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  1. Re:Some of those patents are plain criminal on City of Munich Freezes Its Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Um, in Germany you *are* forced by law to pay taxes to the church, just because they are there... http://www.handbuch-deutschland.de/book/en/004_004 _002_002.html

  2. Re:Bureaucracy and Planning vs. Capitalism on Broadband Is The Secret To South Korea's Success · · Score: 1

    Good try...it was built "for the military" by a secretary of defense who just *happened* to be the chairman of GM. Gee...conflict of interest? I see no conflict...their interests meshed perfectly.

    The heavily subsidized interstate system lead to the wild success of using automotives and trucks for travel in this country, choking off more efficient, but unsubsidized modes of transport, primarily rail systems, which had always been forced to pay their way.

    This lead to the vastly increased adoption of automobiles by the american public and the consequent continuing dependence on foreign oil to the detriment of our national economy.

  3. Re:What happens.... on 419ers Diversify Into Assassination Threats? · · Score: 1

    Never watched the first episode of "Dead Like Me" did you....toilet seat ordinance can be quite deadly.

  4. Re:Article quote: on 419 Scam Blow-by-Blow · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is an ancient scam, a variant of 'The Spanish Prisoner' which dates back at least to the 17th century

  5. Re:Better security is not a myth. on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Rofl, that's why Apache (which has *more* installed servers than IIS) is so heavily attacked all the time...

  6. Re:Baaahhh.... on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 1

    New Mexico, a state in the US, actually put "New Mexico USA" on it's license plates at their last redesign. They must have felt they needed it...

    Before the Atlanta Olympics, at least one person from New Mexico were told that they couldn't buy tickets from the US outlets, that they had to call their national Olympic Committee.

    <http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/newm ex .html>

    They have also been asked for visas, passports and similar identifications.

  7. Re:Carbon is still required, however on Apple and Independent Developers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Symlinks are aliases, but aliases aren't necessarily symlinks.

    Foex:

    johnson% touch test1
    johnson% touch test2

    ls -l test*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 johnson staff 0 May 2 08:13 test1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 johnson staff 0 May 2 08:13 test2

    No probls, right?

    Now command-option drag test1 to make an alias.
    do ln -s test2 test2_ln

    On the desktop they both look like aliases.

    ls -l test*
    -rw-r--r-- 1 johnson staff 0 May 2 08:13 test1
    -rw-r--r-- 1 johnson staff 0 May 2 08:15 test1 alias
    -rw-r--r-- 1 johnson staff 0 May 2 08:13 test2
    lrwx------ 1 johnson staff 5 May 2 08:16 test2_ln -> test2

    Note the *alias* is a separate file, whereas the symlink shows properly.

    Dumbass

  8. Re:HEY! on Universal 3D File Format In The Works · · Score: 1

    Why?

  9. Re:Nothing to see here. Move along. on Mac OS X Trojan Horse Infects MP3s · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey hey hey! no fair. 10.2.6 was NOT a virus, it was an update...gotta keep our terminology straight here...

  10. Re:loyalty cards on RFID Coming 'Whether You Like It Or Not' · · Score: 1

    Albertson's, a grocery chain here in the US (perhaps only the western US) finally succumbed to the loyalty card thing, but their application form had a checkbox at the bottom "I don't want to give you any information, just give me the card"

    They get my business!

  11. Re:Simple solution, really. on NASA Finds Critical Assembly Fault in Shuttle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Damn straight!

    Quick...it's total darkness, the bad guys are on your trail and you have 15 seconds to place and rig the claymore, or you're all gonna get captured or killed.

    Yes you want it to be as completely foolproof as possible.

  12. Re:funny but dead serious... on Virus Creators Sharing More Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What an astonishingly clueful user. They noticed something different about the system and asked you about it!

    Treasure this one!

    He or she will help make up for the 9,345 others who come to you 'I can't open this file I was sent I keep double clicking on it, but nothing happens...' for the 32,478th time...

  13. Re:He would have, but... on Would Ansel Adams Have Gone Digital? · · Score: 1

    Um, they make digital backs for view cameras, not the 8x10 ones he used, but 4x5 <http://www.betterlight.com/products4X5.asp> . He also used small 35mm Leica's too.

