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  1. Re:bullcrap on Countering a DMCA Takedown In the Magnet Wars · · Score: 3, Informative

    The penalty is right in the notice. All proper DCMA take down request require this:

    I swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

    A false or abusive notice can land the petitioner on the hook for perjury. The problem is getting it prosecuted and making the charges stick.

  2. Re:thrusting on The Joke Known As 3D TV · · Score: 1

    It's because the lenses that the cameras use have limits to their depth of field that cannot really be overcome without artificially altering the film itself to give *back* the lost depth of field and focus, especially at low lighting, that we normally see with our eyes.

    I really has nothing to do with technical limitations of the stocks or the sensors. The shallow depth of field used in movies is almost always intentional. As far back a Citizen Kane (which heavily used deep focus) were the technical issues with film sensitivity sorted out and since then things have gotten more sensitive and the lighting has gotten far more powerful. Indeed the sensors and stock are so sensitive a lot of the time when using such Shallow focus the Matte box is loaded with ND filters to cut down the light to the lens and/or the lighting of the scene is changed considerably.

    There is many reasons that it is done, both artistically and technically, most of which can be easily got around using careful composition. What it boils down to is that it's a look that is relatively unique to cinema and directors like to use it because it give their movies a film "look".

  3. Re:Too bad the emotiv SDK costs $10,000 on How To Index and Search a Video By Emotion · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this what you are looking for?

    http://www.emotiv.com/apps/sdk/179/

    $500 may not be cheap but it's a lot more reachable for the hobbiest then $10k.

  4. Re:"kickbacks"? on Apple Exec Stashed $150,000 In Shoe Boxes · · Score: 1

    The federal law in question is here:

    http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1831.html

  5. Re:Stupid summary, stupid story on Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics · · Score: 1

    What is worse he questions why there wasn't a break override, something that would pretty much require an electronic system of some sort.

  6. Re:Need open e-book libraries for competition on More On enTourage's Dual-screen E-Book Reader · · Score: 2, Informative

    The sony reader FAILS with it's paltry non upgradeable storage

    Sony has 3 models out all but one (the cheapest) support Memory Stick and SD cards.

  7. Re:The problem with this particular conspiracy the on Why Apple Denied the Google Latitude App · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is that it requires that the app approvers know what patents Apple has in the process.

    ...or far more likely it could mean that approves have a list of gidelines in which they refer to when approving apps, and those gidelines forbid certain kinds of apps, such as those that allow tethering or ones that show the presence of friends on a map that Latitude offers. I don't see why it would require anyone to be in the know of internal app development there.

  8. Re:diff needed on Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely untrue. One of the reasons communist China existed as it did was because of pressure from the US for the USSR to declare war on Japan, most likely to help mitigate American casualties in any invasion of the Japanese mainlands. This pressure was also exerted to draw Soviet forces away from Europe, where there was a genuine fear about further war, after the Nazis fell, between the West and the Soviets. In hindsight this war was not very likely, but there was a genuine, well-founded fear and distrust of Stalin.

    I would think the war declaration would have more to do with Japan invading under pretext and occupying Manchuria back in 1931. Heck it wasn't until 1941 when the US entered the war that China really got substantial help and by then China was largely controlled by the Japanese. I would say that China's ineffective defense of itself during that war definitely helped the communists.

  9. Re:Seriously? on Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label · · Score: 2, Informative

    [quote]have appeared when users search Google for the Roy Powers song "Firing Line."[/quote]

    Apperently this artist is carried by Blues Destiny Records here. TFA would be wrong.

  10. Re:Hooray for standardized hardware on Modded UX490 UMPC Shows Off Years of Community Development · · Score: 1

    While it's true that a socket is going to introduce, the bane of high speed designers, both capactiance, inductance a good socket can add no more of it then one or two PCB vias. In the end the most important thing is PCB design. Practically you probably aren't going to see much play with voltage on a socket vs BGA.

    Cooling, space and cost are still very valid points.

