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  1. Re:They want to "know if it's secure", huh? Well.. on New Zealand Banks Demand a Peek at User PCs · · Score: 1

    ...if they can access it, it ain't secure. 'nuff said. The bank is secure, because they have your money.
  2. Re:Tattoo on GPL 3 Launch Date Announced · · Score: 1

    GPL++

  3. Re:Aren't there any other.... on Hans Reiser Interview from Prison · · Score: 1
    I got ticketed for expired tags/no reg. on car. DMV wasnt pleased. --chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/

    Aren't there any other open source author's facing major criminal charges? All we get is Hans, Hans, Hans. If not it seems Microsoft's Black Ops. Dept.* has missed an opportunity.
  4. Re:Both right? on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Five billion years and decrementing...

  5. Re:One extreme to the next on Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    How many sci-fi scripts and tv/movies are similier in sroty plot? Mostly are the alog the lines of the good guys are effected by the bad guy(s) in some way and have to solve the situ. the details are fodder for sake of the story.

  6. Re:Wait For It on Alan Cox on Patent Law and GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Of course! If we stop recognizing software patents, then the terrorists win. Software is like a choose adventure style of book, and should be treated as one.
  7. Re:I'm not jacking in on Controlling Computers With the Brain · · Score: 1

    Oh woe! Hackers have cracked by brain and pwnd my email.

  8. Re:Mod Parent Down on A Cynic Rips Open Source · · Score: 1

    Then you charge to recover the labor and distrobution costs the product is involved in. Which is basicly covered under the GPL license. --chris

  9. Re:Where is the new SciFi? on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 1

    Attack of the Killer Space Cow! http://www.aotksc.com/manga/

  10. Re:Not all open-source is the same on You Can Oppose Copyright and Support Open Source · · Score: 1

    I think a programmer should have the right to protect his intellectual property and still share via the GPL the said source for others to modify and use. You just dont want someone to take what you've doen and claim they did that particular work.

  11. Re:Retirement age.. on Longevity Gene Found · · Score: 1

    Or you end up working at mcdonalds for 80years because your retirment fund ran out.

  12. Re:UAC == *TERRIBLE* Security Idea! on Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC · · Score: 1

    if (application!=allowed) { x=promptuser("Run program %s?", application, cancel, allow) allowed(application, x) }

  13. Re:I can only imagine on Could Black Holes Be Portals to Other Universes? · · Score: 1

    Blackholes don't lead to anywhere. they are just highly collapsed hypernovas that turn anything entering the event horizon into componant energy and radiation.

  14. Re:It wasn't a single wrong command on Mars Global Surveyor Died from Single Bad Command · · Score: 1

    if radiosig != true { move_antenna() } if mainsvcc desired { ++solarpanel // adjust solar panel } solved! :-)

  15. Re:Not Unreasonable on HP Dishonors Warranty If You Load Linux · · Score: 1

    probing the monitor with undesirable settings will not wreak a LCD since those are all solid state and not electron beam driven. Just end up with a messed up screen image. Keyboard drivers on any OS are relative simple, read from I/O and perform symbol mapping on the bits/byte to specified code page. So mostly keyboard problems are going to be from the hardware side.

  16. Re:at least they got radio deregulation right on DMCA Creator Admits Failure, Blames RIAA · · Score: 1

    Don't give the vote to the two main parties, vote http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/!

  17. Re:what the.... on Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing · · Score: 1

    The universe was the result of a super massive hypernovae exploding... Universe is infinite and forever changing.

  18. Re:An idea on Legislators Ponder BlackBerry Pileups · · Score: 1

    No more laws are needed just more education campains teaching people to use their voicemail/inboxes more instead of needing to be instantly contactable in this "highly mobile" society.

  19. Re:Is it just me or on Vint Cerf on Net Security, Hacking, and Acting · · Score: 1

    True old school is a Commodore vic-20 with a 1200bps modem :)

  20. Re:I wanna run botware! on T-Mobile Bans Others' Apps On Their Phones · · Score: 1

    -We should have an inalienable right to communicate as we wish, by whatever means we wish. soo, if I send text messages via mose code using my farts, than that would be acceptable?

  21. Re:Agghr, matey! on Top Ten Open Source Innovators · · Score: 1

    If your going to do that then atleast disassemble/relink it so you can claim you did something innovative atleast.

  22. Re:Indeed. on US Not Getting Money's Worth From ISS · · Score: 1

    The moonbase will be built utilizing a nuclear reactor for power and be a hydroponics garden for growing food stuffs.

  23. Re:Actually, you can't run Vista at all... on Microsoft Slugs Mac Users With Vista Tax · · Score: 1

    Well, a virtual machine on a 386 (V86mode) can run only the instructions from the previous cpu incarnation.

  24. Re:Next up on Will the iPod Ever Die? · · Score: 1

    Read it for entertainment value for it is all lies in the end. :) Time Warner is priceless

  25. Re:DON'T TRUST THESE RESULTS!!! on Survey of Super Massive Black Holes Completed · · Score: 1

    Straight in down the middle and the gravity is too powerful to resist.