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  1. Re:1984? on Chinese Government Implicated in DoS on US Site · · Score: 1

    China's been this way long before 1984.

  2. Re:Great News! on UCITA is passed · · Score: 1

    "That part is definitely not god [emphasis mine] for free software."

    I should think not, more like satan for free software.

  3. Re:Two Choices on UCITA is passed · · Score: 1

    "The only way they can do that is to sell something that people like."

    Or convince them it's what they really need.

    -- Marketing. Brain washing so good, it's legal.

  4. Re:I never meant to dis Rob on Andrew Leonard on LinuxWorld, Slashdot, and More · · Score: 1

    Who else immediately thought "disrobe" when seeing "dis Rob"?

  5. Re:Unmerited Worship on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    I like the advertising clause, It would just be easier if it allowed a text file recognition.

  6. Re:You're a year early on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    I know! That's why I'm hoping to see it.

  7. Re:Lacking a little imagination? No. on Field Programmable Gate Arrays at MIT · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, but those are all obvious. I'm mean what's next for the silicon beyond the quantum, microminiaturization, and biological/chemical stuff.

    I've known about those for awhile now, but I've just heard of fgpa recently. Since fpga is so much closer to a reality than those are, I'm wondering what else I've missed.

  8. 21 on Field Programmable Gate Arrays at MIT · · Score: 1

    Is the 21 postfix a reference to the next century?

  9. What's next? on Field Programmable Gate Arrays at MIT · · Score: 1

    What's the next (r)evolution in processors after this? How many technologies are possible that'll keep pushing the limit?

  10. Re:You're a year early on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    Considering that the current internationally used calendaring system is man-made, you're right. I just hope to be around for the beginning of the 3rd millenium in the muslim calendar.

  11. Re:Emacs text editor and compiler? on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    Excel and word are compilers. They "compile" data into different formats.

  12. Re:Unmerited Worship on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    With the GPL, their code used in the GPL product can also be used in proprietary products, provided the GPL'd code isn't, or a waiver is made.

  13. Re:Unmerited Worship on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    *almost*. Considering the amount of licensing schemes out there, my statement is still correct. In some cases, the BSD with advertisement clause demands this. The licenses that don't require rewritting, often have their own disadvantages.

    The GPL isn't viral if it's used inhouse.

  14. Re:Unmerited Worship on Stallman/Torvalds Story, definition of 'Hacker' · · Score: 1

    Ditto almost any other licensing scheme.

  15. Chip on Amiga & Transmeta? · · Score: 1
    What are the interesting new chips? Two immediately come to mind:

    • Transmeta's
    • Erebrus's


    Transmeta's logo was flashed, but this could (stretching) simply be a reference to Torvalds. Of course, interesting new chip could mean any new revision of the current chip technologies out there.

  16. Rumors on Amiga & Transmeta? · · Score: 3

    Isn't slashdot one of the places these rumors started? This is like a news source creating it's own news. Would this have happened on a site that wasn't so into Linux, and therefore Linus and Transmeta?

  17. Re:Sounds like Calvinball... on Microsoft and AOL Fight Over Instant Messaging · · Score: 1

    Better to have two monopolies fighting each other, than have one super-monopoly and a pseudo-monopoly.

  18. Re:Too many TLAs on Compaq Names New CEO · · Score: 1


    What's TLA?

    No, I really am serious.

  19. OT: pennies on SGIs Linux Future · · Score: 1

    You're going to have to save alot. I just cashed in a full 8 gallon jug of pennies. It was only ~$300 worth, though I did find some wheat pennies, and an off-center error.

  20. Re:No impact on anything? on Return of The Onion · · Score: 1

    Shift happens. (To quote Dilbert)

  21. Re:Argh. on RedHat's Solution to Pseudo-Free Software Problem. · · Score: 1

    The point he made was that he didn't like a proprietary installer *on top of* the rest of the distro. Borland, CIV:CTP, et al. do not do this. They are mostly proprietary works.

  22. Re:Good copmany on RedHat's Solution to Pseudo-Free Software Problem. · · Score: 1

    That's probably why the phrase was "good *company* (note the singular) such as Redhat *and* Debian..." thereby implying that "company" referred only to RH.

  23. Re:Would you kill preverts? on US' Capitol Hill on the Internet · · Score: 1

    It's Pervect!

  24. 2% is wrong on US' Capitol Hill on the Internet · · Score: 1

    It would take 2% (or whatever the figure is) of money withdrawn to matter. If the 2% of the people who withdrew only had .1% o fthe money, it wouldn't be so bad.

  25. Re:Executive Orders on US' Capitol Hill on the Internet · · Score: 1

    The citizens also have the right to rebel should this be done badly. The soldiers also have the duty to disobey an order they see as illegal.