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  1. Re:How long until 2gb? on Gmail's Birthday Presents · · Score: 1

    It'll reach 2GB at 12am CST too. The JS uses your timezone for the counter.

  2. Re:An arms race on Jon Johansen Breaks iTunes DRM Yet Again · · Score: 1

    Off the top of my head, I think they'll be forced into making the iTMS contact Apple regularly for a right to play the library (similar to Kerberos). The right to play will be governed by whether the library is "legal" or not (ie: if any tracks have the same signature as on the iTunes website, but no DRM, prevent playback of either the entire library or just those songs.

    I'd lose to hear a good reason why any player that isn't iTunes would voluntarily contact the iTMS to play music that it can already play. Making the iTunes client do too much is what got them in trouble in the first place.

  3. Re:Uhhh on e-Scrabble gets Cease and Desist Order from Hasbro · · Score: 1

    I think the grandparent is trying to point out that it looks like Hasbro wants to take the domain name and the code he wrote and use it for themselves.

  4. Re:Late last year... on Intel's 64-Bit Pentium 4s Hit The Streets · · Score: 1

    They're borrowing things from Microsoft now. It isn't done until linux won't run.

  5. Re:The Big Question... on Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available · · Score: 1

    Has the patent expired yet?

  6. .com on Who Will Pay For Open Access? · · Score: 1

    Give it away for free and make up for it in volume!

  7. Re:Nonsense on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 1

    Well, post-humously means after you're dead. I think you can figure it out from there.

  8. Re:Ditch the dependencies and deprecated code on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 1

    I thought the point of esd and arts was that if you were using a remote X session the sound would come out on the computer you were using, not the one serving up X sessions.

  9. Re:Here's an idea... on Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded · · Score: 1

    err, ..

    stupid html

  10. Re:Here's an idea... on Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded · · Score: 1

    Windows is ...

  11. Re:America on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight · · Score: 1

    I believe the pilot was British. I know Branson is.

  12. Re:Ubuntu on Which Linux for Professional Admins? · · Score: 1

    Seeing how it's backed by this guy I don't think that'll happen anytime soon.

  13. Re:If they really want to lobby for a law... on Software Firms Lobby for Stronger Copyright Laws · · Score: 1

    ISP is "Internet Service Provider" so if my system doesn't connect to the traditional Internet then it isn't an ISP. :)

  14. Re:A case of bad communication on Sun Unilaterally Revokes the FreeBSD Java License · · Score: 1

    Only the compilers and 'tools' are GPL. The majority of the work (the class libraries) is licensed under the X11 license. See here

  15. Re:Excellent! on First ZSNES Release In ~2.5 Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you mean binfmt then yes, it does support it. I use it to run Mono for .NET apps and WINE for Windows apps. Ubuntu set it up for me, I dunno if it would be hard to do elsewhere.

  16. Re:Channel your rage to constructive purposes. on Rage Against the Machines · · Score: 1

    Makes a nasty mess on the lawn though. I got rid of some dead burnt CDs and my AOL coaster collection with a pellet gun.

  17. Re:Already Know that. on The Ten Worst Products of the Year · · Score: 1

    Hey, my school used to have some of those. Slow as fsck but pretty cool machines.

  18. Re:That's great... on iTunes Accepts PayPal · · Score: 1
  19. Re:So What? on ITunes Overcharging in the UK · · Score: 1

    You realize they have different music in each store, right? That they don't all see the American one?

  20. Re:Thank you, but no on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    Damn, at my school homework counted for 60% of your grade. I finished what I could in class to get passing grades but usually ended up right around 50% because of not wanting to do stupid shit I already knew. Managed to slip by though, just barely.

  21. Re:Slashdot. News for Pirates? on Decentralizing Bittorrent · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So, lets just clear all this up:

    copyright infringement != theft
    copyright infringement != trespassing
    trespassing != theft

    Makes sense to me.

  22. Re:Ok, before the bitching begins: on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 1

    The firewall actually doesn't lock down anything. If you've never used YahooIM before install it and login. Ignore the firewall notice and start chatting. It doesn't lock it down until you tell it to, otherwise it lets connections go on like it wasn't there.

  23. Re:SHouldn't the title be: on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    I've worked on some iTunes-related things with him in the past. Trust me, he knows what he is doing.

  24. Re:Mixed feelings on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    Ouch, next time I'll remember to use the tags. :)

  25. Re:Mixed feelings on Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, you might as well get rid of all those MP3s you have too then. Oh, and all those AAC and MPG files. It wouldn't surprise me if someone could find a patent that covered the ogg work too.