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  1. Modeled after RIAA? on SCO Prepares To Sue Linux End Users · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It looks to me that SCO is trying to duplicate the recent success the RIAA has had in suing end users. Stats showed that P2P usage dropped after the RIAA went on their rampage so SCO is probably trying to elicit the same effect with Linux usage. They probably figure (like the RIAA) that if you sue the users they will do anything you want. The only difference is, the RIAA might have a legitimate reason to be doing it, while SCO has none whatsoever. So once again, they are counting on ignorance and fear to prey on the minds of their victims. Just sad, really.

  2. I don't want to start a holy war here but on Install Slash on Mac OS X · · Score: 3, Funny

    what is the deal with you Slash fanatics? You sit at your machines and... Aw forget it, nevermind.

  3. Re:I've been collecting them... on Microsoft Virus Spam: SoBig.F · · Score: 1

    I just created a new rule in my OS X Mail.app, and I have them automatically transfered into my Trash file. I wish I had thought about that before. I think I received maybe 50 of them before I created the rule.

    You can still apply the rule after the fact. Just select all and choose "Apply Rules to Selection" from the Message Menu.

  4. Taking Bets Here on Building a Better Bomb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who will be the first to deploy one in Lindon, Utah?

  5. Re:Right direction. on Apple Public Source License Now FSF Approved · · Score: 1

    I would pay $129 just for Expose.

  6. Re:iTunes sucks ass too... on Technical Glitches Plague BuyMusic.com · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Madonna's music isn't on there because she doesn't want it to be. Not much Apple can do about that. It will be available to Windows by years end, and the selection will improve once the indies get onboard. And yes it still is DRM, but it is the most fair and useable DRM scheme ever designed.

  7. Re:Just in case it gets /.ed :D on Canadians Create Intelligent Medicine · · Score: 1

    I would think Wired would have enough bandwidth.

  8. "i-Pill will cure thee of thy illness" on Canadians Create Intelligent Medicine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay pill, I think I have a pain in my chest, come cure me.

    No wait, scratch that. It could be a heart attack.

    Maybe I should go to the doctor after all.

  9. Re:You'd still have to buy big cards. on Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option · · Score: 1

    Well once you upload the images you could delete them and keep shooting. It would be more of a hassle to do it more often, but if you're tight on cash, you might prefer that to buing a larger card.

  10. Unlimited Storage on Nikon D2H: Digital Camera + 802.11b Option · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This would be awesome to use as an unlimited source of storage space. No more expensive 1 GB cards to buy.

  11. Re:Funny Thing on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 1

    For some reason I counted one more set of zeros in his than the number in the article. My bad.

  12. Re:Funny Thing on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 1

    That number would be 60 octillion.

  13. Re:How stupid is RIAA on MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    We most definitely have to log in to use the labs (GA Tech).

  14. In other audio news on New Audio Products for Mac OS X Excite Reader · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apple has resleased their own sound editing app, Soundtrack. This was previously available as part of Final Cut Pro, and is now a standalone app for $299.

  15. Re:Here we go again on Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched · · Score: 1

    Yes but the problem is no matter how many they fix there will always be more. Who knows how many more are still in there just waiting for someone to discover and exploit them, dozens? hundreds?

  16. Re:Here we go again on Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I'm not up on all the latest MS terminology. I just used a few things I remembered randomly for my rant. :)

  17. Here we go again on Windows Vulnerabilities Revealed, Patched · · Score: 1

    Thank you Microsoft. I was beginning to feel for a minute there that the security holes were becoming less and less frequent and that Windows might not be such a dangerous platform after all. I really thought that trustworthy computing was starting to live up to its name. I was sure that I was getting a sincere vibe from Redmond that ol' Stevie boy had really decided to make a genuine effort to not have his users' data be preyed upon by script kiddies and cracker freaks. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you for shaking me out of this delusional reverie, bringing me back to reality, and reinforcing my intention to never to use your operating system ever again.

  18. Interesting article on History Of The NeXT Platform · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have heard that there is still an internal competition going on at Apple between the old school OS 8/9 developers and the Next guys they brought in. Basically the 9 devs want to incorporate more features from 9 back into X, while the Next people want to further separate them.

  19. Re:Pissing away your old customers, Steve? on Adobe Drops Mac Support For Premiere · · Score: 1

    its really hard to expand your market if no one else is writing software for your platform

    There are over 6,000 apps for Mac OS X. Are you saying Apple wrote them all? Wow, I didn't know that. Some software dev team they've got there.

  20. Re:OT: Patrick Stewart through with Star Trek on Activision Sues Star Trek Over Franchise Decay · · Score: 1

    A few weeks ago us.imdb.com had a brief blurb stating that Patrick Stewart had formally decided that Nemesis would be his last Trek.

    Strange, in this article he is advocating another one.

  21. Re:What about the Apple Records suit? on 'Extraordinary' Soundtrack Will Be Apple-Exclusive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Enough with Apple records already. I don't think they care anymore. Do they even still exist? Even if they did, they would never survive against the beast that is Apple Legal.

  22. Re:May Not Affect 10.2.6 on Screensaver Bug in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Works for me on 10.2.6.

  23. Confirmed for me on Screensaver Bug in Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was able to reproduce it on my Powerbook. Here is the crash log.

    2003-07-05 23:25:41.258 ScreenSaverEngine[9993] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: *** -[NSCFArray objectAtIndex:]: index (0) beyond bounds (0) Jul 6 00:10:42 localhost crashdump: Crash report written to: /Users/jonathan/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ScreenS averEngine.crash.log

  24. Typical on Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Free-X say they had been trying to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've released the exploit.

    MS before: Screw them, we haven't got time to deal with annoying flies on the wall like that.

    MS after: Shut up! Sue them! This kind of thing is why we hate open source. They want to take our intellectual property and turn it into an experimental plaything.

  25. Ominous signs on China Accelerates Mars Program · · Score: 1

    Between this and the second mars probe being delayed a week because of a fishing boat, it doesn't look good for NASA.