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  1. Re:PDX not on the list on Google Gives the Gift of Free Airport Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I thought IAH (Houston/Bush) already had free WiFi. I seem to recall using it a few years back last time I had a connection there.

  2. Re:Oracle Palns. on Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans · · Score: 1

    Ha! More proof that security by obscurity doesn't work!

  3. Re:Umm - MS did not lift code from an OpenSource P on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    7-Zip is LGPL. They still have to release all their source mods, but they don't have to open whatever they link with.

  4. Re:no big deal on Did Microsoft Borrow GPL Code For a Windows 7 Utility? · · Score: 1

    2. can't microsoft just "rebrand" the imagemaster tool? i.e., some other tool using the same source

    So if, theoretically, I got my hands on a copy of the Windows 7 source (shudder!), I could rebuild it, rebrand it, and sell it under my own license?

    Do you see where your argument fails?

  5. Re:Ahem on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 1, Funny

    "An insane clown posse (they are all riding in one small car)"

    What does a hip-hop duo have to do with this?

  6. Re:I call Shenanigans on Multi-Button OpenOfficeMouse At OOoCon 2009 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh no! They've put the WordPerfect 5.0 interface on a mouse!

  7. Re:TFA has nothing to do with coverage on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    I knew it! It *IS* Canada's fault! BLAME CANADA!!!!

  8. You are correct about the inconsistency on Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out · · Score: 1

    The x.1 (8.1, 9.1, and 10.1) releases seemed to be the most polished. x.0 was OK, with some weirdness, and the x.2 releases always seemed to be crap and broken.

  9. Chalk up another Mandriva guy on Mandriva Linux 2010 Is Finally Out · · Score: 1

    Been using it since Mandriva 8.1. The Mandriva x.0 and x.2 releases always seemed to be garbage, but the x.1s were golden.
    Then when they changed to the "year.release", they were kind of crappy until about the 2008.1 release.

    I've tried others (and I'm running EEEbuntu on my Eee) but I always seem to come back to Mandriva. Hell, I might try Mandriva One 2010.0 on my Eee, just for the hell of it!

  10. I'm sure they do. I bet they'd love to have all their customers on a 50 millibit per second plan.

  11. They should have named it on Web Open Font Format Gets Backing From Mozilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    Web Open Representation for Fonts....

    Just so we could have WORF as an acronym.

    "Today is a good day to be rendered!"

  12. Re:Well what is happening in New York is giving me on Attorney General Says Wiretap Lawsuit Must Be Thrown Out · · Score: 1

    I'm still trying to figure out why my tax dollars are paying for what should be a private enterprise; to wit, any primary election.

    If primaries are closed; that is, only members of party X can vote to decide party X's nominee, then this should be paid for by party X, and held privately. If my tax dollars are paying for this, then I should be able to vote on party X's candidate, even if I belong to party Y.

  13. Re:I sure wouldn't on Fixing Bugs, But Bypassing the Source Code · · Score: 2, Funny

    Error - Stack recursion. Head asploding!

  14. Re:Privitization on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    In Orange County, CA, the toll roads (73, 91, 241, and probably others) were operated by a private entity for the state, at least for a while, don't know if they're still private.

  15. Re:They haven't "developed" anything on Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine · · Score: 1

    Well, the PTO realized this is bogus:

    Applicant is required to furnish a model of the instant invention. 35 U.S.C. 114. See Also 37 C.F.R. 1.91.

  16. Re:Uh huh on "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket · · Score: 5, Informative

    Feynman's attitude wasn't "never take risks", it was "Don't take stupid risks, and don't lie to yourself about what the actual risks are".

  17. Re:Fishing, phishing, vishing, what's next? on Asterisk Vishing Attacks "Endemic" · · Score: 1

    I just vish zat zey vould ztop vith the forced vords.

  18. Re:sigh on Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but did he have to take a page out of the old Soviet Handbook? Know what KGB stood for? "Ministry of State Security". Sound like any current US TLA?

  19. Re:The Ammunition for Both Sides on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Sounds like last nights episode of "Raising the Bar".

  20. Re:Liquids on planes on Laptop Fires On Airplanes · · Score: 1

    No, just Moral Orel.

  21. Re:eee ssd on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1

    So far I'm happy with the 32GB RIDATA that I upgraded my 900 with. I probably should have gone with the SATA version rather than the PATA version, but my wife resents every penny I spend on computer related stuff.

  22. Re:It's swaying around in the wind a bit.... on Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT · · Score: 1

    Scrubbed due to weather at around 0820 PDT.

  23. Re:No boom today... on "2012" a Miscalculation; Actual Calendar Ends 2220 · · Score: 1

    The Illudium Q-39 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the Space Modulator!!!

  24. Re:Good grief.. on Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog · · Score: 1

    Obviously the author is a Monty Python fan...

    "I can't! I'm eating dog!"

  25. Re:A couple of solutions on New UK Wireless Network Tax May Hamper Internet Rollout · · Score: 1

    With apologies (and a thank you) to the Beatles...

    Let me tell you how it will be;
    There's one for you, nineteen for me.
    'Cause I'm the taxman,
    Yeah, I'm the taxman.

    Should five percent appear to small;
    Be thankful I don't take it all.
    'Cause I'm the taxman,
    Yeah, I'm the taxman.