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  1. DRM on TCP/IP Speakers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    An interesting development and one that brings us closer to the time when even your speakers can check if you have a license for content....

  2. RE: Proxy Server on Browse All You Want At Work · · Score: 1

    If the SysAdmin does what the majority of the ones I know do (including myself), they will not allow your machine to make outgoing connections regardless of what DNS settings, etc you use. The point is to force people to use the proxy. If you want to make connections outside the organization's network, you get monitored because you set the firewall rules to only allow the proxy(ies) to make the outbound connections.

    If you could bypass the proxy by unchecking use proxy (ignoring the case of the transparent in-line proxy) what's the point of having one in the first place?

  3. entertainment industry on Who Works During the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    actors and technicians work holidays, and weekends too. we generally only get mondays off, and if that monday happens to be on a week before the show opens the technicians don't get a break.
    don't forget that movie theaters are open on holidays too.
    there's no business like show business...

  4. Tolkien and Mythology on Review: Tolkien's World · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't believe that Tolkien would have agreed that his family convinced him to write about more worldly events. Tolkien and the other Inklings (esp Lewis and Williams) were quick to say that they were using man's ability as a sub-creator (below God) and not corrolating any of their mythology to wordly events. Especially denied were any connections between The Lord of the Rings and any wars during the 20th century.