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  1. Re:John Titor Predicted it on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    The most likely area would be if the system was found to be blinding, weapons the cause blindness are illegal. This system was extensively tested on animals, yet sometimes unexpected things happen when a system is fielded.

  2. Re:Much more versatile than bullets... on Journalist Test Drives The Pain Ray Gun · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yeah I'll just drive up in my stealth-mode Hummer, fire up the 45KW Deisel Generator and point the emmiter for the 95GHz milimeter wave transmitter that's the size of a plasma TV and hose down the crowd with pain rays and leave without anybody noticing! OOPs well we didn't mean to hit that TV crew filming the protest at least we got'em in time for the 10 o'clock news; bet that'll make this the lead story.

  3. Re:Sensationalist... on Most Science Studies Tainted by Sloppy Analysis · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In the Army they taught us that when doing an inspection and the paper work was written in two different colors of ink, and the last bit was in pencil, and the paper itself looked like it had been caught in the rain and folded up and carried in someones back pocket for three days its probably authentic so be suspicious if the paper work is too neat and clean. I see science the same way, if there is no arguments about the data or conclusions, everybody is talking about the majority and consensus, i again get suspicious I want to see a couple warts. It doesn't matter how impeccable the logic is when the premises are wrong.

  4. Re:What about the other half? on Half of SCO's Accountants Quit · · Score: 1

    who knows maybe going through a bankrupcy is worth more in experience than they're paid anyways
    a resume sent to IBM could read "Knows where SCO's skeletons are buried"

  5. Re:Shades of grey do not a good argument make on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    here's a link for you The BSD License

  6. Re:One reason I never used it on the PC on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 1

    I know the keyboards shortcuts well enough so I can mimimise every they except the image that is maximized, this gives me much more screen realestate than the other way does. As they say to each there own. Interestingly I can work faster in photoshop than my son can because I learned the keyboard shortcuts using the GIMP, which are the same as the photoshop shortcuts, and he's a school trained PSer.

  7. Re:Shades of grey do not a good argument make on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    Your right and I'm absolutely wrong the phrase this list of conditions is what I and presumable everyone else that agrees with me missed. That phrase is essentially what keeps the BSD license a requirement.

  8. Re:"Nothing for you to see here" indeed... on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    Otto Moerbeek (otto@) wrote to the pcc mailing list:

            with some minor modifications to our source tree I'm able to build (and run) large parts of bin, sbin, usr.bin and usr.sbin of openbsd. src/lib needs some not yet available features, mostly asm related stuff.

    That's not too shabby.
  9. Re:One reason I never used it on the PC on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 1

    I assume that what your talking about is opening the GIMP and it opens a gimp window with the tool buttons, it opens a layers windows with the layering and channels widgets and finally it opens the image windows. This is what is supposed to happen and is how things are typically done in the X windows system on unix and Linux systems, I like it because it allows me to move those things to where I want or to mimimise and get them out of the way completely. That behaivor is also why people who like photoshop will always hate the GIMP and the lack of it is why Gimpers will always hate photoshop or the big-endians waging war on the little-endian in "Gulliver's Travels".

  10. Re:Shades of grey do not a good argument make on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    Which is the phrase I missed and which makes my above post absolutely wrong so many apologies to all with egg on my face.

  11. Re:Shades of grey do not a good argument make on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the BSD license only requires three things the copyright notice in source code, the copyright notice in binary only and the warranty waiver; anything else is allowed. GPL also requires the same things plus some additions, so therefore you can release previously BSD licensed code under the GPL (at least version 2) but because of the additional restrictions, you can't go back. I've gotten code that was previously BSD licensed under the windows EULA, so what's the big deal with GPL?

  12. Re:Need to clarify dual-licensing on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    They can't pick and chose unless the author puts in licensed under the GPL or the BSD license at the recipient's choise. BSD code can be released under the GPL but GPL code can not be released under the BSD. Good form would be for the authors of any improvements in Linux under the GPL to release the patches back to FreeBSD under the BSD license

  13. Re:Need to clarify dual-licensing on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I don't see where you have to make any changes, the only obligation you have under the BSD license is to retain the copyright statement. I could take the FreeBSD distro and distribute it under any license I choose, it's my right under their license and they are free to do the same. That's why I don't like the BSD license for most things, but I have my likes and dislike and they have theirs.

  14. Re:Shades of grey do not a good argument make on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sorry but I didn't see where you had to retain the license, in the license, The copyright notice had to remain, but that is also required under the GPL.Is it possible you have not actually read the license, there is only the copyright notice, three clauses and the warranty disclaimer; pretty hard for anything to hide in that license.

