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  1. Re:Jabber is what you need on Internal Instant Messaging Client / Server Combo? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you go that route, you could instead install Xming on the clients and run the jabber client locally, on the jabber server. Kind of high overhead, but full and complete control.

    Each department could have their own eJabber server, so granularity would be rather fine.

  2. Re:Forget $199 netbooks on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration · · Score: 2, Interesting

    NT4 came for 4 different architectures.

    They could do it again.

  3. Re:Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I actually like having 2 superpowers both with enough nukes to make the world glow like a nite-lite.

    Knowing that certain actions, like a country using atomics, WILL lead to mutual assured destruction. And that prevents a lot of "bad stuff".. And also cutting off commerce and trade also scares these likes shitless.

  4. Ahem. on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And now, Ill come forth and call to an end of mean people. And a pony. I want a pony.

    Really though, nuclear technology isnt that hard. Take 2 pieces of near-critical U235 and smack them together.. Hell, we could have Soulskill clap them together.

    And dont forget yeah, the US, France, UK, Russia, and China all have nukes. Those countries like India, Pakistan, and Israel also have them, and we dont have a nuclear holocaust yet, either.

    Just a bunch of North Korea fearmongering. After all, if they do get scared, China WILL step in and handle the situation.

  5. Re:Pausing in VLC never fixed... on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    That is precisely why I use MPlayer from the medibuntu archives.... or compile from source on mplayerhq.hu

  6. Re:Black holes have an infinite radius on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 1

    I thought exciting things DID happen at the surface, namely the particle zoo that the quantum foam "contains". And if the entropy calculations are correct (which im sure they are), I'd like data on those perpendicular X-ray jets.

  7. Re:Black holes have an infinite radius on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 1

    Time frames will approach infinity from the viewpoint of the external observer, as dictated by special relativity.

    The big question is what exactly happens at the surface and inside a black hole. And it depends on what exactly the nature of space and time are, and how they fail.

    We can make conjectures here, but the idea that there is something space-shattering happening there seems rather likely. The idea that a macro-figure Calabi-Yau shape that prevents the collapse past the event horizon seems probable, but more research needs to be done.

  8. Re:Black holes have an infinite radius on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Infinite radius would assume that time and position in space is NOT granular.

    If even time is granular, Tipler's Omega Point theory could not work.

  9. Re:Why the special treatment for biology? on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 1

    ---For example, many people have an intuition that more massive objects fall faster.

    They dont? Surprise. People understand air resistance.

    What falls faster: A feather or a bowling ball?

    The proper answer is "Is there air resistance?" On the Earth, the ball falls faster. In vacuum, they're equal.

  10. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Perhaps my goal is a copyright that is so over-reaching and so ludicrously stupid that nobody pays attention... Its already starting to be that point, but further work of making such a mockery of it still needs to be done.

    And lastly, people need to be showed how stupidly easy it is to do. The more people who do it, the better. And then when a few of these RIAA members and other artist-destroying companies start failing, only then will sane discussion on copyright take hold.

    *Typed while listening to the album of Summoning of Spirits, a derivation on game music found in Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Symphonia

  11. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    I'm sure a good lawyer could argue that a checksum might fit in there, but it seems like a stretch. A checksum certainly doesn't represent the original work in any meaningful form to a human (or for that matter, a computer - with something like MD5, you can't recreate the original work from the checksum).

    Im not so sure that's entirely true.

    The .torrent encloses a MD5sum for each chunk. Chunk sizes differ, but on a 700MB aXXo-dvdRIP would be 1MB chunks. So, we have ~700 MD5 chunks that describe a pack of files. We also know the sizes of these files.

    The big question is if there's other coordinations of bit patters that would exactly match the file sizes, file names, and each MD5sum. I'm well aware of the Birthday Paradox, but I would like to see a mathematical analysis of "The Chances". I have an inkling that following those specific criteria would only describe one file pack : the movie torrent.

    And I also argue that you cannot re-create a source material from a series of MD5 sums...We know the structure of the file and we know the header, so it's a game of making the appropriate header and structural information, and brute forcing the frame data. And be aware, that each 1MB section has a new MD5sum.

