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  1. Re:The message from Bruce Perens on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, the problem is that this worm is apparently the product of some ticked-off Linux fan deciding to get back at SCO. Indeed, some moronic Linux fans are cheering MyDoom on. "Quick, disable your AV software, and get some Windows boxes on the internet!"

    First of all, it should read, some moronic Linux fans are cheering on MyDoom. Take an English class, buddy.

    Second, I am NOT a "Linux fan". Actually, I'm decidedly pro-Microsoft when it comes to the desktop. It just happens that I hate SCO's tactics. I'm offended to be lumped into a "Linux Fan" category.


    Third, the author says "...and get some Windows boxen on the internet!" This guy can't even cut and paste correctly.

  2. Re:Hey, d00d! on SCO Offers $250K Bounty for MyDoom Author's Arrest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sadly, the reward is being offered in shares of SCOX stock.

  3. Re:Here's what I'm wondering... on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    To answer my own question (since no one else did), he is using Gentoo and Slackware in his shop according to his postings at Groklaw.

  4. Re:Here's what I'm wondering... on One Company's Response to SCO · · Score: 1

    Isn't that exactly what RedHat's lawsuit is about?

    Does anyone know which OS this company was using? If a few Red Hat customers come forward with these letters, it will kill SCO's claims that Red Hat has no legal standing to bring the suit. Do you think SCO is being that careful with to whom they send the letters?

  5. Re:I know the owner of this car on The Star Wars Car · · Score: 1

    Wow! Bummer. I wondered if it had something to do with all the paper. I thought he might be one of those guys who puts ads on cars.

    I also flipped through the other galleries. A few hotties in there. Where are you selling the pictures from after the bar?? ;)

  6. Re:I know the owner of this car on The Star Wars Car · · Score: 1

    I was amazed by numbers 6, 7, and 8. I saw an African-American walking once in my neighborhood, but the cops got him before I could grab my camera.

  7. Re:Dalek's operating system? on Lost Doctor Who Episode Found · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry. It was closed source. Davros never liked the GPL. Besides, he didn't want any Thrals getting their hands on the source.

  8. Re:Still no roaming profile on Mozilla 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    They really need a sable roaming profile.

    Why sable? I'd rather have a MINK profile!

  9. Re:Less TV == more social on Social Side-Effects Of Internet Use · · Score: 1

    I owe this to the fact that his mother and I never pointed out that being black or asian is any different than being blond or tall, and also to the fact that Barney, Big Bird, and the like always had mixed racial friends.

    I agree. People should be judged by how they act and interact rather than how they look. My daughter loves Little Bill and Dora regardless of the fact that they are a different color or speak a different language.

    I'd rather my child be in front of a TV watching Caillou

    Caillou is where I draw the line. I don't want her that accepting of French people! They should make it more clear that he is Canadian. ;)

  10. Re:Get a life. No privacy issue here. on Exxon And Timex Release The Speedpass watch · · Score: 1

    Outside of being able to place you at the gas station on Wednesday, at 8:27am, purchasing premium fuel, a large coffee and violating your caffeine probation, while you should have been at work already...right, nothing going on there. See you again, next week..same time, same coffee. Can we rely on you to read the flyer on alternative fuels we intend to send to the mailing address tied to your c'card?

    So you only use cash for everything? It's a damn credit card! If you don't want anyone to know you are buying something, don't use it.

  11. Re:Get a life. No privacy issue here. on Exxon And Timex Release The Speedpass watch · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you lose the tag, cancel the credit card.

    Not sure how it works in Canada, but here in the Chicago Area, the Speedpass has a unique number that is tied to a credit card. Lose the Speedpass, you just cancel the pass and not the card itself.

    As for the privacy aspect, I've had one of these for about three years and it sure comes in handy. It gets cold here in Chicago as well so the less time standing by the pump, the better. We can also use them at McDonald's. I don't have to juggle the kids, keys, and cash. My Speedpass in on my keys, so I just juggle two things.

    If it is of some value to someone to know how many happy meals my kids eat or how often I fill the tank of the Jeep, they are welcome to it.

  12. Re:Napster or Dumpster? on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1

    and hidden markings on the videocassette

    They were too cheap to send him a DVD. Besides, it's not my job to render all of my mail unusable before I toss it in the trash. I shred my personal stuff and the rest goes in as it arrives.

