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  1. Re:Exactly on Novell Worries About GPL v3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stock prices can only change as supply and demand dictates. If the Novell execs are all dead, they can't release new stocks into the market and increase the supply. With the share holders all dead, there can't be demand to effect the price of the existing stocks in the market.

    Thus, the price would remain forever at whichever value was last recorded. That's why it's not in the report. It won't alter prices in the least.

  2. Re:Single Player on StarCraft, Nothing But StarCraft · · Score: 1

    I hope not. I don't have time anymore to be anything more than a casual gamer. Given that all of the previous Blizzard RTS had excellent single player, I would suspect not.

  3. Re:Even better if it were not a closed system on Aluminum Alloy Releases Hydrogen From Water · · Score: 1

    We are in no danger of ever running out of aluminum. Is that why aluminum and tin recycling are the only profitable recycling ventures? Because we have so much of it and it's so cheap to mine? Or are you suggesting we'd later scrape the spent aluminum oxide off the ground?
  4. Re:I'm disgusted on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1

    He's obviously referring to the argument that rich countries have a responsibility to save the rest of the world from poverty even while they have problems of their own to still deal with.

  5. Re:Could Global Warming Make Life Better? on Could Global Warming Make Life on Earth Better? · · Score: 1

    There's also the fact that winter frost keeps mosquito season in northern climates down to just 4 months or so each year. And aren't those techniques already used in the tropics? Hasn't the WHO declared war on malaria and predominately failed because there is just too much mosquito breeding territory to control?

  6. Re:Who cares? on Some Truth to Wii as GameCube 1.5? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because it's fun to play. But that doesn't mean it can't be disappointing in many aspects.

  7. Re:Nah on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 1

    No, if they put that in a bigger, heavier vehicle it will get the same performance and economy as the old model, since the new model is bigger and heavier.

    If they just swap engines in the existing model, you'll get both better performance when you need it and better economy when you drive like a normal person.

    The bigger, heavier part is just a waste.

  8. Re:So what they're saying here is... on Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues · · Score: 1

    How does ones profession effect their property taxes? Or can teaches claim some sort of special deduction in your state?

  9. Re:Of course they should. on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    That's certainly a more normal and reasonable punishment.

  10. Re:Of course they should. on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    How much more could they possibly be doing? They shouldn't be running on the machines as unprivileged users and unable to install software, make global changes, etc anyway. If properly setup, they shouldn't be able to cause harm.

  11. Re:Of course they should. on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me. I'm not familiar with Websense. I still stand by my statement that their filtering is more at fault than the students.

    Yes, the students should be punished. Yes, the students should be forced to sign a usage agreement at the beginning of the year. No, the students should not have their educations put at jeopardy because of something so inane as bypassing a web filter.

  12. Re:Of course they should. on Why Are Students Liable for School Insecurity? · · Score: 0

    ~~You're right. The kids are idiots. 3 months is only like a whole quarter anyway. Who cares if these kids miss 4th quarter. Phy-Ed is offered over the summer, so they can still make that up. Those no reason to subscribe to a filtering service that updates daily or anything. That costs money and these kids are downright rotten~~

  13. Re:Why strong IP law is so attractive: on Digg.com Attempts To Suppress HD-DVD Revolt · · Score: 1

    even if they're generally distributed only in a 'compiled' form (pills) I love that thought process. "Damnit! I'm really beginning to hate Visual Studio. All these pills come out as antibiotics! They're supposed to treat cancer!"
  14. OCS Inventory? on Solution for Remote Software Deployment on Windows? · · Score: 2, Informative

    OCS Inventory is an OSS tool we had deployed once upon a time. I see the most recent version support application deployment.

    Otherwise, if your Vista/XP/2000 machines are on a domain, you can deploy software though domain policies, though I didn't find a really clean way of doing that in the short time I did IT.

  15. Re:Nah... on A Succinct Definition of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Can't have a country clogging the tubes! Better send in some more lotto balls to clear it out.

  16. Re:This is an Ask Slashdot FAQ on Copyright vs Exclusive License? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you tell a Lawyer "These guys won't give us our copyrights like they were supposed to! Sue them and make them pay our legal fees to." The first thing the lawyer is going to say is, "Ok, but it's $100/hr and you have to pay me for the time being. You'll get a "rebate" if we win legal fees" The next thing the lawyer will do is examine the contract and size up the opponent. This results in "Contract is in our favor, we should sue," "Contract is not in our favor, but they'll probably blink first" or "Contract is solid and they're not likely to budge. You should pay me and drop this."

