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  1. Re:And the .iso mirrors are ? on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Add up all the money you've spent on dates, gifts, etc. for her and divide it by the number of times you've had sex with her to get an idea of how much sex is costing you

    did anyone else get this error:

    Runtime error (func=(main), adr=7): Divide by zero

  2. Re:For stats, see "Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers on How Would You Argue for Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Once the solution is in place, nobody ever seems to worry about it. Then at some point in the future, it's easy to point to it and say: "but we've *been* using open source all this time, and don't have problems with it".

    I think that's still the most successful implementation strategy. It's the one Microsoft used for pushing Novell out of mid-sided businesses.


    You mean there someone who can point to a MS box and say "...[we] don't have problems with it". What were they using it for a paper weight. :-)

  3. Idiots... on Accidental Privacy Spills · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When will people get that email is not secure. Its the digital equivalent of a postcard, but idiots still email credit card numbers and worse.

  4. Re:Taking So Very Long on Plex86 Lives, As Lightweight VM Technology · · Score: 1

    Or better yet, a beowolf cluster of linux VM's :-)

  5. Re:How can this work? on Embedding Data Signals In White Noise · · Score: 1

    Its soundwaves, not electromagnetic wave that they are talking about. All the cellphone has to do is listen for the special static to come across the mic.

  6. Re:How is this not illegal? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who thinks that law by analogy is a bad idea? The last time I checked doorknobs and TCP stacks don't have much in common. If you try to fit cyberspace to some real world model you won't like what you end up with. (think RIAA)

  7. Re:Accuracy of map? on Toronto, The Naked City · · Score: 1

    If I remember my netstumbler 101 class correctly the pins are where they were when they spoted the network. So the AP is most likely in a near by building but they spoted it while sitting in the parking lot. The company I work for does wireless and I have seen netstubler logs that spoted our AP like twenty miles from its accutal location.

  8. Re:Uhm, huh? on Wireless Camouflage? · · Score: 1

    The software basicly turns you Wan card in to a compulsive liar. It keeps saying it is diffrent accesss points but it will only respond to its real name. You as a legit user know the real name because the person who set it up told you the real name. In that way it kinda works like a password, but the AP is broadcasting possible passwords all the time. It seems to me the person who wrote the software doesn't quite get the consept of "just because we can, doesn't mean we should"

  9. Re:"I wasn't using my civil liberties, anyway" on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1

    Rise up Geeks of the world, and Unite ;-)

  10. Re:The word is treason on Want Freedom? · · Score: 1

    You could call it Vietnam, the Sequel. There was no declaration of war for that "war" either. The story was the million odd troops were all millitary advisors.

  11. Re:Conversion from MP3 to OGG on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 0

    If I'm not mistaken OGG is a lossless format, so you shouldn't lose any quality. If not I sure can't hear the diffrence. In fact the only problem I had was loseing the id3 tags.

  12. Re:Ridiculous on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 1

    I don't think it will hurt the open sorure movement much, because it is to hard to inforce. OSS is not some big company you can sue if they don't play by the rules, it is a very large group of individuals. Just look at DeCSS, they can't afford to prosecute everyone

  13. Re:Um, how would anything change? (I'm heading OT) on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? · · Score: 1

    yeah it's a lot like looking at your watch and then someone sitting with you notices and says "oh, what time is it?" and you have to look again because you really weren't paying attention the first time.. lol. that crap happens to me all the time! ;)

    you think that's bad. I've got you beat hands down. One day I forgot to put my watch on, and I looked at my wrist five times before I realized I forgot my watch. The moral of the story is I didn't really care what time it was. :-)

  14. Re:This is nuts on Click-Thru Licensing on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    In the event that a license is not legally binding (i.e. a GPL or BSD style license), the terms revert to the default, which is "All Rights Reserved", which is more restrictive than what is being granted by the GPL or BSD license. So taking advantage of those terms (creating derived works, redistributing, blah blah woof woof) indicates implied assent of the terms.

    that may be true in most cases but there is one clase that it doesn't apply to, the cover your butt clase. ie:

    11. because the program is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the program "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

  15. Re:so what about non-gui's? on Click-Thru Licensing on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1
    I wonder how well it would hold up in court if you did something like this:

    yes | ./configure --whatever
  16. Re:Does it work on pointy-headed bosses? on Using Your Computer to Repel Pests · · Score: 1

    Does it work on pointy-headed bosses?

    CowboyNeal's mp3s work very well on PHBs, but there is one catch. They also attract a previously unknown (at least to CmdrTaco) pest, <dramatic> The Teenage Fan Girl </dramatic>

  17. Re:Hmm. on Automatic Functional Testing for Mac and Linux? · · Score: 1

    From what I head TCL works well if you are dealing with a CLI but I'm not sure if it will work on a GUI under X. Does any one know if it is possable to get a null X server to send scripted events to a client? That might work.

  18. Re:I dont know about that guy. on The Internet Power Grab · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked Open source was a grass roots movment that grew up on the internet. I'm I wrong?

  19. Re:ALL YOUR BASE IS OGG TO US! on Ogg Vorbis 1.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The waiting is over people, at last we can start ogging for real! ^_^

    Were we ogging for fake before?

  20. Re:Replace JPEG! on Ogg Vorbis 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Ya, We'll have the best sounding JPEG's on the net... So, what does a JPEG sound like anyway?

  21. Re:RIAA Lawsuit waiting to happen on Sony's New Bookshelf MP3 Player -- Audio TiVo? · · Score: 1

    Ironic, considering Sony owns a huge record label (Sony Music) and is a member of the RIAA.

    RIAA vs Sony? That could be interesting. If the ripper boxes take off Sony will wnat to keep selling them, but the RIAA will want the product canned. This could get ugly. If you want one get it quick before the injunctions start flying.

  22. Re:Google Image Search is your friend... on Slashback: Zoning, Linking, Fooling · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I haven't been able to find a 'So you are a Windows guy moving into Linux' tut yet

    there is a whole lot of stuff like that at The Linux Documentation Project. Like this one, which might just be relavent.

  23. Re:Nothing is THAT Important on Uptime Realities in the Internet World · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, I'm glad the local nuclear power plant decided to save money and only go with 3 nines of reliability.

    I wonder if the internet will glow in the dark after the nuclear power plant's webserver melts down? Hey, maybe that is where Trolls come from.

  24. Re:Obviously broken on Google Experiments · · Score: 1

    Oh, I know, "Browser" isn't really a color is it.

  25. Re:Now what are they trying to hide? on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    so if afghanistan uses MS... wouldn't releasing the source code allow us to end afghan terrorism by crippling their computer systems?

    wait, if they are running windows aren't their systems already crippled?