Slashdot Mirror


User: paule9984673

paule9984673's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
79
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 79

  1. Re:Information Superhighway on Al Gore to Receive Internet Achievement Award · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Taking initiative" in the context of "service in the United States Congress" means supporting legislation. Al Gore did exactly that. He pushed legislation, amog that the High Performance Computing and Communications Act of 1991, which transformed some isolated research networks into what we today call the Internet.

    He saw the potential of the "Information Superhighway" when most of the HAHA GORE INVETED THE INTERNET LOL kids where still shitting their pants.

  2. Re:Ask yourself two things on EU Patents Won't Stay Dead · · Score: 1
    ...and guess who EU Commission president Barroso had dinner with on January 31:

    Gates said he had had dinner with Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Friday, and had met several Commissioners at the Davos get-together of the world's business leaders. He plans to meet other Commissioners in Brussels on Tuesday, he said.

  3. Re:cisco on BT's Converged Wi-Fi/Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    I have a 2000W and I don't think it sucks (I have the latest firmware). I have the feeling, however, that the true potential of such a device is not to just connect to your personal WiFi station but to log in from almost everywhere once WiFi has become a commodity. Of course, such widespread availability of WiFi hotspots might not happen anytime soon but the potential is there.

  4. Re:cisco on BT's Converged Wi-Fi/Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    With wireless access becoming more widespread why not drop the GSM part altogether like this product?

  5. Re:With Bush in office its no surprise on Math Skills Survey Shows U.S. Lags Behind · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I wasn't aware that we can prove every inch of evolution forward and backward.

    A theory is not a theory because it has been proven to "every inch forward and backward". (It would be a fact then).

    Rather, what makes a theory is that it is possible to falsify it. A fantasy like the creationist garbage can not be falsified because it relies on fantastic assumptions. It is therefore definitely not a theory.

  6. Re:Clarification on GTA: San Andreas Leaked · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hahaha...the profit they have a right to. Stop dreaming of communism, dude.

  7. Re:Already Gone on Worker Fired For Running SETI On State-Owned PCs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "His tenure at ODJFS has demonstrated once again that he knows how to bring the best of his employees out."

  8. Re:Great news on No Half-Life 2 on Steam? · · Score: 1

    That page clearly says that only keys purchased within the last 90 days can be reclaimed.

  9. Re:Latency? on Sony/IBM/Toshiba: CELL Almost Ready · · Score: 1
    A PS/2 is an ancient computer system. It featured a mouse port that was then later used by other computer systems.

    Did I "get this right"?

  10. Re:Making software or distributing it on Debian Project Rejects Sender-ID · · Score: 1
    Debian has a social contract with its users. In this contract Debian promises its users that all software within Debian is free by Debian's terms. More specifically this means that anyone who receives their software has the same rights to the software that Debian as a distributor has.

    Even if Debian would fax an agreement to Microsoft and would therefore be allowed to distribute software that potentially infringes on Microsofts Sender-ID patents its users wouldn't be able to further distribute the software without faxing an agreement to Microsoft themselves.

    Seeing that they are unable to provide their users with the same freedom that they have to distribute with respect to software implementing Sender-ID Debian must (per its social contract) reject any software that implements Sender-ID.

  11. Re:it could be worse.... on It's Just the 'internet' Now? · · Score: 1

    It's actually courriel

  12. Re:And tought that before was the oposite on Intel Begins Shipping 64-bit Prescotts · · Score: 1

    Form and content really match nicely in your post. Good work.

  13. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1
    > http://www.bowlingfortruth.com/

    If that's all a raging critic of Michael Moore and his movies can come up with then Bowling for Columbine stands out as an example of an honest and well-researched documentary. Every wild life documentary has more and more blatant errors.

    (Not to mention that most of these claims against the movie have been refuted.)

  14. Re:Perfect Setup on Microsoft Patents The Task List · · Score: 1
    This is a correct description of Hitler's success in Germany (perhaps minus the industrial killing at Auschwitz, which even many Germans didn't know about. But the German public did at least know about deportation and the Concentration camps).

