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  1. filled in on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    RIAA using the Copyright is a BAD idea because they don't offer their product for free. When it comes to Copyright being put to GOOD use, it's done by those who license with the GPL, especially the Linux people. The RIAA is made of hypocrites.

  2. ob Simpson's quote on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you don't like it, move to Russia!

  3. finite consciousness on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 1

    reminds me of a quote from the Bible... "where there is knowledge, it will pass away"

  4. Re:How could you Albert K. Wong?? on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    on a limited resource computing device
    first of all, that technically covers every computing device.
    but if i take the non-technical definition, does it include large systems whose resources have become limited due to a bloated os/application set?

  5. Re:Recipe for Bureaucratic Success: on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 1

    some of that money (MS money) will filter to taxes and come to us
    but i think M$ patented the filter... so they would still have to pay microsoft the royalty

  6. Re:Unreasonable pricing on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 1

    Don't let Microsoft obtain yet another desktop monopoly!
    yeah! us linux people should take over the second desktop market... M$ doesn't know about it yet

  7. Re:I left with 4 shirts and 6 bottles of maple syr on Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review · · Score: 1

    ever see Super Troopers?
    chug! chug! chug!

  8. Re:it IS here to stay on Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review · · Score: 3, Informative
    WMs like XFCE4 and desktops like Gnome2.6 and KDE 3.2
    and ratpoison is pretty good for a lightweight wm. seing a highres terminal at full screen... drool. oh and konqueror on full screen... that's amazing.

    p.s. i found out about ratpoison via a /. post

  9. Re:Uhhh on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    I'm a Christian, and my dad's into that stuff.
    the Shroud of Turin is a fake, and carbon dating is flawed in all situations where the original amount of C14 in the specimen is unkown. (things they were not there to test initially)

  10. Re:Uhhh on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1
    Carbon dating is a little more difficult to doctor than photographs
    the equation for carbon dating uses the amount of carbon 14 present in the wood when it was cut from the tree, the amount decayed (rate * time) of carbon 14, and the amount of carbon 14 present in the wood now to find out how long it's been there. since carbon 14 decays into gaseous nitrogen 14, the amount of carbon 14 in the wood originally is unknown. the amount of time it was sitting there is also unkown.

    so you're solving for the amount of time (unkown) it took the original grams (unkown) to decay into the present amount of grams (known). 2unkowns 1 known: the equation cannot be solved.

    researchers take a guess at the amount originally present in order to use the radiocarbon equation

  11. Re:Wow on Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive? · · Score: 1

    Wow... thats really sad...
    you've hit it right on

  12. Re:what i love though... on How The DMCA Affects Search Engines · · Score: 1

    thank you so much!!
    my first question was, "can i see an example?"
    excellent work, thanks.

  13. Re:Six months? on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    they'll be very sure it works. in the meantime, get broadband and set up your own mail server with qmail. i was able to do it with a 100mhz pentium, and my inbox is 5 gigs with no content snooping or other restrictions

  14. Re:$10 Mil? Peanuts on XCor Receives Sub-Orbital Launch Permit · · Score: 1

    i was hoping we would be going to space for the improvements it would bring to technology.

  15. Re:$10 Mil? Peanuts on XCor Receives Sub-Orbital Launch Permit · · Score: 0

    commercialization... make billions and billions... what a good little capitalist!
    lets hear it for motives!! woot

  16. Re:the death of a thousand cuts on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 1
    what's overplayed?

    they are on the record of desiring everyone's private keys
    do they have those keys?

    they WILL cut you as often as they can think of a new way to do it.
    here is where your tin foil hat comes in. the government is run by citizens (in gov. positions) and these "cuts" will effect them too if allowed. please realize that the government is not intentionally out to get you. they may try to help businesses or make crime fighting easier and miss the side effects because they are overly zealous (and the number of things affected is huge)

    there was other stuff (like mentioning the little guy), but saying it's got nothing to do with tin foil then ending on "'they' are out to get you" seemed a bit contradictory

  17. Re:already illegal to use encryption in one media. on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 1

    and that's the HAM bands
    does tin foil help or hurt the reception of those?
    seriously though, you have some good points if a bit overplayed

  18. Re:WiFi. The 3rd Internet on Software To Stop Song Trading · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah, you must be an American
    it would be far more interesting and fun to write a program to circumvent their measures as many others have found

  19. Re:Expect "internet radio" to disappear on Shifting From P2P To Stream Ripping · · Score: 1

    but the mic input is analog.
    toslink would be a more digital option, but idk if those recievers support it

  20. Re:I should clarify... on PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped · · Score: 2, Informative

    Right now I'm looking into getting an old, old laptop with AC adapter for use as a server
    you might be interested in mini itx. you've probly seen that before though... but it seems to fit what you're looking for

  21. Re:what about ....? on OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    so my bicycle can run linux 2.2?

  22. Re:Good news! on PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped · · Score: 1

    you don't need a computer either.

  23. Re:Good news! on PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped · · Score: 1

    my dad has an ibook g3 that he uses to write down the minutes of a meeting or give a presentation (the video out on that thing works amazingly well). he has no firewire devices.

  24. Re:Oh, the humanity. Think of the legacy hardware! on PowerBooks & iBooks Get Speed Bumped · · Score: 1

    lol. i use a celeron. in fact, i use a 150mhz cyrix as a webserver, and that extra 100mhz pentium works great as a mail server. the extra processing power isn't really necessary for many of the people i know.
    but to each his own. esp. since you've got dvd editing/making to do... that would kill my machine :)

  25. Re:EASIER SETUP! on Groklaw Tries Their Own Linux Usability Study · · Score: 1

    The SOLUTION is to make the design usable in the first place.
    it is usable. there's just a learning curve. partially due to the fact that linux is different from what w32 users are used to. when they make linux "usable" with a high overhead gui and bloated interfaces, i'll be using lfs or a bsd

    maybe mainstream isn't the target market for this os; it wasn't for unix