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  1. Re:Can we define copyright as between two people? on RIAA's 'Misspeaking' May Have Affected Verdict · · Score: 2, Informative

    In the US, Sony v Universal said that using a VCR for time-shifting (recording a program for later playback, even if years later) is fair use. As well, RIAA v Diamond (makers of the Rio MP3 player) ruled that it was legal to dump your CDs onto the Rio (format or space-shifting).

  2. Re:But if it's Vista... on Lenovo Announces the IdeaPad · · Score: 1

    Your computer doesn't need to go that far to find out you tried to watch 2g1c*

    *the less you know, the better

  3. Re:Pressed Disk on Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games · · Score: 1

    The Dreamcast didn't ship in Debug mode. That would have been very easy to fix. The Dreamcast was busted open because of a function that let people put DC content on otherwise normal music CDs. Once someone figured out how to replicate the code, the Dreamcast was cracked.

  4. Re:Wii and homebrew on Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games · · Score: 1

    The DS is already reigon-free from the factory. There's no need to resort to piracy.

  5. Re:Encrypted? on Email In the 18th Century · · Score: 1

    isThay essagemay isway encryptedway.
    Fb vf guvf bar.

  6. Re:cat gack on GNU Octave 3.0 Released After 11 Years · · Score: 1

    In short, Octave is part of Sage. Sage is a collection of math tools bound together in a single program.

  7. Re:recursive patterns on Perl 5.10, 20 Year Anniversary · · Score: 1

    The new recursive patterns should increase perl's readability. The new recursive patterns should increase perl's readability.
  8. Re:What about the iPhone? on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 1

    As far as DJGPP goes, you may want to give DOSbox (http://www.dosbox.com/) a shot. It's a 486 emulator that's mostly used to run old DOS games, but I have a feeling DJGPP would work with it.

    Anyway, what do you need the DOS port of GCC for these days?

  9. Re:disappointing, it is relative! on Vista Named Year's Most Disappointing Product · · Score: 1

    Yes, but keep in mind that OSX was a completely separate OS from Mac OS 9 (OSX actually being the successor to NeXTSTEP), and that Mac OS 9 was a dead end expansion-wise.

  10. Re:Countdown to mplayer support starts now... on BBC iPlayer Welcomes Linux (and Macs) · · Score: 2, Interesting
    From wikipedia:

    The codec is still not finalised, and thus regarded as still being under development. The immediate aim is to be able to decode standard digital PAL TV definition (720 x 576i pixels per frame at 25 frames per second) in real time; the reference implementation can decode around 17 frames per second on a 3 GHz PC but extensive optimisation is planned.
  11. Re:That's easy ... on What is Bill Gates Learning From Open Source? · · Score: 2, Funny

    However, Yahoo News does, in fact, run on Google.

  12. Re:Sweet! on KDE 4 Uses 40% Less Memory Than 3 Despite Eye-Candy · · Score: 1

    "Tricked"?

    Betas on my work machine give me 100% bullet-proof coffee-break alibis!
    Then again, so does Vista...

  13. Re:Emulator? on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1

    In addition to the emulator approach and the LiveCD, someone runs a PPA on Launchpad with Sugar (the OLPC software and API) packages for Ubuntu Gutsy. https://launchpad.net/~jani/+archive And if you run Fedora, i'm pretty sure it would be child's play to get it running, since the OLPC is based on Fedora.

  14. Re:Oh well. on Iran Builds Supercomputer From Banned AMD Parts · · Score: 4, Informative
  15. Re:good idea on Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software · · Score: 1

    Hence the "View Source" button on the OLPC (as well as their insistence on Python)

  16. Re:Don't forget Octave on Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software · · Score: 1

    Octave is part of Sage.

  17. Re:Still working? on Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years · · Score: 2

    Dreamcast+DreamFrodo+Typing of the Dead keyboard+TV. About as close as one can get without the real thing

    Bonus points if you re-label the keys to their proper C64 equivalents

  18. Re:This is the end I tell you! on Lenovo Announces ThinkPads Preloaded With XP · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, staying on XP does, indirectly, have a negative impact on MS. Since Vista went over so poorly, shareholders get irritated that all that money they spent on R&D isin't making much of a return, and thus don't want them to take a risk like this again. Vista must succeed for the shareholders to be happy.

  19. Re:Yeah you are right... on Dell's World of Warcraft Laptop · · Score: 1

    I've got one for you. I'll cut you a deal for about $1000. Alliance or Horde? :)

  20. Re:A Java-ish success? on Verizon Embraces Google's Android · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um, Sprint and T-Mobile were two of the founding members of the OHA/Android.

  21. Re:Just make players that work. on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 1

    It's not as much CPU power as it is the abundance of cheap mass-produced MP3-playing decoder chips. MP3 became popular, so people made dedicated hardware for MP3, but that in turn makes it harder (for the hardware mfgs) to switch away from MP3.

  22. Re:Really wish that they would support Ogg and oth on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 1

    While this is generally true, .bins are excellent vectors for dreaded virus infections. Note that not all .bins carry them, but I prefer to stick with a format that is never really infected with a virus in the first place, even if I have the same program, for example, in a non-infected format or encapsulation.

  23. Re:OLPC Needs Appropriate Softare on Peru Orders 260K OLPCs, Mexico to Get 50K · · Score: 1

    The Eee is much closer to a cheap subnotebook than a PDA. Why? Try running Mathematica on a PDA.

  24. Re:SCO before Microsoft on The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, MS transferred Xenix to the Santa Cruz Operation (old SCO) for a 25% ownership of SCO. SCO renamed it SCO UNIX, then SCO OpenServer. Somewhere between, old SCO split into Tarantella and Caldera, which then renamed itself to the SCO Group (new, evil SCOX), who was recently involved in a minor copyright dispute with Novell.

    Hmmm......

  25. Re:Putinist Russia on SixApart Sells LiveJournal to Russian Media Company · · Score: 1

    Ah well it's 3, and I'm on the Internet, what's the worst that can happen? Slashdot could get bought up by some company in Soviet Russia?