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  1. IMPORTANT ! Save your bookmarks. IT DELETES!!!!!! on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It deleted all my bookmarks. Does anyone know if i can recover ? This is a bitch to some of us with lots of websites! Damn! Why didn't they warn. I didn't delete the folder either ! Shit.

  2. READ all the posts. Idiot Troll modearator alert. on McCaw's Wireless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Alot posts are being censored. Slashdot is sucking again. Metamoderate All overzealot moderators!!!!!

  3. Troll moderators are censoring today. on McCaw's Wireless ISP Begins Trial Run This Summer · · Score: -1, Troll

    Take the Slashdot filters off and look at all the comments. Slashdot has become speech unfriendly. We need a real alternative .

  4. Open Sourcing java is just more PR . on Sun will Open Java's Source · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do any of you ever ask yourselves why now?

    Do you trust Sun ? They are excellent at manipulating the media.

    Sun is doing this for themselves so they can 'hype' more java news on all the internet news sources(zdnet,cnet,slash) and also pull more people into their language(prosyletize) so that they can cash in.

    Microsoft and Sun both proselytize.

  5. Broadband TV ? An Anachronism. on Sony's 'Cell'-based TV Ready By 2006 · · Score: 1

    Tv is dead . Less people are watching it. Convergence of LARGE high res monitors,computers and consoles and high speed net. Now if Kerry gets elected watch for the 100 megabit cable to your home.

  6. We need a more 'Democratic' system on Cartoon Guide to Federal Spectrum Policy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like a wireless network instead of 'broadcasting' which is outdated. Broadcasting is old school and is a waste of time. We need a public longdistance wifi network.

  7. How many of you think that this was submitted by on RIM Color BlackBerry 7230 Review · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    a company spokesman. No real average human being would have that many links of a product except a company man.

  8. Yahoo news on Superconductors as Electrical Grid Surge Suppressors · · Score: 5, Informative

    says the cause of the blackouts were 3 OHIO transmission lines.

  9. That is a cool art. Something like this is useful on Mirror, Mirror · · Score: 2, Interesting
    for outdoor displays like football stadiums.

    Mirrored display would be ideal for outdoors.

  10. Re:Wow, that's a pretty clueless article on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1
    I like his articles. Most are on track.

    What about the Indian offshoring column ?

    That was damn truthful. Where have you read reasons for that anywhere else ?

  11. Cringley is the BEST journalist on the web on Recommend Apple, Lose Your Job? · · Score: 1

    love his articles. Lots of foresight and sees the core of the problems.

  12. Wake me up on Verizon Rolling Out Nextel-Like PTT Service · · Score: 1

    When Wi-Fi cell phones for 10 dollars a month are available.

  13. What happened to Large Interferometer telescopes?? on Experts Recommend Keeping Hubble Operational · · Score: 1
    I thought that was the next telescopes.

    These kind of scopes are long and slender and rotate and act like a much larger scope .

  14. Here is the Q and A from the site. on OSDL Releases Q&A on SCO Legal Actions · · Score: 1

    Licensed under the Open Software License version 2.0 (available at www.rosenlaw.com/osl2.0.html).

    Q&A re:

    SCO vs. IBM by Lawrence Rosen General Counsel, Open Source Initiative*

    The following questions and answers were prepared by the author at the request of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) as a result of intellectual property issues arising in the wake of SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM. This position paper is intended by the author to calm some of those uncertainties. Filed a few months ago, SCO's lawsuit against IBM has rankled the Linux community and disconcerted its users. Much of the worry is caused by press exaggeration. Not many lawsuits, and certainly not this one, deserve to be called the "trial of the century." SCO vs. IBM should not be over-rated. It is a contract dispute between two companies with deep pockets, both of whom are prepared to send their attorneys into battle to protect their reputations and their economic interests. SCO is seeking lots of money from IBM and IBM refuses to pay. SCO obviously wants to force IBM's hand, and that accounts for at least some of the tactical moves being undertaken by SCO and its allies to stir up fear among Linux customers. IBM has responded with a countersuit, and now Red Hat has entered the fray to defend Linux and the right of the open source community to distribute that operating system to users worldwide. The entire situation must seem very murky to those of you not following it intently. These questions and answers may help you understand what's happening.