  13. Napster or Dumpster? on Oscar Screener Leak Traced · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Which do you think is the most likely source of this video? Even an out of work actor can't be expected to keep every tape he is sent. Good money bets that it was either grabbed by someone at his agent's office or it was found in the trash.

  14. Re:I publish SPF records on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 1

    I think whoever gave me an 'insightful' mod for that comment must be a member of congress. I considered adding "Uhm? Wait..." to the end of the message, but I thought it was clear enough. Oh well.

  15. Re:I publish SPF records on AOL Now Publishing SPF Records · · Score: 3, Funny

    We don't need this in the USA. We have made forging spam email headers illegal! They are going to fade away just like drugs and assualt weapons.

  16. Re:electronic voting sucks on Touch Screen Voting Trouble in Florida · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the black areas the exact same voting machines were programmed to silently eat up the ballot and ignore the vote.

    Can you please explain why the Democratic election officials in Democratic wards would do something that would impact their core voters? This question should be posed to the County election boards in the recount counties which, by the way, were majority democrat.

  17. Already been done... on Army Looks at Robotic Dogs · · Score: 1

    I've already seen this done. Just look here. The kid that comes with it, though, is hyper-annoying.

  18. Installation Costs? on Israel's Finance Ministry To Distribute OpenOffice · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the Article:
    The ministry is aware that despite the substantial savings accrued by not buying Microsoft licenses, there would also be considerable installment costs.

    I have installed Open Office, Star Office, Word Perfect Office and Microsoft Office for various clients over the past two years. Maybe I'm missing something about a large scale deploy, but they all seem about the same for installation. I can even use SMS to drop the package automatically. Any idea what they are talking about?

  19. Re:open source versus capitalism on Iraq's Open Source Possibilities · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tell me, who supplied the chemical weapons's to Iraq that were used to kill those 80,000 Kurd's? Russian? French? Chinese? No. American.

    Got something to back that up? According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the chemicals came from "Japan, FR Germany and other unspecified European countries..." It even states that US manufacture of the mustard gas has been ruled out: "The absence in the sample analysed in Sweden and Switzerland of polysulphides and of more than a trace of sulphur indicates that it is not of past US-government manufacture, for all US mustard was made by the Levinstein process from ethylene and mixed sulphur chlorides. That process is also said to have been the one used by the USSR. From similar reasoning, British-made mustard, too, can probably be ruled out, even though substantial stocks were once held at British depots in the Middle East."

    Maybe you need to check your facts a bit. Here is the entire report for your reading pleasure.

    German chemical companies did a lot of business with Iraq.

  20. Re:open source versus capitalism on Iraq's Open Source Possibilities · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would it would be hyprocritical but for the fact those same nations (mainly France, Germany, Russia) are at the same time being asked by the US to forgive and restructure iraqs debt that runs at an estimated $120 billion.

    You mean $120 billion they made in trading with a dictatorship despite backing the UN resolutions saying no one can trade with them? You mean massive oil contracts with a coutry that can't legally export oil? If you want to know why France, Germany and Russia are so pissy, it is because the US is now doing openly everything they have been doing secretly for the past ten years. Follow the money. Did you take a look at the weapons used in the Iraqi military? Rifles? Russian. Tanks? Russian. Planes? French and Russian. Missles? Russian and Chinesse. They didn't buy all that stuff off of eBay.

  21. Re:This is probably illegal, but... on SCO Code to be Protected in Closed Court · · Score: 1

    Your sig just made me blow Snapple out my nose!

  22. Re:WMD detector on Nominations for 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dropped this little eyeglass screw in a plush carpet. Took me forever to find it, I actually gave up for a day then the cat was playing around with something and I saw it was the screw, it found it in the carpet.

    Great idea! We'll send a bunch of cats to Iraq!

  23. Re:Smaller than a PS/2? on Low Powered Mini-Server for the Masses · · Score: 1

    OS/2 for PS/2: Half an operating system for half a computer.

  24. Coming Soon... on Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email.

    Based on this timeline, I should be on the brink of a major internet porn breakthrough any day now!

  25. Re:Pedantic archaic-grammar-checking is more fun! on McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Damn! Who let in all the English Lit majors? You are making me miss my bright college days...