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  1. Re:some problems. on New Free Open Source Enterprise Magazine · · Score: 1

    Most people, even non-techies know what FUD is. Especially if they buy technology for Fortune 500 companies. But all in all, I see this thing folding up in 5... 4... 3... 2... Now.

  2. How Websites Make Money on How The 360 Works · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wonder if How Things Work got paid for that?

  3. Microsoft forfeited their "rights". on Microsoft Proposes RSS Extension · · Score: 1
    Well, it may be a valid question: Are there behaviors that would qualify for reason that Microsoft had forfeited their "rights"? Microsoft is not and will never be a friend of anything "open", so are we obligated to play with them at all? If someone hurts you over and over again, maybe they no longer have equal rights? Equal rights to continue hurting you, perhaps?

    Let the fox in the hen house because to keep them out would be "discrimination"? Get real.

  4. Entertainment value only... on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 0, Troll
    They really had no idea who they were dealing with.

    Two washed up has-beens that no one pays much attention to? These two nutters are for entertainment value only.

  5. Are you for real? on Obtaining Multi-Tier Application Logs for Reseach? · · Score: 0

    If you are from a "large university", how come you can find any big app log files right on campas? Most "large universities" have plenty of "n-tier web-applications". Me thinks your request smells bad.

  6. Re:Let's jump the gun because we're researchers on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 1
    Something like that.

    Thing is, you can bet that the beta will be sort of like the final, you know? Similar? Basically the same with a little more polish?

    That's why the report might be worth looking into.

  7. Re:Let's jump the gun because we're researchers on Ignore Vista Until 2008 · · Score: 2, Informative

    It is possible that they have, you know, evaluated the beta? Huh?

  8. Re:Slashdot's Open Source DUPE systems. on Dell's Open Source Desktop Systems · · Score: 1

    Yes, but for some reason everything XYZ submits is posted up. They must have some sort of deal with ./maybe Roland got a job with them? But seriously, I don't understand why any of the XYZ stories make the grade. They are generally poorly written, and the web site is just layered with huge numbers of ads.

  9. Re:Actually... on End Of Days Compensation Packages? · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Learn the difference!

    There's an ice pick in my eyeball.
    They're going to shove that ice pick in my eyeball.
    Their pockets are full of eyeballs.

  10. Re:What's a Vint Cerf? on Vint Cerf Speaking Out on Internet Neutrality · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So basically, like RMS, he's a "has been" icon who no one really listens to?

  11. Re:The press release is dated 24/8/2005 ... on Chinese Eco-Cities · · Score: 1

    Well you know... Don't like, go someplace else... That sort of thing.

  12. Re:Who cares? on DNA and Online Search Finds Birth Parent · · Score: 1

    ...and the Terrorists Have Won (tm).

  13. Who cares? on DNA and Online Search Finds Birth Parent · · Score: 1
    Naturally, it might depend on the particulars, but all said, finding out that you're adopted is often traumatic for kids. If you found that dad was only after beer money and never gave you a second thought, it wouldn't exactly help you cope with that. It might hurt some more than others, but I just can't see it helping anyone.

    Come on! This was donated sperm, no adoptions took place, and who's to say what the doner spent the fee on? The beer suggestion was just speculation. Maybe the doner spent it on rent, a CD, dinner, any number of things.

  14. Re:I suspect you are full of shit. on When "Lifetime Warranty" Memory... Isn't · · Score: 1

    I understand that. Is his name supposed to mean anything? A company people might know about? Something like that? A boiler-room realestate guy? Someone from Nigeria or Florida?

  15. Re:I suspect you are full of shit. on When "Lifetime Warranty" Memory... Isn't · · Score: 1

    Who is George Gillespie?

  16. Re:Expected Reaction to Slashdot Story on Infinium Labs in Trouble Again · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't understand it either. If it's supposed to be funny, than it's not very.

  17. Re:I suspect you are full of shit. on When "Lifetime Warranty" Memory... Isn't · · Score: 1

    Guess you shouldn't have let some shady company soak you for $14k, eh?

  18. I suspect you are full of shit. on When "Lifetime Warranty" Memory... Isn't · · Score: 2

    I suspect you are full of shit. Besides that I have never heard of a small-claims court with a limit as high as $14,000, it just defies any reality that no agency at all would be interested. I'm saying you are full of shit.

  19. Re:credit card info? on Identity Theft-What Can Really be Done w/o a SSN? · · Score: 1

    I use my wife's CC card (which has her picture on it!) to pick up her perscriptions all the time. These include Vicodin and some other hot street pills...

  20. Re:Don't on Film to X-rays? · · Score: 1

    And anyway, if he has the damn xrays, just take them to the second doc to look at. It's not like having a second doc look at them destroys the things.

  21. Re:Are they his xrays? on Film to X-rays? · · Score: 1
    I agree with this: They are yours. Keep them.

    Doctors want you to think these things belong to them for purely selfish reasons: If they keep them, they force you to return to them alone for service. Think of your last eye prescription, did they write it down and give it to you? No? Well, they too will try to tell you that you can't have it. Hog wash.

    Take what little control over your over-priced health care that you can. Check out your records and keep them. At the very least, make copies.

  22. Like a JUNKIE on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows · · Score: 3, Informative
    Are customers asking for this?

    No. And, I don't think, as I'm sure will be said here, that it has anything at all to do with Google. It has to do with Microsoft wanting to figure out a way to develop an bottomless income stream. For example, many people where quite happy with Windows 95 untill they where forced to upgrade. Many people saw no particular reason to migrate from Windows 2000, untill they where forced. Many companies have built very expensive internal server applications around NT and Windows 2000 Server, but soon, they will be forced to upgrade. Over many of these platforms, people have stuck with Office 95 or Office 2000, because they sill functioned on the platforms and did what the users needed, not reason to upgrade. Microsoft sees revenue here, basically locking users into forced upgrades because once you buy into Subscription Office, you have to keep paying like a junkie if you want to access your documents.

  23. Go for it, Microsoft... on MS To Launch Internet Versions of Office And Windows · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Why would anyone PAY for something they can't have? And what happens to those Word docs when your subscription runs out? Read only and no copy/paste?

    All I can say is "Microsoft, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE 'bet the farm' on this".

  24. Re:Oh yeah baby... on Bill Gates Donates $258 Million to Fight Malaria · · Score: 1

    I think you should re-read the post you replied to...

  25. As compared to the one with the alert box? on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How about a root-kit with a pop-up: "Do you want to install this Root Kit? Yes / No"

    I'll bet that there are a lot of people that would just click on through for what ever the carrot is, screen savers, free porn, or whatever...