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  1. Re:In other news... on AutoZone Responds To SCO · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, most auto-philes will stick to the same strategy as BMW Our hardware runs better without windows So they might have a clue :)

  2. Re:when will we see proof? on AutoZone Responds To SCO · · Score: 1

    I totally agree, why is it that SCO are even allowed to keep the infringing code secret. If they could show it on the first day they announced it, the Linux community would have no chance to 'hide' the code that infringes, the Linux code is public and have allways been public. I really don't see this happening anywhere else. If this copyright have any meaning at all then people should atleast get to know what the heck is copyrighted. If somebody told me that that one of the notes on my guitar is copyrighted, then I'd like to know so that my grandchildren didn't have to pay for my copyright violations.
    If anybody knew they where running SCO code they would remove or replace it.
    SCO is activly profiting on a false claim, that is the only possibility, what else can it be?
    In the rest of the world the copyright holder would want the violator to stop distributing his material, so they could sell it them self instead.
    Is there any reason why SCO can't do that?..

  3. Re:Big difference... on OpenOffice.org, MS Office 2003 Compared, Evaluated · · Score: 3, Informative

    What about the hidden cost of migraine that the office helper generates.
    Not to mention all these people implying that there is a big cost in migration. To the best of my knowledge, two out of ten people will ever realize that you actually changed their office suite. So far the the remaining two are the ones that are happy about the text auto completion in OpenOffice.
    Another issue is that while MS Office is the standard and all that. I've never seen a stranger mix of widgets than I got trying to run Office 2003 on a Window XP and it gets totaly unusable if you will test it on a 2003 server. This MS claim of having one platform and a standard interface is only true if you only install one, the first.

  4. Disaster on Our Man In Black · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine what he's got to do to get fired from such a position.

  5. Re:Beverly Hillls Cop, too! on This Robot Collects Fingerprints · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have no problem with making a list of people who qualifies for the job!

  6. Re:OpenSearch on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I've got one, beyond PhD level, explanation cooking. It's just a matter of making indexes smaller and more distributed, to the level where you've got duplicates. Google ie. is a distributed network with a master node delegating what each node is supposed to index.
    If you are seaching for 'anna' why not ask a node that have indexed everything starting with 'ann'. There are probably a billion algorithms to place on top of such a cluster. We will never know until we start testing it. :)
    Does it answer your inquery? Glad you posted it anyways :)

  7. OpenSearch on Amazon's Search Engine Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I don't feel like trusting any of these corporate guys, there should be plenty of ways to make a completely open, distributed search enegine, the way it should be made.

  8. A first on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    And she will be the first politician in history that have a nonpolitical fan site?

    Forever remembered as the canadian pirate :)

  9. Re:Uh, no on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 1

    So for performance you would put data on the outer cylinders?
    Doesn't each sector in any cylinder have the same data capacity?

  10. Re:Uh, no on Recovering Secret HD Space · · Score: 1

    I suppose it's possible to pack more information into the outer cylinders of a harddrive, since the data density of the outer cylinder is much lower.
    The outer cylinder is a much longer 'track' than the inner cylinder but still a conventional harddrive stores the same amount of data in all cylinders.
    If you calculate how much more data that is teoretically possible to pack into the increasingly longer tracks, then I suppose you will end up with numbers like the ones suggested in the article.

  11. Common practice. on How The CIA Duped The Soviets' Line X Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought that was how all software developers treat their customers.

  12. Re:boring... on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    Make it drive me home from the pub and I'll be impressed

  13. Re:Another one on (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight · · Score: 1

    It's all been done before:)

    http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_7.htm

  14. Selfdestruction feature on Microsoft Office 2003 - Reviews, Overviews, Issues · · Score: 1

    Now if they could only add a self destructing office binder, I just might buy it.

  15. Typical! on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    Just when I spent all day setting up password less authentication I have to revert to ..

  16. Re:Just to clear something up on Solar Flare Interference From 45k Lightyears Away · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if it were just coincidence that this happened to be under 'older stuff' on slashdot.

  17. Spiders labour movement on Scientists Crack Silk's Secret · · Score: 1

    spiders can't be farmed (when you put them too close together, they eat each other).
    Scientists have a lot to learn from the spiders in my appartment, which probably will host a president election before I reach home to start the vacum cleaner :)

  18. Re:No? on Gates Says Windows Reliability Is Greater · · Score: 1

    Logically it would require q personality to take things personal.

    (After having read some of his self biography, I can conclude that he has as much personality as a broken dishwasher)

  19. Re:China making open-source software !?! on Japan, China & South Korea May Develop OS · · Score: 1

    Easy now! They are commies, not microsofties. ///
    My other mother was a cluster of beowulf clusters.

  20. Monopoly on One Worldwide Power Grid · · Score: 1

    I guess there are people that have spent more than 24 hours of their lives without electricity. then again, when there is only one provider left, I guess most of the polar areas will be unpopulated once again.

  21. Re:DDOS on Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 SDK Released · · Score: 1

    I think the phones should have a hardware "lock" that would require the user to explicitly allow doing an operation that will cost them money. Like in the good old 95' days when you had to reboot into DOS To do anything useful, like repartition or format the harddrive :) So the next SDK will have usefull functions like this.: C:\call /localtelephonenumber 555-LINUX /waitforcarrier /enablevoiceactivatedmicrophone /prayforopensdk

  22. Re:No, it all makes sense, just look at the pictur on iWorkstations? · · Score: 1

    Yeah and did you notice how the design looks really practical, only lacking a switch to flush it.

  23. Re:Goodbye RFC, hello Slashdot on dSVG - A New Kind of Programming? · · Score: 1

    XML-RPC sounds pretty procedural to me.
    http://www.xmlrpc.com/
    I know this from PHP, my favorite scripting language so far.

  24. IPv6 on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are they using IPv6 for the voice transmissions? It sounds like a good idea to me (not beeing a field expert tho..) since there are a lot of QoS features and security features in v6, wich would require a lot of extra hassle with v4.

    Anyways I'm moving as far away from telco business as possible. After 20 years, as a customer, I'm less than satisfied with the 'competitive' pricing of services.

  25. Dot stupid on Robotic Teleconferencing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Concidering that half the dot com era's IT budget was spent on projectors and laser pens. I'm looking forward to see all the practical purposes of this ingenious machine. Is it possible to put it on hold or get it to bring coffe.

    What if the person on the other end does something clumsy, boy does that sound expensive!

    Is it at least possible to recycle it?