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  1. I keep seeing music on Young Programmer, Stop Advocating Free Software! · · Score: 1

    The "value" argument is only the surface.

    The recording industry steals almost all "value" of the music their artist's produce. Pushing free software is the same outcry from programmers hoping the software industry can climb out of the RIAA mess.

    You want to argue a kid into not giving for free, but you are really helping the programmers into a thankless/payless job where their signers gain all the income.

    We are already in such a world. Programmers are not paid near their worth from their employers. The corporations own all the code. But unlike the musicians, there is no percentage after the creation unless the programmer runs the business too. (taking on all with the rediculous patent laws that abound)

  2. Just pass for punishment.... on An Ignition Interlock In Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Let the convicted individuals wear a neck brace or helmet that is detected by vehicles (and any watchers-by) to force use of the device. Or maybe air detection in the car with a high sensitivity to detect alcohol in the air, then force use.

  3. Re:DMCA Must gooo! its gayer than the YMCA on SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make an original file, program, or image, run it trough a one-time-hash using the DMCA text. Have a friend post on some site how to crack your file using the DMCA text. Would it not reuire the DMCA to be banned?

  4. Re:The point is? on Music Industry Develops Centralized File-Sharing System · · Score: 1

    With the ID3 tags being the content they allow to be shared, does this not allow the MP3s to be shared as just a little more than their "approved and supported" content?

  5. Re:Sorry, hang on on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1

    This is one of many reasons I wear the "By selling me this item, you accept all liability from use and mis-use of said item" agreement sticker on my forehead when I buy things.

    Let them fight it out. What is the difference between a ten-year old on an "accept" button, and a twenty-year old on the register before me?

  6. Re:This Is Great News on Phoenix Sounds Death Knell for BIOS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Wrong. Too many people will "do" nothing about this "avoidable" issue. They "will" buy for name as soon as it is possible. (Which may mean sit with older hard/software longer for now.) They know there is something that can be done, but avoid the issue until it is too late.

    Most companies serve companies. Those "top" served are the ones with the resources to set the new acceptted standards at first oppurtunity, and appear like the child with the eye on that new toy. This leaves the servers a deadline to change or lose income, just like a line of dominoes, just like the past.

    Leaving the character based OS of DOS to tie in graphical interfacing to the base OS happened this way. Unix has stayed with X, a separate program from the OS. Now, onto hardware ties to MS garbage.

    Noone has too, but the largest percentage will.

  7. Re:BigBlockMopar in University... on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *SHE* learned that I am, in fact, an asshole. And proud of it.

    So much for any sign of intellect out of you.. The term "asshole" means you have no feeling like the hole between your cheeks (both). "Pride" is a feeling.

    It also means whatever comes out of you is crap. The only thing she did wrong was to waste her time on you and your "friends". (watch your back with those friends. er, no front, being the asshole you are.

  8. Re:BigBlockMopar in University... on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    and force me to date unattractive girls in order to "level the playing field"?

    No, you said diversity, you ugly SOB!

  9. Re:Poor victimised Microsoft on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    And you can never blame the victim for the crime...

    Negligence is never a crime. Yeah, right.

    Police cars blow up due to poor design and gasoline tank placement. Company is not sued? Cops did not die? Must mean there are no victims since both happen.

    Stay in the software biz!! There are is no fault in poorly written code unless someone labels it VIRUS!! Even when lives are at stake! Due to several windows PCs locking up with a virus attack, data was delayed between investigations and the security team that was to protect my kid from the kidnapping.

    A virus is just like an anti-histimine. It just fills in holes expelling undesired substance!

  10. Re:Poor victimised Microsoft on Microsoft Offers A Bounty On Virus Writers · · Score: 1

    And you can never blame the victim for the crime...

    No parent leaving their gun out for their kid to shoot them could blame themselves due to their own death, however the living parent SURE AS HELL COULD!!

  11. Since Noone Commenting Read The Law.... on 10th Circuit Says FTC Can Enforce Do Not Call · · Score: 1

    1. Not for profit means political and marketing calls as well as many other types.

    2. The calling being unsolicited does not include calls from companies with which you have a business relationship. Have you given a phone number for any service or product ever? Most of the calls in the last few weeks were to initiate a relationship with people before the list goes into effect. This links you to the company for any further calling until you answer their call with "Do Not Call Me".

    Anyone that gives out their own contact information to undesirables deserves what they get. Anyone who lets the government make laws like the one enforcing this List is placing less control in their own life as well as mine.

    STOP PICKING UP THE PHONE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO ANSWER IT!!!

  12. DNC - 50 million people CAN'T be wrong??? on Slashback: Card, Fortran, Legibility · · Score: 1

    What is the count of students with failing grades?
    How many people LIE each minute? (The speaker for instance!)
    How many people STEAL in this country????

    HOW MANY PEOPLE USE MS WINDOWS????????

  13. Only M$ support for any issues on Windows Cheaper When Studied by MSFT Analysts · · Score: 1

    High level training for all, and noone but M$ can fix deeper problems. Proprietary OS and noone but M$ can fix OS problems.

    This is great news for M$ and their support division, but is a big red flag to companies. Why would anyone put their company in a future of unfixable bugs and support/training subscription debt for cheaper programmers. Use your own OS, software, and "qualified" programmers, and you will have a product/service that will make money. Don't feed the Empire!!!

