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  1. Re:Direct Connect on Justice Dept. Raids Homes of File Swappers · · Score: 2, Informative
    Link?
    Since you asked, the guys that got raided are "The Underground Network." None of these hosts seem to be around at the moment. I guess they're the hubs in question.
  2. a mirror on What is this Strange Gadget in My Car? · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've never used Flickr before, so I've no idea whether this mirror will stop working after N bytes, views, etc. But there it is.

  3. Re:Uh...Legal? on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 4, Funny
    you're not allowed to copy it if they don't explicitly say you can't
    I can't say that sentence doesn't not make my brain hurt.
  4. All they need is a set of 30-weight ball bearings on Human Powered Helicopter · · Score: 1

    It's all ball bearings nowadays.

  5. Old Walkman Branded MP3 Player on New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player · · Score: 1

    I found a bunch of pictures of the walkman-branded hard-disk MP3 player. I think Sony's designers should go back and try a little harder.

  6. Re:iPod SDK! on Jobs Previews Displays, Tiger at WWDC · · Score: 1
    We're almost there with real, live updating, smart playlist support now (which no other third party iPod-capable app has yet, that I know of).
    ml_ipod, the iPod plugin for Winamp's media libary, has had smart playlists for a couple of weeks. It's also got "on-the-fly" playlist support which might be unique among 3rd party iPod projects.

    Plus, the source is available so it might be a good place for a future iPod hacker to start looking around.
  7. Re:We have a free market of ideas in this country. on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1
    Oh, that's right. I'm a liberal in america, and accorting to Coulter I'm a traitor anyway, so you probably should dismiss my view point....coming from a traitor and all.
    Lighten up, guy, it was a joke. That is still allowed, isn't it?

    And FWIW, no, I hadn't dismissed your opinion. -- At least not until your irrational reply to my previous post.
  8. Re:We have a free market of ideas in this country. on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    Wait, don't tell me. I'm really good at this. You're on the left, aren't you?

    I bet I nailed it.

  9. Re:Name only, not ID, serial number, or anything e on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    And my social...
    078-05-1120


    Off topic, but since that number's the most misused ever maybe you should go with one of these instead.

  10. Re:Running This on OpenGL in PHP · · Score: 2, Informative
    It seemed to me that the DLL paths are hard-coded, so that's why it needs to be in that particular directory.
    The PHP binary is looking for the php_ffi.dll extension in it's default extension_dir (C:\php5\ext). Instead of unzipping it there you could simply run it as:
    php.exe -d extension_dir=. opengl.php
  11. Re:THINK poster on History of Apple's Pascal Poster · · Score: 2, Informative
    Does anyone know the story behind Apple's THINK (not think different) poster?
    This is the first I've heard of an Apple THINK poster, but it's probably a play on the slogan/signs IBM had around it's offices since ~1915.
  12. Re:Yurgh on Molecule Cuts Off Fat's Food Supply · · Score: 1
    "A fat person who takes these pills and becomes thin probably doesn't alter their health status much unless they take the opportunity to be less sedentary as well."
    More often than not, a fat person who takes this pills probably wouldn't care that their health status wouldn't be altered much. I'd wager that most people who try crazy diets don't do it because they want to be healthier. They do it because they want to be prettier. (Now.)
  13. Re:Glad to hear it... on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Preview at WWDC · · Score: 1
    I HAVE HAD IT WITH SHIT NOT WORKING OUT OF THE BOX, FIRST TIME!
    Oh your shiny new Apple hardware will work out of the box alright, but not for very long.

    After looking at/playing with OSX for a couple of years I finally picked up a 12" powerbook last September. It went nearly two months before I had my (first) hard disk death. I'll spare you all the details between then and now, but here's my parts replacement checklist over the last 7.5 months:

    * battery
    * keyboard
    * HDD (I'm on my third here)
    * HDD flex cable
    * memory module

    Considering the number of people I know who've had their Apple laptop LCDs replaced, I guess I should be happy I'm still on my first one of those.

    As of now, the speakers like to make a fun, uncontrollable popping noise that's audible anywhere in the room. (The lid has to be closed to make it stop.) This is actually one of the reasons I brought it in for repair last time, but it came back worse than it was when it was dropped off. Maybe they misunderstood.

    Each repair takes at least a week. I've been without the laptop about 3 weeks so far.

    On top of all this, my bundled one year warranty runs out in a few months. An out of warranty a repair will cost you $210.00 ("flat rate repair charge") + $100.00 ("labor charge"). The two year AppleCare warranty extension is $349. I'm going to go for it, but only because I'm virtually guaranteed the next two years' repairs would cost more.

