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  1. Re:Patent has nothing do with searchable text on Patent Sought For Amazon Marketplace · · Score: 1

    EDI had been doing this for a long time. Also CXML has these features.

  2. BayStar just threw away 50 Million dollars on SCO gets $50 Million Investment · · Score: 1

    SCO's claims are bogus and BayStar just wasted their money. If you are an analyst working for BayStar, I have a bridge that I want to sell you.

  3. Re: Stop!! on SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SCO reminds me of that crazy dictator in N. Korea making wild threats.

  4. Re:Has anybody considered on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 1

    I suspect that there is other code that is in Linux that is also in SCO and those code are GPL code thus making the entire SCO kernel GPL.

  5. Re:america is scary on Future Army Battle Uniforms - Wired, Lethal · · Score: 1

    >If the US govt put a fraction of the money and
    >effort it expends on the military into
    >addressing the grievances of dispossessed
    >people around the world, it wouldn't have a
    >problem with terrorism.

    Most of the 9/11 hijackers came from wealthy families.

    >where either the US maintains an unpopular and
    >repressive regime (eg Saudi Arabia

    When I last checked the Saudi ruling family was involved in funding the 9/11 hikackers

    >where the US formerly maintained an unpopular
    >and repressive regime (Iran),

    The Ayatollahs are just as bad or worse than the former Shah of Iran. If you ask the common person on Iranian steets, they would probably prefer the US backed Shah to the Ayatollahs.

    >or countries where the US made explicit or
    >covert military interventions which did nothing
    >to help its people (Lebanon, Afghanistan in the
    >1980s)

    Lebanon -- a country which is currently occupied by foreign Hezbollah terrorists. If the US staued, that country would not be the hell hole of terrorism that it s now.

    Afghanistan -- US support of the Mujahadeen led to the Aghani victory and expulsion of Soviet troops from that country.

    Let's face it. Your facts are wrong and you are nothing more than an Anti-american j*rk.

  6. Re:some faces to those names on JBoss Group Developers Walk Out · · Score: 1

    Jan Bartel of Australia is still listed, although she is not a core associate of the rebel group.

  7. Re:Arrrrr Captain - the techies are revolting !! on JBoss Group Developers Walk Out · · Score: 1

    JBoss is also kind of a religion. It is tough to displace a religion.

    As I see it, the renegade group will not harm JBoss, but rather make it even better. The source code is not being forked. From the end-user point of view, all that is happening is that there is a new entitiy adding to the JBoss development.

  8. Re:Lying to their shareholders is an SEC Offense on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1

    Not only an apology, but SCO should be forced to make reparation payments.

  9. Re:Slashdotted?? on SCO Claims Linux Sales After Suit Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    SCO has no case.

  10. Re:Too many crooks, bozos, psychos in companies on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    There are too many crooks, bozos, and psychos in corporate management and in the "chain of command". Those incompetent fools look after their own and they will manufacture ways to get rid of the whistleblower.

    The employees did the right thing by going to the cops.

  11. Re:Only an idiot... on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    I hope the employees win multi-million dollar judgements against their foremer employer.

    And I hope the former employers also gets charged felonies for being accomplices in covering up a child porn crime.

  12. Re:Chain of command bullshit on Blow the Whistle, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In this case, the chain of command is trumped by the law. The police is the first line in the chain of command because a crime was commited. Any idiot who is advocating the chain of command in this case is advocating a coverup. Alot of time, corporations use the chain of command as a technique to cover the asses of the people higher up. If an employee sees a crime or fraud, call the cops or FBI. If more people did that in Enron and Worldcom, it would have saved alot of people their pension money. The chain of command is not law. The law enacted by legislature and congress is the law and is supreme to any coverup mechanisms that corporations are advocating.

  13. Revoke IP address on FTC vs. Open SMTP Relays · · Score: 1

    The way to deal with spammers and open relay is to revoke their IP address.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Looks like there are a bunch of programs played over packet radio that would invalidate the patent:

    from:

    http://www.cobrasoft.tmfweb.nl/download.htm

    PAKCHESS.ZIP

    PR4OPRIJ.ZIP

    PSB.ZIP

    These programs are dated 1992/1993

  15. Re:Hmmm on Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent · · Score: 0

    On the following site: http://www.pdsl.com/cats/hamradio.txt A listing for Packet Radio Chess was listed and dated in 1992. pakchess.zip 36850 10-28-92 Play Chess over Packet Radio This may invalidate the patent!!!!

  16. Re:Hmmm on Palm Sued Over Multiplayer PDA Games Patent · · Score: 0

    A chess gamed played over Packet Radio would invalidate this patent due to prior art. Does anyone know of a chess game implemented over packet radio prior to 1995.

  17. Re:Greg Ballard of 3dfx and Sonic Blue is to blame on Sonicblue files for Chap 11 · · Score: 0

    Didn't a bunch of corrupt board members oust Greg Ballard after he revealed they were milking the company with large corporate loans? Serves them right that they go bankrupt. This is what happens when corrupt board members take control. They run the company into the ground. Just my opinion.

  18. Re:Of Paramount Importance... on Fan-Made Star Trek Episode Available for Download · · Score: 0

    I am not sure, but I believe Paramount is allowed to create Star Trek episodes under license. I do not believe Paramount holds all the rights. I may be wrong.

  19. Re:Use and Abuse on Open Source, Closed Documentation? · · Score: 0

    Start your own open source documentation project.

  20. Does this mean they get evicted? on Russia's Role in the ISS in Trouble · · Score: 0

    Does this mean that the Russians are going to get evicted from the ISS and are they going to loose their security deposit.

  21. How well does it run Linux? on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 0

    Can you install Linux on the system and are there Linux drivers for all of its devices? What is the Linux performance?

  22. Re:Different Ports on Panama Decrees Block To Kill VoIP Service · · Score: 0

    The solution is for the people of Panama to overthrow their government at the next elections.

  23. Re:ICANN is like Section 1 on ICANN Eliminates Karl Auerbach's Seat · · Score: 0

    The United States Department of Commerce need to revoke ICANN's Charter. Currently, ICANN is accountable to the US Department of Commerce. Perhaps writing to congressman is the best way to shut them down.

  24. Re:Who watches the watchmen? on VeriSign and Other Registry Giants Blast ICANN · · Score: 0

    I would not give them anything. They have proven that they are not capable of change or living up to the contract they signed with the government. If they have not fulfilled the obligation of their charter then take the authority away from them and give it to someone else who will.

  25. Re:You want OpenNIC on Karl Auerbach Wins Right To Inspect ICANN Records · · Score: 0

    I think the alternative root idea does have a chance if the is only one main competing alternative name server authority. That way, the net will not be unbearably splintered.