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  1. Re:Business IT?? on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 1

    In Access, all servers run like hell!

  2. Re:Pfft on Are Americans Addicted to Technology? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Until you reach the magic number of 42 it is.

    Squeek!

  3. Re:TLDs on ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence · · Score: 1

    Yes.

    Why do we insists on making exception. Did I mention the author, manager, webmaster, or any other entities than the physical servers in my comments? Make one rule, no exceptions. In the end, it would turn out better for all.

    next you will accuse me of dumbing down the net! :)

  4. TLDs on ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence · · Score: 1

    Why not do away with the .com / .net / .org / .mil / .edu and other like. Replace them with the pre-suffix .co. .ne. .or. .mi. .ed. ... and suffix them with the country where the *physical* server(s) is located.

    This would make it a lot easier for the rest of us, not living in the States. This is like english/metric mesurements where one country simply will not adapt to a changing environment out of sheer obtuseness.

  5. Re:This isn't as good as it seems on Blizzard's Warden Thwarted by Sony's DRM Rootkit · · Score: 1
    The Warden looks at window titles and such. The rootkit just hides filenames and registry keys. I'm not quite sure how this would be effective. Afterall, you can easily hide a cheat by not telling WoW about it!


    List fo windows titles and such which it gets from the process list. Now, if said process are hidden for it...

  6. Re:You are confusing two issues on Reining in Google · · Score: 1
    Per your helpful citation, there is another possibility:

    "To display the copyrighted work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work"

    Google is diplaying portions of the copyrighted work.



    I read this as displaying the entire copyrighted work, not a snippet thereof. Seems to me that if the above included snippets, then all forms of reviews and quotings without the copywriter permission would be infringing and it is clearly not the case.

    As a matter of fact, I am pretty sure that there are exclusions for such.

    In http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/c-42/39253.html Para 3 states in part:

    "3. (1) For the purposes of this Act, "copyright", in relation to a work, means the sole right to produce or reproduce the work or any substantial part thereof in any material form whatever, to perform the work or any substantial part thereof in public or, if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof, and includes the sole right.."

    Notice that the Work or a substantial part thereof is mentionned. Snippets would not constitute such.

    In the States I am certain that something equivalent prevails too.

  7. Re:Why do insects produce such amazing substances? on Insect Substance Synthesized For Science · · Score: 1
    They are - they just took a billion years to evolve into us to do it!
    42! mmm... What was the question again?
  8. Re:Walking Chick Magnet! on New Twist on Power Walking · · Score: 1
    Mmmm...

    Not only generating power but instantly increasing your popularity with the fairer sex.


    For most of the /. crowd, I would not say instantly but rather gradually.
  9. How indeed on Refilling Ink Cartridges Now a Crime? · · Score: 1
    FTA
    The question is, how will the ruling impact the way companies do business in the future?


    By not purchasing Lexmart junk? Makes sense to me.
  10. No kidding on Windows Users Ignoring LUA Security · · Score: 1

    When most of the software (caveat... that I use anyway) running on XP will not run in user mode, is it no wonder that this is happening?

    Heck, some programs will not even run with elevated privs (run as...) no matter what you do.

    In the end, it is much easier to just have the systems in priv mode and monitor it to ensure it remains clean.

  11. Re:Magic in MMORPGs on John Smedley On the Future of MMOGs · · Score: 1
    A magic system that lets YOU design spells, but all the knowledge you need to do so comes from experimental error. A magic system that KILLS you if you screw up badly enough.
    You mean like this? http://www.shadowpool.com/kb/index.php?action=view &cat=10&id=34
  12. Flashback... on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    1980's, Atari, copy protected diskettes...

    Game market crash. Will it happen again? ..

  13. Re:Local, eh? on Google Local Launched In Canada · · Score: 2, Informative

    Invented 1964, By Jean Paul Roy, around Drummonville.

    Check out http://www.jucep.com/inventeur/english/

  14. Re:They can have my apache2 ..... on Senate Takes Aim At P2P Providers · · Score: 1
    I'm almost surprised the RIAA aren't trying to demand that you buy a licence to own an instrument (after all, performing a song might be construed as copying it, in some warped, twisted way).


