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  1. Re:stopping copy-protection doesn't grant fair use on CD Copy Protection Case Goes to Court · · Score: 1

    You can only copy small amounts for "private study"; at least, that's what I understand from that page (IANAL etc)...

  2. Re:But... on Will Intel Ship an x86-64bit Chip This Year? · · Score: 1

    I thin the "x86-64" in the title is supposed to imply that it can cope with all x86 apps

    (Typing on a dodgy eyboard with no woring "cay" or "dot")

  3. Re:The only one stealing is the record labels... on CD-Rs and MP3s Not Hurting Record Sales · · Score: 1

    "Sonic"?

    OK, I may have picked a bad example, I forgot about fast food places which provide ketchup for free. I was thinking more along the lines of going to a Safeway or Sainsbury's or something, and getting some ketchup from there without paying...

    I suppose I could be wrong, but I somehow doubt fast food places give away ketchup in the hopes you'll come back and buy food (or cardboard, in your McDonald's example), but rather that you'll use it on food you've just bought.

    (Of course, looking at your UN makes me exclaim/wonder if "IHBT!! OMG!!! WTF!1!!")

  4. Re:An EyeToy clone, but that's a Good Thing on Control Video Games with a Camera · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why would "your Windows friends" be particularly impressed? My Logitech QuickCam Web came with software which seems to be a load like this; I've forgotten its name now, but I got this a couple of years ago.

  5. Re:The only one stealing is the record labels... on CD-Rs and MP3s Not Hurting Record Sales · · Score: 1

    (I know this analogy is bad, bear with me)

    So it's OK to go to a shop and steal some, I dunno, ketchup and pay Heinz, calling it even? Even though you're cutting out a load of people involved in getting the product to you (employees of the shop in this case, people who do work on music, but aren't the artists themselves in the case of music)? The artists aren't the only ones who work on music...

  6. Re:Nice PHP Script! on Stardust Apparently Successful · · Score: 1

    I visited that URL and got this ad - seemed a bit fitting... (the image, that is, not the product being advertised)

  7. Re:Mozilla and /. (slightly OT) on Mozilla's Year In Review For 2003 · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is...

  8. Re:Sigh, Correction. on Best Way To Beat A Caffeine Addiction? · · Score: 1
    Then again, I prefer to avoid 'soft' drinks anyway
    Do you like hard caffeine free cock then?

    Sorry, I really couldn't resist the chance...
  9. Re:16 huh? on Perl is Sweet Sixteen · · Score: 1

    /me looks at his provisional licence...
    "3. 14-04-87 ENGLAND"
    You can get a provisional licence at 16... You just can't drive cars etc until you're 17.

  10. Re:Whoah slow down on NVIDIA Releases New Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    You need to do a bit of work to get it working with 2.6 - you need to use the minion.de patches...

  11. Re:Take a look at the most requested. on SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review · · Score: 1

    It's spoofed. Look in a directory listing (say /contrib/, and you'll see it's definitely Apache.

  12. Re:wtf??? on SCO UnixWare 7.1.3 Review · · Score: 1
    I had frequent hard lockups before i disabled all the ACPI/APIC stuff

    ASUS A7N8X series? (If not, ignore the rest of this post, I'm wrong...) From what I've read, other nForce 2-based motherboards have no problems, it's just that one motherboard range. (Yes, I have an A7N8X-X. Yes, I only just found the fix yesterday...)
  13. Re:Who cares about gnome? on GNOME Foundation Board Election Results · · Score: 1
    It wouldn't let you:
    bash-2.05b$ xfwm4
    ** Message: xfwm4: Another window manager is running
  14. Re:Hate crime on Rockstar Investigated Over GTA - Vice City · · Score: 1

    South Park stereotypes pretty much everyone. The majority of people have some form of stereotype which - if taken seriously - would have cause to offend them in South Park.

  15. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN -- repost on Security Experts Doubt SCO's Claims of DoS · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Uhh... check the times
    Grub's post was at 18:13
    The AC was at 18:18

  16. Re:Not patching this month...... on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    Another "me too"... Firebird 0.7, Linux.

  17. Re:Not a problem in Opera on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    I thought everybody was saying that IE for Mac was better than IE for Windows.

  18. Re:See also on New IE Bug Hides Real Site Address · · Score: 1

    Uhh...your parent just said what it means - unescaping %20 would end up with a space, for example.

  19. Re:Offtopic in Uganda? on Computers for Uganda? · · Score: 1

    I e-mailed about this before the story was posted, but I'm guessing daddypants@slashdot.org goes straight to /dev/null... I've never heard of anyone actually getting a story fixed after e-mailing them.

  20. Re:And with good reason! on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Last month, we had 1412161 hits. IE made up 88.7% of those, meaning that we had 159574 hits from other browsers. As awstats doesn't do browser counts per unique visitor I can't do that, but that's still a load of hits. Plus I'm hardly going to write HTML/CSS for IE when I can't even use IE unless I boot into Windows.

    Yes, I know the current HTML is total crap. I'm working on a new, CSS-based layout currently, but it's not ready yet...And yes, I know IHBT...I will HAND

  21. Re:802.11i? on China Releases Own WLAN Security Standard · · Score: 1
    (I know, they probably didn't make the page, but it still gives a bad impression)
    I was mostly joking about not trusting the project based on the HTML, but you do have to admit (and you appear to have done) that it does give a bad impression.
  22. 802.11i? on China Releases Own WLAN Security Standard · · Score: 4, Funny

    I must say I've never heard of 802.11i before; have I missed everybody talking about it, or is it underreported? I don't pretend to be an expert in wireless technology, but I've not seen it mentioned anywhere... Then again, their status page (quickly looked up, yay Mysterious Future...) uses <blink>, was exported by MS Word, was "cleaned up" by Netscape 4, and has an incorrectly capitalised DOCTYPE, and I'm not sure if I'd trust wireless security to a group with a status page like that :-P (I know, they probably didn't make the page, but it still gives a bad impression).

  23. Re:Most of my friends have never heard of Mozilla on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Have you ever tried doing proper standards-based XHTML when you have to cater for IE? It only seems to switch to standards mode when the first line is a DOCTYPE (bye,
    All of these features, when put in a page, are rendered correctly by Opera, Konqueror and Mozilla - then I get someone who has access to IE to test it, and it all falls apart. From my perspective, the fewer people using IE, the better.

  24. Re:I know I will get flamed for this... on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Yup, it always does - for those with IE and Opera/Moz available, try my crappy Whois script, which gets sent as application/xhtml+xml (because it's designed for staff use, and it's easier to bug staff into using Moz than it is to bug users ;).

  25. Re:If we give the gift to "Anonymous Coward"... on Give the Gift of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Nope, AC is UID 666...