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  1. Re:I'll tell you... on Anti-Gravity Device Patented · · Score: 2, Funny

    an username eh ?

  2. Re:Understandable on Linksys WRT54G drops Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    You do know that Cisco bought out Linksys?

  3. Re:mri on OpenDocument Gains New Fans · · Score: 1

    was this it ?

  4. Re:Unfortunately... on OpenDocument Gains New Fans · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe cos them damn reps never saw the utility of doing this :

    cat office.doc | word2opendoc > opendoc.doc

  5. Re:evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1


    Now they compete with each other.

    ergo : neither has won

  6. Re:I understand the first two... on California Class Action Suit Sony Over Rootkit DRM · · Score: 1

    When it comes to the real world, no-one even understands what a rootkit is.

    Joe Public that hates Microsoft is because their computer crashes not because of Microsoft's behaviour in the marketplace (ignoring that the two are linked).

    Hardly anyone will feel different about Sony because of this. Even I don't care!!

  7. Re:evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 1

    If that person is the only living creature left - no bacteria nothing then what is the prize ?

    If there is so much as a bacteria with him then it's business as usual in the evolution machine.

  8. Re:evolution has already spoken on OpenSolaris-based OSes a Threat to Linux? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In evolution there is no winner.

  9. Re:Licenses on Creative Commons for Software? · · Score: 1

    plan9 went through the same wrangle.

    The license said that any derivative works of the kernel had to have their source code submitted back to Lucent.

    The poster wanted to "fit in" to a kind a Free framework, and that's one of the sticking points.

  10. Re:Australian Angle on Australian ISP Unveils WiMax Like Card · · Score: 1

    In insecure Australia, story goes an about AU!

  11. Re:easy on RSA-640 Factored · · Score: 1

    you win my heart

    (2 * 2 ^ 2) * 2 * ( 2 * 2 ^ 2 ) * (2 + i) * (2 - i)

  12. Re:Licenses on Creative Commons for Software? · · Score: 1

    Your summations are incorrect

    1) Contradicts "free" and won't get you OSI certified
    I think you meant "if you distribute a modified binary you have to distribute the source, on demand"

    and 2) & 3) are essentially the same

    your advice is essentially poor, off to license school with you!

  13. Re:Fair use has been reinforced... on Supreme Court Lets Utilization Rights Stand · · Score: 1

    If I don't own it, how can I sell it under doctrine of first sale?

  14. Re:picotux on Smallest IP Target Device? · · Score: 1

    Two links on the word "information" that go to different pages is poor design.

    The link text should let you are going i.e. the link to "Technical Data" should be Technical Data

  15. Re:But he neve said. . . on New Discovery Disproves Quantum Theory? · · Score: 4, Informative

    As Tesla said "If he had thought a bit more, he would have had to sweat so much"

    Besides, he didn't even invent the lightbulb :

    Additionally, Joseph Swan, a British inventor, obtained the first patent for the same light bulb in Britain one year prior to Edison's patent date. Swan even publicly unveiled his carbon filament light bulb in New Castle, England a minimum of 10 years before Edison shocked the world with the announcement that he invented the first light bulb. Edison's light bulb, in fact, was a carbon copy of Swan's light bulb.

    http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/edison .asp

  16. Re:tobacco still sucks - canabis on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 2, Informative

    So many tobacco free smoking substances exist, you and your stoner friends should put some effort into research.

    here's some

    http://www.honeyrose.com/

    Personally, I just smoke a bong.

  17. Re:tobacco still sucks on Safe Cigarettes? · · Score: 1

    FYI. The economic phenomena you describe is called "the elasticity of demand"

  18. Re:Two scary bits" Completely Compromised on Cisco Patches 'Black Hat' IOS Flaw · · Score: 1

    Supervise the process list.
    Process external input.
    Exceptions are exceptional.
    Expect the unexpected.

  19. Re:Here we go again on Massive Star Wars Galaxies Revamp · · Score: 1

    ?

    I was a wookiee in beta, were they taken out ?

  20. Re:Great on View the Moon in 3D on Your Desktop · · Score: 2, Funny
  21. Re:nokia is going to loose ground. on Nokia Starts Open Source Website · · Score: 2, Insightful

    lose
    a lot
    hail mary
    hedge bets

    I'm a zealot but I can't see an attack in your post.

    Nokia have people working hard as OSS developers, just like Red Hat et.al.

    Perhaps you forget one of the OSS mantra's Release Early, Release Often

    I'm not convinced about business users wanting an uber featured handset.
    I have a Nokia 6600.
    It connects to my IMAP account.
    It connects to IM services (SMS, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC etc. etc.)
    I can use it as an SSH terminal via Putty.
    It has a great camera and MMS services.

    I'm not sure what other features you would want on a 240x320 screen. Web browsing is painful.

    It is not features here that inhibit takeup, it's the cost of data calls.

    In the UK the cost of data ranges from the cheapest at around $100 per month for 1Gb of data up to $3 per Mb.

  22. Re:Pros and Cons of a good piece of legislation on British Teen Cleared in "E-mail Bomb" Case · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some years ago a friend of mine was a phreaker. Eventually he got caught.
    The cops had to individually read out each phone call from the itemized list they had been given saying something like "on 12th september 1985 did you make a call to 555 5555" and he had to answer yes or no. It took them 10 hours of interview to get through the list.
    When it got down to it there wasn't a suitable law in statue and they could only charge him with "Theft of Electricity" and he ended up with a minor fine.

  23. Re:Ipso? on Nokia Starts Open Source Website · · Score: 1

    It's here

  24. Re:Just stick a few blue LEDs on it... on The Impact of Memory Latency Explored · · Score: 1

    I said 1280x1024 to give him a chance =)

  25. Re:Sue on More on Sony's "DRM Rootkit" · · Score: 1

    > or allow my Daughter to purchase

    good luck with that one, what are you going to do, ground her ?