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  1. Re:Gmail can be confusing in German... on Google Abandons the Gmail Name In Germany · · Score: 1

    G pronounced in German sounds like "gay". A few years ago when I told friends that I got a master beta account, they made fun of me and asked what my girlfriends thinks about that...

    There fixed that for you.
  2. Re:Buy the company takeover the trademark on Google Abandons the Gmail Name In Germany · · Score: 1

    Here's 10 million dollars for something you don't really need and will never make money with...

    Yeah, they'll really be enjoying that decision in about 10 years. Dumbasses.

  3. snoop on the sysadmin on 1 In 3 Sysadmins Snoop On Colleagues · · Score: 1

    And here I am snooping on the sysadmins. Amazing what you can find in .ssh/known_hosts and history.

  4. Re:I can just see the darwin awards on Guide to DIY Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    This is why I run all my power cables through that innocuous grey "network interface box" outside. All the phone lines are rerouted way prior to the grey box, where it hits the house at the roof, so you can't kill of my alarm system. Also put a screamer alarm in your NIC box for laughs. You get an FM transmitter that goes inside the earpiece of an old landline phone for $20 at like hobbytronics. http://www.hobbytron.com/fm-wireless-phone-telephone-transmitter.html The parts are only about $1 tho.

  5. Re:Network Solutions on US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers · · Score: 1

    I agree, it just as much of a scam as the one I got from canada.

  6. Re: Only Hire (russian) women? on PhD Research On Software Design Principles? · · Score: 1

    if you could update the drivers to windows 3.1's basic graphics/sound/and io bus....It would scream...I mean the entire win 3.1 install was what? 4-6 1.44 meg floppies? It would either hang or crash just like it always did, no mysteries there. BSODFTW4EVER
  7. Re:Thats what they get on Mass Effect DRM Still Causing Issues · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you google your radio model number you can probably find out the ultra-secret factory unlock key. Similarly, a lot of cars can reset limp mode or engine check light by turning the key on & off five times without starting.

  8. Re:And who's going to buy it? on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 1

    That's no excuse. You have to pay for power, network connection, and hardware to get streaming DRM mp3s. At least I can store them.

    No, you don't have to store or download them, you stream them any time. Why would you download them?
    You don't record music off the radio do you?

    ---drm allows people to charge you for providing a service, rather then charge you to provide music.

    You pay for the service to play any music you want anywhere. You pay $49.95 a month. It could even be *your* music that you uploaded to their server.

    ---I have tens of thousands of mp3's myself, but I can only listen to one at a time (maybe two :).
    MP3's only work on devices that play mp3's.
    I have months of songs (4 months, 3 weeks). I can play them one a time per connection. I have computers in every room serving whatever media I wish for. DRM is incompatible with that. Therefore, I do not consider any products with DRM, as I see them out of the market place.

    The electricity for computers in every room costs more then 49.95 a month.

    Also, nearly every audio related device can play MP3's in one media or another (microSD to usb HDD to DVD with mp3s). MP3's are universal, unlike FLAC or OGG, to my dismay.

    I'm trying to compare DRM protected play any song anywhere anytime with radio, which are very similar. MP3's are like cassette tapes or LP's, once you have them you can play them anytime you want.

    ---Radio's don't work to play anything, just to listen to whatever is already playing.

    Bzzt. They decode FM and AM signals :P But that's me, the ham operator speaking.

    And a DRM protrected "Radio" would play any content you want any where you want. It would decode the signal coming over the air.

    ---And your DRM protected music can be played just fine on any device. Just make a recording of the file being played. They gotta make sound to get it in your ears, so you'll always be able to play it again.

    That's not playing DRM files on ANY device. Anybody can hassle through line level recording to get past DRM on audio. I'd rather just dl it from piratebay. And if I do that, why even pay for some temp license?

    The same reason that you have mp3's instead of listening to the radio all the time. mp3's are not better then radio, because you have to bring them with you.

    The device I'd like to see is just like an IPOD, but can play any music or other audio or possibly video content anytime you want anywhere you want. Many many people would pay 49.95 a month for such a service, enabling you to get the latest music without having to go to piratebay or funfile. Downloading stuff from piratebay is a huge time sink, you can spend your whole life DL'ing all that crap. I would much rather Listen and Watch then Hunt and Download. I make 49.95 in 30 minutes, that less time then I've ever spent cruising napster.

