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  1. Re:Fossils on the Bench on Federal Judge: Keystroke Logging Isn't Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Only if state borders are miles thick.

  2. "overrated" on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be possible to apply "overrated" to a comment that doesn't have a positive score. [overrated should also be subject to metamoderation]

  3. Re:Obviously a jaded warez-monkey. on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    What happens when your disc gets scratched? Checking both for the cd to have to be in AND connecting to steam is overkill. Even one is questionable, but both together is inexcusable.

  4. Re:Nice response Valve! on Valve Cracks Down on 20,000 Users · · Score: 1

    But not allowing users to talk _about_ it in a forum where other users with the same problem can be found, seems arrogant and even sinister - It's harder to organize e.g. a class-action lawsuit if they deliberately put obstacles in the way of finding/contacting other victims.

  5. Re:It is Linus's fault. on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 0

    actually, the second is the major, the third is the minor. the first is the HOLYCRAPBIGCHANGE version number [which changes apply to incompatible differences in the _application_ API.]

  6. Re:From the article... on Linux Kernel to Fork? · · Score: 1

    Except 1 and 3 are always true. [well, for 3, even if you're not Administrator, you have to be an administrator user to do anything useful with a lot of programs]

  7. Re:How does this compare to... on Screw-in LED Floodlights · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, but regular bulbs aren't nearly as heat-sensitive - it's perfectly fine to bake an incandescent bulb in its own heat, but the same even for the much cooler fluorescent bulbs will fry it.

  8. Re:what the hell has /. become on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 1

    Well, there's india, china [alone a third of the world's population] and whatever else is in those timezones.

  9. Re:maybe there's a solution... on Fl. County Halts FTTP Until Installation Is Safer · · Score: 1

    Or a coating on the outside - or steel bands every 5ft, or a thin metal "dummy pipe" running alongside, or any number of other solutions.

  10. Re:what the hell has /. become on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 1

    Considering that GMT+5:30 is India and GMT+8 is China, If more live outside that band than in, it's by a smaller margin than you think.

  11. Re:Close, but no cigar. on Avi Rubin and More on Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    Since we do not actually know what the voter did, the hard truth is that audit record is as suspect as the electronic record is because it cannot be directly compared to the voter action at the time they chose to cast their vote.

    Why not? Let the voter compare it at that time, and if it doesn't match it can be thrown out and another attempt made

    Possibly, have two machines - the voting machine, which is a dumb printer, and a counting machine which reads the resulting ballots

  12. Re:Not a surprise? on America's Most Connected Campuses · · Score: 1

    Do students have access to Usenet newsgroups? No WTF? Isn't access to Usenet irrespective of whether you are a student or not? Correct me if I'm wrong.

    The question seems to mean - is there a usenet server on campus [i.e. for dorm students / lab computers / etc] sure you can access google or individual.net regardless, but that's hardly the point.

  13. Re:Geneva Conventions on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    what's so magical [other than coincidence] about the 1949 revisions that they led to the lack of any further conflict between signatory states when the earlier ones did not?

  14. Re:Geneva Conventions on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    GC3 says explicitly that you can, and furthermore that it grants you POW status.

  15. Re:Geneva Conventions on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1

    Are you claiming that the first three didn't apply before they were revised?

  16. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    but it's double dipping - either the uploader is making a copy or the downloader is - they can't claim 50 copies were made [for a retail value of $1000] if a file was only downloaded 25 times [with a retail value only adding up to $500]

  17. Re:I'm Confused on Samsung to use Sub-Pixel VGA Screens · · Score: 1

    how is "half VGA" as in "half of 640x480" not meaningful?

  18. Re:Multiple possible reasons for this: on Gran Turismo 4 Delayed Until 2005 in Pal Regions · · Score: 1

    wouldn't it be slowed down exactly 16.67%, rather than "over 20%"? you know, because 25 fps is 16.67% less than 30 fps.

  19. Go further on Digital Cameras Help Alert Sleepy Drivers · · Score: 1

    have an entire train that's _just_ for cars - you bring your own seating/etc. maybe have it provide 12VDC for the car to plug into somehow so you don't have to run the engine to listen to the radio and so on.

  20. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    sure, it's "reproduction by electronic means" - it just generally doesn't come to a "total retail value of more than $1,000" (plus, i don't know its legal status, but the general opinion here on slashdot [from TWANL, of course] is that the offense attaches to the uploader rather than the downloader [it clearly can't attach to both because only one copy is made])

  21. Re:Geneva Conventions on Bootlegged Music in Russia · · Score: 1
    In point of fact the GC only apply when both adversarial parties are signatories,

    From GC3:
    In the case of a conflict between a signatory and a non-signatory the signatory shall remain bound until such time as the non-signatory no longer acts under the strictures of the convention.

    Interestingly enough, there have been no signifigant conflicts between signatories since they were signed

    except for those little minor conflicts sometimes known as the World Wars [first GC 1894, second GC 1906, third GC 1929 - the third included the POW stuff.]

    and, relevantly enough:
    Those entitled to prisoner of war status include:
    [...]
    4A(3) Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.

    recognition has nothing to do with it [being regular armed forces does, but that's not the point being discussed]
  22. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    but the point is, legally and morally, it's _not_ as bad as stealing a physical object - not that it's not bad, just that it's not _as_ bad. in a legal sense, jaywalking and speeding are worse.

  23. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    read it and i don't see it as applying to downloads. [sharing, sure, but not downloading]

  24. Re:This Begs A Half-Life 2 Question on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 0, Redundant

    a $20 "rollex" is more likely to be fake than stolen.

  25. Re:It's like a free ride when you've already paid. on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 1

    The other side is actually breaking the law, in a crime that does have a victim, but at least they don't incorrectly use the verb "steal".

    You misspelled "tort"