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  1. Re:Why buy new? on MS Offers Vista Upgrade Pricing To All · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why buy new when slightly used will do?

    Depends on whether you're buying toilet roll or not.

  2. Re:It makes sense. on Eben Moglen Leaving the FSF · · Score: 1

    Of course, those thousand pieces are GPL'd so we can just fork a new FSF lawyer project.

  3. Re:Why would a home broadband customer on Time Warner Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it's GNU/Lini actually.

  4. Re:Why would a home broadband customer on Time Warner Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Two reasons. One, you get free access to all other Fon wireless APs around the world. Two, you can instead opt to receive part of the revenue your hotspot generates and forego the free access elsewhere.

    That's the theory. In practice, I don't see hotspots in any locations I might want to get access from (because they're nearly all residential and I use wifi hotspots on business) and, for the same reason, I can't see a residential hotspot generating much revenue.

  5. Re:An even better application: on Is Your GPS Naive? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here in the UK I think you'd find it more efficient to broadcast a message when there wasn't a speed trap ahead.

  6. Re:Bill Gates and on Microsoft Finds a Home For Barcode · · Score: 1

    Thank you Ted, that was the joke.

  7. Re:iPhone is a silly gimmick on Microsoft Says iPhone Is Irrelevant To Business · · Score: 1

    Got a fact to back any of that up? Seen an iPhone? No, thought not. Just rumour and speculation then.

  8. Re:Ah come on... on SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed. Free sex is all well and good but it's basically just a hobby. If you want quality sex with proper support options you need to be paying a vendor for it.

  9. Re:Go go Jack Thompson on Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting · · Score: 1

    I can't confirm it but I've read reports that he's already been on Fox saying just that.

  10. Re:hmmmm, really? on Behavioral Search & Advertising On Its Way? · · Score: 1

    No, but it could probably tell you that you can't find them because you went blind looking at online porn all day

  11. Re:Of Course They Should on Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    dammit, some of us still have to read aloud to read at all :-)

  12. Re:Maybe its just me.. on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    Yes but they'd still need the .co.uk variation as that's what people expect to use. And anyway, the problem with phishing is that people don't read the URL or pay any attention to the SSL status. I can't set up a phishing site at genuinebank.co.uk (cause Genuine Bank will already be using it) any more easily than I can at genuinebank.plc.uk.

  13. Re:Maybe its just me.. on F-Secure Calls for '.safe' TLD · · Score: 1

    Why should they? Nobody else uses it unless the .co.uk they really wanted is already taken.

  14. Re:Huh? on Bloggers Propose Code of Conduct · · Score: 1

    Answers: nothing & it wouldn't.

  15. Re:Send a message on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If DRM was really the concern all along emusic.com would be an industry giant today

    There's the small matter of having any music that 95% of people want to buy too.

  16. Re:What happened to OGG on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 1

    It's hardly an OGG player if you have to flash the firmware yourself.

  17. Re:Apple is just a MSFT wannabe? on Apple's Move May Make AAC Music Industry Standard · · Score: 1

    So you're opposed to MP3 too?

    Ogg is all well and good for ripping your own collection but if virtually no-one is selling music in that format it's irrelevant for the purposes of this discussion.

  18. Re:Well if Dvorak doesn't like it... on Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you're looking for this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

  19. Re:Gouged? on USDTV Subscribers Gouged For Linux USB Keys · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Gouged? on USDTV Subscribers Gouged For Linux USB Keys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Close but no cigar. 1) There's no requirement to make the source freely available anywhere. You can release software under the GPL and charge whatever you like for a copy. The requirement is that whoever buys a copy from you with a GPL license receives the rights to redistribute it under a GPL license - which means they can then give it away for free (as long as the recipient is bound by the GPL too) 2) Nope. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGP LAllowDownloadFee Oh and Firefox is distributed under the Mozilla Public License not the GPL.

  21. Re:Use NeoOffice on Open Office - What's the Downside? · · Score: 1

    I'm using NeoOffice right now to work on documents my colleague created in Microsoft Word on Windows. It's seamless. NeoOffice is by far the best office suite on the Mac. Thanks for all the work guys!

  22. Re:Anyone notice.... on Archive.org Sued By Colorado Woman · · Score: 1

    Yeah I noticed that too. Be a shame if someone tipped off the PGP Corp.

  23. Re:I live in Europe on Wednesday Is Pi Day · · Score: 1

    We can join in, we just need to redefine Pi as 1.43

  24. You wha? on RIAA's 'Expert' Witness Testimony Now Online · · Score: 1

    Does someone want to summarize that deposition before I die of lawyer-speak overdose?

  25. Re:Google Apps on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail? · · Score: 1

    "they will here my humble petitions"

    I hope you're not on an English course.