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  1. We've heard this before and it means.... on Electronic Paper's Past and Future · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... we are going to cut down even more trees...

    I'm not a tree hugger as trees are just crops that take monger to harvest, but the point is clear.

  2. Its really simple.. on OSI Approves Microsoft Ms-PL and Ms-RL · · Score: -1, Troll

    in time MS will claim they invented open source......the way there is a little bit at a time.

  3. Frontline story... on Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program · · Score: 1

    I saw the Frontline TV story a few days ago on this matter.

    Though they did not say this, it was obvious that what the government was saying was BS as well as the bias of the story line.

    I don't care if they really do have the ability to process such massive amounts of data, the fact still remains that using common language and subject matter as coded messages cannot be detected with such equipment... this goes back to the civil war underground railroad communications that even included song as example.

    However, what is much easier to do and far more probable is the spying on american opinion of 9/11 and the following war drum banging.

    The spying was used to feel out the general public attitude in order to know better how to manipulate it.

    We all do know Iraq and Sadam had nothing to do with 9/11....

    Building 7 of the WTC contained SEC records used in investigation of illegal stock market manipulations.... such records vanished...

    do a google search on "trillion dollar bet" and read the PBS transcript and wonder who the unmentioned winners and losers of that bet were?

    Enron, Worldcom loser.... Dotcom investments winners.....easy come easy go......follow the money...

  4. Updating XP SP3 (Vista stuff)??? on Vista Runs Out of Memory While Copying Files · · Score: 1

    Last week my work station had some sort of update happening (later determined to be both a Windows XP and semantics..)that was supposed to happen at 3am not 4:30pm

    I left work around 6:30 realizing my drive 6+ gigs space was vanishing..

    Next day I had a warning of low disk space of 135megs

    After much digging I was able to determine that some of the 11.5+ gigs of drive space I should have was the offline cache that I was able to remove using disk clean and turning off the cache.

    But the other 6+ gigs took longer to figure out.

    looking at log files and the results of a current drive defrag analysis as I did a defrag the day before this all happened...Apparently after the updates happened my work station decided to offline cache my local drive and in the process stopped doing so when it hit the 135meg low drive trigger. In addition to this it made this part of the offline cache unavailable. In other words it was doing nothing but taking up drive space.

    Searching for a solution, as I know where the files were but unsure of how to remove them safely...

    In the offline files option you hold down ctrl+shift and mouse click on "delete" and this effectively reinitializes the cache. Reboot required (duh)

    after rebooting I turn off cache after setting it to 0 size (as MS might decide to change it next update..... regardless of my now having set updates to notify ONLY....

    So where do I send the bill to MS for the company time I spent on this mess?

  5. as long as it works.... on Making Your Code OSS-Appealing? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...being ugly might just help protect it from stupid software patents.....

  6. I know a girl who married a baboon... on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    ....yeah right...

    Since I haven't heard of any cross species marriages and have heard of friction against gay marriages I find it highly unlikely that human robotic marriages will ever happen.
    It is more likely that a genetically engineered human will happen and be of marriageable status long before human robotic marriages happen if ever.

    This is one of those so outrageous article that people just have to respond as in this case most people really are more intelligent than the conceiver of such a foolishness.

    All in all these seems to be this foolish promotion that artificial intelligence is not artificial, but real.

    I have another term for the acronym A.I. and thats is Automated Information....

    Ok so there are marriages of humans to information.....but do they get the tax benefits and healthcare breaks?

  7. They have been called out on the matter on Red Hat Vows To Stand Up To Patent Intimidation · · Score: 1

    The fact that Microsoft have refused to say what the code is, shows intent to terrorize.

    Someone call homeland security.

    The open source principle and process is one of having the ability to fix and/or modify code.
    Microsoft is not playing by those rules.

    Open source doesn't play by Microsofts rules.

    But it is Microsoft that is making a accusation against open source.

    Open source is willing to fix the problem. Microsoft is not willing to allow that.

    All in all, what would any reasonable court think of this?

  8. Should I or Should I not Sue??? on How Not to Write a Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Mobbing at its finest...

