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  1. Re:Finally a use for the 'itsatrap' tag on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    OK, ask it in another way. If you see a domain and you want to know if the other is willing to sell it, what would you do?

    A) Send in the lawers and take it by a courtorder, even if it is in another country
    B) Ask if they are interested or not

    Mmm. To me it looks just as if this is B)

    And if you are not willing to negotiate, just tell them so.

  2. Re:How can you tell if a box is zombied? on Zombie Network Explosion · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So they must look at the back of their machine that is under the table and then be able to understand the difference between a light that is on and one that goes crazy. The people who are infected will most likely not be able to do that.

    The people who are infected will have a hard time understanding the difference between a monitor and a computer and will find doing anything that is not taught in a specific way and order difficult and scary.

    OK, this might not be the average user, but I think it is the average user who will be infected.

  3. Re:This is not Chrome-specific. on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1
  4. Re:jumping to conclusions on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    It applies to the browser if you have the option to send usage stats and crash reports automatically. This means that they will get the sites you go to will be known.

    Whether or not this is something to be afraid of is another matter. Basically it is a 'phone home' sort of device.

  5. Re:So far so good. on Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print · · Score: 1

    After browsing for a couple of hours I can close all tabs and still use nearly 400 megs of memory. That's a serious problem.

    I do not know what OS you run, but on Linux this is a question that often pops up: "I have nothing running and have xyzMB in memory in use.

    The answer obviously is: because you have xyz+abcMB you have available.
    I have 8GB in my machine an it uses a serious part of it. That is what it is for. That is why I bought it. It doesn't slow down anything if it isn't used.

    This doesn't mean that there is no problem with Firefox, because there is.

  6. Re:Initial impressions on Mozilla's Thoughts On Google's Chrome · · Score: 1

    I am working on a French PC and I want it in English (like all my software) and there was no question as to what language I wanted and no option to change it. Very bad and it makes it unusable for me.

  7. Re:This happened to me on Unsolicited Offer For My Personal Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    It is nice to see that domain name squatting works.

  8. Re:why the on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 1

    To go around that, they put a camera on a car and drive around. See if the government still will stick to the 50cm rule or not.

    So will 41cm images be available for other places outside the USofA? That way we could compare the differences between the two and see if it is a huge difference or not.

  9. Re:The jury's still out on "Google Satellite" To Be Launched This Week · · Score: 1

    In Europe we call that 'anti monopoly law'.

  10. Re:STOP on Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Indeed, people who think like that should be SHOT!

  11. Re:Average age? on Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans · · Score: 1

    She's dead, you insensitive clod.

    On a serious note, she gave away not only her money when she was still alive (better give with a warm hand then with a cold hand was her motto) but also her body when she was dead. So you are a bit too late.

  12. Average age? on Laboring Longer a Growing Trend For Americans · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does average age have to do anything with it?

    I can imagine that many pension plans are about letting people live for 10 years. From 65 to 75. Now people get older and suddenly need to have money for 20 years.

    That together with the fact that health wise, those are the most expensive years. People paying a LOT of money for 1 or 2 more years. My great-aunt always though it was stupid to spend so much money on the elderly and that money should be given to healthy people.

  13. Re:Linux as desktop OS == FAILURE on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was trying to install Windows and got a LOT of weird error messages and I gave up. To me Windows is clearly not ready for the desktop.

    The fact that you use a GUI to open a console instead of doing an ssh also speaks for itself. Yes, perhaps your X had crashed, but that should not mean that you can't do anything else. ssh to it, su to it and do whatever you intended to do before.

    On my machine I would just launch `yast` and do the configuration over CLI, while it still resembles what I know how it looks in GUI.

  14. Re:I'm sure their motives are pure... on Scammers Riding the Gustav Wave · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Until there is one that is not a scammer and wants to start a private incentive. He is now not able to do so. Domain-squatting is never a good idea. NEVER!

  15. Re:Snake Oil on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    That is why I use my created credit card number for a fixed amount for purchases where I am not in direct physical contact with the vendor. This means purchases over the phone and also via Internet.

