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  1. Re:What about us IBM shareholders? on IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing · · Score: 1

    IBM has already spent $40 million plus on legal costs.

    SCOX can not afford even close to that.

  2. Re:Direct link to pdf on MIT Press Book On Open Source Now Free · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you need more caffeine.

  3. Re:wtf? on Hummer Greener Than Prius? · · Score: 1

    Especially if you don't include the cost of fuel.

  4. FAT history on Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Don't forget FAT12.

  5. Re:Banking and medical need MORE IT? on Economic Impact of Tech Understated, Study Says · · Score: 1
    ...records ON PAPER, and later transferred them to Excel. I quickly remedied that situation.

    By using OpenOffice?

  6. Takedown notice was fast on EFF Forces DMCA Abuser to Apologize · · Score: 1

    The last link seems dead already.

  7. Source of the confusion - California AG office on H-P's Dunn Enters No Plea, Charges Dismissed · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Link

    The California Attorney General's office issued a statement saying that its news release "mistakenly predicted that the HP defendants would enter 'guilty' pleas to a misdemeanour count of fraudulent wire communications."

    Strange that they would make a prediction. Perhaps that is a coverup as to what really happened.

  8. DVB - Up to no good on Billion Dollar Handout To Upgrade TVs · · Score: 1
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    An international consortium of television and technology companies is devising draconian anti-consumer restrictions for the next generation of TVs in Europe and beyond, at the behest of American entertainment giants.

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the only public interest group to have gained entrance into the secretive meetings of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), a group that creates the television and video specifications used in Europe, Australia, and much of Asia and Africa. In a report released today, EFF shows how U.S. movie and television companies have convinced DVB to create new technical specifications that would build digital rights management technologies into televisions. These specifications are likely to take away consumers' rights, which will subsequently be sold back to them piecemeal -- so entertainment fans will have to pay again and again for legitimate uses of lawfully acquired digital television content.

    "DVB is abetting a massive power grab by the content industry, and many of the world's largest technology companies are simply watching," said Ren Bucholz, EFF Policy Coordinator, Americas. "This regime was concocted without input from consumer rights organizations or public interest groups, and it shows."

  9. Arguments - Here's a few on Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai · · Score: 0
  10. All defense contracts should be cancelled on Halliburton Moving HQ To Dubai · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All money involving Halliburton should be frozen.

  11. Re:Nothing to see here... on The Search for Dark Matter and Dark Energy · · Score: 2

    Clueless, humourless, moderator strikes again.

  12. Re:This is news? on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    So it's like Vista then.

  13. Re:This is news? on No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Which one? British or US?

  14. Re:What's the catch? on Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? · · Score: 1

    That would be the best way for Microsoft to embed
    binary code in the image.

  15. I see a problem on The Beer Tossing Fridge · · Score: 1

    It only handles cans.

  16. Re:Correct for what goal? on What the GPLv3 Means for MS-Novell Agreement · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There is no way that you know that as
    you can not see the source code.

  17. Board of Directors on Helping Dell To Help Open Source · · Score: 1
    Unless they are independently thinking Directors, your suggestion, while very good, will not likely ever happen.

  18. Re:That's still no guarantee... on Hacker Defeats Hardware-based Rootkit Detection · · Score: 1
    Which is perhaps why Microsoft OEM agreements lock the OEM into installing Microsoft Windows in the first place.

    Who knows what is happening to the BIOS with modern motherboards and Windows.

  19. Re:One quick thought about licensure on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the harddrive of questionable background,
    where he is allegedly asked to check for KaZZA and MP3s,
    but later, uses the same harddrive to reach the conclusion
    that there was no wireless router involved.

    There's just no way anyone can really trust that drive
    to mean *anything* related to the case.

  20. Ludicrous, idiotic, stupid, corrupt on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well, those are my immediate thoughts.

    When word gets out what University is comtemplating
    this, well, I would not want to be associated with
    the decision.

  21. Re:Anyone know what the "hydraulic fluid" is? on Scotland Building Wave Power Farms · · Score: 1

    And as soon as a storm (or other) causes damage, you
    have a potential environmental mess to clean up.

  22. Apparently on Information Technology Pros Debate Windows Vista · · Score: 0

    No one here has tried it.

  23. Re:Fuck this ambiguity ... on How Open is Open Source Really? · · Score: 1

    You can touch your ankles anywhere.

    Where do you want to go today?

  24. Don't be confused! on How Open is Open Source Really? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Open source != Free Software

    GPL software is Free, as in libre.

    Open source is not necessarily Free, as in libre.

  25. Re:OK on Ramanujian's Deathbed Problem Cracked · · Score: 1

    Both PP and GPP should be modded Funny.

    Both PP and GPP being moderated Redundant
    is clearly an indication of a lack of caffeine.