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  1. ARGH! Net Myth! on Canadian Music Industry Wants Royalties on Net Usage · · Score: 1
    Would someone take this net myth out and shoot it? I've already debunked this trash a couple times on Slashdot and I can't be bothered doing it again.

    Please carefully read the whole damned section including the second part.

  2. Re:Boxen.. on More Info on Debian.org Security Breach · · Score: 1
    Of course my spelling is illegular. I did mention the coffee right? ("they doesn't know"? :^)

    Off to caffievolve to the next level, and the language can continue to evolve/mutate as it wants to.

  3. Re:Boxen.. on More Info on Debian.org Security Breach · · Score: 1

    No, there's still a few hold-overs left that use the en illegular plural like oxen or brethren. I could find more examples in paper documentation, or I could go have my first cup of coffee this morning. Tough call. A quick google .. Go slashdot Stephanie's student paper.

  4. Re:Boxen.. on More Info on Debian.org Security Breach · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a perfectly good middle-english plural. Perhaps they just have rather olde boxen to develop on?

  5. Re:Fender Bender ? on ISS Fender Bender · · Score: 1
    "Don't worry, it was probably just the cat."
    "Oh, okay. G'night."

    Two minutes later...

    "We don't have a cat."

  6. In space ... on ISS Fender Bender · · Score: 1

    No one can hear you scream that it was the other guy's fault!

  7. Re:Oh boy on ISS Fender Bender · · Score: 1

    Do you know how long it'll take to get an insurance agent up to get an estimate? And most places tell you to "just bring it in".

  8. Corporate? on Diebold Folds In DMCA E-Voting Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Insightful
    the inevitable courtroom clash between individual freedom and corporate manipulation of federal law

    But one of the larger abusers of the DMCA like this is the Cthurch of Scientology and they're not a corp .. oh .. never mind, I haven't caffievolved yet this morning.

  9. Re:Or better yet on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeahbut .. they're probably already whispering in his other ear. Think about it: CoS, SCO. Coincidence?

  10. Re:So what? on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 1
    they only sued IBM for IP-infringement

    I thought it was over breach of contract--of course they kept changing their story daily.

  11. Unusual Search Results on Could Google Be SCO's Next Big Target? · · Score: 1

    Everytime I try to google for information about SCO investor data, I just get a bunch of links to this site. Obviously some techical problem...

  12. Re:Subscription on Redhat Reports 90% Return Subscription Rate · · Score: 1
    Considered? That's what Microsoft has always done, they just wanted to make it more official and a more predictable revenue stream.

    You didn't think those version bumps every year or two were about bug-fixes and new features?

  13. Re:Other funny tech words on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Good thing you didn't talk about terminating zombie children. I had a problem with that a while ago with Coherent, but I had a daemon clean them up for me.

  14. Re:My response to the county on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1
    And from the definitive reference on the English language, Oxford University's Oxford English Dictionary

    As much as I love the OED (must have leather-bound edition, my pressuuss...), that involves the old argument of whether dictionaries define or document langauge. I had more to say, but then started to reach for a dictionary to check 'definitive'. D'OH!

  15. Re:Summary: on OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hmm, no. Darl claims he has balls. So far, there's been no proof of that--unless he's been doing speedballs along with the crack.

    However .. if he suddenly starts talking about the missing ice cream and his proof of that, I will accept the existance of steel balls.

  16. Fast for a reason! on Son of Concorde · · Score: 5, Funny
    It would get from Tokyo to Paris in just two hours

    And because of that they dont have to server dinner. Pretty sneaky!

  17. Re:My favorite use of OS on Open Source Tools in Data Centers · · Score: 3, Funny
    10K printers in thousands of sites around the world with only 2 print admin's

    They must be awfully busy putting paper in the printers! :^P (Yeah, you'd think most people should be smart enough to figure that out, but you'd be wrong.)

    It does sound like a cool setup.

  18. Re:"Driving while stupid" on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 2, Funny
    There's a highway (400) that runs north from Toronto to cottage country (and back). Every year at the close of the season, the cops lie in wait to catch the dangerous and stupid.

    In the newspaper, after listing a number of really stupid things he found, one officer said "I don't make this stuff up." Yep, they were that bad. (One person was watching a movie -- at highway speed.)

  19. Is that red whine or white whine? on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    We seen it before with hacking and hackers, but this time the people who recycled the stale old war-blahblah term from the movie WarGames, to WarDialing, and on to WarDriving deserve what they got .. please tell me where in there the term was suddenly respectable? I guess I missed that five minutes. Buy a helmet.

  20. A new TV show? on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    "Canada's Funniest High-Speed Internet Busts".

  21. Re:possible spam technique as well? on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    Of course it's being done. These days there's a lot of spam coming from home DSL connections. Many of them are open proxies or trojan zombied boxes. But I'll bet that a fair number are open WiFi.

  22. Re:MAC Filter on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    And then it's not the MAC address, but the security of WEP that's protecting your AP.

  23. Of course not! on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    If he was using it and driving at the same time, it was obviously a .. Palm-Pilot.

  24. Re:aren't we brilliant now. on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    You know, what with everything else, the cops probably forgot to give him a breathalyzer test. Gotta be drugs or booze involved.

  25. Re:MAC Filter on Wardriver Charged with Theft of Communications · · Score: 1

    And this stops someone who sniffs your MACs and uses one, how exactly?