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  1. i like your sig on SCO "Disappointed" by Red Hat Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    seems they all loved the Free Market until p2p made it a free market

  2. Long-term Linux dies anyway, so what? on Novell Vice Chairman on Ximian, SCO · · Score: 1


    "Unix is dead, long live unix"

  3. complex kernels are evil 8) on Opie GUI/PIM Project Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    How much performance is really being lost in having bigger more complex base kernels?

    It is not a issue with just embedded devices, you might ask as similar question of the Linux Kernel in general.

    200+ system calls is getting a wee bit high

  4. He's on about Trolltech on Opie GUI/PIM Project Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    thanks for Opie btw

  5. oh FreeBSD, yeah it's great on Measuring The Benefits Of The Gentoo Approach · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Finally! on ScummVM 0.5.0 Out, With Some Official Game Support · · Score: 1

    The monster turns on the creator and has to be killed as a metaphor for society's demand that a man takes control of his ego and plays by the rules lest he expose the violence inherent in the system.

  7. grep < hey did you mean etrans? on W3C Web Accessibility Standards 2.0 · · Score: 1

    curse you etrans

    <input ... checked>

    and <input ... checked="checked">

    is what i was on about

  8. It isn't just wheelchairs that go up ramps. on W3C Web Accessibility Standards 2.0 · · Score: 1

    To me it looks like my site does okay.

    One interesting thing I found with a few seconds fumbling was the use of

    on this page
    http://bobby.cast.org/bobby/html/en/gls/g109 .html

    recently I was reading XHTML stuff and noticed that if you want to be forward thinking any new stuff you create would be better off chosing as xhtml requires it.

    and I thought back to all the times I've had to write special case code to deal with "checked", if only I'd known.

    The tips I have read mostly, for me anyway, deal with filling in default values for html attributes that have been "optional" such as adding summaries for tables and th values. I think this is best practice for many a website anyway. Meta information is great for seach engines and search engine referrals, for many of us, are our life-blood.

    So it is not as "access for the disabled" that this stuff really comes under. Proper categorization and labelling of documents improves the relationship between all users.

  9. "GPL Good or copyright bad" - which is it to be? on Galactic Conquest For Battlefield 1942 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I was Lucas Arts I'd be pretty miffed too.

    When it comes to downloading music p2p is not "right" as in "under all circumstances this is okay" but it is an expression of the public's dissatisfaction with years of price cartels and a way to hit back it being "ripped off" even if their thoughts are "hey I can get it for free".

    I think Josh said it best http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1491 [about making fps mods] :
    -----------------
    Step Two: Pick a Hot Property

    You have to base your mod on something, and nothing works better than somebody else's copyrighted property. Heck, George Lucas isn't going to mind if you steal his beloved characters for personal use. Neither is old Tolkien, who is probably burning in hell for writing such blasphemous nonsense. Here are a couple suggestions for possible mod material:

    Star Wars
    X-Men
    Harry Potter
    The Matrix
    Lord of the Rings
    Dragonball Z
    Denver the Last Dinosaur
    -----------------

    GPL people want copyright to have teeth to protect the work of the people but for copyright to crumble when it infringes in their right.

    I don't a Star Wars mod is fair use. Lucas Arts is in the Computer Game business. I think it would be less infringing if it was "Sienfeld" mod becasuse I doubt Jerry has any plans along those lines.

  10. i know, thanks for the help on Analyzing Binaries For Security Problems · · Score: 1

    With the username and password hard coded into the executable, there was no way to change it witout having the vendor make the change and send out a new executable.

  11. people can make movies on Open Content and Value Creation · · Score: 2, Interesting


    and they do it pretty well with no money too

    http://www.bangshortfilmfestival.com/

    okay they aren't going to make a special effects action movie but there is more to the genre than massive budget film

    even CGI

    http://www.hardlight.couk.com/

  12. Or apostrophes on Analyzing Binaries For Security Problems · · Score: 1

    BugScan requires users to log into the system in order to user its' services. Enter your username and password into the appropriate fields, and click the "Login" button. If you do not have an account, ask your Administrator to add one.

    I asked my administrator but I couldn't answer myself.

