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  1. Re:Sometimes... on Girl's Heart Regenerates With Artificial Assist · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll second that. In addition, without a transplant, she stands a decent chance of living a long full life. Transplant patients don't last that long, on average.

  2. Round them up and put them to work on Attack of the Evil Monkeys From Hell · · Score: 1

    Put them in Congress. No one will notice for....Heck no one will notice.

  3. For the overwhelming majority on FOSS License Proliferation Adding Complexity · · Score: 1

    of corporate open source adopters, there is no issue, as they will not be selling and distributing the software. For those that do, open source licenses tend to cover many different products, whereas each closed product will have a different license. So, if nothing else, open source is slowly reducing the number of licenses you have to worry about.

  4. Cable companies just want CableCARD to die on New HD TiVo and Cable Incompatibilities · · Score: 1

    They didn't want it from the get go, and they are going to do anything to insure that it dies. How dare the FCC tell them how to do business.

  5. Re:"Time to buy stock in Seagate." on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    Yes, especially with that new drive of theirs that brags about the highest unrecoverable error rate in the industry. I won't post a URL, they must have fixed it by now.

  6. Fuel economy on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many million miles per gallon of propellant these machines have gotten? Damn impressive engineering.

  7. Your papers please. on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    Your genetic samples please.

    Your thoughts please.

    You have not been deemed a positive asset to our society. Please continue through the door on the left for genetic recycling.

    Thank you for letting your government help you.

  8. Re:Judges should ENFORCE the law, not MAKE it. on Boston Judge Denies RIAA Motion for Judgment · · Score: 1

    Yes, raping is the key function of a prosecutor these days.

  9. Re:Bottom line on Boston Judge Denies RIAA Motion for Judgment · · Score: 1

    No, but if I have my brain removed, I might qualify.

  10. Bottom line on Boston Judge Denies RIAA Motion for Judgment · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since the defendant is Pro Se, the judge forbid the plaintiff from rolling over the defendant on a technicality, and sited another technicality to make sure. This sounds like a great judge, who believes in the spirit and not just the word of the law. I wish we had more like her.

  11. Re:Someone bought those shares today. on Investors Bailing On SCO Stock, SCOX Plummets · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A lot of today's buys may have been people closing their short positions.

  12. In related news.... on High-Quality HD Content Can't Easily Be Played by Vista · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft has bought a 50mm cannon to blow both feet off.

  13. The more time.... on OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization · · Score: 1

    people have to digest this standard, the more they will come to realize that it is anything but. It is obviously designed to choke the competition in a pile of meaningless drivel. Most of things it "specifies" is that the result should be the name as Microsoft Word XXXX. Therefore, the majority of the specification is external to the specification. You could not implement the specification without referencing the behavior of each of the major revisions of Word. IMHO, a specification, such as this should stand alone. Open Office can do this, why can't Microsoft?

  14. Re:Let me be the first to say... on SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris? · · Score: 1

    My wording was not very good, and you are quite correct. The point I was trying to make was that Sun provided many of the resources that many of us used to download Linux from. I would hazard to guess that more copies of Linux were downloaded from Sunsite's than from any other single source. I am not trying to suggest that Linux owes its success to Sun, but I am saying that Sun did make major contributions to the environment we have today. Also, they have been doing so far longer than almost anyone else. Although there are many thinks not to like about Sun, these contributions should be remembered and acknowledged before attacking them.

  15. Re:Let me be the first to say... on SCO Fiasco Over For Linux, Starting For Solaris? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If Sun didn't exist, open software would probably be way behind where it is today. Most open software of the 1980's and 1990's was developed on Sun's. Why? Because back then, Sun had the most open documentation and open architecture. Go look where Linux was distributed for the first 5 years or so, Sunsite's.

    Sun also, through greed, vaulted GCC into the mainstream. When Sun decided to no longer include compilers with the base operating system, GCC really took off.

    Now then, the community may have a legitimate beef with Sun today, but let us not forget how much Sun has helped the community.

  16. To repeat an old warning on How To Turn a Mini Maglite Into a Laser · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Do not look into Laser with remaining eye!"

  17. The only thing that can really fracture on Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Open Source is the community. As long as the game is on our field, Mr. Gates does not stand a chance. Let him pull the game on to his field, and he will have a chance at winning. Don't fall for it folks! Stand together, and we will defeat the evil empire.

  18. What's the problem? on FBI Raids Home of Suspected NSA Leaker · · Score: 1

    Your government only wants to protect you. Unpleasant ideas are the enemy of the state. Relax, be happy, consume.

  19. FreeBSD to the rescue on DSS/HIPPA/SOX Unalterable Audit Logs? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FeeBSD supports append only files via the chflags command.

  20. Of course on Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This will not apply to the politicians.

  21. This will go to court on Indiana Allows BP To Pollute Lake Michigan · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the neighboring states will have something to say about this.

  22. Re:Mixed news on New and Improved Deadly Snail Venom · · Score: 1

    Actually the needle is pretty small. The bad news is that you need an implanted pump to dose you on a regular basis. However, to those suffering from chronic extreme pain, a 12 foot needle would not represent too much of a hurdle in order to get their lives back.

  23. Just wait until you see... on Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel? · · Score: 1

    The Microsoft Election Services Architecture!!!

    Candidates are already signing up for the beta.

  24. Buy by mass on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 1

    Simple, problem solved. Buy gas by the pound.

  25. Of course, the site itself... on Auction Site To Sell Security Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    will be the target of a huge number of hackers. I hope they're an OpenBSD shop.