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  1. Re:How they're cutting down on piracy on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1
    >If the movies are encrypted with AES 128 bit, the players and any software to play the discs can no longer be exported to China (or most other countries) where most of the piracy takes place.


    If the players are made in China, there is no restriction on their being sold in China.

  2. Re:Slippery Slope on $1 Billion Awarded in Lawsuit Against Spammers · · Score: 1
    ...If he was smart, a quality firewall would cut them off.

    I was going to ask, because I did wonder, if you had any actual reason to think this was feasible.

    But, I found an earlier post of yours where you state that

    'This was my first *nix box that I setup and FreeBSD has been relitivily painless and rock stable (my needs are minor)'

    So, as I suspected, you have no idea what your recommendation would entail.

  3. Re:This sucks. on Diebold to Pay $2.6M Due to Insecure Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    George W may have been chosen by the voters, but if so, it could only have been because the voters do not want a leader, or were not offered a leader to vote for.

  4. Re:Immigration will save the economy. on Debugging Indian Computer Programmers · · Score: 1
    what happens when: * large portions of the population starts to take money out of the markets through their retirement funds to actually live on the money? Markets will plumet and capital for both mature companies and startups will be harder to raise. *

    Then the market collapse causes deflation, and loss of production, then the old people starve and the demographic pyramid balances out.

    Problem solved.

  5. Re:Tubes are still used... on Happy 100th To The Vacuum Tube · · Score: 2, Informative

    I haven't heard of any 1.22 GW vacuum tubes, but they certainly could be built. They'd be large.

    Gigawatt Multibeam Klystron (GMBK)
    A 2-GIGAWATT, 1-MICROSECOND, MICROWAVE SOURCE
    15 feet long 15 inch diameter
    http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/kly/muri/murid.ht m

  6. My eye! They want to sell my eye! on HAL 9000 on the Auction Block · · Score: 2, Funny

    OK, I admit I had lost track of the damn thing, but that is no reason not to return it to it's rightful owner.

  7. Re:Does this prevent sending email without a domai on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 1

    >It's possible to do that, but anyone with a clue will have set up their mx to reject anything that fails a reverse lookup...

    Um, no cigar. Close though. Mail will probably rejected on failure, but almost never on a mismatch of the reverse lookup.

  8. Re:Moderated Newsgroups? on IETF Decides On SPF / Sender-ID issue · · Score: 1

    >No, it just means that news groups can't use SPF verification on the addresses that are expected to receive mail from a number of different news servers.

    >That said, if it's moderated, it shouldn't matter because the moderators could deal with with incoming spam (like, I would assume, they do now).

    Actually, it seems not to 'just mean' that. It will, at least, mean that some moderators will have issues they are going to need to take up with their ISP, if their ISP blocks, rather than quarantining messages that appear not to come from where the "Sender [is] Permitted [to send email] From". In fact it is the EXACT opposite of dealing with 'incoming spam', because the submissions that do not show up in their email cannot just be deleted the way the spam that does show up can be.

  9. Re:They did this already on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Nope, they did not sell their own, they bundled re-branded CPAV. When MSAV updates were no longer available, one could go to the Central Point anti-virus web or ftp sites and get the updates since it was the same product under a different skin.

  10. Re:Ammonia refrigeration? on Cheap Solar Cooling Solution? · · Score: 1
    Hmm, I think you might be right about what you are citing, but wrong about that there were lots and lots of residential sized refrigerators and air conditioners that burned propane or natural gas and used ammonia absorbtions cycle machines.

    I had an Arkla-Servel brand whole house unit that chilled brine in the outside unit and pumped it to the 'evaporator' coils atop the furnace through garden hoses at the last house I lived in.

    It worked quite well, gave cold air at fifty-three degrees farenheit in the plenum, and used so much less fuel/electricity than comparable freon units that when neighbors were complaining about spending hundreds of dollars per month to cool their houses I was spending about one fourth that much.

    I recall Maytag making appliances that used a gasoline engine that one moved from refrigerator to washing machine to toy car, depending on which one you wanted to power. The refrigerators were the most popular one, and used an ammonia resorbtion unit to create a reservoir of slushy brine.

  11. First week of February was when this happened on Startup to Offer Open Source Insurance · · Score: 1

    According to news release on riskmanagement.com NEWS, the hiring of PJ happened first week of February. Also see this article

  12. Re:Dammit on MS Hotmail Offline For Hours · · Score: 2, Informative
    Back in the day, both IBM PCs and Apple Macs were closed systems, their internel workings were undocumented to the outside world


    No, actually the IBM Technical Reference Manuals for available, and not only documented all the circuitry, but also the BIOS. It was all copyrighted, but not 'undocumented'.


