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  1. Re:The GPL appears in the most peculiar places... on Allnet GPL Infringement Settled Constructively · · Score: 1

    Basically its a modified version of the LRP (linux router project), but the source is here: http://kbserver.netgear.com/support_details.asp?dn ldID=506

  2. Business Venture! on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 1

    Step 1: Search Trademarks DB: for Fedora

    Step 2: Note lack of registration for Red Hat Inc.

    Step 3: Create 'Fedora the Magician'

    Step 4: Sue

    Step 5: ???

    Step 6: PROFIT!

  3. Re:People... on The Self-Tuning Guitar · · Score: 1

    The video in the parent has a person playing the guitar, shifting tuning whilst playing.

  4. People... on The Self-Tuning Guitar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't seem to understand what this product is for. It's not for tonedeaf idiots who can't tune a guitar.

    It's for professionals, who want to expand their sound by being able to change tuning midsong and at a rate of a tone a second, so that you can get effects and changes in sound that are impossible on a normal guitar tuning headstock (believe me, I just tried to emulate this video with my guitar: http://www.selftuning.com/video/video.html )

    I think the price tag of 3300$-3899$ says it all really.

  5. Re:The GPL appears in the most peculiar places... on Allnet GPL Infringement Settled Constructively · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, my netgear router came with a card linking to source downloads for the innards, due to the GPL. Good to see people care.

  6. Re:I can picture the board meeting on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, teoma are really fair with their $30 charge to submit a URL :)

    Alltheweb I liked a while back (when altavista was king), but I can't actually tell any difference between it and google these days. You don't get anywhere by staying the same, they need to innovate (man)

  7. Re:paying for email... on In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers · · Score: 1

    Pah, mailing lists?

    I have 30000 friends, and I'm more worried about how i'm gonna organise my parties :)

  8. Re:paying for email... on In (Sort Of) Defense of Spammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But is this ever going to happen? The whole point of email is freedom, freedom of speech and freedom of implemenation across a common protocol. Anyone can set up sendmail and start sending important information, without having to seek permission from a greater authority. Paying for email is all well and good pragmatically, but it is night upon impossible to implement it without losing the freedom that makes email so important.

  9. I can picture the board meeting on Yahoo! Switches Search Engines · · Score: 5, Funny

    CEO: We want a search engine that evokes pride and confidence. Disgruntled Employee: *aside*Let's face it, compared to google it's gonna suck. */aside* How about "Slurp"? CEO: Slurp! I like it!

  10. Re:The superhero is question on Gene Therapy Creates Strong Super-Rats · · Score: 1

    And of course by "is question", I mean "in question, and apologies for the most daft spelling error ever."

  11. The superhero is question on Gene Therapy Creates Strong Super-Rats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    from the Yahoo article, was Monkey Man of Tumbridge Wells. He was an elaborate spoof created by ccc of b3ta. There were no sightings of him, all the sightings were fabricated by ccc himself and sent into local newspapers. It was quite big news over here in the UK. I had the pleasure of speaking to the Monkey Man on the radio when he revealed himself, and he's a damn nice bloke

    For indepth monkey-truth, click here!