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  1. Re:Linux Geek take over...THEN on Linux Geeks To Take Over World · · Score: -1

    the population slowly dies off because none of them know how to reproduce..due to lack of experience with the opposite sex..

    So, in a desperate attempt to keep Linux from dying, they resort to breeding baby penguins.

  2. Google for Google, Google that Googles on The Microsoft Millionaires Come of Age · · Score: -1

    Can't we talk about Google instead?

    We can Google the Google, but that just wouldn't make the Google any more Google. Without Google, Google just isn't Google anymore. We can Google about Google this or Google that, but who gives a Google's Google anyway? We're all just a bunch of Googles in the same Google.

    How does that Google you? It Googles me just fine, thank Google.

  3. Re:Wha? on Tempe City-Wide Wireless Snags · · Score: -1

    The "dot"?

    What else were you expecting? The Slash?

  4. Re:I call it... on Building the World's Most Powerful Laser · · Score: 1, Funny

    The "Alan Parsons Project"

    Damn... you can read my mind!

  5. Even worse... on The Problem with DHS's Plan to 'Buy American' · · Score: -1

    Major corporations are buying Americans all the time.

  6. Document text on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: -1

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2005

    BitTorrent Facilitating Illegal File
    Swapping of Star Wars On Day of Opening

    Statement by MPAA President Dan Glickman

    Washington, D.C. - - Responding to news reports today that BitTorrent is already facilitating the illegal file sharing of the final Star Wars episode, Revenge of the Sith which opens in theaters today, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) President and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement:

    "There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on peer to peer networks all over the world.

    "Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.

    "If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice."

    Glickman said that the average movie costs $98 million to make and market. Less than one in ten movies re-coup their original investment from the domestic box office and six in ten never recoup their investment . The average BitTorrent network has up to 2.5 million users a day. The movie industry is the only industry with a positive balance of trade in countries with which it does business. Copyrighted industries are responsible for an estimated $626 billion of the total gross domestic product.

    "My message to illegal file swappers everywhere is plain and simple: You are stealing, it is wrong and you are not anonymous," said Glickman. "In short, you can click, but you can't hide. There are lots of ways to legally download our products through companies like CinemaNow, Movielink, Ruckus and others."

    The Motion Picture Association is engaged in an all out effort to root out Internet movie thieves and make them pay the consequences of illegally downloading and swapping movies on-line. It has hundreds of investigators looking into these kinds of cases worldwide and has already been successful in shutting down several BitTorrent type sites. As part of its anti-piracy effort, the MPAA and its member companies have brought lawsuits against many Internet movie thieves across the United States and plan to continue such action.

    About the MPAA: The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) serves as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries from its offices in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. These members include: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.; Paramount Pictures; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.; Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; Universal Studios from Universal City Studios; and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

    # # #

    MPAA Los Angeles
    Kori Bernards
    Anne Caliguiri
    (818) 995-6600

    MPAA Washington, DC
    John Feehery
    Gayle Osterberg
    (202) 293-1966

  7. Und auf Deutsch... on Lycos Germany to No Longer Store IP Data · · Score: -1

    Lycos Deutschland Sortierfächer IP addressdaten bis zum Jan.
    Libbenga veröffentlichten