    If you ask a lawyer to sue, they'll tell you if you're an idiot long before they file proceedings.

  17. They're outselling them? on How Wii Is Creaming the Competition · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd have to say it's quite obvious. Nintendo is creaming the competition by selling more units then them...

  18. Re:well... truthfully... on Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They also tested tailgate up or down on a pickup truck for mpg. Up won and they fully explained why. They then revisited that one using a flow meter in the gas line instead of extrapolating the data based off the air intake sensors. They found tailgate removed to be most efficient, followed by mesh, tailgate up/hardcover, and tailgate down. Source
  19. Re:Jack Thompson is likely an Industry insider any on Thompson Stifled by Take Two Suit · · Score: 1

    That or just the worst lawyer, but if he is actually such a bad lawyer, how does he have any money? Lawyers generally bill hourly for the work they do on a particular case. Sometimes they are willing to do the leg work for free in exchange for a portion of the winnings, but often they are either paid strictly hourly, or hourly unless they win whereby it goes to a percentage scheme.

    A lawyer does not need to be a good lawyer to make money, they just need a consistent stream of clients. The fact that he hasn't been successful in video game suits doesn't detract from the fact that he's the only one making these lawsuits, so in some clients eyes he is the field expert.
  20. Re:Only thing to understand... on Learning More About Linux? · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that I can do a cp /proc /proc2 to turn my single-core processor into a dual-core?

    /# cp /proc /proc2
    cp: omitting directory `/proc'
    No. But /proc is a filesystem

    /# mount
    /dev/sda5 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
    proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) ...
    And I can get a snapshot of the contents of that filesystem

    /# cp -r /proc /proc2
    although a few files fail due to permissions, etc.

    Ohhh. The fun I could have copying the stuff in /dev. How many hard drives do I want... No, because the hardware does not exist because the file exists, rather the file is present because the hardware is present. cat /dev/random > /dev/hda is a good way to fill your drive with random data, just like cat /dev/random > /home/user/randomness is a good way to fill the file randomness with random data. Proc, like the rest of *nix can be operated on in this manner.

    cp /dev/hda1 /image will actually create an image of the first partition of your primary master IDE disk, although I'm not positive it'll be mountable. The cp command doesn't know that hda1 is an entire partion and thinks it's just copying a file. That's why everything in *nix is a file.
  21. Re:Driving co. into the ground? on Sony Rejects PS3 Price Cuts · · Score: 1

    Sony is still probably selling at at least a $100 loss on components/manufacturing. Microsoft and Nintendo are both probably selling at around a $50 gain on components/manufacturing. If Sony were to cut the price they would take an even bigger loss.

    Right now it's safest for Sony to keep the price high while component/manufacturing costs decrease so as to diminish their losses. Even if they are selling slowly, they are still selling. If they decreased the cost, certainly they would sell faster but they might actually end up further in the whole because of the more significant loss they'd be taking per unit.

    Believe it or not, but marketing actually collects a lot of data to feel out demand. Sony is selling here, because ATM it provides the best price/sales ratio for their product. Once they can turn a per unit gain due to cost reduction, OR there are more compelling games for the platform, they may lower the cost.

  22. Re:It is easy if you live in Washington State on Proving You Are Not a Spammer? · · Score: 1

    No, but he he probably knew CmdrTaco as a Petty Officer

  23. Re:Defragmentation? on Fragmentation in Linux Documentation? · · Score: 1

    My thought exactly. There's no "fragmentation" in the documentation because it's not appropriate for any of the major file systems

  24. Re:me too on Proving You Are Not a Spammer? · · Score: 1

    but let's at least be accurate in our slander


    But then it wouldn't be slander!!
  25. Re:NSFW article? on Anti-Spam Suits and Booby-Trapped Motions · · Score: 1

    Hah! It was probably just a blanket ban on the word booby, among others.
    Yeah, my employer has that, but Firefox doesn't listen to the Active Directory settings pushed to IE and their proxy isn't transparent, so I just don't use it ;)