    317M ./Audio Books
    7.2G ./Blues
    820M ./Classical
    79M ./Funk
    8.3G ./Grateful Dead
    20G ./Tunnel Trance Force
    22M ./Indie
    383M ./Humor
    98G ./Rock
    2.8G ./Other Rock
    564M ./Punk Rock
    5.0G ./Rap and Hip Hop
    2.1G ./Reggae
    7.7M ./Samples
    228M ./Singles
    7.5M ./Sounds
    54G ./Techno, Trance, Rave
    21M ./Theme Songs
    1.7G ./Undecided - other - unknown - misc
    2.3M ./bluegrass-folk-banjo
    17G ./mirrors
    9.4G ./music - unsorted

    I have YEARS of mp3s. Once you get to my level you'll understand ;)

  9. Re:And who's going to buy it? on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 1

    It's not free, you have to pay for all the hard drive space to store your mp3s. With ubiquitous wireless broadband looming, drm allows people to charge you for providing a service, rather then charge you to provide music. I have tens of thousands of mp3's myself, but I can only listen to one at a time (maybe two :). MP3's only work on devices that play mp3's. Radio's don't work to play anything, just to listen to whatever is already playing. And your DRM protected music can be played just fine on any device. Just make a recording of the file being played. They gotta make sound to get it in your ears, so you'll always be able to play it again.

  10. Re:And who's going to buy it? on Microchips With Multiple "Selves" · · Score: 1

    Device free, with $49.99 / year subscription. Play any song you want, anywhere, anytime. Not all DRM is bad.

  11. Re:Sure, "Forgotten", right on RIAA's Throwing In the Towel Covered a Sucker Punch · · Score: 1

    Can I get a "Disbar that sucker" smiley please?

  12. Re:Not innocent enough! on RIAA's Throwing In the Towel Covered a Sucker Punch · · Score: 1

    Sweet, did they find my pen?

  13. bribing comcast you mean on RIAA Throws In Towel On "Making Available" Case · · Score: 1

    eom

  14. Re:Okay? on NASA Plans Probe to the Sun · · Score: 1

    How about asbestos?

  15. Re:No download? on Joomla! A User's Guide · · Score: 1

    Buy it scan it torrent it done

  16. Profit on IAU Classifies Pluto & Eris As "Plutoids" · · Score: 1

    1) Call every thing X 2) Decide somethings actually aren't X 3) Come up with stupid meaningless name that makes all school textbooks obviously outdated, aka centrifugal force and sell them new ones. 4) Profit!

  17. Re:Please proofread summary just a little bit on Leaning Tower of Pisa Secure For 300 More Years · · Score: 1

    should be shoot? You mean chute?

  18. Re:Welcome to our world on Time Warner Cable Tries Metering Internet Use · · Score: 1

    I was getting 45 spams a minute at one point. Seriously. Get gmail for domains, it's the way to go. And the quote is correct, it was armpits, not genitals.

  19. Re:Still Stateless on Next-Gen JavaScript Interpreter Speeds Up WebKit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, for lazy website operators maybe. You can strip your HTTP headers down to almost nothing, and you only need one cookie to accomplish everything.

  20. Everyone in the world should Block 38.107 and 129. on FCC Pitches Free, Bowdlerized Wireless Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Everyone in the world should Block 38.107 and 129.47 at their firewalls. I did years ago when these bastards started feeding me bad hashcodes for the bob dylan torrent I was downloading.

  21. Re:er? on $100 Roku Netflix Player Targets Apple TV · · Score: 1

    Until comcast yanks your internet connection. I dunno why all you poor saps can't just wait a couple months for movies to come out.

  22. Re:Garage Sale on Using RFID Tags Around the House? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Garage Sale is officially ON! I have a computer, a desk, a chair, books, an acoustic guitar, a bike, and a couch for sale cheap!

  23. Re:Even Higher Frequencies Possible? on Room Temperature Semiconductor of T-Rays · · Score: 1

    It makes the mind spin how quickly comcast would whip out the AUP on that connection.

  24. Re:Don't they understand on Comcast Invests in P2P · · Score: 1

    I already do.

  25. Re:Let the raging tardfight commence on Colossus Cipher Challenge Winner On Ada · · Score: 1

    Almost every languge can get the job done