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  1. Re:And don't forget the *Flash*!!! on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Coming Soon to PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    every exponential trend
    comes to a sticky end

  2. compatibility on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1

    Music downloaded from Apple's iTunes online music store currently can only be played on iPods. ...and Macs and Windows PCs using any application that uses QuickTime, including iTunes and (I believe) recent versions of RealPlayer.

    and on any CD player!

  3. Re:Bad on What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have? · · Score: 1

    In addition, moving an email from the receiving server destroys the evidential value of the metadata associated with the email.

  4. whoa! on Apple Announces Wonderful Toys · · Score: 1

    9TB external storage a little excessive for a Mac Mini. Kind of loses the form factor?

  5. some of the 1% on Music Industry Backlash Against Sony Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Mandela
    Gandhi
    most of the founding fathers
    plenty of the french revolutionaries
    Lord Denning
    Warren (for Brown v Board of Education)

  6. Get your apostrophes right! on Cray Supercomputers to be Based on AMD Opterons · · Score: 1

    Did you mean get your formula is right? Or did you mean the right belonging to the formula? No, so no apostrophe. If you're going to correct someone, do it right.

  7. "For Siddhartha's sake" on Are Media Writers Biased Towards Apple? · · Score: 1

    ...karma whoring to nirvarna...

  8. If it's a commercial rootkit on Sony DRM Installs a Rootkit? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    do they do a mac or linux version?

  9. Re:Umm... on India's Bollywood Opts for Low-Cost Digital Cinema · · Score: 1

    Both are perfectly understandable transliterations of his [hindi] name.

  10. Depends on the contract on Violating A Patent As Moral Choice · · Score: 1

    > they're availing themselves of a contractual provision.... this means the gov't doesn't have to compensate the IP holder

    Unless of course the contract provides for compensation after the event, which it almost certainly does. Still can save time in an emergency - not haggling over the cost beforehand.

  11. why not just record off the telly for free? on Video iPod Apple's First Bad Move? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or as the blurb put it: "who would pay $1.99 to download an episode of 'Lost' from iTunes if the iPod could also hook up to your television and record that same episode free?"

              People who missed taping an episode?

  12. family not torn apart on RIAA Sues a Child · · Score: 1

    guardian ad litem = litigation friend - person who takes care of a court action on a child's behalf - not a personal guardian

  13. Re:Simple solution on Taiwan Irked at Google's Version of Earth · · Score: 1

    yes but India wold have to go through Pakistan-held Kashmir to get to most of that territory, so probably won't bother.

    Sikkhim is disputed; mostly as the Dahli Lama lives there occasionaly.

  14. radio on The Future of the iPod · · Score: 1

    Plus, why make a radio fit in when you can get a perectly good portable radio for a tenner?

  15. Re:When will they become mainstream? on When Will E-Books Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    audible on iPod does that nicely.

  16. social responsibility on IT Departments Are A Security Risk · · Score: 1

    "Do the facilities people get in trouble for not ancticipating the employee who leaned over to pick up his cell phone off the floor while driving, and failed to install a nice big inflatable barrier along all the roads? Of course not." ...and yet poor road design is one of the greatest contributory factors to road deaths (alongside pubs serving drivers drink).

  17. printing presses and monastries on P2P Now and Then · · Score: 1

    Printing presses for large runs of daily papers might be large but book presses can be small, in your basement, that's how samizdat publications were published in the soviet states. Also, if a bordering country has a different regime, books can be smuggled over borders.

    While computer to computer traffic is distributed, it faces a different form of threat - the systemic block. This will continue to happen in relation to commercial content with DRM and to political information in states like China.

    Anyway, the printing press was considerably smaller and cheaper than the predecessor technology, the monastery!

  18. I can't be bothered to read the article either.... on Apple Launches Video Podcasting For iTunes · · Score: 1

    but one of these posts is wrong:

    --------
    Stupid article (Score:4, Informative)
    by technoextreme (885694) on Thursday September 15, @07:56PM (#13569616)

    It's a freaking trademark that they used. You can't patent a word.

    --------
    Obviously... (Score:5, Informative)
    by Otter (3800) on Thursday September 15, @07:56PM (#13569620)
    (Last Journal: Wednesday September 14, @05:31PM)

    Apple's recent application for a patent on the phrase 'iPodcast.'
    Obviously, as the Ars Technica article correctly reads, they applied for a trademark on "iPodcast".

  19. If Apple were a monopoly... on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 1

    it would face pressure from its owners to extract monopoly profits.

    IF there were a mixed market with three, four or ten big players, none of whom had a market share larger than 40% in any one year, then Apple (but also the competition) would probably be streets ahead in technology terms.

    However would that be better socially? The monopoly of Microsoft in the operating system world has brought a standardisation that has allowed a focus on hardware improvement and cost reduction. Consistency between organisations allows for trivially easy file-transfer.

  20. Re:FreeBSD really needs this on Solaris DTrace To Be Ported to FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    If the post was moderated as troll because it was offtopic, then it was moderated wrongly. For guidance, this post should be moderated -1, Offtopic.

  21. yeah all that on Behind The Development Of The iPod nano · · Score: 1

    but they'll still have to ditch lots of icky green cases

  22. Re:Make it for Latin on A Useful Grammar Checker? · · Score: 1

    2^140*no of words is a pretty large number....

  23. There was such a thing as a bad scientist on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 1

    at Birkenau, Mengele.

    NEVER AGAIN!

  24. It is a fact on Bad Science in the Press · · Score: 1

    But is it a proven fact?

  25. do not both religion and science agree... on Singapore Bloggers Charged Under Sedition Act · · Score: 1

    that the strong does not respect the weak?

    Well I'm aware of many symbiotic relationships in nature, even between what may appear to be parasites and their hosts. Also science recognises the nurturing role of parents as central to evolutionary development.

    And as for religion, blessed indeed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth. And who, if she exists, is stronger than God?