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  1. Re:timing on IBM, Intel Set Up $10m SCO Defense Fund · · Score: 1

    We can only wish. Even by giving them back essentially the same document with idle threats and vague allusions they probably will buy themselves at least until the 23rd, and perhaps a significant amount of time after that. Then come the appeals...

  2. Privateer on DOS Emulation Under Linux - a Simple Guide · · Score: 1

    Screw Duke Nukem, will it play Origin's Privateer?

    I keep a very 386 with a DOS boot disk just for Privateer which, as we all know, is officially the best game of all time ever.

  3. Re:These criminals have a weak spot! on Investigating Online Movie Piracy? · · Score: 1

    And most linux distrobutions (henceforth in this post known as "Evil Hacker Computer Virus Generator" come with FTP-servers BY DEFAULT. If you try and use the "Evil Hacker Computer Virus Generator" even for legitimate purposes you may be infected with one of the FTP-servers.

    The "Evil Hacker Computer Virus Generator" also comes with software called "Apache" which is named after a brutal tribe of red skinned people/animals that would cut the SCALPS off their innocent white female victims. God alone knows that this "Apache" software will do to your sensitive private data.

    "Evil Hacker Computer Virus Generator" also encourages ignorance among the use, teaching them to randomly insert silent letters, especially 'G's, at the beginning of words! Please keep in mind that 'G's is the slang term for gang affiliated colored people to refer to money gotten by illicit means! This is encouraging youth to STEAL money or SELL DRUGS instead of working hard, honest jobs for upstanding companies such as Microsoft, SCO, or the RIAA!

    We must stop it now!

  4. Re:But Peace means War on Memo Confirms IBM Move To Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Then you sir, are an idiot.

    Whether or not you believe in the premise (God is good, God exists, pretty much anything about the divine inspiration at all), it only takes a 7th grade reading level to understand the contextual evidence that the writers believed there was a difference.

    The difference is well state above, but I will again clarify. Allah in the Torah instructs the Isrealites to smite certain foes, at certain times, for certain reasons. This is converted to Judeo-Christian belief with the addition of the prophet who announces that believers should no longer value their lives above others, and encourages his followers to demonstrate love by willing to die. On the other hand, Islamic belief entitles you to kill any nonbelievers, for any reason, at any time.

    Whether or not you agree with the motivations, a specific order to kill is not the same as a broad mandate to purge the world.

  5. Insert RIAA comment here on High Definition Radio is Here · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment should include the following:

    Piracy Claims
    Explanation of digital to digital broadcasting
    Comments about how to jack this device into Linux
    Mention of Kazaa
    Indignant remark about the difference between thievery and infringement

  6. Re:BF Skinner was right on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    Ok then when you get to a new level, the game will give you crack.

  7. Re:Good news for Norway. on DVD-Jon Completely Clear · · Score: 1, Funny

    I tried to help, but unfortunately Opera doesn't seem to be mirroring the Bork Edition any more.

  8. Re:On random punctuation on Security Predictions of 2004 · · Score: 1

    Ah but that's the thing about kids, it's not so much whether you can catch them, it's whether they think they might get caught.

    Simply changing MOST of the words and having words that worked one week not work the next week will significantly ratchet up their paranoia.

    All you need at that point is to choose a sacrificial lamb and have a talk to his parents about "the profanity moniters" (yes, call them moniters not filters cause it sounds like someone cares) "triggering too much".

  9. Re:Ahhh older technology.... on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem is that in the very young and the very old there is a major problem with packet dropping.

    I sniffed this very conversation over Christmas time while visiting family ( I removed the destination address for privacy concerns: )

    Mother: Dinner time, go wash up.
    Sibling in college: blank stare at computer screen
    Grandfather: continues watching tv
    Mother: DINNER TIME
    Sibling in college: blank stare at computer screen
    Grandfather: When is dinner?
    Mother is forced to use hardware extensions to alert grandfather and sibling through sequential pinging and alerts.

  10. Re:msnbc blooper on Interview with Peter Jackson on LoTR Bloopers · · Score: 1

    Why not, it worked for David...sure he had a sling, but he was still only a human boy...

  11. Preach it brother on Blockbuster Chief: End DVD Region Codes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The industry is going to hate it. Is Blockbuster big enough to complain loud enough?

    I think they just might be.

  12. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 2, Informative

    why is this a crime?


    Well see congresspeople write these ideas on peices of paper, they call these, "Bills". Then they get together and submit these bills to this whole big group of people called Congress...heck, maybe this will help

  13. Re:bad image on SCO Group Web Site Attacked Again · · Score: 1

    You're right. Currently, we refer to them as SCO.

  14. Re:My Mozilla bounty on After The GNOME Bounties, It's Mozilla's Turn · · Score: 1

    No actually it's more like this:

    Cars traditionally run on roads. However, we've designed a better car, an SUV that doesn't need to use roads. Right now, there are some roads that have signs on them that say, "Stay on the road" and no matter how hard we turn the wheel in our SUV it just refuses to leave the road just because the road says so. We should be able to leave the road on our terms if our car supports it, not whether or not the road says it's ok.

