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  1. Re:Personally ... on Congress Considers Reform On Orphaned Works · · Score: 1

    Not as long as there are no term limits for Congressional seats.

    It's even worse in the Senate than the House. Some members of the Senate have served for over 30 years.

  2. Youth and trendiness on Donald Knuth Rips On Unit Tests and More · · Score: 1

    At the end, he even remarks on his adage that young people shouldn't do things just because they're trendy. They shouldn't, but we all know that they do it anyway. Peer pressure has a big impact on the lives of "young people."
  3. Re:Excellent! on KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil · · Score: 1

    How long have you been primarily using Ubuntu? Almost 2 years.
  4. Re:educational games suck on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 1

    There's software that can get you laid? Tell me more.

  5. Free drivers? on Larrabee Team Is Focused On Rasterization · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Off-topic. but will Intel provide drivers under a free license for their new GPU, similar to what they are doing now with their integrated GPUs?

  6. Re:SSL Shopper on Choosing an SSL Provider? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Excellent! on KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil · · Score: 1

    I have a hard time in Montreal (Canada) to find a photo service that provides an easy to use interface to upload picture. Many fall back to a basic service where you have to pick and select each picture one by one. Tedious when you have >60 pictures to upload. Kodak does this to Linux users. Windows and Mac users have a nice application to upload pictures in bulk. Photo service? In the US, people just take their memory cards to a kiosk in the drugstore, about where the "1 hour photo" booth is.
  8. Re:Onerous Burden on Businesses? on Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Onerous Burden on Businesses? on Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals · · Score: 1

    Indeed.

  10. Re:Onerous Burden on Businesses? on Companies To Be Liable For Deals With Online Criminals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not surprising. If I ran an insurance agency I wouldn't want to give life insurance to someone who's just going to strap a bomb to his chest.

  11. Re:Freenet vs Bittorrent on Freenet Releases 0.7.0rc2 · · Score: 1

    If your in darknet mode isnt that the same as a private tracker? No, because malicious individuals can still sign up for private trackers. In darknets, no one, not even the person you are downloading from, knows who you are.
  12. Re:And here's why it's doomed to failure: on Freenet Releases 0.7.0rc2 · · Score: 1

    I believe Tor is still around.

  13. SSL Shopper on Choosing an SSL Provider? · · Score: 4, Informative

    SSL Shopper has a great list of SSL certificate providers and reviews, as well as the ability to compare different providers side by side using their SSL wizard.

  14. Re:Hardware? on KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil · · Score: 1

    KDE is pretty slow on my machine, and it's only 2 years old.

  15. Re:I have always said Gov Open Source makes sense on KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil · · Score: 1

    Well, if stability is the most critical factor, you can just install FreeBSD. No need for UNIX.

  16. Re:Excellent! on KDE Desktops For 52 Million Students In Brazil · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I primarily use Ubuntu and I have hardly ever come across a site that demands Windows.

  17. Re:Buy a console on PC Gaming Suggestions for Console-like Fun? · · Score: 1

    Actually, RedOctane still sells the old PS2 Guitars for $40, in both red and black.

  18. Error in summary on Bill Gates On the GPL — "We Disagree" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Proprietary software, he said, creates a license 'so that nobody can ever improve the software, There. Fixed it for you.
  19. Re:freedb on Sony to Buy Gracenote · · Score: 1

    What is this iTunes you speak of? Some crufty, proprietary version of Amarok? I'm sorry, how is this relevant again?

  20. Re:freedb on Sony to Buy Gracenote · · Score: 1

    FreeDB is under the GPL. If the license is changed, then someone can fork from the last GPL-licensed version. Thus is unlike CDDB, which only offered the CDDB software under the GPL but not the database itself.

  21. Re:Lyrical Response Mechanism on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 3, Funny

    Until the user gets subpoenaed by copyright holders.

    Then it will be hilarious.

  22. Re:Twofo Ghey Niggers on Next-Generation CAPTCHA Exploits the Semantic Gap · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just reaffirms the article's conviction that the CAPTCHA is broken.

  23. Re:I say! on $1/Gallon "Green Gasoline" In Sight · · Score: 1

    Probably. The DeLorean traveled to 2015, so expecting this in 5-7 years would make sense.

  24. Re:Hunh? on Marshall University Challenges RIAA · · Score: 1

    You were supposed to use a car analogy.

  25. Re:2nd university to show a movie? on Marshall University Challenges RIAA · · Score: 1

    Search the Internet. Parodies abound. I can guarentee you that there is at least one person or group of people who both hate the RIAA and know how to make a good movie.