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  1. Re:I'm on a 100% music CD boycott on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    It is still not DRM, they just screwed with the disk to make it a non-CD that, in same cases still worked as a CD would.
    DRM involes it being encrypted, so that you need the right key to use it. The software that has this key will ONLY let you do approved things to it.

  2. Re:I'm on a 100% music CD boycott on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    But is still not the same as uncompressed PCM.

  3. Re:In other news.. on RIAA Hands out more Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    > and the sun came up.
    Should that not be SUN still does not opensource Java?

  4. Re:I'm going to hold off... on Comparing Tiger and Vista Beta 1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    GoogleOS is likly writen (if it even exists) as a server OS for Google's clusters, not for a desktop/gaming pc OS.
    So a word of advice,. don't hold your breath that it will be able to get you any good frags (or that it would even let you see them for that matter) in CS.

  5. Re:_Eight_ redirections? on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 5, Informative

    >the toolkit --> the X server --> and the driver/hw!!
    >When I saw this (App->gtk+->Cairo->XRender->Xgl ->GLX(X)->GL->hw) it blew my mind..
    Well it is really more like this

    App->toolset->Cairo->XRender->Xgl->GLX(X)->GL->hw
    |___App______||__Xserver_______________||OpenGLdri vers/hardware
    (might not be lined up)

    It is in fact the 3 part system that you think it should be, however it (for many diffent reasons) spilt up into subparts.

    Like if I where to show you the way a file system works i might draw:
    App->API->driver->hardware
    when it is more like:
    App->API->filesystem driver->device diver framework->PCI bus driver->PCI to IDE controller driver->Disk driver
    It is still in the same 4 parts as it was shown in the first but this( 2nd one) is more detailed.
    And as this is "News for nerds" surly we should crave the more detailed account.

  6. Re:X Box? on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    I would say what it was sold as.
    We all know the xbox case would not pass as a game console.

  7. Re:But... on Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks · · Score: 1

    Well being british and knowing but a vague idea and what El Reg and NTK.NET has told me about copyright law (as is to say not much). Making a large number of copys for any intent other then making a backup and things of that kind might be infriging on the copyright.

  8. Oh, sorry. on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    But I would think that if you are under the network license you where not subject to the end user one (Well atleast on installs done under the network one).
    Then again IANAL.

  9. Re:X Box? on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    No it is still a game console, just as MS sells it X86 proc, windows NT-like OS and most likly some kb/ms driver and debug port somewhere.

  10. Re:Network licenses allow tablet pc's on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    Urmmm, embedded devices are the things that tell that servo moter when to turn, or when it is a in-the-wall device like a ATM.

  11. Re:FUD in the first degree on Flash EULA Doesn't Fit the Times · · Score: 1

    A PDA or a mobile phone, I can pick and move my desktop that does not make it a "mobile device".

  12. BEEP, sorry you got it wrong the correct answer is on Andrew Orlowski Answers Mail on Creative Commons · · Score: 1

    Quote from Wikipedia "All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License".
    Think you might of got that 2nd one wrong?

  13. s/see/sell on Coffee A Health Drink? · · Score: 1

    Sell not see.
    Blah should of used the preview button...

  14. Re:Take with a pinch of cocoa on Coffee A Health Drink? · · Score: 1

    > The study was funded by the American Cocoa Research Institute. Make of that what you may.
    They want to see more coffee flavored chocolate?

  15. Re:Why? Why? on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    Yes it is true somepeople would think "Hey a protest, just think of who I could harm there", but I would rather think (a most of the time do) they where in small numbers compared to the ones there with the intent to make there voice heard with out going around hurting others.
    I tend to belive we only hear about "bloodshed" protests as it sells more papers then "advid peace campaners have sit-in outside army base".

    About the mob rule, yes I might be an "naive, idealistic" fool, however i tend to belive that most people (and hence most crowds/protests/riots) care more about the colective( socity might be a better word...) then themselfs.

  16. Re:Why? Why? on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    > Oh yes. Because, you know, angry rioting crowds are really friendly once you get to know them.

    Well lets start of with this, few sane people go around killing as a part of a riot. That is unless you have really pissed them off.
    What about getting rid of the cause of the anger?
    Or even if they go to the rioting stage, why not ask them to sit down a talk about how you can improve things?
    Yes at times shotting them might be the only thing you can do to stop greater suffering, but that cop/army personal might think "Hey, why not zap them with the nonlethal lighting gun" as the first thing to do rather then the last.

    >Nobody (well, nobody except some weirdos like China and so forth) is using weapons (non-lethal or not) against peaceful dissenters.

    Well on this last thing you said the US police have done such things a quick google for 'police rubber bullets' came up with this http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-06.ht m .

  17. Re:Weapons of war. on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    Terrorist, go hand your self over to your local CIA or FBI officer and they will only beat you a bit.

    (note to mods: just joking please no bad karma me)

  18. Re:Why? Why? on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well I was thinking about just not shotting them at all.
    You know not harming our fellow man and all.

  19. Re:Why? Why? on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what about that one man in the crowd with a heart problem?
    Shotting crowd is _always_ going to kill or severely harm someone dispite as "non"-lethal the weapons may be.

  20. Re:Link to MoDaCo's forum rules about privacy. on Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief · · Score: 1

    > post any material
    Thats most likly the key 3 words of this thing.
    This was _not_ posted, however they did use log files in a mannor that could be found to be illegal under the Data Protection Act, as they where used in case where the theif was not told about before connecting/registration.

  21. Re:whats up with this dossier crap? on Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief · · Score: 1

    Well we need something to read while we drink our tea.

  22. Re:I don't know why anyone would steal that phone on Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief · · Score: 1

    Oh I am sure someone, somewhere, has all ready ported bochs to it...

  23. Re:Oooh. on What was Your Senior Project? · · Score: 1

    I am sorry to brake it to you, but the OSDN is no more we now have the OSTG. Sure you have been getting them paychecks the last year?

  24. Re:Article summary on How Voice Enhances Life Online · · Score: 1

    Yea I just fragged the VP of sales.
    Yes sorry sir, my mouse slipped and I fired by mistake, yes sir I will make sure it does not happen again.

  25. Re:Charter? on BBC Views Content Piracy As Wake-Up Call · · Score: 1

    The BBC's Royal Charter is what he refers to.
    The GrandParent appers to of been mistaken in his understanding of the GreatGrandParent.
    The BBC's Royal Charter gives them to power to colect a TV licence from each household with a TV.
    It is however bound under the same charter to have adverts for non-BBC progammes and things of that kind.
    However it should also be noted that BBC also gets money from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
    That being said it does not apply to non-profit broadcasters like Channel Four, althou they also receive some money from government offices.