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  1. Re:Ability does not imply intent, nor should it on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    The intent is the most troubling part for me as well. As a member of my local hackerspace (hackerspacecharlotte.org), I find it very unsettling that this judge now feels that I have intent to do anything that I'm capable BECAUSE is choose the label hacker. I like to take things (and sometimes code) and re-purpose it to do what I want it to do. Some people call this creativity, or innovation, or you guessed it - hacking. I'm not breaking the law, sometimes I'm not even voiding my warranty. Just because I like to hack stuff, and I don't ever want to stop... and I even want to help others learn to hack to (I'm the president of the hackespace after all, and we do mini hacking sessions at the local children's museum and the children's library on a regular basis), none of this means that I have the _intent_ to commit any crime. To think that anyone could use my my label as a hacker to show _intent_ is appalling. It is equally disturbing that a judge does not know the difference.

  2. Open Source Browsers on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 2

    Implement as much of the spec as you want.

  3. I understand now why Samsung tried to seal it.

    I don't. Why would you want to seal that? It seams significant and a pretty cut and dried fact (according to the transcript). So why not be out loud about it? Are they trying to not hurt the feelings of the guy that lied, and potentially cost them $1B? Samsung has hurt my feelings in the past when I tried to get some tech support from them for the device I paid them money for.

  4. LET'S talk about plagiarism on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1

    I love how the article that use's Jamie's unattributed pictures starts:

        LET'S talk about plagiarism...

  5. Why pay for certification? on NASA Unveils Greenest Federal Building In the Nation · · Score: 1

    Isn't it good enough to have an energy efficient, low waste building near public transportation, and all the other things that do (and don't) come with being LEED certified? Why pay for a certification? Does that somehow make it more efficient? Sure if you've got money to burn and like shiny stickers, or if you thing that shiny sticker will help you make more money (or recoup your cost) or whatever reason you want to spend your money on the certification - go for it. But don't use my money. Build a good building yes, but there is no need for a sticker. NASA is for now, funded by my tax dollars, and this is how they want to use my money? Shame on them.

  6. Re:If I were to find one... on 'Honey Stick' Project Tracks Fate of Lost Smartphones · · Score: 1

    The term "stealing" sure has changed a lot lately.

    ...actually stealing is still stealing. Hasn't changed a bit. YOU may think less of it now than you did in the past, or how you perceive others to have thought of it in the past. But taking what is not rightfully yours... yep that stealing.

    Taking it by forces does not make it rightfully yours.
    Taking it when no one is looking does not make it rightfully yours.
    Copying it and leaving the original does not make it rightfully yours.
    Declaring it "discarded" (in your humble opinion) does not make it rightfully yours either.

  7. Cookies next? How about TSA Body Scanners? on Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring · · Score: 1

    Really? He thinks about cookies next.
    So a government agency looking at where my car goes is not allowed (protected). But nakid pictures of my junk is fair game? WTF?

    Back on topic thought... the 4th amendment doesn't really restrict itself to government agencies. It is a right of the people - one that is explicitly not ceded to the government. Simply the the government isn't allowed to infringe on your privacy doesn't mean that it's not still yours.

    In any event, cookies are a choice, and most people choose to share them for their own benefit.

  8. OK...but on Mathematics Says Romney and Santorum Tied In Iowa · · Score: 1

    I'm gonna call the "winner" the guy that got to most [counted] votes... won.

  9. I love Opera on Opera 11.60 'Tunny' Released With Ragnarök HT · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gestures. Use the mouse to back, forward, close tabs, open tabs, refresh, etc

    Fast. The back button reloads the page from cache - without having to re-post form data!! (duh, chrome)

    Tabs - the tab state is saved - even if you suddenly pull the power cable from the back of your computer

  10. Re:Why did you pick such a confusing name? on Ask The Bad Astronomer · · Score: 1

    I do not think that word means what you think that it means

  11. Re:At the risk of my nerd card... on Ask Slashdot: How/Where To Start Watching Dr. Who? · · Score: 1

    and the movie version of "Starship Troopers" was much better than the book.

