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  1. Simple solution on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sell it by the kilo

  2. Re:Congressional testimony on Hot Fuels on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because transporting 30kg of extra fuel around is free

  3. Re:if I had bought Vista on Vista is Watching You · · Score: 1

    Thanks for sharing that with us, we were quite concerned what your next steps would be.

  4. Re:Actually, on the contrary on South Korea Now Officially Taxing Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you live but the popular papers here certainly do push opinion on the front page.

    But don't take my word for it :

    http://www.nmauk.co.uk/nma/do/live/historicpage

  5. Re:I'm not big on security by obscurity, but... on Cart Locking System Released as Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not only that but ours are £1 coin sized and places sell you a keyring with a £1 coin sized piece of metal hanging off it for use in supermarket trollies.

    http://www.tenovus.com/index.cfm?UUID=FA3D05C9-65B F-7E43-3C7253387FBBB56B

    http://www.alzscot.org/store/pages/Trolley_keyring 219113800.htm

    http://www.schshop.org.uk/keyrings.html

    etc.

  6. Re:Ink Jet Profit Margins on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 1

    Nope

  7. Lexmark tried it on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 3, Informative
  8. Re:Ink Jet Profit Margins on Cryptography To Frustrate Printer-Ink Piracy · · Score: 1

    Deliberately thwarting people from producing 3rd party parts for your product is most certainly illegal.

  9. Re:Actually, government insurance works quite well on Winnipeg Demands Immobilizers on High-Risk Cars · · Score: 1

    Company X sues Company Y for as much as possible, thus hurting the customers of Company Y which benefits Company X and round and round and round it goes.

    Here we have courtesy cars, house pick ups, free child seats etc.

  10. Re:Yay AMD on Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs · · Score: 1

    Plan 9 From Bell Labs

  11. Re:but... on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    To the first approximation

  12. Re:Xen kernels are nearly useless on Desperately Seeking Xen · · Score: 1

    There are more OSes than Windows & Linux

  13. Re:Summary sucks, someone please provide better on on Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs · · Score: 1

    There's the added bonus of the possibility that the source code would look benign but compile it to buggy machine code and it turns belligerent.

  14. Re:Need an enforcement structure, though. on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    Yup, I'm with you on that. My 'everything else' bin only needs emptying every 6 weeks & most of the paper in my paper bin is junk mail, would be annoying to get charged to have that taken away!

    I read about some poor guy who got fined for some junk mail addressed to him being found at the non-paper dump. It's all a great way to cause trouble for your neighbours.

  15. Re:but... on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    You're right, you don't know enough. Plastics can be made from vegetable oils.
    All the plastic we've ever made is still with us, I think there will be a supply of discarded plastic for quite some time.

    Take a walk round the low rent tourist spots of India, plastic water bottle piles are a very common sight.

  16. Re:Need an enforcement structure, though. on Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back to Oil · · Score: 1

    Here in the U.K. it is the law with fines applied to miscreants who put a plastic bottle in the paper bin. I have 3 full sized different coloured wheelie bins outside my front door (it is also illegal to leave them in the street except on collection day). Collection days alternate between the "dry recyclables & garden waste (no food)" and "everything else". Some people, particularly those with large families, are having trouble coping with the every two weeks part.

    With talk of charging by weight it won't be long before bags of trash appear in the night during the quite times of the day/night.

  17. Re:Is it just me on EU Privacy Directive — Coming To the US? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vegetarian wasn't "eater of vegetables, eggs, cheese and stuff that's not really meat" its entemology is "person that eats live food" vegetus.

    Vegan had to be invented to distinguish we vegetarians from the murderers who drink milk and eat cheese.

  18. Re:"non-viral" license on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Plan 9 license has been a struggle with Lucent lawyers. Plan 9's 3rd edition was the first that was offered as a free download (which is where I found it via /.) At this time it contained a clause saying you had to submit any kernel changes you made back to Lucent. The Plan9 team fought to get rid of that and did a pretty good job of releasing it under what was thought to be an open source license. The OSI and RMS thought different, iirc it was because of the US munitions export license problem. The license was redone and approved by the OSI as the license we see today.

    There was a time where there was a tounge in cheek tickbox that said something like : I promise not to use plan9 to make nuclear weapons outside of the US.

    Licensing arguments were pretty common on the mailing list as though the devs were not trying to get it sorted or were in control of writing the damn thing. It got distracting enough that licensing discussions got their own mailing list, which then we could all not bother reading.

  19. Re:Pretty cool on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene · · Score: 4, Informative

    APE -- The ANSI/POSIX Environment
    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/ape.html

    Plan9 has the Abaco web browser, it's still in development but you can use Gmail with it apparently.

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/fgb/aba co.pdf

    So put your 2c back in your pocket.

  20. Re:Pretty cool on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene · · Score: 4, Informative

    Inferno is based around the DIS virtual machine and much of the system code is written in Limbo which is compiled to DIS bytecode.

    Plan9 is C based and can't run DIS natively.

    Plan9 and Inferno now use a unified 9P protocol - 9p2000 (they used to use 9p and Styx respectively).

    Lucent sold Inferno to Vita Nuova holdings http://www.vitanuova.com/ and they now develop Inferno and exploit it commercially.

    Inferno and Plan9 are used in Lucent products. Plan9 with RT extensions is used in Lucent mobile phone masts to manage calls. Sape Mullender presented a paper at the IWP last year about it. http://plan9.escet.urjc.es/iwp9/cready/realtime.pd f

  21. Re:Plan 9 on Plan 9 Running on Blue Gene · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There are about 50 active posters to the 9fans mailing list.
    There were about 30 people attending the International Plan9 Symposium in Madrid last year (of which I was one).

    Plan9 also has 15 projects in the 2007 Google Summer of Code.

  22. Re:What I would have said on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    I said "I" not "he"

  23. Re:If it's viewable, it's hackable on New AACS Fix Hacked in a Day · · Score: 1

    You should judge treason by the prosecutions, not the accusations.

  24. What I would have said on Microsoft Vs. TestDriven.NET · · Score: 1

    "if it's so illegal, call the cops"

  25. Re:Minimalist OS on A Look at BSD Rootkits · · Score: 1