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  1. Re:A little local on SBC CWA Strike Imminent · · Score: 1

    Well /. assumes that if it's users don't know something they could google for it. Hell, in 1/2 the time it took you to write your rant you could have answered your own questions.

  2. Windows Only? on Google Experiments With Local Filesystem Search · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Will it be windows only like their toolbar?

  3. Title 17 Chapter 1 Sec 107 of the US Code on How To Play Your iTunes Music On Other Systems · · Score: 1

    TITLE 17 > CHAPTER 1 > Sec. 107. Prev | Next

    Sec. 107. - Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use

    Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include -

    (1)

    the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

    (2)

    the nature of the copyrighted work;

    (3)

    the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

    (4)

    the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

    The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors

  4. Re:I am crying big fat crocodile tears of this. on JBoss Caught in Anonymous Posting Scheme · · Score: 1

    People kill others all the time, that doesn't make it accepted nor does it make it right.

  5. Re:Refinery == Nuclear power plant on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    Please provide a source for you 5 Billion figure.

    Thanks,
    DAldredge

  6. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    I know eastman chemical uses a lot of Natural Gas as a feedstock to make most of there plastics and NG hasen't had the large, sudden increases that oil has.

  7. Re:Great, I can use them on Linux To Gain Another Chip Family · · Score: 1

    The systems in questions are ones that peoples live depend on. You do not use 1st gen/HW that hasn't been tested in the field on it, people can die from such errors.

    Nothing against this chip, it just isn't the correct chip to use in the target application.

  8. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    I know, the fuck around with the numbers till the get the result they want. The inflation number, as reported by the goverment, has nothing to do with reality.

    I can do with out a DVD player, but I damn well can not do without food, shelter and gas.

  9. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    Last 30-40 days according to my records.

  10. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    It isn't the large oil companies trying to get the new refineries online, it is small and midsize companies trying to increase production capacity.

    When is the last time one of the large oil companies tried to build a new refinery?

  11. Re:Why energy and food are frequently excluded. on Out of Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They also appear to exclude health costs, lumber, cable tv, higher education and a host of other products and services that are increasing price by 5%+ per year.

    Hell, If you leave out everything that is going up in price the inflation rate looks good.

    They are gaming the system.

  12. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If exxon and the other large oil companies wanted to build new plants, they could. They have enough clout in DC and enough of an ad budget to get it done, but they don't.

    You know why? Because they are making too much bloody money on it! It's not just the fault of the Environimental Nuts!

  13. Re:Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 1

    In the past 30-40 days. I keep records of what I buy at the grocery store.

  14. Re:Great, I can use them on Linux To Gain Another Chip Family · · Score: 1

    When you add an MMU onto a chip, it kind of alters the way it works. For all practical reasons, it's a brand new, 1st gen chip. You don't take chances with they type of systems they parent was talking about.

  15. Inflation. on Out of Gas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The fact that, adjusted for inflation, gas isn't at it's higest levels don't matter. What matters is the sudden increase in the cost of gas OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, that short period of time doesn't give us time to adjust and can result in massive inflation.

    Milk is up 0.60 cent per gallor
    Butter has went from 1.99 to 3.49
    Ice Cream has increased in price by 35-45%
    Store brand products are increasing in price by 5%-8%.
    Namebrand products are increasing in price by 6%-7.5%

    As to why none of this is being reflected in the inflations numbers...well, you tell me.

  16. Re:Their call, but a borderline one... on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 1

    Porn has a much higher rate of charge backs than do other forms of internet commerce.

  17. Re:Are you sure you have Local Admin Rights? on Permanently Changing Windows XP Security Settings? · · Score: 1

    WTF is wrong with windows? Some of you people make it sound like it is the product of Satan.

  18. Re:Must have been considered a liability on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 2, Informative

    You run that same risk if you take credit cards thru a merchant account.

  19. Re:Great, I can use them on Linux To Gain Another Chip Family · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mission critical systems and first generation chips are not a good match.

  20. Re:Dishonest list? on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    My mistake, but the statment I read (above that one) is wrong and doesn't support their position so why include it?

  21. Re:Dishonest list? on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 1

    Then perhaps the list should link to that, instead of using false info.

  22. Re:Is this worth a story? on Safari Falls Victim to Remote Code Exploit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How damn hard would it be to add spell check to this damn site?

  23. Dishonest list? on Fathers of Linux Revealed: Tooth Fairy & Santa Claus · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/E-text/Russell/ agnostic.htm

    What Is an agnostic?

    An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time.
    Are agnostics atheists?

    No. An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. At the same time, an Agnostic may hold that the existence of God, though not impossible, is very improbable; he may even hold it so improbable that it is not worth considering in practice. In that case, he is not far removed from atheism. His attitude may be that which a careful philosopher would have towards the gods of ancient Greece. If I were asked to prove that Zeus and Poseidon and Hera and the rest of the Olympians do not exist, I should be at a loss to find conclusive arguments. An Agnostic may think the Christian God as improbable as the Olympians; in that case, he is, for practical purposes, at one with the atheists.

  24. Re:What I find disturbing is... on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 1

    Yes, posts that are negative against apple, sony, halo, china and france are offtopic no matter how much they relate to the topic at hand.

    At least that is how they are modded.

  25. Re:What I find disturbing is... on EU To Counter Echelon With Quantum Cryptography? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You do know the french have quite the record of spying and turning what they spy agencies find over to frech business intrests.

    Or is it wrong only when the US does it?