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  1. Re:Can you leave your dog in it? on Inside a Mechanical Parking Garage · · Score: 1

    It says that the car enters a crate.. I doubt it's air-tight, but I still wonder if fetishes could get killed down there. Could they be required to provide an emergency escape for just this type of stunt. (The US requires emergency trunk openers.)

    Come to think of it, if no-one ever sees it, could this be some sort of expensive safe-deposit box?

  2. Re:Why no high end workstations? on HP Starts Pushing Desktop Linux · · Score: 1

    By all accounts, the Desktop Linux revolution is just beginning. A flawed implementation would give the HP, much less community, a black eye. So, why not white boxes? At this point in the game, execution is very hard to get right.

    Also Linux has some growing pains with the latest desktop hardware.. From what I hear, features on the ASUS A7N8X are only working now, a year or so after it's debut. I'm not saying you can't make a beowolf cluster, but consumer features need work.

    How much of a premium is a $150 motherboard w/ Linux over a $150 motherboard? To say nothing would be underestimating support, etc.

  3. Moore's Law on A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Moore's Law

    Moore's Law says that the numbers of transistors per integrated circuit increased exponentionally.

    One day a economist overheard this and didn't know how to apply it, so he looked at a price graph and observed that technology cost half what it did 18 months before.

    A Marketing major heard it and thought that too drery, and declared speed doubled every 18 months.

    Then an MCSE came along, and proclaimed efficient programming isn't cost effective, and Windows bloat will be absorbed.
  4. Re:two questions. on Latest SnapStream PVR App Reviewed · · Score: 1
    From the article: The software streams to Web browsers, so you don't have to buy another copy for remote viewing. It's fairly simple to enable security so strangers don't have access to your television signal or recordings.

    IMHO, this appears to not be for TV sets. It requires a PC for recording, and a PC for viewing. As shareware, it has a 45-day trial, so if you are someone with a capture card and Win, you can see for yourself..Exciting indeed.

    OMG!!!1! I karma-whored by RTFA!
  5. Re:Here's a stupid question on Jail Time for Misleading Domain Names · · Score: 1
    Now, if someone else were to put up a "misleading" (ie, different way of writing Janet Jackson) and post the same pictures, would they be in violation of the law?

    Other than trademark (pretending to be Jackson) and copyright. The "obscene" material was on the original hypthetical link, so I don't see how that would fall under this law.

    Would having one porn site's mistyped address go to another porn site qualify?

    Look at 2600 V. Ford Motors 2600 owned fuckgeneralmotors.com and pointed it to Ford. Ford claimed that people would think this was their doing and sued, and subsequencly lost.

  6. GPL Patents? on New EU IP Law Deemed Harmful · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Many companies cross-licence their patent portfolio, so they can "innoviate" without treading on others IP. Would it be possible for the public to "develop" patents, transfer them to an FSF-like organization, and use them whenever a SCO type org starts threating the OSS public?

    I relize that Patents are different from Copyright in that patents must be defended to remain valid.. But does it prevent any $0 licence?

    People have claimed most patents are obvious. ./ readers could challenge ourselves to develop simularly obvious work.. The only problem I could see is enforcement costs time and money.

  7. Re:International Solution on New EU IP Law Deemed Harmful · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's been said before, but there are many third world countries that can ill afford the western conception of intellectual property. Seaworld embraces conterversy openly. Mexico/Columbia can barley fight our war on drugs, and they have no inherent interest enforcing the US IP.

    There was a point in time where the far right opposed any multinational government. "Get us out of the U.N." was one of their chants. My how times have changed.

  8. How is GPL code valued in damages? on Allnet GPL Infringement Settled Constructively · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Acording to LWN, a "significant donation" was made.

    How is (a violation of) IPTables valued? Since this was a "donation" under German law, I wonder if the amount is part of the public record. Can any Germans comment?

  9. Rule out Jury Nullification w/ FreeNET on Freenet Project More Stable, In Need · · Score: 1
    I absolutly agree. I don't/won't want to any service that will compel me to store child porn. According to the FAQ several months ago, FreeNET only stored information that you activly requested, making it a slam-dunk case for any prosicuter if you click a goatse.cx link or some got awful popup the trolls put up.

    P2P has more than ideology behind it.. I was on a JURY where fellow jurors talked about using Napster/Kazaa. I've talked to lawyers that felt they did no wrong getting hard to find music from Napster. I feel confident that jury nullification will find the one and two song people Not Guilty, despite the esoteric arguments for/against intellectual property. Once you mention Terrorism, or Child Porn, any sympathy from a jury evaporates. You'll get put on a sexual offenders list, labeled for life for clicking one bad link. This is bad, morally, legally, and especially in this case pratically.

  10. Re:How does this compare with other companies? on Apple Now Debt Free, Says Internal Memo · · Score: 3, Informative

    While not an accountant, I've taken Managerial Accounting a few times. :)

    One of the indicators investors and managers look at is cash flow. By closing lines of credit, the company has less liquidity should a downturn happen. The bankers may be willing to re-open accounts, and resell bonds, but there is a cost involved.

    In a high interest-rate enviroment, this would be financially wise thing to do.
    Then again, the PR value of this news shouldn't be underestimated.

  11. Re:Going back in time? on Specialized Knoppixes for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    While Boot CDs are great, they won't work with NTFS, and even back then Dos games had a hard time with hardware. Those good old days weren't so good after all.

    IMHO, Boot CD's are more geared to evangalists. If you want to work on multiple platorms, I perfer emulation such as Cygwin (Linux in Windows) and Dosbox (Dos for any OS),

  12. Re:Government, yup on Linux Going Mainstream · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's interesting to note the similarities between the desires of governments and small businesses. Right now, as a Linux newb, I've set up SmoothWall and Red Hat on old computers in a back room. The owner's only demands are that it be near free (as in beer), and it be customizable. With CUPS and OpenOffice out of the box, I can type basic memos. I can hardly wait for OSSuite to come out with the next release (I need product attributes), and he'll be ready for the future on some Pentium 2s

  13. Apple and the Future on 100 Years of Macintosh · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems that with Apple's other projects, they stand a good shot digging themselves out the nitch they carved out long ago.. Since Apple models itself a hardware company, do they offer patches on a similar basis as Microsoft or to they rely more on the BSD patching system?