    The countries that would later become the allies, especially Britain, did however employ exactly that defining down stance and didn't stop Hitler early on while they still could.

  15. Re:What a great way to start a dreary Sunday! on P-P-P-PowerBook for a S-S-S-Scammer... · · Score: 1

    In most jurisdictions the concept of "lesser of two evils" doesn't include human lives. Murdering one person is not any less evil than murdering two. This prevents a whole lot of cans of worms being opened.

  16. Re:is there more than bk involved??? on Bitkeeper News Redux · · Score: 1
    One should also take into account that Linus did all the Kernel work in his free time while working in a day job (last at Transmeta) and has only recently been able to work on Linux full-time.

    Bitkeeper usage might just be circumstantial to the percieved productivity gain.

  17. Re:Did I miss something? on The Bugatti Veyron · · Score: 1
    VWAG (Volkswagen, the company that once produced the VW "Bug") bought the name rights after the Bugatti revival went bankrupt.

    The company that folded in 1997 didn't have anything to do with the original Bugatti (save for the name) either.

  18. Re:drivers on Fedora Prepares For Xorg Instead of XFree86 · · Score: 3, Informative
    Actually, there are at least three:
    • Xorg (Xfree86 fork by X.org)
    • The one based on Kdrive
    • Xizzle (Xfree86 fork by some other people)
  19. Re:Extradition on World's First Warez Extradition Decided Soon · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Their lawyers are using simple SCO tactics like "our IP is in their product" they can say it but it does not make it true.

    Those tactics are perfectly valid for defending someone in a criminal trial and a lawyer would be stupid not to do this.

    In criminal trials the burden of proof is entirely on the side of the prosecutor. If he doesn't like your defense he is free to submit proof to the contrary.

    Civil cases, however, both sides have the burdon of proof for the respective claims they make. A lawyer using these tactics in a civil case doesn't gain anything since it is himself who has to provide proof.

    The fact that SCO uses these tactics shows that they don't care about the actual outcome of the case (they know they'll lose) but rather want to work with the effects this has outside of the case (e.G. media attention to drive their stock price).

  20. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1
    The problem is the perception. People criticise SPEWS for including non-offending ips in their list as being not precise enough with whom they target.

    SPEWS, however, doesn't claim to be precise and list only offending ips. Quite the contrary; they openly communicate that the purpose of their list is to include non-offending ips to pressure ISPs to deal with spammers.

    You are free to criticise ISPs, which use SPEWS as it is their choice to do so (nobody is forced to use the SPEWS list). Criticising SPEWS is utterly pointless, though, because they do exactly what they advertise.

  21. Re:What about the Republic of Ireland? on SCO Expands Licensing Money Chase Worldwide · · Score: 1
    It's The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland so you have Northern Ireland as part of the UK, but not as part of Great Britain.

    When referring to Great Britain, you can ignore both Irelands as even Northern Ireland (which belongs to the UK) doesn't belong to Great Britain.

  22. Re:4/1, eh? on Doom 3 Vaporware no More · · Score: 1
    You probably mean 2004/04/01. (1 April 2004)

    This way (yyyymmdd) you can use regular number sorting to sort dates. 31 January 2004 (20040131) will be lower than 1 February 2004 (20040201)

  23. Re:Paying More For Choices on Broadband Pricing Across The World? · · Score: 1
    Similar monopoly situation in Luxembourg. The prices for the state-owned PT:

    All prices in EURO (1 EUR = 1.27 US$)

    Installation: 149,50
    Activation: 15, 50 (as if the installation wasn't expensive enough already)

    (Transfer volume is up and down combined)
    256 down, 64k up, 1 GB: 38,55
    256 down, 64k up, 10 GB: 55,95
    512 down, 128 up, 15 GB: 79,95
    1024 down, 192 up, 25 GB: 121,67

  24. Low level talks: on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Hay guys, we want money" - "no" "oh, ok thx bye"

  25. Re:How do they know the GPL is being violated? on Embedded Device Manufacturers Ignoring GPL · · Score: 1

    The key here is that you have to make a positive arrangement with a third party's FTP site. Simply pointing to kernel.org would not suffice. I read your whole post and it implied that it would.