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  1. Re:Ever since Google has that Indian CEO ... on Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Btw what makes you think he's Indian? Not that that has anything to do with anything.

  2. Re:Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead at 94 on Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dead At 94 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Netcraft confirms it.

  3. Re:I see this a lot with the right wing on US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Has Died (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Surely you don't mean Winston Churchill, The Ugly Briton?

  4. Re:Good luck with that... on Former Yahoo Employee Challenges the Legality of Yahoo's Ranking System (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Also perhaps because the principals involved cannot bother to learn the one language they grew up speaking and writing well enough to actually make a case.

  5. Re:How Close Are We, Really, To Nuclear Fusion? on How Close Are We, Really, To Nuclear Fusion? · · Score: 1
  6. Re:No problem on Two New Fed GPS Trackers Found On SUV · · Score: 1

    Politicians are nothing compared to the Humphrey Applebys that actually are out there.

    As someone who used to believe that, I wonder if it's really true, or if it just comes from reading/watching Yes Minister at an impressionable age :-)

  7. Re:Operating System Feature on Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox · · Score: 1

    RTFM. SUDO(8)

    ...sudo allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified in the sudoers file...

  8. Peanuts.... on Do the Blind Deserve More Effort on the Web? · · Score: 1

    What about the poor vegetarian kid whose only source of protein is nuts because he's allergic to milk? Can he just not go to the same school as the kid who's allergic to peanuts?

    Peanuts are legumes, not nuts.

  9. Re:No poetry on How Would You Improve SQL? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is theoretically impossible to get the results you listed with that SQL query.

  10. Re:Obligatory... on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 0, Redundant

    As long as they are not "fricking" laser beams...

  11. Re:Why must a simple phone be so ugly? on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1
    If I could care less what other people think then it would be in direction of being embarassed as being accused of caring what something like that looked like, you know, function is cooler than form unless you're in the homosexual or "creative" community.
    I think I agree with you, but for the life of me, I cannot parse that sentence.
  12. Oh my god! on China Launches New Search Engine · · Score: 4, Funny

    We slashdotted China!

    We bastards!

  13. Nader calls for US election recounts on Schneier On Electronic Voting · · Score: 3, Interesting
  14. Re:It's a case of priorities on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1

    Well, in that case, Canada is bigger than the USA.

  15. Re:It's a case of priorities on Dept. of Homeland Security Enforces Expired Patent · · Score: 1
    America is the world's largest democracy


    s/America/India/

  16. Re:Conversion on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 2, Informative

    The temperature is supposed to go down BY 30 degrees Fahrenheit, not TO 30 degrees Fahrenheit. A 1 Fahrenheit drop in temperature is equal to a 5/9 degree Celsius drop. Thus, a 30 F change = 30 * 5/9 = 16.67 C.

  17. Re:So that's why... on Tempratech Self-Cooling Can · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...drink it later when I'm thirty....

    Long time to wait, isn't it?

  18. Re:Specific Ocean? on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 2, Funny
    What about the Dhahran province in India? Here's a hint.. basmati is grown there. No?

    No. There is no Dhahran province in India.

    I don't know if that reinforces or rebuts your point. I'm just pointing out a matter of fact. Maybe you meant Dehradun, but that's a city, not a province.

  19. Re:Totally! Lets OUTSOURCE instead! on Open Source a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and while we are at it, make sure that we don't use closed source software from companies that hire developers who are citizens of foreign countries, because they might be planting bugs in the software too. I'm sure Green Hills software has top security clearance for each one of its developers, right?

  20. 2 billion or 250 million? on New Evidence About 'The Great Dying' 250 Million Years Ago · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I heard the story on NPR yesterday, it said the event was dated at around 250 million years ago. That's what the body of the linked article says too. Somehow, the headline has been changed to say 2 billion. Funny.

  21. Re:Be gentle to the mirrors on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I can download the Windows kernel source code and compile it in less than 5 commands, give me a call.

  22. Re:Just to get these out of the way... on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 1

    Theoretically, he could be using a cross-compiler that runs on DOS, and generates Linux binaries :-)

  23. Be gentle to the mirrors on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instead of downloading the entire kernel, download just the patch file if you are running the previous version. Then patch your source tree using:

    cd /usr/src/linux
    bzcat /blah/patch-2.4.21.bz2|patch -p1
    make oldconfig

  24. "GandhiCon" on ESR Recasts Jargon File in Own Image · · Score: 4, Informative

    Once again, it's Gandhi, not Ghandi.

    Also, while the changelog spells it correctly, the link there again points to the "Ghandi" spelling. This is the correct link.

    And for the curious and lazy, this is the corresponding entry:

    GandhiCon

    There is a quote from Mohandas Gandhi, describing the stages of establishment resistence to a winning strategy of nonviolent activism, that partisans of open source and especially Linux have embraced as almost an explanatory framework for the behaviors they observe while trying to get corporations and other large institutions to take new ways of doing things seriously:

    First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

    In hacker usage this quote has miscegenated with the U.S military's DefCon terminology describing âdefense conditionsâ(TM) or degrees of war alert. At GhandiCon One, you're being ignored. At GhandiCon Two, opponents are laughing at you and dismissing the idea that you could ever be a threat. At GhandiCon Three, they're fighting you on the merits and/or attempting to discredit you. At GhandiCon Four, you're winning and they are arguing to save face or stave off complete collapse of their position.

  25. SCO Statement on Novell's Recent Actions on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1, Redundant
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    LINDON, Utah, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The following statement is being issued by SCO (Nasdaq: SCOX - News):

    SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX® operating system. SCO has the contractual right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by any UNIX vendor.

    Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.

    SCO's lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCO's complaint specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees.

    We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to aggressively continue in this successful path of operation.