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  1. Re:Spam is very simple to fix. on Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet · · Score: 2, Interesting
    For emails from friends I'd never hit the button. For spams I would.
    Yeah, but some people would just make everyone pay. I'm sure it's a supportline operators dream. It may not pay much, but it would definitely recoup some expenses. The minute there's a possibility that I'll have to pay for every e-mail I send is the day I stop sending them.
  2. Re:More useful than you think on Five Free Calculus Textbooks · · Score: 3, Informative

    While I agree that few people will ever go back to remember how to find a derivative, those calc books often have very useful tables of Trig identities and formulas for integrating certain functions. You may be a human computer, but I sometimes need to go back and check.

  3. Re:SCO Success? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 1

    Bigger as in a name most people would recognize. The Daimler-Chrysler announcement was the type of thing I was expecting.

  4. IBM's memos... on Judge Orders SCO, IBM To Produce Disputed Code · · Score: 5, Informative
    I've just read what ZDnet had to say. From article:
    She ordered IBM to produce memos from IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano and from Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a top Linux executive.
    Does anyone know what these memos are supposed to be about or is SCO just grasping at straws?
  5. Re:SCO Success? on SCO Names 1st Lawsuit Target: AutoZone [Updated] · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe, but when SCO said the company would be recognizeable I was thinking it would be someone bigger. Will the name "Autozone" be enough to turn corporate heads?

  6. Re:What they did on EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers · · Score: 0, Redundant

    CYA: Cover Your Ass.

  7. Re:Exciting on India Becoming a Major Hub for Western Job Seekers · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'd wager it's much more than 2/3. The US makes up nowhere near 1/3 of the world population.

  8. Re:Finally! on Today's Windows Virus - MyDoom / Novarg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not quite. This virus contains SCO IP. The DDOS is actually infected host sending credit card info to pay SCO $699 for the license.

  9. Re:Hopefully he's not on Bill Gates to be Knighted · · Score: 1

    You can be knighted, you just need the governments permission. The problem with Black was that he and Chretien weren't on good terms. No Permission, No Title.

  10. Re:Obligatory SCO comment on Scam Combines Patriot Act FUD With IE Bug · · Score: 1
    I wonder why SCO isn't warning congress about Microsoft being a thread to national security and the economy. I woud think that a bunch of us handing our info over to india might fall under both of those....
    There are so many threads from it, I would say Microsoft is more of a yarn.
  11. Re:Just a few... on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1
    Perhaps someone should comprise a list of things that should of been vaporware...
    RTFA? How about RTF grand parent.
  12. Re:probably best left on the drawing board... on 2003 Vaporware Awards · · Score: 1

    I'd place Alien Ressurection before Ailen 3. The third movie may not have compared to the first two, but compared to ressurection it was a masterpiece.

  13. Re:Sounds Tempting! on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1

    $139.491 USD according to xe.com or $181.031 CAD for us up north. (Cdn Dollar really is getting stronger, I was expecting over $200)

  14. Mmmm... Kernel on Kernel 2.4.23 Released · · Score: 0, Funny

    I know I'm going to be modded down for this, but everytime somebody mentions the kernel I can't help but picture Tux with a big bucket of Pop-Corn. I know it's wrong, but I just can't help it.

  15. Re:Mapping engine status: Stalled on Latest Maps of the Internet · · Score: 1

    You may want to narrow down how new cities are entered. Right now you have about a dozen different cities that are all Toronto, Ontario.

  16. Re:Linux for security on IBM and Its Thoughts on Desktop Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'm so tired of people trying to lock down windows boxes!

    And it pisses me off when I walk through an office/computer retailer and all the monitors have their screensavers frozen with a dialog asking for a password. What's the point of displaying a computer if all the customer can see is a bloody screensaver?
  17. This may work... on SCO to Take On Hollywood · · Score: 1

    This scene would fit right in. Darl Helmet: "How many assholes we got in this company anyhow?" Entire SCO staff: "Yo!"

  18. Finally. on Star Wars Original Trilogy Gets DVD Release Date · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've been waiting for both this and Indy for a long time. I suppose good news comes in in waves. Or maybe it's just an apology for Episodes I and II.

  19. Re:Spamhaus too, maybe. on Trouble Getting to SpamCop? · · Score: 1
    From Spamhaus.org...
    Spammers release virus to attack Spamhaus.org A new virus released by spammers on Saturday 1st November is infecting computers worldwide, and this time the purpose of the virus is to attack www.Spamhaus.org. W32/Mimail-E is designed to infect millions of computers causing them to each begin making overwhelming amounts of bogus requests to Spamhaus.org's web server, to kill the server. The W32/Mimail-E virus is the latest in a string of trojan worms, including SoBig.E and the Fizzer (W32/Fizzer-A) worm, each one released by spammers for the purpose of creating a vast worldwide zombie network of spam-sending machines and building an attack network consiting of hundreds of thousands of virus-infected zombie machines with which the spammers then attack anti-spam organizations.
  20. Spamhaus too, maybe. on Trouble Getting to SpamCop? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've been having trouble getting into Spamhaus too. The spammers are up to something.

  21. Re:Sure it's small... on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 1

    Except you don't apply pressure to the face of a picture or a CD like you would to a PDA with your stylus. I just think this is an accident waiting to happen.

  22. Re:Sure it's small... on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 2, Funny
    What happens if you get your pants stolen
    BEWARE...The dangers of wearable computing!
  23. Sure it's small... on Credit Card Sized Concept PDA from Citizen · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but how are you supposed to hold it without getting your fingers on the screen or touchpad? I know minituarization is the name of a game, but when you're talking human computer interaction is it really the best way to go?

  24. Re:Season's schedule. on Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well there's no contest here. Picard has the crew of the enterprise (# unknown, I'm sure someone will chime in with it) vs. wave after suicidal wave of DOOP's most expendable.

  25. Re:Let's hope more movies are made on Alien vs. Predator Movie Trailer Available · · Score: 1

    That clip was amazing, you deserve to be modded up. Too bad I can't do it.