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Comment Re:Competition is not always good. (Score 1) 453

>Today, a citizen of Boston can use the Internet to read news from a variety of sources: "New York Times", "The Washington Post", "San Francisco Chronicle", etc. He is not forced to buy only today's editon of the "Boston Globe".

Those other news papers have existed along side the Boston Globe before the internet. What has changed is technology. The distribution and sharing of information got more efficient. They are competing against technology.

Comment Re:please... (Score 1) 369

The reward is a $60 harddrive with a 80gig capacity, yea who wouldnt want to spend a lot of time recoverying data for that.

That site mentions that they will send the harddrive to any "established, professional data recovery company" with free shipping and then down the page it says "Send a self-addressed, postage-paid box with packaging material to the address listed below and we will mail the drive to you."

Comment 19,400 potential errors in the code!! (Score 1) 199

From one of the links .. (SysTest being the company hired by the Breathalyzer company to review the source code and Base One being the company hired by the accused)
> SysTest only looked for "mal-ware", not for functioning of the code.
>
> Base One, however, did an extensive evaluation, finding 19,400 potential errors in the code.

How can you find "mal-ware" when you don't consider the purpose of the code.

And here is their algorithm to average n = 4 readings ... "When the software takes a series of readings, it first averages the first two readings. Then, it averages the third reading with the average just computed. Then the fourth reading is averaged with the new average ... which would cause the first reading to have more weight ... Nonetheless, the comments say that the values should be averaged, and they are not."

Comment Re:Say what? (Score 1) 157

Why worry about the legality of this, that is just bitching about who is right and wrong. We should make it so stuff like this is clearly legal. Copyright reform is needed.

I read some of the comments on the youtube link for the trailer and more than one person was saying how they loved reading LotR grade school, clearly a long time ago. Our present situation makes me sad.

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