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  1. Re:Wrong on Record Labels Sue Napster's VC · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.

    In May 2000, Hummer Winblad invested about $13 million in Napster and took control of its business and legal liabilities, with Barry assuming an interim CEO role.

    Read the article.

  2. Re:Why are you speechless? on Record Labels Sue Napster's VC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, it's not as simple as that... From the article: "In May 2000, Hummer Winblad invested about $13 million in Napster and took control of its business and legal liabilities , with Barry assuming an interim CEO role." I hate the record industry for all this shit, but they probably do have a pretty good case.

  3. Laptop remote on Philips iPronto Does It with Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It seems like these people often forget two things that are key to a good remote:

    1. It should be comfortable to hold in one hand
    2. It should have buttons you can feel
    Do you really want to sit there with a laptop screen in your lap, and look down every minute or so to see where that channel up "button" is again?
  4. Re:Here's your Tivo with MP3 playback on Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    argh... that's terrible... well, i guess you could always move to the states... might be easier than assembling a reliable, fast, silent linux media pc... ;)

  5. Here's your Tivo with MP3 playback on Linux Media Jukebox on the Cheap · · Score: 1

    behold, the solution:

    Tivo Media Option

    and you don't have to set up any partitions, or get all that shit working together, or wait 5 minutes for it to boot up, or install samba, or patch anything, or compile anything, or spend hours trolling the newsgroups to make mplayer work when all you want to do is watch this week's Sopranos...

  6. Re:gee, thanks on Practical Statecharts in C/C++ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here's a longer overview... Could only find it in Google's cache.

  7. Re:Read about 'em on Buy a Segway... Please · · Score: 3, Interesting

    so... he talks about saving $582 so far, and then mentions that $490 of that is from not having to pay a car payment or insurance... even neglecting the fact that he's only ridden it half a month but is including the whole month's car fees, is anyone else out there crazy enough to believe that a segway is actually a good replacement for a car??? a segway is a replacement for fat people's legs and staminas. not for a car.

  8. Auto-Google on Murchison Meteorite Still Contentious · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Perhaps even more interesting (especially if you're already familiar with the debate) is the fact that highlighting a word or phrase on that page causes a browser window to pop up with the results of a Google search on that word or phrase...

    Not technically very difficult, but a cool idea...

  9. Truly unbreakable cryptography on Israeli Firm Claims Unbreakable Encryption · · Score: 1

    My truly unbreakable cryptography, implemented in Java:

    public String encrypt( String cipherText )
    {
    return "5";
    }

  10. Mickey and Goofy on Asterix and Mobilix Redux · · Score: 1

    Nice reference... That does sound like something Di$ney would do...

  11. the problem with music on Still More RIAA News · · Score: 2, Interesting
    A lot of you have undoubtedly read this, but it's fairly on-topic, and a great read if you haven't:

    the problem with music, by Steve Albini