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  1. Are you sure about licensing? on Lenovo Removes Linux Option For Home Buyers · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that your OEM license is not applicable to VM installations. Is that not the case?

    I understand that it's stupid, and that the license _should_ allow it, but if you're violating the license anyway you may as well just grab a copy online.

  2. And God bless them on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 2, Insightful

    for getting the kinks ironed out before they hit the rest of us!

  3. Manufacturing batteries on Environmental Cost of Hybrids' Battery Recycling? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is a pretty messy business.

    The global-warming-believers have convinced us that harmless old carbon dioxide is a great evil, leading us to, of all things, manufacture big honkin' batteries, requiring the use of who-knows-what actual dangerous substances that end up who-knows-where. Thanks guys.

  4. How many were you expecting? on Are 68 Molecules Enough To Understand Diseases? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem like that low a number. What's the big deal?

  5. Re:Hey on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, on the list of system requirements, I bet it says "Windows". I don't think it says "an implementation of the Windows environment".

    It's totally stupid for it not to work, but if you go by what's on the box...

  6. Link? on Seinfeld-Windows TV Ad Anything But 'Delicious' · · Score: 1

    This is intriguing. Are the study's methodology and results available anywhere?

  7. Shoot on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I'd just made a billion-dollar deal for my company, I'd sure look long and hard at not working anymore.

  8. Wow on Brain Cells Observed Summoning a Memory · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's quite fascinating! (I hope the condition isn't too serious, of course.) The idea of a brain processing garbage data is certainly thought-provoking. Do you have any buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to an exploit?

  9. Oh yes on Intel Launches Low Cost Chips · · Score: 1

    The best was the Abit BP6. 2x300MHz Celerys at 450. Server-class power for the masses!

  10. No way man on Intel Launches Low Cost Chips · · Score: 1

    Those Celery 300As (GREAT chips) had 128KB L2 cache. But it was nice and fast since it was on-die, a novelty at the time.

  11. Low cache on Intel Launches Low Cost Chips · · Score: 4, Funny

    This means that the speed of the chip is reduced as it canâ(TM)t handle as many processes as processors with a larger cache.

    hmm, pretty technical stuff...

  12. Internet != The Web on Police Lose National High-Tech Crime Unit Website · · Score: 1

    Title should read "Crime Unit Domain", not "Crime Unit Website".

  13. Thanks devs! on ScummVM 0.12.0 Released — Support For New Games, Wiimote · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because of the ScummVM guys, we can play these fantastic older games in completely modern environments. Can anything beat Monkey Island, I ask you?

  14. Re:A mile? on ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An HTML entity shouldn't be required. It's 2008; we should be able to stick Unicode into these boxes.

  15. A mile? on ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Aren't orbital trajectories pretty well known? How is there a 1 in 72 chance that the thing will make a sudden mile-long jog and hit the station?

  16. He should have summarized it on Typical Home Bandwidth Usage? · · Score: 1

    Although that can be so difficult it's a nationwide sport.

  17. Unexpected on Zebras Get Less Spam Than Aardvarks · · Score: 1

    I can see why they'd start at the front of the alphabet, and why those folks would tend to get more spam.

    But wouldn't numbers sort even in front of the letter A?

  18. Osborne on The State of Scripting Languages · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're recalling the Osborne Effect. I sure hope that doesn't befall Perl.

  19. Re:Lead-based solders 3 years after RoHS deadline? on Nvidia 55nm Parts Are Bad Too · · Score: 4, Informative

    I would say it's because lead-based solder actually works properly, but according to this story that doesn't seem likely to be their motivation.

  20. ...why? on Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can you be specific about how the vendor compiling Perl is inherently worse than anyone else doing so?

    This is what distributions are for: to package and/or compile software so that users don't have to. What makes Perl so special that it's suddenly "inferior" when handled that way?

  21. Still using mine on Abit To Bow Out of Mainboard Market · · Score: 1

    Home server for my folks. Works great. Was way ahead of its time.

  22. Re:I got records from @home from an ebay purchase on Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why would you encrypt when you could just write randomness?

    10 write zeros.
    20 write randomness.
    30 GOTO 10 (as many times as you like)

  23. Re:In a word... on Psystar Will Countersue Apple · · Score: 1

    You can be sued for anything, but that doesn't mean it'll stick.

  24. Re:In a word... on Psystar Will Countersue Apple · · Score: 1

    The GPL is not an EULA. The GPL is simply the only thing allowing you to make copies. You can reject the GPL entirely and still install and use the software, no questions asked.

  25. hmm... on Has Google Lost Its Mojo? · · Score: 1

    Time to sell short?