    Freitag Mai 20. 2005 11:10 GMT Lycos DSL in Deutschland sagt, daß es nicht mehr dynamische IP Adressen seiner Kunden speichert, nun da ein Fachmann auf Datenschutzgesetzen von der Frankfurt Universität bedroht hat, die Firma zu klagen. Jonas Breyer hatte gebeten, daß Lycos welche Daten auf ihm geführt wurden und ob diese Informationen mit Rückgrat Versorgern geteilt wurde, aber das ISP ablehnten zu kooperieren. , weitere Gesetzklagen vermutlich zu vermeiden, hat Lycos jetzt entschieden, IP Speicher zusammen mit einem Graben umzugeben. Deutsche Telekom tentacle T-On-line-Gesichter ähnliche Drohungen vom deutschen Teilnehmer Holger Voss, dem diese Woche bei Gericht argumentierte, daß dynamische IP Adressen für das haltene Buch irrelevant sind und nicht gespeichert werden sollte. Entsprechend dem deutschen Telewartungsangaben Schutz und dem Telekommunikationserlaß werden ISPs nur Kommunikationen Daten zu den Buchhaltungzwecken speichern gelassen. Anscheinend gibt es keine Anforderung für deutsches ISPs, eine Aufzeichnung der IP Adressen zu halten. Eine Entscheidung durch German ISPs zum nicht zu halten meldet IP Adressen würde sein extrem umstritten an, während die Unterhaltung Industrie in zunehmendem Maße von ISPs verlangt, die Namen der vermuteten Akte sharers freizugeben. Gerichte in Deutschland und in Kanada haben der Unterhaltung Industrie das Recht vor kurzem subpoena die Identitäten der Akte-sharers verweigert. Selbstverständlich da der meiste Breitbandversorgergebrauch IP Adressen für ihre Kunden regelte, würde eine Prüfliste noch in der LageSEIN, ihr Identität ® aufzudecken

  8. Misread headline on Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine · · Score: -1

    Supreme Court Allows Direct Shipment of Wine

    But I used to be able to just download it off the Internet! Hopefully now it won't get mixed up with all those AOL CDs that I get in the mail.

  9. Re:Wait.... on New Rodent Species Found · · Score: -1

    but can it run linux

    No, these rodents weren't desig^H^H^H^H^Hevolved in that way.

  10. Re:K!! on KDE Developers and Usability Folks on Cooperation · · Score: -1

    Ix-nay on the iGnOpenMicrosoft-Kay!

  11. Re:That's Kooperation on KDE Developers and Usability Folks on Cooperation · · Score: 2, Funny

    This post made with KFirstPost (TM).

    I noticed that KFirstPost(TM) uses code from KFlamebait(TM) and KTroll(TM), which are both GPL'ed. Now that's Kooperation!

  12. Re:hmm.. on Self-Replicating Robots · · Score: -1

    No, it's actually robotse.cx.

  13. Re:Wait! on Apple Patents Tablet Mac (with Photos) · · Score: -1

    My iBook isn't going to happy when she sees that come home with me. :(

    Just wait until you begin sleeping with the Mac tablet -- then your iBook will have no choice but to start dating a Dell.

  14. Re:List of Nominations on Broadway Awards Spam · · Score: -1

    Well, there's spam, eggs, special effects and spam. That's not got much spam in it.

  15. Re:bablefish on Next Generation X11 · · Score: -1

    My favorite line (from a comment): "With open SOURCE is too much abgekupfert." Don't know what it means, but I find my self agreeing...

    You must have missed the line about how Windows Longhorn has "confused fluttering windows, see bill guaranty on demos." I think that's even funnier.

  16. ...and I propose first post on Microsoft Proposes Thumb-Driven Interfaces · · Score: -1, Redundant

    n/t.

  17. All your Moon Base... on Site for Moon Base Determined · · Score: -1

    All your Moon Base are belong to Peary Crater!

    Move humans for great justice!

  18. Re:Apple regaining strength on New Mac System Specs · · Score: -1

    bonch confirms it: Apple is DYING.

  19. Re:"SplitFit" on Microsoft Researchers on Stopping Spam · · Score: -1

    I have to wonder.. who would actualy 'cilck on the lnik bolew' anyway?

    Ze Sveedish Chef vould klick on ze lenk zo veerify his eiaml arddess... Bork! Bork! Bork!

  20. Re:The article in summay on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge · · Score: -1

    I can summarize all that in one word:

    Eeew. Please format your text.

  21. fp on Budget LCD Monitor Round-up · · Score: -1

    fp

  22. Korean scientists confirm it... on Gene Therapy Ages Human Cancer Cells in Lab · · Score: -1

    Human cancer cells are DYING.

  23. Hmm... on Yankee Group Survey Says Windows, Linux TCO Equal · · Score: -1

    I guess this is no place for the GET THE FACTS! /. troll.

  24. Article text on Firefox Hacks · · Score: -1

    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.

  25. Slashdot confirms it... on COMDEX Cancelled Again · · Score: 0, Funny

    Comdex is DYING.