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  1. Re:clueless on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1
    After a brief discussion, she had no idea what SCO was so she called over the bank manager who again, was totally clueless. Sigh. :)

    Reading slashdot makes us all SCO gurus; how stupid of bank employees to miss out on /.!

  2. Re:Director of Royal Bank is insane on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1
    This just goes to show that there are rich suckers out there that never deserved to make a profit.

    If they are doing just another stupid thing in a string of stupid things, they'll just keep right on profiting.

  3. Re:obligatory Star Wars reference on SCO Investor Changing the Deal · · Score: 1

    But we know that Senator Lieberman is Palpatine. Right here is the documentation.

  4. Re:Who gets killed in the first ten minutes? on The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis · · Score: 1
    Please God, let it be Jar Jar. Three hours of "Faces of Death"-like gore footage of Jar Jar getting digested by that big sand worm would get *MY* ten bucks.

    One way for Lucas to win us all over is to kill Jar Jar in a satisfying way. That would be _any_ way.

  5. Re:All that work for a SW III spoiler... on The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis · · Score: 1
    Not important: vi vs emacs

    You lost all credibility right there, bud.

  6. Spoiler Synopsis on The Definitive Episode 3 Spoiler Synopsis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything in EP3 ends up the way things are when EP4 begins.

  7. Re:Next Generation Media on Gaming Gaffes of 2003 Pinpointed? · · Score: 1
    That was my point.. You only hear about the major players because they have all the money.

    You just have to go listen somewhere else. These things _are_ being talked about.

  8. Re:The gift of Slashd? on Give the Gift of Slashdot · · Score: 1
    Actually, that service is free. Just click on the "Submit Victim", I mean, "Submit Story" link on the sidebar. Make up a clever story and your faithful /.'ers will take care of the rest.

    I thought it'd be kind of cool to have a "sponsored target" list at the top of the home page.

  9. Re:OK, but the fact is copyrights are still wrong on Linus Corrects Darl on Copyright Law · · Score: 1
    Just because a bunch of high level people call somthing a property right, does not mean that it is...

    It does if they're the ones with all the guns and prisons (that is, the State).

  10. Re:Biggest... on Gaming Gaffes of 2003 Pinpointed? · · Score: 1
    IMHO this is the most embarrassing, disheartening, and bone-headed developments in the game industry over the past year: "one of the participants went to his car, got a gun, and pointed it at the head of a staff member"

    I could be an optimist and say 'it's amazing that it hadn't happened before' or 'I'm amazed this doesn't happen more often', but I'm a pessimist, so I really can't.

  11. Re:Developer issues/fork on SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released · · Score: 5, Insightful
    So really, if you want to use Smoothwall, better read hard or get a thicker skin somewhere. Perhaps that's good advice for the rest of us anyway.

    But Morell was in a league of his own. Most rude types are simply rude. Morell was the strutting peacock of rudeness amongst a rabble of sparrows and starlings.

  12. Re:I use the forked IPCop on SmoothWall 2.0 Linux-Based Firewall Released · · Score: 1, Funny
    well, since Richard Morell has left Smoothwall now, things have become much nicer again.

    I looked at Smoothwall a while ago. I picked OpenBSD. Who needs to get harangued by Morell? Theo de Raadt is simply a saint by comparison.

  13. Re:"post-crash" on Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation · · Score: 1
    the reason you want to put up a trade barrier with china is because they compete on price by breaking the international rules: child labour, forced labour, unsafe working conditions, bad envirionmental track record. you name it. if "free trade" is going to work (a long shot) then there have to be baseline standards about what constitutes fair manufacturing practices - otherwise the "winner" in the global economy is the country most willing to exploit its citizens, fuck its environment and provide substandard or unsafre products.

    So if free Americans want to make deals with Chinese businesses, explain to me why they shouldn't be allowed to. You are absolutely free not to. Is it so you can use the US Goverment for your Most Holy Moral Crusade[tm], so you can feel like The Righteous American Crusader? What your really talking about is managed trade, not free trade.

  14. Re:Merry Christmas, Darl! on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1
    If SCO said "we'll dismiss ours if you dismiss yours," IBM would undoubtedly go for it, since IBM's suit is really only defensive.

    And then Red Hat outflanks SCO and plunders and pillages them.

  15. Re:Finally... on SCO Ordered to Produce Evidence · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I've been surprised at the number of people who got that joke. I didn't know so many people watched Newhart.

    Well, for all you know it was only three people (so far).

  16. Community Windows Boxes? on Management Tools for Computer Labs? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't forget the full frontal lobotomy. I wonder, do they do those in outpatient clinics?

  17. Re:Bill Gates once said... on The Most Incorrect Assumptions In Computing? · · Score: 1
    I figure at worst it was self-serving and at best it was just stupid on Gore's part to say whatever it is he meant to say in that manner.

    He's a politician. It's both, and more.

  18. Re:Sad state of affairs... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 1
    personally I'm hard-pressed to figure out how this is going to change without some serious regulatory hammer falling.

    State intervention isn't the solution, it'll make the problem worse. Or, if you're a State interventionist, better, because later on, you'll need even more State intervention.

  19. Re:Sad state of affairs... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 1
    From Fifth Third bank.

    Everytime I am in Cincinnati I wonder, how does a bank get a name like _that_?

  20. Re:Sad state of affairs... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 2, Funny
    Start manually paying your bills and staple the check to each and every stub. It costs you more in terms of postage, but it feels so good!

    You don't happen to spike trees in lumber areas, do you?

  21. Re:PJ's an interesting figure on Interview with Groklaw's Creator · · Score: 1
    I suppose what my point is is that her words carry weight

    I knew what you meant, occasionally I change my sig to "IANAL, but I play one on /." Even to see the the string "IAAL" in any form, in any context, on /. is jolting.

  22. Re:Sad state of affairs... on Stealth Inflation · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I went in the next time and not so calmly explained to her that she will not do that again without a) telling me what she is going to later charge, b) lying about what she was really doing, and c) being a cheat.

    My wife used to work for a software company whose product audited claims submitted by doctors. The software was free (to insurance companies, state agencies like Medicare), but they had to pay a percentage of the money saved to the software company. How was money saved? Doctors routinely double-submitted claims, claims for things they hadn't really done, and on and on.

    This software company was doing pretty well.

  23. Re:PJ's an interesting figure on Interview with Groklaw's Creator · · Score: 5, Informative
    Someone who can come out and say "IAAL, and based on my research this person is in the wrong" is an awfully big deal.

    That wouldn't be P J. She says on her site, "IANAL. I am a paralegal, so if you have a legal problem and want advice, this isn't the place. Hire an attorney instead. Research is, however, what paras do, so here I am sharing things I have found in my research."

  24. Schneier's Take on Real Security? · · Score: 1

    His take is that we are required to remember a lot of hard-to-remember passwords. Which we can't really do well. So the best compromise is, instead of just picking easy passwords, to write the passwords down, and protect the paper fanatically.

  25. Re:Hypocrites on ACLU Reacts to Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    The 9th and 10th Amendments are long gone dead. The states have prostrated themselves to the Lincolnian SuperState.