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  1. Re:Why wait for the hurricane? on Are Bad Licenses Good For The Community? · · Score: 1

    That assumes close to full employment if you have fairly high unemplyment than you have alot of slack to play with and something that creates jobs is a good thing.. If you have high unemplyment than the point that it could be good stands, this is what happened in both WW2 and Vietnam, and is why they where good for the economy. A war today would hurt the economy because we are very close to full emplyment at this time. But not too many years ago it would have been very good for the economy.

  2. Re:Go go, I/B !! on Interbase And Kylix Details From Borland/Inprise Con · · Score: 1

    I did not know that many birds used computers.

  3. Re:Secure Communications on FBI E-Mail Wiretaps - The Carnivore System · · Score: 1

    They have banned *kiddie* porn. Which IMO is a good thing and as for spammers think of the scene in the opening movie for Fallout where they put the one guy on his knees and shot him in the back of the head. That is what should happen to spammers so either way unless you need to die in a big way this is not a bad thing about Havenco.

  4. Re:??? on Tim O'Reilly Confirms BSD Publications · · Score: 2

    It is interesting to note that in the Apache book the authors used BSD for all of their examples very friendly towards BSD. Now the OT question. I'm looking at starting to learn openbsd any suggestions on a good book?

  5. www.dialpad.com on Cross-Platform Internet Telephony? · · Score: 1

    Just reverse engineer a Linux client. I've had no problems with it in the recent past. Oh BTW anybody know of a Linux client? thanks all

  6. Re:I pretty much agree... on Frankenstein Time · · Score: 1

    "The White Plauge" by Frank Herbert very good example of this. But this whole line of logic assumes way too much. First of all anybody with the understanding of how to do this would most likely also not want to do it. Making a bomb can be broken down into easy to follow step by step instructions. In anything like the near future making a virus will not be able to and you would still have to understand the whole line of logic leading up this is *not* like building a bomb in any sense. Also the statement "Except that I have to fissionable material. It's kept under tight lock-and-key" is just wrong there are plenty of places in this world to get weapons grade fissionable material IMO the reason we don't see more nukes going off is because almost no one who could pull it off is insane enough to think it would not affect them I think the same thing goes for genes.

  7. Is this on Frankenstein Time · · Score: 1

    a troll? This and a the last couple of Jon's stories are making me think that he really is trying to troll.

  8. Re:Mozilla Vs. Netscape on An Overview Of PNG; Mozilla M17 (Updated) · · Score: 1

    For those of us with kids this is important. Many kids sites use flash for some pretty cool stuff. That having been said even under Netscape the plugin does not work with every site (www.nickjr.com being one that causes me alot of grief) In any case here is hoping that Mozilla will do a better job in the near future.

  9. Re:Why does on Linux Replaces Sun At Weather.com · · Score: 1

    Very kewl thanks for the info. I did weather in the Air Farce we used Sun machines. I always wanted Linux.

  10. Why does on Linux Replaces Sun At Weather.com · · Score: 1

    netcraft say weather.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 on Solaris

  11. Re:Dot matrix printers still have valid uses on Symphony For Dot Matrix Printers · · Score: 1

    CDRs work very very well for this.

  12. Why are there ads? on Cookiegate Explained · · Score: 4

    On any gov website?

  13. Re:it's all in the definition on Can Open Source Be Trusted? · · Score: 1

    This is using the phrase "trusted system" to refer to the Orange Book specs. What that means is it is not a matter of do you trust a system or not but does it meet the Orange Book specs. If is does it is trusted if not than not. The thing is the Orange Book is a very narrow document and a very narrow spec. Just because a system is not a "trusted" system under the Orange Book does not mean that it is not secure.

  14. Re:I already have this. on Dell To Make MP3 Home Stereo Component · · Score: 1

    You can get a SBLive for about 60 to 70 dollars and it is worth every cent.

  15. Re:The ruling is quite sensible on Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain · · Score: 1

    But the question still remains was he making money? Any first hand accounts please?

