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  1. Re:What do you expect? on Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Yes I believe this is par for the course. It always gets in the way of people who have been exposed to toxic substances claiming damages from companies. Since they havent died yet. Even gets in the way of suing for cleanup.

  2. Re:Why did Microsoft allow this? on HP to Install Netscape on all new PCs · · Score: 1

    Allow? One has little power over a dying man. Same over a dying company.

  3. Re:Yeah yeah! on Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD · · Score: 1

    im an english speaker and I studied Hebrew. I found it interesting that they read their literature mostly without the vowels marks. Then I realized we do too. The vowels we have in every day writings do not tell you how to actually pronounce the words.

  4. Re:Complaint rings a little hollow on Google-NASA Partnership Backlash · · Score: 1

    This is a lame excuse. With your argument no businesses should pay taxes since they bring people and people pay for lots of other things the community will benefit from.

    Its wrong because its not balanced. Its always hard to argue against stuff like this because businesses shouldn't pay taxes at all. Were always put into the position of arguing for taxes out of fairness because we the people pay them and are tired of special treatment for businesses. But we shouldn't pay them either. I wonder if google employees on this property will be paying taxes (if the local community has pay tax)

  5. Re:Rotten Tomatoes on Serenity Opens Today · · Score: 1

    tbh, i know many wanted more of the show when it was cancled from fox. I did as well. But only because it was an acceptable sci-fi flick. Not because it was all that good. I still don't find it all that good.

    There is nothing 'space' about it. Its looks like buffy the vampire slayer in many respects. And I do like that show. Fire fly is not very much sci-fi to me. Probably I'd class it as 'sit-fi.'

    For sci-fi andromeda is a much better series of the same ilk, though they are not pirates.

  6. Re:A lawyer working for Warner said this: on Music Industry Threatens to Pull Plug on Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    I never did like that right foot. Good riddance.

  7. Re:Bad analogy on BBC Commentator Goes After Software Licensing · · Score: 1

    Still bad analogy. A publisher in either field publishes a completed work. With literature, the publisher is simply providing a service to the author. That is why they try to avoid liability. To make the analogy the liable party has to be the one that submits the product to the publisher. Even in software this entity is liable.

  8. Re:California charges it on States Push to Collect Online Sales Tax · · Score: 1

    People like you ensure rich folks will always get away with this garbate.

    By "people like you" I mean those who fail to realize the biggest acceptors of government redistributed wealth are those who are already wealthy. Poor people will stay poor and are not getting much at all. Keep being tricked into blameing poor people...

  9. Re:Two in a row! on BitTorrent Gets $8.7 Million in VC Funding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its not even funny. Its like Slashdot bombing or something. We should keep a list of the number of dupes each 'editor' posts. It should be for their karma!

  10. Re:Sigh on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    I have to disagree with you here. My wife and my mother both want stuff to "just work." They can't understand why playing a CD should be more complicated than playing a tape. It try to explain, but really what am I talking about? It should be.

    If you make it complex, you will have to make better music/movies for someone to want to jump through these hoops. But they want to make cheaper movies and sell you junk music.

  11. Re:So, there is no benefit at all to this technolo on Flash Memory with Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    The duration the security scheme survives will be inversely proportional to the amount of entities that desire to see it undone.

    No encryption scheme will ever work for the entertainment industry. Thats why they bought laws.

  12. Re:What's deviant? on FBI Agents Put New Focus on Deviant Porn · · Score: 1

    Right, but then whats the Bible about really? If it were written today it would state that premarital sex was a sin because it would reflect the values of the public at large. Eventhough we have premarital sex, in general we view it as "sinful."

    The Bible prohibits fornication specifically. Yes, dont just 'read' the bible, but read books about the bible. Actually just reading the preface to a modern Bible can be quite an eye opening experience.

  13. Re:And nothing will change . . . on Business At The Price Of Freedom · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is so interesting is these businesses are operating in direct opposition to the position of the Presidend of the United States. His position is to forward democracy and democratic values. These businesses are supporting just the opposite. I wonder what the president will do about this.

