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  1. Re:XYZZY wasn't an Easter Egg! on Easter Eggs in Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Weird! One of the first games I ever played was a text adventure called Bedlam on the old Tandy Color Computer (my first computer...yay! POS).

    You had to try to escape from an insane asylum. If one of the nurses caught you, they'd give you a frontal lobotomy. Then you'd just wander around aimlessly. ie you could give directions (north, south), but it would just take you in random directions. Cool, really. But if you typed the word "plugh", it would say "You are cured!". Never did understand that. :)

  2. High speed satellite on Internet Access While Sailing? · · Score: 1
    Especially if you already have satellite equipment, it looks like this service would be really good, and not too expensive.

    http://www.inetvu.com

    400Kbps to a moving target? Sounds good to me!

  3. Why dont't they release open source drivers? on GPL Violation - NVIDIA · · Score: 1

    The thing I can't figure out is why they don't open source their drivers? What do they feel they have to lose?

    With some software packages, I can understand not wanting to OS it, because all their development work went into it. But you'd think all nVidia really cares about is selling chips.

    I know big business has an inherent fear of OS, but you'd think they have someone with a brain that could come to the follow conclusions:
    - If we do not open source the drivers, *some* people will be pissed off
    - If we DO open source the drivers, NO ONE will be pissed off.

    Its a pretty obvious conclusion from there....

  4. Re:How it all works on The Napster DMCA Defense · · Score: 1

    This post should be moderated through the roof.
    Sometimes us geeks get a little holier-than-thou.