    Q: Is this a lawsuit against Linux? A:No. This is a lawsuit by SCO against IBM, with counterclaims by IBM against SCO. SCO claims money damages for breach of confidentiality and the disclosure of its Unix-related trade secret information to the public. IBM and SCO had an agreement to work together on IBM's AIX operating system. SCO alleges that, when IBM changed its business strategy and refocused its efforts on Linux, IBM disclosed SCO's *Attribution Notice: Lawrence Rosen is founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm, with offices in Los Altos Hills and Ukiah, California (www.rosenlaw.com). He serves also as general counsel and secretary of Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org), which reviews and approves open source licenses and educates the public about open source issues. While this paper is
    written by an attorney, you are not my client and I am not intending this to be legal advice. You are
    encouraged to show this article to your attorney and obtain his or her independent advice about how
    to proceed. This paper was written at the request of the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL).
    The content of this paper and the opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and do not
    necessarily represent those of OSDL or its members. Page 2 confidential technical information. That confidential information, they assert, ultimately found its way into Linux. IBM denies all of SCO's material allegations. Recently IBM filed a countersuit against SCO alleging, among other things, that SCO is infringing some IBM patents, a move on IBM's part to put its strategic patent portfolio to defensive use. As this Q&A paper is written, the SCO vs. IBM litigation is still in its early stages. If this were a typical federal civil lawsuit, it would probably continue for 12-18 months and then settle before trial. But this case is such a public event that it may linger for a while before resolving itself at the end with either a defense judgment or with money changing hands. This lawsuit, with its claims and counter-claims, is at heart a legal dispute between those two companies over money. The Linux operating system itself, and its contributors, distributors and users, are not parties to this litigation and cannot be directly affected by it. But the indirect effects are being felt. The real problem for Linux and open source is not the lawsuit itself, but that the SCO vs. IBM case is creating confusion and doubt among Linux users.

  15. Whenever Slash mentions PDA's for $700 dollars... on Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Review · · Score: 3, Funny

    i skip the article. :)

  16. It's still a Nuclear device. on Stimulated Gamma Decay Weapons · · Score: 1

    They mentioned it can be dirty. Doesn't have to be nuclear fission for me to call it Nuclear. I am sure the NORTH KOREANS are reading the same website as well as the USA's favorite job producer China.

  17. Re:Is that liquid cooling ? on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 1

    damnit . your stealing my idea. my riches gone. damn you !

  18. Hollywood uses the Same Old actors on Renegade Reverse Engineering - John Woo Style · · Score: 1

    Ben Afflec,Matt Damon garbage. Can't stand those guys. Wheres J Lo ? God ....I am gonna puke. Don't want to go too offtopic. Not the software Reverse engineering.

  19. Re:Is that liquid cooling ? on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 1

    don't steal my idea !

  20. Re:Direction of intrusion detection is....... on Three Snort Books Reviewed · · Score: 1

    stationary agents

  21. Is that liquid cooling ? on Aquarium Modcase · · Score: 1
    Another idea ....I hope no one steals it...

    Hamster Pc Case !

  22. Re:parallel FPGA supercomputers? on Supercomputers To Move To Specialization? · · Score: 1
    link for you. Hal computer

    I would love these chips to mass produced for desktops.

  23. What happened to superconducting computers? on Supercomputers To Move To Specialization? · · Score: 1
    superconducting supercomputers were all the rage and then havent heard anything new.

    Could someone with knowledge on supercomputers tell me the story here. thanks.

    superconductor computer petaflop

  24. Direction of intrusion detection is....... on Three Snort Books Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Artificial intelligence ?

  25. your boss on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1
    Calling me a dumbass ?????? True.......I am.......

    Your fired !!!!!!!!