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  1. Just a part of Microsoft's Open Source Strategy on Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft's Offer, Says 'Still An Option' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just think of how many FreeBSD/Linux servers would disappear from Netcraft if Yahoo went over to the Dark Side?

    Embrace/Extend/Extinguish

  2. 20 minutes on Neuromarketers Pick the Brains of Consumers · · Score: 1

    20 years, Blipverts here we come.

  3. Re:fyi 700 crore on Microsoft Told to Pay Tax on License Fee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in other words, less than Microsoft pays per year for power alone. I don't think this is going to make much of a dent in their budget.

  4. Subverting standards organizations.... on Rambus Wins Patent Case · · Score: 4, Funny

    seems to be very popular lately. Does someone have a patent on in yet?

  5. Secrecy is fine when it protects individual rights on Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But downright wrong when it enables someone to evade taxation like the rest of us. Striking a balance will be a difficult task.

  6. Haven't we been here before?? on From GNOME to KDE and Back Again · · Score: 1

    Back then, it was Motif versus Openlook. Interestingly enough, KDE kinda looks like Motif and Gnome kinda looks like Openlook. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  7. Re:Plan B on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    Iran has highly enriched Uranium, no plutonium.

  8. Re:how's the wifi support for proprietary cards? on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 2, Informative

    If FreeBSD doesn't have a driver, you can use the Windows driver. Geom will allow disk encryption, to an even greater degree than TrueCrypt.

  9. Re:Wow on Microsoft Trying To Appeal to the Unix Crowd? · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you like the Lemon, just wait until you try our new chocolate flavor!

  10. Conform Citizen! on An Epidemic of Snooping · · Score: 1

    There is nothing to worry about, we are only here to help you.

  11. Amazing.... on NASA Awards Space Cargo Grant · · Score: 2, Funny

    what those campaign contributions can do.

  12. The biggest challenge, by far on The Century's Top Engineering Challenges · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Getting funding for the top 14 engineering challenges.

  13. A large tank of water on Airport Security Prize Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they float, they're a witch^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hterrorist. If they sink, they're not. Seems about as valid as any other TSA methodology.

  14. Ha! Ha! on BitTorrent Devs Introduce Comcast-Proof Encryption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now Comacast will need to keep a list of connections in order to guess that a torrent is running, instead of just looking at the packet. Good luck on that without a massive infrastructure upgrade.

  15. Re:Don't Panic!!!! on Vista SP1 Update Locks Out Some Users · · Score: 1
  16. NO shortage of worms on 'Friendly' Worms Could Spread Software Fixes · · Score: 1

    That is if we're speaking about the management at Microsoft.

  17. The finest government money can buy on US Senate Votes Immunity For Telecoms · · Score: 1

    I hope to be able to afford some for myself someday.

  18. The downside of Free speech on First Amendment Ruling Protects Internet Trolls · · Score: 3, Insightful

    is that you're going to be exposed to things that annoy you or that you disagree with. Some things might even offend you. Deal with it, it is a part of real life.

  19. In anything that is new... on Does Anonymity In Virtual Worlds Breed Terrorism? · · Score: 1

    and different, the government will be a afraid. To which I say, thank you. Change is what made this nation what it is, and I embrace it. I hate repeating the past. Change is what makes life worth living.

  20. Chapter 7 here we come on 10K Filing Suggests Grim Outlook for SCO · · Score: 1

    Liquidation, the final answer.

  21. I find it odd on Suppresed Video of Japanese Reactor Sodium Leak · · Score: 1

    If there was any radioactivity in the area being videoed that there is no observable scintillation. Did they use shielded video cameras?

  22. fewest flaws in total.... on Microsoft Says Vista Has the Fewest Flaws · · Score: 1

    most flaws you could drive a fleet of semi's though.

    someone needs to come up with a metric of flaw exposure per unit time.

  23. Endless recreations of the Dead Parrot Sketch on Toshiba Execs Declare HD DVD Not Dead Yet · · Score: 3, Funny

    to follow.

  24. Whaaaa! on McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses · · Score: 1

    We used GPL code, and it breaks our business model. I really feel bad for McAfee, not!

  25. And people wonder why I still own LP's on The Death of High Fidelity · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Now they know. It amazes me how many of the LP's I own still sound better than the CD versions.