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  1. Re:Free, or I'll do Without! by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on Fame, Fortune and Micropayments
    Technically speaking PayPal (now Ebay) could have done this years ago, simply a button that allows you to buy a webpage. It would not be too hard to do, they already have all the other pieces in place.


    Micropayments have been done for *ages*, in europe there was the VideoText system (viditel in NL, minitel in France). That's the 1200/75 era, so really way back when.


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  2. good for them by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on CWRU Opens Largest Wi-Fi Net
    Now if some company would be so kind as to provide decent bandwidth to rural Canada that would make me *very* happy.


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  3. Re:fair warning by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed

    ah, you're absolutely right there, sorry about that. Even so, 'beta' should be enough warning :)

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  4. fair warning by jacquesm · · Score: 2, Informative · on Red Hat Enterprise 3 Beta Reviewed

    RedHats early stuff is not ready for prime time, usually that takes until the .2 release, so don't install this on anything mission critical (as in it's your living or someone will get mad at you if it fails).

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  5. windows ? by jacquesm · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Using Spyware to Report Pirates?

    How many packets does your machine send out that you have not looked at personally ? Mine does that *all* the time (I don't have the time nor the resources to check them all).

    This means that if say MS is checking the contents of my machine and starts harassing me over possibly illegal software that I would have no way of knowing that the info was retrieved using spyware. it's the stupidity of the 'presentation' that gives this one away, if they were a bit more clever about it you'd never have known that it was spyware related.

    The best way to avoid this kind of trouble is to go completely open source or make sure your licenses are paid up :)

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  6. the Godfather by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off?
    in the godfather movie there is a scene where the Don tries to reason with someone. This does not work, and regrettably he has to resolve the matter in a slightly different fashion.


    I think we have reasoned long enough with McBride :)


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  7. no way by jacquesm · · Score: 0, Insightful · on Building a Better Bomb
    this is not an improvement.


    An improvement would be a reduction in bombs, not an improvement in technology.


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  8. not afraid... (yet) by jacquesm · · Score: 1 · on Two Wheeled Wi-Fi Sniffing Robot
    Personally as long as these wardriving robots do not come with armaments (remotely or autonomously controlled) I'm not afraid. Feel free to sniff my pop / telnet passwords (don't use either), just please *dont* shoot me :)


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