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  1. Re:Let's turn this argument around on "Innocent Infringement" Defense May Reach Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    hmm i find it interesting that AU teaches about the British using it as a "jail". There is a Irish(I think) folk song about it, "Black Velvet Band".

  2. Re:in other news, cementing the BP CEO has started on Gulf Oil Leak Plugged? · · Score: 1

    sounds good, bring on the electric trains... and the easements to put them in. (note the lack of a sarc-mark or )

  3. Re:Apple isn't stopping you from sharing the sourc on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    nope, apple distributed(sent from apple server to device) the binary, they provide that info to the user, and must not restrict the users use of the binary any further or in ways that violate the GPL.

  4. Re:I know what I would do. on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    so if he wrote it, licensed it with the GPLv3, and then put it on the app store, and apple approves it... where did he steal it? thats right he didn't. nor does porting a GPL program to a different platform/language cause it to bound to the original authors.

  5. Re:Fat Chance on FSF Asks Apple To Comply With the GPL For Clone of GNU Go · · Score: 1

    unscrupulous developer? looks like software wasn't reviewed throughly. Even in that case, apple is still on the hook for the sources.

  6. Re:Protect Google's Data! on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    while preventing a untrusted hotspot provider from seeing my searches.

  7. Re:"Publicly Available" on Google Audits Street View Data Systems · · Score: 1

    operating a radio transmitter should mean you know this. If not you should consult with people that know this stuff, much like you do with a mechanic, or plumber. Ignorance isn't an excuse, to use an analogy i used earlier on this topic;

    "Sorry officer, i didn't know that driving under the influence of alcohol was a crime here, it's not in Uzbekistan"

    you still get your nights accommodations for free.

  8. Re:"Publicly Available" on Google Audits Street View Data Systems · · Score: 1

    Ignorance is no excuse, "Sorry officer, i didn't know that driving under the influence of alcohol was a crime here, it's not in Uzbekistan"... Same thing here, "I didn't know leaving my AP unencrypted would let everyone see my LOLCATS!".

    From everything I have heard about this incident, they only collected from open APs, they did not in fact break any encryption. So as far as i'm concerned the data was "public" with all intentions of it being that way, like painting your name, SS, and DoB on your garage door, and then bitching that your identity was stolen, you made no attempt at all.

  9. Re:Hogwash. on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    i thought they were laser chopsticks(see the article from yesterday)...

  10. Re:What's the story? on BYO Linux Router To Australia's Fibre Network · · Score: 1

    400+ connections, WIFI with WPA2 streaming of 1.5Mbps video, QoS for the aforementioned, plus running a http filter for only a few of the ports, will they work with say, FIOS at full speed? yep, USB will provide enough speed to saturate gigabit, or not.

    it's not a huge cost difference to move to a mini-itx via, looks like $350 case/psu/harddrive, 4 GbE, wireless N, 64bit X86 CPU, 512MB ram, etc. That will draw 5-10W(whole board not just the CPU) at full tilt. Now the advantage here is that you can run whatever you would like on it. Granted a real switch for the internal net, and a good router may work just as well.

  11. Re:Great Idea, But... on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    Drive a manual for a few years then let me know how much you think about shifting, it's very little once you are practiced at it.

  12. Re:And in other news... on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    typically "worst possible" and "cheapest" are the same thing.

  13. Re:Sounds good. on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 1

    so i need to drag a cable behind me to drive now!~. but yes, you could run almost every system off the battery, but i'm not sure how long you could stay powered down with out the alternator...

  14. Re:Yes, novel, non-obvious and useful... on IBM's Patent-Pending Traffic Lights Stop Car Engines · · Score: 3, Informative

    to add a few points to your list

    There are a lot of collector/hobby cars on the road, from the 40's-80's. My car is from 1994, i'm sure that it does not have the necessary bits in it to make this system work, nor am I likely to pay out of pocket for it. If you could even get to 90% of cars on the road, in less than 50 years I would be shocked. Thats assuming that A, B, and C all went off without a hitch.