  15. Re:Adapt - exactly! on Will TiVo Destroy Ad-Supported TV? · · Score: 1

    With on demand tuning you might even be tempted to say "hey, man, play the new Subway ads they're side-splitting funny". Ads which the viewer choose to watch are certainly much more effective.

    GOOD advertising does this already. It's well known that people DO tune in to the Superbowl just for the advertisements. Unfortunately advertisers rarely put that much effort into the adverts that show the rest of the year. When they do though, people do talk about them and tell other people to watch for them. For example "Cog" from Honda, or many of the VW spots. Beer companies also have a handle on the fact they need advertising (and may be arguably the first to realize it), with cellular telephone manufacturers (ie Motorola) starting to come around.

  16. Re:Your rights online indeed!!! on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 1

    Consider it ROI. If more people took some economics into account we could feed all the homeless in the US with the savings from from a small fraction of the criminals with "life" punishments.

    That's not not even going into the silliness of how we actually DO execute criminals. I mean seriously, have you seen how much a lethal injection costs? Cruel and unusual is one thing, I'm not advocating we draw and quarter anyone, but do we really need to have a completely sterilized room to KILL SOMEONE in? When exactly is he going to get an infection, sometime in the ten to fifteen seconds before his heart stops? I think he can deal with it for that long...

  17. Re:Nothing new here on Maine to Launch Internet Sex-Offender Registry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Going with a generic John Jones, here's one of the records you get: John Jones, Pervert


    Interesting to note he's DEAD and they still have a record of him. One does wonder how they took that "current" picture. He looks pretty good, what with being dead and all.

    Also interesting to note, did he die BEFORE or AFTER they stuck his name, address, picture, and the fact that he molested a 9 year old girl IN TEXAS up on the web?

  18. Re:a problem with reviewers on Critical Eye on SpamAssassin · · Score: 1

    Not to sound ignorant, but where did that "procmail recipe" come from? Unless it scrolls up on the screen after you type "apt-get install spamassassin" it isn't that straight forward and simple.

  19. Re:Hasn't Australia just mandated a paper trail on Can America Trust Electronic Voting? · · Score: 1

    In Germany,
    Not to sound rude, but it could be the extra 200 million people we have on Germany that slows things down. Please also bear in mind if the polls close at 6pm on the east coast, those in California still have 3 hours to vote.

    On top of that does Germany have the the backassward electoral system to deal with? Don't get me wrong, it was just fine when the average citizen couldn't read, had never heard of any of the candidates and had absolutely no source of information about the election, but that hardly applies now, does it?

  20. Re:CTRL-R on Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards · · Score: 1

    Or even:

    An "an?"

  21. Re:Better standards and documentation on What Might UserLinux Look Like? · · Score: 1

    The same can of course be said of man, but man never tried to be everything you need.


    Tell that to the feminists.

  22. Re:I'm not sure this is so funny on McBride Speaks, In Person And In Print · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, twit, it would be like suing Audi because the brakes and the gas are too close together, and occasionally you could hit both and wreck your car (most often in the garage).

    Oh...wait...

    Products should do what they are expected to do. If by NOT doing what they are expected to do they can have an injurious result, the manufacturers should fix it. If they blatantly refuse, they should be penalized. Just because it's a lady in a car with hot coffee doesn't make it any different than Monty Python's candies with Lark's Vomit. It shouldn't say, with Lark's Vomit, there should be a bloody big sign that says WARNING LARK'S VOMIT.

  23. Re:How much press will it get, though? on Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah cause when I think radio, I think AM dial.
    Or pick up all those "liberal" newspapers,

    This one is just laughable, do you really want to count paper for paper over whether papers are more liberal than conservative? Maybe a few of the big ones are known for conservatism, but the vast majority are certianly not.

  24. Re:Amazon links on Defense and Detection Against Internet Worms · · Score: 1

    The real tragedy is that you achieve your ends by violating the implicit trust that forms the foundation of our open society.

    Society expects people to take reasonable steps to protect themselves. While it may a shame that you can't leave your doors open with diamonds laying around on your hall table and return home to find them safe and sound, most will still say it is common sense to lock the door. The same would apply here; you have several options for dealing with him, aside from expressing your disgust. For starters, consider your friend and foe system. Mark him appropriately and he'll bother you less. Secondly, if you have no desire to purchase a book, consider not reading the book reviews.

    He isn't acting entirely inappropriate that I can see, he's marking the link, he's giving you the price differential to help you decide whether to click on it, and he's putting them where they belong: reviews for a book you may wish to purchase. When he starts spamming Harry Potter links in topics about SCO, then we'll be more sympathetic.

    Until then, feel free to ignore him and his short one line posts.

  25. Re:Call the IRS... on Orbdev Files US Federal Suit Over Asteroid Claim · · Score: 1

    That would only take place if he could successfully extract it. That probably would cause a market crash. However, simply POSSESSING it is taxable at value. Also, don't forget the fines and back taxes... he did claim it 2000 didn't he?