    Mr. Adams would have loved the instant feedback that digital gives.

  14. Re:Longevity on Top 10 Personal Computers · · Score: 1

    Go look at that iMac again dude...r tnum=43102>

    USB -2
    ADB - N/A

    Don't know what computer you're thinking of, but it wasn't the iMac.

    The first Blue&White G3's came with both ADB and USB, but the last desktop systems to ship with ADB only were the beige G3's.

  15. Re:Reminds me of NT versus OS/2 on Nonexistent Windows OS Superior to Panther · · Score: 1

    Glad I don't for for your company...generally any company that has 'an armload' of customers asking for something would catch a clue.

    But hey, 3/4's of businessses fail, anyway, keep your resume buffed, dude...because those customers you're ignoring?

    They go elsewhere, and so do your profits...

  16. Re:burgers on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    People got along quite well on that score with 4 cylinder Land Rovers and Jeeps for decades.

    Not that your comment about giant dick-compensators is wrong, it's just you *still* don't *need* a Hummer to do it...

  17. Re:Is this illegal? Prove it on Transcriber Threatens Release of Medical Records · · Score: 1

    If you purchase stock on the US Exchange based on this information, it is insider trading, and you get busted by the Feds for doiing it, if you get caught.

    Her telling you information does not break the law. (It could well be a breach of contract, though, leading to termination)

    The crime occurs when trades are made or influenced, using that information. The person who profits from inside information is the criminal.

    Since the stock for US-listed companies is sold in the US, that's the jurisdiction.

  18. Re:You can always buy a refurb... on New iMacs (and iPods) · · Score: 1

    Had, perhaps. they're listed, but you cannot select them, so they're not in stock. : (

  19. Re:No information please, we use Linux on Mac OS X Maximum Security · · Score: 1

    Too bad you CAN'T READ apparently, since the *rest* of the sentence was '...but many of those links are broken'.

  20. Re:The Economics of Empire - exactly right on The IT Market: Cyclical Downturn or New World Order? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "We can be prosperous without obsessing about prosperity, that is, sacrificing our very lives and identities to some abstract definition of ``success.'' "

    Ok, I'll believe it when this guy takes a pay cut to $4000 a year, or less, and doesn't complain.

    Working in San Jose, I'll bet he ends up living in a nice refrigerator box, over there by the overpass.

    No, we cannot be prosperous by outsourcing ourselves headlong into third world status.

    There's always someone willing to work for less...where's the bottom? $4 an hour? $2? 50 cents?

    We may be able to rationalize our poverty by clinging to religion, but we will be in poverty nonetheless; moreover we will know it acutely, because our parents, and their parents all had a much higher standard of living, and we were sold into poverty for their handful of silver.

  21. Re:New Riders on Linux Clustering · · Score: 1

    No sh*t. I own both, well thumbed. VERY good refs. Birns book on lighting and rendering is plain awesome. They also publish George Maestri's classic works on character animation. (in fact, based on the two books above I was very suprised to see that their computer books sucked so much.) Reading Birn's book let me do this which was at least an order of magnitude better than anything i'd done before...

  22. Re:Ahead of their time.... on Xerox Alto Computer 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    The Mac has had simple, easy to configure networking built-in all along: LocalTalk anyone? So he did get the value of the LAN.

    (Though that may not have debuted until the Mac Plus in '86)

    Slow as hell, of course, but it was plug 'n' play simple.

    OO Programming, well, there they were constrained by the limited resources of the Mac. The OS Toolbox was written in 68000 assembler.

  23. Re:why do they NEVER get it? on Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again · · Score: 1

    ummm...Yahoo has been around a LONG time. It was started in 1994 as a student thing on their own workstations; they incorporated in 1995, well *before* all those other internet search sites...(http://www.akamarketing.com/yahoo-feature 1.html)

  24. Re:I don't think so.. on Apple is Going Out of Business ... Again · · Score: 1

    Actually, a quick check at Apple's application database shows 257 applications in the 'Accounting' category...(http://guide.apple.com/action.lasso) including a number aimed at enterprise customers.

  25. Re:I could be wrong, but... on .org TLD Now Runs on PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    Not for the last version or three...