    A few problems with turning the engine off at a stoplight (brought to you by the "whatcouldgowrong dept.):

    • Emergency vehicles may need to pass though the intersection. How do you start all of the cars back up? Does the heater/AC units still work without the engine running? I guess we could move to having only the alternator attached via belt, but that still would mean powering a compressor/heater from the battery. Not something i would want to do at a very long light. Power steering would also be "disabled" with the engine off, as well as vacuum assist on the breaks. A large number of critical systems in a car work because of the engine
    • Does anyone have this "auto power down" stuff for manual transmissions? If so i'm not sure i would like that the car can override my clutch pedal. It could cause problems if i'm relying on the stopped engine and transmission to keep my car in place. That is very very common to do for parking a stick.
    • Restarting an engine uses more gass than constant running for X seconds, if the system just stops until Y seconds before the green light, you could actully increase gas consumption, if it was sending out a "light green in 45 seconds, manage your engine please" sort of a signal, that would allow for "a red && yellow" sort of light so you could get a good launch off of the traffic light, or just jump the green. The US anyways seems to dislike the idea of letting people know about the green light ahead of time.
    • Cars where the battery is dead and need to be left running to get to the garage could wind up stopped with no power in the lane of traffic just before an intersection. Where if the light had not instructed them to turn off it would have been fine. To illustrate, I can ruun my 1994 car without a battery. The starter won't work, but if it gets jumped or I push start it runs just fine, but is a stick though.
    • The signal would have to be a real data stream with a one time key, anything else would be record-able and would be able to be played back at will to stop a car by anyone with ham radio gear.

    just a few things off the top of my head, that could be technical problems with the idea.

  15. Re:As compared to what? on China Rejects US Piracy Claims As "Groundless" · · Score: 1

    They are only getting paid once, and would like that to be closer to 10 times per physical copy of a piece~

  16. Re:Who is this for? on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    depends, if I trust google with my data, and not my ISP or their upstream or the upstreams upstream and up and up.

  17. Re:A better PDF link on Federal Court Issues Permanent Injunction For Isohunt · · Score: 1

    would have to use a tracker other than isohunt though...

  18. Re:protects your privacy from everyone but google on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    my ISP could be doing so very very easily, and their upstream, and so on and so on.

  19. Re:Implications on China on Google Offers Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    They mention that most good browsers, don't use HTTP_referrer for SSL sites.

    What can I expect from search over SSL?

    Here's how searching over SSL is different from regular Google search:

    • SSL encrypts the communication channel between Google and a searcher's computer. When search traffic is encrypted, it can't be read by third parties trying to access the connection between a searcher's computer and Google's servers. Note that the SSL protocol does have some limitations — more details are below.
    • As another layer of privacy, SSL search turns off a browser's referrers . Web browsers typically turn off referrers when going from HTTPS to HTTP mode to provide extra privacy. By clicking on a search result that takes you to an HTTP site, you could disable any customizations that the website provides based on the referrer information.
    • At this time, search over SSL is supported only on Google web search. We will continue to work to support other products like Images and Maps. All features that are not supported have been removed from the left panel and the row of links at the top. You'll continue to see integrated results like images and maps, and clicking those results will take you out of encrypted search mode.
    • Your Google experience using SSL search might be slighly slower than you're used to because your computer needs to first establish a secure connection with Google.

    Note that SSL search does not reduce the data that Google receives and logs when you search, or change the listing of these terms in your Web History.

    So you need to make sure your browser disables http_referrer for SSL sites, and otherwise behaves well.

  20. Re:This might be useful on Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks? · · Score: 2, Informative
  21. Re:Stability versus ABI on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 4, Informative

    Third partys should be working to get their code included in the kernel, or should just deal with the changes. This has been said many times by the kernel developers.

  22. Re:Big jump on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 1

    why are you updating that package on production servers then? maybe the test/dev box.

  23. Re:Good idea? Bad Idea? on Novell Changes Enterprise Linux Kernel Mid-Stream · · Score: 0, Troll

    yep, "./configure ${OPTIONS} && make && make install" is hard. Also if it's hardware, the kernel devs have said that the ABI changes to support new features, remove cruft, and improve use. If you want your driver to just always work, get it in mainline. See the linux kernel driver project by greg K. H.

  24. Re:Asian MMOs on Aion Servers To Merge, XP Grind Softened · · Score: 1

    For WoW, there are few players in between 1 and 80 at any given time, most are alts they don't want to explore the dungeon. They simply want $ITEM or their "random" done and over with. Same thing right now with the random heroic system, any skip-able boss is skipped, and no one talks. There isn't really a "party" there is not much of a feeling of a group. It's a 5 players all trying to get their badges and need the other 4(or at least the tank/healer) to do it.

    Anyways, there are days i long for EQ1 style play, where you needed to get a group together to do anything, and your group would spend a few hours grinding out mobs for a quest. joking and carrying on along the way.

  25. Re:Great idea on New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash · · Score: 1

    A circuit breaker will not keep you from being killed btw.