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  1. Re:wikimdida free? on Wikipedia Needs $20K · · Score: 1

    Because I can use Britanica online or search on google or yahoo and find out info. Why donate to site with a failed business model.

  2. wikimdida free? on Wikipedia Needs $20K · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it really free if you need to give them money to make there webserver function correctly?

  3. Re:SSIDs? on Enhanced WiFi Security Patch For FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    For business this solution is good. For home use wep is good enough. if you rotate your ssid and wep keys you will be fine, most of your neighors probably aren't nerds enough to hack past wep. Plus wardrivers will move on to the next access point which most likely has the ssid broadcasting to linksys or belkin or something like that. but if I were really concerns about security I would probably setup 3 or 4 fake access points to confuse would be intruders.

  4. Re:This is because: Microsoft is NOT Free Market on Microsoft at the Tipover Point · · Score: 1

    Copyrights are the heart of what makes technology drive. You can argue that open source software is built by people for free under the GPL and BSD licenses. But I doubt you'll ever see chips, drives, and robotics being built by companies if other companies can just steal their copy rights.

  5. Re:New Linux distro by microsoft on Microsoft at the Tipover Point · · Score: 1

    Microsoft would go out of business before their culture would allow them to go to a BSD or Linux system. There routes go back to DOS and they will stay that way.

  6. Re:Another question - why no 2D games? on Best Original Games of 2003? · · Score: 1

    I would like to play a new 'classic' 2d Super Mario brothers game!

  7. Re:Easy Setup and Mantainance of Security is Key! on The Year 2003 in Wireless Network Security · · Score: 1

    why use keys at all then, why not embed chips in our hands that unlock our houses and cars.

  8. Re:My gift... on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    what a kingly gift.

  9. Re:Conspiracy Theroy anyone? on Beagle 2 Probe Lands; No Signal Received Yet · · Score: 1, Funny

    If it was running FreeBSD it would not have failed!

  10. Re:Golden rule number 9? on MandrakeSoft Publishes Support Policy · · Score: 1

    Well I have mandrake 9.1 on my laptop with wireless connection it works well, I only needed to install the driver for my wireless nic all other software needed was on the iso's.

  11. Re:Golden rule number 9? on MandrakeSoft Publishes Support Policy · · Score: 1

    I've found that on my laptop Mandrake works much better than Debian.

  12. Re:Its crap but just as crap as anyone else on Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 · · Score: 1

    What I'm saying is if a fortune 500 company is using Windows for every other server, I don't think they will use a different platform for the domain controller.

  13. Re:Its crap but just as crap as anyone else on Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 · · Score: 1

    Also I am willing to bet every Fortune 500 company(except microsoft) has at least some Unix servers wether they be Sun, IBM, HP, or some other brand. I even heard that msft has some freebsd servers in there backend

  14. Re:Its crap but just as crap as anyone else on Looking Back At Windows Security In 2003 · · Score: 1

    What company is going to use Linux for there primary domain controller but run everything else on Windows, I don't believe this poster knows what he is talking about.

  15. fantasy on Mythic Sues Microsoft Over Mythica MMORPG · · Score: 1

    Maybe if game developers could dream up a genre other than fantasy, problems like this would be averted

    MMORPG besically has two choices either fanstasy or space/future technology. The sims online sucks, so I doubt a company is going to make more games about regular life and sports games do not translate to MMORPG.

  16. Re:The battles would have been a lot better on Message in a Battle · · Score: 1

    If they didn't have all of the ridiculously lame dwarf comedy

    The reason you didn't like this is because you are an Uber nerd. If you were in the theatres you would have noticed the crowd laughing, most people seem to like the scenes with Gimily. But you are to busy saying this movie can't be entertaining, it must show the true history of Middle Earth.

  17. Re:Nuclear War with a Telephone ... Holy Cow. on Mitnick Calls for Hacker Stories · · Score: 1

    If they did put him in solitary they just made this reason up. Because I highly doubt the Air Force really believes somebody could hack missile control systems with a phone.

  18. Re:Open the source code. on Microsoft Sends Linux Survey · · Score: 1

    If they open the source code, the virus and security problems would expand rapidly, when everyone sees the security holes. Yu can say that people will be able to patch the holes. But Joe user and his grandma can't figure out how to use windows update, so they will not know how to patch it. Now I like open source, but most Windows users at home would not benefit.

  19. Re:Window on UserLinux Continues Debate Over GUI · · Score: 1

    WindowsMaker is a very good windows manager, very fast as well. But I think it doesn't really matter, because UserLinux is pointless. Between RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSe what choice does this offer taht the others do not?

  20. Re:software engineering on BusinessWeek on Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    I have often wondered who the large corporations will sell to when the American middle class disappears. I'm in the American middle class and know that we will waste our money on all sorts of needless products, alot of companies are going to lose sales if the middle class jobs go overseas.

  21. Re:Big Dig = Giant Boondoggle for Special Interest on Boston's Big Dig Finally Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    the Dems in power in Boston (Massachusetts is a one-party state) were happy getting union favors

    The Governor is a Republican so how come you right away blame the Dem's. Don't let the facts get in the way of your rant though.

  22. Re:NASA runs older software on Oldest Supported Software? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like Linux as much as the next person, but there is no way of knowing it will still being in use 30-40 years from now. It certainly will have changed very much by then. I doubt that somebody of the street will be able to read code from a Linux system that is 40 years old because they have experience with a "modern Linux" 40 years in the future.

  23. Re:Keep this out. on MySQL Gets Functions in Java · · Score: 1

    I'm sure if you are the DB admin you will be able to turn this feature off.

  24. Re:I know what they can build... on Money Problems May Derail First U.S. MagLev Train · · Score: 0

    I was thinking this story reminded me of the Simpsons episode with the monorail.

  25. Re:Monetize THIS! on San Francisco's Got Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    it gives the telco-types and the WISP-wannabes the middleman middle finger

    I suppose you think the wireless access points have a wireless connection to the Internet backbone. I would imagine if you thought about the kind of bandwidth this takes, the teleco in that area just sold a couple of OC3s or larger pipes.