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Comment Re:Under copyright law you're wrong. (Score 2) 294

The whole point of the first sale doctrine is that the original seller is not entitled to any special consideration once the sale completes.
So whether something was "intended to be resold" is irrelevant - you sold it to me, so I can resell it without your permission.

I also see arguments based around "copying" as being what copyright is about; it's not - distribution is what it is about.
Reselling is about transfer of ownership, not distribution. That on the technical level this transfer of ownership consists of a copy followed by a delete, should not matter - when the operation completes, there is only 1 file, so there no "copy" took place.

Comment Re:Get rid of your private, individual IP numbers (Score 5, Interesting) 306

Once IPv6 really starts being used (granted at this rate that's years off yet, despite IPv4 having officially "run out"), with its huge range, I would not be surprised to see a push from large corporations to try and mandate that IP addresses are directly linkable to people.

How to Turn Your PC into a Mac 492

An anonymous reader writes "CNet is running a Mac fanboy's idea of a nightmare feature entitled 'Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac'. While the idea of turning my PC into a Mac-like machine does get my juices flowing, I'm not sure the user experience would be exactly the same but I'm going to spend this afternoon trying it out anyway. "To borrow a metaphor from Spartacus, some people like oysters and some people like snails. Except what if there was a way to make your snail do some of the cool things oysters can do, like make pearls? And what if you could make your PC do some of the cool stuff that Macs do so well?"" Seems to me that this would be a lot easier if step one was install linux...

C# Memory Leak Torpedoed Princeton's DARPA Chances 560

nil0lab writes "In a case of 20/20 hindsight, Princeton DARPA Grand Challenge team member Bryan Cattle reflects on how their code failed to forget obstacles it had passed. It was written in Microsoft's C#, which isn't supposed to let you have memory leaks. 'We kept noticing that the computer would begin to bog down after extended periods of driving. This problem was pernicious because it only showed up after 40 minutes to an hour of driving around and collecting obstacles. The computer performance would just gradually slow down until the car just simply stopped responding, usually with the gas pedal down, and would just drive off into the bush until we pulled the plug. We looked through the code on paper, literally line by line, and just couldn't for the life of us imagine what the problem was.'"
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Baby Mammoth Found Intact 227

knoll99 writes "Scientists unveiled the discovery Wednesday of a baby mammoth found in the permafrost of north-west Siberia. The remains of the six-month-old female mammoth were discovered in a remarkable state of preservation on the Yamal peninsula of Russia in May, a Reuters report said. The specimen is believed to be the best of its kind to date."

Comment Re:Why I am no iTunes fan (at least not on Windows (Score 1) 217

Then foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) is probably the player for you.
As a fellow media-players-should-simply-play-media-dammit curmudgeon, it ticks all the boxes. Its UI is extremely simplistic (by default - it can be customized to include things like album art etc), it has high quality playback, and a very small footprint.
It has very powerful tagging functionality (with even the possibility to script tagging operations you frequently use).
There are also many, many plugins available (to provide things like freedb-based tagging, last.fm scrobbling, ...).

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