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  1. Let me be the first... on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 1

    to volunteer for the next episodes of her promotional video's...

  2. ok, like, again, check... on Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux · · Score: 2, Informative

    the date...

  3. check... on Britannica Takes Over the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 1

    the date...

  4. Re:Unrealistic management pressure on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 1

    Well someone has to do the job... Seriously, the problem is managment pressure, and a failure to foresee that by techs. I did learn, eventually.

  5. Re:Having seen the pilot.. on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 1

    But thats not Dr. Who. Dr. Who has always been about poking fun to technofobia, with utterly unrealistic science mishaps. "Live plastic" Brilliant! In a fast and action oriented way, though, with lots of brit humour which makes the satire eatable. At least for me.

  6. Unrealistic management pressure on 95% of IT Projects Not Delivered On Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Get this:

    - I scope a project
    - I pitch it to mngmt
    - Their response -always- is "be quicker"
    - My response is, quicker means either: less qualiity, or more money, ypou pick.
    - They say, you get neither.
    - Ill say, sigh, Ill -try-
    - It gets delivered on my original timescale
    - They fuss about the project being "too late"

    Do what -smart- project managers do: overestimate everything.

  7. Haveing seen the pilot.. on Dr. Who Series Star Quits · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recommend the show. Lovely! Completely ridiculous technofobia in a modern coating! The best of old and new! Great show, ill be watching.

  8. Well the elected leader.. on Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election · · Score: 1

    .. has his first priority set: make sure there is enough democratic participation, so the NEXT election will get more votes... So its probably a good thing to elect someone -new-.

  9. Organizing anarchists... on FBI Demands Logs From Radical Website · · Score: 1

    in neat labelled forums nonetheless, can hardly be described as -anarchist-, but he.
    I also feel anything labeled anarchism, is not nessicary -radical-. Its just an ideal, or ideology if you will.

  10. Well thanks... on Microsoft Calls For Patent Law Change · · Score: 1

    for telling us that just AFTER the new EU directive was adopted... I hope MS can get their money back from Mr. Brinkhorst.

  11. Re:WRONG. on Paul Graham Explains How to Start a Startup · · Score: 1

    I think the point may be that if you want THAT, you need his three things.. If you aint been born rich.

  12. Re:Not according to CIO's on OSDL Says SCO Suit Was Good for Linux · · Score: 1

    Hey, if it fits wear the shoe ;-)

    I was merely responding to your observation that people were intereseted in -Linux- solutions, but are withholding out of fear.

    Hugs

  13. Re:Not according to CIO's on OSDL Says SCO Suit Was Good for Linux · · Score: 1

    You should have told them their angst can be insured: http://www.osriskmanagement.com/

  14. Figures... on OSDL Says SCO Suit Was Good for Linux · · Score: 1

    SCO sued its distributors and clients ferchrissake... No sane Unixware or Open Server user is NOT looking into Linux today.
    Well, not those that switched already..

  15. Well its the same on "Enemies of Linux" Trying to Undermine OS? · · Score: 1

    people who have bought the new EU patents laws of course! Say no to EU patens and vote with you wallet, buy Linux today.

  16. Shitzo Sony on Sony takes on iPod Shuffle · · Score: 1

    Well...

    Who wants to bet Sony -Music-(TM) was the big fat reason it tookem so long?

  17. Spambayes on Interview With The SpamAssassin · · Score: 1

    Has single handedly raised my brownie points at the company I work for that must use Outlook.

  18. The danes blocked it again... on EU Patents Won't Stay Dead · · Score: 5, Informative

    Today, the danish comission of European affairs ORDERED their governement to not treat the new software patent directive as a "done deal".
    The Dutch governement had earlier said it was hoping on a redraft opf the bill, but would not block the vote, something the German Governement had also done.
    In the meantime the Dutch VVD also brought in a motion to try to get an amendment to bring "community patents into the bill, which then would have to be completely redrafted.

    Source: www.webwereld.nl

    I dont know about you folks, but I'm thinking: "It ain't over 'till the Fat Lady sings"
    And I somewhat like the idea of a commons of patents.

  19. Re:Flash blows.. on Flash Developers Fear Spectre of Spyware · · Score: 1

    Flash blows.

    For none of the reasons you seem to think of. But for this very very simple reason: its not an accepted W3C standard. It blows.

  20. Re:infiniband? on Linux Kernel 2.6.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks :-)

  21. Re:Face Recognition Work on Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones · · Score: 1

    It will work in this situation because there are low numbers involved. If I am correct, the best iris scanners still have a false positive rate of 1 in 100k orso, impractical in large numbers. Face is harden than iris, so lets assume 1 in 1k. Thats still enough for the phone to stop working for anyone but her because she wont meet her look-alike that quickly. On a busy airport perhaps 300 look-alike's would pass in a single day though.

  22. I dont buy cd's.. on MP3 Download Prices to Rise? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    because they are too expensive, and way to little goes to artists. MUCH too much seems to go to "distribution".
    Yeah, Im gonna pay MORE on a digital download. Where "distribution" can be almost cost-less. Sure. Uh-huh.

  23. Is this the same guy from on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 1

    the keyboards?

    Oh yeah, REALLY reliable this guy..

  24. Re:Microsoft on European Parliament Rejects Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Probably not. But one can hope.

  25. Re:Bad, bad Microsoft.... no cookie for you! on Microsoft Blocking Wine Users From Downloads Site · · Score: 1

    That would be a interesting legal debate:

    - If you purchase a Windows license (and people actually DO that just..) so you can run Wine in all the glory, is MS THAN allowed to not update you?

    I would think not.

    Couple that with the -deliberate- attempt to break things for those people, Id say: good going, pigopoly. And f*** you too.