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  1. Internet2 for universities only on CMU Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm at one of the schools with people being sued for sharing music on Internet2 and I know 2 of the people personally.

    What is the RIAA doing on that network in the first place? It's meant for university networks only. Copyright issues aside, they're not allowed on that network in the first place.

  2. Re:Exactly... on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 1

    I would agree with you about their shorter focal lengths. If you're really looking for quality, the Carl Zeiss lenses are great, even if they are manual focus.

  3. Re:Exactly... on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, more and more people are switching over to Canon. Nikon is starting to fall behind. Though their bodies are a bit cheaper, Canon has a better line up of lenses. (I hope Nikon steps it up a bit. Competition is good for all of us.)

    Yes, Canon RAW is supported in Photoshop with the Camera RAW plugin. Photoshop CS2 is coming out very soon and should have some major improvements over PS CS.

    Very few people use GIMP professionally I've found. Photography is the sole reason I've switched back from Linux. Try as it might, digikam and GIMP just can't keep up with professional grade RAW Converters such as Capture One Pro. GIMP supports RAW with the appropriate plugin, but sorry, it's just not Photoshop.

  4. Re:DMCA prevents Nikon from making money... on DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon Camera · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm a Canon shooter, but for you Nikon people, here's some links to keep you updated:

    Nikon D2X white balance encryption
    Nikon saying you don't need Photoshop

  5. Sponsors on Google Ride Finder Announced · · Score: 1

    Whether this is real or not, the Taxi Companies Google lists are going to be very happy sitting there as part of one of Google's new services.

    It looks like they'll be having a Merry April Fools Day.

  6. Re:Host your photos yourself on The Peculiar World of Web Photo Sharing · · Score: 1

    That's true. Point taken. That sounds like a nice deal. I prefer to have complete control over the entire site and exactly how everything is handled. But that's just me.

  7. Host your photos yourself on The Peculiar World of Web Photo Sharing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's so much nicer hosting your photography yourself. No worries about how much of your work you can put online, other than how much hard drive space you can cram in. I've had great luck hosting with Gallery.

    My Photography, for example.

  8. Sounds like fun! on Australia Gets 8Mbit/s Broadband now, 20Mbit Soon · · Score: 0

    I'll bet the Koala bears are thrilled about the possiblity of getting broadband in their eucalyptus trees!

    Lucky little dudes!

  9. mirror on Lean Mean Grilling PC Mod · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the coralized mirror of the site.

  10. Re:LJ Backup/Export to XML on LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Charm is a command-line based livejournal client capable of archiving and backing up all of your previous entries. Livejournal's export page allows just one month at a time.

  11. more on Free Windows Software Without Spyware/Adware · · Score: 1

    Don't forget the Extensions for Firefox such as Ad-Block.

    And of course, there's OpenOffice.

  12. have a little fun with it on Automakers Working on Car-to-Car Ad-Hoc Networks · · Score: 1

    I'd be waiting for someone to write something to send out bogus information.

    "[insert your favorite road] is blocked due to a 20 car pile-up. Try a different route."
    At the same time, you drive though with mysteriously light traffic.

  13. GAIM Encryption on Plausible Deniability From Rockstar Cryptographers · · Score: 2, Informative

    GAIM already offers two encryption plugins. It's cool to see another implementation being created.

    gaim encryption uses RSA. There's also gaim-e which uses GPG.

    I've used gaim encryption and it works very well. It requires the plugin to be installed on both ends but once that's done, it autodetects that both ends support it and enables encryption.

    Oh, there's a binary available for windows and both source and packages for linux.
    And, it's in portage!
    emerge gaim-encryption

  14. reason? on Toshiba Recalls Notebook RAM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Toshiba recalls RAM.

    Sources say the reason behind this move is that the faulty memory can accessed randomly.
    Toshiba unavailable for comment.

  15. Photo Journals on Photoblog Revolution · · Score: 1

    There's also community photoblogs on sites such as LiveJournal such as the Photography Community and the Photojournal Community.

  16. Re:fake? Re:eclipse through a telescope on Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse · · Score: 1

    the photos are in the right order. they just weren't rotated properly. when looking through the telescope, you see a mirror image of the moon in the eyepiece.

    i held the camera parallel to the ground. as the eclipse progressed, the moon rose higher into the sky. the telescope had to be raised more and more vertically. thus, the eclipsed portion of the moon would appear to go from the side (correct), to near the top (incorrect).
    the image was right in the eyepiece but would change relative to the camera. i could have corrected this but didn't think about it. you're welcome to change it yourself in photoshop but i really don't care =)

  17. eclipse through a telescope on Time Lapse of Lunar Eclipse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I took pictures of the eclipse through a pretty big telescope and they came out quite nicely.
    I've put them up here.

  18. reasoning behind rejecting the appeal on Supreme Court Rejects RIAA Appeal · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps, like all of us, the judges are getting tired of the RIAA's "tactics" and want it to shut up and stop whining.

  19. WINE? on Is That Pirated Software? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want to see someone run it in WINE.

    "I'm sorry, we have no idea what is going on. Chances are, something is pirated. Please go here to purchase something legally."

  20. Re:If you think looking at images is safe... on Flaw in Microsoft JPEG Parsing · · Score: 0, Troll
  21. Re:Encrypt! on New Worm Installs Sniffer · · Score: 1

    Screenshot of the Wall of Sheep

  22. distcc? on Weta Digital Supercomputer For Hire · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about using all those cpus as Distcc nodes!

    (Go Gentoo!)

  23. unmentioned side effect/benefit on Coral P2P Cache Enters Public Beta · · Score: 1

    If you browse through the p2p cache, it also hides your IP address.

    Check this out: Normal browsing and Coral browsing.

  24. Re:Wrong motivation on Defcon 12 Running Man Contest · · Score: 3, Informative

    Speaking of pictures, pics from this past Defcon are posted here.

  25. Re:SuicideGirls on DEFCON 12 - After the Hangover · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the image on Tom's Hardware kinda stinks. There's a better one on page 2 of this gallery.