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  1. Re:Fuck Everything, We're Doing Open Source on Sun CEO On Razors And Blades · · Score: 1

    That was truly beautiful.

  2. Re:Easier still? on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    That'd be pretty cool -- the owner of the address gets 10%, broker gets 15%. Hard point would be avoiding excessive reuse of addresses with same rebate servicers.

  3. Re:FF promotion article ? on IE Flaw Utilizes Google Desktop Search · · Score: 1

    Fair enough -- though I can't picture anyone not loving tabbed browsing!

  4. Re:Easier still? on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    Touché. That one, I've actually used :).

  5. Re:Rebates...best and worst case on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    The closest performance I had to that was from Sony, who delivered a $100 rebate check on a 19" LCD monitor in less than a week after submission. Too bad I'm no longer a Sony customer.

  6. Re:I hate rebates on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1

    You're right. I lived there in the 1980s and remember that it was illegal to advertise after-rebate prices UNLESS the rebate was given immediately at the point of sale. I assume the other 49 states' legislatures are too much in the pockets of business interests to pass such a no-brainer pro-consumer law.

  7. Re:FF promotion article ? on IE Flaw Utilizes Google Desktop Search · · Score: 1
    Sadly, being more secure than IE (which is not saying much) is really the only "selling point" of Firefox, really.

    Yeah, tabbed browsing, the lack of obfuscated histories of browsing one can't delete (IE index.dat), granular cookie handling, ad and Flash blocking extensions, and a hundred other things must not be selling points.

  8. Re:Corporate banning on IE Flaw Utilizes Google Desktop Search · · Score: 1
    In a perfect world corporate employees wouldn't have administrative rights, but the world isn't perfect.

    If your users are admins, why bother with the program restrictions?

  9. Re:Easier still? on Computer Rebates Not As Sinister As You Think · · Score: 1
    Address database (e.g. FINALIST) that indicates that 123 45th St. is not a multifamily dwelling unit. Rebate denied.

    Get the picture?

  10. Re:faster method? on Ubuntu Certified for IBM DB2 · · Score: 1

    Not sure that'd be faster--the rows still have to be counted and now there's a join. But I'm no DBMS guru :).

  11. Re:It's about time on First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial · · Score: 1

    The previous poster was talking about jail, which it seems reasonable implied a criminal trial.

  12. Re:It's about time on First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial · · Score: 1

    It's enough to create reasonable doubt. Now if the prosecution was able to produce his Slashdot post about plausible deniability, that's another matter. As far as being screwed, anyone who openly defies TPTB is screwed, unless they're rich, in which case they're part of the TPTB and defiance is an exercise in masturbation.

    What would be more likely is that he'd never be asked about his illegal traffic anyway. That traffic would be silently used as probably cause to procure a no-knock warrant (and being an open WAP, he obviously had no expectation of privacy), and the forensic cops would image every piece of media from paper tapes to Atari 800 floppies to hard drives and hang him with whatever he forgot to encrypt.

  13. Re:It's about time on First RIAA Lawsuit to Head to Trial · · Score: 1

    And those MAC addresses end up in his ISP's logs, how?

  14. Re:Limiting to Ports on Ports for Porn - Using Firewalls to Block Porn · · Score: 1

    Don't know that sailors would be very happy, since they would no longer be allowed a girl in every port.

  15. Example on Ubuntu Certified for IBM DB2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    select story, count(*) as dupe from slashdot group by story having count(*) > 1;

  16. Seems like it'd be more practical . . . on Fix Your Crashing X-Box 360 With String · · Score: 2, Funny

    . . . to tie some fins or something to it to raise the P/S off the floor and allow circulation. But then, I'm not in the market for one of these until it's cracked wide open. And probably not even then.

  17. Re:The real problem here... on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Thanks, that's interesting. Wonder if anyone would get very far starting a municipality and citing entire movies as law :).

  18. Re:The real problem here... on To Flush Or Not To Flush · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't whoever is hosting the file be liable if the NEC were downloaded onto a machine located in a jursidiction where the NEC isn't law and thus not subject to that ruling?

  19. Re:Sense and portability on GCC 4.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Java, cross platform. So long as you're running exactly the right version of the JVM, under exactly the right version of the right web browser, under the right operating system.

  20. Re:BBC reports Censorship like we report weather on Chinese Bloggers vs. The BBC · · Score: 1

    The fact that a Chinese citizen is arguing that liberty and personal freedoms is "going against your country" illustrates that those (unfortunately few) refusing to do business there and those pressing for the restoration of the legitimate government of China in exile in Taiwan are correct.

  21. Re:Way on BlackBox Voting Tests California Diebold Machines · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No one said it had to be released under the GPL. They're welcome to retain their intellectual "property," they just have to allow public inspection. If anything, this would limit competition for Diebold because it would be a simple matter for them to accuse any upstart undercutting them of having seen the public source code.

  22. Nice slashvertisement. on The Lego Brick Hard Drive · · Score: 0, Troll

    Subtle, yet generates buzz. Mad propz, Taco!

  23. Re:Oh noes, teh RFID!11!!one on TiVo Plans RFID-Aware PVR · · Score: 1

    And for that, I'm thankful for those paranoid Christians. Better than the rest of the sheep in this damn place.

  24. ob. Revelation 13:16-18 on TiVo Plans RFID-Aware PVR · · Score: 1

    And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads; "And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name

  25. Naming Contest on Texas Sues Sony BMG over Rootkit · · Score: 2, Funny

    A la how the SSSCA changed into the CBDTPA, the TCPA changed into the TCG, and Palladium morphed into NGCSB, DRM will be needing a new name now that everyone knows what it is. Please post your entries in this thread.