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  1. /. rocks today on Internet Access via Cell Phone HOWTO · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Story about BMG
    2. Story about Gnutella2 (how to find BMG discs online)
    3. Story about how to access (how to access Gnutella2 while travelling) 4. ...
    5. Story about d/l pr0n from the m00n ;)

  2. AAs AllAdvantage Program or Website? on The Web's Longest Disclaimer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's about AAs frequent flyer program, not about the whole site (the title and the URL says it):

    If you choose not to accept these terms, you may enroll in the AAdvantage program offline by contacting AAdvantage Reservations/Customer Service.

  3. Re:This is the EU not the US... on EU Studies Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    Heh what? Need some moussaka? I make good price for you my friend ;-)

  4. Re:This is the EU not the US... on EU Studies Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    He didn't say that the EU has more corruption than the USA. Ok, noone beats the italians ;)

  5. Let's wait on EU Studies Linux Migration · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bet 100 that Microsoft or similar companies will put a lot more than 250'000 into a study _against_ a Linux Migration as we've seen quite a lot in the past.

  6. Re:A possible problem? on New Apache Module For Fending Off DoS Attacks · · Score: 2, Insightful
    if all those frames were for the same page or script.
    Some silly designers uses to have multiple frames of a blank frame, eg blank.html. These all would be busted. I do not think that you should use this new module in production, do you?
  7. Re:Freenet makes loads of enemies. on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 1

    About "inventing copyright laws", I ment that some silly guys in the U.S. invented the DCMA and that some more silly guys over at the E.U. are adopting it and are trying to make it even more stupid. What scares me in the end is that my country (Switzerland, not part of E.U.) will adopt it in some ways to. We have a strong lobby too here (it's now illegal (for retailers only, duh not private ones) to import DVDs with other region codes of non authorized (read: not released for sale in our area) movies and sell them here. Crazy, we know.

    As you are more common with copyright history than I am: Is the idea of copyright extensions also taken from Europe (I think not since we've the 70-years-after-the-author-dies embargo) or is this the sole invention of lobbyists in the U.S.?

  8. Re:Freenet makes loads of enemies. on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Hm, I'm not sure if I got the point in your posting. I'm aware thet the Big Five are not only U.S. based - but it seems to me that only in the U.S. the copyright nonsense begun 4 years ago. And the problem is: what the U.S. invents in Copyright laws, it will swap over to the Europe and other countries. Do you support this?

  9. Freenet makes loads of enemies. on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    As the Freenet Philosophy says it all:
    You cannot guarantee freedom of speech and enforce copyright law
    This is exactly where the big media/entertainment industry should get to. Either you forget freedom of speech or you forget copywright laws over there in the U.S. or maybe your whole country will end in a bigger destater (internet related) that it already is.
  10. Re:Mainframes Session Managers There First on Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop · · Score: 1

    I've 16 possible selections, windowing possible on the TPF sessions of course. Well ESC == ATTN here too. And windows is coming as dev platform (well, it's already here).

  11. Re:CRLF in EBCDIC on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 1

    Out of date? Not a bit. Banks, Airlines, generally transaction processing systems are on Mainframes and these data is not a single bit out of date.

  12. Re:Mainframes Session Managers There First on Killing Clutter With The Antidesktop · · Score: 1

    Never heard of Candle Supersession (what a name!) but some of us have their multisession, I don't, 'cause I do not want go trough the hassle for ordering it as long as I can have PA2 (page down) or F9 for switching in my screens on the iron.

  13. Re:CRLF in EBCDIC on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 1

    My nick is spacefight. Anyway, I've nothing against penguin driven servers, but as I am in the mainframe biz since one year, coding C and HLASM, I'll attend you for this parade :)

  14. CRLF in EBCDIC on XML 1.1 Spec Hits Some Snags · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is 0x156C in my programming area, 'nough said. EBCDIC is still live. Did you know that about 90% of todays enterprise data is stored in EBCDIC chars? You better update the XML specs :)

  15. Microsoft is in the DVR/PVR market? on Slate Predicts The End Of TiVo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I just learned that Microsoft is deep inside the DVR/PVR market! Help, they are everyware! Someone needs to stop them! Help! Help! Help!

    /me jumps out of the wagon

  16. Re:I recently "made the switch" on Mozilla Jumps on 'Lean Browser' Bandwagon · · Score: 1

    w/o a keyboard shortcut to close the tab
    This works at least with 1.0.1 as well as 1.2. Try Ctrl-W.

