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  1. Looks reasonable to me on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When one buys Champagne one expects it come from Champagne.

    However, when one buys a Swiss Roll one expects a particular style of cake not for it to come from Switzerland.

    I think the Commission has every right to protect the names of certain goods.

    When one buys a Linux distribution one would expect it to come with a Linux kernel. Imagine if it came with a "Linux compatible" kernel. That's why Linux is a trademark.

    Champagne can only be champagne if it is made with grapes grown in Champagne. I'm quite happy to buy Champagne Compatible so long as I'm pre-warned.

  2. Re:Pr0n! on In-Dash DIN-form-factor Car PC · · Score: 1

    better still

    project it on to the back of that white lorry you're following

    we sat & watched a movie in a pub carpark one evening on the way back from a meeting, that got people talking

  3. Re:Same in the UK on Flash Mobs: Peaceable Assembly for Spontaneous Fun · · Score: 1

    Is that really a consequence of that act. I can't remember it in full.

    I was a hunt sab for quite a while before the CJB and I remember a riot being defined as :

    12 people with a common violent purpose.

    Less than twelve and it would be affray.

    It used to be that a local JP had to be roused and he had to literally "read the riot act" to the crowd, and then the local soldiers could attack them on horseback with swords.

    When 20+ per side people are brawling in the street/fields for their politics it gets pretty darn crazy I can tell ya.

    Being chased by mounted police through a town centre is a buzz as well (we ran into a shopping mall to escape 8)

  4. Re:Not a bad idea BUT on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    Your Honour, the defendant had plenty of opportunity to reveal this new information, indeed his arresting officer cautioned him :

    "You do not have to say anything but it may harm your defence if you fail to mention when questioned something which you intend to rely on in court"

    Therefore I motion that this new piece of evidence be inadmissable as it was a story clearly concocted after the fact.

  5. Win2k solution - you some sort of drone? on DirectX Flaw Leaves Windows Vulnerable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    solution

    the only solution Win2k should be in is with hydrochloric acid

  6. Re:Not a bad idea BUT on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    Your honour,

    Why would anyone be buying gardening refuse at £210 for an ounce?

  7. Re:This actually sucks on Microsoft's Patent Problem · · Score: 1

    Even those are not their own

    http://www.ebnonline.com/story/OEG20011221S0021

    Key Tronic Corp., Spokane, WA, announced today that a jury in Seattle federal court rendered a verdict yesterday afternoon finding that Key Tronic misappropriated trade secrets.

    The suit alleged that secret information owned by Falcon, Gilligan and F&G was improperly disclosed by Key Tronic to Microsoft Corp., a former defendant in the suit, and thereafter used by Microsoft in the Microsoft IntelliMouse products.

  8. Re:Not a bad idea BUT on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    IANAL

    but imagine this UK situation :

    two guys, one with a bag of oregano sells it to the other as "weed".

    They can both be prosecuted for selling/buying a controlled substance despite not having any.

  9. Re:Oh man! on The RIAA's Hit List Named · · Score: 1

    my car ran someone over and killed them

    all they have is the licence plate

    how will they prove it was me?

    I'll walk for this one

  10. yes, must be google on Digging Holes in Google · · Score: 1

    more likely you've been owned my friend

  11. Why not an imagemap? on Drawing Graphs on Your Browser? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As we need some interactivity, the GIF image generated on the server-side is not an option.

    Surely an image with an onClick and some Javascript will do what you ask of it?

  12. "We send lab mice" - er I don't on Psychotic Lab Mice · · Score: 1

    let the mice go

  13. oops on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1
  14. Re:We already know..... on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate the power of a programming system where all data is accessed in the same way

    It's here in 32 bits already

  15. Re:We already know..... on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    lemme try it on X86 first

    ssh -X server_at_the_colo.mydomain.com

    cd /usr/local/games/enemy-territory ./et.x86

    hmm, not too great

    what was your point again?

  16. Re:IBM Never been evil - ha! on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    it went beyond mere supply

    and yes, it would have been illegal for an American company to supply the Third Reich with pencils

    IBM used proxy companies to hide their involvement

    go read the stuff, it's pretty interesting

  17. IBM Never been evil - ha! on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Unless you consider computerising the Third Reich as not particularly evil.

    You didn't think millions of Jews across Europe were catalogued by pencil and paper did you?

    It was the IBM Hollerith Punch Card systems leased to the Nazis and billions of punch cards sold to them from 1933 to the end of the war.

    There was one at just about every death camp, the Allies were kind enough to even give them back once the camps were liberated.

  18. Re:Lemme get this straight . . . on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    in order to use it you must agree

    Only people who re-distrubute the product have to agree to anything and what they are agreeing to is the terms under which they are granted the right to distribute it.

    All that running the programs requires is that you can have no expectation of it working as it is not gauranteed to be fit for any purpose.

  19. I prefer "holier than thou" on SCO Preparing Linux Licensing Program · · Score: 1

    therefore I am

  20. Re:Well... on Deciding Between SCO and Linux? · · Score: 2, Funny

    several of their board got convicted for crap like that.)..

    and then went on to form IBM

  21. not unencumbered in the slightest on Finding Freeware Listing Sites? · · Score: 1

    Quite the opposite in fact

    http://www.deviantart.com/help/faq/#5.2

    Q. 5.2. Am I allowed to redistribute the art downloaded from here on other websites?

    A. No. All art displayed here is copyrighted to the artist that submitted it and therefore if you desire to redistribute the art you will need to contact each individual artist that you are interested in distributing art from.

    http://www.deviantart.com/policy/agreement.php
    2. Ownership. Artist shall at all times retain all right, title and interest in and to the Artist Materials provided by Artist hereunder (including, without limitation, the copyrights therein and thereto), subject to the non-exclusive rights granted to deviantART under this Agreement. Artist is free to grant similar rights to others during and after the Term of this Agreement.

  22. Let Judge Judy decide on Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob · · Score: 1

    Once you took delivery of the goods and saw that $300 was more than nominal you could try and take them to court and claim some of the money back.

    If they had the judgement go against them they would probably reduce the fee.

    That's how a beaurocracy works. [or doesn't work]

    Incidentally, the French invented beaurocracy.

  23. that's no problem on Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob · · Score: 1

    I hate most of 'em already

  24. Interesting you use Tokyo on Slashback: Benchmarks, Sobig, Blob · · Score: 1

    It is in the World psyche that Japan has the people packed in.

    The average room size in Tokyo for domestic dwellings is *larger* than the corresponding average for UK room sizes.

    Give me Tokyo anytime (providing they bring down the prices!)

  25. 9p2000 is an open protocol on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 2, Interesting

    already one such implementation exists such that FreeBSD can expose its file system to plan9 machines (as you would expect it gets imported into your namespace. Would can be a different place depending on the namespace of the current process. Even (temporarily) "replacing" your local files with versions on the FreeBSD Box, if that's what you want.