    This is the same ole shit. Just like when all these companies supported Apartheid in South Africa. And China supports oppresive regimes in Africa now.

    Do we really want our debt financed by China? What type of barganing power does this give them over us while our economy is so fragile?

  14. Re:fortunately its not so hard to write for Unix n on Windows Beat Unix, But it Won't Beat Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I find the whole question rather odd. You can just as easily write a single application that would run on all UNIX systems of a particular flavor.

    Why group the different UNIX vendors together then complain that they are different? Why not put microsoft in the same group with them and complain that what you write for UNIX does not run on Microsoft?

  15. Re:Bullshit! on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    I like the British 'asshat' though. Its got a nice zest to it and its also sufficiently non-sensical.

  16. Re:Request for Comment on Cursing as Peephole Into Brain Architecture · · Score: 1

    Cusswords just let em flow,
    Mothafuckin shit got damn ass hole.
    Cusswords just don't quit
    mothafuck you damn shit head bitch!

    CussWords. Too Short
    Jive, October 25, 1990

  17. Re:While I can possibly see... on Novell Under Pressure From Investors · · Score: 1

    True. I just hope people realize when companies are pressured to do things by 'shareholders' its usually by only a few that hold $$$ worth of shares. And usually they are part of the company's management.

  18. Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 1

    Why? Fear? or because they are all dead? I doubt fear works on people that blow themselves up. He would have achieved much better and easier dominance if he poured money into their economy and made them all greedy first.

  19. Re:Doesn't anybody remember the W.O.P.R. on How About a Nice Game of Global Thermonuclear War? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    AFAIK the pentagon can't grant the president any powers. And certainly not through signing some 'doctrine.'

    The preemptive strike on Iraq has been a disaster. If I didn't like the president I think now at his lowest hour would be the right time to try and push something through like this.

  20. Re:PayPal Is Like The Mob on PayPal Freezes Hurricane Relief Account · · Score: 1

    Sounds highly unlikely. The amount reserved on the CC when you first start a transaction and the amount finally issued/charged are not the same thing. Most likely they authorize a bit over the meal amount to account for the tip. And this is the amount reserved until the transaction is complete.

    I doubt filling in the tip before the transaction has to do with any 'strict regulations.' First I have never had to do that. Second, if the charge is $50 you don't even have to sign for it. Let alone all the unsigned charges over the internet...

    sidenote: You pay with the CC immediately, but if you want to return something they get 30 days to return the amount to your CC. Thats BS.

  21. Re:Steal the bandwidth, or steal the work? on Fuddruckers Called Out on Hotlinking · · Score: 1

    Indeed. And I thougth the reaction was in poor taste as well.

  22. Re:Imagine... on Adobe and Macromedia Shareholders Approve Merger · · Score: 1

    I always try that, but the browser never seems to respect that choice...

  23. Re:Bruce is right on Do You Code Sign? · · Score: 1

    If you cant authenticate the source of the code, you can never make any assumptions about its intentions.

    Of course ultimate security is like what you get in Java, don't trust anybody and only allow the operations you specifically grant it. But not many turn that on on their JVM. Anyway, that too is based first on code signing.

  24. Re:What would the little kid say? on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How about IT certification is an attempt to create a barrier to entry in order to create scarcity and subsequently higher wages and professional prestige (i.e. chicks).

    You have it perfectly backwards. Certifications are a lot easier to get than degrees. This creates less of a barrier and allows more people into the field much more quickly. It serves to reduce wages. I think the quality of the exams seems to also display this point.

  25. Re:Central Me on Google Talk Claims Openness, Lacks S2S Support · · Score: 1

    Yes. In fact, i wouldnt be disappointed if the closed the IM protocol so long as they open the server s2s connections.

    But they must treat their server connection just like they did with gmail. They cant let just anybody in. probably Google will force servers that connect to google to abide by some agreement so they can eliminate spam. Might as well start from jump.

    Not supporting s2s does not get google anything. The client side is where people try to put the ads anyway.