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  1. Re:Good thing Linux isn't a GNU project on IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and wouldn't it be tax-deductible?

  2. Re:Possibly the best news ever... on IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement · · Score: 1
    RTFGPL.
    4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in full compliance.

    (Emphasis added.)

  3. Re:Lame article on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    There's a Republic of Taiwan?

  4. Re:Lame article on Writing Software for Worldwide Distribution Proves Difficult · · Score: 1

    Longitude and latitude. Screw usability.

  5. Good? on Need A New Retina? Look No Further · · Score: 1

    Since when are human eyes good?

  6. It's simple, really. on LOAF - Distributed Social Networking Over Email · · Score: 1

    If you're the type of person who would use something like Friendster (and not the type of person who would go to a bar very much), then you are more likely to meet people like yourself using Friendster than going to a bar.

  7. Re:Forking? on Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune? · · Score: 1
    Who says the patents have to be held by MySQL AB? MySQL probably *already* violates a number of software patents.

    MySQL AB would be in a better position to acquire new patents and cross-license with the other patent holders than most people who would fork MySQL.

  8. Re:Forking? on Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune? · · Score: 1

    I didn't say the patents were held by MySQL AB.

  9. Re:Should We Fear? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 1
    DES was never broken; its keyspace was just too small. It's not that hard to make an encryption algorithm more secure.

    Oh my. If you truly believe that, I suggest you read some of Bruce Schneier's writings. This is a good start.

  10. Re:Should We Fear? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's not quite so simple.

    I don't know about other public-key algorithms, but with RSA, the numeric value of your message must be less than the modulus. So if you want to directly sign a 100 MB file with a 2048-bit RSA key, you have to split the 100 MB file into at least 390625 separate messages, and sign them individually. Even then, you run into problems with people re-ordering your messages, so you'd have to insert some sort of sequence-numbered header into each sub-message to prevent that.

    With that many signatures and a predetermined header format, you start giving out an awful lot of data to perform known ciphertext attacks on.

  11. Re:Happy for holes? on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 1

    Heh. Now I can repudiate that bad contract I signed with PGP! ;-)

  12. Re:ec7b19b60e616fb1c6013d4ada83ec32 on SHA-0 Broken, MD5 Rumored Broken · · Score: 1
    "No, no, it's called expert"

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  13. Re:Forking? on Is MySQL Planning a Change of Tune? · · Score: 0

    Probably not. MySQL is most probably patented in the US.

  14. Re:I would be scared on 3D Holograms Detect Fake Signatures · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but my signature is visibly different every time I write it.

  15. MBA Action 2004 on Stunning, Classic Computer Console, from 1958? · · Score: 1

    Where is this "MBA Action 2004" game? I want it, but Google turns up nothing.

  16. Re:RTFA'd on QuakeCon id Software Keynote Coverage · · Score: 1
    ...they should explore using a downloader client to download an encrypted version of the game to the local system, then allow people to purchase the keys that unlock the game on release day...

    Unfortunately, a number of shortsighted politicians are preventing that from being deployed commercially on a worldwide scale.

  17. Re:Sick of lies about Ownership Costs on Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership · · Score: 1

    Maybe not, but you can certainly 0wn it.

  18. Re:Java programmer's viewpoint on The Python Paradox, by Paul Graham · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The fact that you exist does not disprove the statistical proposition (i.e. that the average Python programmer is smarter than the average Java programmer).

  19. Re:Yea on The Python Paradox, by Paul Graham · · Score: 1
    That's the wrong screwdriver. What you meant was:

    I only need one screwdriver.

  20. Re:Yea on The Python Paradox, by Paul Graham · · Score: 1
    they think programmers could be replaced by robots (or monkeys).

    Take a look around you. A lot of programmers could be replaced by robots or monkeys.

  21. Re:Uh...Legal? on XP SP2 Torrent Shows Legal P2P's Promise · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that already happen in the US?

  22. Human lives at stake? on Fed-Up Hospitals Defy Windows Patching Rules · · Score: 1
    Unfortunately, the stakes here could be human lives.

    If that's true, then somebody is guilty of criminal negligence.

  23. NVIDIA Gives Details... on NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6 · · Score: 1

    For a second there, I thought were going to see enough technical details to write drivers (heaven forbid!) for the hardware.

  24. Re:Darkened room = less need for this mod on Marine Finds Duct Tape on Mars · · Score: 1

    Perhaps that was patented 3 years ago.

  25. Re:Could this... on Disney Suggests Mandating DRM On All Media · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, you'd get charged criminally.