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  1. Oh SHIT! on Losing Track of Nuclear Materials · · Score: 2

    Microsoft product has a 'bug' that causes nuclear materials to get 'lost;' don't you realize what this means?! MICROSOFT IS NOW A NUCLEAR POWER! So much for antitrust legislation. Ok, kids, important safety tip: If a Microsoft License inspector leaves his briefcase at your office, RUN!

  2. Re:That's pretty stupid.. on Adobe Responds to KIllustrator · · Score: 2
    Or does this mean that a bricklayer can go to someone's house, do some work (maybe build a nice stone wall for them) and send them a bill?
    It would be the functional equivalent of said bricklayer noticing that your house was about to fall down, fixing it, then billing you for it.
  3. Re:Let's just call it KDraw! on Adobe Responds to KIllustrator · · Score: 3
    Now, they get in a tiff with KIllustrator
    Don't you mean 'the get in a .tif with Killustrator?' *rimshot*
  4. Re:Lawyer as borg on Adobe Responds to KIllustrator · · Score: 3

    This is legal in Germany. "Hey, you guys are breaking the law, and here's our fee for having told you. It's the same fee as if you'd called us up and said 'are we breaking any laws?'"

  5. Re:Burden of Proof: Show He *Wasn't* Authorized. on Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000 · · Score: 2
    Administrators were exhorted to behave in a manner compatible with the values of the university; as I noted, the RC5 system was extraordinarily compatible with the values as they were laid down, down to relinquishing CPU upon request.
    You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of whenever I tell my three year old daughter to, say, stay out of my bedroom, so she stands with her toes perfectly lined up with the door frame.
  6. Linksys on IP Telephony Hardware Stretching Toward Home Users · · Score: 4

    Linksys has a sweet little cable/DSL router line, one of the variants having IP telephony capabilities and a phonejack; plug in a phone, somebody rings your IP, and the phone rings.

  7. Re:Wife's company on How Do BSA Raids Work? · · Score: 2

    Often it winds up being an 'anonymous' tip off from a 'disgrunted former employee,' and sometimes there really is a tip off from a former employee. But because of the way the American judicial system thinks, if the BSA sends a letter saying 'please let us audit you,' and you quite rightly say 'bugger off, we're in compliance,' then the BSA simply wonders aloud in the presence of a judge "Hmm...if they're in compliance, why won't they let us double check for them? It's almost as if they have something to hide......"

  8. Re:Text of post, comments on Georgia Sues RC5 User For $415,000 · · Score: 5

    The lawyer has an AOL email account? If that's true, this David guy should be thrown in jail for choosing such a lawyer to defend a computer related case, but some how, I don't think it smells quite right. Troll? Has anybody tried emailing the State of Georgia people in question? Maybe the State of Georgia courts to see if such a case has been filed?

  9. There's a reason on Guidelines For Data Gathering And Forensics? · · Score: 2

    That's one of the reasons why the higher Orange Book security levels REQUIRE that all logs be sent to hard copy as they occur; it's always a good idea to have your syslog and/or console going to a dotmatrix or line printer on anything where security is a concern.

  10. Re:um what about the gpl on Court Finds Online Software License Not Binding · · Score: 3

    The GPL isn't a useage license, it's a copyright license. It doesn't take away any rights you have, unlike the licenses the article talks about, but rather, grants you rights. Different beastie.

  11. WTF? on Rackmounting at Home? · · Score: 2

    Why the hell is a question which has been asked many many times on the front page, while the story about the BSA that would actually interest most of us is hidden off in Ask Slashdot?

  12. HoLY SHIT! on SJGames Layoffs · · Score: 2

    Chez Dork looks AWESOME! Domination Spank Police: How could any REAL woman stand up to that? ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL I've got a huge HUGE stack of GURPS rule/world books, but I don't have GURPS basic rules, nor have I ever played GURPS; the books are SO DAMN WONDERFUL and can be applied to ANY FREAKIN RULESET with a wee bit of work. They're great.

  13. Re:Someone forgot..... on Playstation, Dreamcast And The 3rd World · · Score: 2
    boom box with a book on tape.
    Further, a book on tape can't have an animated diagram, or an example of an action.
  14. Re:Someone forgot..... on Playstation, Dreamcast And The 3rd World · · Score: 2

    Knowledge is power. And books can't read themselves outloud.

  15. Re:Why MS and .NET will win on Ports System As A Strategy Against .NET? · · Score: 2

    Strap on your virus checker before trying some of these links.

  16. Re:Since Google is a Search Engine on Google Reveals Popular Search Patterns · · Score: 1

    I'd say I've got a 60 percent success rate.

  17. Re:Why not just buy a PC? on PS2 Hard Drive Announced · · Score: 2

    Nope, sorry. My GeForce 3 blows away a PS2. And can run things at much better resolution on a high-quality monitor. PS2 still has the jaggie problem that the PS1 had, but at least the PS1 had an excuse.

  18. Re:NDA??? Re:External Harddrive on PS2 Hard Drive Announced · · Score: 2

    Pretty standard stuff; the DreamCast, Saturn and, I think, PSone worked this way, and probably the PS2. The OS is on each disk; later games have later revisions of the OS.

  19. Re:What prompt? on What Does Your Command Prompt Look Like? · · Score: 2

    I know you're just being an idiot, but start->run and type 'cmd'.

  20. Re:Since Google is a Search Engine on Google Reveals Popular Search Patterns · · Score: 2

    Sometimes when watching the show, I make a point of googling the question when somebody phones a friend, just to see if I can do it in ~25 seconds.

  21. Re:that's not the issue I'm wondering about on Your Daily Dose of Microsoft · · Score: 2

    That's where the gestapo tactics come into play; either you let them do what they want, or they come in, literally, with armed federal agents, who tell you to stand up and move away from the keyboards, NOW, and your business halts for three days. That's kinda the problem. There have been other slashdot discussions about this; I'll leave finding them as an exercise for the reader.

  22. Re:Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software on LinuxTag Opens (Hackers are Homeless) · · Score: 1

    Well, he could gamble 10 percent away, but I think stocks would have counted as an 'investment.' So long as there was the possibilty of profit...

  23. Re:that's not the issue I'm wondering about on Your Daily Dose of Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Sorry, let me reorder the sentance "software finder which runs under Windows, and looks for unlicensed software." As in, they've wanted to pop a Windows 2000 server CD into Sun boxes and install.

  24. Re:that's not the issue I'm wondering about on Your Daily Dose of Microsoft · · Score: 4

    There have been horror stories about BSA investigators trying to install their Windows-based software finder on Solaris boxen, and the like.

  25. Re:Any Linux Tag visitors buying VA Linux software on LinuxTag Opens (Hackers are Homeless) · · Score: 1

    ROFLROFLROFLROFL Brewster's Millions 2000:
    "30 million in a month, eh?" *picks up phone* "BUY NORTEL! BUY LINUX! TECH TECH TECH!" Three days later "So much for that thirty mil..."