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  1. Mass murder funny? on How to Kill Spam Without the State · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bad moderators, bad, bad, bad moderators.

  2. Re:Blah on OpenOffice.org Hits 1.1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Tommy Chong is not a criminal.

    You obviously never saw the movie The Corsican Brothers.

  3. Re:Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1

    Thank you for corfirming the availability of the gubernatorial records. Bush's papers are public. Dean's are not. Case closed. Thank you for spinning.

  4. Re:Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1
    And are Bush's papers public? Yes. Are Dean's papers public? No.

    Case closed. Facts are hard deal with aren't they?

  5. Re:Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1

    Complete bull feces. Bush's gubernatorial papers are stored at Texas A&M for public review under the Texas Sunshine Law. Google before making a complete fool of yourself next time.

  6. Re:Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1
    Complete bull feces. Bush's gubernatorial papers are protected by the Texas Sunshine Law and are on display at Texas A&M -- a state university. Google before you type and you won't make a fool of yourself so much in public.

    Not everyone that is against Dean and his spin machine are Republicans, just ask Kerry and Gephardt.

  7. Re:Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 1
    Are you equally bothered by President Bush's decision to make Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton's presidential records secret for much longer than before?

    I am not as bothered by Presidential records as I am about Gubernatorial records. The safety and secrets of the United States are not in the hands of a Governor. There is no reason for a Governor to hide their papers from the public. I can see many reasons of National Security for hiding Presidential records.

  8. Nice and all... on Free Software for Politics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But will he release his gubernatorial papers under GPL? Right now they are closed source. No one has the right to view them. I am more interested in his political history than some software someone else wrote that he is piggybacking on for publicity.

  9. I predict something else... on Diamandis Predicts X-Prize Winner Within One Year · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A really big stain near the launch site. This isn't trying to fly across the English Channel by human power. This is a really super dangerous thing to try. Even with a budget of billions and thousands of super geeks, NASA still ends up with BBQ-ed astronauts. As much as I think the free market, private industry is superior to Government, NASA is one of those exceptions. I hope these guys kiss their loved ones before punching the button. It will most likely be the last thing they do.

  10. Was Bush's Battery Low? on Build Your Own Segway · · Score: 1

    Somehow I can't stop thinking that the recent recall of the Segway's was somehow due to the spill that Bush took. The photo of the President taking a fall on his Segway seems to match exactly the symptoms described in the recall notice. Conspiracy? I dunno.

  11. Have you... on 20th Anniversary of RMS's Original GNU Post · · Score: 1
    ...HURD? 20 years in userland. The kernel awaits!

    Congrats! But I am still going to use vi!

  12. Re:Wrong... on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Not really. My employer provides my healthcare. There is no such thing as free healthcare. Mine is a part of my contract.

  13. Re:Wrong... on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1
    He has made my paycheck higher without me begging my employer for the change. Thus allowing me to keep more of what I earn every month. My state and local taxes have not gone up.

    How many of those 3 million jobs were coding web pages for BS web based companies in the 90s? How many of them were from corporations that were corrupt as sin during the 90s? How many of those jobs relate to the tech industry? I lost jobs during Clinton's administration but I have never lost one under Bush.

  14. Wrong... on States Push for Net Sales Taxes · · Score: 1
    States thought the gravy train of the 90s was never going to end. Very stupid. There was no way the bubble of 90s could be maintained. Basing an economy on the business plans of sock puppets selling pet food was foolish.

    Instead of maintaining a sane level of spending, the states went nuts and blew their surpluses to buy votes from special interest groups of each wing. If you look at states like Colorado, you will see that they do not have this problem. The reason? They have a constitutional amendment that prevents them from spending more than the rate of increased inflation combined with a modified for population growth.

    Instead of raising taxes, states and the federal government need to cut spending, BIG TIME! Don't get me wrong, Bush is not guilty for cutting taxes, he is guilty for not restraining spending growth. However, I doubt you care from your rhetoric what Bush does. No matter what this President does, you will insist he is evil man not unlike the Clinton haters of the 90s.

    Government should be restricted like my family. If my family does not have enough money to maintain our lifestyle, we do not go to our next door neighbor's house, kick in the door and demand they fund our wants. We see what we can cut from our budget to keep within our income.

  15. Apple affected? on New Vulnerabilities in Portable OpenSSH · · Score: 1

    Apple just came out with Mac OS X update 10.2.8 which fixed the last OpenSSH exploit. Does anyone know if that updates also covers the new exploit mentioned here? Or should I expect 10.2.9 in a few days?

  16. Agreed! on Phillip Greenspun: Java == SUV · · Score: 3, Funny

    It pollutes the environment and wastes gas...

  17. Mod this as redundant... on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding · · Score: -1, Redundant

    At least it looks like the post was spellchecked.

  18. Slim Jims? on Analysis Of Symantec's Stance On Censorship · · Score: 2, Funny

    My corner convenience store has buckets of Slim Jims! Now I have to get a license to eat one? Also, how do I burglar with one?

  19. Why Chicago is called the "Windy City" on Replica Flyer Foiled By Weather · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From what I understand, it's not the "wind" in Chicago that caused it's nickname of the "Windy City". It was the "wind" coming out of politicians during early days that caused Chicago to get the nickname.

  20. Mod the college student down... on New Microsoft Worm Coming Soon? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well, if the only thing you are doing is running AIM, IE and Kazaa, I would agree. However if you work in an environment with mission critical apps that cannot fail, you can't just simply "patch your systems". You must test, test and retest.

    Start thinking of us that operate in the real world. Cocky statements like "We've had plenty of warning about this, so it's only the criminally unprepared that will be hit right" sound outright stupid. The patch was released last Wednesday. To coordinate business departments, users and techincal staff along with testing requirements doesn't happen overnight. You do your best to patch as fast as possible and take steps to add a firewall layer but you have to deal with business requirements. Switching from Microsoft won't solve this problem either....OpenSSH anyone?

    However, I don't mind Microsoft security problems, it keeps food on my table.

  21. Boot Windows on Half-Life 2 - A Linux User's Lament · · Score: 5, Funny

    It won't kill you. Just think of it as a Wintendo.

  22. Squating? on Verisign Typosquatter Explorer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How is this any different from me buying mispelled domains to profit off other company's trademarks? I know the Federal Government just tossed a guy in jail for doing the same thing. There is something that stinks to high heaven about this. It looks like they are abusing their right to manage the USA TLDs along with violating RFCs.

  23. MPAA Suing AT&T Labs? on Most Movies On P2P From Insiders? · · Score: 1
    If AT&T labs downloaded hundreds of movies from P2P networks and admits in it public wouldn't it be ripe for a lawsuit by the MPAA? If the RIAA will go after the allowance of a pudgy, 12 year-old school girl, you would think that AT&T would be deep pockets and an excellent target for a lawsuit.

    Or could this mean that if you download more than 100 movies from P2P networks and say, "It's research, Man!", it's ok...

  24. Re:Top Censored or Democratic Platform? on Project Censored 2003 Underreported Stories · · Score: 1

    How am I "foaming"? Just pointing out that these are the same issues followed by the hard left blogosphere. They can't really be censored when hundreds of "Look how much I care" bloggers are tauting them on the WWW.

  25. Re:Top Censored or Democratic Platform? on Project Censored 2003 Underreported Stories · · Score: 1

    If they are censored, how did you read about them? If anything, these are stories that some feel did not receive enough attention. That is not censorship, that is freedom.