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  1. Re:Don't forget.. on Coping Strategies for Women in IT · · Score: 1

    If you have a job that expects you to put in ridiculous hours, you have a crap job.

    Good for you if you can choose jobs from a menu.
    Some people are not so lucky and, still, they have to eat.

  2. Re:modifications on id and Valve May Be Violating GPL · · Score: 1

    No, GPL requires that if you _distribute_ the binary (no matter whether modified or not) you must provide the source code.
    Now if you modify the code then you distribute the resulting software, what happens is that the changes you made are also under the GPL.

  3. bad news on Emoticons in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    I'm not going to feel better about losing hundreds of thousands of dollars because someone puts a frown face to regretfully inform me.

    You mean like:

    Dear xyzxyz,

    I regretfully inform you that due to an unsuccessful financial maneuver the company is now critically indebted.

    oops.. :(

    Yours,
    Looking For a New Job Joe

  4. Re:In IT on Emoticons in the Workplace · · Score: 2, Funny

    We use Jabber and(...)

    Dear sir,

    I formally inform you my apprecciation on your choice of IM systems.

    Yours,
    Keeboo Booboo

    Ps.: :)

  5. Re:Requiring payment for delisting on Choosing a Good DNSBL · · Score: 1

    Well, we do use SORBS, but not the default filter they provide (which is way too agressive).
    You may choose one more to your liking, as described here
    I believe the best is to pick "safe" things like open relays, ADSL IPs and only the recently added hosts.

    Yeah, I'm aware of all the horror histories on SORBS, but you know what? We maintain a public university mail server, the e-mail addresses are readily available everywhere (also, the users don't help either) AND we have a severe lack of technical personel (working on the perfect spam blocking system is not an option). And we're constantly being flooded with spam and attacks.
    So, yeah, in our case SORBS is the lesser evil.

  6. Re:Lost Freedom on KisMAC Developer Discontinues Project · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are there any western countries whose citizens aren't losing their individual freedoms?

    Well.. It's not happening in Brazil.
    I guess the politicians here are too busy counting their money.

  7. Re:Doesn't work with a Macbook. on Cross-OS File System That Sucks Less? · · Score: 1

    That's a great project indeed..
    But personally I wouldn't trust storing my data in a FS driver developed by reverse engineering.

  8. Russia? on Gene Research Gives Hope of Reversing Baldness · · Score: 1

    I though it was in Estonia where things got hairy recently...

  9. me included on 40M Vista Licenses in 100 Days · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the license that came with my recently bought HP notebook is among those.
    Too bad I had no choice in this case, if I wanted that computer I had to buy it with Vista.
    Anyways, less than 24h after I brought it home, it was already reformatted with Ubuntu.

  10. mod parent offtopic on Brazil Voids Merck Patent On AIDS Drug · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We're talking about medicaments and related companies... The Youtube subject has nothing to do with that.

  11. Re:The abstract of the story on Chimps Evolved More Than Humans · · Score: 1

    Your theory is fucked up.

  12. Re:In other news! on US, Asia, Europe Ceding Web Dominance · · Score: 1

    > Developing world developing.

    Not sure... Seeing what my fellow brazilians did to Orkut, sometimes it feels like it's going backwards.

  13. Re:Gee, why is no one switching to IPv6? on IPv6 Tested in Space · · Score: 1

    force organizations such as Apple, HP, IBM, Merck, and Halliburton justify their IP allocation request

    How much I agree with you.
    The problem is that anything and anyone outside the USA is pretty much powerless on this matter (the IPs are already allocated), while the USA itself is the least affected by IP shortage.

  14. none of our business on Turkish Assembly Votes For Censoring of Web Sites · · Score: 4, Informative

    For some reason I think the majority screwing over the minority and abusing their human rights isn't something that should be tolerated, much less respected.

