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  1. Re:Not just about preventing piracy on Sony Threatens PS3 Hackers With Legal Action · · Score: 1

    The only thing that's restricted is access to the graphics accelerator, and really, who buys a PS3 to play Tux Racer?

    I'm not quite sure what Sony expects people to do with Linux on a multimedia system capable of 1920x1080 which struggles to play youtube videos, or to redraw windows as they're dragged. I've seen Pentium non-MMX PCs perform better than that.
  2. Re:Hope it actually works on id, EA Show Support For Apple · · Score: 1

    Where's the other 50 or so fps that Win/Linux gets with the same hardware?

  3. Re:Hopefully on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it, Webkit is Webkit on any platform, just like Gecko.

    As long as you're not doing retarded things like making your site layout dependent on the width of letters in particular fonts, you shouldn't have any problems.

  4. Re:SVG, hooray! on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    But does it support treat SVG as another image format, or does it just do Firefox's useless -only method?

  5. Re:Already done on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 2, Informative

    If I remember correctly, Apple's "contributions" back to KDE were in the form of an undocumented 11MB .patch file.

  6. Re:Hope it actually works on id, EA Show Support For Apple · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Free versus paid software on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Before you complain about Quicktime's UI, try using the latest version of Microsoft Office.

  8. Re:MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL on 1 Billion PCs by End of 2008 · · Score: 1

    There are nowhere near 2^32 usable IPv4 addresses, let alone free ones. Apart from the millions reserved in private areas (10./8, 127./8 etc) there's a few hundred million tied up by corporations:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_I P_address_blocks

  9. Re:interconnections on Linus Warms (Slightly) to GPL3 · · Score: 1

    Probably the same thing that's currently happening between *BSD and gcc right now.

  10. Re:Thin Clients at School on A School District's Education in Free Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Easy answer.

    Every second Tuesday of the month, walk by the IT office and remind them what day it is with a snide remark of your own.

  11. Re:But... on A School District's Education in Free Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We used Wordperfect in our school as well, until in 2001-2 they replaced all the 512k Macs with Pentium 2 PCs running Win2k and Office 2000. They were slower, crashed more and caused us to miss more classes (several times we had to waste an entire hour following instructions from the teacher to run virus removal tools and windows update, because they'd apparently never heard of SUS).

  12. Re:Whitelisting is a solved problem: Hashcash on ISPs Starting To Charge for 'Guaranteed' Email Delivery · · Score: 1

    Presumably with a mailing list that large you'd have a dedicated email server which sits idle the rest of the time.

  13. Re:Why this happens in North America... on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    The more likely explanation is that South Korean ISPs simply aren't as retarded and greedy as US ones.

  14. Re:Mmm, so what? on No Intel Turbo Memory for Desktops Until Next Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Linux already has a patch to support a "prefetch partition", all it'd take to support this is making it show up as a mountable device.

  15. Re:I disagree: rights management can be made to wo on Jeremy Allison On Why DRM Will Never Work · · Score: 1

    The GD-ROM format isn't much more hackproof than the GCN format. (See also: Phantasy Star Online networking exploit)

  16. Re:Ye cannae change the laws of Physics on Jeremy Allison On Why DRM Will Never Work · · Score: 1

    IIRC, the warp drive never actually makes the ship travel faster than light. It just changes the speed of light in the space around it.

  17. Re:The were going to use Reiser on Sun CEO Says ZFS Will Be 'the File System' for OSX · · Score: 1

    I don't think ZFS would be the right choice for an iPod. It seems more like it's designed for servers with CPU time to burn on validating all the checksums. Maybe they should've used UDF.

  18. Re:Keyboard on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Why not just ask for a bluetooth keyboard?

  19. Re:I'm also on the USB train... on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    I thought the whole point of the console having built-in Bluetooth was to get rid of all these connecting wires?

  20. Re:SMB on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    So _that's_ what the Japanese title of SMB: The Lost Levels translates into!

  21. Re:Form factor on Wii to Get New Hardware - Possibly Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Why not USB? It'd be seriously retarded of Nintendo to screw over everyone who's bought a Wii to date when they could just push out a firmware update with mass storage drivers.

  22. Re:Scare Tactics on RIAA Drops Tanya Andersen Case · · Score: 1

    I'd think a more apt comparison to this case would be rape.

    The amount of trauma caused, from being dragged through 2 years of court over deliberately false claims, is probably the same. Forget compensation, they should be pushing for 20-to-life sentences for every single RIAA suit involved in these cases.

  23. Re:Dell is not the only one on Dell Thinks Ubuntu Makes Hardware More Fragile? · · Score: 1

    They're parading around the fact the hardware can't tolerate any load higher than MS Office. I wonder how often those laptops BSOD...

  24. Re:I love cheap RAM on DRAM Makers Suffer Due to Lackluster Vista Adoption · · Score: 1

    It'd be nice if the prices dropped enough to make ECC practical for general use too. Would've saved me from a few kernel panics.

  25. Re:Ok, but does it include... on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 1

    It's already a good editor, when you're coming from Windows and your only prior experience with CLI text editors is edit.com.

    Apart from F10 though, I never used it for anything else.