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  1. Re:In a way, this is very lucky timing for GPLv3 on GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are laws written in english anyway? English is ambiguous, and that's a bad thing. Why not some formal law language with clear semantics and syntax?

  2. Re:Moo on FreeDOS 1.0 Released · · Score: 1
    To say nothing of giving you the ability to run the best word processor ever written on cast-off hardware :)
    1:Won't the GC take a while and 2: You won't be running emacs DOS. You will be running emacs as your OS with DOS as a hardware emulation layer.
  3. Re:12 year old emo followers? on Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game · · Score: 1

    Really? What about Java? And .NET just sucks at security when services are being run remotely. Look at all the RPC bugs that Windows has. .NET also has a lot less speed then Objective-C, as everything is being interpreted. Objective-C is a much purer OO system then .NET, much closer to smalltalk then C# is.

  4. Re:LDAP is NOT an authentication service on LDAP Authentication in Linux · · Score: 1

    They are using a SASL bind so Kerberos is being used. While it isn't an authentication service, it does let you make machines and user enviroments orthogonal. Every user has the same enviroment on whatever machine they pick that day.

  5. Re:Peh. on Microsoft Expression vs. Dreamweaver · · Score: 1

    I have emacs.

  6. Not a good idea on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    The small size could be for your own protection.
    Lables by Person 1:
    Man
    Streaching
    Gouging out eyes
    You:
    Gouging out eyes.

  7. Re:If I'm paying taxes to the government... on FBI Data Mining Students' Financial Aid Records · · Score: 1

    You already lost. Osama? He wants to rule the world. Bush? He wants to destroy it. Because that's what his base wants: A 1,000-year Riech of "Christianity" with the goal of ending the world. That's right-wing evengalicalism.

  8. Re:But I thought SPAM was 80% of traffic? on ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    80% of email traffic. I hate newspaper reporters who drop crucial adjectives. Of course, email is the internet according to Ted Stevens. And since he's the commite head, he knows what he is talking about.

  9. Not a good idea on ISPs Fight Against Encrypted BitTorrent Downloads · · Score: 1

    That just adds to bandwidth issues!

  10. Re:Bush on US Government Restricting Research Libraries · · Score: 1

    Like Buchannon's inaction didn't hurt the Union. Buchanaon could have crushed the South, but instead he let the army defect with all the guns the South needed. Just pulling back every cannon in the CSA would have left the Confederates with nothing but some rifes.

  11. So what's the news on Dell Battery Recall- Win for the Web · · Score: 1

    What is so important about this? The internet helps people find information? Journalists cultravate sources in companies they cover? None of this is that newsworthy.

  12. IANAL on FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM · · Score: 1

    But I belive extradition treaties would not permit the US to demand the author's arrest, as no crime was commited in the US. While the action would have been illegal in the US, it wasn't commited in the US.

  13. Like In Snow Crash on Philips Shows Light Emitting Clothing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You could have windbreakers with the name of a gang on them that turn black on command. Or suits that dazzle everyone letting you escape. Active camaflauge. There are so many uses of this technology.

  14. Re:With the war on terrorism... on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 2

    It depends on how you consider sabatoge. Considering the captian beged them to do it to avoid paying taxes, I would say it was not.

  15. Re:Because they do it in public on Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures · · Score: 1

    This isn't a ban. This is more like:"Your account is frozen for 60 minutes. Exercise. You played for n hours straight" and forcing Wow and like to do it. Good for PR anyway, and keeps your players from dropping dead to frequently.

  16. Re:Worst anime names on The 50 Worst Videogame Names of All Time · · Score: 1

    If you read the article they excluded bad translations.

  17. Re:So let me get this straight on Spain Outlaws P2P File-Sharing · · Score: 1

    Switch to UDP. Then it looks like NTP.

  18. Re:Flashplayer 8 required :( on Interview With John Romero · · Score: 1

    Java would work on all systems. Just check that Classpath supports what you are using. There is no reason to use Flash. And nearly everyone has Quicktime installed.

  19. Re:So What Does It Mean? on PGP & GPG · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's why fingerprints and web of trust were invented.

  20. Re:X.509 is better on PGP & GPG · · Score: 1

    But with GPG multiple people need to trust a key before I do. With X509 I trust one person, the CA, not to be evil. With GPG 5 people need to be evil depending on your settings before you trust a bad key.

  21. Re:Old Idea on An inside look at Intellectual Ventures · · Score: 1

    No, because an extension hurts everyone equally. If my patents get extended, so do other peoples. Copyrights don't hurt big companies, so that is why they want to get them extended all the time.

  22. Re:Again with the PHP bashing... on PHP and Perl in One Script? · · Score: 1

    Because a PHP is a sawn-off shoutgun that will blow your foot off. Tanks don't do that.

  23. Re:Bottom line: We don't need H1-B workers today on Complaints Filed Over Firms Seeking H1-B Holders · · Score: 1

    Cheating Uncle Sam is a piece of cake. Skew the questions asked at interviews. Make detailed skill sets that exclude everyone but the worker you want. And H-1B's skew the balance of power between employees and employers by elimiating the employee's power to bargin. As for audits, they are never done.

  24. Are there any humans around? on Malware Installed by LiveJournal Ad · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Newspapers clear ads before printing. Radio stations clear ads before airing them, and so do tv stations. Why should websites be any different?

  25. Re:IRS? on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    Nope. IRS ask a Swiss bank for money, they get firmly shown the door. They don't even try anymore.