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  1. Re:All off topic on Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well · · Score: 2

    That would apply to the parent post. But how can you possibly justify modding a replt to an off-topic post as off-topic. Especially if it's on topic of the parent.

  2. Re:Earth from above on Earth as Art · · Score: 2

    I can't visit this site because I don't have IE on my Mandrake Lifebook. Poor me.

  3. Re:And, in case you didn't notice... on LaCie Releases 500GB Add On Drives · · Score: 2

    I didn't know that either until I read the links. Then it was very apparent that it had two hard drives. Reading, what a gift.'

  4. Re:That sucks on HP Wants Manufacturers To Bear PC Disposal Costs · · Score: 2

    The solution is to make the buyer pay the total cost instead of just part of it, which is what this measure does (the manufacturer will pass the cost along to the consumer). OK?

    Going forward, this is an excellent idea. But what about the existing mess?

  5. Re:You might not know it on Transrapid (MagLev) Test Successful In China: 405 · · Score: 2

    (+ unit converter)

    The expense of converting this backwater to the system of measurement of progress and worldwide commerce would be too great. They'd pass.

  6. Re:The best game news I've heard in a while on Star Control 2 Released Under the GPL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Now if it were network aware so that two people wouldn't have to huddle onto the same keyboard (or one person with a joystick), I would be a happy man indeed.

    The source of course. Make it happen!!

  7. Re:Need for diverse windows versions. on Linux Lands Big Bank Account · · Score: 3, Informative

    Still runs almost the entire ATM network. (On the client side anyway) Quietly, quietly, OS/2 is still a force in the clued in enterprise. One of the fastest Java interpreters, network support from hell and speaks pretty much every data format/protocol known to man. But you don't hear much about it anymore. Except in places where BSOD is not an option of course.

  8. Re:Double jeopardy? on Massachusetts Appealing Microsoft Ruling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many times can you try the same entity for the same crime?

    The Nazis for the Holocaust.
    When the crime is horrendous enough, we can try them again and again and again.

    When the justice system can't deliver justice, its up to the people to do something about it. What we are seeing now is Joe Sixpack losing interest. Theres football to watch afterall.

  9. Re:And this is different how?? on Virtual Simerica · · Score: 2

    Or a non-hypocritical Christian.

  10. And this is different how?? on Virtual Simerica · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Interesting and scary to see what America would be like without our inhibitions.

    Sort of like looking at today from the perpective of the fifties. Today's morality is nothing like it was fifty years ago. Try looking at American "culture" through the eyes of a Victorian era Englishman. He would be horrified at the "total lack of inhibitions".

  11. Re:RTFA - AMD not leaving the PC business on AMD Announces A Shift In Focus From PC Processors · · Score: 2

    Now is the time to buy AMD stock. As soon as you see the market react to an announcement that only be good for AMD with a 12% drop, you know it's time to buy.

  12. Re:So what we can do on Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here is a link to a California only answering service. For $9.90 per month, you get a four minute message and the ability to record as many messages (up to four minutes each) that you like. Couple this with a Pay As You Go phone card and the payphone down the block and you have a low cost alternative to anyones monopoly.

  13. Re:Does it matter? on Japan Takes A Look At Open Source Software · · Score: 2

    "The Japanese government uses Microsoft XYZ; it must be good!"

    Well, with the rampant corruption at high levels in Japan, I think that people will take the Japanese governments eventual pro-MS decision with Cayman Island bank accounts in mind.

  14. Re:Microsoft? on Japan Takes A Look At Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    It gives them the opportunity to FUD the rest of the panel.

  15. Does it matter? on Japan Takes A Look At Open Source Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Me wonders if they are serious or just trying to get discounts from MS.

    Does it really matter? The end result is more press, more mindshare and for them to come right out and say that they are concerned about security is just... excellent. Soon the rest of the worlds governments will all be running Linux and the US will become a technological backwater. I guess if I want to stay employed here, I should start working on that law degree.

  16. Re:It's like porn sites.... there are enough alrea on Which Desktop Distro Will Die First? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Mandatory IQ testing for moderators, pass it on....

  17. Re:Poor as in "Poor Judgement" on Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats · · Score: 2

    China.

  18. Re:Poor as in "Poor Judgement" on Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats · · Score: 2

    I thought we were talking about India, not the USA... Oh wait.

  19. Re:Only $177m? Who cares? on Microsoft Loses $177m on Xbox in Three Months · · Score: 2

    Multiply by 500,000. Put the total into the pockets of fat, lazy lumber barons. Repeat next month.

  20. Re:Coming to a store near me? on Scientific American Reviews 'Simputer' PDA · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, we need to hit ALL of the third world countries. :-)

  21. Re:Let's hope it works... on Scientific American Reviews 'Simputer' PDA · · Score: 2

    Zaurus, Zaurus, Zaurus.

    But then, I'm not regular folks.

  22. Re:LINUX OS on SGI NUMAflex Linux System On Display @ SC2002 · · Score: 2

    Just think how fast Windows 98SE would fly on this baby!!

  23. Re:Will they ever learn? on Report from the ACM DRM Workshop · · Score: 2

    Yes, it only takes one person to design a "mod chip", but what about when each instance of the DRM-enabled hardware requires its own custom chip?
    Hopefully by then, he'll be able to e-mail me the circuit diagram and I'll be able toprint my own chip. It will happen!

  24. Re:Yep on Report from the ACM DRM Workshop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    (Score:1, Redundant)

    I'm sorry. Usually I just let moderation slide by like the stench from a dumpster. But sometimes the smell is just so offensive, I have to take issue. The whole freaking STORY is REDUNDANT. Moderation is a privilege (Ask me, I lost it in the great bitchslapping for moderating one of the editors), not something you forward your opinions with. The article is saying something WE ALL ALREADY KNOW, namely, that DRM won't work. To moderate someone redundant for pointing this out is ASININE. (Look that one up, broaden your vocabulary. Do it online though so you don't get drool on the big book)

    Ahh, I feel better now. I hope you have some mod points left so you can mod this post accordingly.

  25. Re:DRM=No more memory dumps? on Report from the ACM DRM Workshop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any encrypted file will have to be decrypted, and that means that I can dump memory and get the unencrypted value.

    That's only the first step. You can hear and see. It's only a matter of time until you try to tell your friends about what you've seen and heard. I'm afraid that we need to restrict the output from your mouth (tongue removal), restrict the output of your hands (finger removal) and that last bastion of binary communication, your eyelids. (Eeeewww, gross). This will be required to protect our IP from you, you nasty pirate. Now, we want all of this done at birth, so no one will ever have the opportunity to pirate our IP. End of problem.