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  1. Re:Exchange of mutual consideration on The Self-Modifying EULA? · · Score: 1

    since you cannot use the patch by itself, witouth the original product, it is not a new product. They are fixing problems with their old product.

  2. Re:The Environment on Sprint Rolls out WiMAX Access · · Score: 1

    Since the total industrial heat output is probably negligible in relation to the size of the earth, you're probably right. However it takes a lot of energy to cool something and heating something is . This added energy ends up as heat and thus causes the average temperature of the system to rise.

  3. Re:The real troubling thing... on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1
    I disagree. The people who are vulnerable to this sort of thing want to believe their conservative handlers anyway. What the ABC article ABC article disclosure gets across to those who think at least some of the time exactly how moneyed interests are manipulating the populace. It will add one more seed of doubt when they go to the polls and it indicates that the mainsteam media may be finally turning against the far right in finally taking stands against this ridiculous administration policies.

    Moreover, these propaganda tactics are the type of things totalitarnists (Nazis, Soviets etc) use to control the populace. The people that do these sort of things are by nature anti-democtratic. They do not believe that the populace should decide the direction of a country but that they should be manipulated and told what to think. This helps bring this to light and puts it in the face of more people and makes them aware, at least for a moment, of thier own manipulation.

  4. Re:Continuation on PR Firm Behind Al Gore YouTube Spoof? · · Score: 1

    This is a reasonable analogy, not a troll. Whoever marked this a troll must be an oil company shill.

  5. America is ready for this on Digital Replicas May Change Games and Film · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This will make hollywood movies even more idiotic but I'm sure box office sales will increase. The craft of acting (in hollywood) is at an all time low, but the audience doesn't seem to care.

  6. Re:Because he doesn't want you to see it on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1
    These are the consequence of war and the public, especially in a country that starts war or supports those that do, must be aware of this. They can only be responsable for the actions of their government if they are aware.

    Are you against the world knowing and feeling the consequences of war making and especially war mongering?

  7. Re:Because he doesn't want you to see it on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    These sources have plenty of pictures like this. They chose not to show them.

  8. Re:Bad cops on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 1
    why would I give a fuck about an ASSHOLE who has put the safety of Americans and everyone else in the world at risk for his oil buddies.

    What they're doing has very little do with protecting the president. They are making sure that protesters could never be shown near this fool.

  9. Re:One small problem... on Keeping Time with a Mercury Atom · · Score: 4, Informative
    i'm sure that they use a stable isotope.

    the isotope you mention (194) is synthetic anyways

  10. Re:Dude... JCreator? on The $899 Educational iMac · · Score: 1

    512 MB is not enough unless all you use is Eclipse. When I had only 512MB I wanted to punch the monitor all the time. $70 upgrade to 1G gave me new computer.

  11. Re:So that's what $425 a share buys on Google Fires Off Warning to US Telcos · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Unfortunatley this is at least somewhat true. The problem is that unless the public is sufficiently aware of an issue, legislators pay attention only to their paymasters. The public at large is for all intents and purposes aware of almost nothing that is going on unless it is presented by the major media. Even so, it better be sensationalized enough.

    The EFF presents issues that most people either have no understanding of, just trust the government, don't care or they feel entirely powerless. They really don't want to look too deeply at the reality of their myths. This goes for whether they should be at war, how they view others through simple cliches as well as issues relating to their own freedom. America is "the land of the free", but if you look there are so many restraints to our freedom and there are more to come. (I am not talking about restraints to freedom which prevent one from encroaching on the freedom of others.) The average person, whether cynical or naieve, does not want to really know. It's usually not that hard to find out what's going on. (Being overworked is a good way to keep the hoi polloi from thinking too much!)

  12. Re:So that's what $425 a share buys on Google Fires Off Warning to US Telcos · · Score: 1

    It means that a company does not want to be sued, even if they're likely to win. The EFF can use the threat of a lawsuit against a company to get a policy change because the company will want to avoid the bad publicity.

  13. Re:I switched as well on Nerds Switching from Apple to Ubuntu? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Vendor lockin means once you invest in Apple time and data in Apple applications you cannot easily move to another platform, i.e. you are stuck buying from Apple. Most Apple applications have proprietary data formats. If your very careful and only use non-Apple applications that are available on other platforms and chaning to a different OS is not difficult for you, you can sortof avoid lockin. I just checked an equivalent Dell to Apples entry level laptop, $699 vs. $1099. 60% more is not on par at all.

  14. Re:Wait ... on Five Men Arrested in LexisNexis Data Theft · · Score: 2, Funny

    it should be 310000/5 * (1-2 years) = 31000-62000 years each

  15. Re:So this is like... on ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This will probably only work against particular instances of an image. Change the resolution or compression rate even slightly will look like a whole new image. Zipping images with a password and/or various compression rates etc. will make this difficult also. This may catch the easy suspects though.

    If you only store a small piece of information per image, the number of false positives will make the whole thing useless. Store too much and your storing the image.

    Using SSL etc. will make it impossible.

    The analogy with nuclear weapons would be similar, change the box, add a few decoy parts, paint the others a different color and the original "plans" or pictures are worthless, the machine won't detect squat. A human expert probably would.

