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  1. Sales on SCO Execs Dumping Stock · · Score: 4, Informative
  2. They will never have to pay on Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent · · Score: 1

    This will still be on appeal in five years and Eolas will either be out of money to pay trial lawyers, or purchased by MS for a pittance.

  3. Typical on Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent · · Score: 1

    "They have been fined $521 million in damages."

    "The settlement will be paid via a lifetime license of Internet Explorer for all Eola employees, past and present."

  4. Hmmm on Webcams Watching The Classrooms? · · Score: 1

    Is this where Mani Srivastava is going to set up his project?

  5. Re:The Future of IP on EU IP Enforcement Directive Criticized · · Score: 1

    "Since IP is really a legal fiction"

    I don't think that anything backed up by force can be considered fiction. If you have the might to enforce it, it is real.

  6. Re:Good thing that Ford doesn't make tyres. on EU IP Enforcement Directive Criticized · · Score: 1

    "thats why I have a LaserJet"

    LaserJet is a trademarked term used by Hewlett Packard for a product line of laser printers, it is not a term to describe laser printers in general.

  7. W3C? on Rio Announces Networked Ogg Vorbis Player · · Score: 1

    Does this link: http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/i tem_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53 display properly for anyone usng Mozilla? I am using 1.5A and the menus(which don't work) are displayed on top of the specs which run off the window.

  8. In related news on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you have ever signed up with the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service (list of people not to send junk mail to), but continue to receive stacks of crap every day, here is what you can do about it: Prohibitory Order

    Links to pdf's you need to print and mail in included.

    "A little-known Federal law allows individuals to send a Prohibitory Order against companies that are sending unsolicited sexually provocative or erotically arousing mail. The Supreme Court went one step further, allowing individuals to decide what constitutes "erotically arousing" mail. The law makes it illegal for a company to send mail to an individual within thirty days of receiving the Order."

    "Postmasters may not refuse to accept a Form 1500 because the advertisment in question does not appear to be sexually oriented. Only the addressee may make that determination."

  9. Re:Sigh... on One Last New Episode of Futurama · · Score: 1

    For television networks "good = ratings". That's all there is to it.

    A show can be critically acclaimed and have rabid fanboys, but none of that matters, just ratings.

  10. Spins on More on Spintronics · · Score: 2, Informative

    Spin is an intrinsic, unchangeable quantity for an elementary particle. Particles with half-integer spins are called fermions, while particles with integer spins are called bosons. Fermions can only be created or destroyed in particle-antiparticle pairs, whereas bosons can be created or destroyed singly.

  11. Re:Make your own on Zero Blaster Reviewed · · Score: 1

    And if you paint the goatse man on the front you have just built the scariest halloween decoration EVER!

  12. Real Tests on When 54 Mbps isn't 54 Mbps: 802.11g's Real Speed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "his article has real math based on the specs"

    Kinda like judging a car's performance based on "real math based on the specs" when you can actually test the real thing in the Real World.

  13. Real Speeds on When 54 Mbps isn't 54 Mbps: 802.11g's Real Speed · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here are some real numbers.

    Best Performance among various hardware

    802.11g
    wep off: 15.5Mbps
    b card on network/wep off: 9.4Mbps
    wep on: 10.3Mbps

    802.11b
    wep off: 4.8Mbps

  14. Airport Security on The Wireless Wardriving Rig · · Score: 1

    Has he tried taking that through airport security yet?

  15. Re:The problem may be on your side of the phone. on Consumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks · · Score: 1

    Lol, That's a long list.

    Think you could put together a PC from components made in USA? How about portable CD or MP3 players? Is there a single LCD made in the US?

  16. Re:The problem may be on your side of the phone. on Consumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks · · Score: 1

    "try to buy only things that are made in the USA"

    And what electronics are made in the US?

  17. Re:Public Disgrace!! on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 1

    Deadpools can be either way I suppose. Although most of my knowledge of the subject comes from the Clint Eastwood movie 'Deadpool'.

  18. Re:Wonder how much his 'defense fund' received on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 1

    I am suprised they don't have This Photo anywhere on the site.

  19. Re:All this comes courtesy of.. on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 2, Informative

    "All this comes courtesy of.. FoxNews! The most factually solid news organization ever..."

    It is actually an AP story. If you go to GoogleNews you will find the same story reprinted verbatim at hundreds of sites.

    "I'm inclined to believe he was bullied into this plea deal."

    That is what happens with most criminal defendants. He faced a maximum of 20 years. By agreeing to plead guilty they dropped a few of the charges and the sentence was reduced to 7 years. Not much different then what you would find in most cases.

  20. The others on Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The other 5 that have been charged so far have all plead not-guilty. How many of them will change their plea now that Hawash has agreed to testify against them?

  21. COMING THIS WINTER... on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    ...SCO invades Russia.

  22. They can take my Tivo on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 1

    from my cold dead hands!!

  23. Re:And they don't even have to sell anything on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you read the latest issue of Wired they have an article about the sex.com guy and he says that he advertises for a bestiality site now because the site is fake and people are too embarassed to report it to their credit card companies for a charge-back.

  24. Re:That's too bad :-( on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want to use it to host a website you won't have any problems, just don't expect any other networks to accept email from you.

    Spam was only part of the problem, their customers have also been hijacking open proxies and CogentCo will do nothing about it. You can read the long history of their customers' abuses and their inaction at news.admin.net-abuse.email

  25. Re:Public Disgrace!! on The Economics Of Spamming · · Score: 2, Informative

    The idea is much older than that. It is usually referred to as a 'deadpool'. Usually a list of people and you place wagers on who will be the first to die.