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  1. Re:Different directions on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe he meant "Bremsstrahlung" since "Brennstrahlung", although a possible noun, is not commonly used. dict.leo.org

  2. Re:Forgot a few... on Pepper Pad 2 Linux Web Pad · · Score: 1


    > 8a1. Apple sucks for not porting QuickTime to Linux.
    8a1a. Gnu/Linux, of course.

  3. mod parent up on WinFS' Spot on Back Burner Nothing New · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    if I had any modpoints left I'd mod this Insightful

  4. Re:End User upgradable on Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts · · Score: 1

    I have to agree here, introducing upgradable end users which such could be brought to meet at least basic criteria would be huge step

  5. Safari? on SUSE Openexchange Under GPL · · Score: 1


    Sooo -

    what about Safari then. Does it count included with Konqueror?

  6. Re:Attention Slashdot Editors: on 140" Monitor Demonstration At Purdue · · Score: 2, Informative

    Another pointer towards the cookies is in this bug report and comments

  7. Re:Website problems on Syllable - The Little OS with a Big Future? · · Score: 2, Informative

    There are a bug report and comments at sourceforge, looks like there is something unsound about handling the cookies.
    Maybe the new color scheme threw a bad spell...

  8. OT: Slashdot slashdotted? on 70% Of 2004 Virus Activity Down To One Man · · Score: 1

    I'm getting an awful lot of 503 or white pages here this morning.

    Guess this must be the sickening effect of the stupid new color scheme

  9. Re:Permission to use already given ? on JibJab Sues for Fair Use of Right to Parody · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > A good many of Woody's songs were modifications of other songs. It's called "The Folk Process."

    Or even "the cultural process" since this is the way human cultural works and develops: taking existing material and repeat it, modify it and adapt it to the current situation while still keeping the basic form.

    Making this illegal is absurd.

    I think this story may be used as a kind of lackmus test for the current state of IP laws. Given the the known and aften cited intend of the creator, the length of time since it was published and all, I'd say the current state is perverted.

  10. Hydro-Computing on Moving Water Molecules By Light · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Would this mark the first step into the evolution of hydrocomputing, just light and water in miniature pipes, feasable to use under water or in environments with a high risk of explosion ?

    Would this make any sense to have?

  11. A Homeland issue on P2P Leaks Surprises · · Score: 1

    having read a good half of the posts below I must I say I'm impessed that about every of them commented from a military/state's interest perspective. No one seems to take the point of view of those who were sent there (more or less willing) to conflicts which, at least some of them, are viewed by large parts of this worlds population as questionable at best. Those pics posted and apparently shared are not very exciting, just part of the every day reality of guys and gals forced to service.

    Nothing to see here, move on.
    Why shouldn't they have the right to show their sights of the world?

    Security - haha. It has been the aim of many big leaders before to tighten up all the leaks, make them underlings stop chatting by draconian sentences. Lots and lots of cruel deaths on that record. History is full of failed attempts of that ilk - people keep talking, wanting to communicate their whereabouts. P2p is just the actual version, it used to be pubs or latrinae (and probably still is).

  12. Re:SCO anti-gravity gun holding up stock price? on AutoZone Granted Limited Stay in SCO Copyright Case · · Score: 5, Funny


    apparently some party is very dedicated to not let the share price drop below 5 USD. So much so that it borders to the comical: over the last week some days resulted in a flat line at 5$ with some minor moves.
    If this was an EKG the nurse would pull the plug and the doc go out have a smoke...

    The stock has a small volume and thusly is open to painting like its jump upwards just before the quarter closed, theories who does all this include sco, microsoft (fullfilling an assumed promise towards bastar) and some large scale investors fighting some internal trouble if their large position goes below the 5$ line.

  13. old news on AutoZone Granted Limited Stay in SCO Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    like the article mentions this all happened at the beginning of this week, groklaw had it on tuesday autozone stay pj commented all this with a somewhat different point of view but why not read it for yourself (in case you still care).
    me, I still enjoy the show, watching them drown slowly...

  14. Re:Better security is not a myth. on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1


    just for the record: there is the small and versatile sambar server at http://sambar.com/ which is a fine solution in some cases

  15. mod parent up interesting on SpaceShipOne Flight Not as Perfect as it Seemed · · Score: 1


    nice story! I'd mod you up if I had points left

  16. Re:Imagine on More Cringley on Linux Embedded Hardware Hacking · · Score: 2, Funny

    this is just like the saying goes:

    only on /. can the very first post be modded redundant.

