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  1. Re:huh? on Microsoft Helping Nigeria Fight Scammers · · Score: 1

    What's funny is you can post this to any article on Microsoft, and it will be fully accurate and modded up as insightful. You can also replace Microsoft with something on topic in the article, and you have a reply that works anywhere

  2. Re:Politics? on Microsoft Spinning Against OpenDocument Via Fox News · · Score: 1

    yes, and we call it slashdot

  3. Re:As a certain Fark.com Cliche would say... on OSDL Skeptical Of Joint Study with Microsoft · · Score: 1

    IBM, Red Hat, Novell are all competitors, yet they manage to work together very well. In most circumstances, competitors are friendly with each other, they can be adversaries while remaining curteous and friendly.

    In this case though, Microsoft has shown itself time and time again that it can not be trusted. They see their competition not as adversaries, but as enemies.

  4. Re:Confused? on Linux Trademark Fun Continues · · Score: 1

    Only if you want to trademark your name

  5. Re:The opposite will happen! on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    For a console where the owner doesn't choose the hardware, and has everything in it to kill off a PC. A name for it, hmm...

    How about calling it a Mac?

  6. Re:Related info on Massachusetts Drops Hammer on Spam Gang · · Score: 5, Informative

    The home in Mas. is his mother's address. In 2001, when I knew Leo, he had an apartment and an office in Montreal, Canada. His main partner at the time had already been deported to Russia. The guy will do anything for money, including.

    That partner dealt heavily in trafficking of Child Pornography, and while I was working at 2k Services, even considered doing it through the office (I didn't find out about that until after I'd quit).

    He also runs online casinos with his own software that's got quite a record on Casino Meister

    His partner runs top100.org (including all the other domains on the same software) which is where a lot of child pornography gets trafficked.

    I used to work for Leo Kuvayev at 2k Services/ECash Services. I am grateful I quit years ago to move onto better jobs. I hope he and his partners end up behind bars. They have no ethics.

  7. Re:What is a "privilege log"? on SCO Missing 16,209 Files? · · Score: 1

    Yes, the privileg log does list privileged documents, but grandfather was refering to the documents that are no longer on the list, and as such, SCO are no longer claiming privilege. It is these documents that IBM will want to see

  8. Re:Scary Stuff on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 1

    In a way, you're right, it's about bogus calculations, but that's pretty much exactly what the "odds" are talking about. the odds have changed, because the odds are only what we perceive them to be, like a sports bookie. No-one knows what the "real odds" are, only what we can calculate them to be. If a burst happened 5000 light years away, 4000 years ago, and the polar is pointing right at us, the odds of us getting hit 1000 years from now would be 100%. It's like an asteroid hitting us. Sure, we have calcualted odds, but if we were to get hit by an asteroid, the events setting in motion the path of the asteroid would go back billions of years, and had anyone known about that asteroid and had the capacity to make the calculations, someone could have said "This asteroid will impact Earth in 3.8 billion years". The real odds determined by nature are already determined. Either we will or we won't get hit. Nature knows, but isn't going to tell us. If we had absolute knowledge of every molecule, every atom, every neutron, everything, we could calculate the odds to 0% or 100%

  9. Re:Is it just me... on Microsoft Encarta Adopting Wikiesque Process · · Score: 1

    How quickly we forget. You should apply as a Slashdot editor

    From Yesterday

  10. Re:Oh great... on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't know what's funnier, the timing on that April Fool's joke, or that parent is modded Informative

  11. Re:Freedom matters on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    Linus is an employee of ODSL, and ODSL have been barred from using this software

  12. Re:Take aim at foot, Fire! on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A lot of employees have been fired for what they do in their spare time. They might not be paid by the company, but they are still an employee. Employers will not just let slide if their employees are working for their competition in their spare time, and it's pretty understandable if a company's supplier gets miffed that they have an employee working in their spare time to compete against the supplier, especially with an non-compete agreement between the 2 parties

  13. Re:I told you so on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    Sign up for their shared source program and try and develop competing software with it and see how far you get before you end up in court. Look at their API licensing and patent licensing specifically written to exclude Open Source. They even had a clause in there explicitly saying "Open Source"

  14. Re:Informative?! on NASA Proposes Ending Voyager · · Score: 1

    Your complaint to your post being modded informative gets modded insightful, and this post cleverly commenting on the obvious will get modded down as offtopic

  15. Re:Every Million Counts on NASA Proposes Ending Voyager · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, from what I read in the article, it doesn't sound like NASA wants to cut these programs. It's a "senior review" by outside experts that prioritized NASA's list of projects, and NASA said that if they followed that list, Voyager would be on the cutting block.

