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  1. Re:and it CONTINUES to get modded up... on China Detains Internet Essayist for Subversion · · Score: 1

    even so, depending on how you interpret "see", it can be as a "forward looking hope" type use. For example, picture me standing on a hill overlooking untamed green pastures... "I see a land where my family is strong" or something. it doesn't mean my family is out there right now being strong, it means there is the posibilty, a hope, that one day my family will grow stong in this land.

    in this case, it's a bunch of people reading what they want from a simple statement. i don't like bush either, but they're over analyzing this one.

  2. Re:death by 1000 cuts on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    and the press release that goes along with ticker names for stock research :)

    "Eleventy Billion lawsuits have been filed against SCO (SCOX) today from the widespread community of software developers who liscensed their software under the GPL.
    In releated news, Darl McBride was seen buying adult diapers, presumably for himself and the board of directors.
    This press release contains forward looking statements... bla bla bla"

    btw, didn't gator the spyware change their name? you might want to add that to your sig.

  3. Re:Conspiracy Theory on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    hehe. i had thought about that too. I can almost believe it too. I can just imagine the faces of slashdot when we all realize we've been had, but not in the malicious way we thought we had been. Then we all proclaim Darl as the savior of.. .

    oh wait. no, he's still a manipulative @$$h013.

  4. Re:Grrrr... on SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    Honestly though, is a COD *really* going to do anything?

    You truly underestimate a mail room full of stinking cod. Throw in some carp and they'll be begging for forgiveness.

  5. Re:Just two guys fighting on Columnist Threatens to Sue Blogger · · Score: 1

    is "stalking" a criminal offense? i could see it as one if you had a restraining order or something, but otherwise not really. i'm sure i'll change my views once someone i know, or myself, is stalked and i can't do anything about it.

  6. Re:It is time for a Coalition of the Willing on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    Why bother? I hardly think he'll win the next election. I think the poll turnout for the California recall is a good estimate of how a lot of people are fed up with the same ol' boys running the show. What were the percentages of people who voted, near 70% I thought I heard? To me thats amazing, since I always assume poll turnout is about 50% or less. I'd wager that the presidential election is above 60% next time. Too bad Hillary isn't running, that would bring out even more people (both for and against). That would be funny, looking at history books a hundred years from now. Seeing Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton in a list of presidents and knowing none of them are the same person.

    Alas, if you do overthrow Bush, disband congress while your at it, and maybe a handfull of judges. Why do the federal supreme court judges get exempt from being voted in, and not have term limits? I call shenannigans.

  7. Re:Does this mean... on Copyright Office Rules Against Lexmark · · Score: 1

    if some manufacturer liscensed HP ink technology for third party cartridges, or sold bottles of ink, then sure. Otherwise, it's like asking for mustang car parts to fit on a jaguar. there doesn't need to be a standard.

    something like that.

  8. gotta love idiots on W3C Requests Eolas Patent Re-Examination · · Score: 1

    "invented here." is a trademark of Eolas.

    fine. "trademark of Eolas" is now a trademark of happyfrogcow.

    "'trademark of Eolas' is now a trademark of happyfrogcow." is also now a trademark of happyfrogcow.

  9. Re:Ha! on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1

    Sorry, Paul Revere (folk lore maybe? real? who knows these days) has prior art in using light as signals to indicated an operation or meaning.

    I'm sure others also beat him and you to it.

  10. Re:Not long until on Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages · · Score: 1

    and then any package they can't see in will be "suspicious" and opened without your knowing.

    then they will be inundated with a flood of "suspicous" packages and be wasting too much time opening packages, that they get rid of the program altogether or mail becomes useless.

    the good thing is that you are free, now anyway, to choose who you send things with.

  11. Re:EFF on SCO Calls GPL Unenforceable, Void · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else just picture Stallman as Gollum in LoTR?

    "My preccioussss emacsses. Whats is vi'ses?"

  12. Re:Most of them are blocked because they're 404's on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 1

    or maybe, most of them were added as fakes, of course resulting in 404's to blur the reality of which actually had real data and which didn't... to obfuscate.

  13. Re:not that far fetched on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 1

    It has significantly little to do with it. No more of the honorable proceedings of escorted coffins in a formal military ceremony. They showed respect to the soldier and family.

    But now they make anonymous the dead and their death is not noticed. This policy is about keeping details away from the public. A war without dead is a popular war.

