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  1. Re:This feels like 1999 all over again on Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn · · Score: 1

    Is that because all of your customers are reading your paper and not the website, because online ads can't be sold for as much, or both (ie: you don't get a good price for the ads because you're not drawing enough traffic).

    I'm not really familiar with the industry, it'd be interesting to hear why online ads are not as profitable.

  2. Re:Damn hippies on Richard Stallman Proclaims Don't Follow Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Just out of curiousity, who was he working for on this trip? (Or what organization sent the group there, that might be a better question.)

  3. Re:What GNU/Linux gaming area? on AMD To Open ATI Specs · · Score: 1

    I could be just ignorant of the LGPL, but couldn't SDL's copyright holder(s) relicense it to a given company, if they so choose? (For a fee, or whatever deal they decided to work out...)

  4. Re:Should not be difficult to understand .... on Google May Close Gmail Germany Over Privacy Law · · Score: 1

    Yet, I don't think it's illegal to claim that the Earth is flat...

  5. Re:Anything Non-Numeric, with Patience on What Can 4-yr-olds Understand About Science? · · Score: 1

    So? A lot of adults are like that, especially with regard to some of the concepts he's talking about. I'd say his daughter has a pretty good head start - she's gonna have a longer time to let that stuff sink in.

  6. Re:On linux... on How Long Does it Take You to Tweak a New Box? · · Score: 1

    That has not been my experience with Free/OpenBSD.

  7. Re:solution for everyone else on SETI Finally Finds Something · · Score: 1

    Keep it simple, stupid. If you've got a webserver, setup a cron job so wget queries some specific URL. Or run the dyndns script at boot time. No security risks, no need to write some piece of crazy software.

  8. Ah, I love Canada on Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...he wouldn't have had to pay a dime, Up North. Gifts or prizes are _not_ taxable.

  9. Re:Interesting on Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn · · Score: 0, Troll

    > for god's sake ppl. use your head when you talk about free speech. there are limits to free speech. you cant go up to a stranger
    > and start insulting him or lie about about some famous person in the newspaper.

    Well, actually - you can.

    Moron.

  10. Re:This isn't "open source" computers... on Dell Sells Open Source Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA... it ships with FreeDOS. Sounds like open source to me.

  11. Re:Sweeeeet on Ubuntu Studio Announced · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Ardour?

  12. Re:Studies on Pipeline Worm Floods AIM With Botnet Drones · · Score: 1

    Cool, thanks.

  13. Re:Studies on Pipeline Worm Floods AIM With Botnet Drones · · Score: 1

    I would love to read these studies you speak of.

  14. Re:Abandon Ship? on Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a matter of fact, Citizendium would be more like the Linux kernel in your analogy, because I don't think the Linux kernel dev team accepts patches from just any asshole, and then sticks em straight in a live release... some expert or another has to approve it. Otherwise, it'd be chaos. It would always be broken.

  15. Re:Abandon Ship? on Co-Founder Forks Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    > It seems like a repudiation of the very heart of the open philosophy. Isn't this move akin to someone taking Linux and
    > forking" it into closed source OS? No matter how good the resulting OS could be, haven't you torpedoed the philosophical
    > basis of Linux by doing so?

    No, no. Because you can still take any of the content on Citizendium (?) and start your own encyclopedia.

  16. Noise cancellation on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: 1

    I haven't looked to see if anyone has suggested this already; but I ain't got time to read through 50,000 postings from people who secretly wish they were lawyers, so I'll just go ahead and blurt it out.

    What you need to do is build some kind of noise cancellation device, where it records the sound the of mosquito machine, and plays back the inverted wave. I can't give you any more details on that because I'll risk sounding like someone who secretly wants to be a physicist, and I'm not.

    I'm sure there's plenty of info out there on how to go about doing that - but the important thing is that you know it can be done.

  17. Re:What a concept! on Viral Marketing to Become the Norm? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it "self cleans", so much as it stops overproducing sebum.

  18. Re:Let me get this straight on Border Security System Left Open · · Score: 2, Informative

    From 2001 to 2003 there was a 'porn czar' in Utah.

  19. Re:Let me get this straight on Border Security System Left Open · · Score: 1

    The fact that there is a 'Pornography Czar' at all should tell you a lot more about the state of your society...

  20. Re:Bad idea: it's the wrong way to enforce ID on Law Requires Italian Web Cafes to Record ID · · Score: 1

    lol no its not bad for freedom

  21. Re:fristy psot? on Webhost Sues Google · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Enough already.

  22. Hahahahahahahahahaha... was Re:free oss? on OSS in One-Fifth of Japanese Businesses · · Score: 1

    Right.

  23. Re:The distribution is called "WIENUX" on City of Vienna Chooses Linux · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit...

  24. Re:My two cents... on How to Leave a Job on Good Terms? · · Score: 1

    In Canada (Alberta, anyway) this is also the case. Unless you've been working there for more less than 3 months, in which case no notice is required.

    Even if you don't give notice when you are required, however, the only thing your employer can do is withold (sp?) your cheque for another 10 days after your last day of employment.

  25. Re:A little more than that, perhaps on NSA (partially) Declassified · · Score: 1

    Speaking of Area 51... you can tell I spend to much time on Slashdot.

    I read the document, and I almost fell off my chair when I saw the phrase "alien smuggling".