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  1. Re:So.... on First Commodore 64 LAN Party · · Score: 1

    I thought it was amazingly fast, but my online experiences with a C64 were tempered by a 300 baud modem and a 1541 floppy. I doubt that site depends on either.

  2. Re:Well slow down here on Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    Can the government seize the money if he's convicted of hacking the system, or will double jeopardy apply? After the SEC (a govenment agency, I presume) tried and failed to seize the money on the theory it was insider trading, can another government agency try to seize the money on a differnt theory?

  3. Re:As it should be...or not... on Patti Santangelo v. RIAA May Be Over · · Score: 1

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    Further, when she signed up for internet access from her provider, I'm sure she also agreed to the standard "what happens on your account is your responsibility, even if its someone else in your household" blurbs.
    ... That's a contract between her and her ISP. The RIAA isn't a party to that contract, and couldn't use it to make her responsible for someone else's use of the account. The ISP could, but not anyone else.
  4. Re:Yeah, this is chump change... on Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs · · Score: 1

    The fact that a reasonably educated westerner can't figure out the resource allocation to accomplish the basic goal of feeding 600 million Americans is why Communism fails, and why government screws things up.
    A reasonably educated westerner would at least know that the USA only has a population of 300 million. Yes, but each (on average) of those 300 million eats twice as much as they should.
  5. Re:Yes, it would be. on Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites · · Score: 2, Funny

    As the network administrator for an Illinois public library, I agree that this would indeed be a implementation nightmare (and that's not even taking into account the major ethical dilemma that such censorship presents for librarians). Exactly how does Senator Murphy propose that this be implemented if it becomes law? Well, there's all these tubes, see? They're just like pipes, right? So there must be spigots. You just have to find the right ones and turn them counterclockwise.
  6. Re:Hmmm... on State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you want to keep him away from children, keep him in prison. Have tougher sentences imposed from the get-go. But once he is released, if he is prevented from finding employment and housing, how do you expect him to integrate back into society?

  7. Paging VS Swapping on How Much Virtual Memory is Enough? · · Score: 1

    Use of terminology has varied between system architectures and over time, but on the big systems I grew up on, paging referred to the process of writing out 4K chunks (pages) on a LRU basis. Swapping was the process of writing out an entire application or address space. The purpose of paging was to share memory resources, wheras swapping was mostly intended to reduce the number of applications actively competing for CPU resources.