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  1. Re:How long? on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes they do use windows DRM, but they also make sure that their customers are educated on all sides of the issus

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6944830.stm

    Various tools have been created to strip files of the DRM, such as FairUse4WM, a program released in August 2006 by a hacker named Viodentia. Nine days after the crack first appeared, Microsoft released a new version to prevent FairUse4WM from working. Within three days hackers released a new version of the tool. The tool can be used to strip DRM from programmes with the BBC iPlayer.
  2. Re:If flash is slow then what is quicktime? on Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone · · Score: 1

    There's no going to become about it. It is.

  3. Re:Premature Congratulations on Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but modern medicine is not doing evolution any favours be letting people who would otherwise quickly die live and reproduce.

  4. Re:Still need those damned wires on McNealy Says Telcos Falling Behind in Net Race · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is exactly what happens in the UK. BT own most of the lines and do their own DSL, but there are loads of outfits that resell BT's DSL for about the same price. Most of them even outsource their tech support back to BT openreach. Some outfits do offer local loop unbunding, where they buy your line and install their own equipment in BT's exchanges, but in the end it comes out pretty much the same for the end user.

  5. Re:what about DX10/game performance? on Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008 · · Score: 1

    Yes, a server OS, so having wireless and disk indexing optional sounds like a good idea, as you would seldom need either for many sever roles. Unless ofcourse you thought it should be more like linux and just have no wireless support at all.

  6. Re:This is how I learn. on Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP · · Score: 1

    PHP 5 is great and all, however many of the cheap hosting plans that make it so popular are stuck with 4. This means all the web tutorials cater to the lowest denominator, and this is PHP4 and the MySQL functions.

  7. Re:Now that that's over on Microsoft To Drop HD DVD · · Score: 1

    Would be such a pity if say, you suddenly had to start paying retail prices for all the copies of vista you ship on those laptops..

  8. Re:Oh really on DVD Jon Creates DRM Killer · · Score: 1

    While one could probably create a jpeg decoder that can take a lossless copy of a jpeg and reproduce the original. I assume most encoders don't know that the original was a jpeg so assume the compression artefacts present are part of the image so try to replicate them, instead of understanding they are unwanted.

  9. Easy on Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Speed up web browsing for their customers while keeping those dirty bittorrent pirates at bay?

  10. Re:Disgusting on UK ISPs To Start Tracking Your Surfing To Serve You Ads · · Score: 1

    Please RTFS, the ISP is not messing with data between you and the web, but instead giving your browsing history to an ad vendor who then uses it to target add at you and gives the ISP a cut. This way the adverts can target your entire history, not just the pages that have ads on them.

  11. Re:15% efficiency on New Solar Cell Harvests Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    I think the potention chemical energy in water is greater than sunlight.
    There are atleast 2 things wrong with the sentance:
    1. Water does not contain any useful potential chemical energy.
    2. Neither does sunlight.

    Petrol may be more efficient than hydrogen, but that's no good when you have run out of it.
  12. Re:Better luck next time on Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production · · Score: 1

    You can embed FTP resources in html just fine thanks, provided they all used a unique protocol handler I suspect browsers would soon support all of them. Except IE ofcouse.

  13. Re:Or it is not spreading on Why Linux Doesn't Spread - the Curse of Being Free · · Score: 1

    Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

  14. Re:Who will I ping ? on How Microsoft-Yahoo Will Affect Open Source · · Score: 1

    I used to ping planetquake.com, and now I ping bbc.co.uk

  15. Re:There's more here than meets the eye on Apple Can't Afford iPhone's Carrier Exclusivity · · Score: 1

    This must be an American thing again. Here in the UK my phone is on T-Mobile and my last one was Vodafone, neither of them had handset features disabled by the carrier. This may be more common in the 'smartphone' arena though, where people are more likely to run VoIP software, etc.

  16. Re:GPLv2 violation already on TiVO Patent Upheld, Dish May Have to Disable DVR · · Score: 1

    From my understanding of how TiVo works, their software that implements this patient runs as an application on a linux OS, so the GPL does not apply.

  17. Re:Who is the target audience? on Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:What a crock on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah but until it reaches our shores will shall continue out piratey ways.

    It shall be interesting to see how they handle Europe because the EU holds views on restricting people from purchasing goods from other states.

  19. Re:Other demoscene links on Programming As Art — 13 Amazing Code Demos · · Score: 1

    To get synchroplastikum to run I had to turn off data execution protection for the file, clearly some mad coding skillz there.

  20. Re:warning labels on New 4100 Lumen Flashlight Can Set Things On Fire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nerd card. Now.

  21. Re:Text of some of the letters on Subpoena Sought For Browsed News Articles · · Score: 1

    Seems simple enough, search the web logs for all relevant records, send them off and tell the court the need to go after the ISPs involved to link IPs to people.

    The only technical reason I can see for them not being able to is if they have not kept the log files...

  22. Re:Can't believe it! on Amazon MP3 Store to Go Global in 2008 · · Score: 1

    Steve is not allowed to sell DRM free tracks because he won't let the labels set individual prices for each track.

  23. Re:still waiting on The Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I was going to give you money right up to the point I didn't have my paypal details saved in my browser, sorry, you can have money but not the 10 seconds it would take me to type them.

  24. Re:First thoughts on W3C Publishes First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 · · Score: 1

    So you can have one html file for your content, then include another html file with your sites header/footer/etc without having to resort to server side scripting. You could secure it by saying you can only include from the same domain as the main page.

  25. Re:The Source for the Runtime is also out. on Microsoft Releases Source of .NET Base Classes · · Score: 1

    As a gzip archive no less, last I checked windows won't open that, unless visual studio has it built in....