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  1. another sco story!? on Should a '9200' Brand Mean a 9200 GPU? · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO does the same thing, advertising operating systems that are barely UNIX93-compliant as cutting edge.

  2. downturn for M$? on Israel v. Microsoft, Next Round · · Score: 5, Funny

    First they hit their first flat quarter, and then Israel tells them to fuck off. Next thing you know, some fat pervert in a butterfly suit will be without a job.

  3. ipsec on Feds Want to Tap VoIP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ipsec, ssh tunneling, and VPN configurations can all prevent this with no change to existing code.

    Is anyone else outraged that the feds spent $63 million just wiretapping phones for a black market that they created? 1.) Make a drug black-market. 2.) Spend $63 million wiretapping phone investigating the market. 3.) ??? 4.) profit!

  4. not competitive!? on TI Launches Three New Graphing Calculators · · Score: 1

    My shiny HP 49g+ has a faster processor (75mhz), more storage (256M), 131 x 80 resolution (smaller fonts more than compensate).

    The 256M SD card can be used with my Linux(usb) and Solaris(pcmcia) systems, and IrDA allows for traditional linking with Linux. It also open up the possibility of printing to an IrDA printer, like the ones my school was conned into buying.

    The 49g+ can do realtime rotations in fast3d mode, while the 89's similar feature has a much slower framerate.

    To top this all off, the 49g+ can be used in algebraic mode. The only features the 89 has on it are a slightly better resolution and a better symbolic solver.

  5. small scale? on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this work on the small scale as well, like OpenMOSIX? We have a few G4's at school that could benifit from clustering.

  6. And if you let the government define that balance on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then the only outcome can be a police state for your children to live in when they grow up.

  7. I wish we could try that here on DVD-Jon Breaks iTunes Encryption For Linux Users · · Score: 1

    He's just trying to prove that he has the right to do this. I may not be a norwegian lawyer, but I suspect that having the supreme court of Norway declare this not a crime is the only way that the legal right to play media that you own.

    The answer is not to keep a low profile, that's equivalent to surrender. He did nothing wrong, and he needs to secure the rights of others to do the same thing before it's too later.

  8. the mccarthy part was a joke on California Legislator To Introduce Games Bill · · Score: 1

    Keeping information from one group is censorship, just as it is to keep such information from all of society.

  9. I apologize for my nation's actions. on DVD-Jon Completely Clear · · Score: 1

    Aparently my leaders lied about never inhaling.

  10. more power to them on California Legislator To Introduce Games Bill · · Score: 1

    Censorship is utter bullshit, especially when enforced by the law.

    If a minor asks you to help him buy a violent or othewise blacklisted game, it is your duty as a citizen of a free nation to help him purchase it.

    Any store clerk that refuses to sell such an item to a minor is a Communist spy, to be dealt with accordingly.

  11. maybe not this one on Ohio Also Passes Law Against Recording In Cinema · · Score: 1

    but the other one is rediculus! Jail time and a quarter-million dollars just for a damn video camera in a movie theater!?

    Then again, this is the same nation that treats breaking into a computer as a more serious crime than manslaughter. We should've expected this.

  12. As my dad always says on The Hidden Costs of Bargain Electronics · · Score: 1

    Taxes started the revolutionary war; its your duty as an American to screw the government out of every tax dollar you can.

    Terrorism is just superfluous justification for that.

  13. there's another evil on The Hidden Costs of Bargain Electronics · · Score: 1, Funny

    you can buy american, let the MPAA get their membership fee, and fund terrorism.

  14. block-blacklisting on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 1

    They like to blanket bomb the little guy. If you don't control your reverse DNS entry, they blacklist the living hell out of you, and blame for all spam that came from your second-level reverse dns name when you complain.

    At this point, I'm too fed up with AOL to even bother trying to contact Carl, however reasonable he may be. As for the rest of AOL, they certainly make mistakes, and they certainly sustain blocks without evidence. AOL can bite my shiny metal ass; they're no better than any other spammer.

