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  1. Re:prestige? on Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see their version of the Transported Man.

  2. Re:I went there on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's kind of like breathing, you don't think about it until someone brings it up.

    By the way, you are now breathing manually.

  3. Re:Anyone on charter, please visit our tripwire... on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I did look through the page but I guess I didn't realize what it was doing. I feel dumb now, thanks.

  4. Re:Anyone on charter, please visit our tripwire... on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 1

    Do you have any mirrors on a non .edu domain? Maybe they're being kind to the .edu TLD (doubt it) or even specifically avoiding your tripwire site.

  5. Re:Scummy ISPs on Charter Is Latest ISP To Plan Wiretapping Via DPI · · Score: 4, Informative

    You may want to check out this site, which has tests on in-flight ad injection and tools that you can use to detect (aka tripwire) it.

    http://vancouver.cs.washington.edu/

  6. Re:Could they not do the same with torrents? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    Yes, and maybe this is where they got some of their false information from. Or they're just stupid and have no idea what they've gotten themselves into.

  7. Re:Could they not do the same with torrents? on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they can but if they want to see who is seeding/leaching they probably need to connect to the tracker (I'm not exactly sure how DHT works). Limewire essentially serves as a tracker for Limewire and they obviously don't care that MediaSentry IPs are trolling for sharers, but Pirate Bay, etc. undoubtedly would be interested and probably respond in some (hilarious) way. Maybe by giving MediaSentry bad IPs which then lead to the RIAA falsely accusing someone and getting a ton of bad press. Who knows, but I wouldn't doubt it if they weren't limiting their searches to just Limewire, gives people a false sense of security that not using Limewire is safe.

  8. Legality of MediaSentry on How the RIAA Targets Campus Copyright Violators · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article details MediaSentry's tactics but wasn't there a bunch of fuss earlier this year on how MediaSentry may actually be illegal in some states because they don't have an investigator's license? Does this mean MediaSentry is filtering out schools from states where they can't investigate people from? Or are they still collecting everything they can and forwarding it on to the RIAA, which still seems illegal on their part.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/11/1427257
    http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/10/1542222

  9. Re:EVOO? on Dealing With Dialup · · Score: 1

    Is it sad that I know that stands for extra virgin olive oil?

  10. Re:Not so bad. on The Worst Workspaces In Tech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Some of those places look pretty nice next to the cube farm I'm at (though I like working there, don't get me wrong). Low or little walls encourage collaboration, everyone has a laptop to tote around to work wherever (but what's with all the laptops at the Mozilla meeting? talk about getting nothing done), and though some of the wall "art" might get obnoxious, it can't be much worse than all the inspirational quotes that adorn my office.

  11. Re:Pages on Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually I would say that records are more like books where CDs are like reading off an eBook. With records you get that classic click and hiss when the needle first hits the vinyl and even though the medium has flaws, I just love the way it sounds. It's very... analog (huge cliche, whatever). CDs remove that familiarity and give you a near perfect reproduction of the music as the artist intended (or as the mixer intended).

    Books and eBooks offer a similar comparison in my opinion. With books you have the feel of the paper and the sound of the pages turning against your shirt. It's very physical and again, analog. eBooks of course give you the book in a very digital format, you can't stain the pages of your eBook or write in the margins for the next reader to explore, but it's given to you just as the writer intended.

    For better or worse with both. If I owned an eBook I'd probably fill it up, heck, I read comics on my DS. But there's still something with holding a book in hand and getting a feel for the pages and smelling its distinct library, bookstore, or basement scent.

  12. Re:Too Bad on A Copyright Cop In Every Zune · · Score: 1

    I'm curious if Apple themselves document this somewhere? This roundabout is well known but has Apple ever acknowledged it or just given their customers a wink.

  13. Re:In other words... on RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints · · Score: 1

    Slash fiction... forming!

  14. Re:In other words... on RIAA Says No Mystery In Rash of College Complaints · · Score: 1

    I don't want to pay $10-15 to buy a CD that contains just one good song. Stop listening to crap that only has one good song. There are plenty of bands out there that put out entire albums of really good material. There's so much more music out there besides radio top 20.
  15. Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony on Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother · · Score: 1

    I know a whole bunch of Boy Scouts from when I was growing up, I know quite a few Eagle Scouts also, and not one of them is neo-conservative. I know some Christians, some liberals, some conservatives, and plenty of moderates (and even atheists) that spent many years in Boy Scouts. Maybe your local chapter of the Boy Scouts is the equivalent of Bush Youth (I seriously doubt that though), but don't assume you can play the simple Mad Lib to make your point.

  16. twitter on Twitter Reportedly May Abandon Ruby On Rails · · Score: 1

    In related news, twitter (104583) reportedly may abandon his use of sock puppets due to numerous outages.

  17. Re:Where are the mods? on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 1

    I have five mod points, I'd bump you up but I here I am posting. Whoops.

  18. Re:NY Could Sue For Buyer's Addresses on Amazon Fights Back Against NY Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    You're really confused, buyers pay the tax at the time of purchase. It is tacked on to their final sum based off of either their billing or shipping address. You don't have to keep track of what you bought and claim that at the end of the year, unless you're a non-profit or buying things for business use.

  19. Re:Of COURSE it's still in its infancy! on Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy" · · Score: 1

    But the internet is in most homes (homes being defined as where telephones and televisions are also present) and has greatly affected the way businesses do business. I'm not going to argue whether it's out of infancy, because that's just a subjective term, but according to your definition, I would argue that it has spread far faster than previous technologies.

  20. Re:Joomla/Mambo yes? on Building Powerful and Robust Websites With Drupal 6 · · Score: 1

    I was able to install Drupal and I never had any experience whatsoever installing a CMS over FTP.

    I used this screencast and it was a breeze.

  21. Re:the ICANNon has fired! on ICANN Takes a Step Toward Ending Domain Tasting · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm sure they won't mind pocketing the extra dough either.

  22. Re:Spore Wife on Spore Editor Available June 17th · · Score: 1

    number of limbs Man, I hope you're right.
  23. Re:Avoid bloat on Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I agree that NoScript is great, but I don't think it's actually very useful for speeding up sites. I spend a lot of time reloading sites multiple times because I actually need to use their javascript for whatever (usually stupid) reason. It becomes a guessing game sometimes which site to temporarily ok.

    Security wise though it's awesome.

  24. Blogger in Draft on Is Google Neglecting Blogger? · · Score: 1

    It should be noted that the Scheduled Posting mentioned in the summary is not available in "regular" Blogger, but only in Blogger In Draft, which is kind of like their beta site for Blogger. You still access all your same posts and everything, just have access to new features. So most normal Bloggers (capital B) will not even know this exists, I didn't until today and I use it regularly.

  25. Spore Wife on Spore Editor Available June 17th · · Score: 5, Funny

    All my wife wants to do in Spore is make creatures, heck, all she does in the Sims is make us and then produce 10 spawns from "us". She's got a real bun in the oven now though, so maybe she'll get over this faze, but the whole point of this is: if I can spend 10 dollars to make her happy until we have to take care of a real spore, I'll take it.