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  1. Re:Archos on How to Get Music Off Your iPod · · Score: 3, Informative
    it's flamebait but I'll take it
    movies on mobile devices for the time being are all ILLEGAL
    That depends... if you're recording a movie off of television and playback on your mobile device (time shifting) or have made a copy of a movie that you legally own on DVD,Video Tape, etc (fair use) it is legal.
  2. Re:And Kerry said... on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Oh, I agree there. Putting more money into the pockets of lower (and even lower-middle to middle) class folks will do a lot to spur the economy. My point was that raising the minimum wage would have no effect on outsourceing.

  3. Re:And Kerry said... on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Oh, lets be honest... the jobs paying minimum wage can't be sent over seas. They tend to be service industry jobs that need to be done on site (Walmart greeter, hamburger flipper, mailroom clerk, etc).

  4. Re:Real life on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I figured everyone installed gentoo the way I do... boot the livecd, start sshd, goto my laptop, ssh in and install in a screen session. This way I have all the resources you mention without the overhead of X on the machine I'm installing from. If the CD autostarted SSH and had a pre-defined root password I could do the install headless.

  5. I get it now on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 1

    Taco's busy arresting Sadam, Invading Iraq, leaking source code... no wonder he's too busy to check for dup stories.

  6. Re:Fun for all ages and campaigns! on Caller ID Falsification Service · · Score: 1

    I know in NY state if you tell the creditor that you want to take it to mail instead of the phone they have to oblige. It then becomes illegal for them to contact anyone else.

  7. Maybe I'm underthinking this.. on GlobeTrotter: Mandrake-based 40GB Linux Mobile Desktop · · Score: 1

    I've been doing a lot of home support lately and carry with me an Insert Rescue CD and USB drive for those cases where I need to do backups or need to work with the windows drive in some way. Functionality-wise how is this different from a Knoppix CD and USB drive? I don't see this as new or special.

  8. There is no Linux... on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 1

    There is only zuul

  9. Re:That's not how I see it. on Publisher Renames 'Katie.com' · · Score: 2, Funny
    Meanwhile, can we get Marvel to stop letting Aftab use Ben "The Thing" Grimm as a banner ad on her site?

    I thought that was her picture. Oh, you mean that other picture...
  10. Re:Easy one. on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1

    You are allowed to write off any non-reimbursed business expence (which would cover cell, pager, etc if they are used only for business purposes). For web access you can only write off the percentage that's business related.

  11. Re:Interesting.... on NewsForge Reviews Excel Clone for Linux · · Score: 2
    This is nice, but the last thing that the open source community needs is more choices.
    I disagree. The opensource community is about choice. Could you picture a world with 1 linux distribution or 1 browser? Part of the power in opensource that freedom of choice. The question is not "where do you want to go today?" it is "how do I get job done today". Also, I find the whole opensource vs. MS thing a waste of energy. At the end of the day open source has no competition because it's a debate of ideology, not marketing or products. If people understand how MS does business and why OSS exists and they are ethical *poof* they'll join us. It's not about the market place it's about how people think. Oh, one other thing.. this product doesn't appear to be open (Unless I mised something).
  12. A little while ago on War Kayaking · · Score: 1

    I went war motorized paragliding along the east river in NYC. Got some interesting hits. I should post those logs at some point.

  13. Re:Argh! Dilemma! on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    So... following that arguement to its logical conclusion I should get more sex then Ashton Kusher?

  14. Re:I still live in the Silicon Toilet on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 1

    Real New Yorkers refer to it as the garbage dump

  15. Re:Silly on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Minor Nit... I'd say "pay hommage" instead of "admit" as they've done nothing wrong.

  16. Re:Sigh on MandrakeSoft Exits Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    You see it's not open like source it's open like beer.

  17. Re:damn it! on Walgreens PureDigital Camera Hacked · · Score: 1

    yes it's 3 years old but the points don't seem to be technical (the FAQ says it wouldn't be a problem technically). Which points are no longer valid?

  18. Re:In Other News... on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Pilot Pen corporation manage to jet the name of the Pilot changed on similar grounds? Or, funnier the WWF (Wrestling) vs WWF (World Wildlife Fund)... I'm sure people went to wrestling events expecting there to be pandas.

  19. Re:Here's a clue on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups · · Score: 1

    Nope... that's trademark law... if you don't actively defend a tradmark it gets deluded and you can lose it. In the case of copyright there is no such provisions which is how thing like the .gif and (potentially) the SCO debacle can happen years after the (supposed) infringements

  20. Re:Scoop: RFID privacy tool invented on Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial · · Score: 1

    Look out buddy... that's a DMCA violation

  21. Re:Browser Spoofing. on Mozilla 1.4RC2 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Boy would I love to join you there. Unfortunately there are still some websites that flat out refuse to load into anything other than IE, most notably the website where I access my payroll information to verify I was paid correctly). I emailed tech support and their reply was, "we only support IE in Windows, get partition magic and install windows on your computer." It's a tough fight righ now.

    OK, this is something I flat out don't understand. I'm a partner in a design firm and we check each site in no less then 15 browser / OS combinations. Heck we check our sites in both links and lynx. On the 1 occasion that someone wrote us to tell us that a site we developed didn't work properly in their browser, we fixed it and added that brower to our list. BTW, the browser is this Malaysian Web Browser.

    Creating a site that works in all browsers might take more work but it's about Quality and Respect, right?
  22. Re:Tomorrow on Slashdot: on SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License · · Score: 3, Funny

    You forgot RMS Sues SCO
    Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 17, @08:36AM
    from the you-should-have-said-GNU/LINUX-in-you-briefs dept.

  23. Hmmm on Talk To a Convicted Warez Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does he have a copy of Visual Studio.Net?

  24. Maybe they need more pigeons... on Mr Anti-Google · · Score: 1

    http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.

  25. Re:Separation of Church and State on Australia Oppresses Jedi · · Score: 1
    Whaddya mean, "inadvertently"? Courts do it quite deliberately all the time, by forcing people to attend Alcholics Anonymous and other "12 step" religion-based rehab programs.
    Wrong.... AA does not require you to practice any form of religion! As a matter of fact most 12 steppers I know tend to refer to a Higher Power more then a particular God. I believe that the AA third step essay particularly address the issue of atheism stating that you can use your group, your sponsor or AA as a whole as your Higher Power.