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  1. Re:One place to look on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even that won't help always. Better hope these guys get hold of your case then. And make sure they make DNA testing - approximately 25 percent of post-conviction DNA tests done by the FBI do not produce a match.

  2. Re:One place to look on The Continuing Hunt for PATRIOT Act Abuses · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it's also a way to GUARANTEE that a innocent will stop living.

  3. Re:Bah... on Reuters On Telephone Cultures · · Score: 1

    So it's your fault they put up that ugly cell tower in the bird-sanctuary!

  4. Re:Aha on Reuters On Telephone Cultures · · Score: 1
    SMS has never caught in the US because it costs less to actually talk on your phone in the US than in Europe.

    You mean American school kids call each other on the phone during class because that's cheaper?

  5. Re:What I found interesting. on Donald Knuth On NPR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't that be Queen of San Francisco?

  6. Re:Favorite part on Donald Knuth On NPR · · Score: 4, Funny

    A dog right in the middle of the kitchen table? I'm not so sure about that.

  7. Re:Apple already tried to stop it on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, and he is talking about Mustard Gas. And Saddam used it against the same people Churchill wanted to use it against.

  8. Apple already tried to stop it on iPod Shuffle Lookalike Hits CeBIT · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heise News article (in German) and the Google-Translation (replace "conditions" with "booth", and it makes more sense). LuxPro had removed the notPod from their booth on Friday, but put it up again on Saturday.

  9. Re:Not really... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Where does "snubbed" appear in the Apple-MPEG4 relationship? The MPEG4 container format is based on Apple's Quicktime, which has supported MPEG4 for ages.

  10. Re:And that is why... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Ignoring that Apple actualy announced the iMac months before, and invited everybody to build matching USB devices. And for some reasons most USB devices had translucent blue cases - probably to match the BSOD that Bill Gates got when demoing USB.

  11. Re:And that is why... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The GeoPort was a serial port with an extra pin to power devices. One such device was GeoPort Telecom Adapter.

  12. Re:And that is why... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Minor nitpick: there was a PCI bus with (not quite standard) connector on the first iMac. And there were even cards for that Mezzanine port.

  13. Re:That's absurd. Apple had little influence. on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Just because 90% of all PCs had USB on the motherboard doesn't mean they had USB plugs on the outside. Why waste 50 cents on something nobody uses? If you actually worked in the mobo industry, you should bloody well know.

  14. Re:Hang on... on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April · · Score: 1
    Bullshit. The California Uniform Trade Secrets Act defines
    (d) "Trade secret" means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:
    (1) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and

    (2) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.

    No time limit, certainly not "indefinitely".
  15. Re:Lawsuits over then? on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to Arrive in April · · Score: 1

    Well, "Think Secret is probably going to have to shut down or pay millions or some other onerous thing because Ciarelli broke the law" is hardly the same as "Apple is asking ThinkSecret to shut down, pay millions, or some other onerous thing".

  16. Re:Coffee spewed on monitor... on Apple Backs Blu-ray · · Score: 1
    Pixaaar!

    Shut up, Shatner! You'll have to ask Disney if you can give your voice to Buzz's dad in Toy Story 3.

  17. Re:It wasn't stolen on CherryOS Mac Emulator Resurfaces · · Score: 1

    But you never had the code, so it can't have been stolen.

  18. Re:AltiVec is nice... on Introducing the PowerPC SIMD unit · · Score: 2, Informative

    A little Googleing gives us a) the Freescale (nee Motorola) AltiVec Libraries (Login required), which includes (among others) strlen and b) this code fragment and c) a more general description.

  19. Re:What it means... on Introducing the PowerPC SIMD unit · · Score: 0

    Did you lose your job of holding that "will hit myself for money" sign?

  20. Re:What it means... on Introducing the PowerPC SIMD unit · · Score: 1

    What it really means is that you didn't RTFA. Also no news.

  21. Re:Apple's Leg on Judge Finds For Apple in ThinkSecret Case · · Score: 1

    This case isn't about the Mac Mini rumor, but about a product that still isn't out months after the rumor. Thanks Think Secret, for letting others prepare to flood the market with similar products.

  22. Re:They wish... on Is Apple The New Microsoft? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, in the same way that PNG is "affected" by the Unisys patent.

  23. Re:If you think they've been doing that "lately", on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 1

    lachrymatory gas = Mustard Gas in that perticular case. Which is only lethal if used by Saddam Hussein against the same enemies.

  24. Re:Let us rejoice! on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 1
    The problem is that most people experience quicktime on Windows, where it tries to take over your media file associations, embed itself in your web browser, and generally bug you during use with its non-standard interface (for Windows, that is).

    Well, they use an OS where almost every cheesy app does that. And certainly every "media-player". So why do they expect QT to behave any way but so?

  25. Re:If you think they've been doing that "lately", on Opensource Apple Lossless Decoder Released · · Score: 1

    Doh. That's what they are afraid of. That the judge decided that the law applies to all media, not just blogs.