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  1. Don't know what the casimir effect is? on MEMS Researchers Hope To Exploit Casimir Effect · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are some nice write ups on it at everything2. Just take a look there.

  2. Re:Brazil is the oddest place on the planet on Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software · · Score: 1

    Ok, here 's on USA

    Terrorists throwing planes on buildings, army blowing up oil rich countries, and making up poor excuses for that.

    Freedom supporting

    Free speech going defunct, and people wearing no-war t-shirts being put on arrest.

    Radioactive weaponry being built, and no one knows what to do with nuclear waste. (if we are going back to 1986, than it is)

    Freedom supporting.

    Anyone from the YSA pleas weigh in on this.

  3. Re:Color.... on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And what?
    For any measure you do make, incadescent light bulbs are just yellow. Not a bit yellow, but quite yellow.

    There are also these new fluorecent bulbs which use is increasing in my country, they are a bit greenish - not the long cylindrical ones, I mean the ones that fit in incadescent sockets, they also consume up to 70% less electricity than their incadescent counterparts.

    Funny thing they are not mentioned in the article, or around the comments.

  4. Are the drivers "O.S.S." or not? on HDTV Reception Now Available on Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    When one talks in support for Linux for any hardware, it is always important to note if sad software is Free Software or not.

    If not for ideological motives, which seen so secondary to most /. readers, one should note that a proprietary driver is all but ilegal if functioning with a GPLed Kernel.

  5. I just hope on SuSE CEO's Two-Distro World · · Score: 1

    that with all this arrogance they are not the next company to go sco.

  6. earth station 5 - almost free everything on RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5 · · Score: 1

    It seens that the only non-free thing on the
    earth station software is just itself.
    Not free as in speech at least.

    So ... I liked it...who is working on
    a GPLD Gaia Station 5 to connect on their network
    and when are the beta test versions due?

  7. Re:SCO hasn't engaged in litigation, SCO has decla on SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users · · Score: 1

    >4. If you disagree with the GPL you are not allowed to use the software.

    Not true. The GPL allows you to use the software even if you do not agree with it.

    It doesn't allow you to re-distribute it in any form, however.So (5) still olds and SCO goes away.

  8. What are we able to do know? on PS2 Exploit Allows Running of Unsigned Code · · Score: 1

    There is Linux for the PS2 already. But Ive read that the CPUs get a couple of limitations when running unsigned code (and therefore, a Linux kernel and the apps bellow it).

    What resources will be fred up on the PS2 with this hack?

    I mean - what were the limitations imposed to Linux before in terms of
    instruction set limitations, or maybe, limited access to the Graphics Synthesizer GPU?

  9. Corporate America - Hate it or Lo^H^H hate it on Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card Updated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hmmm...Trademark trouble because of the sound alike of "Mobilix" and "Obelix".

    I know. And now, they are quite certain that the "Oldsmobil" trademark
    detentor will just let they walk away with "Tuxmobil".

    I am afraid that every new name, or domain one whishes to use in the near future will have to be 12 charcters long, with at least 2 digits, and randomly generated.

  10. Re:Does this mean... on Chimera Twins Story · · Score: 1

    >Could he/she then sue their sibling for attempted murder?

    Only if he grows up to become a SCO employee or lawyer.

    But maybe the partially clonned "source" sibbling can sue the generated one first based on the DMCA - "You see, I have this mixed DNA, and I choose to use it as a mechanism to protect the copyright on my genepool."

  11. The beggining it all. on EU Says Microsoft's Abuses Are Ongoing · · Score: 2, Informative

    If no one posted it already, this link is interesting. It points to the summary of the complaints that started said case.

    I was just looking forward to hear from it again.

    17 pages, but if one cares to read, there is much more into it than "Media Player bundled with Windows is evil".

  12. Re:Disney supporting open-source? on Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No. Disney non-supporting Open Source,
    as it has always been.

    Now, instead of using, and helping
    improving The GIMP, "linux people"
    will just run their pirated Photoshops
    and be happy, as oftenly such users
    do not know the difference between free
    and proprietary software.

  13. They almost lured me in... on SCO "Disappointed" by Red Hat Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    There I was happily reading the SCO letters on their pages, when a DHTML menu thingie called my attentition on the left. A nice triangle arrow indicating the link over witch the mouse is hovering.

    And I carelessly allowed me to think "how cute - I could make something like this on the site I am working on."

    Too good I came to my senses before that. It would be a _bad_ thing to have SCO suing me with 200 grand in lawyers to get possession of every HTML page I ever wrote.

