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  1. Re:sooner or later the industry will give in... on The MPAA and EFF Cross Sabers · · Score: 1
    Here are Fox's rules:

    1. We can only offer a replacement copy for the Fox Home Entertainment DVD version that is currently available at retail stores.

    2. We cannot replace individual DVDs from box sets or Collector's Editions.

    3. Certain DVDs may not be eligible for replacement. This is because Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment may no longer produce that DVD or because certain theatrical rights are no longer under the purview of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. We will notify you via e-mail if the DVD you request for replacement is not eligible for this program.

    4. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment reserves the right to amend these Program Requirements if future conditions warrant.

    Looks to me like you send your dvd to them, they have 6-8 weeks to tell you "tough luck." No thanks.

  2. Re:lutefisk on Record Meteorite Hits Norway · · Score: 1

    Well now I know what is funny to you. That was disgusting! Thanks for the link.

  3. Re:Parsing meaningless phrases on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1
    It wasn't a flame. You probably wouldn't know a flame if it burnt your trousers, you retard.

    (that was a flame, not serious ok?)

    I like learning weird things, and I figured amightywind would enjoy learning something about wind, a figure of speech currently being misused, and some kewl pirate-speek.

    I figured wrong, you obviously don't like to learn new things. I'll leave you alone ok?

  4. Re:Why is enhancement bad? on Psychopharm Going 'Mainstream' In Schools? · · Score: 1
    I agree with you, but you have a fact wrong. The best selling drugs are cholesterol lowering drugs, diabetes drugs, asthma medications. You don't get to an "enhancing" drug until you get to Zoloft (#7), and anemia drugs round out the top 10.

    Part of the problem in pharma is the focus on take-every-day-forever type drugs, and you'll notice that every one of these drugs fits that description.

  5. By and large on Why Startups Condense in America · · Score: 1
    You can sail a ship into the wind (by the wind) or with the wind (sailing large). Amightywind should know this.

    By in large doesn't mean anything. By and large means all possible directions and has come to mean "all things being considered."

  6. Re:Great for chainmaillers on A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium · · Score: 1

    I suspect that titanium chainmail isn't "period."

  7. Re:Apples and oranges... on A Cleaner, Cheaper Route to Titanium · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The company might make more money selling 10 times as much at 1/5 the price.

    Lower profit margin but more profit.

  8. Re:Oh great on Capacitors to Replace Batteries? · · Score: 1
    It will always be possible to get a defective or a subspec part.

    MTBF or average cycles is not a law, but having a higher one actually is better than a lower one.

  9. Re:The downside to wireless office: on A WiFi-Only Office Network? · · Score: 1
    In the US people call the small shelves behind a bathroom mirror a medicine cabinet.

    I'm trying to picture a medicine cabinet with 50 ethernet jacks. Thank you for making me laugh!

    So, what is a medical cabinet?

  10. Re:Readers on Can the Malware Industry be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    Then people will bitch that Symantec didn't create Norton, they bought it.

  11. This is ridiculous on Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support · · Score: 1

    I simply can't believe it.

    Post after post where someone has to explain to someone using 10 year old software that they can use old software.

    You'd think the 98ers would instinctively realize that they won't be forced to upgrade anything.

  12. Re:Freedom of *what*, exactly? on Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I disagree. Text is text. Does it matter if it is written down physically or electronically? OCR is quite good these days, so writing it down physically is writing it electronically. A news site could list the text on the T-shirt in a story about it, and I don't think that is piracy. There is no firm line between text on a shirt and text on a computer.

  13. Re:Freedom of *what*, exactly? on Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping · · Score: 2, Insightful
    See the problem? The program itself is on the t-shirt. You can type it in from the t-shirt, crank it through perl and get a bash script to decode dvds. It's an interesting case. Future decryption algorythms won't be small enough to fit on a t-shirt. So where do we draw the line? Is a t-shirt ok? How about if you need 10 t-shirts? 100? I don't see a rational intuitive place to say "This is speech. Beyond this is piracy."

    As an aside, DeCSS isn't only used for piracy. You need it to watch dvds on a linux computer for example. Or to make a backup for personal use which used to be a fair use of copyright.

