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  1. Re:Bullshit on Taking On Software Liability - Again · · Score: 1

    You can buy it from me. In just a few years and few hundreed thousand dollars you will get a bug-free copy of MS Office. Oh, btw, it will run only in fixed software and hardware environment: I can't risk fresh new buggy video driver crashing your system and me blamed for it.

  2. Re:Linus Taken to Task on Linus Says No to 'Specs' · · Score: 1

    Open source is not a reason to throw out software specs. Do you really want to spend a few weeks patching program for your system?

  3. Smart, responsive and self-healing? on Building the Energy Internet · · Score: 1

    If my power supply will fail as often as my internet link... Oh no!

  4. Re:Files and line numbers may be sufficient on SCO Files Response To Demand For Evidence · · Score: 2, Funny

    Large font, one letter on page:
    ALL YOUR KERNEL ARE BELONG TO US.

    They can make a nice poster with it :)

  5. Re:"Someone inside SCO" on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 1

    And a large stock of condoms is an evidence of how Saddam planned to torture captured US soldiers...

  6. What's new? on Object Prevalence: Get Rid of Your Database? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't it just another main memory database? Just like this or that?

  7. Re:insane ruling on ADA Doesn't Apply to Web · · Score: 1

    There is no reason Southwest should make their website blind-accessible.

  8. Not this time on Sklyarov Denied Visa to Return to U.S. for Trial · · Score: 2, Informative

    Russia does not extradite own citizens in any case. If citizen commited a crime in other country, it will be punished in Russia and under russian laws.

    Citizens of other states can be extradited, of course. But not for DMCA violation.

  9. Re:Does anyone else have a problem with this???? on Constructing Accessible Web Sites · · Score: 1

    The key here is if you run a venture that is designed as a place of *public accomadation*, then it must be accessable to all the *public*. That's the key word.

    And what about those people who can't read? Should someone care about them too or they are less important than blinds?

    <i>Ie; there's no law saying you need a wheelchair ramp on your home. If you run a restaurant, hotel, or other place of public accomodation, then there is.</i>

    And one strip show in LasVegas was closed for not having ramp <b>for dancers</b>. Isn't it a little too much for "equal rights for everyone"?

  10. Re:Human Rights on Blind User Sues Southwest Over Web Site, Cites ADA · · Score: 1
    As for "If SW Airlines doesn't want blind people for customers, so be it," replace with "If SW Airlines doesn't want black people or women for customers, so be it."

    Really, why? Americans has some really stupid laws about equality. It's goverment and other monopolies who must serve everyone as equals, because there is no other goverment. But on competitive market there is no any reason to force company N to serve customer group M, just like there is no reason to force some private person to talk with this group members.

  11. Re:His Ears on Skydiving from 25 Miles Up · · Score: 1

    No. He must wear some kind of "space suit" or his ear drums will be destroyed just after he get off aircraft cabin: there is almost no pressure on 25 miles height.

  12. Re:Common Sense... on South Africa Wants Control of .za · · Score: 1

    Goverment should control only state property and TLD isn't state property.

  13. Re:Finally, some common sense. on Columbine Video-Games Suit Dismissed · · Score: 1
    If you put entire BigMac to someone's or your own throat, this man will possibly die. Should McDonalds make their BigMacs not so big? If not, why should they serve cold coffee? I prefer hot.

    And yes, everything hot can cause burns. Everything.

  14. FreeBSD solution on Seeking Current Info on Linux Encrypted FS? · · Score: 1
    This message is NOT a SPAM :)

    Just a few weeks ago i started my own project for this purpose: vncrypt. It's patched vn(4) driver for FreeBSD-stable that allow transparent encryption. Now it's in beta, encrypting data but with minimalistic and not very secure user level tools.

    CFS by Matt Blaze is a good solution, but I don't like NFS idea and directory structure, file sizes, etc are still visible with it.

  15. Re:Is a RMS-free lincense free? on Freedom or Power? · · Score: 1

    Guaranteed? Look, if you don't like my rules, go to other shop or write your own code.

  16. Re:Another way to look at this... on Freedom or Power? · · Score: 1

    You have freedom to use your car and you mustn't take this freedom away from me, right?

  17. ACE on Portable Coding and Cross-Platform Libraries? · · Score: 1

    I'm using ACE for this purpose, and it really works.

  18. Re:I don't think so. on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    People will not come up with steganography. Most of them just don't need to.
    Criminals will. They need it, they will pay for it, they will get it.

    And about Stegdetect: it detects not "most steganography". It detects only 4 (four) steganography packages, may be most popular. I don't think that clever criminal will use popular steganography program.

  19. Re:I don't think so. on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    First of all, Carnivore or any other system needs to detect that it looking at encrypted information. Not jpeg, not zip archive, but encrypted data. I can in two days make a encryption program that puts encrypted data in ZIP format. It will even decomperss, to complete garbage, of course.

    And this is one of most simple solutions. There are a lot of much better steganography methods.

  20. Re:One point. on Travesty: Dmitry Sklyarov's Arrest · · Score: 1
    Here in Russia, customers has a right to reverse-engineer and modify any legally obtained program to fit it to their needs. I can reverse-engineer Adobe reader. And, IICR, it is legal to write a program to convert "database" to any needed format, even from E-Book to PDF.

    Adobe can try to stop selling this program in USA, but doesn't it remind you a story about Yahoo, Nazi symbols and French court?

  21. Re:hmmm on Sklyarov Arrest Follow-up · · Score: 1

    (A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;

    I wonder if Adobe protection can really be called "effective"? You can drive a bus through the holes in it.

  22. Bugs are price of progress on Bar Association Likely to Oppose UCITA · · Score: 1

    Of course, vendors can stop innovating and concentrate on quality. But do you _really_ want to use word processor from 1991? It would be quite reliable after 10 years of testing, but I wouldn't like this tradeoff.

  23. You are already identified on You Are What You Click · · Score: 1

    Traditional methods (cookies, gifs, ...) can identify user too: every popular browser now supports user profiles, so different cookies are stored for each user on a single computer.

    This technology can help if someone works under my login, but IMHO its rare practice now.