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Comment Re:No shit sherlock (Score 3, Interesting) 157

by smurphmeister (#29580211) Attached to: Judge Rules Games Are "Expressive Works"
Your analogy is close, but just a little off. If the movie marketed itself as having Natalie Portman starring, without her permission, then they are in trouble. If they used a digital likeness, but at no point said that it was Natalie Portman, then you've got the same situation as the games.

In these games, they have nameless players, that just happen to look a lot like, play a lot like, and wear the same number as a real former/current player for that same team. This allows the hypocritical NCAA to license the game without breaking their own rules that players can't be used to endorse products.

Comment Re:Sir, step away from the wall jack ... (Score 1) 635

by smurphmeister (#28203455) Attached to: You've Dropped Your Landline — Now What?

  • The copper is not worth that much.

I definitely wasn't thinking of ripping the lines out, it's more of making use of them since they're already in the walls.

  • The jacks are probably daisy-chained together. A PBX (what we have in our house) normally requires home-runs from each jack, so that isn't going to work for you.

  • /ul>

From what I can tell, they are not daisy-chained together, it looks like they ran a separate 4 conductor line from a terminal strip in the basement to each room

  • There are charging cradles that will allow you to use your cell phone to supply dialtone to your TwenCen phones. That way you don't have to run all over the house looking for the cellphone.

This sounds like a good possibility...

  • If you ever sell your house, the new owner may say WTF?

Good point, although we're hoping to stay here!
Communications

Submission + - You've Dropped Your Landline, Now What?

Submitted by smurphmeister
smurphmeister writes: My wife and I recently moved up to the world of cell phones, after taking our sweet time to make sure this whole newfangled technology was going to stick around. We moved the old landline phone number to her phone, so we're disconnected from the pole. Now the question is, what to do with the copper already in our house?

My first thought was an intercom system, but that just seems so old school! So what ideas do you all have for what to do with the 4 little wires running to every room of my house?
Microsoft

Obama's "ZuneGate" 608

Posted by kdawson from the et-tu-barack dept.
theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."

Comment Re:up 300%? (Score 1) 425

by smurphmeister (#26003863) Attached to: IPv6 Adoption Up 300 Percent Over 2 Years

But increased by means add to the additional amount.

For example, if you had $1 and I said I'm going to increase the amount of your cash by $3, how much would you expect that you have? You'd expect that you'd have $4 total, not $3.

So when they say, increased by %300, that means take the original amount and add 300% of that amount to the original amount...

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