    The actual difference had more to do with that IBM chose to use a documented bus, the ISA, and encouraged others to manufacture add-on hardware. While Apple strongly discouraged add-on hardware.

  13. Re:WTF!? on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they mean levity, not buoyancy.

  14. Re:Free software != free speech on Transcript of Eben Moglen's Harvard Speech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The GPL only gives a pre-written license for one way you can use that speech (i.e. code). It in no way prevents you and the developer of that code reaching a different agreement about what you may do with the code.

    In other words, it gives you one option, with specific restrictions. You are free to negotiate any other option with the copyright holder.

  15. Re:Oh boy on Microsoft Beta Includes Built-in Virus Scanner · · Score: 1

    MSDOS 6 had a renamed copy of CPAV, Central Point Antivirus. It was not much changed, and in fact the updates from CP and from MS were interchangeable. Unlike the Norton Defrag which they licensed, which was watered down older, crippled version.

  16. Re:That number.. AL00667 on How We Knew AL00667 Would Miss Earth · · Score: 1

    Is number 666 ever issued? A lot of numberiung systems miss this one out, in order to keep the religeously insane from freaking.

    Well, I know not about astronomical numbering, but I know that general aviation manufacturing we did at one place skip such a serial number, and at another we wished we had skipped number 13, (it had a lot of manufacturing accidents, including being dropped out of a jig and bending a wing).
    The place where we skipped number 666, everyone knew that 667 was a bogus number.
    But, they would not take my suggestion to build an empty shell with number 666 and sell sledge hammer blows to employees for a dollar each.
    (Make, then scrap the beast and let the righteous few get off on destroying it).

  17. Re:Once Companies See They Can Charge for EMail... on Bulk Email Tax Getting Closer · · Score: 1

    It could happen. The way it would play out would be along these lines.
    Ordinary email would be accepted by AOL, Earthlink, Verizon, Yahoo, etc Only up to a certain number per day per ip address that the mail is coming from and/or domain the mail is 'From: '.
    Then, if you are going to exceed the limits you must pay for the priviledge. That is not too much different from what AOL is already doing, and if you want to check it out, "AOL Postmaster.info" see for yourself. In particular AOL already has what they call an "enhanced white list". It will be only a small step for them to add a super double enhanced white list that charges the sender for the right to violate their other guidelines.

    As far as that goes, I recall a long time ago that AOL, Compuserve, GENIE all charged something like twenty-five cents (US) for each email you received after you exceeded something like 20 in one month.

  18. Re:Dumb question of the moment on CA Court Rules Cyber Cafe Cameras Constitutional · · Score: 1

    I hope that you are politically active and express those views where they are most important.
    At the ballot box.
    In political discussions with friends, family, peers and letters to editors.
    By contibuting to compaigns of those who understand and are interested in this kind of issue.
    And maybe even by running for office.

  19. McDonalds.com registered 1994 to Joshua Quittner on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1
    See this article from Wired issue 2.10:

    Billions Registered

  20. Re:How are we supposed to know on Mars Rover Sniffs First Hint of Water? · · Score: 1

    It is more likely that the conspiracy theorists are government agents trained to deliberately make us dismiss the conspiracy theories. So, when we hear about the real conspiracies we will disregard them as coming from conspiracy theorists. Being sure you are paranoid does not prove they are not really out to get you.

  21. Re:decentralization of acess is fine by me. on Microsoft Soft-Pedals Dialup · · Score: 2

    Add PRI T-1's, Connect, port, and other charges to your upstream, Billing system, Tech Support (and phone lines to billing and tech support), advertising, office equipment, rent, power, spare parts, network admin, server admin, server hardware, UPS's, etc. Starting out small often will cost more per user when you grow then if you plan for growth from the start. There are lots of places where dialup providers lose money if they try to offer quality service on the cheap, unless they tap some other revenue stream like (re)selling dedicated connectivity, providing hosting services, doing non-internet helpdesk and such. I know because I have worked for several ISP's and have seen several local ones come and go.

  22. Re:ICANN on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Revised VeriSign Registry Agreements: Appendix X available at:
    http://www.icann.org/tlds/agreements/verisign/regi stry-agmt-appx-16apr01.htm States:
    The domains to be registered by Registry Operator, other than on a request submitted by a registrar pursuant to that registrar's Registry-Registrar Agreement, are as follows: None at this time.