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  1. I haven't read the article on UCB Researchers Critique DRM, Compulsory Licensing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because I refuse to use proprietry file formats. So, I shall refrain from passing uninformed comment on this senseless drivel. Please don't let that stop anyone else though.

  2. Re:It all works until on Funding Open Source? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice try, but you're far too eloquent to be a windows slave, you don't fool me.

  3. I have a better troll on Funding Open Source? · · Score: 0

    I've opened a new paypal account and will donate all funds donated evenly between deserving open source projects. Trust me, I'm a philanthropist.

    Bill G.

  4. Re:It all works until on Funding Open Source? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but they usually do it in Visual Basic, so inevitably nobody ever uses it.

  5. Re:Linux is cheap on The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops · · Score: 1

    Has your company ever considered employing competent staff? It's a long shot but it might just work.

  6. I just don't understand. on The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops · · Score: 1

    "the site gets 200,000 page views a day."

    Why did they bother upgrading? Even 2000 server can handle that.

  7. Re:My two cents...... on The Near-Term Future Of Open Source Desktops · · Score: 1

    "then I'll regard it as a success"

    Once they start giving cornflakes away with milk then I'll consider cornflakes a success.

  8. Re:Anti-MS FUD on Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes · · Score: 1

    Stick to facts, point out real things (say virus trouble), and you might win. Make things up or twist the truth, and you'll almost certainly lose./

    Very dishonourable reply I must say, I question the reliability of software I have to use and you question my integrity, you cad. Unfortunately this isn't a game there no winners. Isn't the proliferation of viruses endemic to certain operating systems, and not to others? I only ask because that doesn't seem to happen on my other machines either, perhaps it's a hardware problem as stated earlier.

  9. Re:Anti-MS FUD on Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes · · Score: 1

    "Uh, no, it would probably be a software problem with your banking software, not the OS."

    How could I tell? It's not open source. I wish the errors where consistent, as I stated in my original post, it must be a hardware problem.

  10. Re:Who on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 1

    fagot? prick? cockbite?

    Do you have some issues you'd like to share with the group?

  11. Re:Who on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 1

    But you DID reply!!
    No I didn't. There was nothing in my post pertaining to the body of your missive.

  12. Re:Who on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would normally reply but you're below my I.Q. threshold.

  13. Re:Anti-MS FUD on Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, I have banking software that only works in windows (well it's more secure, what would you expect a bank to use?), it crashes 1 out 5 times I use it at a rough guess. But then that would probably be a hardware problem wouldn't it? Funny I don't have any hardware problems with the other dozen identical machines in the department that run another OS.

  14. Old trick on RFID Industry Confidential Memos · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Pretend you're going to do something that's really, really, extreme then when you do something that is merely really extreme no one seems to mind because it's better what was going to happen before big brother became our friend and stopped the really, really bad stuff from happening.

    I'm not paranoid I know they're after me.

  15. Re:State Greed on Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What exactly has socialism got to do with it? No, please humour me I'm a fucktard, I dont understand how a corrupt manipulative corporation benifits mankind.

  16. Another Troll on Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes · · Score: 5, Funny

    "whether the company had properly offered communications protocols allowing non-Microsoft software to work well with Windows"

    Jeez, give 'em a break they're still trying to make Microsoft software to work well with Windows.

  17. Re:Can this be effective? on Michigan's Proposed Spam Law Called Toughest In U.S. · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Spam loads of people using the web address of you competitor.
    2. ???
    3. Profit.

  18. Troll on Teach An Old Athlon New Tricks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft Support

    That's the only bit I could read. Informative though.

  19. Re:Huh? Regular dividend? on Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Dividend · · Score: 1

    "I hadn't slept yet"

    Is that one of those Douglas Adams future perfect tenses?

  20. Makes a lot of sense on Microsoft Considers $10 Billion Dividend · · Score: 1

    Milk the cow now she'll be dry in a year.

  21. UK gov tries to catch up in nanotech on Nanotube Applications Grow And Grow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There's an article on the Register outlining the UK Governments proposed investment of £90m (GBP) in nanotechnology over the next six years here. With links to the announcement on the Government News Network. A very little too late perhaps.

  22. Re:Interesting, but... on Leave Outer Space to the Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Because they are serving the community? Mankind? ...in the advancement of the collective human knowledge. Space _is_ the final frontier, and should be explored and investigated by well trained competent personel on behalf of the human race, not some rich twat on a jolly.

  23. Re:Umm, don't we already have that? on DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers · · Score: 1

    "Maybe they want a solution that doesn't require flash.

    Indeed, I beleive he retired in the late 80's and is considered no longer capable of saving the universe.

  24. Not wishing to appear ignorant but.. on Open Source Microsoft Exchange Replacements? · · Score: -1, Troll

    What does Exchange do that Sendmail doesn't?

  25. Invasion of privacy? on TiVo Data Collection Ramifications · · Score: 1

    Certainly sounds like it to me. Do they pay for this personal information or just take it, without even a nice thank you note, and a bunch of flowers, or a box of chocolates, and do they enquire of your satisfaction afterwards?