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  1. Re:Increase value, not price, for more profit on The Real Reason Behind iTMS Tiered Pricing · · Score: 1

    you nver heard of Bush? (the music not the president)

  2. Re:I couldn't agree more. on The Real Reason Behind iTMS Tiered Pricing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    a purse for $7 seems like there is something wrong with it. a purse for $70 is a bargain because it is under $100

  3. Re:Portable OOo! on OpenOffice.Org in a Corporate Environment? · · Score: 1

    also you can put those under userprofile/apps to ensure even a multi-administrator PC is unlikely to screw up each other's installs accidentally

  4. Re:Dump all non-physical property rights. on Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego · · Score: 1

    there is little to nothing wrong with trafemark law as it is. why throw out what works fine

  5. Re:What about Sony v. Connectix and Lexmark v SCC? on Rare Gambles On Dark Discs · · Score: 1

    microsoft is counting on quantum computing not taking offany time soon. if someone were to analyse a few xbox and xbox360 games to figure out Microsoft's private key it would be game over for copy protection on the 360, and game over for TCPA as well

  6. Re:Dump all non-physical property rights. on Mega Bloks Wins Supreme Court Battle Against Lego · · Score: 1

    how do you know that Albertsons or Taret is run by the real company without trademark law? do you want digitally signed certs to be sent by a kiosk as you enter the store to make sure or what?

  7. Re:NGSCB? on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1

    if when NGCSB gets owned, NGCSB will nolonger protect malicious code hiding in it because scanners will be able to use the same exploit, unless the malware plugs the hole behind it.

  8. Re:Comments lie on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Funny

    disassembly can lie if the operating environment or hardware is bugged (either error or with malicious code)

    the only truely trustworthy code is code hand compiled to run on a tube CPU which you have personally blown the glass and formed every tube.

  9. Re:Nice if *I* had the information on Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City · · Score: 1

    simple solution.... leave it blank?

  10. Re:wish there was more detail on Smart Hotel Rooms in New York City · · Score: 1

    i think they flopped and someone bought the remains and started a new strategy that didn't include pissing people off long before they have a chance to be interested

  11. Re:Question about Hungarian Notation on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hungarian notation puts an unenforced comment into every variable name.

    the problem is not when you look at intPositionSensorReading but rather when it has been changed to a decimal, or when you need to change it to a decimal suddenly you are either wasting time editing every piece of code using that variable. or you cause incorrect comments to be all over the code.

    IFF VB would enforce and automate hungarian notation as an option it would be useful (i use VB as the example because it is the only place i have run into Hungarian Notaiton)

    More HERE

  12. Re:Comments lie on What Workplace Coding Practices Do You Use? · · Score: 5, Informative
    Comments lie. Code never lies.
    I beg to differ
  13. Re:How about a helium balloon and 40 feet of wire? on Cingular to Offer Radio Service · · Score: 1

    that antenna is the FM antenna, some radios do without and use the headphone wire as an antenna.

    the AM antenna is a ferrite rod inside the radio with a coil around it Like this

    most component sterios i have seen use a large loop antenna for AM, however that is much too big to carry around

  14. Re:Copyright violations? on Google Base Launches · · Score: 1

    recipes are not copyrightable, occasionally they can be patented in special cicumstances.

  15. Re:Great solution. on Bad Day To Be Sony · · Score: 1

    i would say go for the revolution, but Nintendo also has a not so good past on monopolistic practices.

    still buying a revolution

    suck it sony

  16. Re:How to boycott? on Bad Day To Be Sony · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sony makes components for lots of companies, however it is nikon who uses sony CCD's Canon rolls their own for DSLR's.

  17. Re:working with i2hub on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 1

    well IRC allows file sharing and at the time i was on I2hub most of the downloading was done by browsing people's collections rather than searching

  18. Re:It's only a matter of time. on I2hub Shutdown Due to Legal Pressure · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they considered it a legal risk for them to know it exists on the campus. Colleges are cracking down on local P2P as well, so the only real option is a distributed network.

    i think they were trying to tell you how to keep it alive without telling you.

    it would be a smaller community but run a VPN inside the school network allowing the big dogs and anyone else who really wanted to join to swap files, it would also hang a big 'no noobs' sign on the network.

  19. Re:Silly? on Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops · · Score: 1

    500 mhz powerPC with 300 megs of RAM is not low end or low resource.

    200 mhz 32 meg pentium 2 is getting there

    66 Mhz 8 megs or ram 50 MEG hard drive is low resource.

    these laptops are going to be quite impressive and useful, now if only they would also develop a $200 model focused on extended battery life.

  20. Re:Other systems on Dungeons and Shadows · · Score: 1
    they are either entirely full of shit or entirely clueless

    Please note that the copyright laws are such that Palladium MUST stop all "infringers" (even if we know the person loves our stuff and means no harm), otherwise, it can be argued that we have given up our copyright and anyone can use our material. That's why we ask that gamers who post their own Palladium based characters/creations, house rules, adventures, fiction, etc., include a copyright and Trademark statement like, "Rifts® (or whatever) is a Registered Trademark and copyright of Palladium Books Inc. All rights reserved, worldwide." Likewise, it is our duty to notify "other" copyright and trademark holders (i.e., other companies) when their trademarks are being infringed upon or (since our fans and our rules are involved) to put a quick stop to the infringement. If that means taking legal action, then that's what we have to do. We don't like it, but that's what we must do, under the law, to protect our copyrights and trademarks, and to prevent similar misuse of other people's intellectual property r ights. We hope you understand.


    first bold is not at all true for copyrights only trademarks

    second bold is entirely false, they just don't want any sources of palladium compatable play material that they didn't make money selling... fuck 'em
  21. Re:Uhh... on Classic TV for Free Download · · Score: 4, Informative

    using kontiki to violate copyight law would be illegal, using bittorrent to violate copyright law would also be illegal. there is no difference really if they give permission to download via torrent it would be legal, if they give permission to download via kontiki it would also be legal.

    there isn't anything special about using a peer to peer network for distribution, the advancement is a social advancement in WB seeing the market for free downloads with ads as comparable to free broadcasts with ads.

  22. own them on Obtaining Multi-Tier Application Logs for Reseach? · · Score: 0

    i doubt you will get to see logs like that without taking them by force

  23. Re:Isn't it obvious on The Place Of Modern MIDI Music? · · Score: 1

    if you put an out of copyright work into midi you probably would not be able to claim copyright on that file unless you made creative changes to the original, so if you remix beethoven's 5th it's yours, but if you just transcribe it the file is still PD. just like taking an old silent movie that is out of copyright and converting it to DVD doesn't give you copyright claim to it, but if you add a satire audio track MST3K style to it, it becomes yours as a creative work

  24. Re:Just one more step away. on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 1

    no, they used the guy's browser cache to show that he had looked for information that would help him commit the crime that he committed

  25. Re:You get what you pay for, right? on Revolution Least Expensive Next-Gen Console · · Score: 1

    here's the deal.

    supporting HD doesn't mean the system will have good graphics, supporting HD means the system has to fill a shitload more pixels for each frame and so for any frame too complicated to draw perfectly (which happens more with more pixels) things don't render quite right, in order to combat this the actual detail and complexity of both models and effects is lowered.

    in order to compensate for this one of two things has to happen in order to keap the same detail level going from SD to HD, either you spend more money on rendering hardware or you simplify the details. in the end HD will give more impressive screenshots because everything comes in at higher res but playing the game you can't see much difference.