  17. Mod parent insightful on Andy Tanenbaum on 'Who Wrote Linux' · · Score: 1


    at least that's what I'd do if I had any mod points left

  18. Re:Think it's time to seriously consider AMD on AMD Takes Opteron To 2.4GHz · · Score: 1

    The article mentioned it and it was no news for any regular reader of that magazine.

    There seems to be a consensus, at least among those with a technical interest that the quality of many Israelian products is not affected by controversial aspects of what religious fundamentalists, narrowminded politicians, government and military do.

    And the same is true for products of other countries that always attract so much controversy, like i.e the US of A.

  19. SCO says farewell on SCO Caught Copying · · Score: 4, Informative
    you may rember the story about sco.pl closing office posted here and elsewhere some days ago?
    I just went there and kinda appreciated their way to wave good bye. Apparently being fired gave some of the crew the freedom to finally say what they think about their ex-boss.

    Go look yourself:
    http://www.sco.pl/

  20. Re:I call BS! on Who's Behind the Shower Curtain? · · Score: 1


    I severely doubt this. In fact more than half of the Germans even consider Bavaria (the southern German state bordering Austria) to be foreign territory. ;-)

  21. Re:It's all a conspiracy! on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    Well, the point is they were right in the seventies (Club of Rome) when they first brought that up and your answer reminds me of the shortsightedness of someone falling from a rooftop calmly contemplating that nothing bad happened for the last 40 floors he passed.

    Oil exploration peaked in the sixties, oil production probably peaks about now and - unlike the metapher of falling - oil production won't just stop after that, but will decrease slowly while production costs rise.

    There is a lag between exploration and actual production so even miraculous new findings now would hardly solve the coming problem.

    But, quite to the contrary, large oil companies adjust their numbers in the opposite direction.

  22. Re:It's all a conspiracy! on U.S. Dept. of Energy Takes A New Look At Cold Fusion · · Score: 1

    Reading your Argument with sober eyes I don't really see much contradiction between between trying to conquer territories with known large oil reserves (Iraq) and funding research in alternative energy sources.

    First, oil is a very valuable ressource even if we wouldn't need it to produce energy (cars, cars, power station). You ever wondered what plastic is made from? Fertilizers, paint, medicine, etc..

    Second, given the exponential growth of oil consume and the phenomenon geologists name the Hubbert Peak of oil production (google for it!) it is an easy prediction to say that oil prices and the prices of oil products will basically explode in the next decade(s).

    On the other hand, even if there is something about the "cold fusion" - how long would it take to build an energy production infrastructure from it? Something to feed the current levels of energy wasting in the industrialized countries plus the growing energy hunger of emerging economies like India, China, etc?

    Id rather say that neither setting the world on fire (Iraq) nor considering to eventually fund some research on possible unconventional energy sources will do much to save the big energy wasting economies (with the US of A in the first place by far) from the coming oil price crisis.

    Enjoy your car, why not buy another which burns even more petrol? Theese are the last years of cheap oil.

  23. Re:German on WiX Project Lead Interviewed On CPL Licensing · · Score: 1

    Then again, they have been close enough for some time now with that WindowsXP

  24. MS Solar Office on Sun and Microsoft Settle Litigation · · Score: 1

    does this mean we can now expect a MS Office on Solaris edition, or an Solar Outlook, MSSIE, you name it - not (no.Never!) Linux but close by. Just in case they might want to covertly prepare ports?

  25. Re:IBM 1 TSG 0 on IBM Files For Declaratory Judgement In SCO Case · · Score: 1

    As you mention this you might as well add that it was an US bank, the Union Banking Corporation, which channeled essential funding to the originally weak and ridiculed NSDAP helping it grow up to its later super-monster size.
    So gibing the Hollerith deal to IBM may have been a thankful gesture to the country that helped that gang grow strong.

    The Nazis were meant to be a dog to promote US interests, not unlike what the bin Ladin family, the taliban, S. Hussein were meant to do. It backfired like so many other "useful bad guys" did, too.

    It is getting offtopic here but a central figure and director of that UBC bank was Mr. Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of US Presidents.

    Come on, mod me down.

    But read here, first:
    http://tarpley.net/bush2.htm
    http://en.wi kipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush