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  1. Re:Link has a typo. on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    Clickable (link to MSKB article)

  2. Re:Punishment on Kazaa Says On Track to Be Most-Downloaded Program · · Score: 2, Informative

    I am too cheap for an anti-virus checker
    There is a (legal) free virus scanner.

  3. Re:Mass not weight guy on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 1

    Ahh, kind of misread the question. The answer to the second part is the above and the answer to the first part is probably something like comment #6045816 says.

  4. Re:Mass not weight guy on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, weight is measured in newtons (N), so somebody with a mass of 80kg weighs about 784N (assuming gravity is 9.80m/s^2).

  5. Re:Don't be a fool. on Non-Competes Might Mean Loss Of Benefits · · Score: 1

    Yeah... because your ex-boss telling you where you can or cannot work is really natural.

    </sarcasm>

  6. Re:previous version was good on PHP and MySQL Web Development, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    This goes someway towards dealing with point 2 but I agree that books almost always provide a better all-round experience than google for a new skill.

  7. Re:Where's the "close other tabs" ? on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    If you want to close a tab just click on it with the middle mouse button.

  8. Re:No down arrow searches? on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    Firebird 0.6 seems to do exactly that.

  9. Re:MacOS X comments from release notes on Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View · · Score: 1

    Go into about:config (type it into the URL bar and press enter) on one of the Moz browsers. Right click inside the window and go New -> String call it browser.bookmarks.file and set it's value to the path of the bookmarks.html file from the other Moz browser you want to share bookmarks to. That's a bit of a bad explaination, sorry.

  10. Re:It's for lazy-ass, CONSUMERIST Americans on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    OK so it's a product specifically targeted at lazy people ... but they'll bother to recycle them? Yeah ....

  11. Re:In other news... on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Why would it be a third of the price? The proportion of per-item costs to fixed costs in cars is very different to that of DVDs.

  12. Re:So what? on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmmm... depends how far away your movie rental place is and how you get there. The pollution preventing by halving (or more than halving if supermarkets etc jump on the bandwagon) the use of a car may outweigh the amount of rubbish produced. Especially if they allow you to take the case next time and just put the DVD in it.

  13. Re:Ez-DiVX on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Classic case of not seeing the wood for the trees. You can already rip a movie that your rent at the moment!

  14. Re:Errr... on LCD Screens Almost Paper-thin · · Score: 1

    Think before you post too ... he says it wouldn't be a problem for e-books.

  15. Re:Just wondering.... on Libranet 2.8 Review · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, there is NO obligation under the GPL for a distro maker to host ISOs at their expensive for the benefit of freeloaders like yourself. "Free software rulez yeah! Gimme the source! What, I have to pay for it? I'll stick to my pirate copy of Wind0ze thanks."

  16. Re:Pay for downloading iso??? on Libranet 2.8 Review · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well frankly that stinks of the whole "I want free as in speech, but only if it means it's free as in beer" attitude that is rampant on Slashdot.

    When RedHat tried to make an honest buck from the product they worked on people just downloaded off BitTorrent. Here you are complaining that Libranet aren't hosting huge ISOs for free download at their expense (both in terms of bandwidth and the money spent creating the product).

  17. Re:Copyright idea - pay for longer terms? on O'Reilly Commits to Short Copyright Durations · · Score: 1

    Two points: 1) Berne requires at least 50 years of copyright automatically. 2) What your suggesting is similar to this, albeit slightly more expensive.

  18. Re:If you want true open source on anything on Debian GNU/Linux to Declare GNU GFDL non-Free? · · Score: 1

    Hence why most source code in the public domain still says "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.".

  19. Re:Congratulations to the W3C on WthRemix Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    The W3C probably isn't going to use it, they had nothing to do with the competition. (other than making their site so lame that somebody else came up with the idea).

  20. Re:NOooo on WthRemix Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    Err, I hate to be the bearer of bad news but they do have an RSS feed.

  21. Re:Browser vs Database on Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names · · Score: 1

    Yeah... because everyone calls Word "Microsoft Word" and everyone calls China the "People's Republic of China". Fool.

  22. Re:I am confident on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    People voted on a law the couldn't read! I'm gobsmacked.

  23. Re:Reasons for using opera on Opera 7.10 Released (First Opera 7.x For Linux) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Dont let me be the only one on /. to say this.. on NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising · · Score: 1

    Try searching for open source and have to go through 10 pages of proprietory software to get to any relevant site.
    Err -- the first three results are the OSI, GNU and SF.

  25. Re:TOO MUCH FUD FOR ME! on Congress to Make PATRIOT Act Permanent · · Score: 1

    No, but its getting closer every day to fascist Germany.