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  1. Re:make it opt-in for states on Amazon Pushes For National Internet Sales Tax · · Score: 0

    Except for walmart.com purchases of course.

  2. Re:They are in default on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 0

    Think you need to take off your tin foil hat there sir. You're attempting to teach something through beer goggles.

  3. Re:They are in default on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 0

    Actually, the US Government does not print its money. Might want to check out who actually owns/is the US Federal Reserve. Hint, the term Federal doesn't have anything to do with the US Government beyond a few regulatory policies from Congress.

  4. Re:So, to clarify... on Firesheep Countermeasure Tool BlackSheep · · Score: 0

    Log out. Sites that do proper coding should "terminate" the session anyway. Or at least empty the information on their end so that the session ID is no longer useful.

  5. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 0

    A citizen can get their US citizenship without learning English. The US doesn't have a primary language other than English for laws. There is no requirement to know English.

  6. Re:ActiveDirectory - the last missing piece on Linux To Take Over Microsoft In Enterprises · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If your 3 engineers study rocket science, then sure! Any group of programmers could replicate AD, just like another group of programmers did when they built AD. The group that built AD were unspecialized in AD, were they not?

  7. Re:If you've nothing to hide... on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 0

    What's funny/ridiculous about Maryland doing this is that in Maryland many police cars have video cameras installed in them to record traffic stops (and other police activity). The police do not find it necessary to inform those they pull over that they are being videotaped. The justification for that is that those being pulled over do not have an expectation of privacy when they are on the public roadways. Yet in this and several other cases, prosecutors (and police officers) assert that the police have an expectation of privacy when conducting their duty (in some cases the very same traffic stops that they would contend the ordinary citizen would have no expectation of privacy if the officer had a video camera in his car).

    Except for apparently, from what I gathered from other sources, he is being charged with the audio, not video recording of the incident as it is illegal in Maryland to audibly record someone without their consent.

  8. Re:Shipping hydrogen on New Way to Make Hydrogen · · Score: 0

    I see 4 domes... 2 sets of tits!! :D

  9. Re:Another Michael Robertson project on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 0

    For example sipphone charges 4.8 cents to france, 6 cents to New Zealand and four cents to germany That's what I was refering to. I am a skype user, have been for a while and probably won't change. Project Gizmo is "powered by" sipphone according to their website.

  10. Re:Another Michael Robertson project on Project Gizmo Challenges Skype · · Score: 0

    I think I am missing something...

    Europe Land | Mobile
    United Kingdom 0.029 | 0.286
    France 0.049 | 0.263
    Germany 0.029 | 0.271
    http://www.gizmoproject.com/call-out-rates.php

  11. Target Corporation + Win NT4 on End Of Support for Windows NT 4.0 · · Score: 0

    Well, most of Target's workstations (and some kiosks) run NT4, looks like they'll need to upgrade.

  12. Re:Recent FreeBSD switcher on OpenBSD 3.6 Released! · · Score: 0

    Yes you can mount the ext2 partitions. However, you will need an UFS partition to install FreeBSD to.

  13. Am I the only one? on Cell Phones Becoming Profitless · · Score: 0
    Am I the only one who wants a phone to do 1 thing, be a phone? If I want a camera, I'll buy a camera. If I want a GPS unit, I'll buy a GPS unit. If I want an MP3 player, I'll buy an MP3 player. I just want a phone to be a phone, not all that in 1. I mean, are phones supposed to be toys? Am I the only one that gets annoying city in a busy airport terminal and having to listen to the guy next to you with his phone playing games and leaving the sound on? What happened to just having good ole' cell phones. Pardon me, just give me a plain cell phone from the early 90's.. I'll be happy.

    Sorry if this is flaimbait or anything, just my views.

  14. Re:My Yahoo Plus account... on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 0

    It looks great for me... I'm running Opera. Only thing is, I keep getting connection closed from remote server.