  16. Re:Isn't the effectiveness now compromised? on How the Secret Service Cracks Encrypted Evidence · · Score: 1

    A better analogy, instead of a supply room, make it a filing room, where all the records on employees are stored. It's something that's supposed to be secure. If you walk by, tried the doorknob, and found it open, immediatly closed the door and reported it to security, they'd certainly be suspicious as to "why" you were trying the door. If, however, you stepped into the door, grabbed a box of files, and handed that to security saying their security needs improving, expect more than security to just be "suspicious". Grandparent's friend should have stopped once it was found that the shadow file was viewable. He should not have taken a copy of the file, and subsequently cracked it. He should be happy he didn't get more than he did

  17. Re:Role reversal on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    technically the people involved were commanded by british officers that had fought in the Napoleonic war, who had arrived to assist the Canadian & Native troops who were fighting along the northern border to the US. And it was at the command of a British officer that the White House was burned down

  18. Re:Role reversal on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    We have a navy? I thought it was the Liberal's Second Hand Used Ship Lot, with a red tag sale, and 50% off

  19. Re:Publication bans? On events *open to the public on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    Actually, once the jury is selected and the trial starts the ban will be lifted. From what I heard on the radio, it should be in like a month that the ban gets lifted

  20. Re:How could they shut him down? on U.S. Blogger Breaches Canadian Publication Ban · · Score: 1

    According to the article, the webmaster is Canadian

  21. Re:What happened to Cavedog / Taylor? on Free The TA Source Code · · Score: 1

    Chris Taylor is running/working for Gas Powered Games. They're about to release an RPG called Dungeon Siege in the next few months (think Feb). It looks like an amazing RPG from what I've read, and I certainly look forward to buying it.

    I know nobody has posted this error, but for those that have't realized it, this is not the same Chris Taylor that made Interplay's Starfleet Command game. That's a difference Chris Taylor.

  22. Re:dangerous? um.. NO! on Dirty Dozen- The Most Dangerous Toys of 2001 · · Score: 1

    And that's what this list is for. To inform parents about these toys. These are all toys marketted for children, and as such, are the ones that parents might buy for their kid. Without a list like this, how would a parent know that x toy is really from a game that's rated M? They might still buy it, but atleast they'd know what they're buying.

  23. Re:Saw something on TV about this MONTHS ago ... on Ancient Sunken City Discovered Off Shores of Cuba. Maybe · · Score: 1

    There was a special a few years back about Atlantis. They said that Antartica fid the clues as well. It's at a place where 3 oceans meet, and no-one really knows what's under all that ice.

    Theory is thousands of years ago, the crust of earth was at a different angle. What is Antartica would have been about the tropics. After all the ice build-up, the crust rotated, antartica went to where it is now.

    Animals that grazed in what is now the North pole died very suddenly. Their remains still had undigested food. They died very quickly.

  24. Can't link on You May Not Link This Web Site · · Score: 1

    I forbid anyone from linking to this site. Anyone found linking to it will be harshely spoken too and requested they remove their link.

    Wonder how long until the site is #1 on the internet. What great marketting.

  25. And the process continues on EQ 'Shadow of Luclin' -- Pretty Graphics, Ugly Release · · Score: 1

    Develop, Market, Release, patch, patch, patch, release sequel, patch sequel, etc etc As long as we keep buying games the day they come out, they'll keep on releasing games like this. Wait until after it's been patched before buying it, especially if other people say it's buggy, or if it's a company well known to release buggy software, and send them an e-mail telling them that's why you're holding off on buying their game. Same rule applies to hardware, applications, OSs, anything Microsoft, and Linux Kernels ('cept the Linux Kernels are free, so you're not buying them, just downloading and installing them).