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  1. Try it on No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy Is Not a Given · · Score: 1

    The easy way for him to find out would be to make one available as a PDF and see if it gets pirated.

  2. I guess this version... on Metallica to Star in Next Major Guitar Hero? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...won't have downloadable songs :-)

  3. Not that hard on How To Spot E-Vote Tampering? · · Score: 1

    Where I vote, we connect a line (kinda like a scantron) then we stick the ballot in the machine and the machine counts it. Voting is done on paper and counted by a machine. You end up with a paper trail and an electronic count. You can always go back and count the paper ballots.

  4. I remember these on Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 · · Score: 1

    I remember in Jr. High when a friend of mine brought one of these to school. It was old even then, but still pretty cool.

    Nowadays, it kinda makes me miss my Psion Series 5.

  5. That's nothing on Schneier Asks Why We Accept Fax Signatures · · Score: 1

    I found out the hard way that my bank doesn't even check the signatures on checks.

  6. zaTunnel on Smartphones For Text SSH Use — Revisited · · Score: 1

    I've never used it, but zaTunnel claims to be a "SSH Tunnel and Portforwarding client for Smartphones and Pocket PC"

  7. Re:i recently saw "the hidden fortress" on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, six hours of movies and it only took him 5 mins to turn evil.

  8. Re:i recently saw "the hidden fortress" on The Secret History of Star Wars · · Score: 1

    C3PO and R2D2 play off of each other -- like a lot of comedic pairs (Laurel & Hardy, Abbot & Costello, etc.) Jar Jar had no partner.

  9. Re:Propoganda or not - Let the truth be viewed on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    The alcoholic never became an alcoholic until he took his first drink. If the pedophile doesn't become one until he sees his first film, then we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening.

  10. Re:Tarrists! on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 1

    We don't use woman and children as suicide bombers.

  11. Re:A good trailer on Early Review Calls New Indiana Jones Film Dreadful · · Score: 1

    Sounds like "Danny Hillcrest's 2008 Pre-Summer Summer Movie Preview 2008"

    http://media.blubrry.com/comedy/http://www.comedy4cast.com/podcasts/comedy4cast-138.mp3

  12. Net result on NBC Activates Broadcast Flag · · Score: 1

    I try to record a show on NBC.
    Come back to watch it later and find I don't have it.
    I don't watch it.
    I don't see any of the commercials.
    None of the advertisers reach me.

    Or, from NBC's view:

    1. Turn on broadcast flag.
    2. Prevent viewers from seeing commercials.
    3. Lose profit.

  13. Re:Do you skip all the ads? on Youngsters Skip DVR Ads Less Than Seniors · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about the TiVo fast forward was that when you hit play it was smart enough to jump back a couple of seconds so that it started playing where it was when you're brain saw the scene you wanted.

  14. Dust on NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe · · Score: 1

    Wow. $80 million to "gather dust." That's not bad for a government project.

  15. Maybe not on Charlton Heston's Impact On Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    From http://www.imao.us/archives/009883.html:

    LOS ANGELES (AP) - Despite numerous promises in his lifetime to allow his guns to be taken from his cold, dead hands, the late Charlton Heston issued a statement today saying that he will retain possession of his firearms into the afterlife. ...
    "Besides, the last time I thought I was dead, I woke up on a planet full of talking apes. I really could've used a good rifle then."

  16. Re:USB HD receiver on 10 Cool Gadgets You Can't Get Here · · Score: 1

    If RS sells it for 60, then it must be like 40 everywhere else.

  17. POV Ray on A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit · · Score: 1

    The Floss Weekly Podcast (24) had an interview with the founder of POVRay. That's a project whose source was available in 1987! I remember using it on my Atari ST back in the mid 90s.

  18. Computer Magazines on A Decade of OSS, 10 Years After the Summit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does anybody remember back when computer magazines used to print programs in source code form for you to type in? That was certainly one way of making the code available.

  19. Re:This is a shame on College Board Kills AP Computer Science AB · · Score: 1

    Perhaps because for simple things you could fall back to C. Of course, then you'd lose the advantage of OO, but maybe when you're starting it, OO could actually get in the way.

  20. Re:Drivers in on Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even if you don't include the subject, creating Windows is still hard. Have you seen the code required to just create a window using the Win32 API in C?

  21. Drivers in on Creative Vista Driver Modder Speaks Out · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows are very difficult to write. If this guy modded someone else's, they should hire him.

  22. Re:Costs too much on Must a CD Cost $15.99? · · Score: 1

    What about the movies that are released direct to DVD?

  23. Re:Hillary, anyone? on IT Workers Split For McCain, Obama · · Score: 1

    But McCain didn't attend his church for 20 years (20!) and then not know about any of his beliefs.

  24. Re:VBA on An Early Look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I had a coworker who wrote a VBA script for Word that typed in characters from a text file and played back a sound file of someone typing!

  25. Re:Wow, that's a big fat ASS^H^HPI on Visualizing the .NET Framework · · Score: 1

    "They're not remotely similar"

    They are both used to serve web pages. That is probably what they were referring to.