User: necrognome

Choices

On: BSD to Leapfrog Linux?

Two things:

1. The penguin is cuter than the devil.
2. Who cares what free *nix you use? The point to remember is that the open source community gives us what an unnamed company/empire does not: choices

friends don't let friends use nt

i'm running for president

On: Presidential Answers, Round One

my platform is serious missile defense:

let's build a death star!

the people united, can never be divided!

On: Bulletin: The Net Isn't Dehumanizing!

one nation, under pr0n...

things to think about

On: Uncensored Media Considered Harmless

note to parents, teachers, monkeys(legislators):

RGB #FF0000 != blood;

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==( ==== &nbsp &nbsp != &nbsp a gun;
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($$, big house, etc.) != parenting;

spend time with your kids and try to understand them (especially if they are nerds/geeks/unpopular). if you don't, you only have yourselves to blame!!!!

electronic stress balls

On: Uncensored Media Considered Harmless

the near future:
let's say i get pissed off with everyone at school/work/whatever today.

i can do one of two things:
1. play an intense game of QuakeIII and name the bots after the people who pissed me off.
2. acquire any number of firearms (easier to do than to pick up a driver's license), and show everybody what's what tomorrow.

oh, but wait: violent videogames were subject to industry "self-regulation" (censorship) and i can't play a deathmatch anymore. guess i'll pick door number 2...

maybe the best thing for a frustrated kid to do is have it out with the bots for an hour or two...

rgb #FF0000 != actual blood

not enough time

On: Microsoft Appeal Schedule Set

does that date take into account the amount of time it takes to deal with M$ Word's "features" while preparing briefs?

expose yourself

On: Microsoft vs. "Naked PCs"

look at the header on the page:

Naked PCs - Don't Expose Yourself

this speaks volumes about the message M$ wants to send to everybody:
1. don't try to figure out how technology works (i.e. exposing the PC); trust us to take you where you want to go today
2. stay away from those so-called free operating systems; soon you will rent your software from us and you will like it
3. "unauthorized" technology is dangerous--make sure your viruses Office 2000/VB compliant
4. disobey and you will soon look like a slashdot icon

Re:Better analogy

On: Microsoft vs. "Naked PCs"

I disagree. It's more like selling a house without the termites.

disease vectors

On: Microsoft vs. "Naked PCs"

The following quote is very interesting:

"Trouble is, if you act on your customers' willingness to buy Naked PCs--knowing full well they are at risk of acquiring pirated operating systems elsewhere--you expose them to legal risks, viruses, and frustrating technical troubles."

So people who decide to buy an unclothed PC are "at risk of acquiring" pirated OSes? i.e. they're "at risk of acquiring Windows"?


Here I am thinking that people are "at risk" to acquire things like Herpes, the Flu, pneumonia, etc...
I guess Windows is a disease... Maybe we should tell people not to catch it!

***Are you at risk? Get tested at /.

IP management

On: Enter The 'Stupid Patent Tricks' Contest

i would like to patent the process of manufacturing and storing intellectual property in hydrocarbon based "business environments"

--please send royalties/license fees to www.ifyouexistimakemoney.NET

intellectual property

On: Digital Convergence Likes Hackers (?)

note to friends:
when digital convergence finally wises up and builds a business model based on intelligent uses of the CueCat: (you know, the ones that you came up with), sue them for stealing your "intellectual property."

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