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  1. Re:Make Your Choice on The Future of Tech And NSA Wiretaps · · Score: 1

    3. A governement with a foreign policy that does not anger the rest of the planet.

  2. Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..." on ActiveState Discontinues VisualPerl/Python · · Score: 1

    Back to vi/Notepad/Komodo, then..."
    it's stops working right away? cannot use it anymore? ...bummer

  3. embrace, extend and extinguish on IE And Mozz Collaborate On RSS Icon · · Score: 2

    That is just another thing that microsoft will embrace, extend and extinguish.

    How they going to pull off that one I don know thought ...

    ... incompatible color? ... hum no ...
    ... a proprietary bit in each pixel? ... hum ...

    well I'm sure they're gonna find a way ...

  4. Re:blog awards on Is the Cyberterror Threat Credible? · · Score: 1

    (requires IE)

    Fuck them

  5. Re:Nerds and performers think very differently on NYT Opinion Piece on DRM And P2P · · Score: 1

    The resson why musician is a high risk career is the record industry. It cheaper and easier to them to sell 1 million albums each from a handful of artist than 50 000 copies each from a whole lot of artists. So they promote the hell out of already succeful artists and they let the rest starve.

    Get a grip.

  6. Re:I call BS on RIAA vs Linux and DVDs · · Score: 1

    You can build your own TV without paying somebody to have the right to do it, try that for a DVD player.

  7. Re:I call BS on RIAA vs Linux and DVDs · · Score: 1

    it's not the same, to play the movie you have to pay twice, once for the movie and then for the player.

  8. Re:Here's a radical idea! on Hooked On The Web · · Score: 1

    You can be addicted to something even if it is not a vice.

  9. Re:tobacco on Blizzard Sued for Death of Gamer · · Score: 1

    They got sued because they deliberately made their product more adictive.

  10. Re:Microsoft just making it easier on Microsoft Announces CableCARD Support · · Score: 1

    This is just bringing the computer and television closer and closer.

    arrrrrrrrrrrrg!

  11. trojan horse on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 1

    That is what they want you to think ...

  12. MOD PARENT FUNNY on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT FUNNY

    lol

  13. Hurd on Should Linux Have a Binary Kernel Driver Layer? · · Score: 1

    well this could solved easily, just use the Hurd instead of the monolithic Linux kernel, driver are in user space, oh, wait ... wait ... wait ... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait... wait

  14. Re:No identifable data? on DNA and Online Search Finds Birth Parent · · Score: 1

    What you are giving (egg, sperm) contains itself all the data needed to identfy you .....

  15. Re:another longhorn? on The Microsoft Singularity · · Score: 1

    Microsoft: borrow, modify so it is incompatible with the standard , hide the source, pretend they invented it, then proceed to sell it to you every few years or so.

    OSS: well you see the point ...

  16. I've already done it on Unblock Google Cache in China · · Score: 1

    I've already done it. But nobody seems to have noticed.

  17. That is an easy one to answer: on How Many Times Should We Pay For Our Software? · · Score: 1

    zero

  18. ARRRG HELP US!!! on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    We lost corporate control over information! Think of the children!

  19. Re:Micosoft salesrep on Apache Webserver Surpasses 50 Million Website Mark · · Score: 2, Informative

    # apachectl configtest

    by the way IIS has a ton of settings that cannot be changed by the GUI, you have to and regstry key for them.

  20. Re:Welcome to reality.... on Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    oups, misread you post, sorry.

  21. Re:Welcome to reality.... on Are Skimpy Raises the New Normal? · · Score: 1

    "while liberals don't quite get that sometimes it is the fault of the poor man that he is poor."

    Explain to me how the money get ends up in the rich's pockets if it's the fault of the poor that someone else is poor...

  22. Re:Second factor Windows-only? on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    Yea, I did not do any checking but after I posted my comment I realised that the dongles may be done by other manufacturer that the software.

  23. Re:Second factor Windows-only? on Banks to Use 2-factor Authentication by End of 2006 · · Score: 1

    I used USB dongles for some expensive, proprietary software at my workplace, and on a whim I looked around for Linux drivers for the thing. Turns out that the manufacturer only supports Windows 2000 and XP, and no third-party drivers for other OS's exist.

    And the proprietary software supported more OS's than the dongle to use it???
    Hum ...

  24. Re:Great opportunity! on Microsoft Rep To Keynote Unix Conference · · Score: 1

    You will have to compete with my rotten eggs concession.

  25. Re:What of pornography? on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    Soon we will have "Free speech zone" on the internet if the US has any say on it.

    blearg!