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  1. Not apples job on Apple Advertises "1-Click" Licensing · · Score: 1

    Apple has a responsibilty to stock holders not to insite lawsuits and other detrimenst to the bottom line. They were merely being cautious buy licensing from amazon.

  2. /. upgrades on Slashdot Database Compromised! · · Score: 1

    Hope they planted a script to delete all stories by and references to Jon Katz.

  3. linuxppc/netbsd on More Information on Total mPOWER? · · Score: 1

    Why not simply invest in a G3/G4 and install linuxppc or netbsd? You'll get kick ass performance at a much cheaper per unit cost. Is your code Linux/x86 specific?

  4. Re:Eureka! Zero-click shopping! on Apple Licences Amazon's 1-click Shopping · · Score: 1

    If you've ever bothered to read the patent "one clap shopping" (ie. creating a sound to cause the action to occur) is covered as well. Your other ideas are probably covered too. Do you work for amazon?

  5. Non-issue on Apple Licences Amazon's 1-click Shopping · · Score: 1

    This is a non issue. Why would it be expected that a sizeable company like apple should be in the habit of setting new law and breaking patents? Apple is merely doing things the safe way as well they should!! Apple , after all, is a publicly held company with a responsibility to share holders not to incite law suits and create other liabilities to the bottom line. This is very simple business sense.

  6. *warning* drunken post!! on How Much Do Models Influence Our Thinking? · · Score: 1

    Although a drunken sot. most sotten. I must say this. that is, our current understanding of the world via the "language" of mathematics and physics(arguablly really just mathematics) would be nill without models. Think of freshman physics and what not where commonplace things like friction are neglected to examine the more fundamental behaviors of matter such as velocity. Indeed the modern concept of modelling can be traced back to galilleo and his early experiments. Point, well, I guess the point is is that we humans have used modelling as a useful contruct, albeit a non-perfect human construct, to gain greater understanding. It is a tool of our invention rather than an impedance.

  7. Re:Resistance is futile! on Have You Paid Your Bertelsmann Tax Today? · · Score: 1

    Listen up , you cannot simultaneously support the actions of RMS and his FSF and critisize governmental intervention in support of IP. They are both cut from the same cloth. Both are, at the heart, socialist interventions. RMS and his uninformed teenage fanclub favor a model of government support, ie. dole, for open source software development. This article is simply about a model of government support, ie. dole, for the industry.

  8. Fucking /. Hypocrites on Have You Paid Your Bertelsmann Tax Today? · · Score: 1

    Listen up , you cannot simultaneously support the actions of RMS and his FSF and critisize governmental intervention in support of IP. They are both cut from the same cloth. Both are, at the heart, socialist interventions. RMS and his uninformed teenage fanclub favor a model of government support, ie. dole, for open source software development. This article is simply about a model of government support, ie. dole, for the industry.

  9. Huzzah!! on KDE to RMS: That's Absurd. · · Score: 2

    I love it!! Hopefully this is just the beginning!! Why this is so earth shattering that it is even worthy of being mentioned is the real story. After all I enjoy my current standard of living and any observant person knows no money with ever be made on GPLed software. That is, after all, why RMS is a filthy hippy right? All that pro narcotics claptrap on his personal site has me wondering if he is dealing drugs to support his failed software enterprises. Yeah yeah, call me a troll, flambait, whatever. Just me *real* opinion I'll leave the mindless baiting to the kidz and merely state the truth.

  10. Re:Linux will save Apple on Mac OS X Beta To Come Out Sept. 13 · · Score: 1

    wtf? you are obviously a moron. no real geek speaks of "standard" anything. Intel standard? bah. Here's a standard for you: "the right architecture for the job". For real world tasks that means RISC and it means UNIX. Intel produces cheap consumer stuff for kidz.

  11. Re:If you need to know more on Prior Art to Squash Database Patent? · · Score: 1

    I would like to ask you, if you would not mind, a question or two. I apologize if an earlier posting by myself was overly cynical. It would appear you have a legal team(lawyers plural constitute a legal team , right >:) ). Who is paying their fees? Is it inhouse legal expertise the university is providing? The entity paying the legal help must have something to benefit from the investment. What is it? Thanks!! By answering certainly you will relieve the burdon of suspicion upon prospective respondents.

  12. gpl nonsense on Helix Code Profiled in Boston Globe · · Score: 2

    "how they hope to make money". 250k downloads and making money is still a question? ha ha ha ha Maybe RMS's communist government will take over in November and support GNOME developers on a collective farm.

  13. library on Open Source Library Card-Catalog Apps? · · Score: 1

    mysql?

  14. why has no-one mentioned this(it seems) on Apple Buying Back Troubled PowerBooks · · Score: 1

    The 5300s used to, occasionaly, catch fire!! This was bad. This is like trading in a Pinto(also fire prone) for a ferrari(fast,sleek, cool, and uhmm, ris supported by NetBSD & LinuxPPC). Then again, of course it runs NetBSD!! Sorry about that last line. I just couldn't help myself.

  15. stipid trendy foolz on Notes From the Cathedral · · Score: 1

    Don't any of you people realize that the GPL is more restrictive than a corporate patent? Support a BSD style license which is truly free!!. GPL licenses support some stone headed losers socialist ideals. How stupid is this fricking junky? Just look at emacs!!*blech* emacs=the first bloatware. Don't blame M$!!

  16. Stupid discusioon!! on 50 Least Influential Movies · · Score: 1

    Items are detaikled as shown in some fairly rational order 1.)I'm Drunk!! 1a)Jack And Coke!! 2)When the JD ran out I had Jim Beam 3.) wtf? I went to college for , like, math and cs and shit. why disvcuss movbies? 4.)people who dicsvuss mobies are loser who mojpred in engklisg or pholiplhy and cannot afford fine liquorz

  17. Keep *BSD the way it should be on Configuration Tools for BSD? · · Score: 1

    Keep your wretched hands off *BSD. Next you'll wonder where the office suite is. To find out $man vi . Keep BSD the way god intended!!

  18. tucows responsive to requests!! on TUCOWS BSD Launched · · Score: 2

    Subject:
    Re: Support for NetBSD/mac68k & NetBSD/macPPC
    Date:
    Fri, 30 Jun 2000 15:29:14 -0400
    From:
    "Arthur H. Johnson II"
    To:
    Adam Russell
    References:
    1

    Thankyou for the suggestion. I will impliment that as soon as the i386 project
    is completed.

    On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, you wrote:
    > Why not also support NetBSD for the second most well represented
    > consumer architecture?
    > Best Regards,

  19. Re:What fear drives this? on Intel tells Harvard, 'Cover that Mac!' · · Score: 1

    Actually Apple has always enjoyed a large segment of the education market. In fact these are the most recent numbers. Anecdotally I would say that, at least when I was an undergrad, that institutions of higher ed are not as wintel centric as , say, corporate America. Keeping in mind that this was at a university I would say that Intel had reasonable motivation to be jerks. Of course, they should have also been a bit less childish after the first "no" from Harvard.