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  1. Re:That's okay... on EV71 Outbreak In China Sparks Fears For Olympics · · Score: 2, Funny

    you know how to eat a duck, don't you. put a leg over each of your ears and start licking.

  2. Re:FOSS that solves problems created by FOSS? on HP Launches FOSSology Open Source Tracking Tool · · Score: 4, Insightful

    typewriters solved a problem too, and companies had typewriter repair departments. Parcel delivery companies solve problems and my company has a shipping and receiving department. gee, what's up what that?

    No point defeated, FOSS exists because of copyright law and software that helps ensure licensing is proper is a great way for the movement(s) to self-police.

  3. Re:You Lose Points on How to Recognize a Good Programmer · · Score: 1

    only priests should speak dead languages

  4. Re:east/west??? on Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered · · Score: 1

    the great galactic sun never sets on the Galactic Empire, rebel traitor!

  5. Re:Democracy in action on McCain, Clinton Win New Hampshire · · Score: 1

    it's a great advert for oligarchy in action, and don't worry, the megacorps running the place (e.g. federal reserve system & its big banks, oil companies, etc.) have plenty of money

  6. Re:Linux license could be changed easily on Torvalds Puts Support Behind GPL2 Linux · · Score: 1

    ah but now you're suggesting it will take MONEY (and research) to change over. And who's to say even smaller contributor couldn't get the backing of some evil agency against Linux. If you say big players must be appeased, really the small ones should be too. Not really nice to say we can safely ignore those with shallow pockets and steamroll over them.

    If it is seen that GPL3 can really deliver on its promised protections and doesn't have some hole that invalidates it (enemies will be looking for that), then a GPL3 would be a worthy goal for Linux. But I don't think so easily obtained even if Linus gets on board.

  7. Re:Linux license could be changed easily on Torvalds Puts Support Behind GPL2 Linux · · Score: 1

    just because wikipedia seems to have pulled off a license change without approval of all submitters doesn't mean Linus can - what happens if a contributer with deep pockets, and moreover some motive, say Novell, comes along half a year after the conversion and makes a lawsuit?

  8. Re:Wake me up.... on Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    CentOS, a bunch of people working very hard to do 97% of what RedHat could do effortlessly, and rewriting the other 3% Redhat won't allow them to use.

  9. Re:Wake me up.... on Fedora 8 A Serious Threat to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Redhat screwed the very people who put them on the map, only a separate test-bed version for them. Wake me up when those same people can download the Redhat distros and access the repositories for free.

  10. Re:Awesome on 'Mind Doping' Becoming More Common · · Score: 1

    no sweat, just wait a few days, after a couple of dupes someone will probably spill the beans

  11. Re:Absolutely fucking wrong on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 1

    I have a very similar issues with porn and jerking off.

    Now if you'll excuse me I feel another session of wrongdoing coming on...

  12. Re:Internet Protocol doesn't exist! on Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP · · Score: 2, Funny

    tubes. tubes full of electric mails and pages of clicks. sometimes the tubes get too full. unplugging and plugging in the connection to the tubes can flush them.

  13. Re:Riddle me this: on What's New in Blade Runner - The Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    1992 Director's cut, not any other Cuts since then, of which we now have one more.

  14. Re:Capt Gatso deserves a knighthood on British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras · · Score: 1

    not at all, the events in 1984 don't necessarily take place in 1984, that's just the year the State said it was, and anyone who disagreed would change their tune after a visit to room 101.

  15. Re:Riddle me this: on What's New in Blade Runner - The Final Cut? · · Score: 1

    just the director's cut back from when it was first released

  16. Re:Tests on Russian Chatbot Passes Turing Test (Sort of) · · Score: 1

    that's where the score is inversely proportional to the number of seconds before George feels intimidated and declares the ai a terrorist?

  17. Re:Added benefit on Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software · · Score: 1

    the disclaimer page of that web site is fucking hilarious

  18. Re:Why the hate? on Ruby on Rails 2.0 is Done · · Score: 1

    it's not damn faster for me, I find all scripting languages on the front end waiting for back/middle tiers to go chunka chunka chunka. I do notice some web methodologies tend to sell hardware, like j2ee.

  19. Re:Business World Fleeing The Viral GPL on Verizon Being Sued for GPL Infringement · · Score: 1

    false, companies have lawyers that research ALL licenses in use or being considered for use. The GPL version 2 is very easy to understand compared to other licenses that go on for pages. And discovered violations of GPL have been for very obvious reasons, not some obscure violation of "section 5 paragraph 20 sentence 3" of some mountain of paper.

  20. Re:Microsoft will buy SCO on Stay Lifted, Novell Vs. SCO Can Go Forward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    but certain Unix rights revert back to Novell since SCO broke contract. it'll continue to be a grand mess, that's for sure

  21. Re:It's a Horta! on Sliding Rocks Bemuse Scientists · · Score: 2, Funny

    you also don't want a female Horta to sit on your face if you wear glasses, that hydrofluoric acid they secrete when they're horny eats right through spectacles.

  22. Re:Missed opportunities are missing features? on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    my curfew and time limits for the kids aren't software based, their computers are right next to mine in the living room! and they know they can't ignore my telling them computer time is over, if they stall I can sleep or shut down their machine via ssh tunnel, hahaha.

  23. Re:Missed opportunities are missing features? on Apple's Missed Opportunity With Leopard Delay · · Score: 1

    The apps most people run on macs don't require Leopard and don't use any of the new features, my daughter and son are cruising along just fine with Tiger and I'm not seeing reason to shell out the bucks just because something is new and shiny.

  24. Re:One myth busted another one started.... on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    Neutron radiation can activate things with lasting radioactivity, but most things radioactive don't emit neutrons. And if you work at a high energy physics lab there are other ways to get activated too, but your run of the mill radioactive sources, like various specimens you can buy on ebay, won't do it. Cerenkov radiation is caused if there are particles moving faster than the speed of light of the medium, most radioactive sources do not have Cerenkov either.

  25. Re:parallel universe on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 1

    a couple of giant roaches

    I've heard less flattering terms for the hollywood media owner scum, but there is more than a couple of them