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  1. Re:Don't be an idiot on Dealing w/ Online Fraudulent Sellers? · · Score: 1

    You've proved the grandparents point for him, /. is about as much a reliable news source as that other site seems to be a reliable source for Ancient Bronze Amlash rings.

  2. Re: MPG on Hybrid Cars Don't Live Up to Mileage Claims · · Score: 1

    I get about 39 MPG from my Saturn SL and can likewise account for just about every drop of gas that goes into it, the gp poster doesn't mention where he drives, currently I'm driving in New Jersey, so most of it is highway, and some of it is backed up highway mileage, I also drive a bit faster than his 65 MPH when it isn't backed up, so his 42 and 44 aren't too far fetched.

  3. Re:Solar power is going to be big on New Material for More Efficient Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    They already have to upgrade their car to take advantage of this as 99.99999% of the cars out there don't have the capability to use anything but petrochemical fuels.

    Nice try, thanks for playing.

  4. Re:Pricing on DSI Delivers up to 3GB/s with Solid State Disk · · Score: 4, Informative

    RAID has a couple of semi accepted meanings,

    The I can mean either Inexpensive or Independent
    and the D can be either Drives, Disks, or Devices.

    However it's always a Redundant Array, which of course makes RAID 0 not RAID, but just a good way to lose even more data faster(as any drive/disk/device failing on RAID 0 takes down all your info).

  5. Re:Proper rebuttals to the DoJ on ACLU Sues FBI Over ISP Records · · Score: 1

    Presidents cannot write or propose bills.

  6. Re:Free not Free Enough on Free Tribes 1 and 2 Downloads, DVD Forthcoming · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He wants his freedom at the expense of other peoples freedom.

    Others are "free" to choose how they want to distribute thier property, but that isn't good enough for him, he wants it to be free on his and only his terms.

  7. Re:Guys on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    it already is tomorrow in many parts of the world

  8. Re:Slight Blip on the Irony Detector on Ex-Blizzard Devs Sign With Namco, Blizzard Using BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    What exactly is there to explain?

    Why don't you explain CIFS?

  9. Re:Slight Blip on the Irony Detector on Ex-Blizzard Devs Sign With Namco, Blizzard Using BitTorrent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very simple, the BNet protocol is not and likely never will be an open protocol, Bittorrent always has been and always will be an open protocol.

    It's not the software license that is the issue, it's the protocol use.

  10. Re:Obey the establishment, you insensitive clod! on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    No matter what people will always lose jobs to technology, because they learned the wrong tech or no tech.

    And unless you want to live in the stone age, this will continue to be a (non) problem.

  11. Re:Obey the establishment, you insensitive clod! on Using Employee-Owned Technology in the Workplace? · · Score: 1

    And do you cry for people that lost their jobs because no one manfactures buggy whips anymore because cars have replaced the horse and buggy?

    Or the people that made DDT and lost their jobs because it's not used much anymore (I know it's still used in third world countries.)

    Let's all stop using zippers and become Amish while we're at it so no one ever loses a job to progress ever again (No offense to the Amish, they seem to enjoy their lifestyle, it's just not for me or just about anyone I know.)

  12. Re:So now... on Background-Check Software Goes Retail · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because I know my social security card doesn't have my name on it already.

    Oh wait, it does.

  13. Re:Anyone have personal experience on this aprt? on A Peek At Script Kiddie Culture · · Score: 1

    Obviously not what he is quoting.

  14. Re:Don't bother on How To Fight International OSS License Violations? · · Score: 1

    What damages? Copyright violation in and of itself is illegal in most countries that have agreed to international copyright law. Depending on where the copyright was violated, in this case Singapore, it may either be a slap on the wrist or it may be a many thousand dollar fine, usually per violation.

  15. Re:Don't bother on How To Fight International OSS License Violations? · · Score: 3, Informative

    How could he magically demand money under the (L)GPL anymore than he could under a BSD2 license, the topic doesn't state this, but it's not under the old style BSD advertising clause license, nor the MIT style BSD license, this is the 2 clause BSD license (which I've never seen anyone use, but that's besides the point) and at this moment they're not obeying all cluases of the license, specifically the attribution cluase.

