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  1. Easy on Will FCC Regulate Internet Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    Tax it when it taps into the PSTN.

  2. Re:Turing machine will be Turing machine on More Details Of IBM's Blue Gene/L · · Score: 1

    Well, how much money and time have you donated to David Deutsch's project?

  3. Re:Slightly OT, but both /. and poetry-related on Kurzweil Gets A Patent For Poetic Software · · Score: 0

    Why don't you post it? If not to this thread, how about your journal.

    I would like to see it, and I am sure others would also.

  4. Re:I believe it's called something to the effect o on Embedded Device Manufacturers Ignoring GPL · · Score: 1

    But isn't the FSF/RMS too busy removing Hurd OS devs over doc license issues to enforce the GPL?

  5. Re:Incident response times on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 0

    Then why didn't microsoft catch the double scroll but that one of their last ie patches caused?

  6. Re:Why the will pick Gnome. on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    If pointing out what the charge is 'kicking trolltech in the teeth' then perhaps they charge too much?

  7. Re:Why the will pick Gnome. on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the trolltech.com site.

    Use the Qt Commercial License to:
    Build commercial software.
    Build software that is not sold, but that advances the business goals of a commercial enterprise.

  8. Why the will pick Gnome. on Novell, RedHat and Sun Commit to a Linux Desktop · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The 2000.00+ USD cost per developer to write commerical QT apps might be an issue with corp. adoption of KDE.

  9. Re:Let me guess on What's Coming in Solaris 10 · · Score: 1

    Yes, that is why sun is one of the companies paying them money each quarter for there IP.

  10. Re:Government responsibility on Thai Government Comments On Gaming Curfew · · Score: 1

    Or the goverment could not tax so much, causing both parents to have to work to bring in enought money to live.

  11. Re:No Master/Slave? on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    I find your use of italics offensive. Please change.

  12. Re:Population density viz of the Eastern USA on NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout · · Score: 1

    The gfx that I posted shows that most of the Eastern USA is low density.

    One can not argue with facts

  13. What will you do in 12 months? on Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture · · Score: 1

    What will you do in 12 months when a NEW, IMPROVED dev methodologies are developed?

    After all, you must keep current!

    <sigh>

  14. Too Bad. on Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture · · Score: 1

    Too bad that most of those working from 'home' will be working in shops in India where they can live on 75% less.

  15. This is the same company on Microsoft Security Whitepaper · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the same company that said, under oath, that reveling the windows source code would harm the National Security of the United States, then they gave the source code to China.

    Isn't that perjury?

  16. Re:Population density viz of the Eastern USA on NERC Releases Interim Report on Aug 14th Blackout · · Score: 1

    No. The entire are was blacked out. Not just the high density population centers.

    What do you think happened? The power outage just took out the large cities?

  17. What does it pay? on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 2, Interesting

    /. makes money off ads and subscriptions. Why should we work for free? After all, the editors will not even edit their site nor will the check for dups. And some of the bandwidth cost savings could go to those that do the work.

  18. Re:Where to spend school dollars... on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    No. The district uses tax dollars to pay it back. They don't pay for anything. And with the interest they will have to raise the tax rate to cover the payments.

  19. Re:Where to spend school dollars... on Texas High School Gets iBooks · · Score: 1

    Those bonds are paid for by taxes.

  20. Re:Someone really should ... on Red Sea Urchins Nearly Immortal · · Score: 1

    So you want to make a underwater version of Dust Puppy from userfriendly.org?

  21. The apple mods are insane. on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    Since I posted my first message less than 2 hours ago, it has soaked up 6 mod points. Don't you mods have better posts to mod up and/or down?

    Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Offtopic (-1).

    It is currently scored Offtopic (0).

    Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Interesting (+1).

    It is currently scored Interesting (1).

    Re:Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Overrated (-1).

    It is currently scored Normal (0).

    Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Interesting (+1).

    It is currently scored Interesting (2).

    Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Interesting (+1).

    It is currently scored Interesting (3).

    Why in the world., posted to iPod-Jacked, has been moderated Flamebait (-1).

    It is currently scored Interesting (2).

  22. Re:engraved iPods could be a problem on iPod Users Get Official Battery Replacement · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do.

    After all, they are charging 99.00 USD for a battery. And that is what they are doing, their is no other way to get a new battery, so they are ripping people off.

    All this for a little box that plays music.

  23. Re:Why in the world. on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    But it isn't a slow news day. It is just we have a bunch of lazy editors.

    Also, it's not that this was posted that bothers me. /. could post more articles, they just don't.

  24. Re:Why in the world. on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 1

    It's in my /. journal.

  25. Re:Why in the world. on iPod-Jacked · · Score: 0

    It doesn't do anything special. It is a small hd that plays music and can be a portable firewire/usb2 hd.

    That is all.

    It is not that special.