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  1. Re:This tech won't work. on Smart Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy · · Score: 1

    Expect tripping of the crime sensor to be itself a crime on the level of filing a false crime report. Public horseplay will become illegal or will be self-consciously curtailed just to avoid the hassles. Children will spend more time indoors playing video games than they already do.

  2. Re:Oh you better believe this is ripe for abuse!!! on Smart Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy · · Score: 1

    Many people already automatically trust the machine since "it's the machine." To them, it can only fail when it's broken, not be broken by design

    "We do not blame the machine. We understand the machine."
    -- Plague Carrier Patient, Doctor Who "New Earth"

  3. Re:AllofMP3 on Slashback: SCO, COPA, AllofMP3, Navier-Stokes, and More · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't matter enough to you to pay the price asked, then perhaps you should find other entertainment (there is other DRM-free music available) or get by without.

    I've been going the "get by without" route. What music I hear is pushed at me when eating out or on TV. Instead of listening to the radio in the car, I'm listening to back podcasts of TWiT, one MP3CD-full at a time.

    Though it looks like I will have to buy a portable player of some type just to block out the conversations in the neighboring cubicles, I'll probably just load it with more recent podcasts and more of them. A small iPod Shuffle will serve my desire.

  4. Re:AllofMP3 on Slashback: SCO, COPA, AllofMP3, Navier-Stokes, and More · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be great if somebody had to pay you money if they wanted to call their pet dog Rover, or their pet rat Basil?

    Is not rat, is Siberian hamster.

  5. Rodney McKay on Detailed Panorama of Mars Released · · Score: 1

    During the short Martian winter the rover didn't get enough sunlight to move, so it took these pictures instead.

    "Using power. Using power. Using power."

  6. Re:That isn't a hockey mask on Creepy Windows XP Halloween mask · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of the character Hexadecimal.

    And that would be a fun woman's costume if you could find a way to stow the masks hidden somewhere in the costume (good luck) and was an expert in slight-of-hand at replacing them for mood changes (maybe held in place magnetically).

  7. Personal TV Network on Automatic Machinima News-Broadcasting · · Score: 1

    Excellent! The pieces to turn MythTV into a system to run one's own personal automated TV station are coming together. This is the piece to get aggregated televised news stories for news breaks, breaking news interruptions, and news shows, without the need to enslave offspring.

  8. Re:The Netherlands on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    you have to answer important questions like... "what are Dutch men best known for?" and the correct answer being "their trustworthiness"

    Damn, I would have said "their ability to fly".

  9. Re:Cite your sources, or risk derision on FCC Commissioner Stumps For Media Diversity · · Score: 1

    Is many thousands of hands "few"?

    According to recent estimates, there are approximately 600 million hands in the United States, so yes.

    (I'll leave it for someone else to factor in amputation and birth defect statistics.)

  10. Re:DRM sucks, news at 11 on iPod Cracked, But Does it Matter? · · Score: 1

    We crack specific models of DVD players and HDDVD player to allow bypassing of all on disc crap as well as disabling macrovision. we sell a product that the customer can rip all their DVD's into and play on demand everywhere in their home complete with IMDB data and cover art on the selector screen.

    I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your product catalog.

  11. Re:DMCA on DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that Kim himself has Internet access; just not the rest of his country's citizens.

  12. Re:DMCA on DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod · · Score: 1

    Don't (shouldn't) the oldest laws have priority over newer ones when they contain contradictory terms?

    Only when the violations of the new law predate their enactment (i.e. when it wasn't a crime when it was committed).

  13. Re:HTTP/1.0 compliance? on Details On IE7 CSS Changes · · Score: 1

    So don't. Right-click on the link and choose "Save Link As...". Or right-click on the ISO-as-text and choose "Save Page As...".

    And trust that the browser displaying it as text hasn't munged it somehow by inserting line breaks, dropping NULs, converting line ends, or remapping to the local character set, or saw some magic strings and decided half the file should be rendered and saved in Japanese characters according to the platform's conventions (not the same as the raw incoming file), thereby corrupting the ISO?

    Or use wget on the command line. No reason to resort to IE and take advantage of its broken, standards-violating content-type sniffing.

    I'd rather IE work as mandated by RFC 1945 and its successors (by default) and treat the Content-Type header provided by the server as authoritative so people testing their sites only with IE will be forced to recognize the problem and fix it rather than blame the downloader for not using the same browser.

  14. You and you. on DVD Jon's DoubleTwist Unlocks the iPod · · Score: 2, Funny

    'If you legally acquire music, you need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you own.'

    Thing is, lost in the transcription is that Jobs was talking to two people. To clarify:

    "If you [the consumer] legally acquire music, you [the copyright holder] need to have the right to manage it on all other devices that you [the consumer] own."

