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  1. Re:Pretty straightforward on What Will It Take For eBook Adoption? · · Score: 0

    Good, then maybe 20 years from now, I can put put a patent on a technique to distribute written information on a wood fibrous layer and pretend it never existed before.

  2. Re:OT but urgent - eBay has been hacked. on Google Sets IPO Pricing · · Score: 0

    Please send me your credit card information so I can check whether or not it was hacked :)

  3. Geeze.... on LANL, Sandia Report Losing Classified Data · · Score: 0

    I keep telling my spies... Don't take the freakin drive. Make a copy of the data for peete's sake, they won't notice a thing.

  4. Exploits... on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 0

    Seminar on Revolutionary Exploits of President Kim Il Sung Held in Cambodia

    Exploits... I sure didn't know he's a hacker.

  5. Re:A clear advantage on Mozilla/Firefox Bug Allows Arbitrary Program Execution · · Score: 0

    Not only this, but nobody got sued for exposing the vulnerability.

  6. Re:It's a newbie error in world politics... on EU Ministers Went Off-Brief In Patent Vote · · Score: 0

    Like you said,

    What good is being rich, if everybody else is? You're only rich if you have more money than others.

  7. Re:Big Brothah on Airport Monitoring of Travellers via Blackberry · · Score: -1

    Then its a good thing I'm not American.

  8. Re:Spy satellites too on Smart Satellite Sets Its Own Priorities · · Score: -1

    Hmm Aren't Calico Cats 99% female (mine is)... female witches, justication of female abuse by most religions... Religious freak... I can see a connection.

  9. Wow, now the aliens will be impressed on Rio Rancho, New Mexico: 103 Square Miles of WiFi · · Score: 4, Funny

    They'll be able to download music right from area 51.

  10. Re:E-Voting safe ever? on Flaw in Florida E-Voting Machines · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Some people actually mark 0 or more than 1 candidates on purpose to cancel their votes. As for the others, if they can't figure out a (decently clear) electoral bulletin, maybe their vote not counting is not such a big loss.

  11. Mr. President... on Super Maps for the 21st Century · · Score: -1

    According to this software, we would have been better off invading the world starting with Canada and Mexico.

  12. Re:Can it work? It does work! on Open Access To Scientific Literature: Can It Work? · · Score: -1

    Or at least it should work in the best of worlds...

    There is the issue of scientific value. If I write papers on my web site, will it be read and debunked if inacurate or proven false at a future time. Also (this was addressed some time ago on /.) there is the issue of persistency of papers. web sites being what they are, papers are bound to dissapear off a web page, at which point, all papers refenrencing to it end up losing part of their argumentation.

    There definitely needs to be some kind of authoritative repository (thus a journal type archive). The whole issue is that knowledge should be free and the scientific community should be a much less closed circle.

  13. Re:Patents.. UCK on BBN Announces Functional Quantum Encrypted Network · · Score: -1

    On totally unrelated news, physicists at the university of (your pick) have been arrested and charged under the DMCA for allegedly doing research into a new matter/energy conversion theory.

    This theory and all research papers related to it have been confiscated, censored or destroyed by the US government. However, preliminary data that was released publicly before the cull seemed to indicate the possibility of faster than light travel, but also would imply a way to break quantum encryption.

  14. Wait a minute... on Sun COO Schwartz Promises Open Source Solaris · · Score: -1

    I tought hardware was supposed to be free...

  15. Re:Biiig difference on Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret · · Score: -1

    I thought all these codes were OBD II standard since 1996. Perhaps is it just cause I have a German car and there is no patent on the codes yet...

  16. Re:Software patents are evil on Apple Files Patent for Translucent Windows · · Score: -1

    Seeing Microsoft is on a patent roll, it was just a question of time before they'd patent that too. If that were to happen however, they'd actually enforce it against open source

  17. Re:SIlence is a pipe dream for me on A Silent PC Solution? · · Score: -1

    Get long mouse, keyboard and VGA cables and put your computer in the closet. An external CD drive is the icing on the cake.

  18. The solution is in the problem on Microsoft Patents Timed Button Presses · · Score: 0

    After 5 years, most of these patented technologies would be obsolete anyway. Now they just have to stop handing out trivial patents.

  19. Sound... on Thermoacoustic Cooler Means Green-Friendly Icecream · · Score: -1

    173dB!!!

    - That's good ice cream.

    - What???

  20. Darn on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 0

    I knew I should have put a patent on this idea.

  21. Adding 2 and 2 on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 0

    Spain withdraws their troops from Iraq -> Spain's e-mails get blocked...

    Previously:
    Canada doesn't go to Iraq -> Canada gets on the World Health Organization black list for a few SARS cases, One mad cow case and the U.S. and allies ban Canadian beef...

  22. Re:Little guys can't fight a giant... on Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire' · · Score: 0

    Lin---s : And this is why Microsoft sucks at regular expressions.

  23. Microsoft is going after BlueFish on Lindows Agreeing to Change Name · · Score: 0

    After all... Its Microsoft that made the color blue famous in the world of computing...

  24. Hmmm... DOS, sounds familiar on Lindows Agreeing to Change Name · · Score: 0

    If you can't use your competitors current trademark, use its old one...

  25. Re:Orleans on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: -1, Troll

    A good thing George Bush sucks at geography or we'd all be labelled as potential terrorists... (or aren't we already...?)