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  1. Re:questions about the campaign. on Ask the 'Geek Candidate' for California Governor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    since california depends on illegal immigrants for it's "lowly" jobs - many of which are high risk - do you instead support high quality health care for any of those immigrants who end up in hospital and paying for that by FINING THEIR EMPLOYERS?

  2. Re:I changed my mind. Simpler is better. on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    on the linux side you can just use tmda.net for challenge response.

  3. wait... on IBM Gets AS/400 Running On PlayStation · · Score: 4, Funny

    ok, first ibm support linux. then they port as/400 to the playstation. meanwhile sun is pissing on linux in cowardly ways.

    ibm is supposed to be full of boring suits. sun is supposed to have the hackers. it was all so much simpler back in 1993, what went wrong?

  4. other ways... on Does Open Source Need a Red Team? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    red team sounds like something a closed package would need. linux and other free software offer additional options for testing. openbsd does a continuous code audit. linux has the kernel janitors. in addition there are numerous citations for fuzz - here's one.

    i get the idea you want a company to do all this work and then place a certification on distros or packages. you confuse the issue with the buzzword scented "red team" references, but it really sounds like you want to use the services of such a company - or create one and create buzz for such a company.

  5. hm... on Workgroup Messaging? · · Score: 1, Informative

    step 1: hire a real network admin
    step 2: have them assess your network and software
    step 3: let them get the software you need and configure it correctly.

    note, none of these steps is "come up with stupid kludges that don't scale, work or really solve the problem."

    btw, this question is one proof for the rathe simple equation "muppet != technical person."

  6. thank you on Red Hat Sues SCO, Sets Up Legal Fund · · Score: 1

    thanks to redhat for the lawsuit. i hope other companies can do their own actions.

  7. Re:Go China! on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    kent state, african-americans, iraq, vietnam, an insanely high prison population...

    but they have the american flag so "usa! usa! usa!" who cares about people's lives?

  8. Re:Define "many" on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 1

    neat. thanks. i take it your lack of response on the other points means you agree. good to see a person admit they're wrong.

  9. Re:Mostly Redundant... on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 1

    principal, principle, they're the same thing, aren't they?

  10. Re:Define "many" on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 2, Interesting

    apparently the laptop manufacturer didn't think $199 was a good price. they initially valued it at $10.

    and while i'm glad you've emerged from your cave - find any good paintings? - you might check some back issues of trade rags. ms has had a history of trying to block computer manufacturers from selling machines without windows.

  11. Re:Refunds? on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 1

    not only that, but it's $199 off of any laptop. that kind of rocks.

  12. Re:system accounting on Placing a Dollar Value on System Usage? · · Score: 1

    yes, which was kind of covered with "using the system accounting tools in most unix/linux systems."

  13. system accounting on Placing a Dollar Value on System Usage? · · Score: 4, Informative

    they use freebsd. so they're probably using the system accounting tools in most unix/linux systems. see the accton(8), lastcomm(1), acct(2), acct(5) and sa(8) man pages.

  14. Re:I did read the article.... on More on the Tango Electric Car · · Score: 1

    all day at speed? but you can't get that from your gas car. i drive a car with ok fuel economy and frequently drive from galway to dublin and back. that's about 300 miles (a 6 to 8 hour drive). i might be able to make it with a single tank (~10 gallons) but it would be close.

    otoh i have a silly commute. if i worked in galway city i'd have a 40 - 60 mile round trip (depending where in the city i worked). easily in the tango range - particularly if i could recharge at work.

  15. Re:Hello, SCO? on SCO Awarded UNIX Copyright Regs, McBride Interview · · Score: 1

    this is an excellent idea. i think some states require a seller to fully disclose what they are selling. the key is to find such a state, buy a unixware license for linux and then sue sco for non-disclosure.

  16. Re:Nonsense. on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    yes, make world will create those. but you can just type X (or maybe X :0) all on its own. and if you do that, you get the stiple and the big ol' x cursor.

  17. Re:Nonsense. on Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM · · Score: 1

    no, that's xinit. xterm is a client. x* is the server.

    * properly called "the x window system" blah blah blah.

  18. sigh. on Managing Multiple User Profiles in Windows XP? · · Score: 0, Troll

    i wonder if carpenters gnash their teeth when people ask how to put screws in with a hammer.

    you're using the wrong tool.

  19. robots.txt and no caching on Web Caching: Google vs. The New York Times · · Score: 1
    from that link it doesn't seem possible to set a site-wide policy on caching. with robots.txt you can stop google from crawling your site. and with meta-tags you can block caching. but you can't set a site-wide policy.

    be nice if you could specify something like:

    User-agent: Googlebot
    Disallow: /*.gif$
    Policy: nocache
    No-Cache: *.html$

    that's two examples, one or the other would be nice.

  20. Re:Not true. on Netscape Founder Says Web Browsing Innovation Dead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    yes. there is a creative way to teach people new features. it involves clear and concise writing and putting it in an accessible format. the name for this creative work is "the manual."

    anything worth doing takes a bit of work. not excessive work, but you still have to do a bit.

  21. i found the code! on Darl McBride Interview · · Score: 2, Funny

    go read /etc/termcap:

    # Some information has been merged in from a terminfo file SCO distributes.
    # It has an obnoxious boilerplate copyright which I'm ignoring because they
    # took so much of the content from the ancestral BSD versions of this file
    # and didn't attribute it, thereby violating the BSD Regents' copyright.

    sco's been trying to hide the infringing code. now i've found it so i get to put words in mcbride's mouth: curses! foiled again.

    this is such silly evidence that it proves what we've known all along - sco is in terminal condition.

  22. oh neat! some other ideas! on Christian Videogame Alternatives Explored · · Score: 2, Insightful

    how about a game where you travel through europe and gather what you need to fight in the crusades. once there you can kill all arab looking men, women and children! it could be called "grand theft holy lands!"

    oh how about one where you apply different methods of torture to various non-believers to extract confessions of blasphamy, demon worship and sin! it could be called "simquisition!"

    or "simquisition ii" where you extract confessions of whitchcraft from women and children in the new world!

    god, this whole field is wide open!

    "preacher-craft" where you wander around giving hate-filled speeches in tent revivals, on radio and tv. you gather wealth and gain health points from the suicides and murders of gays, lesbians, blacks, immigrants and non-believers.

  23. Re:Nothing... on U.S. E-Commerce Sites To Collect EU VAT · · Score: 2, Insightful

    let me get this straight. the swedish vat is 25%. the price of the widget in sweden with vat is SEK 620. the price in america w/o any tax is SEK 350. if the price in america were to have swedish vat on it, it would cost SEK 437.50.

    so that means that even with vat, the makers of the widget are jacking the price up about 42%.

    sorry to muddle the discussion with silly things like math, but i guess i'd just wonder why you aren't more annoyed at american companies ripping you off then at the rate your gov't charges for vat.

  24. Re:What's next? on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1

    better yet, just wait for the bush administration to destroy the caribu's environment and then they're all weak!

  25. all the better to commit war crimes with... on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 1

    sigh.