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Comment Re:Red lights (Score 1) 315

I always believed the color of lights in the photo labs has something to do with the insensitivity of the photo paper.

Red lights help with not destroying your night vision and regards photo labs red lights are used when developing/handling black and white photos as the paper and negatives are not affected by the red light, but when developing/handling colour film it has to be done with the paper/negatives kept in complete darkness.

Comment Re:911, but not Mom? (Score 1) 232

If the elderly are such bad drivers, why do they get such low insurance rates? I'm pretty sure all those actuaries know what they're doing.

Maybe because the insurance companies know that most of the time the elderly are travelling so damn slowly (just above walking speed it seems) on the roads that if they hit anything it's not going to cause as much damage as the rest of us drivers travelling at a normal speed.

Comment Re:Addons (Score 1) 444

I assume all you guys that run AdBlock realise that ads keep these websites free. I'm happy to absorb a few ads in the interests of getting free content.

Yes, sometimes they slow page loads, yes, sometimes they're annoying, but they keep sites free.

While it's possibly true that having ads on a page help pay for and keep sites free, but as far as I know the site does not earn anything from you just looking at the ads, you need to click on them first.

I'm never going to click on the ads anyway, so what is the difference (for me) between me having to see ads that slow a page down that I'm not going to click on anyway and having no ads showing, apart from the fact that the pages are cleaner and faster to load.

There is no loss in revenue from myself as I don't click on ads in the first place.

Music

Submission + - iTunes tracks embed all your personal account info

Jaknet writes: The BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6711215.stm today reported that the new DRM free music available from iTunes contains embedded within them the full name and account information, including e-mail address, of who bought them.

The BBC goes on to speculate... It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites. But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.

The BBC has contacted Apple seeking comment but so far the company has not responded.

Other websites said it was only a matter of time before a utility program was produced that which stripped out the identifying information. At this point it is not yet clear how deeply the user data is buried in the track or how easy it is to remove. Lets hope it's soon

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