    M$ is killing the education given to our young by lowering the percieved level needed by anyone to advance computer technology. All have to spend more after schooling for M$ specific low-level training once computers "can be used/programmed by anyone". Even new M$ employees will need to blow more than they do on their cars just to get a support job with M$.

  14. Re:and VAX/VMS was better? on Big Company on Campus · · Score: 1

    Two things gave you away.....watch your step people.

    1. VAX/VMS never caused nightmares, and give a wonderful sideview of software/OS with hardware.

    2. It was not the "M$-Empire" that made linux stand out, it was the lack of any other decent OS for the common hardware of the age. Especially one with features based on need, and not based on greed.

    Your siding against the anti-M$ crowd still shows you've already given in to the same thing you are preaching against. You gave up at a certain level of knowledge.

    Programming is not the base being lost in society by MS relations with schools. Computer Science as a whole is being lost. MS goals are to produce and distribute non-CS software (including programming software) to be supported by MS. They win when students start from halfway up the education ladder.

  15. I Bought a PC.... on Microsoft wants Automatic Update for Windows · · Score: 2, Funny

    I owned that PC all the way out of the store. I owned it all the way home and out of the box. I plugged it all up, hit the power button, then the "transfer of ownership" started. Once the initial non-linux OS started to boot (or install for my "put together box"), my ownership went away. My PC told me it had to get some files. It reached out across the open internet and started doing things on it's own. Then a popup message appeared on the screen. "Your machine has been caught downloading Intellectual Property of !! Your harddrive is being wiped!!"

    So the cycle of ownership goes.....

  16. Re:Cost two million jobs... on Telemarketers Sue Over "Do Not Call" List · · Score: 1

    "Was there a constitutional right to profit that I missed?"

    Was there a constitutional right to phones only getting calls off of your white-list?

    Without these marketing calls you, and at least 2 million of others like you, would have no calls..... This is more to add on the pile of arguments against technology. Once you start going for legal blockages instead of improving the poorly designed telephones, the toys become totally useless.

  17. Re:Oh, my. on Gates: Microsoft IP Finds Its Way Into Free Software · · Score: 1

    The risk is not something to be avoided by Microsoft. The fact that they use the code to crank out initial tools is not challenged by the GPL workers when it goes into MS products. One of the biggest things left out of the free software organizations is the need for and use of a legal fight.

    Commercial Business steps.
    1. Use GPL code in your product.
    2. Re-write GPL code while selling initial product or during any delays in other parts of the production phase.
    3. Once non-GPL code is in (patch or product), start pressing legal matters against the free software industry.

    Free Software production
    1. Use commercial code/methods, or don't.
    2. Get a good spread on the new product's distribution.
    3. Start whining when lawsuits start.

  18. Re:Great, just great! on Self-Destructing DVD's Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I guess if there is no original, they cannot prove you "copied" anything. Must be your original work. (Nice movie, man!)

  19. Re:Email is Not a Disaster on Death of Internet Predicted: Film at 11 · · Score: 1

    When is the last time your email was government regulated to the extent of snail mail?

    When is the last time your mailbox was owned/run by the companies/infrastucture that creates the junk mail?

    When is the last time it was a felony to remove email from your inbox?

    If you do not like the way your ISP manages/maintains your communication channel, run your own. It takes little more than what you put into using your ISP's service. (GO OPEN SOURCE!!)

  20. Why not tell everyone? duh.... on Rand Expert Says To Keep Mum About Killer Asteroids · · Score: 1

    Argue if you want that you may not have "the brain" that could have helped. What about all the others that say "forget this government rule" and take out the brains that we have. What about the groups that try to turn what remains into a fight for water from some old movie.

    And in response to some, what exactly is the worth of money when people panic?

    Panic is also not limited to groups. Think about the wavering serial killers that see this "end" as the indication for them to startup.

    Who was it that said, "a person is smart. people are stupid and you know it."? This was one of the things they had in mind.

    --

  21. To all those "Bill is not a bad man" comments on Microsoft Targeting Indian Developers · · Score: 1

    This is an MS move on the market.

    MS or Gates donations along with their other actions are political moves for the corporation. This is global politics. Call it business if you like, but there are MS goals behind each move.

    This is an attack on resources owned by a country. Do not try to push "Bill is not bad, he gives...." as it makes you another FREE MS MARKETER whining as you aid the man and his company.

    A dictator is still a dictator even if he/she opens a healthcare system for one group under his/her rule. Charitable acts do not remove any detrimental acts on the record. Regardless of future events or decisions, this man and his company are a drain on any future this planet has. No amount of kissing up will change this fact. No amount of free marketing from these comments will change this either.

  22. Tell Darth Gates.... on Gates: Say No to GPL, Yes to the Microsoft Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Tell Darth Gates the Rebellion will NEVER DIE!!!

  23. ISP? or just SP on What Software Should ISPs Distribute and Support? · · Score: 1

    The Internet is a wide open network.

    If they just give you custom crap that is for their services, and they do not support open access to the Internet global network, they cannot be labeled ISPs.

    Or I guess it needs to be AISP, An Internet Service (as in one service) Provider!

    JMO

  24. Re:One Windows OS on one machine?! on Linux VMs For Everyone · · Score: 1

    ITS A TRICK!!! load one windows os on the machine, and it opens up holes!

  25. It's time? No. on Microsoft to Focus on Security · · Score: 1

    This just strikes me as a result of his last board meeting.
    Not much on the new features list from the idea departments and therefore, "security could be a reason to force new upgrade revenue line for our software. That would give our idea guys some time to think on the next new feature."