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  1. Inaccurate subject on SCO Preps Appeals Against Novell and IBM · · Score: 5, Informative

    First of all this is at least a few weeks old. Check Groklaw. Second they are not giving SCO $100 mil outright. They are giving $5 mil with an option to loan another $95 mil over 5 years.

  2. Re:scripting on State of the Onion 11 · · Score: 1
    If you don't seriously advocate nuclear power, then you don't take global warming seriously.

    What a weird sig. 90% of humans dieing off would certainly take care of it.

  3. Re:the opposing viewpoint on UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft · · Score: 1

    It used to be around 30 years ago. If you could receive it you could listen to it. Of course DirecTV wasn't around back then. Then people started listening to unencrypted cell conversations and they started passing laws making parts of the spectrum illegal to listen to.

  4. Re:It's THEIR Music on U.S. Court Denies Webcasters' Stay Petition · · Score: 1

    That is not the case. They are claiming they should receive royalties on all music even if I made it unless I sign a contract with each and every company that plays it. No Creative Commons style license allowed.

  5. Re:Sound exchange says they won't enforce it on U.S. Court Denies Webcasters' Stay Petition · · Score: 1

    I was just about to post that late breaking link. To clarify though they promised not to enforce it immediately. They might later.

  6. Re:Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. on Samba Adopts GPLv3 For Future Releases · · Score: 1

    No they won't because they signed their agreement prior to March 28.

  7. Re:Its the little old lady who got a subpoena on Granny Sues RIAA Over Unlicensed Investigator · · Score: 2, Informative

    That would be Little Old Lady from Pasadena.

  8. Re:Photos on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1

    Maybe because there are hardly any 7-11s around here? I remember seeing one south of downtown. Don't know if it is still there.

  9. Crazy on Music Industry Attacks Free Prince CD · · Score: 1

    That's just nuts. Good for Prince.

  10. A better tactic on RIAA Uses Local Cops In Oregon Raid · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I hope the RIAA realizes one day these are much better tactics than threatening people with lawsuits for thousands of dollars because they (maybe) uploaded some mp3s. It is so unbalanced. Somebody has thousands of cds they are selling on the street and all they do is take them but grandma has to deal with a lawsuit probably because some isp logged the wrong ip address.

  11. Re:A pain for users on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 1

    Oh whatever. When I do want to join a site they sometimes have captchas that I can't figure out and have to try five of them or however many. It's frustrating. Throw in a second one which was put there because it is illegible and I'll say oh well, forget it. Forums aren't the only places using them either.

  12. A pain for users on Fill Out CAPTCHAs, Digitize Books At The Same Time · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Great, so now I would have to fill out two of those stupid things instead of one. Why would a company want to inflict this on its users?

  13. Re:Unicode integration woes on Migrate a MySQL Database Preserving Special Characters · · Score: 1

    At least with a standard dreamhost account it's against the tos. No servers of your own allowed. I wrote them asking the identical question except with postgres and that is the answer I got.

  14. Re:Great Idea, Bad Execution on Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life · · Score: 1

    It doesn't take much to install second life. It's free and you don't have to even give them a credit card so long as you don't mind having no money or land.

  15. Re:For children of all ages? on Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life · · Score: 1

    That's correct. Second Life has the main adult grid for 18+ and the child grid for -18. They don't meet.

  16. Re:I love the idea... on Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life · · Score: 1

    Bloated? It's a 30 meg download. It has the need for good hardware to run the thing but hard disk space is hardly an issue.

  17. Re:Nothing to see. on Microsoft Plays Up Open Source · · Score: 1

    Oh come on. Postgres's sql is way better than MS's. And TransactSql? Bleah. I read that mssql 2005 is much better with C# integration but how new is that?

  18. Re:Microsoft is only Anti-GPL on Microsoft Plays Up Open Source · · Score: 1

    Now that deserves an insightful mod point. I don't have any though.

  19. Re:one man's summary on 15 Websites That Changed the World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm not sure how you figure that. I work in a huge new and used bookstore (powells.com) and have done so long before Amazon existed. We can't compete with Amazon on new book pricing. Used books are our bread and butter. I might be misunderstanding your post buy when you say Amazon hasn't changed the world of the greatest best seller it sounds like you are talking about content. Amazon hasn't changed what content appears in new books but they have changed where people buy them.

  20. Upcoming developer tools on Microsoft's Sparkle a Flash Killer? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sites that make you scroll left and right to read the text like the "upcoming developer tools" link are horrid, I can't/won't read them.

  21. Differences between v3 and v2 on First Draft of GPL Version 3 Released · · Score: 1

    I was surprised there would be the ability to add clauses to the license. It seems this will make it more difficult for many people or (especially) organizations to accept, if they have to evaluate the legality for their situation of many similar but different licenses.

    I have only read the license through once and have lots of questions to think about. My first impression though is it seems a lot more readable than v2 for which I read "This is legalese what does this mean in English?"

  22. Re:What I want to know: Can I paint circles in it? on First Look at GIMP 2.4 · · Score: 2, Informative

    For perfect circles use the oval tool while holding the shift key.

  23. It's ok to kill prostitutes but not sleep w/ them on Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That must be the logic of all those politicians protesting the gta hot coffee mod. Killing cops must be ok too since that was always a highly visible part of the game, unlike the mod.

    Also I think we should ban high school football. God knows how much violence that has caused outside of playing it.

  24. Re:Far from certain on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well they just released the first major new version of their os in 9 years and it has tons of open source software on it. No doubt the open source parts ane NOT under another license but under the GPL. They do have lawyers who would at least spot that major headache.

  25. Far from certain on Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the actual Groklaw article you will see it may just have been some copy of the kernel on one of their distribution disks which would be fine as far as the gpl is concerned. If they actually integrated source code from the linux kernel into their own kernel that would be very interesting and bad karma indeed for them. But that is far from certain.