  12. Re:What gives? on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Thumbdrives.
    W.A.S.T.E.
    local wireless, in Ad-Hoc.
    On a public FTP, encrypted to public key of recipient
    Usenet, encrypted to public key of recipient

  13. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    How about the 2600 DeCSS code linking decision?

    Links to DeCSS found ILLEGAL.

  14. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Cant say I blame you.. Copyright's been turned disgusting and in need of a good cleaning.

    BTW, sorry for mis-spelling your nickname ^_^

  15. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it seems bogus if you use your analogy.

    But, the hashes used in the .torrent file are directly computed from frame data. This isnt a summary. This isnt a ISBN or UPC label.

    These checksums serve only 1 purpose: and that is to properly put back together any number of files to their starting point. Hence, a mathematically transformed derivative work. And if there wasnt the movie file, those checksums would mean diddly squat, because those checksum numbers represent a cryptographic transformation of the source material.

  16. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wouldnt quite agree, as the .torrent files are checksums derived from either DVDrips or screencaps, which are both derivative works.

    Go read up on what lawyers talk about the The Colour of the Bits. It's rather interesting, but also states indirectly that one cannot know this type of colour easily.

    I wonder what NewYorkCoultryLawyer would say about this..

  17. Re:Your sig on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks ;)

    You'd be surprised of the multitudes of comments I get on me and my bastardly signature... Well, you could always look at my freaks list to get an inking.

    I thought it was rather dryly funny.

  18. And... on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course, Slashdot is a dime short and days late on the real news.

    JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0

    Well, for a better, no BS news aggregator, try The Hacker News. Then after seeing it there for a few days, come to slashdot to see a regurgitated discussion.

  19. Re:It won't mattter anyway on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ---I damned well am not part of your revolution. I've sold words for money before, and I'll do so again. I'd happily sue the pants offa someone for redistributing my work for free, if I can catch 'em.

    Fair enough. Problem is, that copyright lays claim to peoples' physical objects because their information is on them. That's not cool.

    I also pay taxes on media to sustain and forcefully support media companies. I have a right to pirate because Im taxed for it. Eliminate the tax and Ill stop.

    And going back to you: Never has anybody sued for "Downloading". It's always been for uploading. Good luck suing somebody who linked to rapidshare or torrents on slashdot (like i do a lot).

    ---I have a problem with what's rapidly becoming perpetual copyright, as well, but I agree with the principle of copyright......But if it's done at the expense of those who create - writers, painters, musicians, game designers, and even editors - as you advocate, then you become the leech.

    Absolutely. We need to encourage the direct creators, whether it be in terms of patents or copyrights. Unfortunately, the best encourager we have now is money.. But the argument is that we want those who create to make more, and i'm for that. I think for starters, we need to not allow persons called corporations allowed to own copyrights. Their lifespans are kind of... long.

  20. Re:Misdirection on Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo · · Score: 4, Funny

    STOP!

    Kernel Time!

  21. Re:Another example on Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle · · Score: 0

    Go read the transcripts between Obama and Jay Leno on 3/19. He flat-out makes fun of the special olympics.

    Thats one thing iff I laugh at them. Another thing completely if the President does.

  22. Re:Not surprising. on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 1

    Yep... The USA has no influence over any other country.. except

    ACTA
    Sweden's PirateBay criminal suits
    Iraq's new IP policy
    Canada's New IP policy

    And others Ive missed...

    Yep. The USA is an island all alone.

  23. Not surprising. on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 1

    That question has already been asked here in the USA. Is linking illegal? YES.

    Case in point: 2600 magazine linking to DECSS code

    Now what this will lead to is more of whats happening over in Australia and China.. We'll have content filters on each country divide monitoring for copyrighted materials and "websites known for trafficking of copyrighted materials". It'll be another WaronDrugs, this time with scatterplots of the whole population being charged with fines randing from 750$ to 35000$, plus federal hard time.

    Mark my words: This is just the beginning.

  24. Re:IT'S NOT THE MUSIC on 17 Million People Stopped Buying CDs In 2008 · · Score: 1

    music these days sucks

    Im just daring you :D

  25. Re:Another example on Fermilab Discovers Untheorized Particle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Charm my ass..

    He just makes fun of the special olympics.