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  1. Re:This again?! on BT To Enforce Patent On Hyperlinking? · · Score: 1

    Not that I'd expect people like you to check facts, but there are no hereditary peers, and we are currently trying to figure out what we should do with the House of Lords. (in particular, how to appoint Lords).

  2. Re:Agreement doesn't matter on Appeals Court Will Take Microsoft Case · · Score: 1

    How much further do Gates and Ballmer need to go before they are jailed for contempt of court?

  3. Re:[OT] Re:No-login link on MP3.com, Warner Music Reach Settlement · · Score: 1

    Given that I want you to give me all your money, isn't that you should be doing?

  4. Re:Alaska has no sales tax AND NOT INCOME TAX! on EU Web Tax Proposed · · Score: 1

    Where does it get it's revenue from, then?

  5. Bad split on Will The DOJ Split Microsoft In Three? · · Score: 2
    The split suggested seems to be of Windows/IE/everything else. I think that leaves too much in the everything else company - servers, development tools, and client side stuff. (What about thinks like MSN,Hotmail,MSNBC,WebTV).

    If they want a 3-way split, it would be better to split it into OS, Servers&Devel tools, office&everything else companies. That way the companies would be more balanced, although ideally they'd cleanly split it into about a dozen smaller companies.

  6. Re:Holy S#!t! on Potato-Powered Web Server · · Score: 1

    However, no-one would ever say "french chip". We either say "french fry" (rarely), or "chip". Chips are British.

  7. Re:Sweet... on Mozilla M16 Gets Alpha Channels · · Score: 1

    It's harder than you think. It's being worked on.

  8. Re:All Scripting Languages are Evil on New, More Destructive Love Bug Variant · · Score: 1

    Um, K&R were involved in the development of sh, bash's precursor.

  9. Re:Bullies on Dialectizer Shut Down · · Score: 1
    Hang on? Does that mean that doesn't happen?!! Defendants are never awarded 'costs'?

    Now I understand why Americans seem so litigious.

  10. Re:Slashdot spellcheck on Michael Chaney asks Microsoft to Open Kerberos · · Score: 1

    That should read 'my'.

  11. Re:Slashdot spellcheck on Michael Chaney asks Microsoft to Open Kerberos · · Score: 1
    Did I say that you should spell colour with a u? No, I did not. I just suggested that Americans should not actively deter such spellings.

    You are just making a fool of yourself by misrepresenting by point.

  12. Re:Slashdot spellcheck on Michael Chaney asks Microsoft to Open Kerberos · · Score: 1
    Licence is the noun
    License is the verb

    Whilst USA usage may be different, it's inappropriate to correct the spelling used in the rest of the world to the USA form in an international forum.

  13. Re:I can now build mozilla! on Motif Released To The Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    I could have sworn mozilla doesn't actually use motif. (netscape 4, does sure, but 6 won't.)

  14. Re:Yet Another Incompatible Licence on Motif Released To The Open Source Community · · Score: 1

    It just sucks slightly that so much open source software is under different, incompatible licences - it stops people doing neat stuff.

  15. Re:Isn't this ICANN's or IANA's job? on EU Ministers Approve ".eu" Top-Level Domain · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Legalize viruses on Arrest In The ILOVEYOU Case · · Score: 1

    Well, it was certainly malicious, but it could have been a great deal worse.

  17. Re:4 biggest problems on A New Rendering Model For X · · Score: 1

    Only one of those is an actual X problem. The others are application problems, and window mangers problems. They can be solved without changing X.

  18. Re:Defeating Trade Secrets 101: on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1

    The trade secret cannot be copyrighted, but the document that expresses it can be.

  19. Re:Defeating Trade Secrets 101: on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks · · Score: 1
    And the reason why the GPL does that according to RMS is that he also believes that isn't "perfeclt legal for me to create a proprietary program that relies on some copyrighted shared library".

    Whether he's right or not doesn't matter - the GPL does not impose additional restrictions beyond those imposed by copyright law. Maybe some of it cannot be enforced, due to certain restrictions not being imposed by copyright law, but that's an issue that has no precedent, so RMS's stand is perfectly reasonable.

  20. Re:Not much of a choice on GPS Civilian Signal Degradation Turned Off · · Score: 1

    Its quite easy. They know exactly where the satellite was, and they know exactly what direction is pointing. Therefore, they know the exact grid co-ordinates of stuff it took pictures off.

  21. Re:I wouldn't think so... on Solving Chess? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Chess can be solved. Sure, it's a lot harder to solve than tic-tac-toe, but fundamentally, it's the same maths involved... Probably with current technology, it could be solved in a few decades if there was the money to do it (i'm talking hundreds of billions of dollars here). As computer tech gets fast and faster, it will become more affordable to solve chess. I'd be very suprised if it couldn't be done in less than year for a few million dollars in 2100).

  22. Re:Don't you see? on A Common (Internet-Based) Language? · · Score: 1

    It certainly is democracy, as long as you have a "none of the above" option.

  23. Re:Great, so where can I download a .TTF font? on A Common (Internet-Based) Language? · · Score: 1
    It's a lot of work (and actually doesn't make much sense) to make a full font. A full font would require experts in lots of scripts who haven't come forward yet. (this includes, but is not limited to the following scripts : Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Khmer, Lao, Malayam, Mongolian, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Telugu, Thaana, Tibetan and Yi).

    Another major problem is lack of free tools. This should be rectified soon though.

    If anyone wants to help us, please get in contact with me.

  24. Re:,�,�,�?�,�,�,�,�,�,�?H on A Common (Internet-Based) Language? · · Score: 1

    Please stop spreading misinformation (lies?) about Unicode. Unicode has no licence fees. Unicode is being implemented for GNU/Linux as we speak. See here for links to further info.

  25. Re:Don't you see? on A Common (Internet-Based) Language? · · Score: 1

    What, Canada and New Zealand?