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  1. Re:First? on New York State Classifies Vonage As Phone Company · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Welcome to NY where if we cant tax and regulate it we dont want it..

  2. Re:Totally offtopic on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 1
    How can this french racism be justified ?

    1) The French are not a race they are a culture
    2) This is no more racist than jokes about fat lazy Americans

    French governement had the balls to openly take the stake of 90% of the world population by opposing war in Irak ?

    No it is because while opposing the war for 'humanitarian reasons' France was quite happy to profit off the oil for food program from which saddam filtered off money for new palaces rather than actually feed his people. It is because France opposed the war *strictly for their own interest* Just like the US was for the war *Strictly for their own interest*. Saddam and Iraq owed France a ton of money and now the foreign debt is in question.

    Do I need to remember you that Russia was a way more efficent combattant of Germany than the US ?

    No everyboy here knows the sacrifice of the Russians who faught even as their cities burned, not like the french who weeped like women rather than see one window in Paris break.

    Do I also remember you that the USA got smacked by Vietnam, Somalia

    Somalia was not a war, but your right the withdrawal was a cowardly act by Bill Clinton. As for Vietnam, I suppose you never heard of the treaty of Paris (and you question my knowledge of history)? Basically N Vietnam promised to leave the south alone, the US pulled out most of its forces, the US got involved in watergate, N Vietnam broke the treaty, and the Senate was too busy going with the fallout from watergate to allow Ford to enforce the treaty. Losing a war is not shameful, surrendering to Nazi's without a fight *IS*

    I remember seeing a few days ago on Slashdot a Brit defending France (a Brit defending France !)

    Cough** It is not the first time, and chances are it wont be the last... France always needs someone else to defend them.

    French men died to help the US become independent

    Yes for your own interest (too weaken England) France gave money to help the US be free. France did not do this for freedom (after all at the time they were a monarchy) France did this to fight England *FOR THEIR OWN SELF INTEREST*.

    has be able to make you forgive about the long frienship that existed between France and the USA

    I dont like bush, and I wont vote for him. This does not change the fact that france from the time of De'Gaul has not been a friend of the US. The french have done nothing in my lifetime but call Americans fat, lazy and stupid... Bush had nothing to do with my attitude.

  3. Re:Microsoft? on Opera Settles $12.75m Lawsuit, But with Whom? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Well I cant say I sent one (I use mozilla) but the really odd part is if you fed the style sheet from IE to opera (or changed operara to answer IE) the page worked perfectly!

    Is this proof? no.

  4. Re:Baaahhh.... on Google to be Sued Over Name? · · Score: 3, Informative
    Actually its not a requirement to go public (IKEA USA is a private company).

    When you have over 500 shareholders you have to beging acting as if you were public even if youre not. That combined with the fact their initial investors have been screaming at them to do this for a couple of years kinda pushed them over the edge..

  5. Re:sco? on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 1

    The reason why IBM wont pay sco off is because it will give their claim the air of legitmacy, but working with (not for) IBM they really dont care one way or anouther about that 'backwater operation'..

  6. Re:sco? on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 1
    If SCO gives up, they have lost and will go out of business rather quickly. They are not going to be able to settle so easily with IBM because IBM's out for blood.

    IBM is not out for blood, they just want it over, if SCO offered to drop its motion if IBM dropped theirs IBM would likely go along. IBM just want this over, the difference is IBM has a business outside of court.

  7. Re:Oi, reminds me... on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 1
    THank goodness you stepped forward, no doub you have the one piece of tangable proof that would make it a slam dunk? I mean its not like your armchair quarterbackin with no knowlege of the legal process is it?

    A manager at my previous job was caught redhanded embezzeling money, commiting identity fraud, and a host of other charges more than 2 years ago. He is just oging to trial now. Keep in mind all the crap Ken Lay pulled he pulled (or rather we suspect he pulled) under the watchful eye of Janet Reno and Bill Clinton..

  8. Re:Sounds Like Another Libertarian Fanatic on Big Brother Will Be Watching You In Florida · · Score: 1

    Yea I can pave a road with those good intentions, now where should it go...

  9. Re:about time on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    Well are there any laws in spain restricting spam? the US has the can-spam act which while in its infancy has pushed spammers off of our lines and onto ummm oh Spanish lines (among others). But because of lax treatment by larg national ISP's they just spam right back into the US..

  10. Re:about time on Spanish Internet Provider's SMTP traffic Blocked · · Score: 1

    No, we know you guys are big into state industry what we dont get is how you expect a nation like spain to do nothing about spam/scam mail and us to just deal..

  11. Here is your problem... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1
    computer science

    A degree in CS does not an Engineer make. We have some damn fine programmers at my shop and the ones who have been doing it a while make a mint (contracts) but they are not engineers.. I have seen more innovate solutions from them that ignore past present and future architecture concerns at the expense of their project.

    If you want my advice (history has shown me to be right 50% of the time) you need to focus on your Engineering credentials in the interviews, not your programming skills. If you don't have anything other than one or two software engineering classes bum the basic ideas off of a friend in an Engineering Program, understand not just the SLC (which I am sure you do) but also the basic Engineering method from which it was derived...