  15. HTTP/1.0 compliance? on Details On IE7 CSS Changes · · Score: 1

    Has it managed to be HTTP/1.0 compliant yet? For example, if I feed IE a .iso disk iamge file served with Content-Type: text/plain, will it render it as plain text in the browser window or offer to save it to disk? The correct response is to render it as text.

    I'm sick of having to launch IE to download a special Linux boot CD because the person hosting it is too lazy to configure their server to serve it with the right Content-Type.

  16. GTA on the way to work? on How Practical are 20-inch Laptops? · · Score: 1

    A 20-inch laptop might sound perfect for a game of Grand Theft Auto on the way to work

    I'd hope that you'd be taking the bus or some other form of public transportation!

  17. Re:Wow on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Make the patriot act for example, Has there ever been a more obvious marketing approach than to put patriot in the name to get americans to go along with it?

    They ran an ad asking people to call their representatives in Congress to support the extension of the USA PATRIOT Act during last season's 24 in two successive episodes. (The first one got replaced with local ads in my market.) Basically, if you like how Jack Bauer is fighting terrorists, give more power to the President to fight terrorism.

    IF YOU'RE WAITING TO WATCH THE DVD SET YET TO BE RELEASED, THE FOLLOWING IS A MAJOR SPOILER!

    Later in the plotline you learn that the President of the United States in the story is the one giving support to the terrorists.

    A shame the vote to extend and that plot revelation didn't coincide.

  18. Re:You're Winner! on The 20 Worst Games Ever · · Score: 1

    There's something else not mentioned in the article. If you approach an enemy, stop running and stand in a non-fighting stance, you can bow your head and the enemy will respond. You can keep doing this indefinitely until you enter your fighting stance. If you leave it, the enemy will approach and also fell you with one blow, even if you're bowing.

    There was a hint to the princess' behavior. If you stood out of fighting stance, she'd hold out her arms for you. If you go into the fighting stance, she'd drop her welcoming arms. You can have fun making her raise and lower her arms by going between standing and fighting stances outside her attack range. She does not respond to bowing.

    I've walked the player back as far as he would go in the last level, then run the length of the level into the princess' arms. It would have been neat if there was another special easter egg for that so that it would knock her backwards.

    You can only go backwards in the fighting stance, so if you're standing too close to her, there's no getting away. One more step forward and its embrace time. You even start going into the fighting stance and its a kick to the head.

    I've never played the inverted version. Is the only difference the reversal of the scanline memory lookup table?

  19. Re:Is his decision so bad? on Same Old, Same Old at HP? · · Score: 1

    What is the deal with the board at HP?

    They're doing "a heckuva job"?

  20. Re:It may be "promotional," but... on Battlestar Galactica 'Webisodes' Conflict Brewing · · Score: 1

    "Two battlestars just jumped into orbit. Adama is back"

    Or maybe it was just a mistake that made it into the preview and the line will be looped for the episode, changing "Two battlestars" to "A battlestar".

  21. Re:It may be "promotional," but... on Battlestar Galactica 'Webisodes' Conflict Brewing · · Score: 1

    There are other obvious problems with this new season's shows. Apparently they got tired of spending so much money on computer graphics, so almost all of the new shows are set in a muddy field, with some tents and some junk. It's turned into a freaking soap opera about mommies and babies. Fuck that shit, I want to see some nuclear explosions in space!

    You must still be caught inside the last episode of the previous season, before the Cylons' arrival. The rest of us managed to jump forward past that year.

  22. Re:Fault is being shortsighted. on Slashback: IceWeasel, Online Gambling, GPU Folding, Evolution · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Notice how in Game Theory cooperation (e.g. abiding to international law) is often a good long term strategy.

    Only so long as you don't know when the last round is to be played.

    It is unfortunate for all others if any one player can bring about the final round at a time of his choosing.

  23. Re:Youtube, baby. Go watch them now. on Battlestar Galactica 'Webisodes' Conflict Brewing · · Score: 1

    Go to Youtube.com and search for "galactica webisode" and you'll find they've all been posted. If you use the Firefox browser, you can install the Videodownloader extension and that will let you save youtube videos to your harddrive. So say we all.

    By your command.

  24. Re:Why Not a Giant Padlock on DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    What I want is a term to distinguish the three inch diameter circular saws on the end of a handle , which are usually battery powered,

    Rotary tool, or to dilute a trademark (like Skilsaw above for any circular saw), a dremel.

  25. Re:That was quick on Flickr Search Hack Powered by Mouse-Made Doodles · · Score: 1

    If you sketch a stick figure, do you get emaciated supermodels?