    Say I want to buy ScamMe for 1EUR, I will make a card with the maximum amount of 1EUR and use that to pay. If they then want to retrieve more money, they get a blank. Also in b
    Belgium (and most of Europe) the laws are in favor of the end-user and not of the company.

  16. Re:Snake Oil on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    Trying to convince the poor that they can become rich overnight is easy.

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

  17. Why mentioning cancer? on Smilin' Bob Not Smilin' Anymore · · Score: 1

    The age I can partly understand, but why mention the fact that she has cancer? Is there any relevance to the fact that she has cancer and whether she is guilty or not?

    Next we will know what the color of her dress was when she married.

  18. Re:Purchases on Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Belgium they also look at purchases. The easiest to go about this is to buy X percent outside of the books. Say 50% to make counting easy. And you do this for ALL purchases, including milk for the coffee and the cookies that come with it.
    If you are a bar, also the soft drinks and the beer coasters.

    The reason is that they know how much milk will be used for how much amount of coffee (when buying individual portions) Also they know how much soft drinks will be used compared to the amount of beer and the type of place you are.

    They will know your location and on average how many people you get and probably even know on average how much they will spend.

    SO if you take of 50%, you could get hit hard. Oh and tax in Belgium is 21% and also 16% service. So all places have tax and service included. What you see is what you pay. Tipping is done, but more rounding up to the nearest 1, 5, 10 or 20, depending on the amount spend.

  19. Re:IIRC... on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    SuSE (now SUSE and openSUSE) was available via FTP as ISO and as individual packages and as network ISO so installation over network was possible. Individual packages could be downloaded, although there was no real need to do so, as everything was on the DVD and CDs anyway.

    Due to the large amount of packages and the increase in Internet connections, some packages are only available via Internet.

    The main difference between SUSE and openSUSE is that SUSE will be having paid security updates for 7 years from the release date. No idea what you mean with 'evaluations'. If you want, you can run SUSE as much as you desire without any limited period. openSUSE is completely free, as are the updates.

    And again now it is SUSE and openSUSE.

  20. Re:A Question of Investment on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 1

    If companies are simply going to go to someone else, that then suggests that investment in open source software could go down...

    It could also mean that more (local) people get involved and are closer to their customer so willing to solve the problem and investment in open source software could go up...

    Instead of 100 developers in one company, you will have 1 developer in 200 different companies.

  21. Re:RedHat and SuSE's strategy backfiring... on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 3, Informative

    SUSE has always been free for download. In the beginning it was free 2 months after the boxed version. This has changed when Novell took over. They also have put YaST under complete GPL as well.

    Now there is a more clear difference between the community distribution and the corporate one. SUSE is corporate, openSUSE is community/

    Both can be downloaded for free. For SUSE the (security-)updates need to be payed. For openSUSE they are free.

    Oh and it hasn't been SuSE for a long while now.

  22. Re:How it's supposed to work. on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's see if RH or SUSE has a business model that works according to this reality.

    Not sure about RedHat, but Novell (with openSUSE) activaly sponsors openSUSE and has made it extremely easy to make an openSUSE basded distro

    Almost all other tools are included as well, including the Build service which can be downloaded and is used to make the distributions from scratch.

    So I would say they are at least very much aware of the reality. Also do not forget that these companies invest people and time in thinks like the kernel, KDE, GNOME and other OSS and Linux related projects.

    It will not be the downfall of Linux if those companies go away, but it will leave a serious impact when the developers who are paid to work on Linux won't be doing that anymore.

  23. Re:I saw that on a supermarket chain on Businesses Choosing "Community" Linux Distros · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you think RedHat is great at what it does, put your money where your mouth is. It is not that there is a lack of distributions.

  24. Management now? on Mathematical Modeling Used To Track and Label · · Score: 4, Funny

    automate much of what we now call management.

    That means I will be managed by a mindless droid. Not much difference from now and most likely even an improvement from the humanoid random generator that takes decisions now.

  25. Re:Same old Russia on Anti-Government Webmaster Shot Dead By Russian Police · · Score: 1

    you've clearly been living under a rock the last eight years.

    You can easily add a zero to that and if you leave out the country, you can add another one or 2 zeros.

    People do generally do not interfere, unless they can gain something.