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  1. Re:This should be a lesson... on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 1

    You were lucky. The one time I've tried, it turned corrupted files into complete garbage files.

  2. Re:This should be a lesson... on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He destroyed his wife by trying to fsck her?

  3. So what if I want to combine works? on Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy · · Score: 1

    What if I want to combine works from several sources? Say I'm going to make and sell a game. I might take one of his books for the game story (20% of my income to him), take some artwork of someone else as basis for the graphics (20% of my income to him), then take a game engine from a third person (assuming the same licensing model, 20% to him), maybe a scripting engine from a fourth person (who also gets 20%), and finally add music from a fifth person (20% again). Now I'll already have to pay 100% of my gross income if I want to sell that game. In other words, I get nothing. And god forbid that I use a sixth source (say some more music from another person).

  4. Re:No Turning back? on Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reminds me of Fahrenheit 451.

  5. Re:could someone explain what the issue is here? on Dealing With ISPs That Use NXDomain Redirection? · · Score: 1

    Why? If they want to work, they use the work computer connected via VPN. If they want to surf/play/whatever, they use the private computer. Since they are at home, they can run both at the same time, side by side.

  6. Re:It's still in the gene databases on Breast Cancer Gene Lawsuit Argues Patents Invalid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Patents don't mean the information is not available. Indeed, the whole point of patents is to make the information available, in exchange to a limited-time monopoly on its use.

    For example, if someone holds a patent on a time machine, then you don't violate the patent by describing, in arbitrary detail, how the time machine works. You do violate the patent by building it yourself (provided you don't have a license to do so).

  7. Re:I'm a pro-piracy author. Ppl will still buy pap on Copyright Infringement of Books · · Score: 1

    Well, paper books have the big advantage that they are robust. Have a book lying in the rain for a few days: It will suffer, but it's still readable. Drop the book as many times as you want: While it may get some damage, it's generally as usable as before. I wouldn't try either with an ebook.

  8. Re:Simple Solution on McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, uncomfortable seats would not just make me stay as little as possible, but also to not come again if I can avoid it. Yes, that means I won't occupy seats any more, but I'll also not buy food from them any more.

  9. Re:My favorite method on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    "Beware of the Leopard" is obviously only for Mac backups. If your backups are from Linux, better use "Beware of the Penguin".

    But be aware that even in that location, your backups are not safe. After all, there might be a Vogon constructor fleet destroying the Earth next thursday. So you better have a space-bound backup solution.

  10. Re:Are you serious? on The Electronic Police State · · Score: 1

    Outer space?

  11. Re:Uses actor model on Microsoft Releases New Concurrent Programming Language · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've heard that they include Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is needed to terminate the program.

  12. Re:Wiki has a problem... on OpenOffice UI Design Proposals Published · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (Can't contact the database server: Unknown error (localhost))

    (Can't contact the database server: Too many connections (localhost))

    Isn't this kind of ironic, Oracle?

    Where exactly is the irony?

  13. Re:Crackfix please on Windows 7 RCs Shut Down To Force Updates · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think it's a silly restriction for game demos if you can't save. It's reasonable that you can't load (after all, it's a demo), but is there any reason why you shouldn't be allowed to continue a game on the full version after you started it on the demo version?

  14. Re:Which Wolfram Alpha on Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 1

    WOLFRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

    (Damn filter! Ok, this parenthetical text is junk, but it's necessary to get this through the filter. And no, the above is not LIKE yelling, it IS yelling. That's the point, after all.)

  15. Re:Video of Alpha in action on Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 1

    I might be wrong about this, but Germany isn't a developing country. Yet....

    So it's a non-developing country. :-)

  16. Re:Needs a better name on Test Driving the Wolfram Alpha · · Score: 1

    Except that, as the article explains, Wolfram Alpha is not a search engine. It doesn't crawl the web, and it gives you answers, not web addresses. Therefore the term "search" would be wrong.

  17. Re:WHAT!!!!???? WiFi KILLING BABIES!!!!???? on Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, this is about a baby which monitors the Wi-Fi of a killer named Urban.

  18. Re:Work hours to get it sorted on Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World · · Score: 1

    I see you took into account the working hours of only 8 hours/day (is that the daily working time at Google?), but you forgot the weekends. If only working monday to friday, the person will need more than 24 years.

  19. Re:Good for the goose, etc. etc. on Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World · · Score: 1

    Sheesh, why don't they just put all the submissions in a database and search for "the best idea"? B-)

    That's the reason for the delay: They are waiting for Wolfram Alpha.

  20. Re:Hype on Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World · · Score: 1

    Well, that's the problem with all those ideas: You completely misunderstood Google! They are a tech company working with computers. And what does "save" mean with computers? Well, it just means store a copy on a hard disk, so you can read it back later. Google just wanted to know how they can store the whole world on their hard disks.

  21. Re:Easy solution on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 1

    "Aldi"

  22. Re:Easy solution on The Problem With Estimating Linux Desktop Market Share · · Score: 1

    Is that HDTV standing on the top of your desk? Because otherwise it cannot be counted as desktop market share. :-)

  23. Re:this just in on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1

    Back in my day we didn't have creepy old private libraries. We had to ask the creepy old men to draw the comic books from memory! Never did!

  24. Re:This might surprise people on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1

    Well, I get as first entry:

    Jamie Lee Curtis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      - [ Diese Seite übersetzen ]
    Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American film actress and ... Curtis's parents divorced in 1962 and her mother then married Robert Brandt. ...
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Lee_Curtis - 66k - Im Cache - Ãhnliche Seiten

    The linked Wikipedia page indeed has the answer to the question (although I admit it's not found in the excerpt given by Google).

    I don't find anything exceptional in this entry.

  25. Re:this just in on Wolfram Alpha vs. Google — Results Vary · · Score: 1

    They said the same about, yahoo and deja.

    Actually, Google Groups was the proof that even something as bad as Deja could be made worse.
    The only reason why Google Groups "won" over Deja was that Deja wasn't available any more (and Google bought their archives).