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  1. Re:Umm, and on Companies Join Together to Maintain Open Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    Haha! Yeah, like IE going to the "IE Update Site" almost half the times I start it.

  2. Re:.THIS .IS .A .PAGE .WIDENING .POST .SO .STICK . on A New Meaning For Geotargeting At Monster.com · · Score: 1

    Not on mozilla

  3. Slashdotted? on HTML: Is it Art? · · Score: 1

    Is Zombo.com really supposed to be that boring, or was it slashdotted?

  4. Interesting.. on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Ballmer seems to use Linux and Unix interchangeably. (Unix doesn't have a command line?)

  5. Re:So Then Linux is a Stolen OS? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1
    http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/iiprop/patents.ht m

    Member countries of the European Union accept US patents

  6. Re:SCO solution. on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    Their server runs on Linux. No dice :(

  7. Re:So Then Linux is a Stolen OS? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    Which Europe do you live in? Certainly not the one on Earth.

  8. Re:GNU/Hurd. on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    That's in binary. Right?

  9. Re:Why Are You Sweating It? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    I think you are mistaking
    sweating for general outrage.
    By the way, you don't need
    to do manual returns.

  10. Re:Make GNU software incompatible with SCO on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    How can we do that? SCO obviously wrote all that software and we stole it.

  11. Re:Is this a joke?? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1
    Didn't you know?

    God licensed SCO's software when creating the universe. We don't own anything. It's all theirs. In fact, we're theirs too!

  12. Uh.. what? on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 2, Insightful
    McBride: In our case, Linux comes from Unix and we own the Unix operating system. How this plays out with other code bases, I don't know.

    I really don't know either. Something about Linux stealing 'unix source code', then about stealing 'libraries source code'. Linux comes from Unix? Since when? Is the idea of a posix operating system IP? It isn't to my knowledge.

    I think it's pretty obvious what's going on. SCO is spiraling down, and in an attempt to get some business back, they're trying to portray using Linux as illegal. Unless their lawyers are complete idiots, they realize suing RedHat would result in a) them losing b) RedHat not having any money to give them even if they won.

  13. Re:As bad as it sounds, it IS their product on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers · · Score: 1

    Cisco sells 91% of all routers. If you've ever worked in an isp, you'd realize Cisco is definitely a monopoly.

  14. Who will pay? on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers · · Score: 1
    Although this is just stupid, I have a question. Who will pay for the extra bandwidth used? Surely it will take up a good bit. If Cisco was using it for their own profit it would be quite easy to sue them. I would think even the government would have a hard time getting legal permission to do this if it brought a loss of revenue for the ISPs.

    Then again, in the RIAA age anything is possible.

  15. Re:As bad as it sounds, it IS their product on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers · · Score: 0
    And where else should we go exactly?

    Another case why monopolies are bad.

  16. Re:intentionally left blank on GTA3 Multiplayer · · Score: 1

    There is some video option (that adds all the blurryness) that slows down the game a lot. It doesn't even make it look better. Just turn it off. The PS2 might have spare processor time for nothing, but my PC doesn't.

  17. Re:Geocaching for lazy people? on UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds · · Score: 1

    That could be kind of interesting.. UPS Dodge Vipers flying down the highway trying to catch up ;)

  18. Re:Try shipping anything damageable through UPS on UPS to Deploy Ultra-Connected Wireless Handhelds · · Score: 2, Funny

    As opposed to what, exactly? I don't have any indestructible objects laying around.

  19. Rebateshq on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 1

    I've found a lot of companies are issuing rebates through rebateshq.com now. I've had pretty good luck with them. On one rebate, they insisted I had sent the wrong upc, but I insisted otherwise, and they sent the check anyway.

  20. Re:This style of DoS harms more than the target on DOS Attack Via US Postal Service · · Score: 1

    That would be about as popular as shareware.

  21. Netherlands on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 1

    I think I am going to move to the Netherlands soon. The only laws the US seems to be missing are laws prohibiting stupid laws!

  22. It all makes sense on Could Doom 3 be a Xbox Exclusive? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft must have paid Carmack to make all the ports besides Xbox painfully slow. That must be why the Doom III Alpha ran at 20fps on my geforce 4..

  23. Re:I hate America on Information Patents in the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    By the way, civilised is spelled wrong. ;\

  24. News flash on Pendulum Clock with Atomic Precision · · Score: 1

    Now you can get atomic clock precision on your computer too! Much like the 'atomic clock accuracy on a pendulum clock' seen on /., the atomic clock on your computer is "set" by using the ntp protocol. Wow!

  25. Good idea? on RIAA Moves Against College-Network Fileswapping · · Score: 1

    I have to wonder - how smart is it to alienate the next generations of business and industry leaders?