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  1. Re:Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Are you saying HDMI actively strips the closed captioning from the video feed? That is evil.

    more like, passively strips. I guess. Somehow over the air HD channels can send captioning through a digital only signal, but HDMI cannot/doesn't. I've never been able to understand the distinction.

  2. Re:Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. I suggest you learn something about HDMI and digital video in general.

    And yet, for years I'm unable to get closed captioning to work across an HDMI cable between various tv's, cable boxes, and DVD players.

  3. Re:Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 1

    HDMI supports FULL closed captioning, It has supported it since it supported video.

    HDMI supports NO closed captioning, and it hasn't supported it since ever.

  4. Closed Captioning on HDMI 2.0 Officially Announced · · Score: 2

    Have they fixed the lack of closed captioning in HDMI? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

  5. Re:Could be Simple, but Won't on Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales · · Score: 1

    This could be a very simple process - the business would charge whatever the sales tax rate is for where it is headquartered

    This would just get every online business "headquarted" (with a PO box and an accountant) in Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon. The states with no sales tax.

  6. Re:Because insurance pays for them on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except, insurance (generally) doesn't cover them. Mine surely didn't.

  7. Re:OT: Whatever happened to Quantum ? on Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate · · Score: 1

    According to wikipedia, they where bought by Maxtor in 2001, then Maxtor was bought by Seagate in 2005.

  8. Re:Has anyone found the original Tron on TV? on 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World · · Score: 1

    HDNet showed it a lot recently, but they show movies in cycles.

  9. Re:Prequel, Sequel on BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sooner or later you will have to let go.

    He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!

  10. "Play"book on RIM Announces BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Targeted at business users but called a playbook, eh? Seems like an odd name for that.

  11. Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox on Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ironically, the primary site for which I really need a faster Javascript engine is Slashdot. For a heavily-commented article I switch to Chrome.

    Is chrome the only broswer that has problems with the idle.slashdot comment thread. It anytime I try to open a closed comment, it refreshes the page and only gives me the comment, it doesn't expand the comment inline like it does in a normal comment thread. I've always been to lazy to try other broswers.

  12. Re:Closed captions, hello? on HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion · · Score: 1

    I second this. My closed captioning disappeared on me. It took a lot of time to find the secret hidden combination on my cable box to enable them. All because they don't pass CC info across the cable, or the spec, or something.

  13. Sell it on What To Do With an Old G5 Tower? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd be surprised what an older G5 desktop sells for on the used market. Any software dev that supports PowerPC apps needs testing machines, and dev boxes. Faster PowerPCs like G5s are in demand out there.

  14. and Quickdraw on MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum · · Score: 2, Interesting

    or some early parts of it (download on the same page). That seems even more interesting to me.

  15. Re:Not exactly. on Tabnapping Scams Around the Corner? · · Score: 1

    There's the whole visited link color issue. basically the page can see the tell what the color of a link is, and if the color is the "visited link" color, you know the user visits that page. so the page puts up a bunch of urls, checks to see which of the URLs are in the visited link color, They now know which sites you have visited somewhat recently.

  16. Re:almost fooled me... on Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Batteries · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got excited for a minute because I thought the header read "Microsoft Says Windows 7 Not Killing Babies".

    That would have been interesting.

    So, Windows 7 is still killing babies?

    They haven't denied it yet.

  17. AM I reading the subtext right? on Apple Counter-Sues Nokia Over Patents · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple is complaining that Nokia isn't offering the Standards based cell phones on Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory basis? Isn't Nokia required to do that as part of submitting those patents as part of the GSM standard. It stated that in the lawsuit that nokia wanted a patent cross-license agreement with apple for the rights to the GSM patents. That's not reasonable and nondiscriminatory.

  18. My builder doesn't own my house on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aren't works for hire generally owned by whoever is paying... City pays contractor for work, city owns the work, not the contractor.

  19. If only criminals followed the law.. on Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking Could Hurt Cell Towers · · Score: 1

    They already have access to jailbreaked phones. If they are going to do something this nefarious intentionally, they aren't going to care if hacking iphones is illegal.

  20. Re:Finally challenging 'work for hire' copyright b on RIAA Wants To Bar Jammie From Making Objections · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've never understood why books are (C) Author, and music is (C) Publisher

    from Salon article in January 2000:Courtney Love does the math

    Last November [2000], a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act. He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature.

    That Mitch Glazier, the congresional aide? now an RIAA lobbyist It certainly wasn't an accident. I've never understood why they just didn't fix that.

  21. Re:Wow, the theory that matches all experimental d on String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids · · Score: 1
    The parent needs a higher score pronto. Hopefully a fundamental score of +5 insightful, and not an emergent one of +4 interesting +1funny

    I have no idea what I'm saying.

  22. Re:Axis of Evil on Voyager Clue Points To Origin of the Axis of Evil · · Score: 1

    isn't there a -1 joke was way to obvious? (to be fair it was the first thing I thought of too)

  23. Re:Headline is inaccurate on NY Court Says Police Can't Track Suspect With GPS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Which is weird, because in the Wisconsin case, the officers had a warrant. The judges there said it wasn't needed!

  24. Re:The April Fool on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    All right! Wait, is this The april fool thread?

  25. And so it begins... on Opera Launches Facial Gesture Capability · · Score: 1
    "How will it end?"

    "In fire"