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  1. Re:In other news... on Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany · · Score: 1

    No, he's making a point of the RIAA's tendency to dragnet sue people who don't even own a computer. Not sure if they have tried to due a fetus, but that could be just a matter of time.

  2. Re:What's more disturbing to me... on Time Warner Cable Box Rental Inspired Antitrust Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Define premium.

    TV service that you pay for, as opposed to OTA.

  3. Re:Drivers on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    Not so much ethernet NICs (those haven't really been a problem for years, AFAICT) as wireless cards. It's gotten much better, but wireless cards can still be annoying to get working. IMO, part of the problem is some manufacturer's tendency to keep model numbers and just increment the revision, even when it is a huge change, like switching it to a completely different chipset, which makes it a real crapshoot if a particular model of card will consistently work without a lot of legwork and research.

  4. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    1. I would appreciate some sources for those efficiency numbers, as I'm pretty sure your numbers for grid and conversion losses are way high.

    2. Car batteries are a prominent example of a highly successful recycling program. the recycle rate for lead-acid car batteries is over 90% and I fail to see why this would be significantly different for the larger packs used in hybrids/EVs.

  5. Re:Still doesnt solve jack on Americans Refusing To Wait For Mainstream EVs · · Score: 1

    It is shifting the problem, but it is a partial solution, as even coal plants are more efficient than small gasoline engines, especially when you consider the entire supply chain.

    It also centralizes the problem, which makes it easier to solve.

  6. Re:TRS rules on Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec · · Score: 1

    So you happen to have a TRRRRS connector? as TFA seems to state that USB3.0 over wire will need 6 conductors. (power, ground, data to device, data from device, and grounds for each data line), presumably to get the SNR high enough to allow higher speeds.

  7. Re:My password on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    Write it down on a sticky note or other handy piece of paper and store it in your wallet until you've memorized the new password.

  8. Re:encryption on UK Gov't Proposes Massive Internet Snooping, Data Storage · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, breaking ANY encryption (except properly used one time pads) is nothing more than a math problem. That does not mean it is currently practical.

    While 64-bit keys can be broken by specialized hardware (EFF's deep crack or the COPACOBANA) or distributed networks in a relatively short time, a 128 bit key is not merely twice as hard. It's 2^64 times as hard. Each additional bit doubles the keyspace, and thus the time (or processing power) required for a brute force search.

    Even dealing with an exaflop of processing power, you'd be looking at estimated-age-of-the-universe timespans to break a 128-bit key. And encryption systems using larger keys are readily available.

  9. Re:Obviously not on Are US Voters Informed Enough About Science? · · Score: 1

    Science has also found no evidence of the absence a supreme being, there's even no evidence to suggest that such a being does not exist, neither physical nor mathematical.

    I.e. I have no bloody idea if one (or many of them) exist, until further evidence appears, if such evidence ever appears.

  10. Re:One solution on What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime · · Score: 1

    Just on that last part, that 5 years of 3% raises still won't make up for it, as in all likelihood, inflation will be eating most or all of that yearly raise. In the past year, the (Canadian) CPI has gone up by 3.13%, and that's undershooting the increase in the cost of living as it doesn't factor in "volatile" things like the price of gas.

  11. Re:One solution on What Tech Workers Need To Know About Overtime · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is there an actual codified definition of what constitutes a "manager"? If not, what would stop them from defining whoever they want (or everyone for that matter) as a "manager"?

  12. Re:Wax not vinyl on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    Originally, yes, they were originally a wax-shellac-slate-cotton/paper mixture. They later started making some on vinyl, due to lower production cost and the fact that vinyl isn't as fragile, at least in terms of not cracking if you look at it funny (particularly if you need to mail them), though it's a lot easier to scratch.

  13. Re:Digitizing vinyl on Digitizing Rare Vinyl · · Score: 1

    Note to mods : this is not bloody offtopic.

    On the question, there are built-in "noise removal" and "click removal" effects available in audacity, though I have not used them, so I'm not sure how effective they are.

  14. Re:Why is this a problem? on Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues · · Score: 1

    "More bars in more places."="Our network was designed by drunks."

  15. Re:Chemicals on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    If it turns out to be nothing, then they give it back.

    You need to read the article also.

    "Ultimately, they will be disposed of," said DEP spokesman Joseph M. Ferson, who said the city's Department of Public Works is making sure nothing seeped into the sewer lines.

  16. Re:But those Jihad Videos can stay up just fine... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how the hell they're pulling copyright into this. If anything, the rings would be a trademark, barring some stupid special legal status for this.

  17. Re:I'll judge them in 3 days. on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because suing Amnesty International would be PR suicide?

  18. Re:what email address did he register? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your signature and comment match quite well.

  19. Re:what email address did he register? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not sure if you're completely joking or not, but the customers are not the deceased, but the family of the deceased, which typically do bring opportunities for repeat business, as everyone, including vampires and zombies, dies eventually, and if they were satisfied with the services the first time, it's likely they'll return.

  20. Re:oh boy on Digital Camera Powered By a Fuel Cell · · Score: 1

    There's already a few places planning to sell (or maybe selling by now. or gone out of business. I haven't heard anything about it for awhile.) sealed, single-use disposable fuel cells as on-the-go chargers for cell phones, mp3 players, PDAs, etc.

  21. Re:what email address did he register? on Who Owns Your Online Networking Contacts? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not just trust, but also a "knows what I need/want" thing. It generally happens with any sort of personalized service. Bankers, brokers, investment consultants (a lot of times those three hats are worn by one person), doctors, lawyers, funeral planners, etc. All of them rely heavily on repeat clients and word-of-mouth advertising, which in turn rely heavily on providing just-what-I-needed service.

  22. Re:Divesting yourself of intellectual property on Economic Gridlock – the Invisible Cost of IP Law · · Score: 1

    1. Take upfront/touring money
    2. Use what you need and invest the remainder
    3. Repeat 1 & 2
    4. Break from loop and live off the invested money.

    This works just fine for the rest of the world (work+invest->retire).

    Though I would still go for short-term copyright (7+7 sounds fine to me) over no copyright.

  23. Re:Stupid Question... on Why Shoot Down a Satellite? Analyzing an Analysis · · Score: 1

    Aside from the fact they didn't shoot it down, just blast it into more little bits of high-speed space debris whizzing about in orbit, which pose a considerable hazard to useful satellites and anything else we want up in orbit (shuttles and space stations, for example).

  24. Re:at least TPB has a sense of humor about it on The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy · · Score: 1

    Ok, must've made a typo with the link.

    http://thepiratebay.org/blog

  25. Re:at least TPB has a sense of humor about it on The Pirate Bay Blocked In Italy · · Score: 1

    La Baia = The Bay in Italian.

    They state as such on the blog (http://thepiratebay.org/blog)