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  1. I prefer to see us as ... on A Monocultural Alternative: TheOpenCD · · Score: 5, Funny

    fire ants, who through our concerted, stinging, burning efforts, have forced the slow-moving stupid beast to drop to one knee, confused and infuriated by the pain. If we redouble our efforts, hopefully we'll soon be feasting on big, dumb Microsoft carcas soon.

  2. Recycling SCO stock certificates ... on Creative Recycling: Dumpster Diving · · Score: 1, Funny

    into toilet paper would not be desirable. Everything from SCO is already full of feces.

  3. I'd like to point out that he WAS .. on Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money · · Score: 1

    Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. He owned a mansion und a yacht.

  4. You're forgetting where the money comes from on Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money · · Score: 1
    5) "Suggest" that companies hire you as a consultant. Those that do get listed by you as top 3 market leaders. Those that don't get listed as dead ends.
    6) PROFIT!!!

    Give me some of that gravy, uh huh!

  5. .."Unix systems are the best alternatives.".. on Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If high-performance Linux systems are in production, develop plans that would enable a quick changeover in case SCO wins a favorable judgment and requires the Linux kernel code to be substantially changed. Unix systems are the best alternatives.

    No, BSD is the best alternative. SCO faces an even greater uphill battle to try and imply that they have any IP issues with it, considering the AT&T 1994 settlement.

    Yes, I remember that yesterday there were intimations that SCO would be going after BSD next. And while I know Darl is crack-addled and David is clueless, I think there might be a paralegal or an associate around who might be able to point out to them the extreme problems they'd have. Or maybe one judge who'd be willing to just slap them upside the head, as they've long deserved.

  6. Don't they realize that will severely ... on Gartner Recommends Holding Onto The SCO Money · · Score: 5, Interesting
    hamper Darl and David's attempts to confuse the investing public into thinking that there is some validity to their claims, thus allowing them to continue to unload their massively overvalued shares? How will Canopy continue to use the overinflated valuation of SCOX to play their shell games and shuffle the monies around (eventually with them ending up in their pockets, of course)?

    How utterly irresponsible of Gartner! No consulting contracts for them!

  7. But as soon as they mandate that... on Roadside Assistance System Used for Eavesdropping · · Score: 1
    OnStar changes it's service to allow eavesdropping without a service disruption, they'll be helpful agents listening to your every word as you drive across the country.

    Call me a Luddite, but I'm not happy with that idea.

  8. Keylogger prevention on OS X on Spyware for Corporate Espionage · · Score: 1

    What steps can be taken to ensure that there isn't some rogue keylogger running on an OS X system?

  9. Yes: East-coast law school bias on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 1

    That would be because I'm on the East Coast.
    By the way, Stanford was covered in the "and such".

  10. Why aren't we just using ... on Is Space Mining Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Moonbase Alpha? It's been up and running for over 4 years now. It has an efficient transportation system in the Eagles for bringing in the minerals and an enlightened and effective leadership in Commander Koening. I often watch his efforts on my personal viewscreen.

  11. Later, Mr. Glucose's son moved back ... on The Riches of Open Source · · Score: 1
    to Finland. He eventually changed his name to ...
    Linus Torvald
    And that is the rest of the story.
  12. OT: The FSB is only half of the former KGB on Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market · · Score: 3, Informative
    As discussed here, the KGB was split into two organizations: the domestic security service, the Federalnaya Sluzba Bezopastnosti (Federal Security Bureau or FSB) and the civilian intelligence service, Sluzba Vneshnei Razvedka (SVR).

  13. Their concerns about Windows (from the FAQ) on Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market · · Score: 4, Informative
    From their FAQ

    I noticed that your CryptoPhone is based on Windows CE / PocketPC. Isn't this a security risk?

    The current version of the CryptoPhone runs on top of a heavily modified and stripped down Microsoft PocketPC2002 ROM. The reason is that we wanted an affordable and well researched platform that offered sufficient performance for the speech encoding and crypto functions.A Pocket PC based system was chosen as the first platform for CryptoPhone because it was the only sufficiently fast device allowed us to do software integrity protection in ROM and the stripping of unnecessary functions.

    The only commercially available alternative at the time of the necessary development decision was Symbian. Symbian is even more closed source (Windows CE is open source for developers in most parts) and was available only on a more expensive hardware platform. There was (and still is) no viable mass-market Embedded Linux based hardware with sufficient performance, stability, hardware integration and availability on the market at decision time, so we were not able to pursue this alternative.

