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  1. Re:sco has airbrushed his RED HAT out on The Most Famous Geek in IT · · Score: 2, Funny

    SCO has airbrushed his RED HAT out- some significance perhaps...?

    I noticed that.. So did my wife who laughed at it, even she got the joke

  2. I Got Sued By SCO...... on SCO Roundup · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anyone have a guess as to who these McBride sources are? My hunch is Miss Cleo. And we certainly don't want to mash the SCO executives into a bloody pulp, either. I pictured an IBM semi-trailer rumbling down the highway, with an SCO chicken (looked like Darl with feathers) standing at the other end of a straight, squaking furiously at the oncoming behemoth. The chicken doesn't stand a chance.

    http://www.rageagainst.net/links.php

  3. Re:Contract Broken, CSS Key Should Be Public Domai on DeCSS Loses Free Speech Shield · · Score: 1

    3. When technology moves on and the last DVD player dies, all these pieces of plastic will be worthless, useless, and their contents lost, without this key. It stands to reason that the public good requires that custody of the key belongs with the DVD owners, not the MPAA.

    You just created a brainspark for me... This is one of the reasons the *AA's want these kinds of laws. When CD's and DVD's move on, they want to be able to reissue all there copyright material into the new format, rather than have up "copy" it yourself.

    If its purely digitial data, you will have no drop in quaility and you wont need to repurchase the goods again and reprive them of the funds to keep the lie going.

  4. Re:Working at home on A Real Living With Virtual Goods · · Score: 1

    Hell I think I know him as well :) or somebody else who has done exactly the same thing!

  5. Re:What is the jurisdiction here? on Australian Federal Court Overturns Legal Modchip Sales · · Score: 1

    could be overturned by the hourse of lords in England

    Australia's access to the Privy Council was removed in the 80's

  6. Re:Fair Use? on Cringely Proposes a Music Sharing Alternative · · Score: 1

    The sad thing is, when I first saw that picture I was feeling uneasy... now I just feel nothing.. you insensitive clod!

  7. Re:I love the ACCC on Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO · · Score: 1

    Already retired.. 30th June.. A Costello Corporate Whore already appointed over NSW, QLD wishes

  8. Re:Lack of Ethics displayed in this article on CEOs Of The Motherboard Market Talk Shop · · Score: 1

    When I clicked on the a link (the word "business" in CEO#2's reply, I thought I would find out what company he was from, instead it sends you to a big popup window for Microsoft. You must be running some funky addin because there was not any "business" link on my webpage

  9. Re:While people are stuck with IPv4 on Dutch Experimental IPv6 MP3 Stream Relay · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about this the other night... I have been doing some coding about this to figure out how viable.

    It is pretty easy to do, you just need the protocol to tell the listener where to pick up the stream from and what to do when it gets disconnected

  10. Re:Australia Post on USPS To Provide Personal Identity Certification · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Australia Post actually did issue X509 certificates, I still have the floppy disk. I think in the end they issues around 500 certificates because nobody was using them as nobody had the hardware needed to support the backend processing (AP wanted dedicated links in the backend servers to the ROOT cert).

    It eventually failed and has never been heard from again. I do remember them sending me a email telling me it was going to be dismantled and I had 12 months more use of my certificate for free.

    They also used physical presence ID checks, and I remember walking in my country post office and the postal person looking at me as if I had horns growing out of my head. I was the only person who ever approached him about getting the certificate to this day.

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  11. Star Stuff on Knowledge by Ear? · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio

    1 Hour of space stuff, each week.

  12. Re:bandwidth? on Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP · · Score: 1

    Uncompressed Audio (g.711) = 64k channel total for transmit and recieve

  13. Re:802.11 cordless phone. on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/28/HNciscop hone_1.html?networking

    Dream Answered

  14. Re:What is dismaying... on Sun Sued Over H1-B Workers · · Score: 2, Interesting
    H1B workers replacing American programmers is wrong. How can anyone justify adding an American worker to the unemployment queue for the sake of a cheaper, more captive immigrant worker is beyond me. Nothing against the visa holder who are motivated to advance and excel in a profession they desire, but not while skilled Americans are shuffled out of jobs and/or forced to work for lower wages due to the addition of a contrived, more captive, more restricted IT worker poll.

    The gall of Americans to feel that our government owes us anything. This is going to be a karma burn, but I feel so heated about it, I'm willing to take the chance.

