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  1. Re:free market? on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > it does have a tendency to keep its body counts down to a much more acceptable level.

    Or rather, it confined it's holocausts to the 18th & 19th century

    they'll be back

  2. Re:free market? on Sony Paid Warner Bros. $400 Million to Go Blu-Ray? · · Score: 1

    You should read Adam Smith, he warned against unregulated capitalism.

  3. Re:Well... on Digital Picture Frames Infected by Trojan Viruses · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > hardcore gamers aren't likely to use digital picture frames

    you plucked this assertion out of your ass

  4. Wired on What Makes Something "Better Than Free"? · · Score: 1

    Did I fall into a wormhole on my way to work, this subject is *old*

    Results 1 - 10 of about 12,800 for "competing with free".

  5. Re:TRAITOR on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    The EFF started to highlight the matter in 2005.
    The poster says he's known about it for over a decade, that's at least '97.
    I'm surprised you consider it trivia, perhaps you're a traitor / collaborator too.

  6. Re:TRAITOR on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 1

    So you knew in 1997 ?

  7. TRAITOR on Secret Printer ID Codes May Be Illegal In the EU · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you've known about this since 1997 why didn't you tell anybody ? The EFF only started working on it in 2005

    > I'd like to know why this is such a big deal to individual people first off.

    Because some of us actually organise against the machinations of the state, perhaps you've heard of extraordinary rendition the US govt. has been doing or the 30,000 Argentines who were disappeared between 1976 and 1978 for opposing their govt.

    It is extraordinarily naive of you to think that having previously secret (thanks in part to YOU) invisible identifying marks on every document printed from your printer isn't a cause for concern.

  8. Re:It gets better on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm so poor, I've never even heard of yatches!

  9. Re:Look for more Microsoft money behind on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    I think I've been on the internet too long, I never imagined beating a dead horse would involve violence.

  10. Re:Termination at will on UK ISPs Want Copyright Holders to Pay if Users Sue · · Score: 2, Insightful

    UK Law != US law

  11. Re:What British Pornography Association needs is on UK ISPs Want Copyright Holders to Pay if Users Sue · · Score: 1

    From the guy that typed "Insiteful".

  12. Re:Time for Space tankers to start taking flight on Titan's Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Search the internet on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 1

    Firefox is a standards compliant web browser, I.E. isn't. The differences in EMCA scripting alone is a serious hurdle.
    Writing intranet apps for two browsers is a major pain.

  14. Re:Search the internet on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 1

    because they don't do the same thing

  15. Don't worry, it's only a few 1st & 2nd parties on Tor Books Is Giving Away E-Books · · Score: 4, Informative

    Macmillan is a privately-owned company, owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a large German-based company. The company acquired a 70.81 per cent stake in Macmillan in April 1995, and purchased the remaining stake in 1999, at which point the Macmillan family formally ended its 156-year-ownership of the publishing house. Holtzbrinck owns around forty companies as well as Macmillan and is headquartered in Stuttgart. Its interests include book, magazine and newspaper publishers, television and radio companies and new media firms.

  16. Search the internet on Is Microsoft Office Adware? · · Score: 2

    Also uses I.E. when Firefox is the default (in win2k at least)

    It drives me nuts because my boss *always* uses that instead of clicking the FF icon which is hindering my attempts to improve the workflow.

  17. Re:* Stops download of newest Firefox * on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 1

    I never dream about running Firefox either, I try and make my dreams a bit more interesting

  18. Re:* Stops download of newest Firefox * on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 244,000 for shellcode linux

    you fool

  19. Re:Damned it all on Serious Vulnerability In Firefox 2.0.0.12 · · Score: 1

    On our guest account comp. I turn on "Allow top level sites by default", that's a kind of band-aid because I'm not being dragged over to the terminal every 5 minutes but is some protection from xss.

    The worst they can probably do is wipe /home/guest, and this exploit will allow r/o access to /home/guest/.mozilla

    I boot the terminals over AOE from a disk image anyway so there's not much to lose.

  20. Re:I can't believe... on Energy From Raindrops · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Hmmm. on Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    That would make a good plan 9 / Inferno file system, sadly I don't need to spend $13 a month to take up that challenge !

    Maybe when I have some spare time I will look for a limited storage space and bend their rules :)

  22. Re:My favorite Vista rant... on Hostile ta Vista, Baby · · Score: 1

    I don't have a Windows key, you insensitive clod !

  23. Re:Reality check on Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity · · Score: 1

    All Americans are African-American.

  24. Caveat Emptor on Author of ATSC Capture and Edit Tool Tries to Revoke GPL · · Score: 1

    Would you like to buy a bridge?

  25. Re:I've got a C7 running a home email server. on New VIA x86 CPU Takes Aim At Intel Silverthorne · · Score: 1

    that little beauty has come up on the http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/ mailing list before. One of us needs to get one and port the kernel to it!