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  1. Re:French on French Judge Orders Refund For Pre-Installed XP · · Score: 1

    you're confising them with the Danes methinks.

  2. Re:Nothing to see here, move along on Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art · · Score: 1

    It does work across multiple platforms. The problem (for me) is that it uses Verdana, which is broken w.r.t. Unicode combining accents. It's so bad I just remove Verdana from my Linux machines (I do install MS corefonts).

  3. Re:Well, piracy hurts real people. on EMI Says Online File Storage Is Illegal · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Wine for Windows on Vista SP1 Is Even Less Compatible · · Score: 2, Interesting
  5. Re:Buying high, selling low, making money how? on Hacker Could Keep Money from Insider Trading · · Score: 1

    You don't know what a "put option" is, do you? Look it up then.

  6. Re:Would Linux+wine help? on HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix · · Score: 1

    Why, you can try and run the stuff in a VM. Not sure it will work though. Some DRMed software refuse to run in a VirtualBox.

  7. Re:Owned on HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix · · Score: 1
    You mean an OS that won't even stream Netflix content in the first place?


    That's a feature, not a bug.

  8. Re:What do you pay for when you buy? on RIAA Now Filing Suits Against Consumers Who Rip CDs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is bollocks. You don't license anything. You can't license stuff without agreeing to a specific written license. Can you show me one printed on a CD cover? Thought so. You are buying a copy, pure and simple.

  9. Re:Passive Defence on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1

    IR mirrors are usually gold-plated, so...

  10. Re:Sounds familiar on Scientists Create Zombie Cockroaches · · Score: 1

    Did she ate her victims?

  11. "For now it's Windows only, XP or Vista, IE 6 or 7 on NBC Direct Launches With Free Downloads · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah. For all values of "now" in this millennium.

  12. please mod down on The Man Behind the Google Phone · · Score: 1

    both this one and the parent. posted by mistake, sorry.

  13. here on The Man Behind the Google Phone · · Score: 1
  14. here on The Man Behind the Google Phone · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  15. Re:Think this will set precedent? on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    No, "K" is not defined to be 1000. "k" is.

  16. Re:RTFM on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "irregardless" is not standard either.

  17. Re:How to translate MPAA claims. on Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack · · Score: 1

    Many high-end "standalone" SACD players have encrypted firewire outputs. Capture it (easy) and crack it (not so easy).

  18. Re:How to translate MPAA claims. on Claim of a Blu-ray BD+ Crack · · Score: 1

    SACD is not cracked. Not that anyone is interested.

  19. An interesting patent on Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents · · Score: 1

    Them are smart, them pesky Google engineers. Trying to actually put to good use heaploads of data they have on you. For instance, if you constantly search for Japanese restaurants, Google might populate your T9 dictionary with words like wasabi and okonomiyaki, just in case. And if they know where you are, they might throw in names of local sushi bars.

  20. Kudos to you. on First Details of Windows 7 Emerge · · Score: 1

    However, this is not "case in point" by any stretch of imagination.

  21. nah on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    How could I change terms? A license, roughly speaking, is a conditional promise not to sue. I can't take away the original promise, because it was not me who has made it. Nor can I sue you, because the copyright is not mine. But if I create a derivative work based on some BSD-licensed code, I can add my own promise not to sue you over use of the derivative, with different conditions. The original code that is a part of the derivative continues to be licensed under its original BSD license. (There's nothing wrong with a whole and a part having different copyright holders and a different licenses.)

  22. Re:Obvious Prior Art? on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    Did it have sticky windows or desktop pagers? Because, you know, the patent in question covers sticky windows and desktop pagers. Not multiple desktops themselves.

  23. XP has multiple desktops on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    with so-called "powertoys". Third-party add-ons existed long before.

  24. Re:"...filled against Linux" on Linux Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat/Novell · · Score: 1

    Except this shit is not about virtual consoles at all.

  25. Maybe my choice of words is unfortunate. on Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released · · Score: 1

    You don't change the license terms of the code you're based upon, you release a new work under a new license. The original code remains under its original license, you can't take that away.