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  1. Re:gee - sounds exactly like... on Google NativeClient Security Contest · · Score: 1

    www.mono-project.com

  2. Re:This is happening in plenty of places on Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut · · Score: 1

    How many of them made $17 billion in profits over the last year? Guess what Lehman Brothers profits were the year before they went bankrupt.

  3. Re:Embrace. on New Sidekick Will Run NetBSD, Not Windows CE · · Score: 1

    Except that's not BSD licensed code.

  4. Re:Hulu? Youtube? on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    There's a big difference between saying "can't watch it online" and "can't watch it online *at the official website*". The latter is disappointing, the former is a lie.

  5. Re:You cannot read on MS Silverlight To Stream Obama Inauguration Events · · Score: 1

    First line of the summary: "Ilgaz writes in to let us know that we will have to install MS Silverlight 2 to watch the US President's inauguration online." Nowhere is the possibility of other websites mentioned.

  6. Re:Move to CA on RIM Accuses Motorola of Blocking Job Offers · · Score: 1

    You still aren't allowed to take secrets with you. That's a gray area, but the general idea is people are poached for their skills or ability to recreate those secrets, not because they know a particular thing.

  7. Re:Great Idea!! on Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are stalled on the highway, then you are clearly not driving on the highway and can use your phone just fine.

  8. Re:Wheewww on Wireless Invention Jams Teen Drivers' Cell Calls · · Score: 1

    other people have kids too...

  9. Re:But BSD applies no pressure on h/w manufacturer on Proprietary Blobs and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel · · Score: 1

    all firmware in openbsd is freely [re]distributable.

  10. Re:shouldn't be legal on The Trap Set By the FBI For Half Life 2 Hacker · · Score: 1

    because crack and meth didn't exist back in the day

  11. Re:Congratulations on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    People asking the same question usually are simply told "read the manual" or "search the archives". If that's what counts as a flame nowadays, that's pretty weak. One reason I'm not particlarly sympathetic is that for all these tales of woe about how they had to stop using OpenBSD because of the flaming, no one ever includes a link to the discussion. Somebody should start a blog, and then when people quit, they send in a URL to the email thread that made them leave.

  12. Re:Congratulations on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I guess the simplest answer is you don't have to use the mailing lists to use the system. That's actually the point of having documentation, and one of the frustrations with people not reading it. The other frustration comes when people ask basic questions about VMs (which aren't documented I'll grant you) without reading the list traffic from the day before.

  13. Re:EOL cycle on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    If you have a system that valuable, you should hire someone with the skills to backport a patch so you can keep running. That's what a lot of other people do.

  14. Re:Silent Money Maker on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Wow, the second person with the exact same comment. Too bad I don't know who you guys are. Or are you the same?

  15. Re:Congratulations on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 5, Funny

    I certainly don't mean it personally, so that's good.

  16. Re:Congratulations on OpenBSD 4.4 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    By wasting people's time with worn out questions, you are being an asshole.

  17. Re:Wait... EXACTLY. It took 3 years to shut down? on For 3 Years, Scammers Ran Truckless Trucking Company · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When was the FBI contacted?

  18. Re:*illegal* scammers on US Financial Quagmire Bringing Out the Scammers · · Score: 1

    I don't think the words "executives" or "spa trip" mean what you think they mean.

  19. Re:I havent seen Apple's version on Steve Jobs Patents "The Dock" · · Score: 1

    You were making CSS menus in 1999?

  20. Re:pay-per-email // smtp service charge on Spammers Targeting Microsoft's Revised CAPTCHA · · Score: 1

    >> Keep in mind that people don't press the "spam" button.

    > This will change when they can make $1 per click.

    Sounds like a great business plan.

    1. Subscribe to a hundred popular mailing lists.
    2. Click spam on every message.
    3. Profit.

    No messy ??? in the way.

  21. Re:simply boycott them on EA Hit By Class-Action Suit Over Spore DRM · · Score: 1

    But the game isn't really sold to the retailer, no more than a book is sold to a bookstore. They're just holding on to it for the publisher. Why do you think there's that notice in every book about being sold without a cover? If it were sold-sold at every point, it'd make no difference. But the reality is it's given to the retailer as an advance. They can either sell it or ship it back.

  22. Re:And... on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    Well, since they invented a time machine to allow them to rip off someone else's idea before the someone else had it, I think it's fair.

  23. Re:Good GOD can people READ?? on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1
    This is 2008, last December would be December 2007 the IPhones were already out. Explain to me how a patent files in December 2007 could be before the IPhone came out in June(?) 2007.

    1. The notification patent came out a few months before december 2007.
    2. The earliest reference to the intelliscreen app I could find is May 2008.

  24. Re:Mmmm, Kay. on Why Lazy Functional Programming Languages Rule · · Score: 1

    newvariable = "variable" + numvariables++

  25. Re:Hmmm on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    The definition of "what you can afford" should not be "stretching my finances to the limit during a boom economy". Rainy days and all that.