  11. Re:but she's in Canada! on Facebook Photos Lead To Cancellation of Quebec Woman's Insurance · · Score: 1

    Very few be it public or private, in Canada or the US, health insurance policies cover long term disability unless there is a rider for it. Typically the employee gets a disability insruance policy or adds an additional rider to their exsisting health insurance. The health insruance company will still pay doctors and procedures but the disability insurance/rider will pick up living expenses, groceries, utilites, etc. during the time the person is disabled.

  12. Re:Cheapest on New XBMC Port Promises ARM-Powered HD In the Palm of Your Hand · · Score: 4, Informative

    The processor on the board, a OMAP3530, also has a ~500mhz C64x+ DSP and a POWERVR SGX video accellerator. There is plenty of power on it.

  13. Re:Had a chuckle at this. on The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your horse's piss looks thicker or darker then Guiness, I think it's time to seriously re-evaluate what you are feeding them.

  14. Re:Basic Copyrights on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    Dang it. Employee in the last sentence should read employer.

  15. Re:Basic Copyrights on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    It really isn't that cut and dried. If work is "a work for hire", the company owns the copyright irrespective of if the employee signed away anything or not. The bar for work for hire is pretty low it simply needs to be "a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment". An employee could attempt to argue that using company resources constitutes it being under the scope of the employment.

  16. Re:Where's the sting, oh thy sword? on Court Asked To Strike All MediaSentry Evidence · · Score: 4, Informative

    But in all states you can't be charged with a crime. The recording won't be admissible in court but there's no state law forbidding recording conversations without consent.

    In Florida it's a felony to record people's voices in a private setting without their consent. Florida statue: 934.03

  17. Re:Where's the sting, oh thy sword? on Court Asked To Strike All MediaSentry Evidence · · Score: 4, Informative

    It depends on your state. California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington require both parties knowledge, many of these states such it's not just inadmissible it's also illegal.

  18. Re:Let's be honest... on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 1

    Heck mine likes to download sims based on famous people (all guys) shacks 2-3 up in a house and gives them a bunch of babies. All in all it's kind of creepy.

  19. Re:Let's be honest... on The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I know....I don't understand its popularity either....

    It's popular with women (of all ages). To understand it's popularity you would have to under stand women, and quite frankly trying to understand women is all but impossible. I think we are doomed to never know.

  20. Re:Really? on Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone who hacks a flight-sim sight has no life and really needs to get laid.

    Coming from a slashdotter that is pretty rough.

  21. Re:Slashdot on The Circus Widens In Aftermath of Pirate Bay Verdict · · Score: 1

    It seems pretty obvious to me you are being modded down not because people disagree with you but because you don't understand what is going on.

  22. Re:I'm all for defending one's property, but... on Man Burgled After Being Banned From Using Giant Ballista · · Score: 1

    She'll be covered in chicken shit, what rapist would want to fool with that? He would be doing a pubic service.

  23. Re:Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install on Microsoft Begs Win 7 Testers To Clean Install · · Score: 1

    Except now Windows is as secure, easier to install, has more products, and behaves 'smother' then Linux.

    And it's unsupported and still under heavy active development. The truth of the matter is we really won't know how secure it is until it hits the mass market and there is far more incentive for shady characters to target them.

    Don't get me wrong win 7 seems like a great release but it's way to early to make those kind of sweeping statements.

  24. Re:That's odd... on Mythbusters Accidentally Bust Windows In Nearby Town · · Score: 4, Informative

    Experience? They are special effects guys, they have done all of maybe 2 or 3 really large explosions and all of them were oversaw by professionals because most of the stuff they deal with is not generally available. They aren't exactly blasting/munitions experts.

  25. Re:the slide shown on How Office Depot Pushes Service Plans On Customers · · Score: 1

    If somebody presents something as worthwhile when they do not believe it to be worthwhile they are lying.

    No, it's only lying when they believe that it's not worthwhile to that person. The only way they can know that without an intimate knowledge of the person is if they ask the person if they want it.