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  1. Re:The lesson of this story is on Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial · · Score: 1

    They actually agreed to keep 5% and pay 95% to Novell.

  2. Re:One more case to be brought on Judge Rejects SCO's Motion For a New Trial · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "highly innovative and reliable solutions help millions of customers grow their businesses everyday"

    With SCO Unix in several cashier machine models and in phone systems from Siemens Enterprice Communication, you could actually say, that at least millions of people use SCOs product to conduct their business every day.

    So beside the "innovative", everything else in this sentence might actually be somewhat trueish.

  3. Re:In other words on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    When do you see a monkey choosing cocaine over food in its natural habitat?

    Whenever the source is available. Luckily for them they aren't able to actually extract cocaine from coca plants, otherwise we wouldn't have any monkeys left to serve as a bad analogy.

  4. Re:Mod parent up on 'Peak Wood' Offers Parallels For Our Time · · Score: 1

    Do you feed the bats to create enough guano to keep the source sustainable? What do you feed to the bats? Is the source of your bat fodder sustainable?

  5. Re:Computers keep getting faster on Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    "A good fraction" in this case means: Less than 10%. In fact, only 42 out of 500 use POWER.

  6. Re:An apt reminder... on Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller · · Score: 1

    There has been a large study (about 150,000 participants) about the effectiveness of acupuncture as a painkiller, and it came out quite positive for acupuncture vs. traditional painkillers. But as you mentioned -- poking anywhere on your skin without taking care of meridians and qi lines has about the same effect as following the acupuncture rules.

  7. Re:So instead of a monster gas tank on UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range · · Score: 1

    That's something called "proof of concept".

  8. Re:FYI... on USAF Scramjet Hits Mach 6, Sets Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you just lie flat on the earth and let gravity do about the same.

  9. Re:Ob on Pacific Northwest At Risk For Mega-Earthquake · · Score: 1

    The part of it that is belgian.

  10. Re:This note is legal tender on Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy · · Score: 1

    No, those tokens are just a proof of payment.

  11. Re:Wow. on Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names · · Score: 1

    Actually it's the Reich von Arizona or the Arizonischen Reichslande.

  12. Re:Hello World on German High Court Declares All Software Patentable · · Score: 1

    In this case it was about a special method to generate code on the fly for a computing limited device. Not the automatic code generation itself was patented, but a method to use scripts inside documents on a device whose processing capabilities didn't allow the installation of a full fledged script interpreter stack.

  13. Re:Yay! finally some accountability for all those on UK Court Finds Company Liable For Software Defects · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then the hobbyist should stop claiming his software was fit for a certain purpose.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter. on Second Inquiry Exonerates Climatic Research Unit · · Score: 1

    Because they aren't peers. There is too much gain in being the single one who is right against all the others who are wrong.

  15. Re:consider this... on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No. If it is scientific fraud, then normaly the colleagues would complain (as it happened with those high profile frauds like Jan Hendrik Schön or Hwang Woo-Suk). If it is financial fraud, normally the finance departement of the university would complain. If someone from outside calls it fraud and starts an investigation, it always sounds like politics.

  16. Re:You mean you *HOPE* it's trolling on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 1

    Not too many. It's just an U.S. thing, pretty prominent within the U.S., but not so much outside.

  17. Re:Well... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Tell me how Asterisk works via two-wire and operates UP0E devices.

    Replacing a PSTN ist a huge work, and not easily done by "I'll set up Asterisk instead".

  18. Re:Well... on Corporate IT Just Won't Let IE6 Die · · Score: 1

    Are you ready to do this for out of production PSTN systems, which are still installed at the customer's sites in numbers?

    I am looking at you, Siemens Hicom 300V3. Out of production since 15 years. Still in use and managed by an outdated version of HiPath Manager V1.0 installed on a Windows 2000 somewhere.

  19. Re:No fly list is a dumb idea on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 1

    Normally the general rule of thumb to make a difference between a right and a priviledge should be:

    A right is something you have until someone takes it away.
    A priviledge is something you don't have until someone gives it to you.

    (And yes, you can take a right away. Think about the right to freedom of assemblage, which is routinely denied to all prisoners.)

  20. Re:No fly list is a dumb idea on Man Put On "No-Fly List" While In Air To NYC · · Score: 1

    So when do they pass a Bill to make crimes illegal?

  21. Re:This happened to my significant other on Escalating Gmail/Spamming Attacks · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's my password: Nicefuckentryyoustupidassholethisisslashdothowstupiddoyouthinkweare?

    Which actually means: "I have never read bash.org."

  22. Re:Lookit the shapes on Study Finds Fast-Food Logos Make You Impatient · · Score: 1

    Fast food is something you finish in less then 30 minutes.

    Sorry, but I finish every meal within 30 min (plus the time I'm waiting for the next course to be served).
    Maybe I am more an inhalator of food than an actual eater.

  23. Re:Yet another legal solution to a technical probl on US House Passes Ban On Caller ID Spoofing · · Score: 1

    That's why I saw a slogan recently where one party was demanding "Outlaw criminality!"

    (No joke!)

  24. Re:I still blame Metallica on EU Piracy Estimates — Just How Inaccurate? · · Score: 1

    And I am the other guy, who doesn't download any songs illegally and thus never buys music.

  25. Re:Sounds like a plan on Porn Virus Blackmails Victims Over "Copyright Violation" · · Score: 1

    I don't have Hentai, sorry, and I am not into it. Shall I admit accessing Hentai anyway?