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  1. Re:This works, try it sometime. on Preserve Your Rights Online - Act Now · · Score: 1

    Except that in China, for instance, it wouldn't be illegal to crack Win2k. To sell Win2k cracks in China would also be legal. To arrest someone speaking in the USA for writing Win2k cracks would be illegal. Our laws are not the laws of other nations.

  2. Re:Impressions on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 1

    He is right, you are wrong. The lack of case sensitivity was in keeping with the OS lack of case sensitivity. Again, this doesn't make it wrong to do it right today.

  3. Re:Wrong review. on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 1

    Opps! and a biggie: frames are a far better layout method! They might take a new user like 30 seconds to catch onto, but they they *rock*!

  4. Re:Wrong review. on ZDNet Reviews KOffice · · Score: 1

    Agreed: especially regarding the case-sensitive nature issue. The fact that the DOS world has done it wrong *doesn't* cost you points when you do it right! Also, I'd have felt better about their scripting issue if they'd compared VBA to Python. No doubt legacy VBA *is* an issue. Unfortunately VBA itself is an issue.

  5. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    That surpass what occured today? Not in terms of the impact. The delta-evil/delta-time was extraordinary. The intent and focus is orders of magnitude worse.

  6. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    "Live by the sword, die by the sword".
    A two-edged proverb.

  7. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    If your local media is ignoring local news then you have a right to be angry at your system. If you are refering to our media being so concerned about what happens here, then isn't this exactly what you say:

    "We sentimentalize our own casualties..."

    It seems your angry is misplaced.

  8. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    We have the technical means to find the answers. Can you say "sodium penythol" (LOL: can i even spell it?) The technical means is easy. The hard questions remain: Do we do it? Should we? What *are* the consequences of such breachments? These are hard questions. If we use the means to achieve this end, will it be easier for those means to be abused later?

  9. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    It wasn't Michigan who did OKC. Else Michigan wouldn't be Michigan now. Likewise, its not a race of people who've done this today. Nor a culture. But it did and happen, and people *did* do it. Those are the only criminals. The victim count, however, will continue to climb. Here as well as around the world life will not be the same. No way.

  10. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    A question I heard asked was "why not give Israel everything right up to India? Would gas go back to 10 cents/gallon?" The professor was joking, I'm almost sure...

  11. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    Genocide implies destroying a race of people. No one suggests the majority of any race of people has a culture so seaped in societal hatred as these criminals. No one is suggesting murder of innocents is expeditious enough to warrent wonton warefare. Well, no one except the criminals, apparently.

    Fact: Warfare has morphed.
    Fact: Acts of (modern) war have occured.

    Expect civil liberites to morph right along with the worst of behavior of terrorists...

  12. Re:Plea for peace on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    Its not about "getting even" its about eliminating a threat to the most basic of civil liberties. To retaliate out of blood lust is to join evil against evil. To remove a cancer is not to "get even" with those cells who have literally lost proportion.

    Hatred breeds hatred, yes. Persistant, continuing hatred - when it becomes overriding - breeds insanity. Terror as a tactical tool is a desperate and insane response. Lets cure the cause, yes. But eliminate the tumor before more healthy children and fathers and mothers of children are forced to die for a sick hatred fantasy.

  13. Re:Remember the past on U.S. Attack -- More Updates · · Score: 1

    We know where training camps are. Why not strike all known terrorist training camps within 24 hours?
    Might not get the current criminals, but its a policy that would eventually prevail. At this moment Bush has a blank check. Do we dare cash it? What are the consequences if we don't?

  14. Re:Read this article - Worths Gold on Why We Can't Just Get Along: The Bootloader · · Score: 1

    Truely sad to see such obviously best of breed technology driven assunder.

  15. Re:Can't Stand the Heat on LinuxToday Editor Apologizes For Astroturfing · · Score: 1

    My email to Kevin included "cc:"s, which did go through. The editorial staff of Linuxtoday: editors@linuxtoday.com Founder & CEO of Internet.com Alan Meckler: ameckler@internet.com (personal email) VP & GM of Internet.com Chris Elwell: celwell@internet.com Executive Editor, Linux Today Kevin Reichard kreichard@internet.com

  16. Re:Indeed, but. on LinuxToday Astroturfing Explained · · Score: 1

    objectivism?

  17. Re:No on Quantum Mechanics Symposium · · Score: 1

    Its deltaEnergy deltaTime, or deltaPosition deltaMomentum. In terms of "space-time", there is a corresponding releationship for space (and momentum), and for time (and energy).

  18. Re:very unstable. on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1

    nada...and when I called MS, they said, "You installed an update without having a specific bugfix in mind? The updates aren't meant to used unless they are required." I found that very strange. Crash? Did you update? Oh, then that might me the reason.

  19. Re:University Research on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    Its really a matter of budget. Give the dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare the budget of the DoD and watch the SAT scores rise! Don't hold your breath waiting for *this* congress to do it, though...

  20. Re:I don't understand on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    Actually he is trying to suggest that those terms have changed in modern times. Read Adam Smith's wealth of Nations and try telling yourself that corporat-ism has anything to do with free market capitalism. The "free" in free market refers to the ballance of power between producers and consumers. This ballance was obvious when a shop might have 20 people. Legislate that corporations can exist, but that they can't hire more than 20 people, and we'd see a move back towards a free market.

  21. Re:I don't understand on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    Actually 1 out of 5 is enough. Any one of the five. Thats the way definitions work. A word can have multiple meanings which are listed in order of occurance.

  22. Re:Don't corporations pay taxes too? on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    And some of us actually *like* to teach...

  23. Re:Will It Ever Stop? on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    It only started when federal funding for pure research went away. With researchers starved for funding, its easy for corp.s to buy them. A hungry and desperte man is easier to buy and more often for sell.

  24. Re:At my University on Corporate-Sponsored Research Untrustworthy · · Score: 1

    It happens at my university.

  25. Re:Work for hire on Can University Students GPL Their Submitted Works? · · Score: 1

    Unless you've agreed to transfer ownership in the contract you signed to become a student.