  12. Re:well... on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 1
    The original context was pornography, if memory serves, which is perfectly legal.

    Its no more legal or illegal than music. Do you think that all people sharing p0rn, either own or have the right to distribute it?

  13. Re:well... on MPAA Infiltrating Campus Nets with Software · · Score: 1
    Sad you god modded down, you make an excellent point. You can be darn sure if you use a doms line to do something major illegal the school can also have to defend itself in court (civil) so they have a huge interest in what goes on.

    When you move into the dorm you sign a contract, when you sign up for a user account you sign a contract, ... ...

  14. Re:Huh... on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 1
    And I hate users who think the need weather bug to do their job and think a tech should be able to fix their desktop in 5-15 minutes when there is no base line to work from.

    A locked down desktop is the **ONLY** way to make sure a problem can be traced..

  15. Re:Allah is on teh Spoke! on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: 1

    The no-fly zones were UN mandates, that france voted for..

  16. Re:Allah is on teh Spoke! on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    well spoken, ladies and gents I give you the cheese eating surrender monkeys..

  17. Re:Allah is on teh Spoke! on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ahh someone with an agenda has mod points today... How else could the post above not be flamebait but mine is??

  18. Re:Allah is on teh Spoke! on Injunction to Enforce GPL · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Except the US had no troops in Iraq before 9/11 (unless you count the 1991 war but the frogs where in their as well), thank you come again..

  19. Re:Use for this? on For sale: Eurotunnel Tunnel Boring Machine · · Score: 1
    blah blah blah American Sucks blah blah blah

    Congradulations youll get modded up. BTW I am sure you know gas is shor for gasoline "A volatile mixture of flammable liquid hydrocarbons derived chiefly from crude petroleum and used principally as a fuel for internal-combustion engines."...

  20. Re:What, no editorial? on Red Hat Recap · · Score: 2

    I think it refers to using the rhn service to track your system and update it. Redhat does have a right to do that. The statement makes no claim on restricting your ability to distribute the SRPM's they provide..

  21. Re:So? on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1
    I do not care how you plan to vote (and I think you are lying and spreading political FUD). You are doing the same thing as the Republicans;

    To hear a total partison say im spreading political FUD is too much irony..

  22. Re:So? on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1
    Do you mean when Clinton lied under oath in a trial in an attempt to deny an American woman her right to not be sexually harassed?

    I am glad clinton tried to do something but maybe he should have taken up Sudan's offer to turn him over? Clinton had eight years (6 if you count the first wtc bombing) and did nothing. The men who comitted 9/11 trained for well over 2 years in the US under the nose of Dick Clark, Bill Clinton, and George Bush.

    Dick CLark has contradicited himself so many times its no wonder he loved Clinton so much. He was quoted by the press saying that there was no policy handover, just an informal set of guidance. THen he decided to write and sell a book for six million dollars, im sure if Condie Rice was writing a book libs would be screaming about conflict of interest.

    BTW what part of Im not going to vote for bush because I suspect he lied did you not get??

  23. Re:So? on Study Says Massachusetts Best State For Technology · · Score: 1
    Kind of standard procedure for the Bush administration. Lie, deceive and when caught accuse your critics of being terrorists, unpatriotic, lairs, etc.

    Yes it is flamebait, face it when Clinton Lied, and was caught his press machine tried to turn Ken Star into the next McCarthy (sp?). Under the notion of 'vast right wing conspiracy' (get out your tin foil hats) every thing Clinton was caught or accused of doing was chalked up to a smoke filled room of heterosexual Christian bigoted white men making things up because they wanted to keep people down.

    Bush was wrong about WMD, I think he lied about it (I dont know and neither does the poster in question) so I wont be voting for him, but I sure wont vote for the most liberal man in the senate (kerry) either who averages more than 20 votes for a tax increase per year for 16 years! so I guess Im going third party this year..

    As for the NEA while terrorist is a strong and stupid word they have done nothing but drive down the quality of American education over the past half century. They care nothing for the quality of education just the amount of money pumped into it. They have no proposed one idea for reforming education and balk at anyone who does (that is unless the reform is more money, or taking more power from elected school boards and giving it to un-elected NEA members).

    The NEA complains about class sizes when in fact the US is at or below the level of many nations cited as being higher than un in primary education (US avg is 25.9, Japan and HK are at 40, Korea is over 50, and most western nations are around the 24-27 area).

  24. Re:Very nice on Making A Better Browser History · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://www.w3j.com/1/ayers.270/paper/270.html

    Been there done that

  25. Re:I hope.... on EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million, Officially · · Score: 1
    THe funny thing is you do have a choice, when I got a windows box assigned to me at work I put mozilla, real, and quicktime on the box. I was amazed when they all worked! It was like I had a choice but I did not have to have MS come and do the installs for me!

    As for the open standards let MS dig their own grave by not playing nice with others. When another system get to the position of a challenger (linux, osx, $futureos) and that app plays well with open standards MS will have to try and climb out of their hole..