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  1. Re:Why convert to hydrogen? on Solar-Hydrogen Eco-House · · Score: 1

    Not exactly...

    With the electrolyse you get a "buffer" of hydrogen where you can "accomulate" energy for future use.

    If you would use only energy... you would have to give all the excess to the grid (at a low price) and when you needed it (like at night) you would get energy from the grid (at an expensive price).

    One of the first uses that the fuel cells will be to be nearby other power sources to serve as accomulators to avoid the need to shut them down and allow a more steady energy production...

    Cheers...

  2. Re:Great on Brain's Cache Memory Found · · Score: 1

    Find a way to increase it in other animals thru GM and you have the uplift universe...

  3. Re:I think that's the whole point on PUBPAT Challenges Microsoft's FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Not really...

    Most of the patents today are submited by companies not by individuals.

    The only thing that a "no-patent" system would do is to make mandatory that companies improve constantly on their products and services around their products.

    Which in my humble oppinion would be a "good thing" (tm).

  4. There is no such provision anymore... on Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    With the advent of carniore and the patriot act and others of the same kind, you can be sure that all your conversations in the internet are beign saved!

  5. Re:It's technology, stupid on Pay Attention To .Au/.Us IP Trade Law · · Score: 1

    Worse... if it's trivially broken then isn't encryption anymore but just an encoding/obfuscation.

  6. Or emigrate... on Pay Attention To .Au/.Us IP Trade Law · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    to India...

  7. My Guess is... on Florida Ponders Communication Tax on LANs · · Score: 1

    ... that the law only applies to "Public space" infrastructures.

    If you have your infrastructure in "Private space", then it doesn't apply.

    Anyway, we are talking about US... and we all know how clueless they are there...

  8. Re:That's hardly a privacy issue on Automobile Black Box Sends Driver to Jail · · Score: 1

    It is a privacy use when someone will try to use it without your authorization.

    By that i would mean that the courts have all the right to access the info... but a insurance company will have restricted access, if at all and a "joe doe" will be barred from access to it...

    All depends on what is the use of the data and how much time it will be kept.

  9. Re:In other news... on Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire' · · Score: 1

    Have they the trademark protected for software and computer stuff?

    If so... there may be a problem... if not... tough luck...

  10. Re:Sure, Why Not? on Code Copying Survey for Developers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Get real...

    Unless you are talking about direct hardware programming or strange math stuff (like crypto or 3D stuff), there is no such thing as propriatary code.

    What exists is a huge amount of plain code to produce a innovator software.

    When was the last time that you coded something where you can say: "i'm the first to code this in the world!".

  11. Re:$200M and 7 years? Feature! on No EZ Fix For The IRS · · Score: 1

    It is very simple...

    Hire two teams to produce the results...

    The first to come with the project complete... earns it's pay...

  12. So... before you go to the knife... on Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons · · Score: 1

    Ask what is the high score!

  13. not exactly... (FUD) on Contractors to Bear Burden if SCO Chases AU Govt · · Score: 1

    Another good example of FUD...

    As a contractor you provide a GPL program of sorts. You deliver it as a CD to the agency and therefore is their responsability the rest. BECAUSE THEY are the ones that have the "rights" transmited with the software.

    The contractor has no place in the chain whatsoever. And even if he has implemented changes, those changes are of the governamental dep. responsability.

    btw... IANAL...

  14. Re:"Dumbing" Down? on 'Sneak Preview' of SUSE 9.1 · · Score: 1

    Just add a property for the menu options to change the "default app" for that kind of app...

    A bit like windows have in that featured add/remove programs tab that appears after the instalation of a SP...

  15. Re:Favourite qoute from a similar article on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    Not so...

    Downloading a file isn't free... It costs time, equipment, connection to the internet, electricity, household and so on.

    You don't pay per download directly, but the indirect costs do tally a significant cost...

    Nothing is free in this world... (and freedom is a great ilusion).

  16. Re:Favorite quote from TFA on Passport to Nowhere · · Score: 1

    Mozilla has some ability to "port" your profile to a web site... thrus centralized profile... (i think it is thru ftp)...

    Not sure... never used it...

  17. Re:F**k them on Nintendo Patents Handheld Emulation, Cracks Down · · Score: 1

    Not really... By american laws you are also allowed media format change, which in my view (IANAL) is what an emulator is. Of course, i presume that for it to be 100% legit you would have to keep the original hardware...

    After all, we only use emulators because it is more pratical then having loads of hardware connected all over the house... right?

  18. Re:Dow Jones / WSJ finally picking up on this on SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    CA should repeal the "added" license...

  19. I wonder... on Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos · · Score: 1

    I'm not a lawyer, but, since when did DMCA protects the change of pixel colors?

    If you apply a slight blur to a watermarked photo with a program that don't knows what that is, the watermark will start to vanish and no "hacking" was used in the process.

    After several image manipulations like that the watermark will be absent from the "processed" image (if my reasoning is correct).

    As there was no "circunvention" in the process... I wonder how can they imply a DMCA case in this? /emote is puzzled...

  20. Re:In response to a hacking incident? on Too slow! FBI Shuts Down Hosting Service · · Score: 1

    Taking into account that a DNS update takes 24/48 hours to propagate to the majority of the internet... even in the case of a "transfer" those sites affected would be "offline" during that "update" time...

    The only solution would be to have redundant servers in at least 2 diferent sites... and hope that the FBI don't "search" both of them at the same time...

  21. Ask Japan... on Money Problems May Derail First U.S. MagLev Train · · Score: 1

    Which if i recall correctly has several routes working right now and recently beated the world record for speed with a new route... ;)

  22. Re:What's the big deal? on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 1

    Because they stated that they wouldn't patch anything in december as the article stated... and some days later they issue several patchs...

    The news isn't that they patched... the news is that they patched AFTER saying to the public that they wouldn't do it...

  23. Re:Monthly patches? on Microsoft: Patches, Patches Everywhere! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Anyone see the network freeze once a month? Yes... it was the patch day!

    Now we have a monthly holliday granted by Microsoft, because all those that work with the net will better take the day off...

  24. Re:So? on Microsoft Retires Windows 98 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Compared with Windows ME... is ROCK SOLID!!!

  25. Re:My Mozilla bounty on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    Opening links with javascript is against accessibility standards!

    Well done hotmail... get more unavailable to more people... til becoming irrelevant...