  14. Petaflops by 2010? on Time For A Cray Comeback? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course I expect that...in my Playstation IV,
    equipped with an opto-quantic Emotion Engine VI
    and a couple petabytes of holographic storage.

  15. What about... on Legitimate uses for DeCSS · · Score: 1

    ...being able to WATCH your DVD movies at all

    And I do not mean watching them on oure "pirated-from-Sco"
    GNU/Linux systems, but actually being able to watch them.

    It seens that the latest generation of DVD Drivers (the
    "legitimate", DeCSS free stuff), will simply not play any DVD
    if your PC has got a working TV Out video card.

    I saw this in an e-mail of a friend the other day, and just checked google for it: Here
    I can see it was not a thing with my friend computer.

  16. I won't miss them on Gemstar Ebook Crashes, Burns · · Score: 1

    As I will not miss any device or company that comes to the point of "eliminate the ability to install free content directly".
    Actually, IMO, they are late to go, and take any other company on the likes of it with them.

    Could you imagine paper on which you could not write, because you could tham copy copyrighted content onto it? Why to accept such an e-book device so?

    May the responsibles for DRM on this level lie on hell for a while.

  17. Re:not yet... on What Is The Future of PNG? · · Score: 1

    Yes...and maybe, IF, we can get people to go Firebird on Winblows, or some miracle happens so that Internet Exploder actually supports more than one bit of transparency on PNG's.

    Maybe I.E> could be fixed bvia an Outlook trojan, or the like?

  18. Remember them to change the FTAA also on Public Domain Enhancement Act petition · · Score: 2, Informative
    The current FTAA draft will force copyright to last life + 70 years on all signatary countries, overriding national legislations.

    Therefore, such a petition shoul also be forwarded to the FTAA negotiations.

  19. But Why don't they... on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 1

    simply write a XUL interface to re-use gecko's parts?

    > It might take several more years before Gecko tape is made commercially available

  20. And remember... on Lyric Sites In Trouble With The MPA · · Score: 1

    Not to be catch singing or whistling(sp?) any MPAA protected music.
    I heard it's a U$20.000,00 fine, and 4 months in jail.]

  21. Everyone here so happy... on New Ultra-Intrusive Pop-up Ads Introduced · · Score: 1

    Because their pop-blocking, configurable-javascript-window-
    meddling-permissi ons ultra power cool Mozilla
    Firebird Browser will keep these ads away.

    What everyone seens to forget is that once these
    adds are coming in when you are clicking to another
    link, the actual page you want to see will probably
    only become avaliable after the dreaded 15 seconds.

    So, at most one will not see the add, but would
    probably have to wait the full 15 seconds + add
    download time to get to the page he wanted to see.

  22. Interesting on How Would You Move Mount Fuji? · · Score: 1

    It seens that the people found apt through this
    kind of interview are not only more creative, or
    productive, but inerently evil.

    Maybe you United-States-of-Americans could adopt
    them in airports to catch more terrorists.

  23. Proprietary Software on FoxPro On Linux, Drama Ensues · · Score: 1

    'Nuff said.

    If one thinks that the benefits from running this or that O.S. are just stability, usability, and price, and that he could change his working enviroment just to get away from some EULA's issues, he is plain wrong.

    That is why the major issue, in this thread and many others, is not Linux vs Windows, but proprietary vs free software. Microsoft is probably the most notable example of how much harm can proprietary software do, with it's monopoly generating ever more monopolies.

    But, specially developers, should take care of these issues. Even if one feels not int he mood of writing exclusively free software from now on, the free software tools for development will ensure they can do as they choose with the software they produce - some libraries require that the resulting software be free software too, but the compilers and design tools never do this. Market it as proprietary, or free, and absolutely no burdens on the final consumer.

  24. More Costs and Less Quality - again on Foiling Cinema Pirates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just like the Macrovision protection in DVD's, there we go again, paying the REAL pirates for that they pay other bandits to DECREASE the quality of images we pay to view. Or anyone believe that this, or DVD Macrovision for that sake, does actually mantain image quality as the perpetrators clain?

  25. Perry Rodan - POINT on Comparing Sci-fi Starship Sizes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unlss you will count the Death Star - and even them,
    I'd nedd it's specs, because OLD MAN station
    is probably still larger, Perry Rhodan - a German Sci Fi series, is the clear winner.

    With 2.5 Kilometers in an ordinary battle ship,
    Weapons ranging to tenths of millions of kilometers, they are unmatched.