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  1. Limited viewing not a good route at this point. on Apple to Announce iTunes Movie Rentals? · · Score: 1

    Limited viewing wouldn't be a very good route to go; considering that other services are already allowing you to purchase a downloadable copy of all available movies which can be viewed indefinitely, and according to this CNET article, they're also expanding to allow you to burn them to DVD.

  2. Re:What the hell? on DWR Makes Interportlet Messaging With AJAX Easy · · Score: 1

    A portlet is like a Java applet, except it's built specifically as a little program that runs inside a web portal. There are some very rigid rules it must follow to be considered a portlet. It's like a plug-in.

    I've found that if you have a problem with your portlet, you can plug it up with your Ajax and prevent any sort of embarrassing leaks. Ajax has amazing absorption, and it's very comfortable because it's designed with portlets in mind. So it feels like you're not even wearing an Ajax. It's great!

  3. Re:Read the title real quick.... on PHP Hacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Strings will not be broken in PHP 6. Most of the changes that might cause older applications or current applications taking advantage of deprecated functions to fail have had years to make the changes needed to prevent such failures and/or abnormal program terminations. http://www.corephp.co.uk/archives/19-Prepare-for-P HP-6.html http://wiki.cc/php/PHP6

  4. Re:what did he expect? on Student Suspended Over IM Icon · · Score: 1

    "I was in second grade when i learned you can get in trouble for drawing pictures of people you don't like lying in a hospital bed."

    By the time I was in second grade I had learned how to make it look like an accident.

  5. Google Business Process **BETA** on Tepid Results from Google's New Product Process · · Score: 1

    Maybe this "process" is still just in beta? You know, like all their other stuff?

    -2 "Dirty Little Troll"

  6. Re:Turn & drop trowsers please on Microsoft Sued Over WGA · · Score: 1

    Already lubed up, thank you very much.

  7. We have the same system in the US. on Internet Deconstructing State Church in Finland · · Score: 1

    Except we can't resign from it -- they just take some of our taxes and give it to the churches of their (current administration) choice: http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/fbci/ Troll-ish? Perhaps. But you like it.

  8. Re:Screw that. on Hollywood Against Jobs' Movie Pricing Plan · · Score: 0

    Right. The artists are very involved with the pricing structure, and Apple is completely powerless.

  9. Re:Screw that. on Hollywood Against Jobs' Movie Pricing Plan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's not always the case. I just paid $6.99 for 4 songs, because the one song I wanted, was only available by purchasing "the album". Apple/iTunes seems to be doing this more and more.

    Turns out the song wasn't that good anyway.

  10. Re:Good on Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim · · Score: 1

    You're right, 14 years is a long time to wait for your money. If I were him, I'd take a nice long vacation. Maybe head to Guatemala for a couple of weeks for some nice, much deserved R&R.

  11. Re:Ex-Military IT staff described in a nutshell. on The Living Dilbert? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Problems with the type of people being hired for a position, can generally be narrowed down to problems with the people doing the hiring.

  12. Re:AOL! on Who Will Join Microsoft in the Portal Wars? · · Score: 0

    I can burn you a copy.

  13. I guess this is probably a good idea considering: on Yet Another Violent Games Ban · · Score: 0

    I guess this new bill is probably a pretty good idea considering that when I read the following:

    'a video game in which the range of options available to a player includes killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being...'

    I though to myself, "Wow, that sounds like fun!"

  14. Right... on Creative use for empty whiskey bottles · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."

    Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?

  15. Money. on Fired from an IP Law Firm for Anti-DRM Views? · · Score: 0

    "Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?"

    Yes, but it doesn't make you more money. The idea is to share the views of those who can line your pockets with large wads of cash.

    Students. Heh. He'll learn eventually...

  16. Napster: Own nothing. Have everything! on Napster To Be Acquired by Google? · · Score: 0

    I'm particularly amused by Napster's last ad campaign in which they try to sell their most significant shortcoming as a feature:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/napster_ sells_nothing/

    Napster would be a nail or two (or three) in Google's coffin. Google can't be that stupid, I mean, if Google googles Napster they should get all kind of information on why doing business with them is bad. But maybe that's the real question here... does Google google? What does it mean for a Google to google? Can Google google itself? Perhaps Slashdot is on the verge of discovering the dirtiest, deepest, darkest secret that Google has been hiding from us, all along: Google can't google using google.com or any Google-related products. Something to do with recursive loops and bacon grease. It's all very complicated.

    Whatever.

  17. Re:Sony BMG on Google Video Store Announced · · Score: 0

    No, Sony is okay if they're with Google. That's how we do things here. Don't ask.

  18. Re:It was bound to happen on Graphics Coming to Google Ads · · Score: 0

    Just do a google for "new search engine" and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.

    There ya go.

  19. Re:Sounds like all of the systems they make! on Dell XPS 'Gaming' PC Review · · Score: 1, Informative

    At the bank I work at, all our PCs are imaged before the leave the factory with a custom image that we supplied to Dell. They also tweak the BIOS for us too.

  20. Re:Gummy bears on Fingerprint Scanners Fooled By Play-Doh · · Score: 0

    You don't need to eat anything. Just turn the play-doh finger into a little Mr. Bill. Nobody would ever expect Mr. Bill.

    "Oh nooooooo...!!!"

    What? I don't have any Karma anyway. What do I care?

  21. Before everyone freaks out about the 24 hours... on Brit TV Won't Go Digital Till 2012 · · Score: 0

    "Users will be able to view the material for 24 hours once they begin playback on their computers; once downloaded, the material will be stored on the user's computer for 30 days to act as a resource in the Peer Impact network, potentially hastening downloads for other nearby Peer Impact customers--"nearby" in the sense of network topography and bandwidth, not necessarily physical geography."

    Like most legal video download sites out there right now, you can store it for 30 days. Once you start watching it, you have 24 hours to view it.

    Movielink works this way. If you start watching it and don't finish within 24 hours or you want to watch it again a few days later, you have to pay an extra $1.99.

  22. So, what's the score? on Windows Advantage Validation Process On Firefox · · Score: 0

    Sony: -1
    MS: +1
    Google: +3

  23. What I don't understand is... on DVD Jon's Code In Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 0

    Why didn't google put a stop to this? Surely they have the resources. I think this whole thing is google's fault. I blame google. They just sort of stood by, and watched.

  24. Re:woohoo on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sometimes trolls get to be mods too. As you can see from this example.

  25. The good ol' BSD on Microsoft Reduces Shared Source Licenses · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    The first license format, Ms-PL (Microsoft Permissive License), is similar to the BSD license while the second...

    You can buy BSDs? They use to be free, along with a core-dump.