  15. They've already files suit on Sun Opens Cobalt Code · · Score: 1

    "#!/bin/sh" appears at the beginning of several files in both distributions.

  16. Re:different xforms on XForms Essentials · · Score: 1

    Not sure about the GPL'ing, but the Qt port of LyX is unstable as hell.

    If the Qt port ever stabilizes, I'd love to see a Zaurus port.

  17. different xforms on XForms Essentials · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's closed source, and the savanah download page is still down. This is a different Xforms than the one the article is about.

    I email Angus Leeming, and he replied with:
    The savannah site was hacked some weeks ago and the savannah guys took everything offline in order to rebuild the site in a safe manner. They have been gradually returning the site to its former status. I think that the download page is the only remaining victim.

    I'll get on to them and ask them for a progress update.


    You might try Debian/Sid; it contains xforms for my LyX install. I'm looking for the Solaris build; email sheenmaster at osnippets.org if you come across it.

  18. Consider the players involved on New Intermediate Language Proposed · · Score: 0

    All of them have something to gain from a requirement of higher standard of computing power within businesses, and Sun has a history of bloating certain pacakges (Swing) to make them require a supercompuer for decent performancy.

    Coincidentally, my new midrange server, used as a workstation, can run Swing with excellent responsiveness.

  19. UltraSparc? on Tom's Hardware End of Year CPU Roundup · · Score: 1

    New hardware isn't always the most cost effective. Try finding and 64-bit 8-way AMD or Intel box with 4M/cache/proc, 4G/ram, eight FC-AL drives, and three SCSI controllers for only $1600.

    Last year's midrange server is this year's workstation, but Tom's advertisers aren't the ones that are selling parts for it. (To be fair, the majority of his readers probably build computers for games, which my workstation's 8-bit framebuffer isn't likely to deliver on.)

  20. quoting? on New Survey Finds No Linux 'Chill' From SCO Suit · · Score: 1

    I know that the code doesn't exist, the largest similarities would be Linux's POSIX headers compared to UNIXware's UNIX93 headers. The question still comes up, why not just quote?

    If Linux was a book, we could just add something like /*This came from SysV*/ CODE_GOES_HERE /*end of code from SysV*/. Legaly, is there any basis to prevent quoting?

    DISCLAIMER: I'm proud of the Linux kernel being pure, and I do not suggest that we muddy it up with code of disputed ownership.

  21. of course on Time's Up: 2^30 Seconds Since 1970 · · Score: 1

    Both use signed integers! They must have a common heritage. It's called the POSIX spec.

    Next, they'll accuse Linux of plagurizing the six lines of "return -EFAULT" that occur in kernel/time.c of the 2.4.22 kernel because they are so similar to a few "return -1" lines of SCO's UNIX93-compliant pride and joy.

    If anyone is starting a pool for the end of the world, put me down for Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:07.

  22. OpenBSD? on Iraq's Open Source Possibilities · · Score: 0

    Why not OpenBSD? It's about time they had some actual weapons-grade crypto (of mass destruction). We could bring them into the twentieth century and assure a better excuse in advance for our starting the third gulf war.

  23. sneaking it in on Intertrust Plans Universal DRM System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    iPod, iTunes, SD cards, Texas Instruments graphing calculators, game consoles, and so forth all have DRM. The items that don't forcefully use DRM are the ones that sell.

  24. don't underestimate 2-bit encryption on WSIS Physical Security Cracked · · Score: 1

    If you guess wrong, you have to guess again! And if you get it wrong again, you must guess a third time! If you guess a fourth time without repeating guesses, you're in of course, but we're hoping no one will notice.

  25. haha on New IE Holes Discovered · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can understand the desire for such vulnerabilities to be fixed before going public, but Microsoft has been known to sweep exploits under the rug for as many as twelve years. Exploits are a common fact of life with Microsoft products, and its better that this exploit was released to all as an explanation than as a virus/worm.