User: Bastard of Subhumani

Re:Analysis from the Future

On: Google to Viacom - The Law is Clear, and On Our Side

Nice one! At the very least, they should bill Viacom for the wasted time. At overtime-plus rates.

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

On: Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

So you're a mac user?

Re:Well if Dvorak doesn't like it...

On: Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone

I quite like his New World Symphony. On the other hand, I never really got on with his keyboard. Overall, I'd say I'm neutral.

Re:Why?

On: Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

What, no profit?????

Re:There are even better shells for windows.

On: Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops?

You'd have 2 * 0.5 lives. Unlike most of us here.

Re:No minimum price? Fine. No product for you.

On: SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices

Copyrights and patents are given to authors and inventors exclusively. Exclusive as in monopoly. The government gives them.

Which is different from any other property laws in what way, pray tell? I suppose the prohibition of theft can be derived from fundamental trigionometry? Or perhaps it just fell out of the sky?

A free market is one where the seller is free to sell (or to not do), the buyer is free to buy (or to not do) at a price they find mutually acceptable. You seem to be confusing it with a free-for-all.

Film at 10

On: Evolution of Mammals Re-evaluated

Thanks. Now make a note in your diary so that when it gets to December, you don't forget to inform us all that reindeer can't actually fly.

Re:Full authentication

On: PayPerPost VC Defends Ethics of Paid Blogging

As Juvenal wrote[1]: Quis moderatiet ipsos moderates?

[1] or surely would have, if Alanus Gorea had been around to invent intarwebs back then.

Re:So?

On: PayPerPost VC Defends Ethics of Paid Blogging

Not only don't I believe anything I read on the intertubes, I don't believe anything I read in the papers, hear on the radio, or see on television.

I suppose you expect us to take your word for that?

Re:Illegal?

On: HP Dishonors Warranty If You Load Linux

If it does, then it is unfortunate, but there is not much that she can do.

Correct - assuming she lives in a place where they haven't got laws about unfair contract terms, merchantability or fitness for purpose.

Re:Finally!

On: Mind How You Walk - Someone is Watching

Maybe it can catch people who walk on the cracks in the pavement? If it saves one old lady...

Re:No minimum price? Fine. No product for you.

On: SCOTUS Case May End Sale Prices

Choose which you prefer... Free Markets, or copyrights and, or patents. If you decide to have copyrights or patents, your free markets are gone for works or goods protected by either.

Choose which you prefer... Free Markets, or locks and, or policemen. If you decide to have locks or policemen, your free markets are gone for works or goods protected by either.

Re:These are not PC issues, but Windows issues.

On: How Small a PC Is Too Small?

This "menu" is known as the "Task Manager" in XP and above.

That's illogical. If one of the things the menu leads to is task manager, how can it be task manager? Task manager manager would make more sense. Or senior VP of tasks.

manifest destiny

On: Some Dinosaurs Made Underground Dens

I guess they were just men, not cavemen - at least until they'd evicted the previous occupants.

Re:How did Spamhaus lose?

On: Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming

It really isn't that difficult to understand what my question meant, but perhaps I have been misled regarding your intellectual capacity.

Proabably the case - your estimate of your own is certainly way off.

Re:How did Spamhaus lose?

On: Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming

I don't care what you meant, I'm not a mind reader - I responded to what you wrote. You screwed up, you got called - get over it.

Re: Pointless name calling - I demand you immediately withdraw that groundless and malicious accusation or put up some evidence.

Re:Boy, THIS one is easy.

On: CBC Recommends Linux To Average User

My mom was programming computers before PCs were invented and my little sister is a software consultant.

Well my great grandmother was Ada Lovelace - beat that!

Re:How did Spamhaus lose?

On: Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming

It is up to the plaintiff to declare that the courts hold no jurisdiction over them.

Why would someone who initiates a lawsuit try to have it declared void? I'd certainly call that person a moron!

Re:I'll tell you why not.

On: New Vote on .xxx Internet Address Nears

The problem is that there is no way to define what IS and IS NOT porn.

I guess someone thinks they can. From TFA: they 'agreed to hire independent organizations to monitor porn sites' compliance with the new rules

I have two questions: one, who are these independent organisations. Two, are they hiring?

Re:The Ultimate .Forward

On: Spammer That Sued Spamhaus Now Sued for Spamming

That might well be the law. It might be relevant to this case too, if Illinois courts had jurisdiction over the UK.

Re:Good techies don't necessarily make good manage

On: Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not?

Why would a company promote an incompetent?

It wouldn't, but I can think of at least two reasons an incompetent manager within one might.

Re:With those credentials

On: Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree

now maybe he could get past the resume screeners and get a job at Google?

I think wikepedia suits his qualifications better.

Re:Rich man's GED

On: Bill Gates to Finally Receive His Harvard Degree

Which field? I didn't know there was a subject called "monopology".

Re: Slashdotters

On: Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex

the ability of two different species to produce even infertile offspring is pretty damned rare

...and that's why New Zealand isn't overcrowded.

Re:Welcome to slashdot

On: Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex

Third possiblity: c) he's a she.