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  1. Re:like we used to? on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Hopefully it would go public domain shortly before you get out of prison.

  2. Re:Illegal P2P download services on U2's Manager Calls For Mandatory Disconnects For Music Downloaders · · Score: 1

    Besides the fact that the Bittorrent protocol itself is not illegal (just like HTTP is not illegal, but child pr0n delivered by it is), Vuze has a great system for legally purchasing and downloading content.

  3. Re:Oneword on Snopes Pushing Zango Adware · · Score: 1

    The Adblock Plus maintianers recommend that you don't use Filterset, because the subscribed lists are updated more regularly and are better maintained. They just don't notify you of an update to the lists.

  4. Re:Oota Goota, Troll Tracker? on Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity · · Score: 1

    The half he licked the salt off of, of course!

  5. Re:I miss the days of gunpowder on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    I wonder what poison is the quickest An injection of lead directly into the brain.
  6. Re:Beowulf? on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 1

    Bad image. Imagine getting shot at by a Beowulf cluster of these.

  7. Re:uh, wrong. please check your math. on World's Most Powerful Rail Gun Delivered to US Navy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Advanced arresting gear (no idea what that means) If it refers to the carrier, arresting gear is a cable that the fighters try to hook when they land so that they don't go off the edge.
  8. Re:Well woopdeedoo on Vista SP1 Release May Be Near · · Score: 1

    I've been using Ubuntu for like forty days Hmmm. Install the compizconfig-settings-manager package if you haven't already. It'll add the ability to tweak compiz beyond the stock settings.
  9. Re:I really wonder, whats with all the reboots? on Vista SP1 Release May Be Near · · Score: 1

    Wonderful. Like IE is integrated into Windows to the point that you can't extract it.

  10. Re:Ubuntu 7.0? on Lotus Notes 8.5 Will Support Ubuntu 7.0 · · Score: 1

    THe use of 7.0 might mean the whole 7 series If they knew what they were talking about you would think that they would have said 7.x
  11. Re:Decleraton of war on Defunct Spy Satellite Falling From Orbit · · Score: 1

    "auto magically" was funny, too. Note to OP: It's "automatically"

  12. Re:Medical Science is getting really interesting.. on Anthrax Cellular Entry Point Uncovered · · Score: 1

    they are also made of the same stuff our own cells are made of Only in the sense that the cell's resources are diverted to building the virus. Other than that, they are very different. A bacteria is a cell, but a virus is simply DNA wrapped in a protein capsule. Even less to it than a sperm, which can at least move on it's own.
  13. Now that copyright reform is possible... on "Hollywood" Howard Berman To Leave Internet Subcommittee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...what about the long sought-after patent reform? This position wouldn't happen to have any authority in that area. would it?

  14. Re:Try making a well on Massive WiMax Network for India · · Score: 1

    I was joking.

  15. Re:Try making a well on Massive WiMax Network for India · · Score: 0

    Some things (like Internet) are more important than clean water.
    (-:

  16. Re:Medical Science is getting really interesting.. on Anthrax Cellular Entry Point Uncovered · · Score: 1

    They gotta come out eventually. Yes they do. After they have multiplied a thousand-fold and killed the cell. Then it is a Zerg Rush to the next ones. Giving the immune system an insane boost may help, but it isn't a cure, by definition.
  17. Re:copies already obtained on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 0, Redundant
    From the article/letter:

    If you are currently distributing the atscap or pchdtvr packages, or any part thereof, it is in your best interest to destroy all copies in your possession and notify all recipients of either the atscap or pchdtvr packages, or any part thereof, that the licensing under the GPL for both packages has been revoked by the author.
  18. Re:Why? many possible reasons... on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 1

    Why would that create the need to revoke the GPL? Just license new releases differently.

  19. Re:Moving forward, sure... on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 1

    so anything he works on moving forward he can license how he chooses Methinks it is time for a *very* small bugfix.
  20. Re:May I be the first to say on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 1

    If it is under the GPL, don't we simply need to ask him for it?

  21. Re:Medical Science is getting really interesting.. on Anthrax Cellular Entry Point Uncovered · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where's the antivirus meds? Viruses have an annoying habit of hiding in cells where treatments can't get to them very well.
  22. Re:Thanks for nothing. on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 2, Informative

    Someone didn't read the comments. This process uses the corn husks and stalks rather than the ears themselves. Waste matter. No competition for food.

  23. Re:Then throw in taxes on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 1

    It's better than the ~$3.20 here in central California.

  24. Re:What! GM backing cheap fuel! on Startup Claims to Make $1/Gallon Ethanol · · Score: 1

    In California (IIRC), all gas is required to contain at least 10% ethanol.

  25. Re:They sued WHO? on Smartphones Patented — Just About Everyone Sued 1 Minute Later · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't see IBM in that list...