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  1. Re:disadvantage? on Possible Delays for Vista in Europe · · Score: 1

    By the time it gets introduced in Europe, the others have already found the first bugs and Microsoft may have fixed some of them.


    Well, the DRM related ones anyway!
  2. Re:Why the lord is not my shepherd on Robotic Wellington Boot Thrower · · Score: 1

    We shag them, then you eat them!

  3. Re:Stallman vs. Torvalds? on GPLv3 - A Primer on Open Warfare in Open Source · · Score: 1

    GPL V3 opinions differing... Yawn!

    Now a deathmatch between two of the most well known and influential people in OSS... That'll sell! Popcorn anyone?

  4. Re:WTF??? on IAU Proposes 3 New Planets · · Score: 1
  5. WTF??? on IAU Proposes 3 New Planets · · Score: 1
    How can Charon be a planet?

    From the Article:


    "A planet is a celestial body that (a) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (b) is in orbit around a star, and is neither a star nor a satellite of a planet."


    I though Charon was a moon of Pluto
  6. If you're reading this, Mr. Blair... on The UK's Total Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Can I go to the toilet please?

  7. WTF? on The Ad-Supported Operating System · · Score: 1

    I thought Windows was already ad-supported! The money I spend on Viagra goes towards helping starving children, and funding further development of Windows, doesn't it?

  8. Re:Little confused about the membership requiremen on Fedora Welcomes Women to FOSS · · Score: 1

    I believe it's fundamental to what the community is all about. if you want to keep your clothes on, you can always use proprietry, closed source solutions.

  9. Unless... on Possible Hole in Black Holes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...both MECOs and Black Holes can exist, and it transpires that we actually know a LOT less than we thought we did

  10. Mark Parent Down on iPod Lawsuit Lawyers Sue Their Own Plaintiff? · · Score: 0

    These guys *may* be worth slapping, but harassing them by email will only help their cause

  11. The culprit on Spam War Takes Out Blog Services · · Score: 0

    I'm guessing it'll be whoever's fourth on the list. Otherwise, Blue would have said it's one of the top three.

  12. Useless article... on Using Laptops to Steal Cars · · Score: 0

    I was hoping it was a HOWTO

  13. Re:The Parliament Act. on UK Parliament to be Made Redundant? · · Score: 0

    Yes, our freedom-loving government is plainly tired of all that mucking around attending Parliament, and persuading MPs to support its bright ideas. In future (so goes the vision), our beloved, trusted ministers will be able to amend, replace and repeal legislation by fiat.


    So the Italians are behind all this!!??
  14. Kill all humans on Defending Against Harmful Nanotech and Biotech · · Score: 1, Funny

    I was going to write something deeply insightful about this but then my cranial implant suffered a general protection fault and had to be rebooted. Has anybody seen my hat?

  15. oh my rock rat! on Fossil Rises From its Grave · · Score: 0

    kha-nyou believe it?

  16. Gotta love the internet on Unpleasant Surprises for Online Real Estate Buyers · · Score: 0
    There's an old saying that goes

    "A fool and his money are easily parted."

    Now, thanks to the internet, it's even easier! Caveat Emptor!
  17. Try hyperfluid on Finding a Ready-Made Dev Team? · · Score: 0

    I used them for a project a couple of months back and was quite impressed.

  18. The Geek shall inherit the earth on First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created · · Score: 0

    "I'm not sure living in a world in which only the nerds survive would be worth it...".

    Get used to it, it's gonna happen. It's true, The geek SHALL inherit the earth! My RE teacher taught me as much at school.

  19. Re:Microsoft on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 0

    The actual lines of code and the method by which they got there were far too clever for either Microsoft or SCO.

    Never put down to malice what can be attributed to incompetence, idiocy, stupidity, etc.

    Would be the first security hole MS or SCO had inadvertantly created.

  20. Re:Well well on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 0

    dudes obviously got a dell, let's hack it!

  21. How to Stop them distributing linux on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 0

    I call on everybody that manages a DNS server or network router (no doubt using OSS) to simply drop packets to sco and their networks.

    Let them see the real value of OSS as something that powers the internet and generously, through albeit unenforcable licenses, allow them to continue their business of Theft and FUD.

  22. Priorities on IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux · · Score: 0

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations.

    Surely, the whole world knows what happens when nuclear weapons are used. Can't they think of something better to use this processing power for?

  23. Re:Truth Behind the Lies on Are Linux Zealots Terrorists? · · Score: -1

    They aren't!? Screw this, I'm installing XP!

  24. Falsified list on Top 5 Submerging Technologies Pinpointed · · Score: 0

    The real list would have SCO OpenServer listed on it

  25. You never know.... on CNet on WinFS · · Score: 0

    It might be quite good. While I'm not a fan of microsoft's (they ruined my PC!), I think that by creating an index of my ever growing hard disk, and using a relational database will allow me to find the files I need quicker and easier than before. This would allow me to use all sorts of criteria for finding files, and there's no reason why, if done properly, it should take too much overhead.

    Add to that the ability to annotate and associate version information to any file of the system through the use of an attached xml file, and you got a pretty flexible storage solution.

    I don't know if this is what they're planning, but it's how I would do it.

    Why don't we have something like this for linux? I know that we could do it better than anything MS would come up with.