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  1. Re:Not without jumping through hoops it doesn't. on Real Cuts Prices for DRM-Restricted Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or just copy the CD...

  2. Re:VOIP over DSL isn't much better on Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA? · · Score: 1

    The 3com NBX 100 is actually pretty cheap, and works very well. This assumes that you have up to 100 CO's and up to 100 extensions per office.

  3. Re:Why not... on Is VOIP Over WLAN DOA? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    However in a small bussiness environment that is setup in several different cities VOIP is a god send. If for no other reason than we don't need someone to answer the phone at each location, so people can actually take a break without phone calls heading off into phone mazes. If you already have an VOIP system in place WiFi makes it really easy to leave your desk and take your phone with you, to a copy room, confrence room, drafting room, etc. And since it is your phone it is your extension.

  4. Re:iTunes doesn't rot on CDs May be Less Immortal than We Thought · · Score: 1

    But when you buy a book you don't have the ability to instantly make perfect copies as many times as you want.

  5. Re:Windows only on Sasser Worm Disruption Growing · · Score: 1

    I hate it when people keep posting this drek. Just because Linux doesn't have the market share does not explain why it has fewer viruses. Look at Apache and IIS. Apache outnumbers IIS but IIS is what viruses target.

  6. Re:Actually, it's nuclear powered pulse engines... on Nuclear Powered Mission to Jovian Moons · · Score: 1

    I beleve thats what the next mars mission is for.

  7. Re:Audit trail on Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines · · Score: 1

    Except that at least in my case all spots on a reel have an equal probability of hitting. The only way to make a certain symbol show up more is to put more on the reel. The reels in video slots can have up to 65 symbols on them (not different symbols but the same ones repeated multiple times). To verify a reel set works we us brute force (yuck) and calculate what each possible combination is worth (65 to the 5th power for a 5 reel slot). This take a while :).

  8. Re:Audit trail on Voting Machines Vs. Slot Machines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually its much more compilcated than that, involving probability and what is actually on the virtual reels. It would be easy if you could change what certain winning compinations payed out, but generally you can't in software because of the signs on the machines. So inorder to change payout percentages you need to change what is on the reels and, at least where I work, it can take a good week to create and verify a reel strip.

  9. Re:A non-issue on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    Actually the right that the GPL gives SCO is to distribute GPL'd code but only under the GPL. They never had the right to distribute it under any other license. So no the GPL isn't taking anything frmo them.

  10. Re:Add-on module? on New Pentium 5 Details - 5-7ghz? · · Score: 1

    So you are wondering how many people bough math coprocessors, after they didn't need them? Is this a trick question?

  11. Re:request? on Linksys and the GPL, Again · · Score: 1

    Actually the company just has to give it to any customer who requests the source, unless they make changes then they have to send it to the dev team. Of course if the dev team decides they don't want the changes...

  12. Re:game world != real world... on Shadowbane Servers Hacked, Chaos Ensues · · Score: 1

    However UBI soft will prolly loose realy money as people leave the game. Therfore hacking the system == threat to the livlyhood of UBIsoft == THE REAL WORLD.