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  1. So this means ... on Court Ruling Limits Copyright Claims · · Score: 1

    If I paid for a DVD, then want to view it in another form, its not a new use?

  2. Re:confusing on Microsoft Was Distributing Ubuntu Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No wonder companies are afraid of the GPL when stuff like the above is posted.
    1) You are only required to distribute source if you made modifications.
    2) If MS makes patent claims against Linux users, they just lose the right to distribute Linux, they don't magically lose (or give up) rights to their own patents.

  3. Re:That'll be AJAX on P2P Remains Dominant Protocol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Loading the whole page gets twenty "item unchanged, already in cache" and one new piece. So pressing a button may create a load on your browser to redraw the whole page, but not that much bandwidth.

    Web 2.0 applications seem to like maintaining a connection and continuously downloading some piece of meaningless crap. One travel site I was on recently was refreshing so much that my PC was practically unuseable. The page wasn't actually changing, just being continuously "updated".

  4. Re:Looks like Manila to me on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    Might not be. In USA, T-1 attached PBXs are programmed with the caller ID information, so anyone with their own PBX can pretend to be any number they want.

  5. Re:I'll only say... on 800 Break-ins at Dept. of Homeland Security · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Never mind competent. What exactly do they do? I can understand the purpose of the FBI, CIA, NSA, Treasury, FDA, FAA and SEC in law enforcement. What does DHS do that isn't covered already? The only thing I can find is publishing the threat level (currently Yellow = Run and Hide, except the airline industry is at Orange = Don't Bring Juice). Does anyone pay attention to that?

    Do we really need a whole beurocracy to make the various departments share information and cooperate with each other? Aren't they run by grownups?

  6. So why not on Dell Refuses to Sell Ubuntu to Business · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Incorrect on Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating 'Perfect' Products? · · Score: 1

    Ummm... perhaps you are one of those folks who incorrectly believes that microwaves "cook food from the inside out" or some such nonsense. Microwaves heat molecules, period, and don't penetrate very far through food. If you want to thaw food, turn it off before it starts to cook. Mine calculates the time for this fairly accurately based on the weight.

  8. Re:Incorrect on Do Patents Stop Companies From Creating 'Perfect' Products? · · Score: 1

    errm... microwaves?

  9. Re:Question for any Americans reading Slashdot. on White House E-mail Scandal Widens · · Score: 1

    You mean Hillary didn't machine gun Vince Foster and the White House travel office? Next you'll try to tell me that Bill didn't shut down air travel in LA while he got a haircut, or that John Kerry didn't make up his entire war record!

  10. Re:Single Paragraph on W3C Bars Public From Public Conference · · Score: 1

    But the reason he gave was not limited space, it was to allow government attendees to talk freely.

    If you really want to enlarge your audience, why would you exclude journalists? The real reason was to limit the scope, not to broaden it.

  11. For one reason or another? on Pressure Is On IBM To Forgive Millions In IT Debt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I love that part. I wish I could just order $5M worth of computer equipment using the taxpayer's wallet and then blame IBM for being hardhearted and cruel for not forgiving the debt. Why is the media not reporting on the waste and/or fraud involved in the original contract? Obviously, computers that were never used were not "needed", since the school district is still there and is apparently serving students. Who signed the original deal and what did he/she get out of it?

  12. Re:Sure. on Piracy More Serious Than Bank Robbery? · · Score: 1

    "Death by a thousand pricks"

    Finally, someone has described the RIAA perfectly.

  13. Re:Does this even matter? on Blockbuster Chooses Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    Around 15 GB x 8 bits / 1.5mbit/sec / 3600 sec/hr = 22 hours. So I guess I don't want to try this with 56K dialup.

  14. Re:Never on FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They have admitted it and as a result, the people within the FBI responsible for breaking the law have been identified and fired.

    Oh wait, no they haven't. There seem to be no consequences at all.

  15. Re:Obvious? on Location-Based Search Was Patented In 1999 · · Score: 1

    First off, you are violating my patent on posting an unrelated reply to the first post in order to get higher karma.

    Second, having looked at the patent, it can't stand up. It describes only in general terms how to do location-based searches, but never fully discloses "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter". Its just another "on the internet" patent. Verizon should fight.

  16. Re:I thought I knew what I was doing too on FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast · · Score: 1

    What mail client do you use?

    As the magic 8-ball says: "Outlook not so good"

  17. Re:And here come the phishers.... on FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast · · Score: 1

    Nope, no spf on fbi.gov or irs.gov.

    dig -t TXT fbi.gov
    QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0

    dig -t TXT irs.gov
    QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0

  18. Re:obligatory on Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If this worked then there would already be investors lined up who have sent messages to themselves from the future.

  19. Re:"In Soviet America"? Please. on Blogger Removed From NCAA Game for Blogging · · Score: 1
    • cell phone jammer
    • search on entry
    • big signs
    • burly officials throw you out

    How is this different then rock concerts, first-run movies, etc.?
  20. Re:Factually inacurate on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    Exodus 3:22 states that you must not only clothe your sons and daughters, but also make war in the Middle East.

    22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.

  21. Re:Reproduction normal? on Wildlife Returning To Chernobyl · · Score: 1

    Good point. If 1/2 of the animals are dying in infancy, chances are that half of their predators are also.

  22. Re:I predict... on White House Derails Attempts to End Illegal Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Also, some of the discussions on which attorneys to fire were done using separate RNC email accounts and deleted before they could be used as evidence. Not exactly Open Government.

    Strangely, even though the deletions were accidental, noone who sent or got the emails seems to have kept copies.

  23. Patents are now 20 years on Venter Institute Claims Patent on Synthetic Life · · Score: 1

    Since patents are now 20 years from application date, this presages an interesting court case. What happens if the patent is still in force when this new lifeform is old enough to vote?

  24. Re:About time on Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt · · Score: 1

    More likely they will figure out a way to do precision acceleration of big chunks of rock onto specific targets on Earth. Military uses drive space budgets.

  25. Re:"Electric ions"? on Riding an Ion Drive to the Asteroid Belt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Saturn Ion propulsion.