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  1. Re:Profits.... on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're right. The RIAA isn't a monopoly. It's a cartel.

  2. Re:Also OT but Oregon-related... on Oregon's Open Source Bill Stalled by Microsoft · · Score: 1

    A judge ruled he has to be presented to the Grand Jury by 25 April.

  3. Best answer is to #4 on Princeton CS Prof Edward W. Felten (Almost) Live · · Score: 1

    "I hate to dodge your question, but I'm not really qualified to say whether what the clone makers did would be legal under 2003 law."

    A wise man is one who is not afraid to say "I don't know". I'm glad he respected us enough to say that instead of trying to BS us.

  4. Re:Easy way out on Spiderman, Sony vs Marvel · · Score: 1

    You mean like Ace and Gary, the Ambiguously Gay Duo?

  5. Re:Obvious question... on SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2 · · Score: 1

    Has anyone here had a GOOD experience with any SCO products?

    Actually, yeah. I had an OpenDesktop 2.0 box running as a departmental development server that ran for 7 years straight (only downtime was adding more disk space) from 1992 to 1999, until we mothballed the thing (a 486/33 just wasn't cutting it any more...).

  6. T-Bird is alive and well on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1

    Ford re-released the T-Bird (in roadster style) last year! They aren't all up on blocks!

  7. Re:Now we know how on Wired on Hollywood's Elite Message Boards · · Score: 1

    Zoom in on a house in L.A. (mine)
    Noooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Zoom out to the whole city

    oooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Zoom out to the whole west coast

    ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Zoom out to the whole North American continent

    oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    Zoom out to the ... well you get the idea.... Zoom to a planet in a distant galaxy

    oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    Two aliens are standing on that planet./I

    Alien 1 (to alien 2): Did you hear something?

  8. Re:Indie labels? Here's one better! on Indies Blossoming Despite RIAA · · Score: 1

    Don't just sit there, man! Spill the beans! How do you get the best encodes?

  9. Re:what else does it say? on eBay Revises, Explains Its Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but they put a description of the changes (in plain English) in FAQs, which the email linked to.

  10. Duck Dodgers on Rebuilding Iraq's Internet · · Score: 1


    I guess we could register drhi.iq for the Secretary of the Stratosphere!

  11. Re:Like luxury liners, their time has run out on Concorde to be Grounded · · Score: 1

    Hey, no prob... in the words of Dennis Miller, "I could be wrong" (tm).

  12. Re:Like luxury liners, their time has run out on Concorde to be Grounded · · Score: 1

    But with a few accidents

    You mean "exactly one accident", don't you?

  13. Re:My God. on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 2, Funny


    Except, as we all know, the Canadian Km is worth only about 70% of a US KM!
    </HUMOR>

  14. Re:Hmm on Ender's Game Influences US Army Training · · Score: 1

    Aren't you dead?

    (Yes, I stole that line from STII, but it fit)

  15. Re:Excellent site on NARA Goes Online · · Score: 1

    "forefathers" isn't in it.

    Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent...

  16. Re:New Rules on Interwoven Patents Code Versioning · · Score: 1

    Highest moderated comments are then re-submitted to the USPO, with a summarized recommendation based on all mid-high moderated comments

    Yeah, but does the USPTO really care about Natalie Portman, All Your Base, or SOVIET RUSSIA?

  17. Re:hrm on Berman Bill Dead in the Water? · · Score: 1

    No, I just got bored with it. But it's nice to know that someone appreciated it!

  18. Re:His top contributors: on Berman Bill Dead in the Water? · · Score: 1

    Disney (Burbank) and Vivendi Universal (Universal Studios Hollywood -- Universal City), Time Warner (WB Studios) are all in his district.

  19. Re:I hope this has any affect... on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 1

    the argument that if the spam promotes Sears' products, that they are likely the originators

    I'm wondering if I should start forwarding all my "Buy Norton SystemWorks 2003" spam to abuse@symantec.com

    Do you think it'll have any effect?

  20. Re:Michigander on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 1

    Hell, I posted a comment about that, and I'm from L.A.!! Of course, I posted after you guys...

    Is Timothy in Michigan? I know Taco is, and Taco should have caught it (yeah, right)...

  21. Michiganian? [OT] on Michigander Beats Spammer With "Junk Fax" Law · · Score: 1

    I thought you guys were Michiganders???

    [self-modded -1: Off Topic by the "No Karma Bonus" selection]

  22. Re:hrm on Berman Bill Dead in the Water? · · Score: 1

    Yep. My sig used to read, "This post Copyright (c) 2002 by Amazing Quantum Man. I reserve the right to hack the MPAA or RIAA to search for illegal copies." (or some 120 character abbreviation thereof).

  23. OT:LA Times password - 2nd tier Karma Whoring on Berman Bill Dead in the Water? · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the LA Times marketing department thinks about all those 90 year-old Female CEOs living in Afghanistan?

  24. Re:This one's easy to explain... on Lawyers Say Hackers Are Sentenced Too Harshly · · Score: 1

    Most politicians are lawyers!

  25. Re:a few arrests in the States... on U of Wyoming Fingerprinting All P2P Traffic · · Score: 1

    Secure key exchange was solved long ago.