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  1. Re:It's not that great... on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    Even worse, he's probably got some of Darl's source code in his DNA.

  2. Re:In my family on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    It's wasn't a Johnny Cash tribute. He's a lawyer.

  3. Re:Offtopic... on People with real l337 speak names? · · Score: 1

    He let his mind loose on that one.

  4. Re:Wow I always knew RMS was a genius on Introducing RMS-Lint · · Score: 1

    You'd better watch out for the side-effects. This might hurt your chances of increasing your IQ.

  5. Re:The Long Answer on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 1

    Do they have doughnuts too?

  6. In Soviet Burger King ... on British Chicken-Warmed Nuke · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nuke warms chicken!

  7. Re:Not an April Fool on British Chicken-Warmed Nuke · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course, lack of registration makes it hard to see. Try this other site for the real story.

  8. Re:Follow these directions. on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 1

    You should warn them about the other side-effects.

  9. Re:The Long Answer on Death by Coffee? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually it will kill anyone. However, since the body takes several days to stop moving, it's hard to tell. I died several years ago, but a few pots of coffee a day keeps me active. (I do tend to shuffle like a zombie to the coffee maker in the morning.)

  10. Re:Let me count the ways... on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1
    And Scientology is a desert-topping and a floor-wax, so they claim this is purely secular Hubbard business methods, and not trying to jam their religion down employee's throats. Even those expensive "courses" they make employees do are purely secular, sure. Pushing Elronics on the job should be illegal no matter how they dress it, but there's been mixed success in suing their ass.

    I'd love to see their reaction to someone showing up to work wearing a Xenu shirt. (Or just about any alien/conspiracy theme.)

  11. Re:Let me count the ways... on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1
    Once, I worked for a company run by Scientologists.

    Let me guess .. Weekly stats in by 2pm Thursdays, and each week they had to be higher than before even if that made no sense at all?

  12. Legacy contractual obligation on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 1

    If it involves those three words, run screaming into the night--saves time later.

  13. Re:Don't celebrate yet. on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    A shared directory and a server program. Does this mean that I can put music files on a web site? Since many p2p programs are based on web server technology, there's not much difference.

  14. Re:In that case... on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1
    I wonder what would happen if you just ignored their initial e-mail subpoena request the way AOL used to ignore their abuse mailbox. By the time they get around to mailing you a certified letter hopefully your logs will have expired and they are SOL.

    Harlan Ellison would still kick your butt.

  15. Re:Canadians Are Evil on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    You mean like this party? (Of course, the Natural Law Party usually gets more votes. I miss the Rhino Party!

  16. Re:Other newsfeeds on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 1

    I think it may also be related to the recent Supreme Court 9-0 judgement in the Law Society of Upper Canada photocopier copyright case. I'll be interested to read how the court handled 80(b)(2). I also suspect the CRIA lawyers were unprepared and expected a slam-dunk.

  17. Re:Favourite qoute from a similar article on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 4, Informative

    This analogy is a direct comparision with another case just a few weeks ago where Law Society of Upper Canada, the governing body for Ontario lawyers, had a photocopier in their library...

  18. Judge: File swapping not illegal on Music Industry Loses In Canadian Downloading Case · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Canadian Press version of the story really slaps it to the record industry. Quite a different focus to it. Have to read all ofthem and boil them down to get the real facts.

  19. Today's security hacking lesson on Bluesnarfing At CeBIT 2004 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Methods:
    Publish vulnerablities with code examples proving it. WRONG!
    Loudly hack everyone's security at a big trade show. CORRECT!

  20. Re:Terrible research on Mod Chips Up, Game Industry Revenues Down? · · Score: 1
    That seems to be his standard research method. I'm talked to him on the phone. (When he was researching nanae about that Belkin router that would redirect to parental control advertising every eight hours.) He's nice enough to talk to, but I doubt he's technical at all, and he's very definitely listening for something quotable to use.

    Remember the Larson Farside cartoons "What to dogs hear?"/"What do cats hear?" What does Hiawatha Bray hear? What ever sells the story to his editors.

  21. Re:Someone clue me in here... on IFPI 'First Wave' Sues 247 In Europe & Canada · · Score: 1

    Only until someone decides that 80 (2)(b) covers the intent of passing all those CDs around and copying them, and gets a court to agree with them. It's not exactly legal, just unenforcable. Give them a situation where they can enforce it, and I know which way I'd bet. (Because it's happened before in previous situations.)

  22. Re:Someone clue me in here... on IFPI 'First Wave' Sues 247 In Europe & Canada · · Score: 1
    In Canada, there is a levy, and personal use copies are legal

    For fuzzy values of legal. The language of the actual law was kept vague for political reasons. Personal copying is legal. Copying for others .. while it's true that if you pass your original to friends, they can make a backup copy for themselves and be legal by part of the law, that's "gaming the system". CRIA can't sue for something that can't be enforced--so they got a levy (which is a tax that they don't want to call a tax). How legal copying is will depend on interpretation by bureaucrats and court cases. As usual.

  23. Re:managers? on SBC Park Plans A Giant 802.11 Hotspot · · Score: 1

    And will fans be able to IM the umpire?

  24. Re:This is no trifling ploy... on IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case · · Score: 1
    I don't think Darl is planning using a parachute. So far he seems to be depending on chemical propulsion systems. :^)

    Also, as soon as SCO is bought or goes under, he'll sue them like his last employer.

  25. Re:Someone clue me in here... on IFPI 'First Wave' Sues 247 In Europe & Canada · · Score: 1
    Just because they got a media tax (called a levy), doesn't mean that they agreed that copying was legal. It just meant that they couldn't track or enforce anything on people burning CD copies for each other.

    It didn't require Nostradamus to predict this First Wave.