    We are aware that there are risks associated with using any Windows platform and we have taken a number of measures to mitigate these risks as best we could. We removed applications, communication stacks and system parts that are unnecessary for the CryptoPhone operation and which may cause potential security problems. You should not install third party software on the CryptoPhone to prevent software based attacks on the firmware integrity. The firmware update mechanism is cryptographically secured.

  14. The Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone on Encrypted Cell Phone Hits the Market · · Score: 4, Funny
    The Microsoft-based XDA handheld computer phone made by Taiwan's High Tech Computer is selling for 3,499 euros ($4,121) per two handsets.

    Well, since Bill IS focusing so strongly on security, I feel comfortable relaying most personal, intimate, potentially volatile information over these phones.

    I also wear my Social Security number on a t-shirt, yell out the numbers of my PIN at ATMs and throw my credit cards at little children as if they were candy.

  15. IBM has a special ... on SCO Hints at *BSD Lawsuits Next Year, And More · · Score: 4, Funny

    lawyer farm in upstate NY where they breed them. Their typical yearly output in farm-fresh, free-range lawyers is 3 times the output of all of the "Law Schools" put together. And IBM raises them organically, not pumping them full of antibiotics and growth hormones like Hardvard, Yale, Columbia and such.

  16. 16-bit? 16-bit? on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 5, Funny
    You're soft. Why, in my day, we sent rockets to the moon with 8-bit processors, and we considered ourselves lucky to have them.

    16-bit? Why don't you just go lay down on a feather bed and let servants peel your grapes for you? Harumph.

  17. Good news/bad news for AMD on AMD Predicts End of 32-bit Processors · · Score: 3, Funny
    Good news: I agree in the quickly coming obsolescence of 32-bit chips.

    Bad news: I'm getting a dual 1.8Ghz PowerMac G5, baby! Yeah!

    I have to go lay down now.

  18. Windows XP Pro powers digital radio broadcasting on SliMP3 Successor; Radio Station in a Box · · Score: 1
    Right there in the title tag. Makes it that much easier to know what you're dealing with. Or not, as the case may be.

    I do have a question though: They say "WorldVibrations says the WVRS can operate fully automated and unattended, precisely scheduling programs, music, and announcements 24 hours a day, seven days a week.". So do they consider dead air from reboots and BSOD to be part of the programming?

  19. Yet! on Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    As the swarms of flying, self-replicating, microrobots converge on the last outpost of humanity, their edged weapons gleaming in the dying sunlight, will we at least then think to ask "Was creating flying microrobots really such a good idea? And should we really have trusted that they wouldn't figure out how to self-replicate?".

  20. Completely wrong analogy on SCO News Roundup · · Score: 2, Funny
    Trying to paint SCO as a lame horse is an insult to horses everywhere. Horses are productive, helpful animals who sometimes, through no fault of their own, come up lame. When their injuries are severe and causing the horses great pain, the animals are shot to put them out their misery.

    SCO is a malignant cancer. It needs to be surgically removed, irradiated, poisoned with Chemo.

  21. He isn't invisible on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 1

    You just have to look at the purple dragon by squinting through the sides of your eyes when nobody else is around. Then you can spend hours alone in your garage watching the purple dragon floating freely. It's not a bad life for either one of you.

  22. Flying microrobots on Epson Creates Tiny Flying Robot · · Score: 1

    And when the swarms of flying microrobots converge on the last outpost of humanity, their edged weapons gleaming in the dying sunlight, will we at least then think to ask "Is creating flying microrobots really such a good idea?".

  23. Mystery Meson X? on New 'Mystery Meson' Sub-Atomic Particle Discovered · · Score: 2, Funny

    She was always my favorite character in the "SubAtomic Defenders" series. But like a lot of her fans, I resent the description of her as "heavy". Perhaps zaftig would be a more accurate phrase. All I know is she filled out her uniform in a pleasing way.

  24. Now that Bill is focusing on spam/security, ... on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1
    I can sit back and take it easy. Bill's on the job. I'm going to go take a nap.

    Wake me when the web is working.

  25. I don't understand #6: Space Colonies on Technological Flights Of Fancy That Fizzled · · Score: 3, Funny
    After all, we completed work on Moonbase Alpha over 4 years ago. I've been watching the efforts of Commander Koening on my personal televiewer for quite some time now.

    Oh, wait. It's medication time. And jello with dinner!