  15. Re:Good choice, Linus! on Linus Torvalds Moving to the Silicon Forest · · Score: 0

    Wow... that's a long festival. :) Man, I got to go one time lol

  16. Re:So fines on a know monopoly become taxes... on Microsoft Blames Anti-trust Legal Fees for Price Increases · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Regardless, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RUN THEIR PRODUCTS ON YOUR PC. No one does.
    Walk into any computer store and try to buy a non-Windows PC. I've tried it at MicroCenter, CompUSA, and Fry's. Fry's offered a Yellow Dog distro system that was a Celeron 1.2ghz system. That was it. Granted they have an alternative, not only is it using older technology, but it's using a Chinese Distro with it's default language of Simplistic Chinese selected. MicroCenter's Sales Associates told me the reason they don't offer Linux is "Everyone wants Windows, and Windows is the best." -- I asked them to tell me why it's the best "Because it is more stable, it can run for over a week." I laughed at them for that. CompUSA refused to answer, they just tried to influence me into a Windows box... I told them I know enough about computers to not run a Windows infested machine that the minute I hook it to the net I'll have viruses, worms, and trojans.. before I have the chance to update.

    Public. Linux + StarOffice - Get real. The configuration woes of setting up Linux are what us geeks when through in our DOS and Win3x days. Do you think anyone wants to do that now? Run Mandrake, or Fedora. It'll install everything clean and simple. Although the higher end Linux users detest running those simplistic distros once you get the feel of the Operator system, they are great. Hell if you want really easy to use, use Lindo--Linspire.. (*ducks from flying fists*).

    The fact is, Microsoft is passing the fines to us because they have a monopoly. You said it yourself. With only having Windows boxes in computer stores, there is no alternative. I've been asked if I run Windows at home by a few general computer users, I said no, they asked if I had a mac, I said no... they asked what I run. I told them Debian Linux... they asked what Linux was. That's the problem. Microsoft is hiding it's competition (which can be good or bad depending on your view).

  17. Re:More Power To Them on Microsoft's New Core OS Team Learning from Linux · · Score: 0

    How can you say FreeBSD is dead? Where do you have the proof on this? All the other *BSDs may be dieing slowly, but FreeBSD is only growing.

  18. Winamp link broken too on Winamp 2 + Winamp 3 = Winamp 5! · · Score: 0

    http://download.nullsoft.com/winamp/client/winamp5 0_full.exe returns this: Not Found The requested URL /winamp/client/winamp50_full.exe was not found on this server.

  19. Re:It is Official on NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN Adds XDarwin Support · · Score: 0

    Wait wait wait wait... I wait for BSD news? What are you on? What makes you think I wait for any news at all? What if this news just happened to be up when I checked /.? How do you know I don't also read Linux news, Windows news, etc? Stop making acusations about people unless you know they're true.

  20. Re:It is Official on NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN Adds XDarwin Support · · Score: 0

    "Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house."

    Really? I never thought FreeBSD was bought out, since it seems to be running completely seperate from BSDi, check your facts and grow up. It doesn't matter if there are 500,000 users, or 50,000 users. People who like BSD will use BSD, people who like Windows will run Windows, people who like Linux will run Linux. So end that bullshit and move on. BSD is not dead, and will never be dead.

  21. Re:Too late, it's already done! on Debian Can Now Amend Social Contract, DFSG · · Score: 0

    1.1 is actually released.

  22. Re:No wonder there are such abuses on Can You Sue Over Loss of Personal Information? · · Score: -1

    But this way, it's still shredded.

  23. Bah on Windows 2003 takes 5% away from Linux · · Score: 0

    Why would you jump ship?

    First off, I chose to run Linux and FreeBSD because I enjoy choice, not because it exists to dissolve Microsoft. If people want to run Microsoft's Windows, that's fine, it's their choice. I run Linux and FreeBSD because I enjoy many choices.

  24. Post it here on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Me as well as other slashdotters will send you some of ours. We don't want it (I hope).

  25. Re:Will.. on More Linux Activity in German Government · · Score: 0

    More like Tyrannical Captialism for Microsoft.