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  1. Calls by passengers. on New System Detects Calls While Driving · · Score: 1

    If you deploy this in the US false positives from passengers calling won't be a problem. There are no passengers. Just skip the lone cars in the HOV lanes and you're good. :)

  2. Re:I like linux magazines on Is PC World Still Worth the Subscription? · · Score: 1
    My main problem with these mags is that the ones from Europe are priced at insane levels here in the States. I was looking at one the other day on the newsstand, and I wanted it, but it was something like $15.99. It comes with a DVD, but what's that worth when you have broadband?

    That's a major issue in .no as well, unfortunately there's a de facto monopoly on magazines here. So Linux Journal comes in at USD14+ and that's got no cover cd. The magazines that have some junk on the cover jump up to USD23 - 30. Shipping paper around the globe is costly though, but subscription prices are much lower than getting it in the store.
  3. Hich costs on Boeing Scraps In-flight Internet Access · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course, it does sound like the costs were out of control if they had 560 people working in what's a very small ISP.

  4. Re:Look in the grand scheme of things on Charter Flight Websites / Services? · · Score: 1
    Any explosive can be disguised as anything. All a potential terrorist has to do now is to disguise a explosive in something that isn't currently banned. Let's say that a terrorist is able to place a hard drive-sized bomb in a laptop. Do we ban laptops now?

    Actually yes, they do: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778615.stm And you don't wan't your plane to look like this: http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/03/dell-laptop-amm o-no-go/ do you? ;-)
  5. Re:Safety of police officers? on Photograph the Police, Get Arrested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Architecture photos may well fall under copyright already, so be careful where you point that camera.

  6. Re:Why certainly! on Windows Media Player 11 and Urge · · Score: 1
    Trust me, cracking 11 is just a matter of time.

    Yes, most likely hard time. ;-)
  7. Re:Still fine by me on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing · · Score: 1

    Heh, you assume you're actually getting access to the signal. It's probably not going to come out of the analog hole and so you're left with just the broadcast flag. (or nothing at all) The digital stream will soon enough be off-limits to hobbyist projects like mythtv etc.

  8. Re:Why would Philips do this? on Philips Patents Technology to Force Ad Viewing · · Score: 1
    I don't understand why Philips would do this. They make TV sets and VCRs and DVDs and such - but they don't own TV stations or cable networks so they don't profit from advertising. All this would do would be to make people not want to buy their equipment...where is the profit motive?

    Should be fairly simple. They apply for a patent on this technology which is probably going to make it into Multimedia Home Platform regardless of the patent being granted or not. If they get the patent granted, Profit! if not they are probably not going to have to pay someone else for the "technology".

    So they get to satisfy their set-top box and head-end equipment customers who want this. It's probably not going into TV's at all but the cable/satellite and soon terrestrial providers' set-top boxes. Digital TV is coming and thanks to balkanization of "platforms" like MHP/OpenTV and conditional access (encryption/DRM) systems it will mean set-top boxes for all. Add HDCP protected output only to the boxes and we have you locked in, snug as a bug. :)

    But choice of channels is clearly to important to be left to mere viewers. And I see an optimization coming, you just need 1 channel, commercials 24/7.
  9. Re:I remember the 1950s. on New Nuclear Power Plants in the next 5 years · · Score: 1
    In france, 80% of electricity come from nuclear power, they also have one of the most extensive and electisied railway (railroads if your American) networks in the world. Therefor most of their many trains are effectivly nuclear trains. Sure, the reactor isn't actually onboard the train but what difference has it made? A bit more infastructure maybe, still far less overall cost per passanger mile than a modern highway.

    Except that nuclear plants seldom derail or crash into other nuclear plants. ;-) Cooling a traditional reactor might make for some interesting train design as well.
  10. Re:Easy. on One-at-a-time Mailing Label Printers? · · Score: 1

    A "modern" dot matrix printer will have the tear off support on tractor-fed paper. Say for instance an Oki Microline 3390 for 24-pin dot-matrix.
    Of course push-feds are vulnerable to jams, but that goes for any printer. :-) And be sure that a label doesn't come unstuck from the backing paper and glues itself to the paper out sensor. :-P
    Oki's were built like a tank when I used them, and I hope that it remains so today.

  11. Re:Not that I'd expect /. to understand... on Dental School Blogger Punishment Reduced · · Score: 1
    I'm in medical school, and once you commit yourself...