    That's my story, and why my first Mac will be my last. It's a shame too. It's the far and away the best OS I've ever used.
  14. AOL advocates using Ad-Aware on Spyware More Common in Popular Software? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Funny that AOL's own AIM Virus/Trojan Help page instructs the user on installing and using Ad-Aware (steps 5-8).

    Of course, that was probably posted long before Ad-Aware would actually remove parts of AIM itself.

  15. Re:Template Engines are bad on PHP Template Engines? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Better for your designers learn css than make them deal with some half-assed half-HTML, half-PHP template.

    1) With PHP templates
    --
    * programming logic in php files
    * content in a database
    * structure/design in template

    2) With no templates but using css
    --
    * programming logic & document structure in PHP files
    * content in database
    * design in css

    Two is cleaner, no?

    No, not really. I mean, from which end? Your .php files sure aren't going to be cleaner.

    Frankly, I think you're missing the point. CSS and templating are not mutually exclusive. Just as CSS helps us separate style from content, so does templating help us remove content from application logic.

    3) With templates and CSS

    • application logic in .php
    • document structure in .tpl
    • style in .css

    I prefer #3.

  16. Re:See the light. on Attorneys Prepare iPod Class Action Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is no excuse for producing throw away players that cost several hundred dollars.

    Um, they don't? I've got a first generation, 5gig iPod (the kind with the wheel that is an actual wheel, not a touchpad). I've used it every day since I bought it two years ago. I've even dropped it once or twice.

    I've had one problem with it, and it was battery related, but it was fixed by a software update a year ago.

  17. Re:WOW on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad it's about New Jersey...

    BigDig.com isn't. I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet. It's got loads of info; the maps and videos (including virtual fly-overs and fly-throughs) being the most instantly gratifying.

  18. Re:The Comic Book Guy says... on iTunes 4.2 and QuickTime 6.5 · · Score: 1

    I didn't get it either. Has it been withdrawn?

    Yes. The only thread I could quickly find about it is on version tracker.

  19. Re:Codec Pack + AVIcodec on Dealing w/ Codec Hell Under Multiple OSes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    RareWares is a good place to find some of the more obscure codecs.

    Another resource for codec info (in addition to the codecs themselves) is VCDHelp (aka DVDrHelp).

    That site is a reference I've gone back to many times. There's lots of good info there on things like backing up your DVDs, burning them back onto CDs as VCDs, and finding out what your component DVD player is capable of.

  20. iTunes sharing for linux? on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    At home I've a windows desktop machine, an OSX laptop, and an old linux file server.

    I just loaded up iTunes for windows, added my music, and enabled iTunes sharing. Now, when I open iTunes on the powerbook, my library from the PC magically appears there too.

    Does anyone know of any attempts to reverse engineer Apple's iTunes sharing protocol? It'd be nice to have an iTunes sharing daemon running right on my file server, so that my library would appear in iTunes on both my other machines, and would always be up-to-date.

  21. My share? on Disgruntled Fan Arrested, Indicted For Spam Attacks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    $117mil/160k mails = $731.25 per email.

    Now, I've had spammers use my address as a from: address a couple of times, resulting in a couple of thousand bounces in my inbox.

    When should I expect my check for $1,462,500 to arrive?

  22. Re:iTunes shows that it can work. on Will Legal P2P Music Distribution Succeed? · · Score: 1

    iTunes Music Store has shown quite convincingly that people are willing to pay for music, so long as the cost is reasonable.

    Not people, Mac users. This is a group who can buy from the iTMS only because they were willing to pay, uh, more than average for a computer to begin with.

    Their reasonable cost for anything is probably higher on average than that of a Windows user.

  23. Already Here on New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to C|Net's News.com.com, two new woms have surfaced exploiting a 2 year old hole in IE 5.x.

  24. the suit has been settled on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Reportedly, the suit has been settled with the girl's mother agreeing to pay $2,000.

    "Brianna added: 'I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and don't want to hurt the artists I love.'"

  25. Both ends of the spectrum on RIAA Sues 12-Year Old Girl · · Score: 1

    The BBC is reporting that another of these same 261 latest suits by the RIAA is against a 71 year old grandfather:

    "Durwood Pickle, 71, of Texas, said his teenage grandchildren used his computer during visits to his home.

    'I didn't do it, and I don't feel like I'm responsible,' he said."