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  1. Re:best part of moving on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 1

    Do your frozen yogurt toppings contain potassium benzoate?

  2. Re:already slashdotted on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 1

    It was on the front page of the WSJ (in really small letters).

  3. Re:National "The Document Contains no Data" list on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bush was on the radio saying over 100 people per second are registering.

  4. Re:What has been said all along on Law Professor Examines SCO Case · · Score: 1

    A few years ago OS/2 Warp 4 added JFS in a patch.
    Ecomstation (warp 5 essentially) has JFS fromt he get go.

  5. Re:I doubt they're going to win. on Law Professor Examines SCO Case · · Score: 1

    According to IBM (rep said it to me directly) they do not support SCO software on their x86 based servers and workstations.

  6. Re:uhhhh, open source can't be classified... on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually if the Military doesn't re-distribute whatever GPL software they modify to the outside they can clasify and close off the software all they want.

    But dont let that get in the way of your conspiracy theory that open software gets in the way of government spooks.

  7. Re:Ugh on Public Domain Act Introduced Into Congress · · Score: 1

    Um, eldred was on our side.
    It's hutchens I think that was the senator from Disney.

  8. Re:manga scanlations on Comics On The Net - A Business Primer · · Score: 1

    This was the case in the past, but I think the internet of the late 90's through now has caused a change in the way "fans" abuse fansub/scanlation.
    No longer do they get some tapes of 9th gen anime, or download a script to read as they awatch the show/read the manga.
    Now you can download digisubs that are almost indistinguishable from the DVD release, and near perfect manga scans that ahve been translated to english. I have seen fansubs being put out on DVD with menus.
    What incentive is there for the average downloader to give something to the people who worked to give them some enjoyment (I'm not talking about the fansubber/scanlator)?
    I see tons of people all the time who only exist to leech off this and never once actually buy something.
    I fear fandom is feading a beast that will destroy it in the long run.

  9. Re:manga scanlations on Comics On The Net - A Business Primer · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude(or dudette). Manga scanlations are copyright infringment. Lincese for publication matters not as both Japan and the USA observe each others copyrights (part of the berne treaty I believe).
    Sure much like fansubs (also copyright infringment) there is a blind eye turned to the activity, but dont kidd yourself that it isn't copyright infringment.
    Unless these downloaders and you who work on the scanlations all either import the Japanese manga or buy domestic these things do nothing but hurt the legit published works.
    Most people I see on IRC and elsewhere getting this stuff never buy legit because they get it for free.
    Now I'm a big fan of a lot of manga that never shows here, but it would be better if instead of illegally reproducing works you guys just translate and post the translations. It's not as sexy I know, but people who do support the artists can buy imports of non licensed or improperly (initial D) done stuff and read use that translation to see what is going on.

  10. Re:SCO Letter on Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL · · Score: 1

    I think you need to read up on patent/copyright/trademark law.

    Trademarks if not defended will be lost when infringed.
    Patents can be selectively enforced and not be lost.
    Copyright can AFAIk also be selectively enforced, but I dont think I have heard of this happening.

  11. Re:Original LWN discussion on SCO Protest And Anti-Protest In Provo · · Score: 1

    Possibly from Texas politics. See the following book.

  12. Re:fools on Artists Protesting Single-Song Downloads · · Score: 1

    Tubular Bells is the same way, each track is one side of the album.
    I figured it was like that because of a lazy dump from LP master at atlantic (or whoever was the studio).

  13. Re:I don't quite see the point on Christian Videogame Alternatives Explored · · Score: 1

    "Games can entertain or they can attempt to teach you life lessons, but I can't see them being used for both without one or the other hurting. Let the kids play video games that are actually fun, and let parents teach values on their own time."

    A few adventure games can come close to doing both and being fun.

  14. Re:Religious games, inc. on Christian Videogame Alternatives Explored · · Score: 1

    "Caste Attack: Brahmins vs. Shudras. Play a Brahmin, a chosen superior man and punish the Shudras untouchables when they get uppity. Whips, chains, and bonus level where police don't bother investigating a shudra murder."

    Way to simple for a Rockstar game, or the Indian caste system. It should be more like:
    The Brahmin gang gets wind of the Sudra gangs intention to marry between the castes. So the Brahmin gang tells the Kasutria gang to go kill the Sudra gang while the Visha gang sells stuff to both sides.Last the untouchable gang is literally shit upon by everyone.

  15. Re:Wintermute on What's Behind The Odd Data? · · Score: 1

    Oolcay Itay.

  16. Re:Freecraft is a ripoff. on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    You have clearly never played video games any time in the last 20 or so years have you?
    Everyone mimicks whatever is popular at the time.

  17. Re:Shadowsource movement? Re: make them all martyr on FreeCraft Cease and Desisted by Blizzard · · Score: 1

    Please chose a newsgroup that has not the taint of hipcrime. That would kill the project for sure.

  18. Re:Plurals??? on Build a Rotisserie Scanner With Legos · · Score: 1

    What we need is something like this:

    THE JAPANESE SINGULAR/PLURAL NOUN RULE SONG
    (sung to the tune of "The Banana Splits" theme song)

    Tra la la! La la la la!
    Tra la la! La la la la!
    Tra la la! La la la la!
    Tra la la! La la la la!
    Tra la la! La la la la!
    Tra la la! La la la la!

    One Gojira, two Gojira, three Gojira, four
    Four Gojira rising from the murky ocean floor
    See them crushing Tokyo, breathing smoke and flame
    Even though there's more than one, the noun is the same

    (That applies to Pokemon)
    (Even when there's more than one)
    (You still call them Pokemon)

    Tra la la! Japanese nouns!
    Tra la la! Don't change their form!
    Tra la la! Japanese nouns!
    Tra la la! Don't change their form!

  19. Re:Misrepresentation vs Interpretation on Anarchy Online Gamer Responds · · Score: 1

    So to see a real movie we should all go and watch The Man from La Mancha ?

  20. Re:Don't blame me! on The Downward Spiral of Music Retailing · · Score: 1

    I am shocked and outraged thie parent has not been modded funny.

  21. Re:SCO is smoking crack on My Visit to SCO · · Score: 1

    OS/2 first got JFS then, but JFS has been in AIX for a LONG time (first I ever saw AIX was 1996 and it was there).

  22. Re:Breadth of /. on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    I was a front page story.Wonder why it changed for you.

  23. Re:Cooking on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    Try Indian cooking, so many textures and methods. I have the portion problem as well (when I stir fry the wok always ends up full of stuff) but it's easyenough to freeze lefovers for the weeks lunches.

  24. life is a hobby... on What's Your (non-tech) Hobby? · · Score: 1

    As a homeowner I plan to
    Finish my basement, Insulate my getage and turn it into a workshop for my other hobbies.
    I need to put a floor in my sunroom as well.

    Hobbies outside of home improvement, would be gardening, woodworking, Anime/Manga, reading (non tech books), electronic tinkering (this includes non work related computr stuff), enjoying music, and damnit I play video games(how can they not count).

    I plan when I finish the workshop to move into metal working as well, but thats probably a year or 2 off. I am the son on an "Iron Man". I would provide a link, except they have no web site as far as I can find. They are a 35 year old iron work company, a lot of the iron work (ornamental and otherwise) in Philadelphia PA came from them.

  25. Re:Better than glowing fish.... on Genetically Engineered Pets Hit the Market · · Score: 1

    Havent you heard of the Fur Bearing Trout?