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  1. the rest on Dog Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    is the intellectual property of Santa Cruz Operations

  2. It's not a matter of success. on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Just as I have no right to steal your money and give it to Homless Foo, the state has no right to steal my money and give it to Homeless Foo.

    If a charitable organization decides to help Homeless Foo out, all the better. I'll even give money too said organization or Homeless Foo myself. But the state has no right to force me, or anyone else for that matter, into giving that money.

    The logistics of a law should always be second to the ethics of a law.

  3. re-incorporation? on Sebek2 - A Kernel-based Data Capture Tool · · Score: 1

    Why not just merge SELinux with Linux? Does the NSA step outside copyright law to prevent this, or has no one bothered to do the necessary work?

  4. We did the same thing on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    until I showed someone how to fake the origin of an email, at which point the entire office began firing one another through eamails from the boss.

    Remember to send \r\n instead of just \n, you don't want outlook to get bitchy about the format.

  5. also note on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    that citizen-land charities have a much better success rate. Fewer dollars end up in third world dictator hands and more in people's stomachs.

  6. of course not on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    the government chose for them :-)

  7. libertarian on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 0

    STOP BUYING THINGS FOR PEOPLE, STOP TAXING PEOPLE, AND LET PEOPLE BUY THINGS FOR THEIR OWN DAMN SELVES!.

    The states have NO reason to buy all this crap at prices much higher than citizens would pay. Despite popular opinion, people are smart enough to pay for things themselves.

    France's economy is fucked right now because their openly socialist government pays for every damn thing. Canada's taxes are skyrocketing out of control for the same reason.

    America doesn't openly admit its socialism, but that isn't preventing the BS from developing. We start more and more recurring-cost projects each year, the majority of which are pointless.

    Read more.

  8. Lawyers profit on Ransom Love, Caldera Co-Founder Interviewed · · Score: 1

    and so do those that sell stocks at the right time. stock scam

  9. I would make a joke on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    but I think Stowell's quote speaks for itself.

    "Oh lordie! lordie! I'll never make software outside of a major corporation again!"

  10. mods? on Recall of Segway Announced by CPSC · · Score: 1

    "My segway goes 60 miles/hour!"
    VROOM!

    "Oh yeah?, mine runs Linux!"
    VROOM!

    "Oh yeah! Mine runs Windows Server 2003 64bit Edition!"
    BOOM!

  11. lighter is better on XFce Desktop 4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    I run TWM on my server and OpenBox on my iBook. Smaller window managers leave more ram and more proc. time for the processes that matter.

    Try comparing compile times of the kernel between TWM and KDE3, no surprise which will win.

  12. terrorists? on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired · · Score: 1

    If terrorising a 12 y/o girl and college students into settlements for sharing 1's and 0's isn't terrorism, then what is?

    Oh yeah, I can't get a law rushed on this issue unless I can prove the RIAA is a threat to national security...

  13. 1984? on File-Sharing Ethics Taught In Classrooms? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The children will also participate in a club called the Spies where they learn to turn in dangerous dissidennt traitors.

    Can your child meet the expectations like Suzie Q. did last week when she overheard her parents saying that the RIAA should be ashamed of itself for sueing children and the elderly. She marched right over to the local police station and turned them in.

    Can your child be as happysafe as Suzie Q.? You had better send them to the Spies and make sure!

  14. in other news on Diebold Audit Released, BlackBoxVoting.Org Shut Down · · Score: 4, Funny

    6,000,000,000 people placed type-in votes for an independent candidat known as "I.P. Freely"

    "I.C. Weener" of the Cryoget Washington Head party and "Amanda Hugenkiss" tied for second with exactly 42424242 votes apiece.

  15. my hp49g on Recommendations for RPN Calculators? · · Score: 1

    Is faster than my 48sx, but still sluggish. The calculation speed isn't so bad, twenty-six variable systems of equations exempted. My problem is the reaction time, and it keeps my on a TI-89 or Linux.

    As for a good rpn calculator, I don't recommend my own for much more than learning RPN or as a basis for an interpreter. I use Maxima as a CAS, and the HP49g as a hardware calculator. The 49g+ will kick some serious ass, and is definitely worth a few months' anticipation.

  16. conv=noerror on New Anti-Swap CDs Hit Shelves · · Score: 1

    Audio tracks don't have a direct tack in Linux anyays, /dev/cdrom usually points to a device that gives the data track(s).

    If I wasn't boycottining the RIAA, and if I had a clue who this artist is, I'd just rip it. It sounds like they are relying on the autorun feature to prevent ripping.

    Failing that, I have a tower of seven Sun external SCSI cdrom drives that should be old enough to act like a "dumb" hardware cd player for ripping purposes. Worst case, and audio patch cable piped into oggenc.

    The majority of those that are posting music on p2p networks are technically knowledgable enough to plug a damn cable into their microphone jack to start ripping.

  17. lobbies by citizens!? on European Parliament Clashes Over Software Patents · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh no! If the voters get into politics, the politicians' biggest industry will be deminated!

    Let's start dragging non-corporate lobbyists to court! Twenty-four trillion euro's sounds about right.

  18. EXCUSE ME!? on New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    This patch is coming out before any known implementation of an exploit, and certainly well before worms start using it.

    With Microsoft, we wouldn't know of days after the virus makes the news.

    This is a prime example of why OSS is beter. It has been fixed before those "evil hacker terrorist communists" find out about it.

  19. I can check my email on Athlon 64 Debuts · · Score: 1

    with a dumb terminal plugged into a mailserver.

    One needs a 64-bit machine so that Windows worms can properly address all of themselves. It's being wasted on the server end.

  20. hmm on Lawrence Lessig To Debate Hilary Rosen At USC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The big deal that won't be discussed is that the record company steals profits from artists by only paying artists for 90% of records sold, ignoring the other 10% from the time when shellac records would break in transit.

    It's not stealing when I copy your work, as I'm not depriving you of property or profiting from it. It is stealing if I agree to pay you $0.20 per copy of your CD I sell, when I actually sell you $0.18.

  21. bribes? on VeriSign Responds To ICANN's SiteFinder Advisory · · Score: 1

    We didn't find: "Senator SHEENmaster"
    There is no Official site at this address.

    Would you like to place a bribe in advance, such that it will be paid if this individual ever does come into office?

  22. their contracts suck on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    but they aren't jerks about enforcing them

  23. this isn't about why intel being MS's bitch on Intel Warns Asia Over Linux Plan · · Score: 1

    It's about communism hurting prgress.

    I'm all for voluntary adoption of Free software, but legally mandating it is utter bullshit.

  24. charter cable on ISPs Experiment With Broadband Download Capping · · Score: 1

    They may be jackasses, but they do a good job of looking the other way. When they haven't caught MSBlast that is :)

  25. hehe on Secure Voice Communications While Travelling? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Alright bob, switch it over to the strongest legal encryption over here.

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