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  1. Just watch. on MapReduce — a Major Step Backwards? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a technical step backwards, they're doing it all wrong, experts say you should do it this other way....

    And watch. It'll be massively successful because it works.

  2. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    There are Fair Use exemptions to copyright law.

    No "Fair Use" exemptions to the DMCA exist.

  3. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    Where do you get this stuff? The maker of the tool isn't doing any more circumvention than the gun manufacturer is shooting people or the hammer manufacturer is breaking windows.

  4. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    The law makes the act of breaking the encryption illegal in the US.

    The same goes for the entire EU, which ratified very similar language into law in 2001.

  5. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, you're totally wrong.

    The DMCA, in no uncertain terms, criminalizes the very *act* of breaking the CSS encryption on DVDs.

    "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."

  6. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 1

    That "DVD" isn't quite a DVD.

    It's a DVD that includes a *second copy of the show* in an iTunes format.

    Not quite the same, is it.

    It's still illegal to break CSS.

  7. Re:Wot no optical drive? on Apple Announces MacBook Air · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, it's illegal to rip DVDs.... and you won't be able to rent a DVD at the downstairs Blockbuster when your hotel's internet connection gets you a lovely 75 KB/s.

  8. 10 hours? Oh no! on Scientists Fly to 2008's Most Dazzling Meteor Shower · · Score: 1

    Coffee? Lengthy?

    A 10 hour shift is lengthy and requires lots of coffee?

    I want that job. The blurb author must work 3 hours a day.

  9. What a moronic story. on Sperm Could Power Nanobots · · Score: 4, Informative

    This isn't about powering nanobots with sperm. It's about looking at sperm's locomotive method and adapting it to nanobots.

    I'm not really sure why the article talks about sperm, specifically, but ATP is used all over the human body to do virtually everything, including move muscles.

  10. Re:Unfortunately... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    A typical gigawatt reactor only uses 100 acres?

    Are you including the coal mine with that figure?

  11. Re:Great, more anti women supporters. on Ron Paul Spam Traced to Reactor Botnet · · Score: 1

    Anti-women supporters? What are you talking about?

  12. Copyright expires on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, Cliff's Notes only exist covering works whose copyrights have expired.

    A quick perusal of their list didn't reveal a single book still under copyright.

  13. This is fine on The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You rate a product there, you are providing Facebook with your opinion of the product. You agree to let Facebook use this opinion any way they want. You've also agreed to let Facebook use the pictures you've uploaded.

    This conforms just fine with the user agreements. If you don't like it, don't use Facebook.

  14. Re:Your best bet. on Patterns in Lottery Numbers · · Score: 2, Funny

    No way, man, I don't want my gramma to break her ankle and watch her house burn down.

  15. Re:Parity with US$ has gone to their heads! on Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent" · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh..... Loons don't quack.

    I spend at least a week every year up on Squam Lake in New Hampshire. The place is riddled with loons. I hear them make all manner of spooky-ass sounds, but I've never heard one quack.

    They're not ducks. They're not even in the same order. They don't even look like ducks. Look at their bills.

  16. Re:This was broken over a month ago on Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package · · Score: 1

    The bundle is cool, but the Premium has had an HDMI port already for a couple of months.

  17. Re:That's 3 SKUs on Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but two are unchanged: Elite and Pro/Premium. Hence, one NEW SKU.

    Well, the Pro might have its own new SKU, but I could see it keeping the Premium SKU since it's essentially the same thing.

  18. Re:Microsoft has to focus... on Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package · · Score: 1

    3 versions. Same as now.

    Elite, Pro (former Premium), and Arcade (former Core, but with a wireless controller and 256MB memory card included).

  19. This was broken over a month ago on Leaks Reveal New Xbox 360 Package · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kotaku broke this story way back on August 20.

    There will be 1 new SKUs with 3 new packages:

    XBox Arcade ("Go play!"), no HD, 256MB memory card, wireless controller, and 5 arcade games
    XBox Pro ("Go Pro!"), former premium (20GB HD, 30-day Live Gold trial, headset)
    XBox Elite (Go Big!"), with 120GB HD and HDMI cable in black.

    http://kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/new-360-core-coming-to-us-this-holiday-291506.php

  20. Re:QTopia Greenphone on Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Locking? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Once again, the open source movement leads the way in product innovation.

    (I'll get modded as troll for this, of course).

  21. Re:Here is the list of account names on Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted · · Score: 1

    One of the account names is they_call_me_*ice*nuts*

    Do you think they really call him that?

  22. Re:Is this news? on Velociraptor Had Feathers · · Score: 4, Interesting
  23. Re:Great. on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, this one is correct. I divided by 480Gb/s instead of 4.8Gb/s because I glanced at the summary and saw "480."

    It's not 15 seconds, it's 1500 seconds.

    So much for being able to do basic math.

    GP forgot that a byte is 8 bits.

  24. Re:Great. on USB 3 in 2008, 10 Times as Fast · · Score: 0

    15 seconds for those of us who can do basic math ;)

  25. Re:Off-topic, but.... on Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's true for the two immensely popular albums that you listed here.

    However, the sales from those albums do something other than cover the production costs of PHM and TDS. They help cover the costs of the tons of unprofitable albums the labels produce.

    If you want albums *that* cheap, you will have to live with the labels in question not signing and working for promising artists that will probably never be popular.

    For every platinum album produced by a label, there are 100 albums that don't cover all their production costs.