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  1. Re:Backwards compat. for those on Live. on 360's Backwards Compatibility Weak? · · Score: 1

    The phrase is "voila"

  2. Re:YES, BUT.... on PalmOne Releases 4GB PDA [updated] · · Score: 1, Informative

    no

  3. Re:Pardon? What intellectual property? on Judge Denies TigerDirect's Request for Injunction · · Score: 1

    If it was in a country that didn't have english as an official language...

  4. Re:Did anyone parse that as... on More on Last Year's Cisco Source Code Theft · · Score: 1

    Stir-fried with lots of Goto sauce...

  5. Re:Windows 2000 on How Should an Application's Logs Work? · · Score: 1

    Well, as it seems you mostly like the gui rather than the logs themselves; you need someone to whip up a clone for OS tools that allows for profiles of where logs are kept and displays them in a GUI similar to the windows one...

  6. Re:Alternate Proposal on Annual Fee For Your Comment? · · Score: 4, Funny

    CowboyNeal (or whoever the Australian equivalent is)
    AborigiNeal?

  7. Re:So dual CPU makes sense... on Trend Micro Bug Hits Several Important Computers · · Score: 1

    I believe the article was actually about dual-core CPUs rather than dual CPU setups...

  8. Re:Once again Doctor Who jumps the shark! on Daleks Return to Dr Who · · Score: 1
    "maybe Daleks run Linux now as their core OS"
    Except that Daleks have mutated Kaleds in them rather than computers...
  9. Re:Hacked you all! on Carnegie Mellon Says Computers Breached · · Score: 1

    But when your SSN is associated with your name, people can use it to pretend to be you and sign up for other forms of ID that can be used and show up as black marks against you...

  10. Re:And the point is? on Music Industry P2P Claims Dismantled · · Score: 1
    IT IS NOT A CRIME


    Yeah, as long as they don't upload anyway.. buncha leechers...

  11. Re:Still violating GPL? on CherryOS Goes Open Source · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, actually. Remember nmap vs SCO?

  12. Re:Gee... Just in time for the PSP on Sony to Make an "iTunes for Movies" · · Score: 1

    The reason that the XviD don't distribute binaries is that it would be illegal... the MPEG4 standard, IIRC, requires a costly license to distribute in binary form... This is one of the reason there was much excitement about the BBC's WIP video codec...

  13. Re:Gee... Just in time for the PSP on Sony to Make an "iTunes for Movies" · · Score: 1

    er... DivX is proprietary... I don't see anywhere on divx.com the source code available, for free or for purchase... They've got tools that will allow you to encode media with neat features and all, and other tools to allow you to watch it, but the internals are all controlled by DivX labs...

    Which means it's proprietary...

  14. Re:That's because... on Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election · · Score: 1

    Nah... if that were so it'd only be 1173 of the 900 developers that voted...and exactly 50%+1 vote for the challenger...

  15. Re:One questions remains on Draft Guidelines for Space Tourists · · Score: 1

    Go read Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"...

  16. Re:A really bad idea on Solving the /etc Situation? · · Score: 1

    How about a defined directory structure within /etc with a simplified version of the registry for layout? You could still hand-modify the config files and copy them to another computer, or just backup particular configs with a simple cp the same as now...

  17. Re:Ever since I ran into unicode ... Pgsql has roc on Interview with Josh Berkus of PostgreSQL · · Score: 1

    If it's in-house, can't you use GPLed software for whatever you want? So long as you don't try to redistribute the in-house software(gratis or for payment) without the sourcecode, why would the GPL make any difference?

  18. Re:I signed up for the 7 day trial of Second Life on Blizzard Drops the Hammer on Gold Farmers · · Score: 1

    There's also Project Entropia...

  19. Re:I'm patenting breathing... on Companies Claim iTMS, iPod Patent Infringement · · Score: 1

    Yeah? Well I'm patenting breathing while surfing the internet. So now you owe me money...

  20. Re:This can work both ways on Bounties for Gnome Optimization · · Score: 1

    It's also a different feeling when working for a contest/bounty and a day job... This is a Good Thing (tm).

  21. Maybe now... on Datamining the NSA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...people will stop downplaying social engineering?

    And why does it matter what language the script used was in, unless there was some bug in a script on the webserver related to the script parser...

  22. Re:OS X on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1
    (I especially do not like how the cursor moves in documents when scrolling using the keyboard.)

    What do you think scroll lock is for?
  23. Re:The first one, no... on EA Faced With Another Employee Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    What I was saying is that the games produced after the buyout sucked... Not that games that were good before weren't good any longer.

  24. Re:Remover? on iDownload Tries to Silence Spyware Critics · · Score: 1
    software will request the users permission to install.
    If you change this instead to "Legitimate software will not attempt to install anything without user or administrator action"

    The only problem I see with the removal tool requirements is with shared libraries... For the removal to work you'd need something like an installshield with the heuristics of modern Anti-Virus applications to determine which files should be associated with the program after installation...
  25. Re:Codeweavers is 'exited'????? on Microsoft Admits Targeting Wine Users · · Score: 1

    Or it might give you one of those exploding bananas...