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  1. Unnecessary comments on Judge Denies TigerDirect's Request for Injunction · · Score: 0, Troll

    "I heard that both people who still held respect for TigerDirect no longer do."

    While i agree with what you're saying, but don't you expect us to be able figure this obvious fact out for ourselves?

    If it's news for nerds, keep this kind of commentary out of it please.

  2. Re:Copyright Infringement Is Not Theft on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 1

    I'd go have a stab at another direction. Copyright exists, but on a genetic level. Most of the ideas, new things are made possible for humanity because of our genetic ancenstry, because of our gene pool and double helix dna. Copyright should exist, but on the level which ideas are coming from: the human race.

    This of course is disregarded by the people who created copyright, but i think it could be one of the reasons to deal away with copyright or extend it to a scale where every human has a right for all these materials simply because being born as human.

  3. Re:Microsoft Propaganda Art on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 1

    In some european countries the state bought a license for a lot of microsoft products including Windows and Office for every university/college student to be used for some years. The license has to be renewed after 2-3 years. It happened for example twice in Hungary (first in a "legal software" campaign, costing millions, then in a "campus program" costing millions).

    Throwing money out of the window instead of supporting free AND thus legal software didn't occur to the government.

  4. Re:Different timezones on Better Scheduler Than Cron? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why hasn't this been done?

    Did you pay for it? Did you help a project like that with either code or other contributions?

    Yes, it would be good to have a more capable daemon, but we are not in a position to demand. The only action we are allowed to take is to contribute if we feel the need for a better tool.

  5. Re:Already upgraded on Firefox Updated to 1.0.4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is what i get why using the net after being 30h without sleep and not using preview.

    Sorry folks for the incomprehensiveness.

  6. Re:Already upgraded on Firefox Updated to 1.0.4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not related to your syxtem, but if someone is on linux and using debian for example, they disable the update functionality for the browser for the browser itself and allow it for the extensions only. This is to ensure that firefox gets updated by the package manager, in the example's case: apt-get.

    It has reportedly sometimes the bad effect that the red update arrow stays red forever.

  7. Re:last i read on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    Well, according to her response she thinks these are the reasons why the article MOG (now) got fired for was created.

    While this is not a 1:1 indication that she won't sue but given that she's quite protective against her privacy and also smarter to respond like that to petty claims, i'd think thats almost the same thing.

  8. Re:too little, too late... on Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld · · Score: 1

    PJ already told everyone she is not going to be bullied into suing.

  9. Re:Whois Entries Not Indicative of a Hack on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 1

    This is a Safari bug...

    As far as the pings go, its not possible, host name lookups were not redirected.

  10. Re:Earth on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it was supposed to be a joke, oh magnificent Catskul hero, fellow partner of Captain Obvious.

  11. Re:potentially hazardous tool on Sober.P Worm Accounts for 5% of all Email Traffic · · Score: 1

    He can do that freely, but as long as his network cable is UNPLUGGED.

    When he connects to the internet, it is like a car goes on the motorway. If that car has criminals in it going insane in that stolen car, then it's the responsibility of the police (isp) to remove them from the motorway (internet).

    I don't care if they refuse to learn. Using the internet comes with one small request: don't disrupt it. Getting virus infected is disruptive.

  12. I've been sent to correct this on New Mozilla Firefox 1.0.3 Exploit · · Score: 1

    it is 'mostly harmless'.

  13. Re:SoGoSearch on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 0

    You know, a few minutes ago when i've first seen the grandparent while the parent was there already, it wasn't moderated interesting yet. So this leads to the conclusion that someone didn't even bother to check the context of the GP post to determine that parent basically negated his own post.

    I'm not usually talking about these things, but this is nice moderation...

  14. Re:Whois Entries Not Indicative of a Hack on Google DNS Glitch Caused Outage · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also the Screenshots are just about BROWSER GUESSES. The screenshots show http://www.google.com.net!

    You know, it's what happens when the browser can't find the given domain name (dns servers are down), that it tries www.google.com.com, then www.google.com.net and it happened to be already taken by the site in the screenshots.

  15. Bad move on Charter School Firm Attacks Online Criticism · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Honestly, i couldn't have found a worse course of action to take by that organization, to dig their own grave. First they only had to deal with 65 parents, now its in the press. Talk about bad PR.

  16. Re:Slashdot effect minor compared to .tar download on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 1

    If it's an announcement of a new kernel, it is likely that at least some percent of the /. crowd will download the new kernel.

  17. Re:Bandwidth and Slashdot Effect on kernel.org on The Linux Kernel Archives · · Score: 1

    Exactly, why is copy pasting a paragraph from the linked article + crap formatting is "Interesting"?

    I don't think that the linked article (last time i checked it wasn't) is slashdotted.

  18. Re:What the Bells et al don't tell you is... on Broadband War & an Interactive Municipal Map · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually it happened in the town i live (Not US). I have a much better service and speed than the 'regular' users of my ISP, because our town created a non-profit organization to act as a 'legal proxy' towards the isp. Yay for me.

  19. Re:That's just silly on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    ...and you defined what scientists mean on a scientific theory. You can prove it wrong

    That is what separates it from being faith. ID is faith, and if scientists were to be politically correct all the time, we would throw back scientific advancement to "progress" observed in middle ages.

  20. Re:Summary = [-1, Flamebait] on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    I seem to be predisposed towards that the earth is almost a sphere.

    For most thinking people that assumption is not considered as being subjective.

  21. Re:Submitter is confused on Does launchd Beat cron? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And you know, this blew it.

    At first i thought, "cool, they replaced init and rc.d with something cleaner, yay, finally", but then i read this thread.

    Those small programs are NOT doing the same thing, there is at least 3 categories and i don't like lumping them together:

    • init, rc.d: system startup, levels
    • inetd, xinetd: it(they) starts programs that provide Internet services, when a connection is initialized on a specific port over the network
    • atd,crond: They execute commands/scripts at a scheduled given, fixed time/interval

    I would welcome launchd as a replacement for the first, but replacing all those things, all three categories is not only has no advantages (i think only init needs fixing, cron and xinetd is good as it is) , but potentially bloats the whole thing. Let's see, if we combine the three categories, we deal with a lot of things at once: scheduling, networking, system runlevels, dependencies.
  22. Re:No, no, no on Ex-Microsoft CTO Checks In On Patent Reform · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is not always a middle ground. Patents eventually hurt companies aswell, they are just too deep in the system to realise that.

  23. Re:"Unhackable Code"? on Using Diamonds to Create Unhackable Code · · Score: 1

    Malicious people can do what the soviets did to spy on the western transmissions in Berlin, when they couldn't tap into optical. They tapped into the amplifier points.

  24. Re:Trustrank? on Google to use TrustRank for News, Possibly More · · Score: 1

    This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Netcraft confirms".

  25. Akamai on Microsoft Migrates Internal Servers to 64-bit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    'the entire Microsoft.com site has been migrated, and we serve 30 million unique visitors every day.'

    Aren't they using Akamai's help in that?