    "2) Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution."

    Copyright violation is copyright violation, whether it is music, software, or source code.

  16. Re:How's FBSD on AMD64? on FreeBSD 5.2.1 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The AMD64 platform is currently a Tier 1 FreeBSD platform.

    Current Tier 1 platforms are i386, Sparc64, AMD64, PC98, and Alpha.

    Current Tier 2 platforms are PowerPC and ia64.

    Current Tier 3 platforms are S/390(R).

    All systems not otherwise classified into a support tier are Tier 4 systems.

    All information lifted verbatim from the FreeBSD website most of it from Section 10 of the Committer's Guide, Support for Multiple Architectures

    So expect as much support for AMD64 as you would for the standard PC version, the only thing keeping AMD64 back is it's not a widely distributed and therefore not as well tested.

  17. Re:Just pay with cash on BudNet Tracks Your Suds · · Score: 1

    One method that works fine is to say you forgot your card, could the cashier please swipe his/hers? and they'll swipe either their own or a spare that is left at the register for that purpose or hit a button that inputs a "generic" number like 1111-1111-1111-1111.

  18. Re:Pathetic on AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Moderation +4
    70% Insightful
    30% Interesting
    Mods are on crack, waste your mod points on other stuff, other similiar posts were made to the same grandparent, we got his post modded to oblivion.

    +1 maybe to my post, but +4?
    gahhhhhhh
    I didn't even provide any actual useful info, I just wanted the mods to pay some attention.
    </rant>

  19. Re:Pathetic on AMD Could Profit from Buffer-Overflow Protection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's about GNU/Linux's bugs or NetBSD's or Sendmail's bugs? This is OS agnostic.

    This isn't insightful, it's flamebait and FUD.

  20. Re:Did we copy the Windows Source Code? on NetBSD Announces Four New Security Advisories · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually largely all of them have code all intertwined, FreeBSD and NetBSD don't write their own OpenSSH apps for example, they borroww OpenBSD's, then again so does almost everyone else.

    NetBSD is actually the oldest of the current BSD's derived from BSD Net/2 (4.3BSD Lite), 386BSD was derived from that and FreeBSD is derived from 386BSD, both later got code from 4.4BSD Lite, and shortly after that OpenBSD was derived from NetBSD.

    Sort of like the bible, with "And Aramus begat Aramus Junior, who begat Aramus Junior Junior."

  21. We could sink lower by not reading the article on Hamster-controlled MIDI · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This electrocutes the hamster about as much as typing electrocutes you.

  22. Re:Great, it only takes a gallon of fossil fuel... on Ethanol to Hydrogen Reactor Developed · · Score: 1

    I was going to post how corn uses gasoline in it's production, but someone beat me to it

  23. Re:Still binary.. on Intel Devises Chip Speed Breakthrough · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually base-10 is a terrible base to use, 12 or 60 makes much more sense, with the ideal being base-120, many more factors making math of all sorts much easier, one reason I highly dislike the metric system.

  24. Re:Screws up circuit board prototyping on HP Discusses Anti-Counterfeiting Measures · · Score: 1

    Then aren't you happy to know HP tells you ahead of time about this so you can buy something else?

    You say it's a bad thing because they do it, I say it's a good thing that they disclose it so readily.

  25. Re:The have to... on Amazon To Comply With Kansas Sales Tax Law · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Sales and Use Taxes in Kansas

    Granted it's nto a government publication, but I quote "Use tax. In Kansas the use tax supplements the sales tax. The use tax is levied upon people that are using, storing, or consuming in Kansas any article of tangible personal property that has not been subjected to sales or use tax by any state. Thus, the use tax is also referred to as the "compensating tax."

    If you ordered something online from Pennsylvania and didn't pay a sales tax to PA, you owe a use tax to Kansas.