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  1. Re:Applying the same logic on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Well, in ringtones, you don't have to pay for the original artist, just the person who wrote the song.

  2. Re:CD Levy on Sweden To Outlaw File Sharing, Crypto Breaking? · · Score: 1

    Also in Finland CD levys have been in effect for several years now. Dunno how this EUCD will change things.

  3. Re:Good news and bad news... on 802.11g... It's Official · · Score: 1

    Tests show that 802.11g devices mixed with 802.11b devices reduces the maximum speed from about 20Mbps to 10Mbps (this assuming that we want to have .11g and .11b devices connected to the same network) and .11b devices continue to operate their normal 2-5Mbps speeds.

  4. Re:Splitting Those ZIPs on .ZIP Standard to Fragment? · · Score: 1

    Actually the filesize doesn't change when you crypt it unless the program stores some extra info to the package eg. decrypt key (when using public key crypto) but that is maximum of some kilobytes. Ofcourse after encryption the file should contain even amount of all byte values thus it's pretty random and therefore wont compress at this stage.

  5. More geckos on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 2, Informative

    Same story reported by CNN and commented here :)

  6. Re:I have to ask.. on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also Irssi and ircII have IDEA patches and they work really well too, been using them for year or two now.

  7. Handgun with 45,000 rounds per minute on Smart Gun with Minicam and Biometric Access · · Score: 1

    The Australians made an electric gun long time ago, see it here, nice videos too.

  8. Re:This is going to get pathetic on Lexmark Wins Injunction in Toner Cartridge Suit · · Score: 1

    Well my Epson's ink cartridges don't have print head, but they still cost as much as those other cartridges.

    Fortunately I got a laser printer for printing documents and only need inkjet for color images. I wonder if the price of good quality color laser printer will ever come down.

  9. Re:floppy replacement on Blurring The Line Between BIOS And OS · · Score: 1

    Hehe, that would be great.. i can see it already:

    boot from: http,cdrom,a,c

  10. Re:My two biggest concerns... on Nokia's Cellular GBA - The N-Gage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe Nintendo will strike back and start to make GPRS gamemodules for GBA, that would be great. And I wouldn't be suprised if the next Gameboy would have some sort of phone technology, GSM or GPRS, inside.

    Best option would be that Nokia would make small black boxes with the phone stuff in it and then you could use bluetooth hands-free-set for calling people, PDA for surfing and pocket game console for gaming.

  11. Re:hack support? on Nokia's Cellular GBA - The N-Gage · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, just by registering to forum.nokia.com you can download the SDK kits (the Symbian kit uses gcc even :) or order them on CD and the SDK CD is free, though they took some time to deliver them.

  12. Re:I live in wisconsin on CPU Convective Water Cooling · · Score: 1

    Come to Finland, just a month ago we had -42deg outside :)

  13. Re:that's not art on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 1

    You must be talking about AALIB converted ascii images, but the real ones are hand drawn with programs like ANSI-Draw. And they can be called art, though the quality varies as in any other art form.

  14. Re:MPlayer on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 1

    Even better player called TextMedia 2.0 can be found here. It supports colors and couple different ascii modes.

  15. Re:It's all spam on Using gzip As A Spam Filter · · Score: 1

    Also filtering out chinese spam is easy.. just look for odd unicode strings :)

  16. Doom has been ported to Symbian OS already.. on Doom For the SonyEricsson P800 smartphone · · Score: 2, Informative

    There has been a version of Doom for Nokia Communicator for sometime now, called Doom 9210 (original eh :). This P800 version only seems to have more sfx channels, but IIRC P800 has faster processor than in 9210, so that shouldn't be a problem.

  17. Need better resolutions on LCDs on Sony to Stop Producing Smaller CRTs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What I cannot understand is that most LCD have only 1024x768 resolution or maybe 1280x1024. With 19" CRT you can have a nice resolution of 1600x1200. Where are the cheap high resolution CRTs? HP Omnibooks have 1440x1050 and a 15" display size. And the screen can't be that expensive, because the whole Omnibook is quite cheap, but LCD panels at that resolution are really expensive.

  18. Re:Boycott! on The End of the Free PCI Device List (Update) · · Score: 1

    IB820 (from iBase) Pentium4 mobo has AGP display support, but all extension slots are on external backplane. Just buy one without PCI :)

  19. Re:Why a separate power connector? on Serial ATA, Here and Now · · Score: 2

    yeah, maybe a single drive, but what if you have 4 SATA HDDs, SATA DVD-burner? Then it would be a problem. And don't forget that 3D-card needs some watts too.. and I think some Voodoo cards did have extra powerconnector because mobos couldn't give enough juice..

  20. Re:Alternative browsers. on Next-Gen Pop-up Ads · · Score: 2
    Another thing, I don't appreciate a piece of software that, after taking as long as it did to be released, makes my PC respond like a PII 400Mhz with PC66 RAM.

    Hmm, I don't know about you but I think that a PII/400 is pretty fast, but then again I do use KDE with my Pentium 200 laptop and 64MB of RAM (32MB wasn't enough, KDE started in 2-3 mins :).

  21. Re:Misleading? on Class Action Filed Against Bonzi Software · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hope you filed a patent for your idea :)

  22. Re:Of course it's pointless on Attempts To Stop Music Sharing Pointless? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're forgetting that listening music for free isn't nearly as good thing as listening to music you WANT to hear and WHENEVER you choose to listen it.

  23. Re:What does this do to MiniDisc? on Sony Adds New Copyright Method to CDs in 2003 · · Score: 2

    Direct recording with optical line-in doesn't always work. Many of my CDs can't be recorded directly from DVD to MD. The MD just says 'Not Allowed'. But if I put the CD on my PC and play it (by reading the data, not by cd-lineout), I can record it from SB Audigy's optical out. Seems that my DVD player sends the copyright not allow bit with the music and Audigy doesn't.

  24. Densest server has 336 processors per rack... on SGI Introduces World's Densest Server · · Score: 3, Interesting

    RLX Technologies has a server based on Transmeta Crusoe chip and it can hold 24 CPUs in 3U space, giving 336 processors per rack (and 336GB of RAM and 27TB of HDD :)

    See promo here..

  25. Re:referer information should be disabled by defau on New Spam Frontier: Referer Logs · · Score: 2
    For instance: I log into my server's adminsitrative area. Then, in another window, I browse someone's blog. And I click on their "search" button. As it turns out, this search button is a trap, which sends me to my own admin area with a command to delete someone's account. I'm logged in, I have a valid network address, I'm active, there's no problem.

    Except that any decent system should ask is you're sure about deleting that account. And while it does that is should give some nice random text as a hidden field and expect it when submitted before deleting the account.

    Also I think the odds of having this sort of trap are minimal. And you should always be able to undelete accounts...