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  1. Too early for speculation. on GPL to be Modified to Penalize Patents and DRM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Without seeing a draft of the new GPL, how can they speculate?
    And once drafted, the FSF will most certainly be accepting feedback from the community.

  2. Re:End user has the burden on On The Current State of WiFi Security · · Score: 1

    I disagree with what you see as a "problem." I'm perfectly capable of securing my access points, but I choose not to, because I'm quite happy to share my signal with everyone who wants it.

  3. Re:How about parts? on Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Antennas used for transmission in that range by unlicensed users are required to be FCC approved and meet a specific criteria.

    Licensed users are a different story.

    In any case, possessing a device that you're not allowed to use isn't a crime. Although using it may be.

  4. Re:Power outages? on New Study Finds VOIP is Getting Better · · Score: 1
    Combining the two, what if you had an assailant break into your house during a power outage?

    Shoot 'im (or 'er).

  5. Re:One way to cut costs - outsourcing! on Designing an OS for Blind/Deaf Users? · · Score: 1

    not to pick nits or anything, but how does a dumb tech ever say reinstall?

  6. In summary: on Open Source Methods Useful Way Beyond Software · · Score: 1

    Two heads are better than one.

  7. Re:Better yet on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 1

    "please distribute it to your friends without any modification."

    Sounds non-free to me, since its missing 50% of the essential freedoms of free software.

    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
    http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html# Freeware

  8. Re:Better yet on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're referring to http://www.crimsoneditor.com/, GNU is not an appropriate word to describe it.

    Maybe "non-free" would be better. The non-free Crimson Editor.

    If you're not referring to that, please give us a link.

  9. Re:Google Too on Google Launches Google Code · · Score: 1

    What's more dangerous about google's projects hosted at sf.net and *every other* project hosted there?

  10. Re:Google Too on Google Launches Google Code · · Score: 1

    Pay attention, They're hosted on sf.net for now.

    http://code.google.com/projects.html

  11. Re:Will the DVD be in Japanese? on Katsuhiro Otomo's Steamboy in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Too much can be lost in a dub. Especially for your usual voice actor fare (For example, Kitsune's english voice of Love Hina fame. Southern drawl is *not* the same as osaka-ben). It was well worth the investment in a, albeit cursory, japanese language education to understand the intonation and emotion in the original voices...with the subtitles as a guideline for meaning.

    There are good voices and bad voices. But generally, american dubs see bad voices.

  12. Link to the first page... on The Wikipedians Who Make it Happen · · Score: 5, Informative

    page 1 of the article.

    The link in the post goes to page two for me ... not very nice.

  13. Re:IBM And MONEY on IBM to Open Projects at SourceForge.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm happy to let IBM put its shit in our community wheelbarrow. More shit for everyone can only be good.

  14. Re:Wow on HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable? · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the spanish word for the lunar christ...

    It's seeped its way into common use in the americas, as a general-purpose word, meaning anything so outlandish it can't be believable.

    The south american lunar christ cultists have recently been dissolved (forcibly) by the argentine government, (see news relating to that), I'm sure they're satisfied that their diety will live on for awhile in popular language.

    The primary lunacris cultist belief was that upon death, a man will rise to the heavens and join the lord in the Sea of tranquility.

    From what I know of the cult, they were most popular in their founding country of Argentina, but they are still quite popular and active in Chile and Ecuador, with inactive members in some of the other South American countries.

  15. Re:Get ready to say ... on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 1

    I don't know how many times I've told those boys...never call chicks broads.

  16. Re:Missing Parts? on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Victor Frankenstein. Who else?

  17. Re:It looks like.. on ESR steps down from OSI · · Score: 1

    FWIW, the OP said "Don't shoot me"

  18. Re:Insanity on Norwegian Student Ordered to Pay for Hyperlinks to Music · · Score: 1

    I use Linkification for firefox. I think that the author of this "linkification" software should be put in jail because it just automatically hyperlinked the clear text you wrote, providing a means by which I can subvert intellectual property that I may not have previously had.

  19. Re:Darwin is dead on Future of Internet News? · · Score: 1

    I think you've misunderstood; Darwin is alive and well...it's BSD that's dead.

  20. Re:For the inexperience DX'ers. on Cutting Through a Wi-Fi Traffic Jam? · · Score: 2, Informative

    or M-x unmorse-region in emacs

  21. Re:Nope... on Creative Commons For Science · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If anything, Linux prevents AIDS by causing all you nerds to abstain from having sexual relations.

    Safe sex is in the palm of your hand.

  22. Re:The GPL/LGPL worries me.... on Revising the GPL · · Score: 1

    You misunderstood (or I may have misstated my intended meaning), I intended to mean that, the copyright holder, is free to relicense their software.

    i.e.: If I am sole copyright holder over X software, I can release it under License G for versions, 1 and 3, but version 2 is licensed under license F and version 4 is licensed under license Q.

  23. Re:The GPL/LGPL worries me.... on Revising the GPL · · Score: 1
    If you copy verbatim the "include in your source" portion of the GPLv2, you'll find that it reads:

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
    as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
    of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    Many authors do copy verbatim this portion, and place their trust in the FSF that future licenses will not be bad things. Of course, it is the copyright holders' discretion to relicense subsequent versions.
  24. Re:Things to do.. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    That's why Origin invented MMORPGs...

  25. Re:That's great news! on Open Source Geeks Considered Modern Heroes · · Score: 2, Funny

    News News (n=uz), n From New; cf. F. nounelles. News is plural in form, but is commonly used with a singular verb.
    1. A report of recent occurrences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence.

    I hate to tell you, but not getting laid doesn't qualify as "news" for 90% of us here. But thanks for reminding us, jerk.