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I guess if you take time to turn off WU-FTPD, patch Windows RPC, and remove Kazaa, you won't have to worry about it being owned, now would you?

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Are nearly always guilty in part.

So that's that.

And you can ask anyone and they will tell you I'm right.

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The clearly stole the idea of unix from chips. Chips weren't running linux before SCO!

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is the reality of the product they have created?

Is it all the innovative compared to other solutions?

Flash in the pan if you ask me.

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Manufacturers of voting machines and their employees must be stripped of their freedom of speech in regard to campaign donations.

And, more importantly, there must be mandatory disenfranchisement of anyone who works there, is related to someone who does, or saw an advertisement for the company at any time in the last 5 years.

This is the only way we can remove corruption.

I'll vote for a measure like this in a heart beat! Where do I sign?

Clif

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is a good offense.

And I'm sure that if I were a smarter man, I could figure out how that applies here.

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that?

I dissproved this theory a long time ago using duck tape, a pair of binoculars, and a laser pointer.

I have proof too.

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..until the product is ready.

Linux needs a lot of work before it is ready to be deployed at large in the home users market.

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Always good.

What are the connotations of this applied on a large scale though?

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till this thing runs Windows?

(Laugh, it's a play on "How long before it runs Linux?")

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Till it runs linux? Blogzine.net

Why does Slashdot go nuts over anything that runs Linux? Ok, it's a phone that runs Linux. Hooray. I say big deal. It already runs on PDAs, GameBoys, and other handheld devices, it's not like a phone is a huge leap.

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Wow, adding a feature that Mozilla/Netscape has had for ever. Good job, Microsoft

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Boot ICANN and let the people take over. Have a panel of experts who are voted to position by the people. Let the poeple who use the Internet rule the Internet.

Eh, pipe dream.

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How long before someone mods it to run Windows?

(Laugh, it's a twist on the "How long before it runs Linux?" jokes)

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Why does Slashdot go nuts over anything running Linux? I mean yeah, it's nice to see Linux being used everywhere but it's not big news.

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As proof that BSD is dying, the Matrix movies effects were rendered on a cluster of FreeBSD systems.

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How much will this hot little item be? Any word?

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Why is that modded as funny? He's a troll.

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Ok, so they are shipping Bluetooth devices. But who the hell uses it?! And why?

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That'll show the other spammers! TAKE THAT! :rolleyes:

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The Mono project is not comparable to .NET. You can't take source code of a C# program to Linux and compile with Mono and you never will be able to. I don't even know why Mono is trying.

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You and I both know that things do not work like that. I wished they did, as Microsoft wouldn't be alive if so, but it just doesn't happen.

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Macromedia will die after this. Microsoft abuses their power left and right.

Who's going to start up an open source project to combat this? I'd actually like to see an open source web animation project. I enjoyed playing with Flash before I moved to Linux.

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[Note: The following article does not address the subscription side of Napster. Only the features it shares with iTunes]

Two weeks ago, about this time I was ecstatic. I was telling everyone I knew about this wonderful phenomenon of the 21st century....*trumpet sounds* iTunes!

Ever since I realized that buying 10 songs to listen to 1 song was not only silly but foolhearty, I've detested the RIAA's efforts to thwart legal digital music transfer. Why? Because I knew in my heart if such a service existed I would use it...even excessively. I love music. I hate CDs. I hate the RIAA.

iTunes was going to answer that need, and in many ways it did. In fact, I was content with its drawbacks...legal music was all I ever wanted. Getting rid of Kazaa Lite was all I ever wanted.

iTunes was liberating. I downloaded the 20MB of software from Apple.com the first day it was released....at 340 KB/s, a speed I rarely reach with my cable service. I loved it immediately. It had my artists, the songs were 99 cents cheap, the download was nearly instant, and the quality superb considering the bit rate was only 128k.

More than that, Apple, as always, had a snazzy ad and uber sexy hype about it. And perhaps deservedly so. "Hell froze over." read the home page "The best Windows application ever written." Great stuff.

Yes, iTunes was the answer, and I was spreading the word. "Woe to ye, sinners, pirates forsake thy evil theivery and embrace the salvation of iTunes!"

But in the back of my mind there were several problems, problems I was willing to brush aside at the time, or perhaps fix. In an IM dated, oh, I don't know...sometime last week I said something like this:

"I'm going to figure out a way to automate the peacful transfer of music to my Pocket PC from iTunes."

The problem was realized, it was out in the open now. Apple supported portable music, but only with their elite iPod. I would love to own an iPod, but I cannot afford one and won't be spending such a large amount of money on one. With apple, there was no alternative. I couldn't port music to my Pocket PC. Impooossssible. I also couldn't easily convert the songs to MP3s or WMAs. (Let's see, 1. Burn a CD 2. Rip the CD into the format of my choosing. 3. Type in all of vital information such as artist name. 3 easy steps!) This was a huge hurdle, one that I wasn't sure if I could surrmount. After toying with different audio codecs and attempting to find away to defeat the blasted DRM, I gave up...it was for all intents and purposes, impossible.

It was about this time last week I checked out the Napster home page. It wasn't available yet, and I didn't really like the looks of this new software. But one thing did catch my eye. Napster was going to use the WMA format. This could spell "Liberation". Liberation beyond iTunes, true liberation.

Fast forward to yesterday, I checked out the Napster site again, but this time I was greeted with a big "Download Now" button. I immediately downloaded it.

The interface is what I would call "iTunesian". It's basically a shameless clone, though not quite as sexy. It's a clone in a annoying sort of way. It was the "Bizzaro iTunes"....the same but different and very annoying. But I can learn to love that. I started out my adventure with Napster by searching for the Don McLean ode to Rock n' Roll, American Pie. It quickly appeared in the list, and in 30 seconds I was listening to its goodness. This brings us to our first benefit Napster has over iTunes.

Numero 1. Apple wouldn't let me have the song.

You see, I tried to download American Pie from iTunes l