Dance_Dance_Karnov - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:I'd much rather... (Score 2, Funny) 636

by Dance_Dance_Karnov on Monday December 14 2009, @09:25PM (#30438758) Attached to: "Loud Commercial" Legislation Proposed In US Congress

I assume it looks for blank frames. when the stream switches from the content to the ads.

Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242

Posted by Soulskill on Monday December 14 2009, @05:52PM
from the i-for-one dept.

likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."

Comment: .no (Score 2, Funny) 186

by Dance_Dance_Karnov on Sunday December 13 2009, @01:30PM (#30423520) Attached to: Are Sat-Nav Systems Becoming Information Overload?

no more than a map I suppose

Comment: duh. (Score 4, Insightful) 218

by Dance_Dance_Karnov on Tuesday March 11 2008, @05:52AM (#22713528) Attached to: Book Publishers Abandoning DRM

the blindingly obvious usually will win out in time.

DRM - not to fight piracy but to boost profits

Submitted by

paltemalte

on Tuesday January 16 2007, @01:53AM

paltemalte writes "Off the record the big studios readily admits that DRM is not meant to fight piracy. Its meant to boost studio profits by taking away the rights that regular paying customers expect. Like being able to view your movie in any compatible device, or letting a friend borrow it. From the story:
For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none. I will briefly repeat my argument here before relating a prime example of it in the wild.
In a nutshell: DRM's sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you."

Hard drive data eradication

Submitted by

Creighton Bildstein

on Tuesday January 16 2007, @12:45AM

Creighton Bildstein writes "I'd like to know how businesses are dealing with their sensitive data-containing hard drives at the end of the technology lifecycle in their PCs, laptops and servers. Do they: A) Format the drives and sell or donate the machines B) Wipe the drives with Dept. of Defense software and then sell or donate the machines C) Completely destroy the drives via a shredder or something similar and dispose of the PC, laptop or server in an environmentally- friendly manner"