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  1. Re:"...can contribute...." on Jon Johansen DeCSS Trial Next Week · · Score: 1

    Ok... car built so they make possible a killing of other people by riding over them... So what now?
    You can easy run a car over 100 people on sidewalk...
    Cars are made to kill?

  2. Re:Open/StarOffice speed on Sony To Package StarOffice On European PCs · · Score: 1

    Hey! People in Russia do not have basements. In fact, most people in Russia live in apartments, not houses.

  3. Re:Who cares. on Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well · · Score: 1

    Nope. The idea is two-step actually
    First, selling cheap Linux PCs. People will buy it, work with it and find that it's not so awful - to live without windows.
    Second, those people on upgrade will probably
    not hesitate to buy Linux PCs - but good ones.And THEN Wal-Mart can get all Microsoft's part of price.

  4. Re:Cool on Cancer Mouse Not Patentable in Canada · · Score: 1

    A movie "Canadian Bacon" is right about this...

  5. Re:Mouse Smuggling on Cancer Mouse Not Patentable in Canada · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm... it seems to me they can smuggle itself! Just put a large box with the mice on one side of a bordes, a large piece of cheese on another, and open the box.
    Mice will go to another border and IANAL, but its seems to me that it's perfectly legal - they will just migrate!

  6. Re:Yeah right. on West Virginia Joins Massachusetts in MS Appeal Bid · · Score: 1

    WV is a great place. Harpers Ferry! Wheeling!
    Nice mountains! Great roads!

  7. Re:Intelligence discrimination should be outlawed on Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories? · · Score: 1

    Sigh... all of that was really a custom in Soviet Russia.
    Being smart there or hard working was NOT a way to success there.
    Really.
    And life was easier that days...

  8. Re:Sociology? At your expense? WTF? on Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories? · · Score: 1

    However, the problem is that you're not ABLE to negotiate, because there are some 10 people outside, waiting for the same job and they have all to insist in same benefits.

    Why not
    - Get an idea
    - try to find those 10 people
    - talk to them
    - organize partnership?
  9. Re:Get used to it. on Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes. BTW Situation will probably fix itself:
    Computer jobs becoming hard, painful and not rewarding ->
    Less people coming to CS industry ->
    Less options to replace CS worker ->
    More options of re-negotiation and negotiation of support. ->
    More valuation of a job...
    The CS jobs were dempinged.

  10. Re:What about academia? on Hi-tech Work Places no Better than Factories? · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons: extremely bad and jealous relations with "co-scientists" in most science labs as far as I know. Grant system encourages that relationships.

  11. Re:Shocking arrogance on PostgreSQL 7.3 Released · · Score: 1

    Just curious: how many front-end connections to back-end can PostgreSQL hold as its maximum. How many can Oracle do?

  12. P2p libraries? on Cringely on P2P · · Score: 1

    Is there any freely available (BSD license preferred) P2P middleware libraries for Linux and Windows?
    I mean libraries that allow sharing of software objects (files, strings, etc.) between P2P clients in real time. May be addons to FreeNet?
    How fast is that?

  13. Isn't it right on Problems With OEM ATI Cards And ATI's Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    that drivers for ATI cards does work for ATI cards.
    They are by default not guaranteed to be able to work for anything else.

  14. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA... on Broadband's Unintended Consequences · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Russians, yes, Moscovites, no. Salaries in Moscow are much higher than in other parts of Russia.

  15. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA... on Broadband's Unintended Consequences · · Score: 1

    In Moscow - $250-300 is fair for an intelligent young man,
    $150 for an ordinary worker...
    A good programmer can get $500-1500/month there.
    But it's only in Moscow. In other parts of Russia you cannot get such salaries, but life is cheaper there.

  16. Re:In SOVIET RUSSIA... on Broadband's Unintended Consequences · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In Moscow it's pretty common to be able to get broadband via connection of a house to the internet using Ethernet. A majority of people live in apartments (or condos), so concentration of people is high that allow for Ethernet connection to the point of access.
    The price is $35/connection a month AND some cents for a megabyte of incoming/outgoing traffic.

  17. The article should be modded on Will Open Source Ever Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    -1, Troll.
    Open Source already become mainstream.

  18. Re:Where's DRM when we need it? on All Source Code Should Be Open, Revisited · · Score: 1

    The idea of copyright must die.
    Information should be free.

  19. Re:Spanning tree on Hospital Brought Down by Networking Glitch · · Score: 1

    Hmmm... what about PC with Linux with ethernet cards to do Layer3 switching? Can it be cheaper than to buy special hardware?

  20. Re:The Future of Warfare on RIAA, MPAA Instigate U.S. Naval Academy Raid · · Score: 2

    Microsoft cruise missiles?! May be Disney Cruise missiles?

  21. Cool! on Visa vs. evisa.com In Vegas · · Score: 1

    It will be funny if Visa.com will sue State Department,insisting that those stickers in passports will be not be called visa...

  22. Possible implementation ? on Another Millionaire Spammer Story · · Score: 1

    A locked-out mail system whose gateway
    a) rejects all incoming mail with message
    "403 Payment required, url= http://www.paymentsystem.com/user@mynospammail.com ",
    Token=ABAAS66554452"
    Then message with token from payment system and this token in X-payment header will be accepted.
    b) Internal mail requests payments immediately
    c) You can put your friends IDs into payment system so the mail from them is free.

  23. Sigh..... on Throttling Computer Viruses · · Score: 2

    The one and only reason why viruses spread so much and quick is that nobody cares about the principle of least privileges while creating OS and application software. If there will be means to control privileges fine-grained and automatically easy adjust them - that will be half of the solution of the problem...

  24. Re:READ THIS AND WEEP on PA ISP to Restrict P2P Uploads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Piracy is when armed men take over a ship. Sending bytes through the net is a sharing of intellectual information.

  25. Imagine... on Europe Goes To Venus; Mars Comes to Us · · Score: 1

    A collison between Mars to Venera...
    What a good nightmare!