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  1. Re:Lil Senator Hatches on British Schoolkids Get Copyright Education · · Score: 1

    Great, this is just what we need...

    more little non-sharing learned Senator Hatches running around with British accents.


    Gives new meaning to "batten down the hatches". :)

  2. Re:Unspecified Fee on Soyuz To The Moon? · · Score: 1

    You forgot something:

    Liftoff: free
    Trip to lunar orbit: free
    Return to Earth: free
    Re-entry: free
    Deployment of parachutes: $100 million

    Getting home in one piece: Priceless

  3. Valenti must be deaf... on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 1

    Valenti said: "Nobody can allow their rights to be stolen because, if you can't retrieve your investment, you're out of the movie business,

    "I don't think there's really a single actor or director in the world who does not believe that if you don't combat piracy, it will devour you in the future."


    I guess he's getting deaf in his old age and didn't hear Moore...

  4. Re:Replace it with a key labelled [help] on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    I am still amazed that after 20 years of the desktop PC, we still have to press the key labelled [F1] to get any type of GUI help, rather than having a key labelled [HELP], although Microsoft did find a way of squeezing in a key with the Windows logo.

    On my keyboard the F1 key has the word 'Help' on it, below the 'F1'. If yours doesn't and you really want it to, may I suggest a pen?

  5. Re:Yes. on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 1

    Naming convention in C++: Constants in ALL CAPS

    Not to mention AUTOCONF MACROS.

  6. Re:Hmm... BUT!!! on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 5, Informative

    Triple Click...
    Quad Click...
    Qunice Click...

    Are still available!!


    Not quite...

    "Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time..."

  7. Re:Quick! on Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click · · Score: 1

    Run for it, gotta get the trippelclick patent before microsoft gets it!

    Seems like, rather than patenting double clicking, they patented double, triple, quadruple, etc clicking, all in one move. Damn clever bastards...

    "Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time..."

  8. Re:Hey, babe, I got the cure... on Anti-HIV Virus Developed · · Score: 1

    Anyone interested in the original HIV genome (it's like sourcecode) can find it here. [nih.gov]

    Seeing as it's more or less unintelligible, isn't it more like machine code? Now, if only we had a decompiler for it...

  9. Re:NOT a dupe ;) on More On The BBC's Codec 'Dirac' · · Score: 1

    Does adding a little note saying "we covered this a few weeks ago" always get the editors off the hook for posting the same article twice? ;)

    If it does maybe they should put it in their .sigs, just to be safe.

  10. Re:Avoid debugging on New & Revolutionary Debugging Techniques? · · Score: 2

    But I assume someone will come along and tell me that IDEs are for the weak as well.

    Beware the IDEs of March!

  11. Re:GPL Acknowledgment. on Criticizing Sun's Java Desktop System · · Score: 1
    That's odd. I looked at the GPL myself and paragraph C in section 3 is this:

    * c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

    Which is different than what you posted...

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

    What's really bad about this flaw in the moderation system is this: Suppose you're moded up twice as funny. This does not improve your karma. You are then moded down once. This does affect your karma. The result is that, even though your left with a higher moderation score than you started with, your karma is now lower. So, mods, do us all (and our karma) a favor and mod us underrated, not funny.

  13. They should call it... on Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I can't believe it's not water."

  14. Re:mmhmm on James Gosling On The Sun/Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He must be new here.

  15. Re:well.. on Five Fundamental Problems with Open Source? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a tool, like a hammer. You don't have to take classes to use a hammer

    No, it's not like a hammer. A much better analogy is a car, and guess what, you do take classes to use a car. It's called Driver's Ed. Anyone under 18 is required to take it before they can get a license (at least in my state, might be different elsewhere).

  16. Re:Two down... on Japanese Government Raids Intel Tokyo Offices · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does SCO, by any chance, have offices in Japan?

  17. Re:Can you imagine... on San Francisco Flashmob Attempts Supercomputer · · Score: -1, Troll

    So... Does it run Linux?

  18. Re:Vehicles on Simputer Available? · · Score: 1

    Acceleration = positive CHANGE in speed

    Actually a negative change in speed would also count as acceleration.

  19. Re:p fixation? on Prothon - A New Prototype-based Language · · Score: 1

    First there was BCPL. Then B was based on it. Then C was based on B. Until C++ came along, there was some discussion of whether the next language would be called D or P. Perhaps that's where it comes from?

  20. Re:1669 hours... a perspective on Fifty Years of Color Television · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What do you think they should be doing instead? Reading and posting on /. like you? Yes, that's a much better use of their time...

  21. Re:Wow! on KDE And Gnome Together At Last? · · Score: 1

    I can't wait for KGplayer, twice the features, double the resource usage!

    I think you mean: "Twice the features, quadruple the resource usage."

  22. Re:Where's the Mac version??? on Anti-piracy Vigilantes Tracking P2P Users · · Score: 1

    Don't feel too bad, Linux users are left out to. Maybe it'll run under wine?

  23. Re:Canadian laws on Time Warner To Comply With Wiretap Law · · Score: 1

    After this most places look good.

  24. Re:I guess that'll show em. on Interview with Matthew Dillon of DragonFly BSD · · Score: 1

    There are now four BSDs, yet there is only one Linux. Is there something about BSD that makes it fork-prone, or something about Linux that makes it fork-resistant?

    I'm not critisizing either one. I'm just curious, any thoughts?

  25. Re:Woah! I better prevent myself from the draft! on U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel · · Score: 1

    And you don't know how you use the shift or apostrophe keys!