  15. Re:Need to clarify dual-licensing on Software Freedom Law Center vs Theo de Raadt · · Score: 1

    * Copyright (c) <year>, <copyright holder>
    * All rights reserved.
    *
    * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
    * * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
    * * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
    * * Neither the name of the <organization> nor the
    * names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
    * derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
    *
    * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY <copyright holder> ``AS IS'' AND ANY
    * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
    * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
    * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL <copyright holder> BE LIABLE FOR ANY
    * DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
    * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
    * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
    * ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
    * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
    * SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
    Seems pretty clear to me, you can do whatever the hell you want under the BSD license except remove the copyright notice, or fail to produce the copyright notice in binaries. I remeber my original Microsoft Windows 95 used to say "This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors." when you clicked the correct button. Linux was the same way, both Linux and Windows used the same BSD code of their networking, to this day if you can do networking from the command line in linux you can network in windows for the most part by changing the dashes to slashes. Maybe Theo is going through menopause or getting tired of the BSD is dead jokes.
  16. Re:Here's an idea: get newspapers to write free ad on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 1

    OMG only two buttons, how lamo dude. My Linux machine has a mouse with 5 buttons, left button, right button, scroll wheel down, scroll wheel rolling up and scroll wheel rolling down! With the alt, shift and cntrl keys that gives me 30 diffeent combinations. My wife's mouse can also scroll wheel leaning right and scroll wheel leaning left.

  17. Re:service pack on Is Apple Doing All It Can to Beat Vista? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    My wife nags me enough about what I do and use on the computer without my computer joining her; DRM is what makes the Vista user feel like the goatse.cx guy.
    I can see the new Mac vs. PC commercials Mac is a hip Metrosexulal type and PC is bratty kid sister type who's constantly saying things like "should you be doing that", "I'm telling MOM what your doing, I don't thnk you asked permission" or "Suzy said you'll get cooties if you open attachments"

  18. Re:Oh yes, they will indeed love it... on Researchers Suggest P2P As Solution To Video Domination of The Internet · · Score: 1

    From the ISP's point of view, in-network traffic is dirt cheap, its the cross-boarder traffic that is expensive. I think these guys are morons for not providing P2P clients that prefer in-network peers and not installing local proxies to cache as much http and ftp content as possible.

  19. Re:Hmmmm on The GIMP UI Redesign · · Score: 4, Informative

    I imagine that's a lot easier said than done, let me tell you a sad tail, a long time ago there was this project that forked off from the GIMP originally called film Gimp and is now called cinepaint and that happened about version 1.3 for the GIMP. It different from the gimp because it was designed movies with big honking frames at 32 bit color depth, and I'm not talking 8+8+8 = 24 bits, were talking 32 * three color channels! So when the UI gets bloated it really bogs the whole system down. Cinepaint is currently undergoing a rewrite of the core to better support high color depth images and undergoing a change in the UI from GTK to FLTK. What they should have done was first separate the UI code from the program logic and made sure very thing still compiled and worked, then changed from the increasingly bloated, slow and ugly GTK to the still ugly but small and fast FLTK. What the Gimp team needs to do is get their code-Nazi's to finish the GEGL overhaul and then separate the code for the user interface so it can be worked on without FUBARing the whole project. The other problem that the GIMP has is the GTK, Gimp Tool Kit that they wrote for the gimp is now integral with gnome so whatever evils gnome introduce the GIMP inherits and there is a limit to what they can fix.

  20. Re:What's amusing to me on Science vs. Homeopathy · · Score: 1

    Is that a new version of Oscam's razor, "the only theory you can think up has to be the correct one"? how is this, CO2 absorbs infrared in three narrow bands corresponding to the molecules stretch, wag and scissoring but it also emits radiation in those same bands, I could argue that the CO2 in the atmosphere effectively increases the radiative surface of the Earth and would therefore cause cooling or I could argue that water being lighter than CO2 would tend to carry heat above the CO2 rich lower atmosphere and cool the globe as well. I don't think we are even that certain of the planets albedo yet.

  21. Re:OH RLY? on Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Hey why am i only making $55K and that dipshit Solanki is getting 65?" OOPs I forsee trouble in paradise.

  22. Re:Distance? on Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked · · Score: 1

    I imagine the file have some sort of coruption that makes them unplayable rather than live content.

  23. Re:Distance? on Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    if MD went to the potential downloaders and invited them to the site it would be like entrapment or more properly something like soliciting a criminal activity or conspiracy, but if the downloader came to them its a different critter. What I can't figure out is how you get people to the site without soliciting them.

  24. Re:Distance? on Internal Emails of An RIAA Attack Dog Leaked · · Score: 1

    when two civilians do it isn't it called conspiracy?

  25. Re:Interesting position for U-Tube & Google to on Creationists Silence Critics with DMCA · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter if the ISP thinks it's appropriate, when they get the take-down notice their hands are tied and it has to come down, when they get the counter-claim again their hands are tied and it goes back up and the matter becomes between the two complainants. At this point the two complaintants can either beat their chests and make a lot of ineffective noise, or they can go to court and either put up or shut up.