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  1. Re:It's mildly shocking... on Apple Files Suit Against Psystar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, they are only gonna kill any other company that tries to sell Mac compatibles. I'd call that much WORSE.

  2. Re:Regular auction stats anyone? on eBay Beats Tiffany In Net Trademark Case · · Score: 1

    They just cannot enforce all sellers to be certified on ebay and some customers (many?) wont really care if goods are really Tiffany's as long as they are cheap and have the logo.

  3. Re:Real writeable NTFS? on Linux 2.6.26 Out · · Score: 1

    The OP wanted NTFS for USB device so it cannot be a performance issue.

  4. Re:I've seen an effect on A Year of GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    If you contribute to a project and don't transfer the copyrights to the main developer, she cannot dual-license the code, thus problem solved.

  5. Re:Wishing... on Roundest Object In the World Created · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps they have perfect silicon sphere breast enlargements.

  6. Re:What's the point ... on Students Evaluate Ray Tracing From Developers' Side · · Score: 1

    I don't think it matters that much to the artist how things are rendered in the end. Someone will still need to model all the characters and objects, do level design, textures, animations, etc. And as technology advances and we get better, faster graphhics cards, the models and textures have to be higher quality, thus taking more and more time to produce.

  7. Re:I guess I'm not geeky enough on Openmoko's Open Source Phone Goes Mass-Market · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see a mobile phone that was tied to any single carrier. I have a Nokia E90 with 2 year contract and the first thing I did after getting it was to replace the SIM with a competing carriers one with flat fee unlimited dataplan. But YMMV.

  8. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    Ah but nothing forces you to use that GPL'ed library, you can write it yourself, buy it from some proprietary software vendor or get a MIT/BSD/whatnot licensed version.

  9. Re:Not available to everyone on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 2

    Humm, I thought you can download the source deb and build the binary package yourself, thus you get the source if you want it.

    And you do need to provide the source, when asked for, if you distribute the binary. Distributing is the keyword, not modifying or making derivate works.

    This makes downloading GPL binaries over bittorrent troublesome because everybody becomes a distributor of the app and must provide sourcecode, though I think it was fixed in GPLv3.

  10. Re:CDs are still readable on Best Way To Store Digital Video For 20 Years? · · Score: 1

    Depends on the CD-R. I just recently copied all my burned CDs to my fileserver and had read errors on about 10% CD-Rs older than 5 years. My oldest CD-Rs didn't have any problems, but they were gold CD-Rs. Of 7+ years old non-gold CD-Rs majority wouldn't even mount and I did try them on multiple readers.

  11. Re:Physical access? on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    Hmm, but I tested this. I booted up my Mac Mini and didn't log in. I could SSH the machine and run the script and got root access.

  12. Re:How stupid can you get? on Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL · · Score: 1

    If you use MySQL via eg. ODBC, then you don't need to provide source as the GPL'ed MySQL driver is not linked to your code.

  13. Re:Fear. on Bell, SuperMicro Sued Over GPL · · Score: 1

    Which is why you should always register your copyrighted GPL code at U.S.Copyright Office so you can be eligible for statutory damages and attorney's fees in successful litigation.

  14. Re:Physical access? on Mac OS X Root Escalation Through AppleScript · · Score: 1

    Actually it doesn't seem to require that, the script also works even if I have VNC access disabled. It doesn't seem to work if I try to shell_exec() it from PHP page though. But ssh-access is enough to root a mac now, great.

  15. Re:Dig out those Latin textbooks on Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138 · · Score: 1

    Lucky for them that Soviet Russia at that time didn't seem to have tape recorders.

  16. Re:This is getting sillly. on MagLev, Ruby VM on Gemstone OODB, Wows RailsConf · · Score: 1

    Noh, but instead it will use one big ass rail rather than two lean ones and cost of fortune to run.

  17. Re:This is awesome! on Supercomputer Built With 8 GPUs · · Score: 1

    With or without tax? The euro price does include about 20% of value added tax.

  18. Re:Not all CPUs require heat sinks on Pushing a CPU to Heat Death, Intentionally · · Score: 1

    Hmm, my 80286 12MHz did have a heatsink, tiny slab of aluminium, but it had one. And 80386sx 16MHz, that was my next machine, did also have a heatsink that was about 0.5cm thick. And yes, with 80486dx2 66MHz you needed a fan.

  19. Re:distance vs age? on Youngest Galactic Supernova Found, But No Aliens · · Score: 1

    Bad news travels faster than light.

  20. Re:Well... on Terrafugia CEO Responds To "Flying Car" Criticism · · Score: 1

    At the altitude of 25000 feet Bugatti Veyron, or just about any car, will get much better gas milage than airplanes, albeit only for a short time.

  21. Re:Other costs? on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    SMSing is better because the phone can queue the message and try again if the cell tower is busy, also even if all voice channels are full, signaling channel isn't and will recieve and send messages to and from phones.

  22. Re:Double dipping on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    And hope that they don't know how to turn off their phone. Too bad you can only deliver about 500000 SMS per month under optimum recieving conditions.

  23. Re:Real Cost? on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    The cost of the software to handle the SMS message is non-zero so there is per message cost even if the actual "physical" delivery of the message via the cell network wouldn't cost anything.

  24. Re:and the infrastructure cost doesn't matter? on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    Humm, I don't think you have any experience with SMS gateways. Even though the amount of data is small, the protocol (signaling) used is braindead, there are not that many vendors making gateways and there is huge number of messages going through the gateway. In Finland at New Years people send about 10 million SMS greetings, that is 115 messages per second on average. These all have to be recieved, queued, routed, possibly resent, logged, billed. Who system has to be built to handle these peak loads and ofcourse the licensing cost of SMS gateway software is (or was some years back) built so that you pay for how many message per second it can deliver and how many messages it can hold in the queue. With voice you "only" need to initiate the call, after that the data should flow between the phones without much work from the telco where as with SMS there is lots of overhead and work to do per message. And yes, telcos ofcourse put as high price per SMS the consumer is willing to pay, it is business after all.

  25. Re:Math is HARD on SMS 4x More Expensive Than Data From Hubble · · Score: 1

    Atleast some years ago the annual license for SMS Gateway was redicilous and depended on how many messages you wanted to deliver per second and how many messages it could hold in the queue before dropping them. This forced telcos to buy the license based on peaktime traffic (xmas whatnot) and this would increase their costs all year round. Ofcourse they also want to charge as much per message as possible as they are doing this for profit. Fortunately many telcos now do offer unlimited or virtually unlimited (1000-10000 messages per month) plans, so the price of an SMS really isn't a problem. And if it is, don't send them, just call whomever you are trying to communicate with.