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  1. Re:an example- not so bad on Linux-Based Phone System Phones Home · · Score: 1

    Presumably its only a problem if you run software with this particular EULA under wine. Besides most of the really essential DLLs already have wine equivalents.

  2. Re:Cool on MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum · · Score: 1

    I think a better thing to say would be that they have no choice with licensing on Linux/BSD. Linux/BSD players/encoders don't use their code so they don't have to licence it.

  3. Re:Old SCO stuff on A Discussion of SCO's Fate With Groklaw's Pamela Jones · · Score: 1

    Are the petrol and lighters included or do I have to get them separately?

  4. Re:But they DON'T... :-) on Gene Simmons Blames College Kids For Music Industry Woes · · Score: 2, Funny

    KISS are ok apart from the songs with the words rock and/or roll in them

  5. Re:As a Veteran... on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    I was more trying to get at the idea of a pointless bit of land on the other side of the world or a not too threatening to us dictator.

  6. Re:As a Veteran... on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    When the next draft comes around, how many of you will run to canada and claim you're a Consienance Objector (sp?). How many of you will encourage your children, if they're of age, to go fight for this country?

    I'm British so I cant really comment on American wars but if the next draft is for another Falklands or Iraq I'm not fighting.

  7. Re:Reality.... on Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally · · Score: 1

    Most world war 1 vetrans would slap the crap out of these people for whining.. They died to defend our right to freedom.

    Did I just read that right. They died. That means they're dead. So how are they going to slap the crap out of anyone?

  8. Re:No Design Experience on How Not to Build a Cellphone · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if there's a law about it or something but every phone I've had lets you call 999 without unlocking it. I think the idea is that you don't have to mess with the phone too much when you need it.

  9. One simple question on AntiPiracy Macrovision Bug is Actually Six Years Old · · Score: 1

    Why is this a driver? From what I gather all it does is read some data from a disk and use it to decide if some software can run or not. This looks like something that could easily be done in user space. Maybe I've missed some fundamental aspect of its workings though.

  10. Send him a two word reply... on Is a Domain Name an Automatic Trademark? · · Score: 1

    ...and make one of the words "off". He's probably just looking for money. If he actually has a case his lawyers will get in touch.

  11. Re:As a previous theatre buff... on Building a "Reference" Home Theater · · Score: 1

    Just one thing that neither you nor the article pointed out for choosing speakers. LISTEN TO THEM. Find a shop that can demo them and take along a selection of the stuff you'll use them for. Sure the specs might look better on some models but the specs won't tell you much about how they actually sound. Are they clean, punchy, warm? Does dialog sound clear on them? Are there certain sounds they don't do well? Choose for the sound not the numbers.

  12. Re:Old news? on Caltech Creates Electronic Nose · · Score: 1

    You forgot number 3, showing the clip where they demonstrated the CD just to prove that they actually got something right once.

  13. Re:MPAA losing money on 'I Was a Hacker for the MPAA' · · Score: 1

    Many people download movies that they deem not worth of paying to go to the cinema. Should there be no p2p, they would not see the movie anyway nor buy the DVD => No profit loss.

    The films I really like, I watch them in cinema. They movies I love, I get the original DVD too. The movies I don't care about, I download them and watch them when I have nothing better to do. But no way I was going to go to the cinema to see them.

    Does anyone else think that any opportunity is being missed at cinemas? There should be a rack of DVDs by the exit so people can buy them on the way out while they still feel good about whatever film they just sat through.

  14. Re:Ha on IFPI Domain Dispute Likely to Go To Court · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does this post turn up on every IFPI story?

  15. Re:Nu Labour on TV Links Raided, Operator Arrested · · Score: 1

    not excusing the current government in any way but... conservatives - appointed David Cameron as leader in a blatant attempt to take over from the lib-dems as the only party without grey hair. lib-dems - liberal in the same way that China is a repuplic.

  16. Re:Pity they announced it on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 1

    It would look pretty dodgy in court if they claimed to be Swedish for their torrent operations to make them legal and then claimed to be using an exception to copyright from American law

  17. Re:Ill gotten gain? on The Pirate Bay Takes Over Anti-Piracy Domain · · Score: 1

    In the UK there's a law that says you can keep stuff that's sent to you without you ordering it. I'd imagine Sweden is similar (EU and all that).

  18. Re:100 billion?!?! on US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban · · Score: 1

    A more interesting question: would it allow an invasion of the US?

  19. Re:Deck chairs on the Titanic on Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS · · Score: 1

    There's settings in the BIOS to disable most of those, turning on quick booting (I think that's what it's called) and setting your hard drive as the first boot device should improve things.

  20. Re:Anti-RIAA on Corporate Encouragement For Sharing Your WiFi · · Score: 1

    I would think being on the other side of a great big ocean would be more of a nightmare for the RIAA

  21. Re:Unemployable? on Open.NET — .NET Libraries Go "Open Source" · · Score: 1

    It wont affect your employability unless you actually mention the fact that you've seen MS code.

  22. Re:Debian are refusing to push the update on Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST · · Score: 1

    2 things. First, how does a comment on grammar help this "discussion" (this is slashdot) in any way? Second, "Debian are ..." is correct.

  23. Re:3? on UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability · · Score: 1

    Ah, I see. Having only paid for one of the games I didn't know about the rebate. Still I thought 2004 was far better than 2003. 2003 just seemed slow.

  24. 3? on UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability · · Score: 1

    UT, UT 2003, UT 2004, UT 3?? what happened there?

  25. Re:Major Labels? on Amazon DRM-Free Music Store Goes Beta · · Score: 1

    I've actually got stuff by all of those, I gave up after the 3 I put up as they seem the most "commercial".