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  1. Re:Well, not everyone's favourite on Gaim Forks To Get Voice And Video Support · · Score: 1

    Gaim has had file transfer working fine for a few versions now. I use it all the time.

  2. Re:Topic misleading. on Gnuplot 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It seems pretty clear that by "released version" the authors mean "the ORIGINAL released version," not the modified version.

  3. Re:whatever on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're just a fucking idiot.

    SBLive is a fucking cakewalk. You compile emu10k1 into the kernel or as a module. Set permissions on /dev/dsp* and friends. Use aumix to set volume. You're done.

  4. Re:Conquering Windows on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1

    I've used Linux on the desktop solely for 4 years, and I don't give a shit about beating Microsoft. I'm perfectly satisfied with the way things are, and you will take my Ion from my cold, dead hands.

  5. Re:They don't do this in the Euro social democraci on Computerized Time Clocks Susceptible to 'Manager Attack' · · Score: 1

    Volvo has been owned by Ford since 1999.

  6. Re:Wow on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    Your statement assumes that the problem with rape is that the man is deprived of sexual favors from the woman in question, which I believe went out in favor shortly after Stonehenge was built.

  7. Re:Eugenics? Pull the other one... on Fish with Limbs · · Score: 1

    There's nothing we can do to convince you otherwise, but if we don't like what you're doing, we are equally free to throw you in jail.

    Morality is a farce. People make decisions primarily based on what they like, weighed against the possible repercussions of those actions. So, no, there is nothing inherently wrong with what you propose. But society has an equal right to punish you for such actions.

  8. Re:Encourage democracy! on PIRATE Act Introduced in Congress · · Score: 1
  9. Re:April fools..I hope on The Slate Programming Language · · Score: 1

    You obviously aren't familiar with Smalltalk. The syntax is very similar.

  10. Re:punished for being successful? on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    They weren't fined for being a monopoly.

    They were fined for using their monopoly powers to strongarm OEMs into distributing exactly the system Microsoft wanted. This system was designed to maintain Microsoft's monopoly, increase their market share in other areas, and suppress competition.

    For fuck's sake. Al Capone went to jail for being successful, with that logic.

  11. Re:Huh??? on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    The government IS 'we.' The government is rightly the hand and voice of the people of the nation it governs.

    The people using government to regulate free markets is as valid as any other method by which they may do so.

    If a company stood up to Microsoft, they would be destroyed. There will always be flacks willing to do the monopoly's bidding in exchange for lucre. This is a flaw of the capitalist system. It is why we have anti-trust laws.

    Deregulation means robber barons; it means the 1890's and the 1920's; it means the Gilded Age and the Great Depression. It is absurd to demand that the people give up their right to control the conduct of business in their own nation.

  12. Re:More meat for the grinder on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    I don't see anyone doing anything about North Korea. And the US has the opposite problem as Europe -- they see the Israeli government as something more than a large terrorist organization.

  13. Re:I hope.... on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1

    England isn't a very good example of a European country. Frankly, it's the most American country in Europe, in both policy and economics.

  14. Re:Yes on Gnome.org Compromised? · · Score: 1

    When is the last time anyone cared?

  15. Re:Hobgoblin of Little Minds on Linux & Microsoft as a Cold War? · · Score: 1

    Er, CmdrTaco hasn't commented on this issue at all. You're confusing a quote in the submission with an editor's comment. The quote you're referring to was made in the linked article, which was not written by Rob Malda at all.

  16. Re:ok so how will... on Linux & Microsoft as a Cold War? · · Score: 1

    Don't you have work to do back in the bathhouse?

  17. Re:Thank god ... on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I don't have any friends, then.

  18. Re:Freedom on Debian Prepares To Vote On Non-Free Software · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, they're just going to make it less easy. You can install whatever the hell you want.

  19. Re:*Sigh* on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    Is your WinXP box 166MHz?

    What's more, most programs on Linux measure cumulative CPU time -- the average CPU time consumed by the program over a certain time period. My experience with Windows is that it displays CURRENT CPU load.

    The truth is, you can't compare here. Whether X or Windows runs faster depends on a host of different data. On my computer (Athlon MP 2000+, Linux 2.6, Ion window manager, using Firebird 0.7, Thunderbird, XMMS, Gaim, dozens of xterms, gvim; all on Gentoo), Linux runs significantly more smoothly than Windows 2000, especially under load. My old K6 ran Windows 95 better than Gnome 1. It all depends, and it's absurd to argue.

  20. Re:You people should be ashamed of yourselves. on Freenet Project More Stable, In Need · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can prevent it. Run a transient node and turn your local store way down. You'll never store any information for anyone else, and you'll be a leecher, but you'll get to use Freenet without storing child porn.

  21. Re:This is what I love about linux on Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License · · Score: 1

    That's why there's this great thing called the X11 standard. Amazingly enough, if you develop to this standard, your program should work on any X server! Fancy that.

  22. Re:The X Windows Trap on Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is utter bullshit. The GPL has absolutely no end-use restrictions. It has restrictions on the use of copyrighted source code, but it explicitly places no restrictions on the use of the binaries thus produced.

  23. Re:Enter the GNU on Mandrake Blocked By XFree86 4.4 License · · Score: 1

    "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."

    -- the MIT license

    Many other Free, non-copyleft licenses have similar terms that expressly or implicitly allow sublicensing.

  24. Re:uhh... on Migrating Device Drivers to the 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 5, Informative

    The build process is substantially different. Actually, it's simpler, provided you have a Linux source tree handy. But you can't develop your kernel modules just anywhere anymore.

    Actually, the license macro isn't even necessary, 2.6 is just bitchier about kernel taints.

  25. Re:no dice on Diamond Age Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Didn't you just disprove your idiotic joke?