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  1. Re:Mono vs Wine on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I read the link the first time, and again I will ask - why mono and not wine?

  2. Re:It's A Trap on Miguel De Icaza On Mono, Moonlight, and Gnome · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/mono As this blog post explains, while the current software patent situation exists, Mono is an unacceptable risk.

    What makes Mono an 'unacceptable risk' but allows Wine to become one of the most often praised open source projects on Slashdot?

  3. Re:Efficiency. on "Mobile Plate Hunter" Cameras Raise Questions · · Score: 1

    managing those cases in the traditional manner (probably a letter to the residence of the owner)

    And what happens to all those vehicles that don't have insurance or valid registration, and also the new owner hasn't updated the vehicles owners details with the state? Its more prevelent than you think.

  4. Re:people just need to know on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    Your contract doesn't contain the totality of what you need to know about a product. Your purchase contract does not tell you about the deficiencies or limitations of the iPhone or Macintosh.

    In the context we are talking about here, the contract contained everything relevent to the current discussion - tethering is not allowed.

    As for your other irrelevent mumblings, I never buy on the day of release and I always test drive.

    I'm don't have to cry to anybody: I did look at the iPhone in detail, I did read the restrictions and limitations, and I concluded that it's an overpriced piece of shit. And to save other people the trouble of wasting as much time as I did with doing so, I'm sharing my conclusions.

    So we should all just bow to your superior knowledge that the iPhone is 'an overpriced piece of shit'? There are many people that would disagree with you.

    Once again, you can take your stereotypes and stick them up your arse. You made an assumption, one that is totally false.

  5. Re:people just need to know on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    Wow, do you live on sterotypes or are you just an asshole? I read everything I sign, electronically or not, EULAs included. I make informed choices, which is why I am pissed off that no one else seemingly can take responsibility for their own actions - a contract is something you read before you sign it, so stop crying to your mother when you find out it covers something you don't like.

  6. Really peeps... on 2008 Mozilla Summit Affected By Rock Slide · · Score: 4, Funny

    This isn't something you want women to read :)

  7. Re:I have a solution.... on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 1

    Nothing, except Slashdotters seem to forget that most people and corporations are not malicious.

  8. Re:Pretty Clear on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    It would be theft of service, if your service contract forbids tethering.

  9. Re:people just need to know on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 1

    You don't like their terms, don't use their product.

    Exactly. And in order to ensure that as many people as possible know about Apple's restrictions and the consequences of those restrictions before they get locked into a contract, we keep talking about it.

    You know, if people just fucking read the shit they sign, you wouldn't have to waste your breath talking about it.

    But oh no, its the big bad corporations fault for the crap people lock themselves into...

  10. Re:I got mine on iPhone Tethering App Released, Killed In 2 Hours · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Then they will be getting a letter from my lawyer regarding the £5.99 I paid for the app.

  11. Re:Can somebody explain TFA to me? on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft playing with strict rules would mean something. Microsoft playing with no rules means nothing.

    And by 'strict rules', you mean your rules and no one elses.

  12. Re:Anti-Linux? on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You seem to be talking about Open Source as one single entity - it isn't, and it never will be. What Apache are doing is nothing more than ensuring they can increase their own market share by having their products run well on all platforms. Whats wrong with that?

    Should Apache 'take one for the "team"'? No.

  13. Re:I have a solution.... on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Infact, such an act would probably end up with them being held in contempt of court of the original ruling, let alone this case.

  14. Re:Not a good use of law on In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress · · Score: 1

    And laws banning smoking are also something I am against - especially as you say people ignored the voluntary bans, showing that the people were against them...

  15. Not a good use of law on In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress · · Score: 1

    Seriously, this is not something that should ever be legislated about - its a decision to be taken by the individual airlines based on feedback from their customers, not something they should be bound to enforce. What next, body odour legislation?

  16. Re:Want DRM? Support it! on Yahoo Offers Compensation For Unplayable Music · · Score: 1

    The problem (if it is a problem?) is is that Copyright law does not state that you are entitled to a free and unrestricted copy of the item when copyright expires on it, it only states that the rights holder loses the entitlement to decide distribution of said item.

    Put simply, the creator is under no obligation to ensure that you have access to anything after the copyright expires - as it should be. Copyright expiration does not prevent a copyright holder from continuing to distribute restricted copies - again, as it should be.

    The onus in all cases is on you, yourself, to provide yourself with an unrestricted copy.

  17. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    No it doesn't, all that setting does is remove from the results your bookmarks and links you have clicked on (I think) - it still searches the titles of pages you have entered the URL for.

  18. Re:Awesome bar disable: on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    *sigh* someone always posts this - all that addon does is make it *look* like the old bar, it doesn't change the behaviour.

  19. Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does it contain the ability to disable the 'Awesome Bar' completely?

  20. Re:awesome... on VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today · · Score: 1

    I currently have HyperV running on a Dell Vostro 200 (Core 2 Duo E8300, 4GB ram), with 3 Windows 2008 and one Windows 2003 VM running full time (and under load).

    I will agree that the RCs were pigs, and Windows 2008 RTM did not include the final version of HyperV - if you grabbed the right update, it worked peachly however.

    HyperV RTM was released a few weeks back, and was a simple update through Windows Update - it works a *lot* better than the RCs, and has sped things up as well.

  21. Re:awesome... on VMware ESXi Available For Free Starting Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uhm, HyperV is not VirtualPC - its completely different (although it can use VirtualPC and VirtualServer images if you really want it to).

    HyperV does have multiple LAN segments (with the ability to setup routing between as required) and unlimited snapshots are available as standard, to respond to both your issues.

  22. Re:"environmentally benign"? WHY? on Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Problem is, if 'cheaper' is your first goal, then your second goal which costs money for no operational benefit simply won't get started on.

  23. Re:Russia is the pioneer here... on EU and Russia Show Off New Lunar Spacecraft Design · · Score: 1

    The HTV (aside from being seriously behind schedule, as it was originally supposed to fly in 2001), can move 7,600kg to the ISS.

    The ATV can also carry 7,600KG, accessible through the 'severely limited' APAS hatch...

    Constellations cargo variant was deleted from the contract with Lockheed in April 2007.

    Now, the CBM hatch is good for bulky payloads, but its advantages are not head and shoulders above the currently available cargo vehicles.

  24. Re:What is wrong? It is for only some weeks. on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    That doesn't mean anyone is going to take the service - so again, this is the only guaranteed period.

  25. Re:What is wrong? It is for only some weeks. on Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World? · · Score: 1

    The only guaranteed period is the games - theres no guarantee the campus will be reused, even if that is the plan.