    Even the pornography example isn't clearly defined. Is a picture of my kid in the tub pornography? What if some pervert uses it pruriently? What if some pervert collects pictures of kids in tubs and sells them?

  14. Not going to work on High Definition Radio and New Content Alternatives · · Score: 1
    You've got a milliwatt transmitter. They've got a milliwatt transmitter. Theirs is 1m from the antenna, yours is 10m from the antenna.

    You could rig an illegal high-power transmitter. That'd be quite funny - iPirate Radio!

  15. Re: High Definition Radio? on High Definition Radio and New Content Alternatives · · Score: 1

    Definition is subject to its definition. You can have analog signals of differing quality. Depending on modulation, frequency, signal strength, etc you can have different frequency range and dynamic range.

  16. Re:Freedom of *what*, exactly? on Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The deCSS algorythm can be expressed as a short perl script. It was printed on a t-shirt as a protest against cracking down on sites hosting DeCSS.

    It can be argued that a t-shirt with this script on it couldn't possibly be piracy, yet there was a controversy over it.

    I was making the point that piracy and speech aren't separated cleanly.

    I like what your friend did, it is along the same lines as the t-shirt. I'll bet he got a C&D too!

  17. Re:Freedom of *what*, exactly? on Keeping an Eye on Government Snooping · · Score: 1

    Here's a trick question: Is deCSS speech? What if it's on a t-shirt?

  18. A minor correction on Dvorak on Our Modern World · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Rudolf Diesel designed his engine to use peanut oil in the 1890s, so using vegetable oil is not new.

    The biggest change might be widespread cheap refrigeration. In the 20s people didn't have much fresh foods year round. They'd be staggered by the variety of foods in any supermarket in the winter, and grateful that food was plentiful and cheap.

  19. Re:versioning on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1
    Thank you. It was nostalgic to read about FILES-11. I'd utterly forgotten the name and never got inspired to look it up.

    Logical Names, what a great thing! I couldn't remember if it was CP/M, RSTS/E, or what, but I sure missed that.

  20. versioning on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1
    I liked the VAX-VMS versioning.

    You'd have myfile.c;15 myfile.c;16 and if you saved it again you can predict the result. When you are running low on disk or get annoyed by too many pages of filenames you can PURGE. To retrieve an old file version, just use the ";x" suffix.

    You can recover from many mistakes with this. Now that disk is so cheap it should be everywhere. But it's not.

    Now I miss posix.

  21. Re:Hardware? on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1, Troll
    It can be dozens of people. I've seen posts get modded up and down so much it's like sex.

    It's somewhat exciting to have something down at -1 come back from the dead to hit +5 despite being 30% overrated. Sex is probably better, though.

  22. What about the bus effect? on Errors in Spreadsheets are Pandemic · · Score: 1
    Management has to accept that any employee can get hit by a bus. If they've come to that realization, they can simply pretend the employee was hit by a bus and replace at will.

    I like job security myself, but dislike getting phone calls about stuff only I can fix.

  23. Re:encryption is a speed bump. on What's Missing From File / Disk Encryption? · · Score: 1
    Here's the OP:
    Even if they do, 50% of the population is below average. Almost every government and corporation has at least 1 idiot.

    I assumed OP meant below average intelligence. I guess it could refer to body mass or hair length, but idiot refers to intelligence. Intelligence is measured by IQ tests. So I decided to have fun with a correction to a correction.

    Mental deficiency used to be divided into the following sub-classifications, but these labels began to be abused by the public and are now largely obsolete: Borderline Deficiency (IQ 70-80), Moron (IQ 50-69), Imbecile (IQ 20-49 and Idiot (below 20). Mental deficiency is now generally called mental retardation.

  24. Re:I'm confused on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1
    Opinions differ, but IMHO it only applies in an offtopic ad hominem context.

    Anyone who disagrees probably approves of the Third Reich.

  25. Re:The cost of two digits? on CyberTerrorism - Reality or FUD? · · Score: 1
    The cases I saw weren't memory, but disk. Even one byte adds up with tens/hundreds of millions of records.

    I had to cram bits which was frustrating and led to ridiculous limitations, such as low and unpredictable limits on other numbers, not only years. I even had to fix an app that encoded the year in 1 byte, using an offset from 1982. Nice practice for y2k.

    Disk used to be damned pricey.