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  1. Re:ATI Radeon DVD Player and copy protection on Nvidia Drivers Enforce Macrovision's Rules · · Score: 5, Informative
    P.S. I wish there was a digital freedom fighters group with a PayPal account.

    How about the good old EFF? They claim to be "defending freedom in the digital world" which is exactly what you wished for. You can join or just donate and choose paypal as payment method.

  2. Succotash on Red Hat Recap · · Score: 2, Informative

    Heh, I never realised that succotash was a real word, having only ever heard it in the context of a certain cartoon. OK, you can mod me down now.

  3. Re:DON'T BELIEVE IT on IF Quake Takes Fragging To Whole New Level · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As a mac user I resent that!

  4. Re:What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    I confess, I RTFA. And I meant that was dated 31 March.

  5. Re:What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Yes, but the story is dated 31 March and launching a webmail service isn't very... funny.

    Link to the service: http://gmail.google.com/

  6. Re:Mach 10 on X-43A Hits Mach 7 · · Score: 1
    mach 10 = 20461245.5 furlongs per fortnight

    tis true

  7. Re:This would really be funny on Firefox Extension Lets You Pick the Name · · Score: 1
    If it randomized the broswer ID in the referrer as well. Unfortunately, I just checked, and it doesn't.

    Huh? Referrer is the address of the page that linked to this one. User-agent is the name of your browser software, and that can be randomized along with the title bar.

    I'm happily posting from Mozzarella Spacebadger.

  8. Re:UK TV License Nazis .... Not Quite on Samsung Puts Satellite TV in Cell Phones · · Score: 1
    If a TV receiving phone were used out of the house while the home TV were in use, you could be fined.

    I doubt it, the tv license covers a household of televisions. You pay for one license if the every member of the household all have their own TVs and watch them at the same time, so I don't see why it would be different this way. Especially if it's battery operated.

    (Catching you is another matter entirely however).

    Well that would be even easier - if you were outside using it they wouldn't need a warrant to get in your house to catch you!

  9. Re:what about the URL on Dutch Judge Cracks Down on Hyperlinks · · Score: 1
    Does putting a URL without making it a link (so that it has to be cut and pasted) count as linking? It's splitting hairs, but it's just conveying info that way, not linking...
    Does posting a description of the site so that one can search or even ask someone about it, with the possible result being finding a URL, count as linking? If I hadn't read about it I wouldn't have thought to look for it, so is it a form of indirect linking?
  10. Re:SpringTime on Vint Cerf: 'The Internet Is For Everyone' · · Score: 2, Funny
    whoa, there's an outside now?
    Only on slashdot could that get modded "insightful"
  11. Re:Tom's Problem on Tom's Hardware Reviews the Xbox · · Score: 1

    No, it's better for a site to give you the information you want. If you want a column 65 characters wide, then use a narrow window. THG is obviously trying to get more ad impressions because they want money. Good for them!

  12. Re:You've got three choices: on Anatomy of Cactus Data Shield · · Score: 1
    Clearly, they think that someone is sitting there repeatedly dubbing a CD again and again every time something is downloaded.

    And you know what we have to blame for that... Futurama. In the kidnapster episode they showed how the only way for people to download celebrities was to keep the celebrities' heads imprisoned so they can copy from the original each time. Luckily someone came up with this copy protection for CDs so instead of hurting the poor CDs everytime someone downloads off you, the CDs are protected with cactus like spikes which hurt the evil pirates trying to download music. Phew.

  13. File sharing on Bandwidth Demand at American Universities · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea on how to cut down on internet bandwidth and still keep students happy... use file sharing programs just over the local network not the internet. That's got to cost less.

  14. Re:Still sounds like a hoax. on LindowsOS Marches On · · Score: 1
    (BTFW: the screenshots *are* faked - they show the GOAL of Lindows.. not what they have today - how is that so hard to understand? Do i have to draw a picture for you? Oh.. i guess it needs subtitles too.)

    Then why not get IE to show something better than Mai and Bac in the toolbar? That would be easy to fake.

  15. Re:Huh? on Tom's Hardware: Win, Lose or Ti - 21 GeForce Titan Tests · · Score: 1
    "This is by far the most best..."

    most best?

    Definately!!

  16. Re:I am reminded... on What Sounds Better, MP3 or Ogg? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    r3mix.net has what appear to be properly done tests.. for mp3 at least.

  17. Isn't censorship fun? on Supreme Court Rejects Free-Speech Challenge · · Score: 1

    I couldn't access the reuters article because of the offensive URL (until I replaced porn with p%6frn at least).

  18. MP3 CD Players on Nomad Portable Jukebox MP3 Player Reviewed · · Score: 1

    "I also looked at all the mp3-cd players, I didn't see any that looked great, skip-protection & display-wise, plus it still meant carrying around a case of CDs."

    Well the 36 CDs could be reduced to about 3 or 4 CD-Rs full of MP3s. Display-wise the ones I've seen so far don't look great but about something like 40s of skip protection sounds like more than enough for me! Yeah the MP3 CD players might not be quite as good but they're more suited to those (like me) on a tighter budget.

  19. Maybe I'm missing something.. on New Crypto-OS · · Score: 1

    RIPAPart3 is the new law here in the UK that gives the Government the right to demand the plaintext and/or keys of "information protected by encryption".

    If you're still going to get arrested for not giving them the plaintext it's not that much fun.

  20. Ways round this on Dialectizer Shut Down · · Score: 1
    A few (probably stupid) ideas I just had:
    • Opt-in list - I want people to see dialectised version of my site so I specifically allow it. Suppose it could be abused if unauthorised people added copyrighted sites or something though.
    • Source - OK then, I'll have a copy of it to put on my own server that only dialectises my server's pages.
  21. Counting with factorials on Linux Counter Hits 120,000 · · Score: 1
    But as you add zeros, it gets more and more attractive. 30! 300! 300,000,000!

    It gets even more exciting when you add exclamation marks...

    3! = 3*2*1 = 6
    30! = 30*29*28...2*1 = 2.65e+32
    300! = a lot more than I can work out

    --
    David Watters, that one with the hair.

  22. Re:This site confuses me on A Pretty Good Slashdot Parody · · Score: 0

    GO AWAY YOU STUPID NEWBIE

    if netscape no work use internet exploder (you obviously use windoze because you are stupid)



    (My sincerest apologies if you were being serious I'm usually impervious to sarcasm and stuff and get confused easily)

  23. ATI on Linux and SVHS Outputs · · Score: 1

    I've got phono and SVHS on my ATI Xpert@Play card. When I used Windows I just had to tick a box, can it be turned on under Linux?