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  1. In related news on Broadcast Flag All But Approved · · Score: 1

    Network executives are baffled by a season unlike any seen before. Returning hit shows like "Friends" and "E.R." are losing significant numbers of viewers from previous years....

    http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/business/media /2 2ADCO.html?ex=1067486400&en=82f335c3c62caef9&ei=50 62&partner=GOOGLE

  2. Re:Beat a dead horse on What Is The Most Popular OS in the World? · · Score: 1

    Timothy's on a crusade, obviously

  3. Re:It's called satire and there's a good point in on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1

    must be the user then, because of my 5 windows boxes (3 Win 98, 1 2k, 1 XP) none of them have been compromised with a virus, malware or spyware, the Win98 boxes rarely crash, the XP & 2000 boxs have never crashed (and in the case of the 98 boxes, its usually a poorly programmed 3rd party software that crashes) and all of them perform exactly as I want them to.

  4. with linux advocates like this... on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has nothing to worry about...

  5. Re:Schools to no longer avoid! on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    oh yeah, thats definitally a troll...

    dont mod him down, tell him why he is wrong (he isnt by the way, its their network and they can do what they want to... including pulling the plug)

  6. Re:Great Opportunity for a small start-up inde on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1

    Im sorry, who is Anthony Hamilton?

  7. close but no cigar on Freedom of Speech in Software · · Score: 1

    a piano is an item, a piece of hardware that is patentable

    a player piano, is a way of modiflying the above to make it do something, also patentable

    The music it plays is copyrightable
    ----------------------
    a computer is an item, a piece of hardware that is patentable

    a computer program, is a way of modiflying the above to make it do something, also patentable

    The output it produces is copyrightable (documents)

  8. Re:I want a diamond cd! on Diamonds & the RIAA · · Score: 1

    well here you go...

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000028O J/ qid=1061923854/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-0044121-70664 04

  9. Re:That's nice, but... on Global Warming To Leave North Pole Ice-Free · · Score: 1

    pole man? you mean Santa?

  10. will we be able to hack it... on Sony Switches To Its Own Processor For Handhelds · · Score: 1

    and install windows?

  11. Did we already forget... on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 1

    this story?

  12. Funny thing on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    someone found out that I can work on computers, they asked if I could look at their computer, as they werent recieving messages anymore...

    their answering machine was broke...

  13. Re:And people wonder why... on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 1

    ding ding ding... we have a winna!!!

  14. Why? on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead · · Score: 1

    why reinvent the wheel?

    bookmarks work, the back button works (granted I dont use the forward button to often)

    Standards are a GOOD thing, especially if you want people to use your product.

  15. Re:OK, who ISN'T going to register? on National Do Not Call List Opens for Registrations · · Score: 1

    Im not, my answering machine works just fine...

  16. I must have missed this in the constitution on US Supreme Court Upholds CIPA · · Score: 2, Informative

    but where is internet access a right?

  17. This is news how? on Inappropriate Spam Reaching Children? · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a male, Ive been recieveing "enlarge your breasts now" spam for quite some time...

    and damnit, Ive been on a diet to reduce them!

  18. Surge? on Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 1

    when you say the stock jumped 12% and keep it out of context it does sound impresive... however it only gained $0.41 when a stock is sitting at 3-5.00 mark, any movement is large...

  19. there should be a law on SBC Getting Aggressive With Frames Patent · · Score: 1

    if you wait until what you have patented has filled the market place then you have lost the right to that patent.

  20. Re:Stealing is Stealing, Milk, Money, Cars, or Mus on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    um, yeah they do, at least in my neck of the woods. They must provide the serial numbers of everything that is brought in to the police so the can match it up with a "hot" list

  21. Re:Drudge Report reported as news?! on Spiderman, Sony vs Marvel · · Score: 1

    all I gotta say is he scooped the blue dress incident

  22. you know, at one time... on Still More on Global Warming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    there was vegitation in the artic circle, there are frozen remains of Mammoths up there with undigested vcegetation in their bellys (and there was enough of it to sustain a creature of that size as well).

    Secondly, where did all the ice from the ice age go? surly mans discovery of fire didnt promote the end of that period in time...

  23. Just think of the precedent! on Congress Asks Universities To Enforce Copyrights · · Score: 1

    I can hunt down those responsible for stealing my car!

  24. Sotec on Lindows Releases Inexpensive Subnotebook · · Score: 1

    1.2 celeron, 256 RAM, 20 gig HD (30 if purchased from SAMS), CDR/DVD combo drive $850.00

    MUCH better deal IMO.

  25. dead? on The 25th Anniversary of the BBS · · Score: 1

    every one keeps talking like BBSs are dead, Im running one and there are more in the interbbs leagues (BRE & FE) now that when I ran it the first time. My LORD games have 3x the active participants (granted, I have 7 internet accessable nodes now instead of one local phone line). look here to see a large list of telnet BBSs... many of which have been around for years!

    Then come by my BBS... telnet://www.gargoyleslanding.com