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  1. Oblig Futurama on TiVo Awarded Patent For Password You Can't Hack · · Score: 1

    Bender: What an awful dream! 1s and 0s everywhere! ...and I thought I saw a 2...
    Fry: It was just a dream, Bender. There's no such thing as 2.

  2. I Don't Get It on Disney - Blu-ray's Fair Weather Friend · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What's the advantage of supporting Just one of the formats? What's in it for Disney to diss HDDVD?

  3. Re:To add to that on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    "Me Too" Central Midwest, there was a blizzard, then 60F for a week or so, then down to 15F for a few weeks, and now its summer. Weird.

  4. Easy on Memory Tools for Password Management? · · Score: 1

    I use the same combination as my luggage!

  5. Re:No way. on AOL's Embarassing Password Woes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find that picking out just something around the desk and using it's serial number (or some other long sequence of random letters and numbers) as your password, you'll never forget it as long as you know what thing its on. Not so good, however, is when someone notices that you're looking at the back of your computer speakers everytime you log on.

  6. Re:Competition for emusic on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 1

    All right, so you can't find individual artists that you knew beforehand, I'll give you that because I, too, was a little upset to find that a lot of artists I would of loved to buy 2 dollar albums from weren't in their library, but you can't deny that there's plenty of good music to discover there. I'm an eclectic listener myself, and as such a find that most music is pretty good, and even though there's not always an artist I'm pining for at any given moment, there's usually someone who's close enough to do the job.

  7. Re:Top 40??? on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 1

    My point was that you can get "all manner of classic rock, hard rock, symphonic, blues and more" from emusic at a much lower price, the reason to go with iTunes is because they DO have the 'top 40' and more popular music. I know iTunes has a huge library of lesseer/unknown artists, but you pay the price on the lesser known ones for the access to the ones getting all that radio play.

  8. Re:I hope it gets better on The 660 Gallon Brewery Fuel Cell · · Score: 1

    More importantly, that's a lot of beer!

  9. Re:Story link on Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School · · Score: 1

    Americans have a history of being strongly against asians; the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1892 didn't allow any Chinese into the United States as immigrants, and it wasn't repealed until 1943. And then you have the Japanese camps... I've heard people say 'they're more different than blacks' to justify it yea Racism is friggen stupid

  10. Re:Competition for emusic on Apple To Grant All Labels DRM-Free Distribution · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Of course, at 1.30 per song, iTunes' DRM-free AAC cost about 6 times as much as eMusic DRM-free MP3, but for all those people looking for DRM-free top-40-type music, dream come true, eh? (how big is that overlap, anyway?)

  11. Re:Honestly, does it really matter? on Can Music Survive Inside the Big Box? · · Score: 0

    Have you tried eMusic?
    DRM-free MP3 at usually pretty high bitrage 160-256, 20-30 cents per song

    (they have a deal that you get 50 free downloads if you sign up from a referance from a friend, and the friend that sends it also gets 50 free downloads. So, I would be glad to email you so you can get double the songs from the free trial, but either way, I recommend you at least try it out to se N8 they have the music you're looking for)

  12. Re:protection of sources on Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt · · Score: 0

    IANAL, but you have the constitutional right to not self-incriminate. They couldn't force you to hand over the video of you committing a crime if you took the video, because it'd be sealing your own fate, and that's not cool. However, POSTING the video of you committing crime counts, I believe, as waiving that right, and you'd look like a flaming fool if you tried to say police couldn't use that as evidence.

  13. Re:Government control? on Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt · · Score: 0

    Does the journalist have to reveal their source to show the video to a court? Or are you saying that trusting someone includes keeping evidence from police? I think that's iffy. But I absolutely agree that journalists should be able to keep their sources secret, but what has that got to do with their information, especially evidence in a criminal case?

  14. Government control? on Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt · · Score: 0, Insightful

    It's a court asking to see video of a crime so that they can arrest some people for bashing an officers head in. This is NOT the same thing as the government suppressing journalism or controlling what information reaches the public as this is spun to sound. No one is infringing on the journalist's right to publish what he wants, they're asking him to show them evidence that could lead to the arrest of criminals.

  15. Re:Blogger jailed? on Blogger Freed After 226 Days in Jail For Contempt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Because, as a blogger, he'll want all the freedoms of a journalist, but he's complaining that he's getting the short end of the stick in this particular situation. So, people can either argue that he's not a REAL journalist, so he shouldn't of been held in contempt for keeping information secret, or that everything is fair because he gets all the rights of a journalist, so he gets the responsibility of a journalist, as well. That said, I think it's silly to force someone to show video they have, but also think that it's silly to keep it from the court, unless he's trying to keep it from the court to his own advantage.

  16. Ceramic =/= Styrofoam -- loses rigidity with hea on Jack Thompson Faces Disciplinary Hearing · · Score: 0

    It's supposed to reach the consumer that hot at a sit-down coffee shop with ceramic mugs, yes. This is a fast food restaraunt serving coffee in styrofoam cups to people in cars. McDs followed the suggestion for quality coffee when they should be thinking about safety issues involved in giving a person 180* coffee in a styrofoam cup that collapses from the heat when you take the lid off to add sugar. The lawsuit was iffy, but if you want good coffee, fast food isn't the place, and theyre ignoring the safety of the consumer. The issue isn't so much "Contents are Hot" as "Do Not remove lid, styrofoam collapses"

  17. Spaceflight through the Northern Lights == badass on European Launch Site For Virgin Galactic · · Score: 0

    Can you even imagine what a sight that would be? Suborbit to see infinite stars already sounds amazing, but dancing lights would make the millions worthwhile. Check out the view from the ISS http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Auro ra_Borealis.jpg/ (640k link) That said, count me surprised if flying an extraordinarily complex spaceship through ionic storms, but maybe I'm overestimating what it exactly does, despite glancing through the wiki article on northern lights.

  18. Re:Privoxy is the solution! on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 0

    couple hungred kb ~= half a megabyte, no?

  19. Blue Humor on Hubble Telescope Maps Dark Matter in 3D · · Score: -1, Troll

    Any word of Dark Matter on Uranus?

  20. Re:damn now I'm hungry on Father of Instant Ramen Passes Away · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I have no instant noodles :( Turn in your geek-card. Now.
  21. Re:news? on Microsoft's Handheld Codenamed Argo · · Score: 2, Informative

    follow the offsite links, engadget has a picture

  22. Re:You Americans Need to Lighten up on PSP Ad Draws Charges of Racism · · Score: 1

    No, it didn't. It used black and white. Not african and dutch, not jamacain and british, black and white. colors, not races.

  23. Re:For all you DRM neysayers on The State of Digital Music in 2006 · · Score: 1

    If a Meteor is going to come down and kill the Record Companies...shouldnt we be a little worried too?

  24. Re:It seems like on Homeland Security Okays Closed Proceedings · · Score: 1

    Okay, now Im curious, I thought that was kind of the point... Do you want to educate me or shall google?

  25. Re:Learn the subject matter on Segway Inventor Turns To Environment · · Score: 1

    Sigh, there are two different inventions being confused here. The parent was referring to the Segway, which has two wheels with a gyroscope to keep its balance. The same guy also invented a wheelchair that has 4 wheels but can go up on 2 with the help of a few motors and a gyroscope to keep its balance so the person in the chair can reach higher and also climb stairs. Amazing tech, but very expensive, and not covered by insurance.