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  1. The chocolate ration has increased to 5 units on Cringely On Electronic Tapping · · Score: 1

    The Ministry of Love will be by to discuss this with you. Just sit there and wait.

  2. Are you suggesting that there are thousands ... on NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network · · Score: 1
    of computers running Amiga, Commodore, Atari ST, BeOS, AtheOS and/or OS/2 with high speed internet connections that have been hijacked to spread porn?

    More to the point, are you suggesting that there are thousands of computers running Amiga, Commodore, Atari ST, BeOS, AtheOS and/or OS/2 with high speed internet connections?

    More specifically, are you suggesting that there are thousands of computers running Amiga, Commodore, Atari ST, BeOS, AtheOS and/or OS/2?

  3. That's what I said on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 1

    From my original post (emphasis added): Since Martha Stewart is being prosecuted right now not for insider trading ...

  4. "The rogue program ..." on NYT Reports Porn Spam Hijacking Network · · Score: 1
    The rogue program does not affect the Apple Macintosh line of computers or computers running variants of the Unix operating system.

    Gosh, I wonder who it does affect? I mean, who's left?

    Serious question: So why is the NY Times being so purposefully evasive?

  5. The Ransom Love speech is evidence on SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Ransom Love Linuxworld speech where Caldera explicitly states that it is donating code to Linux so that it can scale for high-end business uses and that Caldera was committed with IBM to making Linux scale to 64-bit as part of Project Monterey and IA-64 Linux is evidence where I come from. It's evidence that SCO has filed legal documents that it knows explicitly are false.

  6. I hope the IBM lawyers appreciate our efforts on SCO's Other Investor: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 4, Funny
    They can continue to charge their hourly rates and half the time, they just have to come here to begin finding more evidence to bury SCO. Geeks are doing their legwork.

    Think of it as open-source lawyering.

  7. Get the sale (and prepare for doing things right) on "Quick 'n Dirty" vs. "Correct and Proper"? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Any down time should be used to create the circumstances so that a proper procedure solution can be quickly, cleanly applied. For now, though, get the damn sale. If you're around long enough (and anyone still cares), you can fix it later.

    That said, quick and dirty is always more fun.

  8. That might be considered to be ... on OSCON Panel: SCO Lawsuit About the Money · · Score: 1

    stock fraud. Since Martha Stewart is being prosecuted right now not for insider trading but for giving interviews in which she declared her innnocence, and since the legal logic behind her prosecution is that these pronouncements were attempts to keep up the price of her stock, filing lawsuits and giving lots of inflammatory interviews as a pump and dump scheme might also be seen as worth prosecuting.

  9. Lindows has a live distribution on Linux on the Desktop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Article in news.com about Lindows just came out with LindowsCD, so that people can try Lindows Linux without having to install it. They're not the first, but since they're selling easy of use and ease of transition, this seems an especially smart way to show people they can function in a non-Windows world.

  10. I limit my online gambling to two games: on Artificial Intelligence in Poker · · Score: 1

    knock hockey
    curling

  11. Except my scanner/frier ... on Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial · · Score: 1

    would violate the DMCA (even for personal use) and would cause me to be declared a Luddite Terrrorist

  12. Fairly difficult to trust a group ... on Webcaster Alliance Threatens To Sue RIAA · · Score: 3, Funny

    whose acronym is VOW. Or is that just me?

  13. Yes, but these are REAL people on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 2, Informative

    People making REAL business decisions. Not the mythical cave and under-bridge dwellling creatures that tend to inhabit that web site destructive land we call /.

  14. Simple answer(s) on Wal-Mart Cancels RFID Trial · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Any "successful" use of RFID technology (even in the warehouse venue) will lead to an increasing likelyhood of their inclusion at the store level. Since there are a large number of legitimate privacy issues (even acknowledged by the organization behind RFIDs) that have not remotely addressed yet, further usage of RFIDs is in general a negative.

    You're comment "How would you know?" points out a big part of the problem. RFID tags can be/are hidden very effectively (including manufactured INTO the soles of shoes). As it stands now, destroying the RFID tag (assuming you can find/get to it) is the only way you can be sure that it will not continue to allow you and your purchases to be tracked. (Microwaving doesn't work since it would cause the chip and your items to catch fire). Without clear legislation mandating the removability of RFID chips post-purchase, the marketplace (which is notably non-privacy minded) and what they think they can get away with will decide the continued usage of these tags. And that's unfortunate.

  15. Darl's trip on Japan To Do Payroll On Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess that Darl's trip wasn't particularly persuasive after all. I wonder why.

  16. "not a how to book" on Firewalls and Internet Security, Second Edition · · Score: 5, Funny
    This is not a how to book written with step-by-step specific fill-in-the-blanks, connect-the-dots, detailed mechanical guidelines

    What about a point-by-point, layer-on-layer, inch-by-inch, over-the-meadow-and-through-the woods, up-the-flagpole-and-see-if-anyone-salutes, nose-to-the-grindstone, pedal-to-the-metal, gun-crazed-kill-spree sort of a guideline? Would that apply?

  17. If you're that concerned, you could always ... on Review Of Yopy 3700 Linux PDA · · Score: 2, Funny

    teach it the words. Or isn't 128 megs of RAM enough to learn them?

  18. I'm feeling a bit Yopy ... on Review Of Yopy 3700 Linux PDA · · Score: 2, Funny

    but some Pepto and Kim Chee should clear that up.

  19. Tax cuts ARE the topic on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Oh, and war against any nation we decide is distracting.

    Remember, when the double dip occurs, the plebians might start arguing to impose taxes on the annointed wealthy. We can't let them hurt their betters!

  20. You mean like in Florida? on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You know, where exit polling showed the guy elected won, not the guy selected.

  21. You know what this means? on Inside Electronic Voting Machines · · Score: 0, Troll
    Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts!

    Oh, and war with Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, etc.
    But don't worry. It's for your protection.

  22. But not ignoring the Sun! on SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan · · Score: 0
    "SCO is a pimp. It never could've outfought Linux. But I didn't know until this day that it was Microsoft all along."

    Slight adjustment of original quote.

  23. Always with the negativity, Moriarity on Text Processing in Python · · Score: 1

    Always with the negativity.
    Woof, woof, woof.

  24. Most women would agree. on New Deep Ocean Creatures · · Score: 1

    That seems like a fairly accurate description of the male of the species.

  25. Or is it the ... on New Deep Ocean Creatures · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    black-lip rattail that is Guillon?