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  1. Re:Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Making The Justice Dept. A Copyright Busybody · · Score: 1

    You see, the "D" is for Disney.

  2. Re:Wow on Atari Lynx Emulator Goes Open Source · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you have a 2800, you could probably get some serious coin from it on eBay. If you mean a 2600, I don't know how a Lynx emulator would bring you any closer to text-based browsing. But reading any text on a 2600 would be quite painful. They're much more useful for playing four player Warlords.

  3. Re:Am I the only one who thinks this is bad? on iTunes 4.5 Authentication Cracked · · Score: 1

    When millions of DRMd WMAs are sold (like there are millions of DRMd AACs from iTMS sold) it will be cracked. There's not enough interest yet.

  4. Re:Install my fist into your anus on Install iPod Update in Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nope. We 'lunix" users already have the IP blocked with iptables, thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed the show.

  5. Re:use an anonyminity proxy on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1
    Two words:

    FBI. Honeypot.

  6. Re:Valenti's point on MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use · · Score: 1

    Not once I've bought it--having purchased a copy, that copy is mine to do with as I wish, including, as another poster said, playing it in the Linux-driven toaster I made a DVD player out of.

  7. Re:MSFT acknowledges Linux desktop on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 1

    I think this action is more to set the state for successful legal action against players like VLC and mplayer that use the MS codecs. There'll be less sympathy for the defendants when MS points out that their codecs were legitimately available for Linux.

  8. Re:Ethics of TurboLinux on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That would make perfect sense. And having a commerically available player would provide Microsoft valuable ammunition in a legal fight against the mplayer and VLC projects, which use Microsoft's codecs. Maybe this is indeed part of the FUD Microsoft is getting for its investment in SCO.

  9. Re:DMCA on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 1

    I know--I like to think I'd do the same.

  10. Re:All these investigative resources . . . on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was a worm that did it, that's the ticket. It's the same one that put all those warez and mp3s on my hard drives :).

  11. This is what we get . . . on JPEG Patent Could Impact The Gimp · · Score: 2, Informative

    . . . for having allowed corporations to own math through the patent system. The nice thing about open source is that there will be offshore patches to defy these immoral patents.

  12. All these investigative resources . . . on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 4, Funny

    . . . when all they'd really have to do to catch every copyright misappropriator would be to release some spyware that calls home if the machine has the NFO extension associated with a text editor :).

  13. My question: on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    Which particular companies were these raids on behalf of? It's easy to know how to vote in the next election (more resources to protect us from terrorism, indeed), but harder to know what to avoid purchasing or specifying.

  14. Re:DMCA on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 4, Insightful
    IF I were ever made president, I would veto EVERY peice of legislation that I didn't feel was constitutional, such as the DMCA. If congress wanted override that, then fine, but I would have let my voice be known.

    That's one reason you won't ever be president. There hasn't ever been and never will be anyone in that office who doesn't owe somebody--the DMCA was downpayment on payback for years of bribes^W campaign contributions, and is only the beginning of things to come. Expect "trusted" computing to be mandatory by 2010, to "deny terrorists and spammers access to the advanced communication networks while preserving their usefulness for law-abiding Americans."

  15. Re:I think Diebold needs special treatment on Trusted Computing/DMCA vs. Diebold Pentagon Paper · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do they have a record of their executives promising to deliver a state's electoral votes to both parties, too? In any case, the post you're replying to is correct--the voting process must be transparent, not hidden with a smokescreen of freedom of information loopholes resulting from intellectual "property" and government contracts with private corporations.

  16. Re:Legal repercussions for the school on Security and School - How Should One Speak Up? · · Score: 1

    WTF--unless the school is a publicly traded company, Sarbanes-Oxley doesn't even apply. FERPA, yes. GLB (if the school deals in student loans, most do), yes. S-O, no.

  17. Re:Torrent Link? on Suicide Caught on Surveillance Tape Appears Online · · Score: 1

    No torrent, but there's something purporting to be it on eMule (search for Paris Lane) and in the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.grotesque. I guess it's too much to expect someone living in a housing project to understand that attempting to suppress information on the Internet only results in much wider interest and dissemenation that would have otherwise occured had she kept her mouth shut.

  18. Re:Cisco is definitely doing questionable things on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    That, and it'd then be easy to make them obey government restrictions for the country they happen to be in (e.g. China). This isnt' far-fetched given Cisco's prodigious technical assistance in helping the PRC firewall its citizens. Too bad Cisco couldn't have null-routed port 25 to the Western world while they were at it.

  19. Re:Cisco is definitely doing questionable things on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    So while we're buying stock in companies positioned to make a national ID, buying a few shares of Garmin wouldn't be a bad bet either, it appears.

  20. Re:The new username/password is... on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I suppose. This is assuming that Cisco's motives are truly above board and that this isn't some kind of government assistance. In any case, this will probably help Juniper's sales, assuming they don't get caught at the same thing.

  21. Re:There is no workaround. on Cisco Products Have Backdoors · · Score: 1

    And I really believe they didn't add a new backdoor this time, but hide it better. NOT.

  22. Re:You should still do it right on Running for Geeks · · Score: 1

    It's because their brains are drowning.

  23. Re:Here's an even better solution on NPR's Car Talk Switches Back To RealAudio · · Score: 2, Funny
    You still have to listen to the registration notice [Fund Drive] twice a year, even after you've paid the annual support fee! :)

    Unless you're fortunate enough to live in an area that can pick up more than one NPR station. At least here, they haven't become smart enough to run their fund drives simultaneously :).

  24. Re:Serious question on Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme · · Score: 1

    Have a look at the friend/foes/freaks system--it looks up users by ID. Binary search from there makes predicting the next one trivial. Enjoy :).

  25. Re:Serious question on Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes.