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  1. Re:She? on What Lies Ahead For Linux · · Score: 1, Funny

    An Anonymous Coward in real life too huh. Don't get out much perhaps?

  2. Re:WHY! WON'T! IT! DIE! on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1

    That would be Apple Basic, written by Woz for the Apple 1/][

  3. Re:An interesting take on the GPL on KDE Conquers Astrophysics With Kst · · Score: 2, Informative

    "THEY" are whomever "YOU" are dealing with. It may be the "U." if they are the "THEY" that wishes to keep the ownership and anything related to the project, or perhaps "THEY" refers to the sponsor if technically "YOU" are working for "THEY" through the "U." In short "THEY" is whomever is asking you to sign the "NDA."

  4. Re:An interesting take on the GPL on KDE Conquers Astrophysics With Kst · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because without it, your not doing the research. Essentially its because they said so, you can take it or leave it.

  5. Re:The Price of DMCA Compliance on Turbolinux Licenses Windows Media 9 · · Score: 1

    So remove the offending parts. Whitebox does the same thing for RHEL, which also is not a free product, can not be distibuted as is, but still contains GPL code.

  6. Re:I can make up facts too! on Linux Desktop Summit 2004 Review · · Score: 1

    has 73.2% better interoperopenfunkability
    I don't know about that. I'm having problems getting my Slack to do anything funky, yet Windows seems to be full of funk. Just run it for a while and it seems to get funky every day.

    As for pine, I prefer X based mail readers.

  7. Re:the GPL itself isn't free to modify on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 1

    The GPL, documentation, and eventually all software under the GPL will be like that. To use a cliche, its "Free as in RMS."

    I have nothing but the utmost respect for the GNU teams software, but RMS lives in a dream world, and in this dream world he is king, he dictates to all his little plebs how things are done, no matter how brain dead, silly, or hypocritical they are.

    Now the GPL not being modifiable is probably a good thing for legal reasons, but look at everything else he touches. His lectures can only be copied verbatim, no excerpts. Documentation is NOT FREE. Documentation is far more important then the app, but its not free. He and the FSF like to control things, they want to be in a position to 'kill' your project if it doesn't fit with their vision of things. Just look at how every time some project that has become popular is handled, they release some statement whether its 'compatible' with the GPL, read "does it subscribe to our beliefs." Why? So that all their little plebs will cry from the rooftops its evils. In a recent example, it even got everyone excited in a FSF project that was going against an established defacto standard, XFree.

    RMS is preaching a religion, and he's got a large following that will never question the "great and wise" RMS.

  8. Re:D Robbins on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    I was saying Gentoo is a collection of scripts, where LFS is a lot more hands on. I really am terrible at explaining things. I would also go out on a limb and say the people that just drool on themselves when it doesn't work are in the minority of LFS users. Not that *all* users of Gentoo drool on themselves, but i suppose thats a whole other conversation.

  9. Re:D Robbins on Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect · · Score: 1

    LFS Doesn't just make you run some scripts, and more often then you'd think, it just doesn't work they way its supposed to. If your going to be administering a Linux system, you learn a lot more then just how to type ./configure && make && make install. On top of that, the first time it doesn't work, its best to ask why, and then you'll know next time.

    Now I'm sure that its a slight over simplification of Gentoo to simply describe it as some scripts, but there is still a lot more to LFS

    Oh, and you will learn more from LFS then just running Slackware. At least I did, went back to Slack at 8, then when 9 was released, wiped it, installed the kernel, some libraries, glibc and gcc then used LFS as a guide to the rest. Learned a lot more doing that then just running the packaged Slack 8.

  10. Re:Er... on U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 1

    So they just picked you up because... why? They liked your shoes? I bet you had to provide an alibi or in some way prove you were indeed innocent.

  11. Re:Er... on U.S. Considering Ratifying Cybercrime Treaty · · Score: 0

    Innocent until proven guilty is a joke anyway. When cops pick you up to question you about some crime, they already assume you had something to do with it, or know something, you have to prove you don't, that your completely innocent as regards whatever they're investigating.

    I can't help but laugh at people who think their civil liberties have been broken and the like, as if they actually had any to begin with. Land of the free indeed.

  12. Re:Not a good effort. on Operation FastLink Yields Three Arrests · · Score: 1

    It amounts to the same thing in general, in both cases you have no right to the end product. The punishments are not vastly different either, its not like someone's going to be charged with a capital crime just because someone said 'Trafficking Stolen Goods' as opposed to 'Illegal Trafficking of Copyrighted Material.'

    I have this feeling that if someone pirated some software that someone here on Slashdot was using to support themselves, they'd be just as gung-ho about prosecuting them.

  13. Re:IINAL on WormRadar Node Volunteers Help Graph Attacks · · Score: 1

    Its not interception, the worm was randomly scanning for vulnerable systems, one was provided.

    If this thing was used a man in the middle approach, that would be interception, but a writer of a worm is going to have a hard time defending it.

  14. Re:Other platforms on WormRadar Node Volunteers Help Graph Attacks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Better tell the people at honeyd. They seem to think you can emulate the TCP/IP stack of other OS's, and use scripts to fool the app or person on the other end to run an entire honeynet of composed of several different "OS's" on one system.On top of that, you do not need a vulnerable system, nor allow your box to become compromised in order to attract a worm that will attempt to propagate. If you wanna see how it tries to locally, you analyze the actual code, if you want to see how it affects the network, or detect that something odd is occurring, thats what the honeypot is for.

  15. Re:First Post? on BIND 9.3 Released With Commercial Support · · Score: 4, Informative

    Your going to need to learn how to read first. Bind for Windows NT/2000 binary and source, just a little down the page.

  16. Re:PC has met motherboards on VIA Announces Lead-Free Motherboard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Miniscule traces perhaps, but miniscule traces from hundreds of thousands of components is a whole hell of a lot. Besides, I'm sure the plants that produces these parts are a lot cleaner, environmentally.

    So quit your whining, cleaner components are good, whether your talking traces or massive amounts. For everything that happens there's always someone whining about it.

  17. Re:Call them "Evil Doers" next... on Operation Fastlink Cracks Down on Warez · · Score: 4, Insightful

    syndicates: n
    An association of people or firms authorized to undertake a duty or transact specific business.
    An association of people or firms formed to engage in an enterprise or promote a common interest.
    A loose affiliation of gangsters in control of organized criminal activities.
    An agency that sells articles, features, or photographs for publication in a number of newspapers or periodicals simultaneously.
    A company consisting of a number of separate newspapers; a newspaper chain.
    The office, position, or jurisdiction of a syndic or body of syndics.

    So yes the term is used correctly. As far as the rest of your post, are you somehow implying that these groups have done no wrong? Copyright is a matter of Law so I fail to see how having law enforcement deal with it is "The feds are just taking care of their corporate masters."

    These people were breaking the law, they knew it, and they got what was coming to them. Don't make it sound like they are some sort of folk hero 'sticking it to the man' when they're nothing but petty little criminals.

  18. Re:So what you're saying is... on Running Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1

    Really? Because I've never had to rebuild the Windows kernel for a new release.

  19. Re:Conspiracy 2.0 on Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I see nothing wrong with that statement. If you read it objectivly, you know with out the assumsion MS is the devil, you see it plainly states *abuse* of the legal system. For instance, I install bad hardware, XP blue screens every 5 min because of it, the hardware is tested, I know its bad, I try and Sue MS for something or other, THATS abuse.

    On the otherhand if MS reads my data for fun, and I sue MS, thats a valid claim, thats not abusing the system.

    Perhaps the statement needs to be written, "User agrees to not be a dick and blame MS for everything and try to profit from their own stupidity." Is that clear enough for you?

  20. Re:WebCrawler on NeXTStep - before Open Source on WebCrawler Turns 10 Today · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ya its off topic, but while the topic is historical search engines, keyword being *historical* you do know that RMS didn't invent or create OSS or free software right? He just put a mouth in front of it and got a lot of grants for it. So with the NeXT being around late 80's early 90's, and the GNU project starting in '84, I'd feel the need to point out that it was not before OSS.

    And I did feel the need, so I did.

    Yes the GNU project has made some great software, but don't believe or construe history to make it seem like RMS is some kind of visionary or saint.

  21. Re:Or... on Hackers: Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    This really shouldn't be modded down so far. It is unfortuanatly true. Women in a technicall field will have a higher chance of being promoted, to a point of course, because too many feel the need to give the apperence of being an open, politically correct environment.

    Its too bad too, it only hurts everyone, anyone sees a woman bing promoted and its always assumed its only because shes a woman or she earned it on her back, and on the other hand it gives fuel to the argument that all men are pigs.

    It would be nice if abilty was the only qualifying factor, but I dont see that happening any time soon.

  22. Re:coding beats making burgers on Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT Worker? · · Score: 1

    Its not exactly the hardest either. Its not rocket science, and yet to a number of programmers only 100k/yr or more is fair. Geez, the bubble popped, live in the real world.

    Ya the original idea of 1000/month is not enough to live on in most places in the western world, but in all seriousness Americans need to quash that pig headed attitude that just because their Americans they're owed something. Programming, except in very extreem circumstances, is not worth anywhere near 100k/yr, and yes, I mean before taxes.

  23. Re:Will more threads prop up Sun's performance? on Is Sun's Niagara Server Viagra? · · Score: 3, Informative

    What part of hyperthreading and "both Intel and IBM are working on other highly parallel processors and AMD is expected to eventually introduce a dual-core Opteron." says to you that "Intel or IBM are not going into that direction that far."

    It might be just the way I'm reading it but the only difference is that Intel started small (hyperthreading) and still currently rely on several physical processors. IBM's Power already has multiple cores, and this isn't the first time a dual core Opteron was mentioned.

    It seems to me that in a manner of speaking Sun is just currently ahead of the pack. Ultra4 is already a dual core, and with the way Solaris handles multiple threads and multiple processors, I doubt its much of a leap to have it perform very well with an 8 core module. They saw that Ultra4 did what it was expected, Solaris worked well, and took the next step and said how far can we take this. I doubt that at the very least Power wont have 4 or 8 cores itself in the future.

    I don't see that too many changes would have to be made to Solaris to make some very good use of this processor, so this could be a very good thing for Sun. Just think of apps that are licensed per-processor, and now you have one that you have to pay for that can do the work that several were doing before.

  24. Re:The real news .. on Apple Announces New Pro Software · · Score: 1

    I would doubt it. XRAID with Xserve do work out cheaper then comparable offerings of storage from HP, IBM, Sun et al, until you actually compare them. XRAID is cheaper because it uses ATA drives, it breaks them up across several channels, but its still just ATA, whereas the rest are at least SCSI360, often however a Fiber channel array. Comparatively then, its cheaper because its not going to be moving the same amount of data in the same amount of time. On top of that Apples products aren't going to be even considered for the types of jobs that actually warrant a SAN, they're new to the whole game, and lets face it, the fast majority of people consider Apples to be toys, or only for graphic artists. Hell it surprises them that a Mac can actually play games.

  25. Re:I love Futurama, and I don't want it back on Futurama: Can it be True!? · · Score: 1

    They are super-cool awesome writers, but that doesn't mean they think ahead.

    And yes they changed what happened, I just saw the pilot again. Later when the professor invented the What-If machine, and Fry didn't fall into the thingy there was still no nibbler.