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  1. Re:It's Too Hard!!! on Do Kids Still Program? · · Score: 1

    the problem is that there IS no BASIC interpreter shipped with windows or Mac OSX

  2. Re:Nintendo's Wii akin to Chevrolet's Nova? on Both Sides of Wii · · Score: 1

    you mean the New Coke that boosted Cokes sales when they went back to the original recipe?

  3. Re:Whatever...try thinking right on Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? · · Score: 1

    volume encryption is nearly useless since ALL it protects against is a hostile mount, using object level encryption you can protect againse hostile mounts as well as hostile users exploiting a permissions glitch

  4. Re:Good news! on Senate Bill May Ban Streaming MP3s · · Score: 1

    sort of like how HDCP won't be broken?

  5. Re:Whatever...try thinking right on Windows Vista To Make Dual-Boot A Challenge? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and an ext3 drive mounted by a hostile system will ignore security settings as well. the point of filesystem permissions is not to defeat a hostile system, but rather to allow admins to keep contorl of the machine and users to protect their files from other users.

  6. Re:Hydroelectric plants already do this on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    around here (upstate NY) we have the blenheim gilboa pump storage facility which is the same sort of thing. pumps water up a mountain at night then releases it during the day

    unfortunately it may actually collapse and cause a serious flood because some useless state worker who was supposed to be inspecting it just submitted photocopies of a previous inspection many times in a row.

  7. Re:Great, now please talk to me about those gel ce on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    the VAST majority of a worn out Lead-acid battery is recycled and does not cause pollution unless some dipshit just tosses it in the trash.

  8. Re:Okay, WTF on Nintendo Revolution Renamed 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    the Wii supposedly will just use SD cards IIRC. making custom memory cards is a PITA since you are doing relatively small runs and you need to keep them available for a long time

    by using standard commodity memory cards they save themselves the development and production cost and make it cheaper for their customers to buy cards in the size they want.

  9. Re:No Problem on Napster Legal Battle Reaches from Beyond the Grave · · Score: 1

    don't worry, it would be a violation of equal protection... either that or the court would go the other way and extend RIAA to include ANY trade organizaiton

  10. Re:Notification on DARPA Funded Startup to 'Bird-Dog' Rootkits · · Score: 1

    VGA/DVI+keyboard passthrough connector would allow a notification to come up without interfering with or being detectable by the OS

  11. Re:Hardware can't be fooled like the operating sys on DARPA Funded Startup to 'Bird-Dog' Rootkits · · Score: 1

    only a few chunks of the hard drive would have to be altered, everything else would be remapped on the fly by the rootkit filesystem access so to windows it looks like the MBR is normal, despite physically being now moved to somewhere in the middle of the drive

  12. Re:Basic textbooks should be free and electronic on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    the WOLF (WOLF is the file format the jinke natively uses) print driver seems to be quite similar to things like PDF creator except specially tuned to make output that is good on the eReader in it's native format. it seems to me anyway that the jinke model will be less hassle converting documents, escpecially since it also does support PDF fo if a particular file works well in EITHER PSD of WOLF it will be good rather than having to hope it converts well as a PDF.

  13. Re:Basic textbooks should be free and electronic on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    i actually saw the irex illiad before the jinke design, IIRC the illiad is going to sell for around $500 and i do believe the lower price and the WOLF print driver makes the jinke model a better deal, anything you can print can be converted to work with it.

  14. Re:Defective web browsers on Next in Browser Development, High DPI Websites? · · Score: 1

    nearest neighbor is used because it is safe. if you try to interpolate you have serious problems when images are supposed to have hard lines or there are a large number of images on the screen

  15. Re:Basic textbooks should be free and electronic on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    elementary and highschool learning material has not changed a great deal in the past 50 years. other than biology and a little chemestry the facts are all the same though the presentation has changed many times. Biology is the only class i can see new textbooks being needed for since chemestry updates to the periodic table aren't particularly important since knowing how to look up the atomic mass is far more important than using a modern and more precise measurement of atomic mass.

  16. Re:Basic textbooks should be free and electronic on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    not quite up to the specs you want, but Jinke is Releasing this in may and so far for ~$350 is is the best deal i have seen for a modern eReader. I love my REB 1100 but creating compatable files for it is a serious pain in the ass and the screen is a bit too low res for most people.

  17. Re:Sorry publishers. on DRM Lite for Electronic Textbooks · · Score: 1

    no, writers will not work for free, however many actual experts and professors are willing and do contribute to free textbooks.

    the future is not publishers deciding to give it all away, but rather them being cut out of the loop altogether. for books which require a lot of editing groups of colleges will get together to pay editors to clean up the language and styling from many contributors. electronic textbooks are trivial to update and errata can be inserted on the fly when mistakes are discovered.

  18. Re:Wrong Side of Bed? on Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs · · Score: 1

    what the hell application is going to fork with 500 megs of data?

  19. Re:Other Theories on Apple Dumps PortalPlayer Chip · · Score: 1

    mor eimportantly, if you own stock in any company which depends on a single customer for the majority of it's value sell that stock and sell it quickly.

  20. Re:Wrong Side of Bed? on Torvalds Has Harsh Words For FreeBSD Devs · · Score: 1

    copying data from RAM to RAM in a modernd computer should not appear to the user as a freeze,

  21. Re:!censorship on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1

    deleting posts and banning users for discussing potential abuse is censorship

  22. Re:Digg Sucks... on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 1

    your solution would result in the goatse guy getting frequent first posts

  23. Re:This should be fun on Growing Censorship Concerns at Digg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Digg can have #1 among spyware infested morons.

  24. Re:No activation codes? on Microsoft, Autodesk Guilty of Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    they probably dont use any info from the video card since it is a relatively frequently updated component, same with RAM and CPU. motherboard or sound card are not likely to change once a system is put together, either integrated AC99 is good enough and the user buys that or they want something high end and they buy it with the system.

  25. Re:This is Like RAID for CPU's on Reverse Multithreading CPUs · · Score: 1

    Sun Microsystems called and wants their hardware back... and i think IBM is on the other line