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  1. Re:I'd sooner see on Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' · · Score: 1
    The iPod will let you do whatever you want with your files. It's just a hard drive.

    Apple doesn't provide software to let you pirate music using your iPod, but if you have half a clue (which I'm guessing you don't), it's not to hard to figure out how to copy a file.

  2. Re:The future's so bright, I gotta wear used shade on iTunes Accepts PayPal · · Score: 1

    Or, more likely, there is no vault, and they'll just print the cards on demand if anyone actually wants them.

  3. Re:Nope on iTunes Accepts PayPal · · Score: 1

    Many car rental places won't give you a car unless you're 24 or older, anyway, so that's not going to affect the average college freshman.

  4. Re:EU Failure on Software Patents Circumvent European Parliament · · Score: 0

    You think you'll get modded down for suggesting that patents are evil? You must be new here.

  5. Re:Years away on New Advances Bring Fusion Closer to Reality · · Score: 1
    The name of the paper fuses nothing. It's using the name of one of the earths least popular religions, Christian Science, because it's published by the First Church of Christ, Scientist. As a religion, the majority of people will agree that Christian Science takes the boundary between belief and knowledge much too far.

    That said, their reporting, even in science (although I can't find any recent medical articles on their website; I assume they avoid reporting on that topic), tends to not have the bias you'd expect. In fact, overall they seem to be one of the least biased newspapers around.

  6. Re:Sweet hack! on Tablet Mac Becomes Reality · · Score: 1

    I get "Rosetta Rosetta Rosetta" in Panther. Is there some other trick to this?

  7. Re:Newsworthy? on Google Suggest · · Score: 1

    Why don't you code an identical feature on your own page, and come back in 20 minutes when you're done to tell us how trivial it is.

  8. Re:Open sauce application here? on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 1
    That would be a horrible violation of the astronauts' right to privacy!

    Plus, any terrorist with a space shuttle and RFID scanner who wanted to find an American astronaut to kidnap or murder would be able to find them easily. Please think before you post.

  9. Re:Don't bother with the Russian food jokes. on Space Station Crew Forced to Cut Calories · · Score: 1

    It's all the Russians fault, for not being able to run an "International" space station completely by themselves. Next they'll be complaining when we want them to pay for the whole thing, too.

  10. Re:From TFA... on Tougher Copyright Laws for Australia · · Score: 1
    That's the next thing the US will demand you change if you want free trade.

    It's too much of a burden on US companies who want to sell stuff in Australia to have to relabel everything in metric units.

  11. Re:an ounce of prevention... on Private Spaceflight Law Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    Yes. And it should be illegal to build or drive an automobile that's capable of travelling at more than 5 MPH.

  12. Re:This is stupid. on Arrests Made Near D.C. Over Modded Game Consoles · · Score: 1

    Why yes, that comment is stupid.

  13. Re:Communists don't like hard drives on Rumored iPod Flash Leaked · · Score: 1

    Sure, and they need to put out a super-cheap Mac to compete with eMachines.

  14. Re:IBM + Apple = good news for Linux on Daring to Dream: Apple & IBM · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to be the way it's licensed to them is not compatible in any way with the GPL. So no.

  15. Re:boo on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you don't agree with the terms of the RFC, don't post on Usenet. It's as simple as that. By posting, you're implicitly giving every single person in the world with an NNTP server the right to distribute and store your articles for as long as they want.

  16. Re:boo on Google Flips Back to Groups Beta (Again) · · Score: 3, Informative
    There is no reasonable expectation that your articles will be removed from servers. Even the Expires: header is specified in RFC1036 as a "suggested" expiration date; compliant servers are no required to delete expired articles with the header, and they're allowed to provide a local policy for how long messages are kept (including forever, if they've got the storage capacity).

    The fact that you couldn't imagine in 1987 that anyone running a new server would ever be able to afford enough storage to keep all of USENET available does not constitute an expectation that your articles would be available for a limited time.

  17. Re:For MacOS X users who customise their httpd.con on Apple Releases Mac OS X Patches · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, as stated in the advice you linked to, "under some circumstances" it won't modify it. My http.conf is manually customized, and Software Update did actually patch it just fine (miraculously, it did so without breaking any of the customizations I did, like earlier software updates have sometimes done).

    I'm not sure what the circumstances are that prevent modification. I assume it would have something to do with whether or not you'd manually modified the specific section that contained the vulnerability.

  18. Re:Didn't break the law! on Beating Roulette With Computers & Lasers · · Score: 1
    No, Title 18 is the law whether any trade group ever mentions it.

    Funny how you can say something completely moronic and it gets modded down, but if you mention RIAA you're suddenly "insightful".

  19. Re:Dow-chem chairman Warren Anderson on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 1

    I know that not all homicides are murder. However, deaths caused by depraved indifference fall under second degree murder. Lesser negligence that doesn't meet the standard of "depraved indifference" may be prosecuted as manslaughter instead (or with a lesser included offense of manslaughter, allowing the jury to decide if the acts in question showed depraved indifference or not).

  20. Re:Dow-chem chairman Warren Anderson on Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated] · · Score: 1

    Depraved indifference that leads to death is, in fact, murder. In the US, at least. I'm not familiar with Indian law, but I'd assume that killing 15,000 people through negligence is probably a felony there, too.

  21. Re:Finally an interesting virus on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1
    It's not a virus.

    It's not even close to resembling a virus in any way.

  22. Re:TBS did this when it was first starting out... on Network Scheduling to Mess with Tivo · · Score: 1
    Sex & the City has something weird going on when TBS broadcasts it, too. They always play back to back episodes, and the last 5 minutes of the first episode ends up tivo'ed as part of the second one, but the second one doesn't get cut off at the end most of the time.

    I suspect this actually has more to do with taking a show from a channel with no commercials and adding commercials to it, but BBC America has no problem sticking shows into 40 minute slots and not having either end get messed up in my Tivo, so I don't know.

  23. Re:Surprise! on DOE Report on Cold Fusion · · Score: 2, Insightful
    we all look back at einstein, heisenberg, etc. as geniuses now, but they were considered quacks by many in their day.

    Considering how Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize before he did anything most people have ever heard of today, I'd have to say you have no idea what you're talking about.

  24. Re:Bah on DOE Report on Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    That's nice. Good luck getting the lab facilities to do it without signing away your rights to the patents. Let us know how that turns out for you.

  25. Re:Ahhh, the essence of Capitalism... on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fine. When Verizon takes down the phone lines on my property that the government let them put up through eminent domain, and their trucks stay off the public streets, and the police don't stop anyone who tries to burn down their headquarters, we'll talk.