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  1. Not any more than before on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    There's been PPC hardware released that was non-Apple and it lacked Apple's firmware too, plus Apple didn't pull the PPC emulator that will run on Intel for PPC OS X applications out of thin air. All Apple needs to do to maintain status quo is to modify EFI in some way that makes running OS X impossible without it.

  2. Not all of them... on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Some of the pirates do it because the companies (and others) have effectively declared war on the rest of us, and it's one way of fighting back.

  3. You haven't been paying attention. on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Using firmware that nobody could legally copy has long been grudgingly accepted, but Apple crossed the line with DRM.

  4. Nah... on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Just abusing copyrights and patents and otherwise impinging upon certain rights of other to protect your profits is unreasonable and immoral.

  5. Re:Damn Microsoft! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    You know, as much as it reeks, you have to admit that if people weren't copyrighting things, there'd be no need for piracy.

    Honestly, how can you blame individuals for trying to protect their access to data when copyrighters are ripping them off every day?

    Honestly, you should be mad at the copyrighters, without whom we wouldn't have this problem.

    The copyrighters right to copyright is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. It was supposed to be something merely for enhancing individuals access to data by encouraging others to produce more of it.

  6. Join the rebellion! on Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM · · Score: 1

    Don't just test the waters, download the Windows 2000 source floating around P2P networks now!

  7. Maybe because... on Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents · · Score: 1

    Usually the spacing is already at optimal settings. Or maybe you don't know about text justification. Most online texts don't use it. and I find it annoying in newspapers and magazines.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22text+justificati on
    First item turns up CSS3 Text Effects Module and it appears to be this that Microsoft is patenting

  8. Yeah, though... on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 1

    if the universe actually worked that way it might be nice, but the universe just does not bow to one man's logic.

  9. Re:Hype machine VS reality. on The Real Hitchhiker's Guide? · · Score: 1

    Um, on the second link?

  10. You keep saying that... on Xbox 360 to have HD-DVD, Eventually · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anyone can say anything they want to, doesn't make it true. Care to back up your statement with an authoritative link? I don't know why you even bother saying this once, much less three times.

  11. Why? on Shareholders Squeeze Cisco on Human Rights · · Score: 1

    When possessing the stock means the ability to tell them to stop?

  12. Obligation to the shareholders... on Shareholders Squeeze Cisco on Human Rights · · Score: 1

    They have an obligation to the shareholders to do whatever the shareholders want and that goes beyond just making money.

  13. Quit on Time Syncing Through a Firewall Without NTP? · · Score: 1

    Find a new job that comes with the authority you need to do it.

  14. Tell Joystiq to buy a freakin' ad on Friday Means Free Games · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.gameogre.com/
    http://www.liberatedgames.org/
    The stories don't appear to even have links to the sites they are talking about!

  15. Other sites on Friday Means Free Games · · Score: 5, Informative
  16. Re:One concept I heard that I kind of like... on New Linux Kernel Development Process · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  17. Living on that much? Wow... on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 1, Informative

    To compare, $6300 is roughly how much a person living on SSI disability in the U.S has to live on in a year. What really reeks is that in many areas in the U.S. many disabled people have an education of Associates Degrees or better but can't get the support they need to work or even find a job. Then sometimes there are no jobs in the area and there's no way to move or figure out where to move to.

  18. My favorite use of Archive.org on Wayback Archives as a Law Tool · · Score: 1

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sonicblue.com/ > before Dec 2, 2000. I miss that site! Slashdot totally messes up the url though.

    http://sonicblue.com/>http://web.archive.org/web/* /http://sonicblue.com/

    The first is by the url method, the second a href. Get them on it pronto.

  19. Third party TCPIP.SYS? on Best TCP/IP Stack Implementation? · · Score: 1

    Anybody know of a tird party TCPIP.SYS for Windows XP?

    Also the http://www.lvllord.de/ patch should be mentioned here. Does anybody have any information on how information for patches like this one (i.e. how to know that TCPIP.SYS was the file to patch and where to patch it) is acquired?

  20. No it isn't on Ex-Microsoft Exec Barred From Google Job · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The right to contract's value varies from person to person. You may as well say the right to be a slave is a valuable part of our "spirit of freedom". Do you believe that someone should be allowed to contract being knocked senseless or infected with AIDS for some sort of renumeration?

  21. Funny... on Free Web Hosting a Fount of Malware · · Score: 1

    I thought that ISP's that didn't provide web space with a connection account were more common than ones that did. I'm using Verizon, and as far as I know they aren't giving me any web space.

  22. That's the problem on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 1

    I don't think people do relate to it. In other news, the question was brought up as to whether people might want a fire that can be fitted nasally.

  23. I propose... on Intel On A Building Spree · · Score: 1

    not even trying...that is, of course, unless you enjoy failing mierably, and sounding rediculous 1,333 is no more or less comprehensible than 45*10^-9 except only in certain frames of reference that are optimized for the comprehensibility of said number. The size of a hair is not one of them.

  24. To war! on Hillary, GTA, and High School Football · · Score: 1

    We send people to war to make the person on the other side die, however the conclusion still holds, with War, we make people die. People dying on our side is just collateral damage/nonsurvival of the unfit.

    I don't understand why those dying people in Africa have children, nor why we should contribute to such a situation.

    Once you're capable of staying alive, none of those people who fight for you to be alive cares at all about the quality of your life, whish is why I find all of them pathetic and want nothing to do with them. Such people should be dealt with in some manner!

  25. Re:"Evil" Printers? on EFF Requests Help to Identify "Evil" Printers · · Score: 1

    and then he proceeds to call the Sith evil. The Jedi do a lot of dealing in absolutes in the movie, while the Sith likewise, do some venturing into the grey area.