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  1. I think Pauli is more appropriate on Science Blogger Sued for Unfavorable Book Review · · Score: 3, Funny
    Pauli's famous two-liner:

    This isn't right. It isn't even wrong.
  2. Re:Open source projects? on Top 25 Hottest Open-Source Projects at Microsoft Codeplex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's probably because of braindead installers that expect an EULA.

    I actually filed a bug about this on FileZilla and it was fixed (I think I filed against 2.29 and it was fixed in 2.30).

    If it's happening to $YOUR_FAVORITE_FLOSS_PROJECT, then file a bug stating that the installer violates GPL.

  3. Re:Shotguns on Gunplay Blamed For Cutting Fiber · · Score: 1

    OK, you asked for it..

    What else would you use for carrying CRAP like spam?

  4. Re:Interstellar space on Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 30th Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Yes, both Voyagers, and I think Pioneers 10 and 11 all have solar escape velocity.

    Voyager 1 has already passed the heliopause.

  5. Re:Papers please! on Going to Yosemite? Get Your Passport Ready! · · Score: 1

    Why? Those four kids that the cops killed were Evil Terrorists(tm)!!!!

  6. Re:I feel his pain on PC Magazine Editor Throws in the Towel on Vista · · Score: 1

    Fact check time! 32-bit processors can directly address up to 4 GB of memory. This is a limitation of the processor architecture, and has nothing to do with the OS.

    Fact Check Time! Most Pentium class processors can physically address up to 64GB of memory (36 address lines). Virtual address spaces are limited to 4GB, but the processor can have more physical memory.

  7. Re:Dragging their feet on RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees · · Score: 1

    I'd rather not.

    Search Google News or Yahoo News for Paris Hilton Jail. It'll probably be in the entertainment sections.

  8. Re:Dragging their feet on RIAA Short on Funds? Fails to Pay Attorney Fees · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Mod +1 Sad but True

    I'm assuming Capitol Records is in CA, specifically LA County, as I regularly drive by the Capitol Records building -- it's shaped like a stack of 45s with a needle stylus on top.

    LA County Sheriff Lee Baca is well known for being starstruck and accomodating to the entertainment industry. See the Paris Hilton fiasco for details.

  9. Re:Not Dan Lyons on Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted · · Score: 1

    Maybe the court meant "The copyrights in question", and perhaps didn't feel the need to add that qualification?

  10. Not the same SCO on Increased Linux Use With SCO's Defeat Predicted · · Score: 1

    The SCOundrels are in now way related to the old SCO (Santa Cruz).

    The SCOundrels are what used to be Caldera, who bought Santa Cruz's Operating Systems Divison, and then changed their name to "The SCO Group" (SCO not apparently standing for anything).

    After Santa Cruz sold off the OS Division, they changed their name to Tarantella, to reflect their major product at the time. Tarantella was bought by Sun about a year ago.

    I agree with you though, ODT was a solid, if stodgy platform. We ported an artillery control system to it in the early 90s.

  11. Re:$699 on SCO Loses · · Score: 1

    No, I think it goes to $FANCY_STORE for the red dress.

  12. Re:More on SCO Loses · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA. Judge Kimball specifically notified SCO and IBM (though I suppose SCO was just a formality), and told them to let him know how this would affect their case.

  13. Re:MP3 vs WAV on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm not ruling it out. I'm saying that requiring *all* browser developers/vendorss to support a technology for which they may not be able to obtain a license is bad practice in a standard.

  14. MP3 vs WAV on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could it have something to do with the fact that MP3 is patent-encumbered?

  15. Re:This would be a good idea if... on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Actually, I'm a registered Libertarian, so I'm pretty much screwed regardless.

  16. Re:This would be a good idea if... on Vote Swapping Ruled Legal · · Score: 1

    Since electors are allocated based on Congressional representation, why not the following:

    Each State gets two electors, selected on a winner take all basis (the two corresponding to the Senators).
    Each Congressional district gets one elector, that elector's vote is based only upon the results within that district.
    This prevents the disenfranchising of rural CA by the population of Los Angeles, for example.

  17. Re:next time on Surviving in Space Without a Spacesuit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thought was the "Clarke-ian" version. See his novel, Earthlight for a fairly reasonable description of ship-to-ship tranfer without suits.

  18. I'll make the FTC's job easy. on FTC To Examine Targeted Advertising · · Score: 4, Funny

    They hope to learn how Web advertising firms protect the personal data they collect,

    They don't.

    how they notify consumers about that data,

    They don't.

    and whether the data is sold to or used by other firms.

    Yes.

    There. Study done.

  19. With apologies to the Talking Heads on Creative Documentation · · Score: 1

    And you may ask yourself
    "How did I get here?"

  20. Baseball?? BASEBALL???? on Winnie Wrote a Math Book · · Score: 1


    Baseball is the only truly divinely inspired game (Soccer comes close).

    On the Ninth Day, G-d created Baseball.

  21. Re:Deutschland Uber Alles! on German Prosecutors Won't Help RIAA Counterpart · · Score: 1

    No, it's OK. Just don't mention the War!!!!

  22. Re:While it may be going for the moon on US Dept. of Justice May Intervene To Help RIAA · · Score: 1

    Actually what I'd really like to see challenged is copyright lengths themselves. The Constitution has something to say on that as well ...
    Sadly, that was already brought to the US Supreme Court, and it lost.

    If the GP is interested, the case is Eldred v. Ashcroft.
  23. Typo in my post on NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info · · Score: 1

    Damn. I need to learn to preview.

    Should read less than 6 years.

  24. Re:This is why we're still in the Space Stone Age on NASA Contractors Censoring Saturn V Info · · Score: 1

    in those 7+ years while no American went to space waiting on the shuttle to be flight ready

    <PEDANTIC>
    Less than years. Apollo-Soyuz was summer of 1975. STS-1 was April 1981.
    </PEDANTIC>

  25. Re:How would you do it? on Researchers Crack Every Certified CA Voting Machine · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wouldn't.

    If I *had* to, I'd have the computer be the means of *printing* a ballot only. It wouldn't tabulate.

    It would then print a ballot that was both human and machine readable (OCR font anyone?).

    That ballot would be placed in a box, and counted.