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Comment Re:But does it work? (Score 1) 707

You may need to revisit the legal definition of "reasonable doubt". Being able to contemplate a scenario where the evidence could be wrong is not sufficient to overturn the evidence. Which is exactly why the code needs to be a matter of court record, so that the defendant can see whether or not this scenario actually exists or not.

Seriously, what is the benefit of denying this right to the defendant?

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Remote Kill Flags Surface In Kindle 630

PL/SQL Guy writes "The Kindle has a number of 'remote kill' flags built in to the hardware that, among other things, allow the text-to-speech function to be disabled at any time on a book-by-book basis. 'Beginning yesterday, Random House Publishers began to disable text-to-speech remotely. The TTS function has apparently been remotely disabled in over 40 works so far.' But what no one at Amazon will discuss is what other flags are lurking in the Kindle format: is there a 'read only once' flag? A 'no turning the pages backwards' flag?"

Comment Re:Go STEAM yourself ... (Score 1) 176

Your Steam login still exists, they don't delete accounts with paid games for inactivity (that would be retarded). You forgot it (hint: what e-mail address were you using at the time, you can recover your password that way), but GP poster forgot where he put his Q3A disc, so whatever.

And I have a feeling that your game discs will decay before Steam's servers go down.

Comment Re:Sweet (Score 1) 620

PulseAudio is great if you use its advanced features. I can play a song on my netbook and have the sound come out of the giant speaker system connected to my desktop. That's pretty awesome.

Comment Re:Jaunty (Score 2, Informative) 620

There's a panel applet that adds a menu to select what user should be logged in. If you've been updating an existing install since before this applet existed, then it might not be there, but by default on new installs it's in the upper left corner. You just click it, pick a different user, and then they type in their password.

(of course, I don't bother with separate user accounts on my systems, but the feature is there).

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