    I think this is probably all B.S., i.e. it's someone's idea of how they will make a lot of money in consulting and software developemnt. All the ISPs will buy into to say that they are doing something even though they know it is B.S.

    This is really a socialogical problem which is hard to fix and this makes just it sound like everyone's doing something. They dont have the answer. If pcs of 100 people are confiscated and their personal lives invaded for every one person caught, this is a vast injustice.

  16. Investment Bankers! on Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea? · · Score: 1
    Merill Lynch makes a lot of mony from investment banking. If they could bring off a merger this large they would make a fortune. Whether this is a good idea for the companies themselves or the market in general is somewhat irrelevant.

    Most mergers end up hurting both firms. The turmoil and uncertainty surounding a merger would cause the best Yahoo employees to leave and maybe also some from MSN. Yahoo uses little, if any, Microsoft technology and Microsoft would have to replace it all with windows just to save face. This internal strife around such a technology change would cause all of the best to leave. Additionally there will be a huge competition between MSN and Yahoo employees and who's technology are you going to use.

    Anuyways, Microsoft, given their past business practices, should not be allowed to buy anybody.

  17. Re:Can't read CD media? on The First Blu-ray Burner, Pioneer's BDR-101A · · Score: 1

    I doubt if they left it out for any reason other than it's the first to market and thus they did not have time to add that functionality. Unless there some serious compatability problems, the next generation will have these features. Anyways at $1000, it's not likely to matter if you have to have another drive. At this price, it's preferable to only use the drive for blu-ray.

  18. Re:Contradictory? on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 1

    In your own quote deputies told Smith to knock it off, he came back. How can it be claimed that he wasn't informed?

  19. Re:This country's starting to scare me on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 2, Informative
    He was told to stop by the police and came back and did it again anyways. If this is the case, then he is stealing services. If you are told not to use something, you no longer can claim that you thought it was free without being a customer.

    You're right they should at least provide minimal protection for their own good, but verbal should be enough for legal purposes.

  20. Re:No different than Dell/McAfee on AOL Tries New Tactic to Keep Customers · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not just "bad programming." These companies know windows better than the 95% (or more) of windows software companies. They purposally make it difficult to uninstall. In they're daily testing they install/uninstall their programs multiple times. They know exactly what they're doing.

  21. Re:Windows Live on Another Microsoft Exec Steps Down · · Score: 1

    So why is he leaving? Too many bloodsuckers in one place?

  22. Re:Hello? welcome to the new age on U.S. Joins Hollywood in War on Piracy · · Score: 1

    because the majority of wealth and power in the U.S. is controlled by rich white men. Even if some rich Chinese are getting richer from this, they are not in control of U.S. policy and the fact that they benefit from American policy is just a consequence of these rich white men deciding to make themselves richer.

  23. Re:File copy = lost file date on Linux Annoyances For Geeks · · Score: 1

    It's not paranoia, backward compatability is essential as it would break existing scripts.

    Nautalis preserves the date of files and the directory structure (including symbolink links) as you describe. For some reason on my version the copied directories are set to 12/31/1969 (unix date = 0 - 1/1/1970 GMT), clearly a bug.

  24. Re:There IS a limit on wireless bandwidth on Slashback: Oklahoma Spyware, FSF DRM, Lenovo Linux · · Score: 1

    And if demand goes up for a limited resource, the price of unlimited plans will go up or, more likely, they will find a way to provide additional bandwith.

    What he is trying to defend against is the destruction of the current business model with charges for every service. If you just buy an umlimited data plan, you can use anybody to send your email etc. and you don't need specialized devices (like blackberrry's). This is especially true for casual users.

    Users want fixed rate plans where you also won't be shut out due to using up your limit. The way that current cell phone (voice) billing works is horrible if you go over your minutes. A bit higher rate is reasonable, but a 10 times higher rate (as is typical for voice) is a complete rip-off. With data, accidently connecting to the wrong service could be even worse.

    Many customers probably won't even consider a pay per usage plan.

  25. Re:Protect Yourself At All Times on Apple Losing Touch With the OS Community? · · Score: 1

    Apple has no kernel secrets which Microsoft does not know about. Window keeps it's makret position because of legacy lock-in.

    You cannot just mix stuff from one system into another. The work to integrate the things your talking about is usually greater than to redevelop them. Apple's codebase is way too different. To keep it's marketshare MS needs to keep its own codebase, it couldn't neither integrate larger parts of Apple's nor it could not just start over with Apple's (in which case it would have to integrate all the Windows compatability with OS X (ICK!)).

    The reason Apple cannot free OS X is because you would no longer have to buy Apple hardware. Apples hardware, except for having pretty cases, is entirely composed of components made by others who actually own the technology. It's only uniqueness is OS X.

    This is similiar to their business model with the iPod, i.e. it is based on lock-in and exclusive control. MS has nearly the same business model except the make their money on software, not hardware. Apple's business model is like the old IBM business model (before the PC).

    The open source business model is about giving up control. It's about the belief that multiple independent companies and organizations sharing the same code base is better for everyone over the long run. It's about democracy as opposed to autocracy, In some ways it's also about a free market vs. a market controlled by an elite.