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  1. Re:File counter-notice, put blog back up on DMCA Takedown Notice For a Fake ID · · Score: 1

    What happens when one of these days she posts the photo, name and address of someone under the age of 18? What happens if they become the target of stalking by sexual predators and it gets traced back to her blog? If someone needs a fake ID to drink beer, probably not best to be posting a road map to molesting them on the internet... no matter how old you THINK they might be.

  2. Re:SUN and GPL on Sun Completes Java Core Tech Open-Sourcing · · Score: 1

    News Flash: Implementation by the language's designer in 2007 is superior to an implementation the designer sued to kill back in the Java 1.1 days.

  3. Re:Mozilla Had the Same Problem on Sun Completes Java Core Tech Open-Sourcing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Aside from scrapping nearly the entire Netscape codebase and starting over?

  4. Re:Would you want your images succeptable to GPL on Microsoft Move to be the End of JPEG? · · Score: 1

    Only because there are exceptions in the headers. If a program embeds a sufficient part of itself in the output, the output must be GPLed if the GPLed parts aren't stripped. If they are required for the output to work, there better be an exception if you want to make it proprietary.

  5. Re:Oh Really? on Spore Dev Down On the Wii · · Score: 1

    The crappy movie license games usually end up on all the consoles AND PC.

  6. Re:Back in the day... on Amazon Adjusts Prices After Sales Error · · Score: 1

    So stupid computer program vs stupid people who believed they could get 2 free DVD sets on a 2 for 1 deal? I'm not sure who to root for. On one hand computer programs are known for being buggy and on the other people are known for doing stupid things.

  7. Re:Does it matter? on SCO Vs. Groklaw · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the wonderful idea. Could you also recommend a place to find realistic looking bunny suits? -- The CIA

  8. Re:Well, of course he's saying that. on Bill Gates Brags About Vista, Reacts to Apple's Latest Ads · · Score: 1

    The guy with the dictionary was a tard.

  9. Re:Is this a good thing? on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML · · Score: 1

    They don't have to make sure a fix in Word doesn't bork rendering for the entire operating system and third party software using trident. Plus, the Office team doesn't have to try to explain that an exploit in Outlook is actually an exploit in IE.

    Word's renderer is also likely extremely simple compared to IE's.

  10. Re:wouldn't it be nice? on Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security · · Score: 1

    If you're a government agency that's supposed to be looking out for national security... the security of an operating system used by the vast majority of citizens, corporations and the government is probably of interest...

  11. Re:New theme on Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista · · Score: 1

    It looks much better using the blue theme. Considering the fact that most of the default Vista interface is not black but a tint of blue (except the sidebar and taskbar...), the black theme for Office 2k7 probably doesn't make sense on Vista anymore. ;o

  12. Re:Change is only good if it is the RIGHT change on Office 2007 — Better But a Tough Switch · · Score: 1

    I'd like to mention that the print "menu" in the Office menu can be clicked on directly without going through a menu and will function just like it normally would from the 2003 file menu... so print is right at the top of the screen and in the equivalent of the file menu :( CTRL-P also still works fine anyway...

  13. Re:Lipstick on a pig on Office 2007 UI License · · Score: 1

    If you're doing a serious document for more than a shopping list, you'll probably need at least a handful of features that are just a pain in the ass to get to in Word 2k3 and earlier.

  14. Re:I think the courts have made it pretty clear on Office 2007 UI License · · Score: 1

    Ask the US Patent Office. I'm sure there's a ton of patents (valid or not) winding their way through the patent process for the Office 2007 and Windows Vista interfaces.

  15. Re:so, what this seems to say on Office 2007 UI License · · Score: 1

    The sections you highlight are in relation to documentation provided for the Office file formats via MSDN and the MSDE database engine. They are not applicable to the entire MSDN.

  16. Re:Huh? on Firebird 2.0 Final Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    EFI is the newest incompatible BIOS replacement.

  17. Re:Let's think this through... on Nine Reasons To Skip Firefox 2.0 · · Score: 1

    It's written in C/C++. Saying Firefox is written in JavaScript would be akin to saying Oracle is written in PL/SQL because the db happens to be running PL/SQL stored procedures to show you what you want...

  18. Re:More like from the excuses-excuses-excuses dept on Sony Claims Game Sector is 'Weak' · · Score: 1

    Which will mean fuck-all if the PS3 even remotely fails to meet expectations and Sony implodes while Nintendo turns a profit successful Wii or not.

  19. Re:Tabbed browsing? on Microsoft's IE Team Leader Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    They had an MDI interface. There are no tabs involved in MDI. Opera made it tabbed in 2000. MDI is basically how MS Office used to manage multiple open documents in a single window.

  20. Re:At least they caught it before release on Bug Pushes Vista Out to November 8th · · Score: 1

    It wasn't going to be generally available in retail until next year anyway.

  21. Re:Sounds like security by obscurity on 64-Bit Vista Kernel Will Be a "Black Box" · · Score: 0

    Combined with active protections from tampering...no. I really wish the zomg "security by obscurity" buzz phrase would just die. If you think about it, anything but blocking physical access or requiring bullet proof biometric authentication is security by obscurity. Hiding behind passwords and encryption keys is no different.

  22. Re:A correlation shows no cause on TV Really Might Cause Autism · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see the correlation between autism, ADD, ADHD and other defects and the availability of cheap soft drinks in aluminum cans and aluminum cookware. Aluminum toxicity can cause some scary shit in adults and children and can make its way into a fetus. It's also surprisingly easy to develop the levels of toxicity required to cause a change in personality in an adult or even eventual psychotic breaks...

  23. Re:The Judge's reaction ..... on Email Servers Will Choke, Says Spamhaus · · Score: 2, Funny

    His e-mail is probably filtered by some poor clerk.

  24. Re:Microsoft cant win on Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security · · Score: 1

    There is no indication that PatchGuard or any other security features in Vista would've prevented Symantec and McAfee from offering their products on Vista. The x64 Vista kernel had blocks in place to prevent certain kinds of access. In the past Symantec and McAfee used (*abused*) this kind of access to the kernel to make their solutions *easier* to implement. Instead of just changing their software and stop abusing the kernel in that way, they ran to the EU. This just means there's yet another API that they still might refuse to use and make a new complaint.

  25. Re:NO NO NO. on Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They kowtowed to a government body that has control of an entire continent. If they hadn't made Symantec and McAfee happy, they'd be right back in the EU courts having even more restrictions they can never meet and fines that will never stop shoved down their throats.