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  1. Re:Wait a second. on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is the first and perhaps the last time I will complain about moderation but...
    WHAT? how is this a troll? The 9th circuit ruled in this case. The 9th circuit IS the most overturned court in the country. Informative perhaps?

  2. Re:Good on 9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use · · Score: 1

    The logical equivalent of a 30 second music clip is to display a portion of the normal resolution image.
    The court addressed this in their finding that just happened to be linked to the Slashdot article. You read one more time, or perhaps first time. Learn much about US District court Mr. AC man.

  3. Re:Taxes, or tourism? on Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi · · Score: 1

    I am guessing that other than by taxes, the biggest way they are paying for all of this is from tourism...

    I'm guessing you didn't know the link goes to a story which tells you they are paying for it by selling .nu domain names.

  4. Re:Similar but not the same on Red Hat License Challenged · · Score: 1

    It is also a "Subscription Agreement." If you are not Subscribing, they can't hold you to a Subscription Agreement. I do agree that the wording is confusing... Perhaps on purpose.

  5. Re:Similar but not the same on Red Hat License Challenged · · Score: 1

    I understand your point, it clearly states "use or purchase," however, it is also clearly a "Subscription Agreement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux." The wording is deceptive but If you don't purchase the Subscription Service, they can't hold you to the Subscription Agreement.

    IANAL (yet)

  6. Re:Similar but not the same on Red Hat License Challenged · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is exactly what it is. If you want support for ten servers then you have to buy support for ten servers. If they didn't license there support that way companies would buy one support contract and use it for all there servers. Don't want the support contract? Don't buy it. You can still install Red Hat on all your servers for free.

    Disclaimer. I own Red Hat stock

  7. Re:Second hard disk + Linux on The Little Coder's Predicament · · Score: 1


    Would you let a 12 year old child replace the alternator in your car?


    By the time I was 12 my dad would ask me how to replace the alternator on his car. It was easier to do it myself.

  8. Re:never been but would love to finish up my degre on Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? · · Score: 1

    I had civilians in all my classes but you would have to check on the current rules. The German government was starting to enforce quite a few rules concerning taxes etc when I left a few years ago.

  9. Re:never been but would love to finish up my degre on Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? · · Score: 1

    I think I detect sarcasm here but yes. The University of Maryland has a full campus in Germany as do many other schools.

  10. Re:never been but would love to finish up my degre on Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? · · Score: 1

    It depends on what kind of classes you want to take. Embry-Riddle has a very good online program. They also have an extended campus at almost every US military base in Germany.

  11. Face Time on Do Online Schools Provide A Quality Education? · · Score: 1

    I take some of my classes at an extended campus and some of them online. The online classes are good for classes where I just need to pay for a couple of credits but for the most part, I don't get as much out of them. Most of professors also offer versions of their classes online. I have had the same professors for both regular and on-line classes and I definatly liked the regular classes better. Some professors put quite a bit into their online classes and others don't do anything but give you a grade at the end. For my general education requirments, I would much rather take the class online because it requires almost no effort and I'm not going to learn anything in an "introduction to computers" class. Essentaly I am paying for the credits. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to take aviation law or aviation maintenance managment online. Sometimes "face time" is important and sometimes it is a waste of time.

  12. Re:SCO still packs a punch? on SCO SCO SCO! · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm going to the store to buy lots of tinfoil, who wants a hat?

    You can't just make your own hat and expect it to meet FCC guidlines. Buy an approved Tinfoil Hat tm here

  13. Re:Earth Governments Are Fools on Defense Dept. Memo Explains Open Source Policy · · Score: 4, Informative

    It wasn'ta toilet, it was a toilet seat. The seats in question were for C-130 aircraft and had to meet a shitload of specs. I woked for the company that made them (Middle River Aircraft Systems)and saw the specs for them. Quit inane, as many aircraft specs are..

  14. Re:That has a genius to it on PeltierBeer · · Score: 1

    square?

  15. Re:There's this nifty thing available ... on PeltierBeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    you put my beer in vacume then I kill you.

  16. Re:You can't patent a business process on Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    You aren't allowed to patent a business process (i.e. "the assembly line")
    Courts ruled you could in 1998. Personaly I think the courts in question were smoking crack.

  17. IPV6 on Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo · · Score: 1

    How about patenting the concept of porting a way of auctioning things over the internet from IPV4 to IPV6?

  18. I don't get it on Online Auction Industry In A State Of Limbo · · Score: 1

    How can having a fixed price on something that also has a variable price be patentable? Even worse, how can it be held up in court?

  19. Re:Hoover dam will stand 1800 years! on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    How does any of this prove that the dam is fully cured?

  20. Re:i am chinese and i am pretty impressed on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    It is not so much the static pressure of the water but the dynamic pressure that will be created by mudslides creating pressure waves.

  21. Re:Very informative article, glad to have read it on Today's SCO News · · Score: 1

    Somehow there is an extra 50,000 euros in this translation.

    Someone added the "court costs" into the english translation that you copied and then you added them again as 'procedure value.'

  22. Re:The name of the simulation program is... on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there a port for Linux?

  23. Re:In 877 years I will be dead on Simulation Of An Asteroid Impact In The Year 2880 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess men will have to grow another hand...

  24. Re:And the undocumented feature... on AirTraf 802.11b Security Package · · Score: 1

    And it's open source so it would take about a day for someone to start wondering what that bit of code was for.

  25. Re:Seems thin... on Review Mandrake Linux 9.1 Power Pack Edition · · Score: 1

    I'm not a linux geek but I play one on slashdot.