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  1. Re: Until Mozilla Crash Bugs are closed... on Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. After just a little bit of training, its getting just about all of my spam with no false postitves. There are some plugins out there for OUtlook, however I don't know if it works with IMAP.

  2. Re:Good point. on DeCSS Arguments in CA Supreme Court Case · · Score: 2, Informative

    And the DMCA. It passed 99-0 in the Senate back in 1998.

  3. MP3 search Engine my @$$ on Slashback: Australia, Nomenclature, Books · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As I recall, Daniel Peng wrote a file indexing engine.

  4. Re:Must be a slow news day at /. on Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved · · Score: 1

    Damn straight!! And I am going to make sure they know that. Does this mean they won't sell linux?

  5. Re:Ah the good old days on A 1974 Review of D&D · · Score: 1

    Now all it takes is a fast computer and a good broadband connection.

  6. Re:DMCA vs. China on Digital Media Consumer Rights Act · · Score: 1

    As appealing as China's system may seem some time when compared to our own, just remember who's you can bitch about when you don't like it.

  7. Re:Reply to EMI on EMI Customer Relations Tells It Like It Is · · Score: 1

    BS!! I'm leaving my money to someone I like.

  8. Why I bought a Memory based Player??? on USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Cause its smaller, cheaper, has a better battery life, holds what I need, and has NO MOVING PARTS. Contrary to all the Baywatch episodes I've watched, having stuff bounce around in not always a good thing.

  9. Re:Drop the Camera and Price.... on Sony Vaio C1MW PictureBook Review · · Score: 1

    It doesn't, but I still want that option because it's my prefered OS. Why should I be limited to a Windows World? My big gripe about my current Vaio has always been how much of a pain in the ass it was to get linux installed without spending a lot of money on a Sony CDrom. And I still haven't got the modem to work. For the most part, Sony's hardware has been neat (not great, but neat) while everyting else just sucked(software, support, PRICE).

  10. Drop the Camera and Price.... on Sony Vaio C1MW PictureBook Review · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and I would seriously look at getting one. Seriously, how practical is that camera. It's only 640X480. The form factor and size is enough to get me to consider getting one. The only other thing I have to ask is how easy is it to get linux on that thing without a Sony CDROM Drive.

  11. Re:Wrong approach on ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you want people to care, remind them that most of thier porn collection is probably in jpeg format.

  12. Re:Probably already fixed on A Medireview Approach To Stopping E-Mail Attacks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just tried it. I sent the list from NTK to my Yahoo account in HTML format and what I sent was NOT what I got.

    What I sent:

    eval => review
    mocha => espresso
    expression => statement
    javascript => java-script
    jscript => j-script
    vbscript => vb-script
    livescript => live-script

    And what I got

    review => review
    espresso => espresso
    statement => statement
    java-script=> java-script
    j-script => j-script
    vb-script => vb-script
    live-script => live-script

    This is not cool. Whats next? *'s when I tell someone to goe F*** themseleves?

  13. Re:Farscape on DVD - Read before you buy! on Farscape & Stargate SG-1 New Seasons Tonight · · Score: 1

    As someone who had been doing this for quite some time, I recommend Amazon.co.uk, or Blackstar.co.uk. One thing to keep in mind, is you may also need to convert a PAL to NTSC signal for your TV.

  14. Re:FUD Mongering via Language on Pardon, Is This Your File? · · Score: 1

    No. Call it what it is Copyright Infringement. Calling it something else only serves to mislead by making sound like something worse than it actually is. Its like calling hacking, cyberterrorism. Words have meaning. Calling abortion murder doesn't make it a prosecutable offense. And just because Copyright Infringement doesn't sound as serious as theft or "Digitheft" doesn't mean thats what is happening. Would calling it "Intellectual Rape" be better for the software industry?

  15. Re:FUD Mongering via Language on Pardon, Is This Your File? · · Score: 1

    I'm starting to even have problems with them calling it theft, and saying that they are losing money to due to pir^H^H^H^duplication of copyrighted material. They theft part implies that someone is going in and taking something, thus denying them the use or posession of that object. For example, If you walk into my house and take my candybar, you are a thief. If you walk into my house and duplicate my candybar (using some kind of ray or magic bunny) and take the duplicate are you still a thief? Can I not eat my candybar? This is a problem that I have with intellectual property concepts. And I suspect that a lot of others have the same view. Which is why a person who would never walk into my house and take my candybar, would have no problem downloading the latest CD of what ever they like. They are not taking my candybar. They are taking the candybar the magic bunny made.

    As far as the losing money side, they are basing that on what exactly? They are not losing money, they are saying, if every pirated copy of our software were paid for, we would have made this much more. They are not losing money, they are speculating on how much more money they could have made. They aren't even having to pay for media or manuals to be made for these pirated copies. And the software...well the magic bunny made that.

    Don't get me wrong. Pirating is wrong, and so is copyright infringment, but callng it theft and saying your losing billions of dollars because of it isn't exactly right either.

    A Pirate is a guy who walks into a bar with a steering wheel on his crotch and say "Arrrgh! It's driving me nuts!"