    Shhh... don't give them more ideas

  15. Re:Range on U.S. Navy to Deploy Rail Guns by 2011 · · Score: 0, Troll

    The 250 mile range is the ballistic range: a miss means something near the target gets pulped

    So what? We all know that the navy only fires at ennemy targets in ennemy territory! Besides, if some collateral damage happens, then they must be the ennemy as they live(d) in ennemy territory? /duck.

  16. Re:Speaking as a Canadian on End of Online Anonymity in Canada? · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember paying about $250 per month for Alberta Health to cover my family. That didn't include dental, vision, perscriptions so supplementary insurance was required. It averages out to be about the same.

    mmm.. When I left my employement in Alberta in 2002 (retired), The coverage that my employer was providing was transfered to me. It amounted to about 250$ per quarter. This is about the amount that one would save on taxes if one resided in another province. However I moved to Ontario since then and corevage is actually paid for via regular taxes (ie pension in my case) in this province.

    If you are an immigrant or self employed I can see all provinces charging a premium, but I know it will be nowhere near what you stated.

  17. Re:Secret Service on FBI Conducts Raids Over Half-Life 2 Source Theft · · Score: 1
    Having said that, Canada seems to be blindly following the path of USA. There have been several recent cases where people were sent to Syria to be tortured even though they were Canadian citizens. Canadian government got them out but only after some diplomacy, and well after these people suffered some abuse and torture.


    Err... seems to me that he was coming in from overseas via NY and was deported by the US to Syria without so much as a note to Canadian officials.

    Not much a gov can do if they do not know of a occurance.

    Al
  18. Re:The social implications make this non-feasible. on Implanted RFID Tag To Replace Cash? · · Score: 1
    I can't help but find it interesting that the "number of the beast" is also the Unix mode number for universal device access.


    Lord Gate, save us from Evil and gives us our daily task....

  19. Re:Who needs Matlab? I can hear the morse code bee on The Weak Signal Challenge - Decode and Win $100 · · Score: 1

    Got it!!!!

    WKRP

  20. Re:Canada-Runs! on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    The BNA is the original Canadian constitution. While it has been amended many times over the years, including the CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS in 1982, I always refer the constitution as the BNA, hence my confusion on the original poster calling it the constitution.

    Al

  21. Re:Canada-Runs! on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1
    And after it's decriminalized, how soon before someone who's dragged into court claims discriminatin under section 2 of the constitution?


    Excuse me, but if I am following this conversation correctly are you talking about the The Constitution Act, 1867? http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ ca_1867.html

    If so, can you provide the items of "section 2"? or are we talking about some other country constitution here?

  22. Re:I think on RIAA Sues 261 Major P2P Offenders · · Score: 1
    Your view on this is apparently totally wrong, allow me to explain my view with a little analogy.

    A magazine I purchase publishes an artical in its latest copy that I really like. I take that artical and publish it on my website in its entirety, including origional writer credits, without asking permission. A number of people visit my website and read the artical, and perhaps take a copy for themselves, and a small number of these people thank me for publishing an online version of the article they have in the magazine.

    Am I safe from prosecution because I can claim that only people who view my republishing and dont own the issue that it appeared in, are infringing on the copyright? Definately not, I am in a legal world of hurt because i republished the article without permission or thought, and the arguement that I cannot be responsable for whoever downloads it is not a legally admisable one.


    But the real question here would be are you publishing when you put that page on your web site?

    A library has hundreds of books that anyone can just up and take, all displayed on publicly available counters and cases; yet they are not publishing those books. How is that any different with one putting some information on his/her website that is publicly available?

  23. Re:One word: Hindenberg on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1
    Wasn't the Hindenberg a hydrogen blimp?


    It was not the hydrogen but the coating of the blimp shell that did it in.

  24. Re:TeX on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1
    Or the carat "^".


    Whithout the '^', how would nanny be able to type out words like 'hôtel', 'tête', 'être' and many others of the 'la langue de Molière'?

    You don't really expect her to go the "ALT whatever" route right?
  25. Re:I hope IBM don't have anything to do with this. on Nickel Sensors Could Raise Hard Disk Capacity · · Score: 1
    I think that the hard drive manufacturers need to stop focusing on how big they can make drives, and to start focusing on ways to make drives more reliable. A 200 GB drive is useless if it dies after six months.

    Why should they? All they need to do is ensure that the drives will last about 2 years, after that, the insatiable demands will have them putting out 500Gb and larger drives, relegating the 200s in the realm of obsolete.