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  1. Re:Ah well... on iTunes: Don't Leave Home With Them · · Score: 1

    The sentence before he stated that he had a problem with his powerbook that " called for me undertaking a reinstall"

    This is simply him not playing the music in a different country, this is him trying to reaccess the files he purchased and then lost.

  2. Re:Ah well... on iTunes: Don't Leave Home With Them · · Score: 1

    They didnt delete them, he reformatted his drive.
    This guy had obtained the songs 1st in the U.S and then only after he had left the country needed to reformat his hard drive.
    When he went back to iTunes to re-download his purchased tracks, he was told he couldn't because he was not in the U.S.

    I am assuming that if he returns to the U.S he can re-download them.

    Whilst this will have caused him some anguish, its no different to walking out of a nightclub and then trying to sneak back in.

  3. Re:Best Article Ever on Cringely Proposes a Music Sharing Alternative · · Score: 2, Funny

    make it a 48 speed cd and we will hear the laughter from England!

  4. Re:Spam must contain a real contact method on Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back · · Score: 1

    In the past spam has been used to attempt to drive up stock prices and hurt other compaines reputations.

    SCO are currently doing a damn good job of that right now.

  5. Re:Life expectancy on Japan's War On E-Waste · · Score: 2, Funny

    You havent bought a printer cartridge recently have you lol

  6. Re:Microsoft centric... on Buy.Com Debuts Music Download Site · · Score: 1

    Why do people always bitch about companies targetting everything towards Windows, and not Linux?

    Linux is young, and we should be looking for new and innovative ways to use it. I certainly dont want linux to simply be a Windows clone, I want more.

    Us blokes don't bitch because Tampax are targetted towards women (well, most of us don't!)

    Instead of looking jealously at our Windows friends, lets go and make our own fun!!

    The others will follow... you'll see :)

  7. Re:8" floppy media? on Prior Art to Pinpoint vs. Amazon, from 1980's? · · Score: 1

    If you create something at one time, and choose to patent it later in life when you realise its usefulness, it does not remove the fact it was invented in the 1st place.

  8. Re:Big Spread! on California Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 1

    read the very next sentence in the same report you pasted and you might find out......

  9. Re:In other news on California Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 1

    4 notes was enough for Intel...

  10. Re:MS on California Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 1

    Each eligable person will get $16 per license for windows means that a company with 100 desktops will receive $1600.
    Single users might not appreciate such a small settlement, but larger organisations will be pleased at such a windfall.
    The rest of the settlement amounts are listed here

  11. Re:These must be stopped! on Mutating Animations · · Score: 1

    I agree, and not too surprisingly, so does the MPAA.
    They are concerned that these virtual actors are using copyrighted motion from real actors, and even worse, most infidel Computer-animators use entire clusters of computers connected with massive high bandwidth networks to rend^K^K^K^Kshare this data.

  12. Re:Distributed Google on Grid Computing Coming Of Age · · Score: 1

    Kazaa includes a grid computing client dont they?
    Since they are most downloaded program ever (or something) and have themselves firmly tapped into Mr Average Joe's computer I think they are in the best position.

  13. Re:Real reason why it's $899 ... on New Linux PVR Box · · Score: 1

    The $799 additional is for the Lawyers fees once the MPAA/RIAA realise this is a network device capable of serving out illicit copyrighted material to everyone in the house.

  14. Re:+5 Interesting????!!! on Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you mentioned star trek........

  15. Re:Sentient Crawlers? on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    The problem is that when people use the Google cache to view the original scanned document, they expect registration to occur, but since the bot caches everything via a URL which does NOT include registration/login screen, this will be pretty difficult.

    NYT want control over who sees the cache, this is pretty stupendous, and google should reply by removing them both from the cache, and from the list of credible news outlets.

  16. Re:Sentient Crawlers? on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    The NYT News pages are available WITHOUT registration to special partners (ie google), so when the googlebot is crawling its own news beta site, and comes across a link to a NYT story, it already includes the registration free link.

  17. Re:Slashdot sensationalism? on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1

    They dont want their content removed from the cache, they want the content available, BUT when you try to access it from this offsite store, google server will forward the request back to NYTimes and show a login for it.

    Seems pretty silly if you ask me, because news is news, you cant roll back a newspaper once its been printed, published and read. If I want to see the news from the day of my birth, I go to my local library, I DO NOT have to purchase the newspaper in order to do this, and I shouldnt have to signup for old news either.

  18. Re:Reference to /. on How to Legally Infuriate the RIAA? · · Score: 1

    I thought they repeatably clicked the paste button!!
    I thought they repeatably clicked the paste button!!
    I thought they repeatably clicked the paste button!!

  19. Re:A strange game. on Gridwars Parallel Programming Challenge · · Score: 2, Funny

    and just how would YOU stand up to a piece of frozen waterlogged foam thrown at you at thousands of miles per hour?

  20. Re:So when you walk into a store... on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The key to this mystery is in the name:
    rfID - the identifier coming from each tag is unique.

    The handheld scanner will require a lookup in exactly the same way that a barcode scanner performs a lookup.

    I do not see frID tags as anything more than barcodes that you can scan from any angle, hence we shouldnt be thinking they are going to change the world.
    On the hospital subject, I would prefer the entire ward to be quarantined than letting patients with multiple dangerous diseases mix and roam freely.

  21. Re:So when you walk into a store... on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The tag doesnt store the actual data, it is merely used as a lookup to the main system database, in exactly the same way that a barcode is used.

  22. Re:Inconsistancy in tone/style between translators on Harry Potter in German, not Czech · · Score: 1

    By the time the editor has read 10 different versions of each section, he couldv made the minor modifications and be onto the next section.

  23. Re:New tape of squid on New Deep Ocean Creatures · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wow! this is cool, its like a bird!!!

    You have to dig to find the actual movies though.

    If thats too much hassle, heres the Lazy link to the Supplementary Material :).
    Have fun!

  24. Re:Not on a Mac it 'aint on Motherboard Audio Comes Of Age · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would check your cable if I were you, its possible your using some crappy 50p one and running it alongside your powercable.
    *THAT* would explain the difference more than anything.

  25. Re:Cost on VoIP Booming in Africa · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would I need 24 or 48 simultaneous lines?
    I personally do not trust the QoS I receive from my ISP to allow me to go over to VoIP. I would not like to try to call the emergency services and receive the following:

    The Number cannot be contacted
    The Number you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Number might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.
    ...............

    Give me ONE stable, always on reliable line; whatever the technology and I will use it.