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  1. Re:Where did they get NT for a new install? on Swedish Carbon-Fiber Stealth Ship Runs NT · · Score: 1

    New licenses have downgrade rights. You can only buy 2003 licenses now, for example, but we are allowed to run Windows 2000 on downgrade.

  2. "Of course, a whole lot of this is just theory." on The Security Risk of Keyboard Clicks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like bollocks to me. The amount of crumbs under my keys, I'd be mighty impressed if you got anything intelligble.

  3. Re:eBay is not a catalog nor a retail outlet. on Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs? · · Score: 1

    I have't used it for a while, but I thought last minute bids added extra time to the auction? Or has this changed?

  4. Re:eBay is not a catalog nor a retail outlet. on Is eBay Worse Than Early Sears Catalogs? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I had this near where I lived, and one of the traders was selling extremely dodgy zip drives (all broken). Refused to give a refund, and threatened to break my neck (in front of witnesses) if I didn't leave their stall. Suffice to say the buildings owners are granted the license to hold such market by the local Authority, and took much interest in the matter, suffice to say money was returned and stall keepers dealt with.

  5. Re:Why not go after the buyers too? on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 1

    Because you wrote can instead of can't. I was being funny.

  6. Re:Correction... on Robocones · · Score: 3, Funny
    Who in the hell modded this informative?!?!?!?!?

    hilarious maybe, although from reading it, the correct British term would be 'traffic cone', but that's nowhere near as funny....

  7. Re:Why not go after the buyers too? on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 1
    "If you can discern a fake spam email from grandma writing to say hello you don't deserve to use the internet."

    Damn. My bad. I'll just disconnect my modem then.

  8. Re:Intel processor. on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 1

    One thousand thank you's.

  9. Four little fish.... on First Four People Charged Under CAN-SPAM Act · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That won't even dent the problem. At least they're proving that their serious though, but unfortunately, I don't believe in every little helps in the case.

  10. Re:I'm amazed B&J's still operates semi-autono on Thermoacoustic Cooler Means Green-Friendly Icecream · · Score: 1

    Thankfully they realised that Ben & Jerry's identity is a big part of the brand marketing. I'd still buy it if it was rebranded, just for the great flavours, but I'm not sure everyone would.

  11. Re:Hmm.. on Thermoacoustic Cooler Means Green-Friendly Icecream · · Score: 1, Funny

    All the sweaty b*stards who are packed around you.

  12. Re:Intel processor. on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 1

    (Thanks for this) Reason I ask: I've just bought a Tungsten E3, and wanted to know if I could in some way play with assembler on the ARM processor :) I've googled a bit, but not found anything apart from C assemblers.

  13. Re:Intel processor. on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Learn something new everyday. I've seen them in the stock charts, so I knew they were a company in their own right. Do they use Intel machine code then, or seperate ARM code.

  14. Re:Intel processor. on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 1

    Aren't ARM processors made by ARM?

  15. Re:"Sub-$150 color handheld" on palmOne Releases Two New Zire Handhelds · · Score: 1

    I bought a Tungsten E3, and was extremely annoyed to find that, while it is MP3 capable, I have to buy an SD card, you can't just drop them into memory.

  16. Re:Physics of star trek on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 2, Funny

    I assumed I wouldn't need to :) I know most people don't read the article, but I would have hoped that they would read the preamble at the top. But this is /. :)

  17. Re:On a similar note... on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 1

    b(l)=s/ba bandwidth limit = slashdot/bandwidth available

  18. Physics of star trek on Calculating A Theoretical Boundary To Computation · · Score: 2, Informative
    Physics of star trek

    It's not a referer link, don't worry...

  19. Re:Can't get over it on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 1

    Just because I support Open Source software doesn't mean that it is the only thing I will consider, I'm not that blinkered. Linux, Windows, Mac, it doesn't matter, it's what is good enough for the job.

  20. Re:Can't get over it on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, I buy hardware based on how well it does the job, how well it performs, how reliable it is. The firmware could be written in elbonian pictograms for all i care, and i would hope that most people buying IT hardware do the same thing.

  21. Re:Get over it on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The issue is how the kernel treats binary only modules. If it loads one of these drivers, belieing it to be GPL, and your system gets b0rked, then I'll bet you'll be the first running screaming, with all the people with RedHat maintenance contracts closely behind...

  22. Re:/0 is like a period, it ends the statement. on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'd have said so... but I'm sure they'd come up with a typo argument, or something similar.

  23. Re:launch again? on MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly? · · Score: 1

    No, that was the garageband site, the site that was formerly mp3isback.com. They managed to get a copy of the MP3.com archive.

  24. Re:WTF? on MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly? · · Score: 1

    It looks fine in Firebird 0.5.....

  25. Changed the name then... on MP3.com Hastily Re-launches -- But Will It Fly? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It was http://www.mp3isback.com, which redirects, but they obviosuly though better of using it...