  16. Re:The laws we had 10 years ago on Fair IP Laws? · · Score: 1

    We still had an absurdly long copyright period 10 years ago. We still had the Berne Convention 10 years ago (everything is automatically copyrighted). Ten years is not enough. Roll it back a hundred years and then maybe we will be on the right track. two hundred years and we are sitting pretty. A 28 year copyright term should be more than enough, a 14 year term would be better. That way you get a steady stream of new material in the public domain that is has contempory works, while still having the copyright carrot to create incentive (a BS excuse if I ever heard one).

  17. Themes killed at freshmeat.com on Themes.org Reborn at Freshmeat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Damn you SlashDot Effect

  18. Going the wrong way on Alternatives to the CBDTPA? · · Score: 1

    The proported reason for the CBDTPA is to increase Broadband Content on the internet to speed along the adoption of broadband internet by the masses. Hollings thinking is by turning every computer into a media station would encourage hollywood to start putting there products on the net, where they can charge, charge, charge away. I think the better way would be to get a richer public domain out there. Cut copyright terms back to a limited time like 28 years(what it was after the first copyright extension). That way you got everything create prior to 1974 would be in the public domain, and freely distributable. And every year the pubic domain would be getting bigger. Just imagine, you would be able to download the Godfather, the French Connection and so on. And in 2005 you would be able to get Star Wars online. For too long, people have forgotten that copyright is a social contract between the creators and the public. They get a government sanction monopoly for a limited time, we get a public domain to enrich our lives. If you want to keep it out of the public, call it a trade secret and accept the good and the bad that comes with it. We don't need Hollywood to give us new broadband content. We have plenty out there. We just need to say we aren't going to give you something for nothing (monololistic protection forever).

    With regards to the piracy issue, pirates are people with peglegs and eyepatches who rape pilage and plunder on the high seas. Hang'em from the yard arms.

  19. Re:Yeah, right. on A Walk Through the Gentoo Linux Install Process · · Score: 1
    Just a guess, but this might not be the distribution for you. The thing I like about Gentoo it that it is a great distribution for keeping up to date on all you software. And damnit Yes broadband really helps on this one. It took me four days to get it up and running the way I wanted it. And Damnit I am happy with it. And guess what...I got me a sweet system. And teh best part is I learned more about linux installing Gentoo than I ever did with any CD based Distro. If you got the bandwidth and time and patience, I wouldn't hesitate to recomend Gentoo.

    What?! KDE desnt come with it?


    Nope, you gotta download and compile like everyone else. Don't forget XFree86. And on the cool side, I got KDE 3.0. You hear that 3.0. And all it took was an emerge kde. Try doing that with RedHat.

    This distro is not for the people who want to point and click thier way into linuxdom. But it is well worth the effort. If you don't have broadband. Find a place to host your computer temporarily. That and SSH will give you the ability to remotely install all the software you need.
  20. Re:Where should I begin? on Farscape Returns Tonight · · Score: 1

    Yeah the second seasons out on dvd IN THE UK. I wound up getting all my farscape dvds from the other side of the pond. Not only is is cheaper than the use versions, but they come in these cool 2 dvd boxes. I just got my first 5 eps of season three two weeks ago. Only thing to be wary of is you need a dvd player that is region free and a way to convert PAL to NTSC.

    A Daewoo 5700 from World Gift Center and a Amazon account UK style gets me up to the date Farscape in the US. It takes about 9 days from ship to show via mail.

  21. Who he's representing??? on CBDTPA Finds A Champion In the House · · Score: 1

    He is from Burbank California. Skip the special intrest opensecrets crap. If anyone in Washington should be introducing this kind of legislation on behalf of his constituents, its this guy.

    That being said, let your Congress critter know what kind of support he can expect from you this election cycle should he co-sponsor this bill.

  22. Re:Interesting Political trend. on Fox Explains Why SSSCA Is Bad · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul. A republican from Texas (something I won't hold against him). Though he tends to be more of a libertarian. Though I really wish, my senior senator, Ted Stevens, the evil co-sponser of this bill, would realize that this kind of thing is just the shot in the foot that the tech industry needs to get us in to a "Right to Read" world that Stallman envisioned. Is it just me or does anyone else feel that Congress is legislating Stupidity?

  23. Re:Can Someone answer this? on Microsoft, Feds Revise Settlement Agreement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is the source code a trade secret or copyrighted material? I was always under the impression that in order to be copyrighted something had to be published? Sure Windows binaries have been published (can't think of any other way to put it), and therefore gets copyright protection, but IIRC, windows source code has never been published. I can see calling Windows source code being a trade secret, but not copyrighted.

  24. Re:judging games before they come out on Star Wars: Galaxies Preview · · Score: 3, Funny

    yeah but this is starwars!

    So was The Phantom Menace

  25. Re:The question is... on Hardware Copy Protection Battles · · Score: 1

    The analogy is great. The scribes weren't the content producers. They were human Xerox machines. They did nothing with producing the content, they just made it availble to the publ^H^H^H^H the people who could read and where authorised to do so.