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  1. Re:Yes! We have no bananas! on State of Online Music: RIAA's Efforts Paying Off · · Score: 1

    Oops... another requirement follows... you
    you have to reside outside america, in some country
    that America do not like to make troubles with,
    and that country should not have strict IP laws..
    Hard to achieve, though...

  2. Re:Songwriters? on State of Online Music: RIAA's Efforts Paying Off · · Score: 1

    Surely, that implies that you only record your own songs (or songs received legally elsewhere)...

  3. Re:Just drop KDE on Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE · · Score: 1

    Mod parent Troll! :( I do NOT like GNOME at all. I hate its look and feel
    and I hate to develop for it - for example in KDE you
    have kxmlrpcd where you can send messages to programs
    from command line - I see no corresponding feature in
    GNOME.
    You can also embed programs into each other in KDE.
    How to do it in GNOME?

  4. Re:Agents, Security on Universities Tapped To Build Secure Net · · Score: 1

    bobust system... bombust system.. it's really bombastic!
    Cool idea.

  5. Re:Sticking it to the inherently evil big guy? on State of Online Music: RIAA's Efforts Paying Off · · Score: 2

    Record companies are obsoleted. The only thing
    you need is to have some start capital for
    - Band equipment
    - web site.
    That's it.
    Then you insert your tracks into P2P, and post it
    into your website. You have to mark the tracks with
    your web site address.
    If you have good music - people will go to your website
    and you then can sell CDs there for them.

    That's it. YOU own the copyright.

  6. For people who like free music on State of Online Music: RIAA's Efforts Paying Off · · Score: 2

    I found a great site with free .ogg
    electronic/ambient music:
    http://www.kahvi.org

    They sell CDs too.

  7. Re::((( EULA with DRM... on OEone New Releases and Review · · Score: 1

    Tend to agree. BTW I realized that they are trying
    to defend theirselves legally from DRM module
    suppliers' wraith - for example from RealPlayer's.
    If they didn't put that clause - they could lose RealPlayer
    compatibility, which is semi-essential for
    grandmother's computer (a lot of songs are in
    real player format).

  8. :((( EULA with DRM... on OEone New Releases and Review · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That OE wants to install DRManagement module
    with itself.
    No thanks. I do not want to install any DRM crap on my comoputer.
    I did NOT agree with their EULA.

  9. Re:Temporary name on More on KDE Groupware · · Score: 1

    Why not? A great horse can have a good croup!

  10. Re:Quit your silly up in arms act! on Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source" · · Score: 1

    "Nyam Nyam!" said Proprietary source - and introduced Malladium - where you can NOT run any open source programs.
    "Nyam Nyam!" said Proprietary source - and some government organzations already prohibit usage of Open source software.
    The goal of Proprietary source software - to make the usage of Open source software illegal...

  11. Re:Default, integarted XML in PHP? on Professional PHP4 XML · · Score: 1

    exactly. PHP is NOT ready for XML now, at least
    until DOM is not fully integrated into DEFAULT php
    that can be used as Apache module and throughly tested.
    It's a pity but it's reality and I hit it the hard way.
    IF (and only if) it will be integrated, it will be
    another chance - PHP is a good language and XML
    is a good technology.

  12. Re:'This guy I knew' received something like this on Fighting the Nigerian Money Scam · · Score: 1

    If you are expecting $600 it's worth the money to send UPC code by registered mail. If they say they didn't receive UPC code - time to go to post office and slap their face with clear records.

  13. Threads? What about processes? on Running 100,000 Parallel Threads · · Score: 1

    It's much interested to have so many processes,
    not threads in UNIX-like system...
    Leave threads for those Window-ers...

  14. Re:Ogg Vorbis support? on New MP3 Portables · · Score: 1

    I like OGG vorbis very much - not because it's free - but because it shows really decent sound quality for the small file size. I CAN hear the difference between OGG and MP3 on the same file and at nearly same compression quality. If I have a choice - I would take .ogg files.

  15. Re:Speaking of elections . . . on One Woman's Fight to Save P2P · · Score: 1

    Okay. And then try to explain it to Joe Sixpack, who (maybe)
    has a Windows 98 computer with AOL in which he send-receives
    his mail and a bunch of simple Windows games. He is a republican/democrat (he knows only that two parties because they are advertised in his TV).

  16. Interesting to mention... on Nokia 3650 Symbian Imaging-phone · · Score: 1

    That most sci-fi writers in the seventies, sixties
    and earlier forecasted creation of videotelephones
    but usually they mean desk-mounted ones,
    not mobile ones...

  17. Everybody knows that on Crypto with Epoxy Tokens, Glass Balls and Lasers · · Score: 1

    Glass ball and Extrasensory Medium is all we need
    for 100% perfect encryption!

  18. Re:Cheaper better solution... on Tivo Quadcard Promises Thousand-Hour PVR · · Score: 1, Funny

    Step 4. ???
    Step 5. Profit!

  19. Re:English, spelling, and other travesties. on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 2

    This is probably the reason why Russian schoolchildren
    more advanced than American in math at the same age
    and have much lower levels of dyslexia - Russian language has
    much easier phonics - you spell the word about 95% of the time
    the way it's written and there is no such thing as long
    or short vowels...

  20. In Webster on "L33T" Speak Invades Schools · · Score: 1



    Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Leet \Leet\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zo["o]l.)
    The European pollock.

    L33t!?

  21. Re:Why it is bad ... on OSI Starts Selling Preleveled UO characters · · Score: 1

    Ok. This is probably the reason. Company that operates UO tried to get some money from "other" people, while showing them part of the world. These people are surely temporary.

  22. Re:Why it is bad ... on OSI Starts Selling Preleveled UO characters · · Score: 1

    I want to argue. You are probably successful in combat and is goal oriented. I am NOT goal oriented and I am interested not in getting goals achieved but in beautifulness of the game itself: I am just enjoying how characters looks like, how battles work out.
    If I start on a little level and my natural ability (lack of concentration, for example) force me to see to only small part of the game, effectively discouraging me to explore more. By having a possibility to buy a high level character I will be able to see more of the game and I don't think it will be harmful for its internal characters...

  23. Not news... on The Ulltimate DVD Burner? · · Score: 2, Funny

    A cigarette lighter burns everything! CDR, CD-RW
    even ordinary CDs!

  24. Re:Misleading? on Lindows 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    No, Lindows doesn't use Mandrake for their base.
    But WalMart also sells PC with Mandrake...

  25. Re:Misleading? on Lindows 2.0.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Do you know that there is a version of "The Sims" for
    Mandrake Linux?