  14. Re:not that far fetched on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 1

    evidence? here you go. Sure it's been around a while, and presidents have tried to enforce it.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5 58 16-2003Oct20.html

    And from the AC... Too bad the law about not allowing the media to tape dead soldiers returnign home has been around for over a decade, but then once again I guess liberals don't care for the truth, and your word bites sound soo much cooler.

    Nice blanket statement. Questioning policy makes me liberal? If this be treason...

    from the above article at the washington post "In March, on the eve of the Iraq war, a directive arrived from the Pentagon at U.S. military bases. "There will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops," the Defense Department said, referring to the major ports for the returning remains."

    gg, AC.

  15. not that far fetched on White House Website Limits Iraq-Related Crawling · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Consider the fact that GW Bush has banned media (hello?? freedom of the press? 1st Amendment??) coverage of returning killed soldiers. Why? Because seeing dead soldiers makes people realize that the war is real and people are dieing.

    The current administration is trying its damndest to control infomation that it doesn't like

  16. Re:Thanks for your "insight" on Cygwin/XFree86 Leaving XFree86.org · · Score: 1

    don't blame the poster. it's just a line lifted from the announcement by harold hunt.

  17. Re:Patent Silliness on Patent Sought For Amazon Marketplace · · Score: 1

    As with many things, the intention has little to do with the effect.

    But people think that someone elses patent is the be-all end-all to what they can do with a certain technology, and it's not. That is what is keeping Joe Public out of contention for "intellectual property" (which, even if you disagree with that term, the ideas encompassed by it still exist in our society).

    So what is this "effect" that you speak of? Patent Envy?

  18. Re:Patent Silliness on Patent Sought For Amazon Marketplace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Say you have a local "farmers market" where people can buy or sell to each other. The table I display my goods on might have a patent on it's design. The scale I use to weigh things might also. And the calculator I use to add up your total. However, the market itself does not have a patent. It's just a place where we go.

    Now if Bezos wants to patent some "calculators" and "designs for tables" that I can use online to assist in the free trade of goods, why not? When you buy furniture or a calculator do you look at it and say "Oh no, this has patent number 817182199191. We can't buy this, I'd feel used and abused by The System." Of course not.

    Sure, some patents are glaringly obvious, have prior art, and should not be granted. But not all patents are bad. Patents are not really intended to stiffle innovation and invention. Several improvements on an existing idea can be patentable. Look at the patents on the .gif file format. Without it, .png probably would not have been developed. And who doesn't like .png!?

  19. Re:not so sure on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    ah, found it and take it half back. it was just decaying animal matter. Plants yes. Read section 2
    http://rclsgi.eng.ohio-state.edu/~korpela/opmat alk .pdf

  20. Re:What about thermal depolymerization? on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: -1

    GW Bush is a turkey. I'd call him other things but a turkey will suffice. If you squeeze him, how many barrels of oil will you get?

  21. not so sure on 4 Tons Of Plants per Mile to Ride In Your Car · · Score: 1

    a few years ago, my thermodynamics professor at ohio state who was very in to the debate on the "oil crisis" we are in, bluntly stated that it was not this prehistoric biodegrading plant/animal matter that created oil. Since I can't remember his name or website, this isn't much use.

  22. Re:Workaround: on Reading, Writing, RFID · · Score: 1

    hehe. thats kind of funny, but I'm sure the teachers would still be taking attendance. It would be silly for them not to.

    anyway, tracking kids in school isn't that bad really. School is mandatory if you are under 18, so why not. If the kids aren't going they're wasting taxpayers money. If they aren't going, parents should know.

    however, mandatory tags shouldn't be the case. It should be the parents decision to enroll their children in such a program. Too much government mandated regulations already..

  23. Re:Me too, so bored of RPing online. on The Trouble with MMORPGs · · Score: 1

    By same stage, do you mean an error message from a web server? Thats all I got from the page. lousy /. effects

  24. Re:how to trace spam? on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    That mail server IP can't be forged?

  25. how to trace spam? on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 1

    alright, so "remove me" links are bogus, and "reply to" fields are forged. So how can someone track down who is actually sending the spam? how forged can the header information be about the steps it took to get from them to me? Telling people not to respond to spam is one thing. Telling people how to contact the spammers ISP, or even the actual spammer seems more helpfull. their anonimity is what keeps them safe. break that down and their "business" will be less appealing to them.