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  1. wow, talk about a flamebait list of questions on Closed Source On Linux and BSD? · · Score: 1
    you managed to hit every hot button in sight...

    Basically mr. anonymous coward "businessman", if you don't like the license, don't use it.

  2. I'm confused... on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1

    If only Noah and his immediate family survived the flood, then how did we get so many races of people without evolution in such a short period of time?

  3. Re:Popup / flash / whatever alert on After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad · · Score: 1

    If you were using a well updated filter set, then you wouldn't have suffered anything... unless you'd not blocked flash... All I got was an annoying flash video... no other adverts or pop-ups at all. I use filterset.G updater with Adblock plus... works a treat... http://www.pierceive.com/

  4. It's bloody obvious what's really happening here.. on NVIDIA's Andy Ritger On Linux Drivers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft are the real owners of the SGI OpenGL patents and are blocking this entire show by insisting on those anti-GPL RAND terms for the licensing... not SGI...

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/01/16/sgi_transf ers_3d_graphics_patents/

    http://www.smithhopen.com/news_briefs_display.asp? ID=301

    http://www.forrester.com/Research/LegacyIT/Excerpt /0,7208,28681,00.html

    that last is is a doozy... they want $99 for a one page article...

    Microsoft has nVidia over the certification barrel... if they make the nv driver support 3D, then nVidia may find it very difficult to get their windows drivers certified... they're having enough problems at the moment...

  5. Re:"It feels like the Cold War all over again." on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see those oil companies that are having their licenses "legally" stolen via sham courts sabotage the well heads... I do not want to see Putin and his cronies get their hands on the assets without having to drill for it themselves...

  6. Re:IP issues. on Guitartabs.com Suspends Under Legal Pressure · · Score: 1

    you can freely play the tune... only the words are copyright, the tune is public domain... which is madness really as the words are useless on their own... Frankly, I blame the corporations for getting their sticky paws into the mess by extending the terms of copyright, those words should have passed into the public domain a long time ago... I'd like to see a redress of the length of the term... 25 years for the composition and 15 for the performance... that should encourage the performers and composers to keep performing and composing and not to sit back on their arses collecting the royalty checks...

  7. no one will see it anyway.... on British Civil Liberties Film Released · · Score: 1

    they'll be too busy watching the blockbusters that are stacked up for showing over the next few weeks... the only way to get a real audience would be to show it before the main feature or else in primetime on the main channels... but there's no way the main broadcasters would shift their soaps for that... 'tis weird that the really good programmes get shown opposite the cruddy soaps...

  8. what most basement dwellers here really need... on The Ultimate Reset Button · · Score: 2, Funny

    the emergency button for when mom walks in... quickly closes the browser window and brings up a minimised screen...

  9. duplication of effort... on Linux Finally Getting XBMC · · Score: 1

    check out Linux MCE... far more powerful and sits nicely over existing linux distros. See the nice review here

  10. this seems familiar... somehow... on Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive · · Score: 1

    "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."

    sounds like Dell are hiding their Ubuntu models in a similar fashion...

  11. Re:Can you geeks make up your minds? on Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive · · Score: 1, Interesting

    it's not the community speaking... it's the microsoft shills pretending to be Linux users and dissing any real attempt to get Linux desktops to the massess

  12. Re:Of course entry-level windows is cheaper... on Dell Ships Ubuntu 7.04 PCs Today · · Score: 1

    Microsoft subsidise Dell for putting the "Dell recommends Windows Vista" banner on all their product pages... it's called market development funds and it's how Microsoft got around the no discriminatory deals with OEMs part of the DOJ judgement... Microsoft has to market it at the same price per unit to all OEMs... they just get around it by paying market development funds on a points system... you get points for only selling windows or bundling microsoft software... you don't get points if you sell other OS products or bundle competing products like wordperfect etc.

  13. Re:You have *got* to be sh!tt!ng me. on Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know, there's verifiable evidence of the Holocaust. Photos. Movies. Graveyards. Camps. Survivors.

    which the deniers all claim to be a massive hoax perpetrated by the Jewish cabal behind the scenes pulling the strings of power...

  14. Old news..... on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    my daughter ran up a £250 pound bill one month ringing and texting her friends... the phone was removed from her and she was given a pay as you go one instead... with a strict £10 a month limit... If she ran out in any month, she had to either wait for the next month, or put credit on her phone herself out of her own money... this happened back in 1999... talk about old news...

  15. Re:Fresh ground on What is Your Favorite Way to Make Coffee? · · Score: 1

    I roast on the stove top using an old pan and a wooden spoon... I like to have total control over the process... the popcorn popper is a bit hit and miss as you have to do trial runs to determine the correct time for your preferred roast. On the stove top you can actually see and hear the beans roast and stop at the right colour...

  16. Re:I'm confused... on 40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days · · Score: 1

    If it galls you so much, then why do you even buy a machine with Windows preloaded in the first place?

    tried buying one without lately??? in a high street shop??? not possible... yes, I could have built them, but I needed them right now and the pre-assembled box with tft monitor and the laptop were far cheaper than I could have built for myself... (they were on clearout the weekend before Vista hit the shelves). Secondly, have you ever tried buying a laptop without an OS on it??? Tried building a laptop for yourself from off the shelf components???

  17. Re:I'm confused... on 40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's also important to note that there are no figures on how many of those upgrade certificates have been cashed in for an actual copy of Vista. Which means that the number of installed Vista Desktops could be a mere fraction of the 40 million unit number that Microsoft is providing.

    apparently I may account for two of those, although I have never actually registered for my two upgrades to be sent to me... Microsoft still got to count two as having been sold to the OEM... I bought to new machines at the end of January deliberately to avoid Vista... I wiped XP off both of them and put Ubuntu on them... it galls me that Microsoft still gets to count them...

  18. Re:Feeling the Pain on Threat To Free, Legal Guitar Tablature Online · · Score: 1

    Scan the books, OCR to a text format, and then burn them.

    no, scan them and post pdf's of the scan on torrent and usenet... that way, you keep the notation on the staves intact...

  19. Re:I might respect Microsoft on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1
  20. Cut & Paste troll alert... on Canadians Overpay Millions on Copyright Tax · · Score: 3, Informative

    n/t

  21. That's OK.... on Prof. Johan Pouwelse To Take On RIAA Expert · · Score: 3, Funny

    he'll never be able to appear in the US, someone will just have him added to the do-not-fly list... after all, he's got a foreign sounding name... that's enough for a start...

  22. Re:Nexenta on Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like · · Score: 1

    they need to get off their butts and release snapshots far more often... I still can't even get the elatte release to run let alone install from it.

  23. Re:Just give us more drivers.... on Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like · · Score: 1

    I'd take part if I could actually install it..., but the project has stalled and there's been no new alpha release for nearly a year... come on guys, you need to do builds far more often...

    I'm not exactly on cutting edge hardware either...

  24. Just give us more drivers.... on Sun to Make Solaris More Linux Like · · Score: 2, Insightful

    that's all we want... the current list of supported x86 hardware is ridiculously small... oh and put some effort into Gnu/Solaris... that project has effectively stagnated for ages now and nothing appears to be happening...

  25. Oh well... I'm not exactly spoilt for choice... on Disney Says, You WILL Watch the Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful
    http://thepiratebay.org/tv

    the more unpleasant they make it, the more people will go to the p2p sites instead... what you want to watch, basically when you want to watch it... and none of the crappy adverts or stupid digital restrictions on how you can watch it...