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  1. Re:Guns on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    Cars have been licensed and tracked for longer than guns.

  2. Re:Is this legal? on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 1

    It sounds like they're only targetting one of the transactions.

    You sell to a shop (okay)
    The shop sells on to me (bad!!! We want our royalties again)

    Of course, this is because Tower Records is much richer and easier to intimidate than you.

  3. Never happen. on Record Industry Wants Royalties for Used CD Sales · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The supreme court likes taking the side of the consumer in cases involving the doctine of first sale

  4. Re:Douglas Galbi? on Revolutionary Ideas for Radio Regulation · · Score: 3, Informative

    This page says

    WHO ARE THE ECONOMISTS AT THE FCC?
    Chief Economist, FCC
    Joseph Farrell

    Deputy Chief Economist, FCC
    Chief Economist, Common Carrier Bureau
    Gregory Rosston

    There are 6 Bureau Chief Economists

    Jim Coltharp
    Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

    Jerry Duvall
    Competition Division

    Doug Galbi
    International Bureau

    Dan Hodes
    Cables Services Bureau

    Tom Spavins
    Competition Division

    Doug Webbink
    Mass Media Bureau

  5. Re:It's About Time on McAfee Manufactures Virus Threat · · Score: 1

    The virus is an executable. It registers itself as the handler for JPEGs. So if you double click on a JPG the command

    virus.exe

    is executed. The virus executable treats the picture as a data file. The JPG contains additional data which other instances of the virus has placed there.

  6. Re:The profit model for Anti-Virus software requir on McAfee Manufactures Virus Threat · · Score: 1

    The actions taken by a virus are painfully obvious

    Yes, but they're not easily distinguishable from other, legitimate actions.

    Viruses write to executables. So do setup programs and compilers.
    Viruses write to documents. So do the authors of the documents.

  7. Low Risk on McAfee Manufactures Virus Threat · · Score: 1
    From the title of the press release

    Virus Notice: Network Associates' Avert Discovers First Virus That Can Infect JPEG Files, Assigns Low-Profiled Risk


    Emphasis mine; So it hardly counts as FUD.

    Incidentally, one of the most common questions asked on alt.comp.virus is "Can jpegs be infected?", so it's not like people aren't interested.
  8. Please Consider on Warcraft III Gone Gold · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please consider the fact that Michael doesn't like puppies before moderating me down.

  9. Reasons are nonsense on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 1

    Accept it if you like the job.

    If the does company get silly on you, you now know your skills are worth something somewhere else.

  10. Re:Question on Let Nature Solves NP-Complete Problem · · Score: 3, Informative

    The current doesn't oscillate or travel solely along the path of least resistance.
    Electrons do not select anything. The current flows from start to finish along all possible paths; but because the shortest path has the least resistance (there is less material to flow through) more electrons get through that path per unit time than other paths - hence the current is higher.
    In this case, all paths will glow, the shortest path will glow the most. With the right balance of voltage and material, the shortest path can glow significantly more than other paths.

  11. Re:Unix is behind the times again! on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: 1

    It doesn't delete everything and format. It replicates by exploiting a feature of zipfiles.

  12. Unix is behind the times again! on Unix Shell-Scripting Malware · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows has had batch file viruses for ages.

  13. Re:Why wait years on A "Black Box" For Space Debris? · · Score: 1

    You don't even need to do the experiment :-

    If you want to have something survive reentry then make it out of the same stuff the black box is made of.

    If you want something to burn up on reentry then make it out of not (the same stuff the black box is made of.)

  14. Re:not to nitpick... on Java Powers of Ten · · Score: 1

    Bollocks. There was meant to be a link in there somewhere

  15. Re:not to nitpick... on Java Powers of Ten · · Score: 1

    Several orders of magnitude gone to waste on that one

    Here they are; clusters and super-clusters.

  16. Re:Naturally Parallelizable on Distributed Chess Computing Project · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there aren't that many moves available.

    You have up to 16 pieces, (pawns have upto 1 option, except at the start, kings have upto 8, knights have upto 8, etc).

    The complexity comes because each of those moves can be countered by a smallish number and then you have a smallish number of counter-counters.

    The small numbers soon multiply up to the huge number of combinations.

    ==

    It will be complicated to split up the moves among a large number of clients because the moves aren't independent, they're organised in a hierarchy.

  17. Re:It's legal unless there is a local ordinance on Legal Issues for Outside Webcams and Others Privacy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    maybe he likes walking around naked in his apartment

    The cams (one and two (the one in question, I suspect)) probably wouldn't show that unless he was up at the windows flashing the whole street.

  18. Artist's rendition on DRM Helmet · · Score: 0, Troll

    An artist's rendition of what the new helmet looks like.

    (Picture is copyright (c) 2002 Eric Grantham)

  19. Schrodinger on NASA to Investigate Hydrinos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My first thought was the Schrodinger equation - it can be solved for Hydrogen.

    Question 1 : Are hydrinos possible according to the Schrodinger equation?

    Question 2 : If not, what changes to Schrodinger are needed to explain hydrinos and are these changes consistent with the rest of physics?

    (Question 0 : Or am I smoking crack again?)

    The only hits on Schrodinger and Hydrino were from the blacklight people and they seemed to skirt around the question.

  20. Re:Not an optimal test of a 64-bit platform... on First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype · · Score: 1

    They had it for an hour .... but they didn't have to publish a review based off of rushed and incomplete testing of prototype hardware.

    The chip is not being released for 6 months.

  21. Re:Bad perspective on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This does not bode well for their engineers

    I doubt the Italians are stupid enough to hire the BBC's photoshop monkey as their chief engineer.

  22. Re:Chunnel on Sicilian Suspension Bridge to Go Ahead · · Score: 5, Informative

    The english channel is more stable than the Med. See 20 Years of Seismicity in the Mediterranean - 1977 - 1997 USGS

  23. Re:Not an optimal test of a 64-bit platform... on First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype · · Score: 1

    they were pressed for time

    No, they weren't. The chip isn't released for 6 months.

    They were rushing to get a scoop. First Review, fanboy!

  24. Re:arrg stop with the quake already on First Benchmarks of AMD Hammer Prototype · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is Quake the benchmark of a good processor?

    Because Quake is what will be used by people who believe 'reviews' and 'benchmarks' from sites like aceshardware.

  25. Re:no WTC Towers... on Build Your Own Cityscape · · Score: 1
    For example, I needed to make the sky black and experiment with placement of the Chrysler building. For a while, I was experimenting with placement of the Twin Towers closer to the foreground. And ultimately I inserted a building very close to our viewpoint for an added depth effect.
    So they might be there, just not where you expect them to be.