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  1. Re:This Story Story of Horny Congressman on Dimitry's company sold password crackers to the FBI · · Score: 1

    So the dude who took the bribe to pass the DCMA and fund the organization that arrested Dmitri, and probably killed a prostitute he paid for with tax dollars (all young girls hired by old men just happen to fall in love with them, sure) and says its a private matter, mind your own god damn business thank you, and the two stories are unrelated?

  2. Didn't JonKatz used to work for CBS? on "Big Brother" And The Web · · Score: 1

    Didn't JonKatz used to work for CBS?

  3. A suspicious looking company from Redmond, WA on Linux-Based OS For Palm Hardware · · Score: 1

    that releases a product that uses the linux kernel but violates the GPL. This could spell big trouble for Empower Technologies, which would be great PR for another company from Redmond, WA.

  4. Re:That would be about the only way I'd buy a CD.. on 99% Blockage Isn't Good Enough, Says Napster Judge · · Score: 1

    Subpop, at least, is owned by one of the RIAA Corps, Sony, I think. That's the only reason you ever heard "Smells like Teen Spirit." Most "Indie" labels are "recruiting" apparatus owned and subsidized by the big record companies, and focus on very narrow demographics. If there is a new one that finds something new and potentially successful, they buy them, or steal their bands and sue them into submission.

  5. Re: IBM's commitment to User Hostile Technology on Scott Handy Tells What's Up With IBM and Linux · · Score: 1

    when was the last time a content provider had any say in selling their copyright to a distributor Why don't you try and publish your own book or sell your own record or show your own movie. Don't tell me about "indie" film producers or record labels either. The word is "subsidiary".

  6. Re:LOL on Scott Handy Tells What's Up With IBM and Linux · · Score: 1

    History, I believe, provides no examples of a free civil government. At least not in Jefferson's day.

  7. Re:Talk is cheap..... on Scott Handy Tells What's Up With IBM and Linux · · Score: 1

    He meant $1 billion managing the ripoff of apache, I mean, development of websphere.

  8. Re:PASSPORT doesn't do POOP on Microsoft To Assist Ximian In Producing Mono · · Score: 1

    that's what your dad said about VISA/Mastercard

  9. Re:Simple! on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that Napster should be free with my ISP access, but if I want to order a portable MP3 player (or beer) online, that I should have to pay for it?

  10. Re:Stupid question on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    unleaded

  11. Hit me baby one more time--comin back around again on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    RATM would only have to pay if they printed the lyrics on the sleeve. Or if they sampled the original in their version.

  12. Re:OT: on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    My old datsun pickup beats all the honda accords off the line at the stop light does better on hills and in traffic. And it isn't the horsepower.

  13. Re:Typo in your post on Why Won't You Pay for Content? · · Score: 1

    Property taxes [are] used ...

  14. MySQL is not the name of the product on MySQL.com vs. MySQL.org? · · Score: 1

    MySQL database is the product. And they didn't trademark 'database' because they decided it was a common word that was not theirs to trademark.

  15. Re:Wrong focus? on MySQL.com vs. MySQL.org? · · Score: 1

    That's probably why progress (who has been around longer and is more widely used than oracle) is great guns about stealing postgresql -- notice the name similarity.

  16. TCX is not in the business of selling software on MySQL.com vs. MySQL.org? · · Score: 1

    Monty developed MySQL while working at TCX (I don't know if he still works there) as a tool to accomplish their work -- processing data -- and decided to release MySQL so that others could use it freely. MYSQL AB is defending our right to use the database that they created. NuSphere (Progress) isn't just interested in spamming people.

  17. Re:NuSphere is wrong on MySQL.com vs. MySQL.org? · · Score: 1

    or NuSphere did not pay them the agreed 2.5 million dollars, or failed to meet another contractual obligation (like agreeing to release their table code under an open source license)

  18. Re:Clarification on Is There a GNOME that's not Ximian? · · Score: 2

    Looks like a VNC ask slashdot showed up just in time.

  19. Clarification on Is There a GNOME that's not Ximian? · · Score: 3
    I mentioned in the original submission (but it got cut) that installing Debian wasn't an option at this time (so neither is freebsd or anything else) since there is a lot of custom development and it kinda needs to be kept on line and intact.

    The box is a P233 with 128M memory with redhat 6.1, but I've had to make (./configure &&; make &&; make install) a lot of custom modifications like migrating the whole file system over to reiserfs. I should have upgraded the whole thing at the time, in retrospect.

    I did manage to install most everything a package at a time (rpm -i * did not work) except the two packages I actually wanted. Sawfish and GNUCash. This was because guile failed and ximian does not include an rpm for umb-scheme. So I got a source rpm from rpmfind and compiled umb-scheme and the guile rpm worked. But its a lie because Sawfish and GNUCash still won't install. Sawfish chokes when I try to make from source, too.

    I can just write my own accounting scripts for a web front end, so that's not a problem, and since its too slow for anyone who'd need to use GNUCash anyway, I'll have to live with it. Although I may just build a toolbar (maybe steal tkdesk) and have twm running because it will *eventually* be only remotely administratable, and any on-site maintenance will be done by windows users. That's why I wanted Gnome & especially Sawfish, because it is much faster than enlightenment. I have nothing against KDE, but I don't know it well enough. Maybe my next ask slashdot will be for comments on VNC and alternatives.

    Thanks for the input. I guess maybe the answer is, simply: No, nobody but Ximian packages Gnome, and gnome endorses ximian exclusively.

  20. Re:Article is bull on Software In The Land That Time Forgot · · Score: 1

    Well, shibuya is the only place I saw even a hint of linux (it was probably an ad for german soap anyway), and there was not one person living in a design and publishing industries office in all the design and publishing industries office that I visited. I was talking about computer stores Electric City.

  21. Re: What exactly is a netmask? on On the Definition of a Hostile Network Connection? · · Score: 1
    would it be enough if i had said "ifconfig"?

    ps. 255 for multicast

  22. Re: mass exodus from AOL on MS, CNET On 7-Day Messenger Outage · · Score: 1

    It did happen. Constantly. But there was always a constant stream of newbies putting coasters in their cup holders. I don't know why it has leveled off in the last couple years. Or maybe I just don't notice because I'm not so closely tied to the ISP business anymore.

  23. Re:Stolen idea and bad physics.. on Cement Canoe With A Contrarian Approach · · Score: 1

    lets hear it for the tripod!

  24. tacoma narrows blew down on Cement Canoe With A Contrarian Approach · · Score: 1

    There was a strong wind that blew down a weak bridge. Yes, it happened to hit it just right, but it wasn't just the hum of air molecules in tune with the wood and steel.

  25. Re:I have a question. on Ask Shawn Gordon About theKompany · · Score: 1

    don't take their money and you won't have to listen to them.