  16. Re:The ruling is quite sensible on Court Orders Owner Of Peta.org To Give Up Domain · · Score: 1

    First of all if this is the case then why did PETA go with .com to start with. The answer unlike those of us who understand what the TLDs are supposed to be most people go to .com first for anything. This is not a real argument IMO. Second is the question of did he really profit from this. Not having seen the site I can't comment, has anybody seen anything besides PETA's press release on this question. Also even if he profited from it many other people (think Wierd Al) have also made money off of making fun of others. Also the name PETA is trademarked did they trademark peta.org. Not the same thing you notice that .org on the end looks not the same as peta right? I don't know if this is right or not but seems commonsense to me. Hope he wins on appeal.

  17. Lucent is evil on Inferno Source Release · · Score: 1

    Ever since I had to support there Winmodems I have thought that Lucent should really have been called Lucifer and now Inferno. They are Satan stay away stay away.

  18. Re:Is it still amiga? on Sixteen Degrees Of Separation · · Score: 1

    Must get one must play the BattleTech game for the Amiga. I loved that game.

  19. Re:Corel's best strategy. on Sneak Preview of CorelDraw 9 for Linux · · Score: 1

    Or several other plans assume for a minute that they GPL it. Several tracks follow. Selling boxed sets with dead tree docs and support is a good idea. Selling support packages is a good idea. Selling add ons as the original post mentions. All kinds of support options come to mind. Make really good dead tree docs, this is a *good* thing. Install support. Feature support. Training for help desks to provide support. Possibly helping users find/make bug fixes for problems. Maybe a sort of a middleman between all the scary *Nix hackers and a button down type IT manager. Get people to pay to let them maintain a install. They could really sell this and end up doing much better than they are now cause to be honest right now they are sucking wind.

  20. Re:Read the patent -- it won't fly... on BT To Enforce Patent On Hyperlinking? · · Score: 1

    What did they do in the 19th century? Now lets all count to 100 together.

  21. Re:Maybe they need a change of name on Slackware 7.1 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    Micro: Small Soft: Flacid Small and flacid I'll stick with Debian thanks.

  22. Re:Maybe they need a change of name on Slackware 7.1 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    This is one of the best trolls I have seen in a long long time.

  23. Apples and Oranges on Review: 'Titan A.E.' · · Score: 2

    Ok so Jon does not like the SF mythos what the hell does this have to do with Shaft. They are two different genres nothing in common at all. Having said that Titan A. E. while not the best thing out there is very good. OK the Drej are powerfull but not perfect yep would have made a really good movie if there had been now way for Cale to escape as it was he took advantage of a hole that the Derj had not thought of. In some ways this movie made me think of the Uplift books by David Brin. Humans weak but with alot of guts hunted by far more powerfull aliens but they win (or halfway win) through luck and taking advanatge of the aliens blindspots. All in all a very cool mythos life sucks and the universe hates you but hard work luck and doing the right thing wins in the end. Did this movie have cliches? Yup. Do they ruin it? Nope. Also the anti-tech angle Jon is going for is not there. It is not tech that wipes out the world. It is a big ass weapon. In the end tech saves the race. A classic? No Very fun? Yup.

  24. Re:Stopping PSU fan not an option on Computers And The Noise They Make · · Score: 1

    We had a box at work that the PSU fan died on. It took them 3 days to get us a new box (It was a tech support workstation) By the time we turned the machine with the dead fan off we could grill steak on the back of the case. bad bad thing.

  25. Re:Plays like a dog; 1 thumb down. on Terminus Demo Released · · Score: 2

    The reason a card that is not working right would make the mouse appear to be jumpy is really rather simple. The cursor you are moving when you move the mouse is being moved by the gaming engine thus if your video card was not working right it would cause the mouse to seem jumpy. (I am really tired but I think that makes my point) For example imagine how jumpy the mouse would seem trying to play Q3 on a 4 meg ATI card. This is the reason your mouse might look jumpy. Please note I have not played this yet but I have seen this effect with other games. In particular the trident has these problems.