    Its called The Market Economy and Capitalism. The whole US economy is built around the presumption that if you can increase supply by lowering costs then do it. All that matters is the profit at the end of the day, and American Workers are Human Capital.

    Capital should under all economic doctrines be replaced by capital that is cheaper and can work more efficiently.

    This is exactly what the H1B workers do for the US economy, so as far as the government is concerned (especially our current administration) this is a fantastic thing.

    This isn't how I personally feel (guess I'm not so right winged) but its how most business people feel that I have met over the last year or so.

  15. Re:Fonts and copyright (or PATENTS) on Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World · · Score: 1

    As for copyrights, I was under the impression that a typeface could be protected under copyright as it is an artistic expression. Does anybody have a good reference page for copyright?

    From my research, it seems that is not 100% true. The issue comes down to the words and the fonts which means the layout is the thing that becomes copyrightable, rather than just the typeface. The reason Apple has so successfully challenged people using their "standard" font base is because they argue that the layout of the words and the look of those said words are copyright.

  16. Release timescale on Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of those toys were meant to be released last year, but I have not seen them available. I really could use the wireless/bluetooth one at the end, as my space I have available for my computers is being reduced by another human being born into the world.

    Anyway my *icrosoft ergo keyboard is looking very tattered and worn out!

  17. Re:Care to provide a link? on Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie =UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=J%2EHoward%2EMP%40aph%2Egov%2Eau

    Seems to work fine for me without a problem

  18. Email Address on Competition To Find Aussie PM's Email Address · · Score: 5, Informative

    J.Howard.MP@aph.gov.au

    Taken from an old usenet posting when he was still a MP, and it doesn't bounce, so I'm assuming its good

  19. Re:January 2nd on The 20th Anniversary of the Internet · · Score: 1

    And on the 3rd day he rested because he looked into the future and decided the whole thing was a waste of energy and would wipe out all his followers. This he considered a bad thing and didn't take this evolution any further sending us all back to the middle ages.

  20. Outsourcing on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1
    As a Manager who was part of the rush to outsource everything overseas to a cheaper country, I feel I was part of the issue that has caused America to loose its technological edge.

    Companies see themselves as Multinational, not really caring where the breakthrough or new development is created because it benefits them no matter where in the world it is created, and if they can have it created for less money but still selling it to the same first class markets (First World Markets) then to the company it doesn't matter.

    We developed many products outside the United States that could has easily been developed inside there but for 3 times the money and are now selling these products for the same price points as if they where developed inside the United States which allows us to make 3 times a much profit.

    What I didn't foresee was this exact situation arising, which is the country I live in loosing its technological power because people like me, in some small way, have allowed the other competing countries to get a handle on the experience and knowledge that we have over the last 20 years built up.

    Now I fear my fellow executives have become too addicted to the gravy that flows from this process and it will be very difficult to bring it back to the way it used to be, even if people are willing to pay more for the product, because all they will do is continue making it and developing it outside and charge your more.

    Just my 2c worth

  21. Re:We're just not quite there yet on Sharing a SCSI Drive Between Two Boxes Using Linux? · · Score: 1

    Does the word "DOH!" mean anything to you. This is available in free linux implementations with restricted subsets, and for a reasonable price for full implementations...

    Doh Doh Doh doh Doh Doh doh!

  22. QSig on Using VoIP to Connect Phones Between Offices? · · Score: 1

    Don't go the hard way.. Just set up a QSIG link into your favourite Cisco router and bind the GRE tunnel between the two QSIG links over the WAN or LAN via whatever method you choose.

    I have installed around 40 PBX PBX systems this way and its so easy because all newish PBX systems support QSIG

  23. Re:insanity on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 1

    If you had worked in Singapore, you would have seen the t-shirts with the money with a cross through it with "Fine City" underneath it.

    Singpore "Fines" you for just about everything you do, there for "Fine City"

  24. Re:insanity on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 1

    [ A law that says you can't chew with your mouth open? ]

    Ahhh Singapore! Its a Fine City

  25. Re:Modchips aren't illegal? on Australian Federal Court Finds Mod Chips Not Illegal · · Score: 1

    Then you have a claim against Customs. Follow the procedure on the customs website and you will get action. Sony hasn't appealed to the High Court yet, and I doubt they will because they know it will be not given a stay. The High Court just figures out if there was a breach in the law, and from all accounts, this looks as legal as legal can be!