    Can you release yourself as well?
  12. gTIA on Google Searches Used in Murder Trial? · · Score: 1

    Soon to be launched, gTIA.google.com Google Total Information Awareness. (LEO only)

    gTIA will allow you to patrol your electronic beat. Let your fingers do the walking TM.
    Now you can subscribe to searches relevant to crimes in your area. Thanks to our revolutionary tracking technology, we'll deliver names and adresses of suspects searching for, murder, rape, mutilation, or any other mortal sin. Thanks to our mapping technology you can even plot their locations in real time.
    We'll soon launch OptiPickup where you can plan the best route for your vehicles to pick up the perpetrators. We'll even have the booking forms as downloadble pdfs, prefilled with the relevant sections of US law. And your DA will enjoy our custom google books, which will have previous case law in his inbox by the time you're back at the precinct.

  13. Re:Why don't you....TRY OUT THE SOFTWARE? on Converting TeX to Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1
    Now if I could find a decent way to add a high def preview to my nice eps files. Word can only print eps if you have a eps printer. Word can display eps if you have a bitmap preview, but the bitmap previews always stink. You would think they could handle a standard vector graphics format, but no.

    Well, you could go from standard to nonstandard by the way of pstoedit
    Not for three versions now. Frustrating.
    Don't hold your breath. ;-) Pstoedit makes nice EMF files with the for pay plugin though.
  14. Re:It's *not* rocket science, guys... on Alternative Browsers Impede Investigations · · Score: 1
    Digital forensics is performed offline. You don't run the browser software to read its history.
    No, instead you run some second-rate vendor's third-rate implementation of the history parser, and consider yourself lucky if a security audit is even mentioned in the project plan, much less actually performed.
  15. Re:Hey, that should be the new OSS slogan on Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC · · Score: 1

    You mean KnoppMyth right? :-)
    Knoppix optimized for mythtv.

  16. Slashdotted on First 96-Node Desktop Cluster Ships · · Score: 1, Funny

    I guess they haven't got one running their website...

  17. Re:Please: SVG Maps on Firefox 1.1 Plans Native SVG Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I fear that the map data copyright holders would object to this, since the data would now be far easier to take, and reprocess into large maps for your own use.

  18. Re:I Dub Thee, "Sir Troll" on Graphical Gentoo Installer In The Works · · Score: 1
    Sometimes to get the biggest gain in anything you have to be willing to do a little work (in this case - research).

    No, the biggest gain is from proper programming, not some magical --make-program-fast gcc option.
  19. Re:Am I the only one? on Home Theatre PC Guide · · Score: 1

    Set one of these up in my living room recently, and the Pundit-R is not ideal for MythTV, but it is workable. the tv-out is hard to get working (Needs proprietary ATI driver and tweaking of PCI ids). It's a noisy bugger, but seems to be modifyable. Not sure if a 2.4Ghz celeron is enough with a dumb card like the conexant based WinTV.
    And of course most tv-cards are full height which means you need a crowbar and a sledgehammer to fit it in the pundit-r (a fact not really mentioned in the manual) other than that it's ok to work with, but the ATI chipset is getting old, and still not properly supported in FC3.

    Oh, well, live and learn I guess.

  20. No one... on Cooler Servers or Cooler Rooms? · · Score: 1

    Since rittal is already there.
    PDF flyer here: here

    Does look like a neat way to keep your beowulf cool. :-P

  21. Re:Impressive on iTunes DRM Hole Closed · · Score: 1

    Tough love you know.

  22. Place your bets, place your bets.. on Smart Guns are Coming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is the first lawsuit going to be about a smart gun firing when it should not, or a smart gun not firing when it should?

  23. Re:Nice article on Building the AACS Next-Gen Copy Protection Scheme · · Score: 1

    Haha, Did You think You were going to escape Macrovision? And somehow I doubt digital out is going to be considered a feature on these players.

  24. Future ramifications on Australian Idol And ISP Censorship · · Score: 1

    So with reckless abandon they set out to prove that, we have the technical ability to censor the internet, and we have the will to censor the internet. Bye bye common carrier. :>
    I wonder if that was considered when they decided this. Should they now have all url's classified by the ABA?

  25. Re:Countermeasures? on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Well, only in the US, other countries have Blue and Red currency as well. ;-)