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  1. Re:A giant leap on Microsoft Patents Process To "Unpirate" Music · · Score: 1

    Or a boot... stomping on a face... forever...

  2. Re:Derivative Works? on Music Industry Shaking Down Coffee Shops · · Score: 1

    the most purely dick move I have ever heard of
    You haven't heard of this?

  3. Re:Locking was done differently in Australia on Cart Locking System Released as Open Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For a dollar, I'll take the $800 cart home, thanks.
    And what will you do with it?
    The system is not so much designed to prevent cart theft as it is as an incentive for people to put carts back in their place (not all countries have minimum wages as low as the US so they can't afford to pay people to do that)

  4. Re:liquify other hydrocarbons? on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. Re:Yeah well... on Judge Deals Blow to RIAA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Grammar nazism at its best!

  6. Re:Are elliptical orbits easier to detect? on 28 New Planets Found Outside Solar System · · Score: 1

    The Earth is an intriguing case - the original third planet collided with a planet the size of Mars, resulting in part of the crust being blasted off into space forming a mass that is now our moon and a debris ring.
    You sound quite sure about that. This is still a hypothesis. Also I don't see what it has to do with the eccentricity of Earth's orbit.
    the Earth enigma
    What about the Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus enigmas? They all have fairly circular orbits (some more than Earth)
    the Kepler Belt
    Do you mean the Kuiper bet?

  7. Re:DMCA?? on Hacked DX10 for Windows Appears · · Score: 2, Informative

    I mean *way* back when.
    Indeed. That was before the "digital millenium".

  8. Re:HDMI? on Laptops And Flat Panels Now Vulnerable to Van Eck Methods · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm skeptical of the idea that the main video link will be encrypted any time soon though, because of the immense bandwidth involved.
    I thought that was already done.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCP

  9. Re:Nerd factor? on CS Programs Changing to Attract Women Students · · Score: 1

    We're talking about a 1:2 ratio in a situation where there is no identified genetic reason one gender would dominate over another so much, and that ratio is not consistent in other countries.
    Having studied engineering in France and the US, I can tell you that the ratio is 5:1 on both sides of the pond.

  10. Re:TorrentSoup on Faster P2P By Matching Similiar Files? · · Score: 1

    if it's someone using collision to inject a block with the same md5
    Thankfully, that's not practical at this time.
    You can fairly easily generate 2 chunks with the same md5.
    You cannot easily generate a chunk with the same md5 as a given, pre-existing chunk.

  11. Re:Wow Slashdot... on Sony Keynote Offers Hope For PlayStation 3 Fans · · Score: 1

    Diablo 2 wasn't the first dungeon crawl
    No, that would be Diablo.

  12. Re:Running from BIOS must be fast, indeed.... on LinuxBIOS Gets GUI · · Score: 1

    1024 MBs of very fast level-2 cache on a Tyan Pentium-1 Motherboard
    I wish I had 1GB of very fast level-2 cache, even now!

  13. Re:Possible uses for the military? on The Blackest Material · · Score: 1

    The interesting thing about light is that it's NOT radar.
    Maybe not, but they're both electromagnetic waves (though with a very different wavelength). So the question may be relevant.

  14. Re:On-the fly unique email addresses on Best Buy Confirms 'Secret' Version of its Website · · Score: 1

    I've run into at least one registration form lately that would reject any email address with a + in it.
    I've run into dozens. Once, on the same website, it once accepted and once refused (on a different form). So the addresses couldn't match up...
    But I agree that spammers probably already know to strip that part off anyway.

  15. Re:UTC on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1

    West to East jumps you forward 25 hours
    You mean backwards 23 hours.

  16. Re:You ought to watch those irrational beliefs . . on "Very Severe Hole" In Vista UAC Design · · Score: 1

    rpm itself doesn't require root authority, and if everything you intend to do with rpm happens in directories to which you have write authority, rpm will work just fine.
    Funny, I once tried to extract files from an RPM and couldn't figure out how to do it without being root.

  17. Re:'Watchdog' tonight on Chip-and-Pin Vulnerable To Subtle Trickery · · Score: 1

    a dodgy establishment or criminal employee could clone your card with a terminal that looks legit
    Where did you get that from (for smart cards)? if this was the case they wouldn't have to do this complicated man-in-the-middle simultaneous transaction attack.

  18. Re:I spent $647.99 on Sony Open to Considering PS3 Price Cuts · · Score: 1

    The reason for this is that they expect a roughly 1 in 8 failure rate of the cores (or close to it).
    Certainly not!
    If that were the case, the probablility of having 2 bad cores is (1/8)^2 = 1/64 which is WAY high

  19. Re:Newsflash on Vista Indicates A Shift in Microsoft's Priorities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    paying install base.
    Most end users also pay for Windows. It's called the Microsoft Tax for a reason.

  20. Re:Ironic on Open Standards Planned For Next NASA Telescope · · Score: 1

    but in the specific context of flight software, it's true
    Actually, it's also true for hardware, I heard NASA was starting to have trouble finding the obsolete parts they need for maintenance.
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ronicle/archive/2002/05/12/MN141658.DTL&type=tech

  21. Re:Replacing the electoral college on Who won? · · Score: 1

    what shall we replace it with? the exit polls?
    How about universal direct suffrage?
    I am vehemently opposed to the idea of giving the voter a receipt--anything that a voter can carry out to indicate how he voted will inevitably lead to coercive voting
    Indeed, that's why any proposition about how to vote needs to take this into account.
    The receipt would stay in, not be carried by the voter. Furthermore, it would probably be quite easy to forge receipts, making recounts next to useless if they had to be gathered from random people.

  22. Re:Absolutely stunning .... on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 1

    This is just semantics.
    What you meant is that checking your bank records is the least of all the privacy invasions that they do. It's not the least they can do, since the least they can do is nothing. And they certainly can't do less with a court order.

  23. Re:Absolutely stunning .... on Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Pulling your credit report is the least invasive action they can do without consulting the courts.
    You mean most invasive without consulting the courts. The least invasive would be to do nothing.

  24. Re:Fiber to the Home. on Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Yes, just like it's completely pointless to study those ignorant bastards that lived in the middle ages.

  25. Waiting in line on US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI · · Score: 1

    Lines are already bad enough at immigration with only taking 2 fingerprints, now they want to take 10? Now you're guaranteed to miss your connection if you're unlucky enough to connect from abroad within the US.