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  1. Re:New weapons for protest suppresion on Weapons of War Now Include Lightning Guns · · Score: 4, Interesting
    These freaks who are out there slinging rocks and Molotov cocktails are not protesters, they're thugs.

    those thugs are "agent provocateurs" deliberately planted to give the authorities the opportunity to claim that the protest isn't peacefull. What do think the real fuss is about over that server seizure then??? the servers were hosting photos of undercover policemen... evidence of the agent provocatuer policy

    Then, on Oct. 1, the FBI paid a visit to an Indymedia representative in Seattle on behalf of the Swiss government. The Swiss were upset that IMC had published pictures of undercover agents posing as anti-globalization protesters.
  2. Re:Same old RMS on Stallman Claims Linux Trademark Doesn't Matter · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Let's talk about the elephant in the room. on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't fscking believe this... the original poster (an obvious troll post if ever there is such a thing) gets modded +5 insightfull, and I get modded into oblivion for telling him just what his options are... which are a damn sight more than he would have with Adobe Photoshop for starters... which are, if you don't like it, tough... or if you find problems with it, yeah, just shell out $xx for the next version which has the fix

  4. Re:Let's talk about the elephant in the room. on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    I've got bad news for you...

    1) I'm a professional software developer... (software systems analyst by profession)

    2) I'm an arrogant prick... (it helps in getting MY way in a project)

    and

    3) some people HAVE got off their butts and forked their own version of the GIMP...

    Now get the fsck off my back

  5. Re:Let's talk about the elephant in the room. on Usability Eye for The GIMP Guy · · Score: -1
    PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR AN MDI GUI ALL IN ONE WINDOW.

    erm... you have access to the source code... if you don't like what it does, then make your own fork... until then, quit yer whingeing.

  6. Re:Virus proliferation on The End of Signature-Based Antivirus Software? · · Score: 0
    Average Joe doesn't see why they should have to pay to keep their AV software updated. ("I paid $XXX for this machine, and they want more? Heck no.")

    Understandable. $30 was a lot of money in ancient Roman times.

    yeah, $30 buys a lot of blank CDR's

  7. My God... on Terabyte DVD Recorder Available Next Month · · Score: -1, Redundant
    it's full of stars...

    never mind that... just think how much pr0n you can get in it using xvid... you'd never emerge from your basement ;)

  8. Re:Got off today on AOL Fined for Making it Hard to Cancel Service · · Score: 0

    I changed bank accounts to get away from them...

  9. Call me back when it can also... on House-Sitting Robot Hits Store Shelves in Japan · · Score: 1
    Water the plants, feed the fish, cats/dogs... walk said dogs and deal with the poop... open and close the curtains during the day and switch radio/tv/room lights on/off to simulate occupancy...

    until then, it's just a glorified burglar alarm...

  10. Re:Beer + Keyboard on 10 Computer Mishaps · · Score: 4, Funny
    add an electrified ally foil layer on top of that... that'll teach him...

    ps. a roommate of mine (long time ago) used to p in the sink cos the John was way down the corridor, and one night, took a wrong turn and p'd in the back of the telly instead... woke him up...

  11. Re:The trouble with 'free' on Linux Trademark Fun Continues · · Score: 1
    Note that software licensing and trademark licensing are two completely different things. For example, if you make a Linux Distro and name it "T-Linux", I'm sure you'll get trouble with the Deutsche Telekom, depite them not being involved with Linux code at all: AFAIK they have a trademark on the initial "T-" part (T-Online, T-Mobile, ...)

    heaven help you if you start up a support business called "Linux'R'Us"... you'll have Linus and Toys'R'Us(TM) on your back

  12. will the media barons buy in??? on Sun Spearheads Open DRM · · Score: 1

    especially considering that the project is open source and any savvy user can simply comment out vast chunks of code to kid the client program that the user is authorised to view the content...

  13. Where's the Linux and OSX versions then??? on Google Releases GDS 2.0 · · Score: 1

    come on Google... get it together for us... not to mention the fact that you're also ignoring a large chunk of windows users who're perfectly happy with 98SE or horror of horrors NT (yup, that's what I've got at work)

  14. Will the media companies buy in? on Sun Spearheads Open DRM · · Score: 1

    with it being an open source item, I'm thinking that the media companies won't want to use it as savvy users could just comment out any real calls to rights management thus kidding the program that the user is authorised to view the media or whatever.

  15. I hate websites that on A Podcast from Network Administrators · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    don't resize to fit the browser window... their site is ridiculously wide

  16. Re:TFA on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 1
    And if the submitter of the story had taken the trouble to read it, he might have noticed that nearly every link supplied points at Microsoft. Even the link supposedly referring to OpenOffice.org points at a Microsoft propaganda article.

    I think you'll find the submitter of the story knew exactly what he/she was doing... all part of the astroturf campaign...

  17. Re:Microsoft in schools on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 4, Interesting
    You thinking having to give away for free, that which could have got your monopoly a shitload of revenue, lack of punishment?

    it is a lack of punishment when Bill Gates himself has said this about piracy "... about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

    It's pretty obvious he wants to get the schools and pupils addicted on this free software

  18. Re:Necessary Evil on Windows User Experiments With Linux for 10 Days · · Score: 2, Funny
    if you are truly serious about pr0n then you should know that it's not the size of the file, it's what's done in it. You may be happy with your cheap shots but the real quality is in the full-length mpegs.

    we bow to your obvious experience of the genre...

  19. A corporation... on Is Your Boss a Psychopath? · · Score: 1

    would score very highly on this test... just the corporation itself... not the execs

  20. Re:Lesson 1: Proof read on Australian Linux Trademark Holds Water · · Score: 1
    It's an Inquirer "in the know" joke.

    yes... far nicer than the wintroll "open sores" one...

  21. Re:No, that's not how it works - here's why... on V For Vendetta Delayed until March 2006 · · Score: 1
    I think he's pretty much given up on Hollywood now.

    funny that... he takes their money though and lets them butcher his work... If he really cared, he would refuse to sell the rights.

  22. Re:No, but... on Death of Cookies, Spyware Greatly Exaggerated? · · Score: 2, Informative
    and, above all, i want to be able to maintain sessions on a lot of sites. increasintly, if you don't have cookies, holding a session is impossible (unique id's on the getline are going the way of the dodo) and, increasingly, sites want you to maintain sessions to do anything useful.

    well... durr... that's what session cookies are for... doesn't ie support them then??? who really cares, Konq and Firefox do... and that means I'm happy ;)

  23. Re:Key invent on Japanese Researchers Develop Sensor Skin · · Score: 1
    To be useful, covering the whole body would require millions of sensors, and somewhat impractical to implement and process.

    bollocks... ever hear of neural nets??? what the heck do you think we use in our own bodies then??? I would envisage each net handling a square centimetre or so of pseudo skin and overlapping with other nearby nets before passing the results on to higher nets that handle whole limbs, etc...

  24. Re:warrant only? on FCC Wants to Track Wireless · · Score: 1

    They don't bother with competent judges... they have plenty of pet ones on the payroll...

  25. Re:Go visit Africa on Warming Up Mars With Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 1
    Sure, given an offspring of an individual rich folk and an offspring of a poor folk, the poor folk is likely to have a shorter life.

    But their reproductive potential is absolutely *huge*.

    The future gene pool of the human race 'resides' in the slums and ghettos of the world.

    oh shit... the ghost of Eugenics still lives... with reaasoning like that, the slippery slope to mass sterilisation & death camps for the undesireables is just a few bills away...