    Or do I just wait for others to change

    and for more supportive information to come along such as Non-Patentable findings that in essence supports Abstraction Physics and the Virtual Interaction Configuration

    So should I sue or just wait for the slanderers and libeler to realize they steped in their own B.S...?

    Copyright enforcement on a cease and desist order to prevent the receiver from ...... doing what? Defending themselves? Standing up for consumer rights? ..... ... or just applying copyright Fair Use?

    I think what needs to happen so to not allow the receive from publishing the cease and desist order is to have it signed by a judge as a court order.

  9. And all this time I just thought the voices .... on Scientists Deliver 'God' Via A Helmet · · Score: 1

    ...of slashdot posters was god, budda, etc... that clearly expresses "everything" and with a rating system for the better probabilities and possibilities to the insane unrelated babel...

    hmm.... maybe it is....

  10. Since Software is a reflection of its makers... on 'Neurotic' is Best RTS strategy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... is this perhaps reflective of real life personalities, such as those who are best at war mongering?
    i.e. would have Hitler been considered neurotic?

  11. Good going Cowboy Neal...... on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5 · · Score: 1

    Check out the earlier interview with the CEO of Amiga....

    Notice the Date Saturday Oct 7th.....

    CowboyNeal is trying to make the "2 more weeks" happen.....

  12. Once every blue moon an "Amiga is comming back".. on Amiga Inc. Reveals Further Info About Amiga OS5 · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...article is posted to slashdot. And that began many blue moons ago.

    Is it a slow news day? Did murphy firehose it up?
    Is it intended to be humor or is it to expose the remaining gullible?

    Seriously, the company now known as Amiga has worked very diligently
    and persistently at securing its reputation as a company intent on
    keeping the Amiga off the market and deceiving what ever followers it
    may still have with what amount to as soap opera antics.

    Now about Amiga being better than OSX.... Think about it!

    You can have the best OS in the world but if there is no software
    being written for it.... who is going to use it for what?

    Don'tcha think someone would have heard about software developemnt
    for the Amiga if it were going to be better than _____________
    (fill in the blank with any reasonably used OS)

    Bill McE. is financed to be a nut... How better to keep amiga off
    the market and the open source clone dev (AROS) less supported and
    concerned enough about Amigas legal antics to remove "Amiga" from
    all mention?

    There is nothing in the last 7 + years, of which the current
    "ownership of Amiga IP" has done anything beneficial for classic
    Amiga users, the consumers, or for the Amiga software development
    market. If fact they have done just the opposite.

    And as other Blue moons have passed with little to no fan fare,
    so will this one.

    Only the gullible would mod this down or as flamebait.

    Its honesty based on the history since before gateway sold all but the patent IP.

  13. Did anyone else read "bickering" instead of ..... on Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking · · Score: 1

    ... bricking?

    Perhaps we can build a house with such bricks....

  14. It once took a big room and air conditioning... on Lessons To Learn From The OLPC Project · · Score: 1

    to hold and make operational a computer that is far less powerful than any lapop being built today, including the OLPC.

    Tomorrow you will have throw away laptops. just as today you have throw away calculators.

    The point is, with or without the OLPC and competitive efforts along the same line, $100 laptops and even sub $100 laptops will happen.

    The question is timing. When they do happen will it be to help fill a poor countries needs or post poor?

    To me poor is qualified as having need of something more vital to survival such as food, clothing, shelter, medicine, basic education, etc... then it is to spend it on a computer.

    And when the income raises enough to buy such a computer, how is what such a computer is capable of, going to benefit someone living in such a poor environment.

    Just at what level of poor does such a computer become viable to have?

    Before that level is reached I can understand having a common share of computers, such as like books recycled in a class room, own by the school...? etc...

  15. Watch them lose the case.... on Apple Sued Over iPhone Bricking · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... and this will settle the matter once and for all.

    I mean when you have to buy numerous formats of a song because you are not allowed to pirate what you buy, to yourself for use on another device.... then of course At&T iphone lockin is acceptable.... If you want to use a different carrier you need to use a different format/device.

