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  1. Re:In other news on SCO Complaint Filed -- Including Code Samples · · Score: 0

    which is exactly what he's saying: they have no case

  2. best gift possible on What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day? · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    i think this one will fit your budget too. more info here

  3. something valuable on What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day? · · Score: 0
    contentment

    were it possible to give, it would be a great gift indeed. priceless in both senses

  4. Re:Clarify on The Law of Disassembly · · Score: 0

    also, there are bits of uranium in the coal used in coal plants. The amount of radation near a coal plant is greater than the amount of radiation near a nuclear power plant

  5. Re:patching a Linux kernel? on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 0
    Why would you patch a Linux kernal for a BSD problem?

    to exploit it.

  6. Re:A possible alternative - Delphi? on MySQL: Building User Interfaces · · Score: 0
    Delphi has a very mature IDE (developer interface)

    you mean a text editor? Linux has a lot of mature "IDE's" like vi or emacs or joe

  7. the point on SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code · · Score: 0

    there is a point where you start ignoring stuff like this.
    ....unless you want to ad a humor section :)

  8. high on MIDI Keyboard/Computer: Neko64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    These guys truly Get It.
    and the reason nobody else got it or will get it is the price.

  9. heh on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 0
    Natalie Portman? in your dreams!!!

    oh wait, hold on...

  10. heh, overemphasized on Bleak Future for Videogame Customers · · Score: 0

    if that were really going to happen, gamers would stop buying the restrictive systems. no sharing games w/friends? ha! like that's ever gonna happen. nobody would buy something like that

  11. Re:IPO is a red herring on SCO Approaches Google About Linux Licenses · · Score: 0
    14 million is not worth a sneeze
    ahhh-choo!

    i will be contacting you shortly

  12. sharing drm on Sir Mix-A-Lot Using Weed To Distribute Music · · Score: 0

    what were they smoking?
    just can't put my finger on it...

  13. Re:Can't we just let the economics sort this out? on The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware · · Score: 0
    but how about say, not letting files download onto your local disk and set up with executable permissions? You'd think that maybe a modern OS would have some kind of setting to disable this kind of thing?

    if linux is modern, then yes, a modern OS does have that setting.

  14. hats off to "solutions" on The Battle Against Junk Mail and Spyware · · Score: 0

    how will you shoot these spammers? bullet over ip?

  15. Re:You've got spam??!? on You've Got Spam: AOL Blocks 1/2 Trillion Spam · · Score: 0
    yeah. i run a mail server off of a residential cable connection, and they won't let me send e-mail to a friend because my server has a dynamic ip.

    spam indeed

  16. this was in a movie on Grand Theft Auto Ban To Be Decided By Courts · · Score: 0

    ever see "Bowling for Coumbine"?

  17. reduce, reuse,... on Knock, Knock: Information Pollution Is Here · · Score: 0

    recycle!!!

  18. and vice versa... on Proper Disposal Of Old PCs? · · Score: 0
    You could give your old systems away to schools and such.

    The last school I went to gave my brother a 100mhz Pentium w/ a 2.2gig drive. of course, he runs windows and didn't want it. it's now my mail server, running linux.
    if you have broadband, this is a great way to use a junker.

  19. net-security.org on Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 · · Score: 1, Insightful
    netcraft record

    it says: The site www.net-security.org is running Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3 on Linux.

  20. patching on Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    what's the big deal? you have to restart a Windows server every week anyway.

  21. MOD PARENT UP on Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers · · Score: 0

    MOD PARENT UP that comment was freaking amazing

  22. BMW? on If Microsoft Built Cars... · · Score: 0

    aren't they German? if Microsoft got to the practical Germans.... RUN!!!

  23. Re:watching games might not be so popular. on Documentary about Professional Gaming · · Score: 0
    Try entering a high-profile competition in... StarCraft.... without having YEARS of experience in first-person shooters

    dude, starcraft is a strategy game.

  24. os on Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd · · Score: 0

    The machine will likely run on Linux.
    errr.... or maybe it's the other way around

  25. Re:Ask slashdot.. on Rules for Teenage Internet Access? · · Score: 0

    I think it's just plain silly to ask a bunch of nerds and geeks like me about how to raise your kid.
    let's say the kids in question are all geeky, then would you call it even?