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  1. lol aids on Can You Be Denied the Right To Support OSS? · · Score: 1

    The "right to work with OSS" is at the discretion of the copyright holder, and apparently the privilege of Alfresco's enterprise license abnegates the "right" to use the "free" license. It probably only applies to commercial applications anyhow. Alfresco giveth, and Alfresco taketh away. They owe you nothing.

  2. "free" XP license on Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks. · · Score: 1

    I would purchase the one with XP merely to have the XP license. Of course it will get formatted and installed with Linux, but at that point I will be able to choose to legally reinstall XP at some point in the future without having to pay more.

  3. size matters? on One Find, Two Astronomers · · Score: 1

    The New York Times is running a story about Debate Between Astronomers who both claim to have discovered the same object beyond Pluto, and almost the same size.

    Nuh-uh, mine's bigger than yours!

  4. Re:I hope they archive... on Lockheed Chosen For Electronic Records Archives · · Score: 1

    ...all the 1990's pr0n! We need to keep that in a repository for the benefit of mankind for generations to come!

    Intentional? Perhaps. Hilarious? Certainly!

  5. Re:Not true on Teen Sentenced for Releasing Variant of Blaster Worm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    binary encoded ascii for: what are words?

  6. :o on Harrison Ford Confirms Indiana Jones IV Production · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anyone else read that as:
    Harrison Ford confirms, Indiana Jones IV Production is dying ?

  7. Re:w00t on NOAA Adopts New Net Policy · · Score: 1
    How, praytell, is this offtopic? Perhaps a little inarticulate and therefore lacking in insight, interest or information, however it accurately responds to the last bit of the synopsis:
    And it made a difference: NOAA will make its data and products available in internet-accessible, vendor-neutral form and will use other dissemination technologies, e.g. satellite broadcast, NOAA Weather Radio, and wireless, as appropriate. Congrats to the Slash community for making a difference and helping to set US Govt policy.
    I think we can all agree, a positive impact is indeed something to "w00t!" about, and the poster didn't even brag about fp/gnaa/the death of *bsd/etc, which would have been offtopic ...
  8. Re:I guess the idiots are happy on Half-Life 2 Finally Activated · · Score: 1

    I didn't read the license, but nothing that I know of prevents you from buying it, deciding it's shit, and selling/trading the password to your Steam account (which has a resettable e-mail address associated with it.) ... The new "owner" can then change the password and e-mail address, and delete all the friends (or, hell, even keep them, haha!) and add his or her own.

  9. Re:Electric bill? on DIY LED-Illuminated Sleep Chamber · · Score: 2, Funny

    Light-emiutting light emitting diode diodes?

    Almost like aitch-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot- org ?

  10. Re:Here in America on Cyberlibel Damages Awarded In Canada · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Don't mod parent down, (s)he was trying to be funny in referring to the notation of the dollar amount as "125k$" compared to the american notation, "$125k".

  11. Microwave? on New Blu-ray Disc to be Made of Corn · · Score: 1

    I wonder what would happen to one of those new discs if you put one in the microwave for 5 seconds.

    I don't know what will happen if you put one in the microwave, but if my drive stops reading one of these things I might throw some shredded cheese on it and find out... Really though, this is truly brilliant. I have stacks upon stacks of dated versions of random Linux distros that I have no idea what to do with ... soon I will be able to make tacos/burritos/quesadillas/enchiladas/etc out of old copies of Linux. Further, I don't drink up enough coffee to use all those coasters AOL sends me, I can make something yummy out of those too. Genius, whoever thought of this!

  12. I see ... on Origin of Cosmic Rays Revealed · · Score: 0

    Cosmic rays? Sounds like something out of a science fiction novel ...

  13. Oh boy, on World's First Ultra-Thin Multilayer Circuit Board · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know how I'm going to keep from breaking one of these things every time I touch it. I have broken some thicker-than-ultra-thin PCBs in my day and don't imagine these to be any less susceptible to the pressure of my indelicate hands. I wonder if/hope we'll see some connectors/slots in the future that don't require a board-breaking effort to slip the peripheral cards out.

  14. Re:So you can fix Linux.... on System Recovery with Knoppix · · Score: 4, Informative

    captive-ntfs 1.14 works just fine for me w/Knoppix 3.4 (though 1.15 w/Knoppix 3.6 failed to mount my NTFS partitions, that is another story altogether) ... so, you can actually read/write to NTFS from Knoppix if you manually configure captive and mount the NTFS partition(s) yourself.

  15. Re:wtf? on Slashback: Pong, Economics, Stability · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Is everyone seeing triple or is it just me? Its just you. Now shut the fuck up. - Timothy

  16. Re:Wait a sec on RT Linux Patches · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Linus is in talks with Valve to distribute kernel patches via Steam! Har har har ...

  17. From the FAQ: on Syllable 0.5.4 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Q: Is it possible to use Syllable in a text-only mode?
    A: No, you have to use the Terminal. Syllable is designed around its own GUI and cannot support a text-only interface.


    Isn't that the same mistake Microsoft has been making since Windows 95?

  18. Re:How many? on Review: Juvenile Felis Catus · · Score: 0

    well, i don't know about cats, but i just might be pussy crazy ...

  19. Re:Already in use on Stanford, IBM Team To Explore Spintronics · · Score: 1

    wow guys, i think PARENT was trying to be FUNNY not INFORMATIVE ... duh ...

  20. disclaimer on City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups · · Score: 1

    wow, the bottom of the page even says, "Note: content veracity not implied" ... :-/

  21. hmm on Benchmarking the Scalability of BSD and Linux · · Score: 1

    Ha, well, i don't know too much about the internals of kernels and OSs and stuff, but hey, why doesn't somebody take the relevant code of the speediest winner of each of these "tests" and smack it all together into one "Performance-enhanced OS"... ha, plz no flames! i understand this would not be a light undertaking, but it is an idea i suppose.