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  1. President had the SOURCE info on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1
    Bush and Kerry had the same information presented to them before this all started and they both chose to go ahead with military action. If Bush lied, Kerry lied. Period.

    This is untrue. For one thing the President has access to the SOURCE of the information. Senators do not.

    The SOURCE was dubious and known to be dubious.

    BUSH lied Period!

  2. Perfect news on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 1
    This is perfect. What goes around comes around. Maybe we can put some pressure on the Patent office.

    It's an old Wang patent bought by Kodak not worth much and treated at pretty much worthless until some shyster at Kodak started to look at the "portfolio"

  3. adaptive response turned Maladaptive on Coffee is Addictive · · Score: 1
    Addiction is not the right way to characterized sugar.

    Gouging yourselves with something sweet once found is an adaptive evolutionary response as it increases likelihood of survival. It is this response that in a modern society of plenty suddenly becomes maladaptive hence all the fat people.

  4. Kyoto agreement on Global Warming Expected to Intensify Hurricanes · · Score: 1

    He cancelled the Kyoto agreement so he actually is to blame to some degree.

  5. Watch the spin come in on Net War Room for Bush vs Kerry Debate · · Score: 1

    Go Here and watch the spin arrive around the country. Just let it update itself every 2 minute or so.

  6. FAT lady sings on Microsoft FAT Patent Rejected · · Score: 2, Funny
    They can still appeal the ruling so it's not over until the FAT lady sings.

  7. Authors name is incomplete on Gartner Says Linux PCs Just Used To Pirate Windows · · Score: 1
    The report, by Annette Jump

    torn between To conclusions and In the lake

  8. OT: et al on Dear Microsoft Windows ... · · Score: 1
    *et all*

    FYI it is not all as in the English word but al.

    Et alii (et al.)

    "And others" -- used to abbreviate a list of names (Alii is actually masculine, so it can be used for men, or groups of men and women; the feminine et aliae is appropriate when the "others" are all female.)

  9. Brylcreem Nuff said on EWeek Details Linux to Windows Migration · · Score: 5, Informative
    These guys are the sleaze folks that makes Brylcreem for crying out loud.

    If you do a little sleuthing you will discover this is part of the MS Get the Fud program from May 2004. You relly should visit and admire the Linux = Shareware blurb.

    Check with Netcraft and you will find that they reason the switched was that their ISP went out of business and the one that they teamed up with that got them to "switch" has managed to gain ZERO additional clients since. Again Source Netcraft.

  10. lol on Hikarunix: The Go Distro · · Score: 1

    wish I had mod points

  11. Missing a data point? on Hikarunix: The Go Distro · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I think most of us have had basic math

    I don't recall the capacity of a miniCD being part of the math curriculum.

  12. Monopoly prevention on HP Terminates Itanium Workstations · · Score: 1
    (for some moronic reason)

    The smaller party that prevents a monopoly form being established to the detriment of the consumer is always the good guy.

    By the way MS was delaying Windows64 probably at the behest of Intel but even MS has now realized this is a loosing strategy as Linux is making inrads fast at the serverspace that MS thinks they have a chance at .

    You know their TCO fairytales.

  13. IDC have to revise their 96% mistake on HP Terminates Itanium Workstations · · Score: 2, Informative
    Looks like IDC need to revise down their "forecast" again.

    Being that wrong takes talent. Pulling something out of your ass qualifies as precision work compared to this.

  14. IDC 96% off on Big Demand for Digital Music Players · · Score: 3, Informative
    Forget these kind of "forecast" my grandmother long dead can do better.

    Look at these clowns trackrecord for the Itanium

  15. Re:"Who's really at fault?" on Windows Upgrade, FAA Error Cause LAX Shutdown · · Score: 1
    Arnold

    Nuff Said

  16. Payment in labor on Human-Powered Spam Filtering · · Score: 1
    Your argument is not quite true.

    For stuff in the mailbox or fliers on your windshieled you "pay" by having to remove it.

  17. 5% most interesing nugget of info on Miguel de Icaza Debates Avalon with an Avalon Designer · · Score: 1
    What on earth is the 5% other Operating Systems in this link ?

    Amiga? or the "dying" BSD?

  18. Prior art by Eric Raymond on OSI And Microsoft Negotiating Over Sender ID · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Linux show just finished and this was discussed in length. Eric was on the show and it turn out that the Patent that MS is claiming has prior art by Eric himself.

    Head on over and listen in.

  19. Re:Macs need not apply on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 1

    nospamATstadil.com The domain has a catch-all feature so I will get it, using nospam as name will most likely foil some spammers. Thanks

  20. Re:Macs need not apply on Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store · · Score: 1

    I would like one Please Thanks

  21. Analysis at LamLaw on SCO's Finances, Legal Case Take Hits · · Score: 4, Informative
    Look at LamLaws analysis of this.

    The take is that IBM's request for Summary Judgement that no SCO copyrighted code exist in Linux will be granted.

    Novel is invited so as to protect their interest in the Copyrighted material. Most likely Novel is the owner of any copyrighted material not SCO (OldSCO rather ie Caldera)since it was nver transfered in writing, as required.

  22. Logic fallacy on DNA Pioneer Francis Crick Passes Away · · Score: 1
    There is a lot of logical problems with the Sliiery slope argument

    Besides you can not replace one Neuron with anything. Each is unique not only in it's "logic" but it's biology as well.

  23. Neither on DNA Pioneer Francis Crick Passes Away · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They were playing with wooden balls that they had gotten made by the folks at Cavendish.

    Crick didn't even know what Watson was doing the night that he made the mock-up. As an interesting note there was a bit of slack in the way the wooden "lego" was made that allowed the correct answer to emerge despite a slight flaw in the idea.

    Lastly I think your joke was refering to Craig Venter that used his own DNA at Celera, Right?. I have a lot of respect for Venter despite his slight Megalomaniac tendencies.

  24. 127.0.0.1 on DoubleClick Hit by DDoS Attack · · Score: 2, Funny
    I am glad that my machine didn't inadvertently participate in their DDOS attack. I would have been hammering away at 127.0.0.1

  25. SCO has no legal claim on Groklaw Debunks SCO's ELF Heist · · Score: 1
    Below is from an earlier comment of mine.

    You are right in everything you say but it has no bearing since we are talking about a different company.

    It's like you you remove the graphics card of an Dell computer and sell it to SCO. Then SCO turns around and sues Dell for the missing card. At best they should sue you and would probably loose as they bougt "as is" The state of ELF was know or should have been known at the time Caldera sold to NewSCO.

    Quote:

    Current SCO is the third link in the chain. Whenever something is sold the successor in interest get's "less or equal" what the seller held. Since the seller sold the copyright with the explicit understanding that ELF was in the public domain, NewSCO can not claim anything. If someone "exceeded" their authority it's a matter for the parties involved at the time.