    Anticompetitive practices is the only thing to argue here, but if you bring in a bunch of other non-issues then you can make the case lose.

  16. Its Alive... uh err, I'm alive, I'M ALIVE on Spontaneous Brain Activity and Human Behavior · · Score: 1


    I shall patent me. and then Charge to much for licensing.
    That will solves all the worlds problem.

    http://abstractionphysics.net/pmwiki/index.php

    On a more serious note, this /. news article may be pointing at the foundation of why software is not of patentable nature.

  17. This is not about supporting the artist... on White House Lauds MN RIAA Win, Analysis of Victory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...its about prolonging the inevitable death of the labels business.

    Remove the labels and replace them with a business model that understands the enormous cost savings of technology and the internet for production and distribution.

    It should be obvious, even from the court records.

    I very rarely buy music and when I do I try to buy directly from the artist, but this does not stop me from lisening to a great deal more music than I have purchased (not rented).

    I don't pirate but I have heard mixes others have done that remined me of plenty of songs and artists I liked years ago. But at about that time this RIAA crap started up and I figured I liked the artists and their works, not the contradictory business model of the labels as represented by the RIAA. So of course I dropped the idea of locating the music I heard on such mixes, that I might buy it.

    I mean since the Mix was illegal, I wasn't supposed to hear it and certainly in not hearing it I wouldn't be remined of ........ no sale.

    I don't Pirate nor do I support rabid dogs out to bite th hand that feeds them.

    The music industry labels has a history of questionable dealings such as Payola to get radio stations to play.... This sort of thing was determined to be illegal, unfair, etc... But the objective was that of getting coverage.

    Now that there is plenty of coverage.... they are complaining... Why? because they are not controlling it, its more open to public choice....

    Such controlling bias is not beneficial to but a few artists.

    So in the mean time I wake to music I don't pay for, drive to work and back with music I don't pay for and when I get an itch for irish music I tune into livelreland and I don't pay for that either.

    In fact I'd say on average over years, the music I listen to is better than 90% music I didn't pay for. And all without pirating. Most of which I wouldn't buy anyways, regardless of the fact that by the time the radio stations stop playing it, I'm sick and tired of it anyway and certainly won't have anything, and I certainly won't allow an illegal mix years later wrongly influence me to go out and buy....

    Why buy and why pirate when there is plenty free and legal.....

    If they shut down internet radio .. then I won't listen and won't know about artist I might just like enough to buy.

    Perhaps the Labels should just shut down all radio stations music playing..... That'll save them.

  18. And to think IBM is participating in patent reform on IBM Patents Checking a Box · · Score: 1

    Open Source as Prior Art and Patent Peer review...both have IBM as participants...

  19. Re:Its a set up.... on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    right.

  20. Its a set up.... on A Case Study In GPLv2 / GPLv3 Compatibility · · Score: 1

    The idea is to get MS to think there is a riff in teh open source community that they can exploit.
    And when they go to exploit it, the open source community will stand together and tell MS not to mess with family.

    It'll make Time Magizine cover, even better than Bill Gates did when he yelled piracy as Time cover storied it as the great software flap.

  21. Whats even more obvious is that soiftware is not.. on 1-Click Rejection Rejected · · Score: 1
  22. and a recent article ..... on Half of IT Workers Sleep on the Job · · Score: 1
  23. How to make them happy... on Annual IT Salary Survey Finds Dissatisfaction · · Score: 0

    give them pay cuts.

    You see how fast they get happy about wehat they were paid.

    A spoiled child will always want more and always be unhappy with what they have.

  24. The forgotten survey question... on Survey Says GPLv3 Is Shunned · · Score: 1

    Do you understand teh GPL v3?

  25. Why do idiots persist at creating a problem..... on The Linux Identity Crisis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... that really does not exist?

    Like the BSD/GPL licensing issue that was used in a failed attempt to create a problem that did not really exist.
    Matt Dillion of Dragonfly BSD clairified it... There really was no issue or concern...

    Whats this gotta go this way or that way crap now?

    There is no spoon....feeding..... there is forking for the masses...

    So fork the fool wants to creat a problem that really doesn't exist...