    Didn't /. have a friends AND an Enemies option at one point. It's been years since I've even look, but this post motivated me to look for that Enemies button. All I see is how to friend someone... and I'm sorry elrous0, that aint happenin'.

  12. Re:Vulnerable on $30 GPS Jammer Can Wreak Havok · · Score: 1

    where for art thou mod points

  13. Re:HTML *was* simple on The Abdication of the HTML Standard · · Score: 1

    tables were never okay to use tables for layout

    But they were easy. Search for "3 column layout" and look at the infinite variety of wildly more, and more complicated solutions. Complexity depends of course on how closely you want to approximate a ridiculously trivial table layout that can have same size columns with or without background colors or images, fixed or fluid sized columns (or a mix!!), and whitespace, with a header pinned to the top and a footer at the bottom regardless of scroll height. Tables made it easy even cross browser without script of any sort. It's considerably trickier with just to meet some arbitrary standard that "tables shouldn't be used for layout". Tables were drop dead easy (until they started _removing_ table support from browsers).

  14. Do we need that kind of precision on French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices · · Score: 0, Troll

    10.000

    Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.

  15. Re:Solution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    I have three side by side _all_ of them are vertical and I love it. At 1280x1024 (or 1024x1280) I'm at at the standard "max" web width and I have very little need for scrolling. Essentially the same for documents. What I don't like is my one monolithic monitor on my mac. The aspect ratio is "right" but it's not terribly useful.

  16. Re:My guess? Users need to STFU on Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    Plain vanilla iMac 10 months out of the box with the nVidia card. It crashes all the time with the recommended settings. It occasionally ( once every day or two ) crashes with all the video settings to Low or Off. No overclocking, apple ventilation and power. The real bummer is that the game runs great and looks phenomenal with the video settings cranked way up. It doesn't drop a bunch of frames like I would expect if I was over taxing the system, it just up and dies. That is the screen shows strange artifacts (snowy), and is frozen. Sometimes the mouse/cursor will jump wildly when I move it while the screen/system is otherwise frozen, but usually it is nowhere to be seen. The only solution is to hold the power button for 10 seconds (and crank the settings down). Did I over-mod or poorly configure my iMac?

  17. Re:Might explain my crashes on Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, previous gen iMac (with nVidia card :( purchased 10 months ago), it crashes all the time if I don't crank everything down to low (and even then it occasionally locks up the whole system). I thought the cut scenes would be a safe place to increase the resolution, so I enabled HD... big mistake, it crashes all the time with that setting.

  18. Re:Why the censure? on Cub Scouts To Offer Merit Pin For Video Gaming · · Score: 1

    ...Yeah, if shotgun shooting and Rifle shooting are currently badges that you can earn, I'm not thinking they would have a problem with shooting games.

    What they should have a problem with is (as merit badges for Boy Scouts) is video games in general. This new badge will go straight to the top of the list of badges I DON'T want my son to "earn" as a Boy Scout (along side Sculpture, Theater, Cinematography, Computers).

  19. Re:Nothing to see here, etc on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Didn't anybody else do this with the response cookies sent to javascript generated [tiny/hidden] image src tags?

  20. Re: 6 hours on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    as low as $1 per 6 hours

    Or as low as $1 per 24+ hours (sometime today till 9pm tomorrow) at redbox.

  21. Re:content-delivery device? on Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed · · Score: 1

    As long as that content isn't flash...

  22. Re:And the other challenge... on Toyota Black Box Data Is More Closed Than Others' · · Score: 1

    "Real Programmers" good read - thanks

  23. Abr on What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? · · Score: 1

    V-day? Why not just shorten it all the way to VD?

  24. ...and candles so cheap they'll....? on Murdoch Says E-Book Prices Will Kill Paper Books · · Score: 1

    ...but in the future I would imagine that only very popular "classic" books will end up in physical, high quality bindings and that the cheap paperback novels of today will be replaced by electronic media simply because eBooks are cheaper to make and more convenient.

    Which is particularly funny because currently "the classic books" can be had for free in electronic format whereas "cheap paperback novels" cost $10.

  25. Fanboy? on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 1

    So I guess you wouldn't consider John Sullivan an Apple fanboy then?