  13. no way to change it ? on Analyzing Binaries For Security Problems · · Score: 2, Insightful

    With the username and password hard coded into the executable, there was no way to change it witout having the vendor make the change and send out a new executable.

    if it was in cleartext couldn't you just edit the executable, so long as the new username/password was the same length you'd be set.

  14. I'm English on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 1

    The two party state is a mature democracy and almost inevitable.

    The rise of extremism is a consequence but the middle ground is an attractor.

  15. I just started on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 1

    I like you sig btw

    On eof the most influencial books I ever read was this one :

    The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
    Peter L. Berger
    Thomas Luckmann

    here

  16. if companies paid their taxes maybe it would help on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Democratic Capitalism states it's aim as using human work to generate value. The people who do the work vote for a government that pools a portion of that for investing the the community with 'public works'.

    Taxation of profit is the promise that the government makes to the people.

    Tax collectors have the most powerful range of search and siezure laws on their side.

    Here in the UK a VAT collector can, with reasonable cause, turn up and any hour of the day or night and provided he is accompanied by two police officers he can enter your premises even if that means breaking in. No warrant, no judge, sieze first - ask questions later.

    So why is it just that the world's most profitable companies avoid paying fair taxation?

    If you believe in Democracy you believe in taxation, that's the deal.

    It is not good enough to set up "the Foundation" and do public work. The will of the people is that you pay the government and we'll take care of it from there, thank you very much.

    It is in this way that monopolies should not threaten their customers. Taxation is one of the checks and balances against run-away profiteering. If you had to pay 90% tax on the top end of the balance sheet then diminishing returns act as a disincentive.

    The stagnant two party system that has gripped the major democracies is anti-freedom.
    Dynasties are broken by internal power struggles spilling out into civil war or barbarian hordes.
    Demonizing the "others", one nation under god.
    But break they will and break they must.

  17. nah, get a lead bag on The RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges? · · Score: 1

    you can buy them at the photography shop

    stops them nasty old radio waves from finding the rf tag

    best thing is that artist still gets the money from the sale, just the shop loses

    And if you go somewhere owned by EMI such as HMV then you are stealing blood money from the world's biggest armaments group.

    "I shot a man and in his hand was a weapon that was made in Birmingham"

    I used to have a situation where both the local record and book stores were EMI Group owned.
    Luckily, stealing from them was pretty easy. I used to lift CDs from HMV just for the sake of it and give them away when I got home.

  18. that's interesting on Titania Nanotubes for Hydrogen Sensors? · · Score: 1

    my pathetic post was just ripping off the Simpson's.

    When Homer get's to Dr. Nick's surgery to have his thumb sewn back on Dr. Nick says it to a gas canister while he looks on as the surgery burns down.

  19. Inflammable on Titania Nanotubes for Hydrogen Sensors? · · Score: 1

    "Inflammable means flammable? What a country !"

  20. that's not my argument on Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    My premise is that they've killed us before they'll kill us again.

    That innocuous submission comes back to bite you.

    That the modern face of business is only a few phone calls away from crushing you.

    Mechanised warfare moved from swords to stocks & shares.

    The war against the people never stops raging.

    Faced with annihilation we get our comfort from apathy.

    "BE WARNED: THE NATURE OF YOUR OPPRESSION IS THE AESTHETIC OF OUR ANGER"

    hehe didn't mean to go off like that but when I do, I like it

  21. can you prove this hypothesis? on Upper Ozone Depletion Declining · · Score: 4, Funny

    but it's a nice example of humans taking an active role in reversing some of the damage we've done.

    "How's the anti-elephant cream coming along?"

    "Can *you* see any elephants?"

  22. Rob doesn't get enough credit on Linux Journal Interview With Brian Kernighan · · Score: 1

    If you liked the book you might love the operating system

  23. nice find on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    maybe year zero wouldn't be such a bad idea right now.

    That would be interesting to watch.

  24. Good luck finding infringers on Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Like: computer bottling swiftly beer?

    Unless you look in Japan I guess

  25. "Drop the case or we'll show them the pictures." on Yahoo! Settles Patent Dispute · · Score: -1, Troll

    guess I need some pictures to post here

    will these do ?

    http://www.hardlight.couk.com/purile/