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  1. Re:Squids on How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? · · Score: 1

    you are comparing communicating with a squid and space age species more advanced than we are

  2. Re:What we need on CSIRO Wins Wi-Fi Settlement From HP · · Score: 1

    They are going after big companies like HP, if HP settles it means it's legitimate.

  3. Re:He's not accused of anything on Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes · · Score: 1

    how can this be "interesting"
    If he is completely blameless and has no accountability, what exactly is his job? look pretty and have the best office.
    His job is to run this area, place right employees in the right role, ensure the right decisions are made. you know ... work

  4. Re:Offtopic topic? on FBI Searches New Fed CIO Kundra's Former Offices · · Score: 1

    because they worked for him and he was clueless to the systematic fraud, as the country's CIO it's "bad" (imagine the fraud for that budget)
    Or
    he knew ....

  5. Re:No lawsuit likely, here's how it actually works on TomTom Can License FAT Without Violating the GPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Then if TomTom settles with MS and TomTom's EULA does not impose restrictions on the end user, this clause does not apply. Even if it did what would it say ... must use windows when plugging the device to a PC! would not stand in court I assume

    There is something bizarre about this clause and it's interpretation, in that TomTom does not own the rights to the Linux's vfat code, so how can they impose restrictions on it. Can I then impose restrictions on say ext3, just for fun?

    How is this different from :
    Redhat restricting the number of cpus if you buy RHEL.
    Tivo restricting how (in fact if) you can use their device
    Wireless device drivers including intel that impose restrictions on frequency the device can operate (by using blobs)

  6. Re:Simple: on Wolfram Promises Computing That Answers Questions · · Score: 1

    Six minutes for the inevitable Deep Thought joke?

    We're slacking.

    it *is* written in java after all, kidding just kidding

  7. Re:They had their chance on Red Hat Returns To the Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    "get them direct access to experts to help them fix ... " you have never raised a redhat support ticket ever, have you. sorry there may be giants working at redhat but their support is no better than a forum or a mailing list.

  8. Re:Fight back on How To Argue That Open Source Software Is Secure? · · Score: 1

    so how does that explain the debian ssh hole which existed for years and copied by ubuntu and still noone picked up on it

  9. Re:Sounds Familiar. on The Incredible Shrinking Operating System · · Score: 1

    Oh please, firefox is mozilla with XUL for rendering the window instead of a c library. firefox is mozilla re-marketed. Oh great so the mail client code is stripped out, high five. Nevertheless well done to the firefox team for usability and innovation _after_ firefox 1.0