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  1. Re:Wait a minute.. on Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up For Failure? · · Score: 1
    When HD-DVD and Blu-Ray drives become available for the Mac or OEM Linux, (think Linspire systems sold through Walmart or Target) they will enforce the same DRM rules as Windows, the XBox or the PS3. There is no side-grade.

    Tell that to region codes.

    Linux never had problems with regions.
    It was only until relatively recently that most dvd players ditched the regions.
  2. Re:Wait a minute.. on Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up For Failure? · · Score: 1

    Activation was cracked pretty well. I....A friend recently did it for a virtual machine. :)

  3. Re:CSIRO Patents are a good thing on CSIRO Wireless Patent Reaffirmed In US Court · · Score: 1

    You clearly have no idea what sort of stuff the CSIRO does.
    They are the leaders in many scientific fields which directly filters down to everyone in the world.

  4. Re:sucks to be them... on CSIRO Wireless Patent Reaffirmed In US Court · · Score: 1

    Actually this patent isnt too bad. The CSIRO has it which means they wont abuse it.

    Just imagine the screams if Microsoft had it.

  5. Re:It's not the last barrier on Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project · · Score: 1

    This is the last actual code in a computer which doesnt have a open alternative.

  6. Re:Um... so? on Zune Not Compatible With Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    Um....Yeah?

    Since nearly everyone who uses Vista is a MS fan and probably dont have a iPod, they will all be wanting to get their hands on the Zune.

  7. Re:Lots o mouse clicks on Transec, a Secure Authentication Tag Library · · Score: 1

    Well if the system uses one form of images (like the demo) then its actually really simple to target and the screenlogger would even be able to perform basic OCR on it.

  8. Re:I hope they trade their 360s in.. on PS3 and Wii — Head To Head · · Score: 1

    I'll open the bug report. How on earth did the FF guys miss that one?

  9. Re: not so whoa on 100 Gbps Via Ethernet · · Score: 1

    Actually it would decrease pings to quite a degree.
    First off this is FAST so the equipment being used is good quality.
    Second if a program wants a packet sent it doesnt need to wait as long for the packets ahead of it in the queue to be sent.

    This message was posted over a network with 0.117 ms lag. :)

  10. Re:Whoa. on 100 Gbps Via Ethernet · · Score: 1

    FTP uses TCP not UDP.
    I think your thinking of TFTP which uses UDP for things like network booting.

  11. Re:Indeed on Scientists Find New Painkiller From Saliva · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why yes we can advance science in other ways!

    Just sign these release papers and we'll get the 'advancement' started. :)

  12. Re:That won't fly in court on Copyright Protection Problems For OSS Project · · Score: 1

    Well then he paid for it and has the right to edit it and sell it as his own. :)

  13. Re:Holy Shit! on Sun Open Sources Java Under GPL · · Score: 1

    Sun has been planning this for awhile.

  14. Re:people are becoming mute to it ... on Google Envisions Free Cell Phones For All · · Score: 1

    I highly doubt Google would actually ring your phone to deliver ads.
    That breaks their "Do no evil" policy and noone would use it.

  15. Re:Another X prize on Top 10 List of Worldwide Internet Censors · · Score: 1

    What if you accidentally drop a small capacitor in through the ventilation slit?
    Is it still illegal then?

    I can imagine it now. Instead of smuggling illicit items accross the border, they will start smuggling capacitors.

  16. Re:Really cool but... on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? My punch cards kick Access around the block for performance.

  17. Re:Really cool but... on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    phpBB supports it.

    I think quite a few other things support it too.

  18. Dont bother on Best Method For Foiling Email Harvesters? · · Score: 1

    I dont bother.
    I just post my email address clean and let the bots use it.

    Seamonkey's spam filtering lets through 2 out of every hundred or so and gets false positives of far less than that.
    It also filters those emails designed to untrain beysian filters and emails which only contain images.

    Mind you my case isnt standard. Its filters have got over 3 years of email to train it and its got 18,500 spam filtered.
    No markov chains will untrain it any time soon.

  19. Re:Please note on Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count · · Score: 2

    If the machines cant do their fundamental job then the programmers need be shot because they are impersonators.

    $candidates['candidate 1']++;

  20. Re:feedback on the feedback on Google's Test Search Engine · · Score: 1

    Well now the Wikipedia results are separate. They are now stored in a separate box and not in the search results.

  21. Re:Dupe on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    QNX is a little too new to have been around in 1970.

    No they dont use Linux either.

  22. Re:Test case on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    Or they could just change the time manually so the NASA engineer with nothing better to do can be reading Slashdot on New Years.

  23. Re:Simple! on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    And you see pretty fireworks when computer code has a bug in it.

  24. Re:Simple! on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey these are Americans! Why would they use London time? ;)

    The shuttles probably run off American Eastern Standard Time.

  25. Re:Simple! on NASA Avoids "Happy New Year" On Shuttle · · Score: 1

    What if $leapyear is undefined?