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  1. Re:freedom? on Senator Wants to Keep U.N. Away From the Internet · · Score: 1

    you probably have, what you don't have is the FREEDOM to monopolize capital

  2. Re:bidding-based protocols on Blackout Shows Net's Fragility · · Score: 1

    there is no need for fancy untamperable logging at all.
    If some peer does not honor payment obligations, its trust drops and won't be able to communicate.

  3. Re:True to an extent... on The GPL Impedes Linux More Than It Helps? · · Score: 1

    yes, and RMS clearly states that he is against copyright as a concept.
    he would be perfectly happy to abolish copyright (and patents) and have all the GPL (and other) software fall back to public domain.

    the gpl is not moral, it was specifically carved as a weapon against proprietary software

  4. univ got mail from local RIAA branch .. on Record Labels Release Software To Combat Piracy · · Score: 1

    _demanding_ to install this stuff or face the consequences.

    they answered them to fuck off 'cause
    a, office workstarions may contain highly sensitive data
    b, research workstations may contain personal data and IP of their respective users
    c, dorm computers are property of their owners
    d, nobody uses that crappy OS this stuff is supposed to run on here anyways :)

  5. Re:Yes and no on Trouble With Open Source? · · Score: 1

    file upload progress bar is no browser support problem. it can, and is, implemented just fine in cross-browser compatible way

  6. Re:Can somebody enlighten me? on P2P Now and Then · · Score: 1

    bittorrent kicks ass if you have a server at colo.
    I get speeds up to 3Mbyte/sec

  7. Re:Not chance... on RNA May 'Run' Genetic Coding · · Score: 1

    i'm all for intelligent design to be taught in school.. and everything
    i just don't know what else is going to be the topic in the other 44 min 50 sec of the class.

  8. Re:Price of a human life on Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer · · Score: 1

    this calculation is simple BS,
    if you ordered 7M units, price would drop at least 10x, maybe 100x.

  9. Re:remember that they can track sales. on iTunes Might Lose Labels · · Score: 1

    this scheme would hurt them very much..

    imagine buying a .50 oldie.. liking it, and deciding to buy some of the other songs of the album, and after 2 songs price suddenly jumps to .99

    I'd never ever buy anything from them after such experience

  10. Re:I'm leaning towards the Ruskies on this one... on Climatologists Wager on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    They might win.
    but only if the tipping point is reached by then

  11. Re:Who was stupid enough to fund this nonsense? on Spam Haters Given Right of Reply · · Score: 2, Interesting

    the biggest problem with this may be that it opens yet another attack vector to you

  12. Re:When the free market is subjected to harm.. on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 0

    nope, you're totally off.

    communism means the state ownership of capital or ultimately everything
    nobody really achieved this yet, so socialism was sort of a stopgap measure, did not outlaw private capital, but made really hard to keep it, even took it if some justification could be fabricated

    your tax dollars are being spent on things regardless you use, or even approve it, this is basic property of taxation

  13. Re:Three hundred percent? on Red Hat/Apache Slower Than Windows Server 2003? · · Score: 1

    I had my 5x86-133 overclocked to 200 (4x50Mhz).

  14. Re:This is a sign of the real problem... on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    if it has been booted with a parameter to specifically request this kind of operation, it might be argued as a feature :-)

  15. Re:Small problem on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    actually, secure activex support might be pssible through some kind of virtualization layer which then could properly confine the control

  16. Re:what's wrong with clones anyways? on First Human Clone Eight Weeks Along · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is that most of the cloned animals already died or suffer from genetical diseases..

    Until the chance of creating a kid who will die in (say) 5 years has not been minimised, i think this is very unethical..

    How will they explain him, that he was born to die in 5 years? That they knew hi will die, and still made him?

  17. Re:What's the problem? on Windows XP To Block Use Of "Troublesome" Drivers · · Score: 1

    the big difference is that in the first case, m$ is forcing the user to get a new version of a third party application; while in the second, vmware is forcing the user to get a new _vmware_ version (or recompile the old one) _after_ he upgraded the kernel; no third party here, and definitely noone can use this power to drive sb out of competition..

  18. Re:Except Qt is copylefted. on Qt Going GPL · · Score: 1

    the biggest problem is not the price IMO.. imagine the following scenerio: we have qt 2.2 GPL-d.. KDE developers (or anybody else) finds bugs is QT, fixes them and KDE uses this fixed (and obviously GPL-d version) of QT. After this nobody can ever write a proprietary application for KDE