong on 'Tit for Tat' Defeated In Prisoner's Dilemma Challenge · · Score: 1

    well, this isn't necessarily true.

    If there were no further rounds in mutually assured destruction, then the initial stockpile of weapons would have been enough. Instead, both sides increased production and acquisition in phases to (roughly) match each other. Likewise with increased placement of devices in new strategic locations.

  8. Re:Europe is NOT a continent on Brazilian Rocket Explodes on Launch Pad · · Score: 1

    Australia is not a continent, Australasia is.

  9. Venture Capital required on Theater Morphing Into Multi-Player Gaming Arena · · Score: 1

    With the advent of 'professional' gaming clans, I think it was only a matter of time before people started to glam-up the humble gaming cafe.

    Now, to business. Who's to bet that for a further couple of bucks per session people would pay for a workout? Anyone out there interested in funding me to install one of those stick-the-pads-to-your-gut-it-really-exercises-you -well electric shock contraptions to each chair?

  10. Re:No international links on Kid-Safe Domain Created · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, this probably won't be the case.

    There's no prerequisite for one to reside, or operate one's business from the United States in order to have a .us address, and the converse is also true; take a look at any of the online registrars, who will gleefully tell you, "We're sorry that foo.com appears to be taken. We've taken the liberty of researching foo.ca, foo.cc, and foo.ru for you, all of which appear to be available".

    If the only requisite (aside obviously from some heavy content restrictions) for getting foo.kids.us is that you only link to other kids.us sites, I don't think this will prevent non US-based organizations from registering these names.

    -S

  11. Re:uhm... on Is the Internet Shutting Out Independent Players? · · Score: 1

    by the time you include infrastructure as well? I maintain my original position that it's pretty close.

  12. Re:uhm... on Is the Internet Shutting Out Independent Players? · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget the tens of thousands of nodes running on private IP addresses, and proxying or NATing to get out to the big I.

    I'd imagine that, if these nodes were figured into the numbers, we'd find that there are more hosts than addresses under the current IPv4 system.

    One way of reducing the number of unused addresses in a range is by assigning ranges to ISPs rather than to individuals. Then, at least, a few more nodes can be milked out of IPv4 before it runs completely dry!

  13. Re:I don't think that word means what you think... on Where are the non-SDMI MP3 Players? · · Score: 1

    "But there is no way to remove or restrain my desire to exercise the rights guaranteed to a U.S. citizen under the U.S. Constitution "

    Forgive me for apparently missing the obvious, but what on earth does the U.S. Constitution have to do with how you use a CD?

    Unless it's being used to unlawfully force you to speak, or, conversely, used to unlawfully suppress your speech, et cetera, I fail to see how this part of your comment is in any way meaningful.