User: kunkie

Re:Corporate death penalty

On: Telco Appeals Minnesota City's Fiber-Optic Win

The government providing the fibre, that companies then sold services upon - an interesting presentation about how it all happened here - http://www.heanet.ie/services/multimedia/videostreaming/inex/0508_KurtisLindqvist.asx

One word to explain why

On: Raising Doubts About Australia's Broadband Upgrade Plan

TELSTRA (don't even get me started on this rant...)

From the same folks that brought you the unsinkabl

On: World's First "Unclonable" RFID Chip

From the same folks that brought you the unsinkable ship.

First on the list:

On: France's Citizens Expected to Help Build Internet Blacklist

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

a few seconds

On: Censoring a Number

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

Re:Good

On: Firefox Moving On From SSL 2.0

If this technology is 11 years old, then I don't think anyone would like to use it today. The wheel has been used for thousands of years yet I can't find many people who don't want to use it...

GPL Car

On: Open Source Autos Hit the Streets in Spain

If the software in the car is licensed under the GNU GPL doesn't the car then become GPL because it is viral...

Open the Source

On: Microsoft Wants P2P Avalanche to Crush BitTorrent

I'll gladly use it. Show me the source code first. How do I know there is no RIAA/MPAA spyware in it.

A browser is very important

On: Mozilla Uncooperative With OSS Groups on Security?

He says there is need to: 'give a brief period of time for the vendors to catch up' A browser is a critical application for the end user - the update needs to come out ASAP or else the flaw will be exploited. There is no time to waste.

Re:They just want money

On: Television on your Phone

In the UK on a FREE TO AIR Digital Satellite Package CNN is broadcasted unencrypted with no descrambling card needed.

They just want money

On: Television on your Phone

Well it's just another way of paying for something I can normally get for free. Yes CNN is a FTA Channel.

BSODs

On: Microsoft to Launch 64-bit Windows on Monday

BSODs will now occur 8100% of the time, which is an increase from 90% of the time. Also the TCO will also increase ^2 times.

Fairplay

On: Trent Reznor Challenges Music Norms

This is truly playing fair!

An analogy I like to use...

On: BitTorrent Inherently Illegal?

A car is perfectly legal but only when you speed does it become illegal.

Text-based browser

On: Knoppix Used in Internet Banking Solution

If the only browser on this cd was text based it would be funny to see how people would cope.

Yet another future Google employee

On: Mozilla Foundation Chief Mitchell Baker Replies

Basically this is another interview of a Mozilla worker, who google will pinch to work on gbrowser. You can't beat big business...

The super-slashdotting

On: Millions of Pages Google Hijacked using ODP Feed

I can imagine it now... The slashdotting to end all slashdots. If every site in google was 302 redirected to RIAA.com How amazing would that be...