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  1. Re:Congrats to Linux from an OS X user on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    LinuxPPC -- the distribution -- is dead. Not "dying," but literally discontinued like four years ago. There are other options for Linux on PPC though: Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, SuSE, Yellow Dog...

  2. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    No, it's directly to the point: How has any US serviceman's death in Iraq served to protect your freedom?

  3. Re:bin laden.. on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1

    Plenty of Wehrmacht soldiers died in the service of their country too. Remember that "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" is a lie. An honorable man's death does not elevate a dishonorable cause.

  4. Re:Three points on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups · · Score: 1

    $99/month? Is that a typo?

  5. Re:It's just nuts and bolts, and software on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups · · Score: 1

    Considering the TOS forbid even displaying the Content I'd say they're pretty much full of shit.

  6. Re:I guess it's cool on Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The iPod has a dock that sits on a desk. Presumably it has rubber feet.

  7. Re:My peverse hobby... on Philip K. Dick's Hollywood Afterlife · · Score: 1

    What information do you have that indicates Pirsig was schizophrenic? Not actively denying it, just curious.

  8. Re:What ever happened to feelings? on Man Arrested for 'Spam Rage' · · Score: 3, Funny

    Guy walks into a bar holding a pile of wet steaming dogshit. "Hey guys, look what I almost stepped in!"

  9. Re:I hate ignorance! (but not enough to avoid it) on Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way · · Score: 1

    24. If you're going to count Madagascar as a part of Africa then you have to count the Carribean islands too. And let's not lose sight of the difference between "nation" and "state" -- the former is much harder to definitively delineate.

  10. Re:Once it is known... on Students, ISP Sue Diebold · · Score: 1

    The case involved building codes in Texas. Don't know how/if the SC decided on it.

  11. Re:What lawyers? on SCO Asks IBM To Make SCO's Case For It · · Score: 1

    yeah, but I'm sure you saw that each of the non-verb entries tagged Law refer to the "hypothetical/irrelevant" meaning.

  12. Re:What lawyers? on SCO Asks IBM To Make SCO's Case For It · · Score: 1

    FWIW, according to the American Heritage usage note at dictionary.com, "hypothetical/irrelevant" has been an acceptable meaning of "moot" since the mid-19th century, even in legal jargon.

  13. Re:maybe a bit too light.... on The World's Fastest Electric Car · · Score: 1

    I hope that was a typo and you really meant to write "ammeter."

  14. Re:"Open up?" on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1
    requests

    You lose. Go away.

  15. Re:"Open up?" on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    The CMU license that mach was originally released under is functionally identical to the BSD license.

  16. Re:"Open up?" on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 2, Informative
    The Darwin project is ONLY open because of the open source licensing that requires them to do so.

    Go read the BSD license. It requires nothing of the sort.

  17. Re:"Open up?" on Microsoft Dismisses Apple's iTunes for Windows · · Score: 4, Informative
    BTW this is something I don't foresee Apple ever doing with their products, but could be surprised.

    Surprise, surprise.

    Oh, and where exactly are you finding all this Dolby 5.1 music? Or do you just spin movie soundtracks at parties?

  18. Re:Classic Newbie Error on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: 1

    Nifty idea, except that it implicates the lawyer in whatever wrongdoing may be going on, thus nullifying attorney-client privilege. Same way your lawyer is obliged to drop a dime on you if you inform him of crimes you plan to commit.

  19. Re:It isn't NutraSweet on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    FYI, sodapop that's marked "Kosher for Passover" (not just Kosher) is made with real cane sugar. Tends to be hard to find though, and impossible outside major cities.

  20. How much more wrong could you be? on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    The answer is none. None more wrong.

  21. Re:It's a privacy issue. Period. on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    Do students get any refund if they don't use the campus network?

  22. Re:Mor[m]ons are buying. on SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License · · Score: 1

    You're replying to the wrong person. I didn't condemn anybody. I had a Mormon roommate and am well aware that you are not all the same. Take it up with the parent of this thread.

  23. Re:Mor[m]ons are buying. on SCO Derides GPL, Will Revoke SGI's UNIX License · · Score: 1
    I didn't say anything at all about Mormons.

    However, there may be some rooting-for-the-home-team involved in boosting the stock that one wouldn't find with a Presbyterian-run company. Face it, there's a much stronger correlation between Utah companies and Mormons than there is between, say, New York companies and Jews, so the implication of being the number-one Utah company is being also the number-one Mormon company.

  24. Re:Typical on California Demands Licensure For VoIP Providers · · Score: 1
    Don't think life insurance, think health insurance. Most health insurance plans cover the insured's immediate family. The more members that can be disqualified from immediate family status, the less the insurer has to pay out. Similarly, widows and widowers continue to collect on their spouse's pensions until their own death. If they allowed for a Heinleinian line marriage they'd be paying that pension forever.

    Of course there are ways around these sorts of details, but none of them escape the necessity of legal recognition or limitation.

  25. Re:Wow on California Demands Licensure For VoIP Providers · · Score: 1
    As an added bonus, legal California residents will have their licensees considered invalid as a form of ID most anywhere else, and will have to lug around their passports.

    Or the DMV could cleverly print an indicator on the licenses of undocumented immigrants. You know, the way they already do for underage drivers. When was the last time you needed an extra piece of ID to get into a bar just because teenagers can get licenses?