    Moz is using over 40megs and is running 20-30% cpu usage. IE never did that.
    You can never tell that IE never did that because IE is so cripply deep inside the OS itself, that you never will be able to determine if IE is using less memory than Mozilla or any other Browser.

    Luckily there is a google bar (kinda) for moz now, but since it has to sit stacked w/ the other bars and I can not combine, I don't use it.
    Sorry, you are a bit lame. You can use the location bar as your google search tab. Just enter the search words, hit the search button or choos in the recent url list "Search Google for". Of course you have to make sure in your prefs, that google will be used for the location bar. See, there is absolutely no need for additional waste of space like in IE.

  17. Just two . on Directors Counter-Sue Movie Bowdlerizing Company · · Score: 1

    This has modified the "Clean Slashdot Flick" in to any they not . mod down .

  18. Openbrick Off The Wall on Tiny Boxen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like they're serving their website out of one of these tiny boxes ;)

  19. Clueless writer on Internet Vigilante Justice, SPAM, and Copyrights · · Score: 1

    "How had it gained access to my mail server? Simple. It had forged the headers on its email to convince my mail server that the email it sent was from a permitted user. You see, my mail servers were set up to pass mail only from a domain name of which I am the only user. It blocks everything else. That's not an open relay. Unless you're a user in my domain, you can't use it."

    That seems like an invitation to spam trough his server with his domain name in it. Therefore I declare hereby his mailserver as an open relay ;) Sorry dude... no chance. Get a clue.

  20. Re:What would a legal fight look like? on New MP3 License Terms Demand $0.75 Per Decoder · · Score: 1

    Gee 0soft already paid these dumb license fees, have a look:
    http://www.mp3licensing.com/licensees/index.asp

  21. The Tux For The Reservation System: Big NoNo on Penguin Airlines · · Score: 1

    ... as long as the passenger rate is as low as their earnings, it's fine... but...

    if they grow and I assume they want to, you can suck Linux or any other Unix compared to the good old TPF, IBMs Transaction Processing Family, scalable like hell, fast like a rocket and secure as you could hardly imagine. And I've recently saw a nice article about SMTP beeing ported to the TPF as well and POP3 is already their, carrying 250 Mio POP Boxes without being slashdotted all the time.... Tux, you better wach your ass in the Rerservation Systems Area of the Airlines around the globe... at least EDS and their client/whatever Sabre and many others are still using it and they won't stop for now ;) Sure, you can port the Tux to the zSeries of big blue but with that you won't get the realtime OS behaviour which TPF is providing.

  22. Gee... Sony is the one who can do this among M5 on Sony Proudly Rolls Out Spyware/Restrictions System · · Score: 1

    Sony Corp is
    a) Sony Music and
    b) Sony Digital Entertainement
    and therefore is the customer and the client of this fscking new technology sitting in the same house (ok let's say, the same bed). SM produces the Music which SDEs hardware should take care about the DRM, homecalling and so on... I do not wonder that they came along with this nasty little idea. Plain fact: The MiniDisc I bought last year was the last Sony item (I just stepped back from buying a new Clié, I will let them know) I bought for exactly as long as Sony respects the fair use of the music they distribute (produce is definitivly the wrong word here).

    Sony, clean up you reputation...! So, is there any other close relationship out between the hardware guys and the marketing lobbyists like in the Sony HDQ?

  23. Re:Robots.txt on The Wayback Machine, Friend or Foe? · · Score: 1

    Remove the robots.txt and the Archive is back online... in contrary to what they said about also "deleting indexed content". Liars.

  24. Removing yourself from the Archive... on The Wayback Machine, Friend or Foe? · · Score: 1

    is not quite that easy. Allthough they say that with the correct robots.txt, your index will not be searchable and they say also that all indexed content will be erased, they do not erase it.

    I checked this with removing the robot.txt entries and wumms, the content is back in the machine. I call them a bunch of liars....

  25. The MPAA is just too big... on MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole! · · Score: 1

    ... and too greedy and to silly. If the won't get it that they _have_ to change the way the're thinking and acting in their biz, the will loose more than they can ever imagine. Me myself laughs my a** out here in Europe... MPAA and all those lobbyists just should quit their job and better go to beginner lessons for doing biz in the digital econmy and dealing with the new possibilities - not to go after the rights of their consumers.

    I better do not look any more any movies at all because as far as I know my Retina works pretty analog and I do not have a silly watermark detector in my brain or wherever. got it MPAA?