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  1. Re:Spread of Windows on Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall · · Score: 1

    Anyone else think that the rather lax enforcement of Windows piracy is helping to create the possibility of massive botnets? No.
  2. another layer of indirection / distributed sites? on TV Links Raided, Operator Arrested · · Score: 1

    Say a bunch of people were to mirror tv-links' current HTML content on various random servers, and then tv-links itself turns into just a mirror index; how long until it'd be taken down for pointing at things which point at things which point at user-generated links to things which might be illegal?

  3. Better than vista? on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I touched Vista for the first time today, because a friend wanted help installing a printer, and my cries of "I know nothing about windows!" fell on deaf ears. It took me 3 minutes from power on to bluescreening, and 2:30 of that was the time it took to boot...

    Compared to the 30 seconds it takes my ubuntu box to boot, the "click 'add printer', click 'ok' because all the settings have been correctly auto-detected", and the not crashing once; vista really has a long way to go before it's ready for the desktop~

  4. Re:I watch on my TV, not my computer on Viacom Puts the Daily Show Archive Online · · Score: 1

    Which isn't available for my Opera browser Are you sure it's not available? I seem to have it not only existing, but working just fine under both linux and windows...
  5. Re:And this is good...why? on The Russian Mafia Doesn't Like Spam Either · · Score: 1

    What gives you the right to decide what justice is, but not them?

  6. MS could recover on MS Awarded "Best Campaigner Against OOXML" · · Score: 1

    by turning up to collect the prize, then donating it to charity for themselves?

  7. On the contrary on Does the UK iPhone Plan Add Up? · · Score: 1

    The price is exactly the same. They just changed the currency symbol :)

  8. My Mind on Real-time Raytracing For PC Games Almost A Reality · · Score: 1

    Why am I so tempted to apply this technology to nethack?

  9. Re:Is it really funny? on Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols · · Score: 1

    Go outside and yell "The government sucks!" three times, then post conspiracy theory crap everywhere. Did they suppress you? No?

    Why would they suppress someone who's helping them by demonstrating that the opposition are nuts?

    Try doing something *against* them, and see if you get suppressed :P

  10. Re:Wiretap law? on Skype Blames Microsoft Patch Tuesday for Outage · · Score: 1

    Yes, the US government ordered Skype (a UK company, btw) to shut down for two days

    Heh, next thing you know, those conspiracy nuts will be suggesting that the US government, working on behalf of the RIAA, was the force behind the swedish government's raid on the pirate bay's data center!

    Of course, here in sensible-land, we all know that the US government keeps to itself and wouldn't dream of interfering with any business in any other country :-)

  11. Can't RTFA... on Linus on Subversion, GPL3, Microsoft and More · · Score: 2, Interesting

    [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Transaction (Process ID 128) was deadlocked on lock resources with another process and has been chosen as the deadlock victim. Rerun the transaction. Indeed :|

    Linus has repeatedly slammed Subversion and CVS, questioning their basic architecture. Did he slam it, or did he say that it's fine, just not appropriate for a project as distributed as the kernel?
  12. Re:A nice idea, but short-lived? on Watermarking to Replace DRM? · · Score: 1

    A minor, inaudible quality loss is a small price to pay for DRM/Watermark free songs. What's the benefit of a watermark-free song?
  13. Re:OpenID on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with the design? It's a centralised system -- if microsoft were ever to stop running the service, or it were to go down, or be hacked, or were to require some form of payment / non-free licencing to use it, we'd all be screwed.
  14. Re:OpenID on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From a brief look, it seems considerably easier to implement and run; for clients, servers, and end users. I've had OpenID support on my webapp to-do list for months, and I'm considering implementing this in an afternoon. However, the fundemental design is worse :-/

    OpenID could really do with a for-dummies API...

  15. Re:Solution: Avoid RIAA Music on A Commonsense Proposal On Net Radio Rates · · Score: 1

    The royalties are collected for all songs played, even those from independent labels. I'm tempted to set up a web radio station playing nothing but music I've composed and played myself, then wait for them to take me to court. But then I can't afford a team of well paid lawyers, so they'd probably win :-/
  16. Re:.INFO on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    If I need to specifically go out and look for a non-spam .info, then they obviously aren't common :P

  17. Re:What Happened? on BBC's iPlayer's Prospects Looking Bleak · · Score: 1

    A few years ago, the BBC seemed to be keen on the idea of releasing content in Ogg/Theora. Then they wanted to help develop and use the Dirac codec. And now they want to use a DRM-encumbered Microsoft codec. The BBC is a freaking huge organisation, I would think it possible that they have two separate departments :P
  18. Re:.INFO on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    Three years ago it became a perfectly valid TLD, but I would think that if it were "used by a significant number of legitimate web sites", chances are I would have seen *one* of them. As it is, the only time I've *ever* seen .info used is in spam emails and link farms.

  19. Re:Wow on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 1

    You obviously have no idea how upmixing to 5.1 works Indeed I don't; so I went, I read, and I *still* fail to see how you can create the original data by extrapolating a subset. You can guess at it, sure, but it's still a lossy process :P
  20. Re:Wow on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 1

    You can upmix any stereo CD into a 5.1 album right on your own P4 Another similar tip: If you want to transport lots of music, re-encode it to 16kbps mp3 before burning to CD -- then at the other end, you can re-encode it back to the 320kbps original :)
  21. $699? on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    Does everyone who paid the $699 get their money back?

  22. Re:Maybe there's a silver lining here... on Storm Worm Rising · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, most of them are not on US soil Since when has that ever stopped them?
  23. Ten ****ing Days on 10-Day Patch Guarantee Not Mozilla's Policy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are the censored four letters "work"?

  24. Missing the point of the article on It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The point is to make APIs so that you can access the data with a defined protocol rather than with a web browser -- one can change the transport, and still keep the same authentication / data limiting~

  25. Re:.INFO on MSN Censors Your IM · · Score: 1

    .info is a perfectly valid TLD used by a significant number of legitimate web sites Since when o_O?