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  1. The patent jungle. on Barnes & Noble Challenges Amazon 1-Click Patent (UPDATED) · · Score: 1

    The patent system of the US is a jungle.
    Now we will see whether it is the Amazon jungle or not.

  2. Will this make the Sun... on Sun Buys Cobalt · · Score: 1

    Cobalt blue?

    What is gonna happen when the Centaur buys Red?
    This is truly the beginning of the end...

  3. Re:Of course it's a conspiracy... on Amazon Refunding The Overcharge Experiment · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's my thought entirely.
    On another note though, how the flying fsck could the Moderators moderate that as "Redundant"?
    The only comments before mine was total junk posted by "Your Mama", apparently the new name for that sucker who used to go by the name of "Anonymous Coward".

    My guess is also that his or her third name is "Moderator", or maybe "Moderator From Hell".

  4. Re:There may be an innocent reason on IE 5.5 Tracking Default Bookmarks · · Score: 1

    Well, then they could make the client download the links every time it starts, once every day/week whatever.
    They don't have to redirect for that, but as far as I'm concerned, IE might send info about every page one visits to MS. Has anyone checked with netstat under IE on Solaris?

    THey certainly don't seem to mind looking really, really bullish.

  5. Wireless LAM. on Alternative Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    We've been thinking about getting a wireless LAN here at work, but this is something I've been wainting for a long time.

    When will something like this come to Sweden? I know there have been some trying with test panels and stuff...

  6. Filtering... on Campus Pipeline: Schools Selling Students' Eyes · · Score: 1

    Given they are students, how long will it take for a lot of the students to build and use some kind of proxy that filters all the commercials out?
    And what's CP's (pun intended) stand on that?

  7. Stephen King on Open Publishing: The Net and the E-book · · Score: 1

    Remember, also, that people are willing to pay for that which they can get for free;
    Look no further than Stephen Kings project, where he writes a part of a novel, publishes it on the Net for people to download, and lets them pay one dollar if they liked it.
    If enough people pays, he'll publish the next part and so on. Apparently, people did pay enough although they could get it for free.

  8. Re:Need X support on More Revealed on the IBM Linux Wristwatch · · Score: 2

    Read before you post. It already runs X (at least the statement says so, strange they didn't show shots) so that shouldn't be a problem. I wonder if they will develop their own apps or use existing stuff. Does anybody know whether they've collaborated with handhelds.org to reduce the size of X? Seems like a Good Thing.

  9. Imagine... on More Revealed on the IBM Linux Wristwatch · · Score: 1

    XEyes on that!

  10. SPRAYdio - a bit offtopic on MP3.com To Restart My.MP3.com · · Score: 1

    SPRAYdio is a Swedish Internet radio station where the visitors choose music which then is placed in playlists. There are several rooms with different kinds of music in each.

    When they started out, they got a very good deal with STIM (the organization to which you pay a fee for playing music in public in Sweden), because STIM didn't really know what it was about and they had to do something.

    Now, more than a year or two later, Warner Music has decided to pull out of it, without much of an explanation. It seems they don't understand that they get free marketing...

  11. Re:Uh oh... on Riding The Space Elevator · · Score: 1

    What, you mean the Earthlings and the little green men?
    My guess is that they've already got translators.

  12. Re:Microsoft is Rome... on Merchant Republics of Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    Granted, the Middle Ages was after the fall of Rome, but that is irrelevant.
    Who is JonKatz? Brutus?

  13. Microsoft is Rome... on Merchant Republics of Cyberspace · · Score: 2

    So, does that mean that Microsoft is Rome, trying to bring order with a very strict regime?
    That'd make /. the Huns and Taco would be Attila.

  14. Re:Rather poor statement on RMS on the GPLing of Qt and More · · Score: 4

    A statement like go get 'em, gnomes! is competition, so you should be happy.
    You can argue about his "position in the world of free software", but he probably just feels for GNOME, cause that's more "his" project than KDE.

  15. Don't bash RMS. on RMS on the GPLing of Qt and More · · Score: 4

    A lot of you /.-ers are gonna start bashing RMS now, for him being so anal about things like this.
    I think that's pretty naïve.
    RMS always backs his arguments with thoroughly gone trough scenarios of how app
    arently small things might cause big effects in the future, like using a partly
    non-free system or calling GNU/Linux "Linux".
    It's easy to bash him for that, but he might actually be right and I think you
    can't be too catious.

  16. Re:"AIBO blown away"? on Robot soccer - AIBO Blown Away · · Score: 1

    Um, yes. And it says so in the post, too:

    "consistently uses AIBO hardware."

  17. Olympics. on Robot soccer - AIBO Blown Away · · Score: 1

    When will this sport get into the Olympics?

  18. The Matrix on The Cygnus Tree and Free Software Maintenance · · Score: 2

    Could you see this as Cygnus/RedHat being the evil agents in the Matrix while the International Free Computing Task Force are the good guys?

    The Cygnus tree is of course the Matrix. I think I'll jump in.

  19. Re:This Depends on VOS Patents on Virtualizing OSs? · · Score: 1

    It's called "prior art", and of course, you're correct. VMWare prolly did this before, and I would expect someone has done it before VMWare too.

  20. Don't think so. on VOS Patents on Virtualizing OSs? · · Score: 1

    I don't see how they could get those patents passed, but the US patent laws seems pretty strange to me as a swede.

    On a side note, though, I have to say that VMWare is one of the finest pieces of software I have ever seen.
    It helps me a great lot atwork, even though some things, as using the parallell port and running my OpenTV development stuff (digital tv development) doesn't work.

  21. Announcement on Troll Techs site. on Qt Going GPL · · Score: 5

    Look again!
    There are two new announcements; Qt 2.2 released and Qt/Unix 2.2 being released under the GPL.

  22. Re:This is my jsp.vim on Editors and Java Server Page Synax Highlighting · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't you be able to tell vim where jsp-code ends?

    That line in my html.vim looks like this (where it defines what is javascript):

    syn region javaScript start=+]*>+ keepend end=++me=s-1 contains=@htmlJavaScript,htmlCssStyleComment,htmlS criptTag,@htmlPreproc

    I'm not that familiar with the vim-syntax-syntax though...

  23. Opera's text based browser. on A Linux 'Browser War' in the Making? · · Score: 1

    Opera used to have a screenshot up for their text based browser, a side winder from the Linux port, and it looked great.
    The layout was far better than Lynx.

  24. Better Pilots? on 3Com Plans to Spin Off PalmPilot Division · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that the next pilot will be as cool as the device in Special F/X (the series)?
    I hope so... ;)

  25. Re:/. is now Usenet?? on Sea of oil seen on Titan/DS1 Asteriod fly-by · · Score: 1

    Did you ever think it could be a joke?

    "/. is now the home of the dead minds."