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  1. 1650 free iPods eh? on Duke University Giving iPods To 1650 Freshmen · · Score: 1

    So I guess within 2 years there'll be a market for at least a thousand "I went to Duke University and all I got was this lousy iPod" T-Shirts?

  2. The New Equation on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 1

    1. Detect 20 e-mails in 10 minutes 2. ???? 3. Profit! And as we all know, Telstra will damn their customers to the deepest pit of Hell if it means at least 1c more profit for them... OK, I promise not to get on a 'why utilities shouldn't be privately owned' rant...

  3. Another obligatory comment... on Sun Announces Linux Deal With Chinese Government · · Score: 1

    And in even better news, BSD forward projects one million licenses in China for the year 2015...

  4. No punchcards here... on How Do You Punch In? · · Score: 1

    But we use a web-based tool called Planview that tracks time usage pretty well

  5. XML... on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think one of the main problems with the embedding of XML architecture into office productivity software is unfortunately the end user. I mean, how long have programmes like MS Word had "document properties" contained in them, and how many people are actually using them? I'm currently working on a project to retrieve documents accross a company's backed-up data from the past 10 years, and there is very very little metadata available for us to do any searching on. Unless the embedded XML contained within office suites is brought more "to the fore" and in the face of users, instead of being a behind the scenes 'option', people just are not going to use it

  6. Re:Population density?? on Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead · · Score: 1

    Yes, Canada has a very low population density. Once you get out of the highly suburban and densely populated southern parts of the states, congregated in the east and a little in the west as well, you can go for miles and miles without seeing people. Oh, wait, majority of the population in a thin geographical boundary? Sounds like med-high density to me...

  7. Not too hard to get that level of penetration... on Worldwide State of Broadband - S Korea, Japan Lead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With a highly centralised and urbanised population, as well as a telco infrastructure that wasn't originally laid in the 1920s (as with most of the western world).

    Now if they could just do something about the price barrier for UK, US, and AU we might get some penetration...

  8. Re:Doubtful on Japan's Proposed 30-Year Robot Program · · Score: 1
    Imagine the potential of a sweet l'il Haley Joel Osment look-alike robot walkin' into a crowded American city w/ a plutonium warhead embedded in its stomach...
    Now that really IS a case of 'I see dead people...'
  9. Re:Does this really even need pointing out? on Worm vs. Worm Battle Slows Networks · · Score: 1

    "Hardest hit was the 411 system..." Gives a new meaning to the question "What's down with the 411" though, doesn't it?

  10. Re:Let's not get crazy... on Pirate Anime FAQ Updated · · Score: 1
    There hasn't been a single case of a Japanese company cracking down on this in the US, at least that I'm aware, so really in all honesty, this FAQ comes off like that one kid in class who reminds the teacher that she forgot to give homework. So you bought a pirated CD by mistake. What are you going to do now, send it back? Or perhaps write a FAQ about it?


    There hasn't been an official crackdown, but at least one US based anime distro company has had a "quiet word" to the admins of an anime based IRC server requesting material that copyrighted material of theirs be removed from the server.

    From my experience, one of the primary pushes for anime piracy (above and beyond good old fashioned 'I don't want to pay for anything'-ism, is the sheer length of time it takes between a show airing in Japan and the DVD showing up on the shelves. The various fansub groups out there can have a release of a show that airs on a Tuesday available by Thursday at the latest. If they were waiting for Bandai, Pioneer, ADV etc, they may not see the show for up to 12 months.

    There is a legitimate side to this type of fansubing - a lot of groups will fansub a new show up to the point that a US distro company licenses it, and then they stop releasing new eps, as well as pull the old eps they had on their servers. This doesn't happen very often however...