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  1. Bribes are still bribes, even for companies. on Nigerian Government Nixes Microsoft's Mandriva Block · · Score: 1

    I have no idea how this deal was made, but if you got my company a $400.000 marketing deal I'm sure I could see to it that that money comes into my personal possession. Things get more complicated when you have big companies and lawyers, but when you pay a company to do something it is still a bribe, perhaps not always legally but morally.

  2. Recovery tool is better than a backup tool on Apple's "Time Machine" Now For Linux... Sort Of · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's more of a way to recover your backup tool. So you are right, Time Machine is nothing without the interface. It sucks not being able to recover data easily, and sadly most other tools seems to concentrate on snazy ways to backup, not how to recover.

  3. Re:DNS on Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan · · Score: 1

    You can do an awfull lot when you change someones DNS, it's not like people notice that they aren't using HHTPS. So they might not control the machine but they control everything the user does on the net.

  4. Ratchet and Clank is the best game ever.. on PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status · · Score: 1

    I played the demo of Ratchet & Clank, and it's wonderfull it was the first time I was amazed by a next gen machine since I entered a VR cube. Not sure if that says something about SGI or about Sony.

    But I recommend the newly released Freeciv instead, since it's infinitely many times cheaper.

  5. Re:Whois is useful? on Privacy Advocates Bemoan the Problems With WHOIS · · Score: 1

    Eeeh, bit too fast posting there, *if* you pay hosting fees.. ;-)

  6. Re:Whois is useful? on Privacy Advocates Bemoan the Problems With WHOIS · · Score: 1

    Regging domains anonymously is free at Dreamhost.

  7. Re:Needs more transparency for real uses on Amazon and Hardware As a Service · · Score: 3, Informative

    no service level guarantees and really no information about just where things will work and where things will start to break down.


    Not much but there is a SLA
  8. Re:English Teachers on Wikipedia Begets Veropedia · · Score: 1

    I don't know how you cite sources, but we always do URL and date when citeing online sources. If online sources could list their changes as Wikipedia does that would be more usefull, but as far as I know EB doesn't give a revision history of their articles.

    I actually archive all the webpages I cite, something I should do when I bookmark things as well.

  9. Yes but what comes after? on Wikipedia Begets Veropedia · · Score: 1

    Well sure you might think of Wikipedia as a fad, question is if the ideals of community driven knowledge are also a fad. I think Wikipedia will fail economically before its ideals fails.

  10. Let me read your emails then on 'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's easy to say that, but the right to privacy applies to criminals too. Perhaps we would have an easier time getting criminals caught if we wiretapped everybody, then they will have the same right as everyone else, and can't complain.

    The reason you want criminals to get away, is because you don't want to be treated the same way. These rules apply whether you are an angry spouse, big company or the police.

  11. Re:Alternate headline on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 1

    There are some pretty sucky "scientific" papers on the street racing thing, the two Swedish [(pdf)]I have read are arguing for it, but they do give estimates on how many accidents happen in street racing, and it could be worse..

    But they are still gits.

  12. Re:Steam is great! on The Importance of Portal · · Score: 1

    Actually I can play Darwinia on my Linux laptop, np.

  13. Re:Steam is great! on The Importance of Portal · · Score: 1

    Yeah I like it too, I only use Linux so I really don't have a gaming rig. With steam I can download my games to the computer I'm using at the moment, I've downloaded Defcon and Darwinia several times all over the world.

  14. Re:Low UID? on Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah I remember thinking "I don't need no stinking login, I can be anonymous!". :-)

  15. Re:This is retarded. on Google's Ban of an Anti-MoveOn.org Ad · · Score: 1

    But that's what is said in the summary, this time the summary was a lot better than the article...

  16. Re:Fantastic for solar setups on Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC · · Score: 1

    but only one of the ARM boards actually has VGA, but za href="http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/ts7300-spec-h.htm">booting linux in 1.69s makes it all ok.. ;-)

  17. Re:Fantastic for solar setups on Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC · · Score: 1

    They cost about about the same, abit cheaper and no HD. They are alot cooler though SD slots and all.

  18. Re:No point in this. Get a laptop! on Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC · · Score: 1

    You do know that you are still using a VIA product?

  19. Re:Compare it with... on Meet the 5-Watt, Tiny, fit–PC · · Score: 1

    No one ever thought of, perhaps Apple did their own custom ARM based on the Samsung?

  20. Re:All that just goes to show... on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1
    ...that Rudolf Flesch doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

    Since Chinese is a spoken language rather than a written language (The writing is mostly pictorial representing whole concepts),

    Um, Chinese is no more of a spoken language than English is, and no less of a written language either. Chinese script isn't "pictorial," either; it's logographic, with characters representing words. For mnemonic reasons, characters are related to others in a set of ways that I will not explain. (Because I don't in fact understand it well enough to explain it. See, it is possible to refrain from speaking about what one does not know.)

    it wasn't frozen in place with a bunch of affixes (suffixes, prefixes, etc.) or genders and all that other stuff that makes English hard to learn.

    Oh, yes, of course, because Chinese has no complicated stuff. Oh, no, none at all.

    PS there you go
  21. Re:"We all know language has evolved" on The Evolution of Language · · Score: 1

    Ah religion and political views, might be very true but they are very hard to believe if you are not part of that blief circle..

  22. I would say the same. on NSSO on Space Based Solar Power · · Score: 1

    showing immense potential, but also a number of challenges that appear only surmountable with a strong government commitment to the project.


    If I needed funding for my project I would say the exact same thing, especially if I had 170 other highly skilled fanboys to back up my idea.. ;-) Now it is a very cool idea, but there are alot of cool idea out there..
  23. RealAudio IT actually works on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 1

    Ha! I installed RealPlayer and it actually seems to behave nicely. Best quote of the day (from the show): "It's like trying to doing calculus with someone kicking your head"

  24. RealAudio on Adams' Dirk Gently Serialized on BBC Radio · · Score: 0

    Sigh I can only find it in RealAudio.. Can't they just use flash mp3 players or something similar..

  25. I stoped caring a long time ago. on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When BeOS came along 95 I think I understood that AmigaOS would never be good enough again. So I switched to Linux, there has never been any reason to switch back even though the Amiga workbench is still a lot better than KDE/GNOME are, and Final writer kicks Open Office writers ass any day.

    Amiga fanboy forever.