    Well (and that's an example, no country is a saint in this matter), the USA have been preaching on freedom and human rights for decades. It didn't prevent them to install and maintain bloody dictatorships in South America. And that, way before the USA "turned evil" and bashing the US became an olympic sport.

    I do not think we (well, the West) have any right at all to interfere in Turkey or any other country.
    Personally I don't think Turkey belongs to EU, and that's a matter for EU and Turkey, and no one else.
    The rest, the internal Turkey matters as long as they stay out of EU, are their business and we have no right to mess with.

  15. banana on Should Chimps Have Human Rights? · · Score: 1

    Before making any conclusions I'd like to know what this presumably nonexistent soul is, exactly speaking ? What would its physical charasteristics be like, if it existed ? How much would it weight, what would it look like, and how would one determine its presence ?

    Are you folks still discussing on whether a banana has a soul or not?!
    This is /. indeed.

  16. Linux hackers on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    More like a user's bug, but still...

    About ~7 yrs ago I entered an IRC channel called #linux_hackers (or something like that).
    At some point I wrote something like:

    me - Have you guys tried
    me - $ find / > /dev/port
    me - Very weird stuff, but really cool. Only works as root, though.
    ...
    me - hello?
    me - helloooo?
    After a while...
    user1 has left (timeout)
    user2 has left (timeout)
    etc

  17. Re:Xatchoo! on Siberia - The Next Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Xatchoo krasiviya Sibirskiya dyevushka. Is that right?

    No, it's not.
    You should stick with the local ones until you learn to write that properly.

  18. Re:Congradulations on Dell Refunds Vista/Works With Two Emails · · Score: 4, Funny

    You took a perfectly good Windows computer(...)

    Is there such a thing?

  19. Re:wow... on Coldwell Banker To Sell Second Life Properties · · Score: 1

    uh, enjoy second live for those people that, um, don't have a worthwhile first life...

    Sadly, many do not have it indeed.
    Yet I fail to see how a game increasingly becoming close to real-world rules (financial speculation and stuff) is attractive compared to the real world.

  20. Re:David v. Goliath? on Intel vs. AMD - Today's Generation Compared · · Score: 1

    64-bit CPUs to the x86 masses - without abandoning 32-bit compatibility

    I find this 64-bit frankenstein x86 regrettable.
    It was a golden incentive for burying x86 and AMD destroyed that (does someone really think Intel only though on 64bit for x86 after AMD released that?).
    Microsoft, obviously, loved the idea of staying with x86.

  21. Or pictures for the impatient ones on Lunar Dustbusters · · Score: 2, Informative

    This looks like a nice stuff to breathe.

  22. GPL compatible on Open Source Image De-Noising · · Score: 1

    Horray!

    5.3.4 COMPATIBILITY WITH THE GNU GPL

    The Licensee can include a code that is subject to the provisions of one of the versions of the GNU GPL in the Modified or unmodified Software, and distribute that entire code under the terms of the same version of the GNU GPL.

    The Licensee can include the Modified or unmodified Software in a code that is subject to the provisions of one of the versions of the GNU GPL, and distribute that entire code under the terms of the same version of the GNU GPL.

  23. forum material on DIY Laptop · · Score: 1

    -User Memory: 96 Bytes of RAM (with plans to upgrade to 8K later)

    One could spend the whole afternoon picking each line of that page and making sarcastic comments.

  24. Oh my... on Reflectivity Reaches a New Low · · Score: 3, Funny

    Reflectivity Reaches a New Low

    Just when you started to think it couldn't get worse...

  25. Re:Turn SuperFetch off on 4 GB May Be Vista's RAM Sweet Spot · · Score: 1

    OS/2 reccomended 4MB

    I assume you're talking about OS/2 >= 2.0.
    Actually OS/2 required 4MB of RAM in order to run. And it had a mediocre performance unless you removed things like, uh, DOS/Win compatibility.
    With 8MB it was usable. Back then I had 12MB and it ran well, yet most people had 4MB since memory was expensive as hell.