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  1. Feh... what's the point? on Marquette Dental Student Suspended For Blogging · · Score: 0, Redundant

    According to reliable sources, the EFF has outlived its usefulness.

  2. We have the tools to observe this already. on Darknets Coming Soon? · · Score: 1
    In large-scale organizations that have massive bandwidth allowances (for whatever reason they use them), doesn't it stand to reason that the types of traffic are consistent with a particular type of information? Doesn't a traffic sample of Ethereal reveal the nature of the packet, and to what ends they satisfy the needs of the organization?

    If the intent is to keep a company's bandwidth from being consumed with traffic unrelated to the company, doesn't it stand to reason that the AUPs that companies develop should be fully adhered to, and properly understood by the employees?

    I am astounded at how much companies show interest in a particular skillset for employees, yet how little they admonish employees for the kinds of traffic they generate. And arguments such as those created when discussing "darknets" (whatever these things are) become useless, if the AUP has a good set of teeth.

  3. It's mine! I saw it first! on USPTO Issues Provisional Storyline Patent · · Score: 1
    It involves a lawyer, his lawyer girlfriend, and a dirty criminal who wants to get out of trouble with the law. There will be Because time is valuable to me, I can't write it right now, and am going to purposefully postpone my authorship until 2012, when my last child graduates high school.

    I'll go for the future copyright now. You have been so warned not to touch my story.

  4. Math major! on No Office For Linux, MS Patents Rejected · · Score: 1
    quote: Microsoft is 100 percent focused on Windows: We have invested billions of dollars in it. We have created Office for the Mac [...]

    thinking...

    thinking...

    oh, he must mean the Macs that use Windows.

  5. It's not "All Things Google". on Google & Sun Planning Web Office · · Score: 1
    Google's going to be the spokesperson. Sun Microsystems would eventually sell app servers to these companies, with licensing split between them. You'd have in-house Google capability of all documents, plus a firebrand server to allow your entire operation to create, merge, edit, and email all of the work.



    This isn't about AdSense or Gmail... this is about showing people a different way to do the same task.

  6. Re:Why does it matter? on Sony Agrees to Stop Payola · · Score: 1

    Do you really think listeners care if they're being lied to?

    "Unlimited cell phone coverage for just $29.99 per month!" "Loans as cheap as 1.99%, but act now!" "Get all the building you need, for half the price of current construction!"

    Wait, we're talking about music. I'll just sit over here until the commercial break is over.

  7. Re:The Reason they Chose this..... on Longhorn's Offical Name is Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    thanks to webcams, spyware, malware, product activation and DRM, I think it really means "We're Watching You."

  8. We've been through this, and it worked on LA City Votes For Municipal Fiber Network · · Score: 2, Informative

    Our local municipal utility company wanted to get in on this game about three years ago. They wanted to raise the money through bonds, and were successful with the City Commission in securing the bonds. Work began, but not before two voices were raised: A local upstart Bell$outh-Buyback company, and a multimagillion dollar flash-in-the-pan cable company both went to the public airwaves and local newspaper, and began fomenting all kinds of arrogance about how the public shouldn't fund this venture without public approval, and "how dare the city council speak like this on behalf of the community", and "we're going to sue your nuts off, you mere public utility!" Then on May 4, 2003, a tornado swept through our downtown district and wiped the Internet Upstart's building right off the map. Instantly, they had a new home, and were up and running again in relatively short order, thanks to the utility company's kindness in letting them use some unusued space in their building. The Internet Upstart's commentary quickly dissipated, and the fiber was strung through the city on schedule.

  9. Without concern for what SCO says, on SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate · · Score: 1

    why exactly was the document sealed, anyway? And if I understand things correctly, isn't a sealed document in such a case still part of the discovery process, and handed to IBM's legal team?

    In other words, while we're just now finding out about this, isn't it possible that all the players knew that this document existed? It may not be in the papers at large, or part of the daily press briefings, but someone on the defense was likely aware of it...

  10. I guess I'll find out tonight on 11-Nation Raid on Net Pirates · · Score: 1

    ...if they were successful, if I can't watch War of the Worlds after dinner.

    (from my desk)