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  1. Re:Google has a major problem on Google Music Downloads To Go Ahead Without Sony Or Warner · · Score: 1

    Granparent was talking about g+, which made the mispronounciation rather non-obvious, though im glad you got a chance to boost your ego.

  2. Re:Google has a major problem on Google Music Downloads To Go Ahead Without Sony Or Warner · · Score: 2

    When I log into gmail there is an ad saying g+ is going away, but your posts shall always remain..

    I just tried logging in to the gmail web interface, and it said google BUZZ is going away, but my posts will remain.

  3. wrong device on No Playboy App For iPad, After All · · Score: 1

    They should rather release it for the nintendo 3d thing

  4. Re:Amazing! on A 3D Lego Fabricator Made of Lego · · Score: 1

    Lego Command & Conquer machine?

  5. Re:The Wheel on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    In order to refine you must usually get back to the drawing board, or at least take some steps back, and "reinvent". If not the whole system, then at least part of it. Which is close enough for my point. No reason to wave your definition penis.

  6. Re:The Wheel on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    Im just using the vocabulary of the old stupid wheel meme.

  7. Re:The Wheel on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If it weren't for repeated reinvention of the wheel, they would still be hexagonal rocks. Reinvention is what drives technology forward. Invention is a rare treat.

  8. Re:Tabloid? on Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I usually dont bother complaining about modding.... but why is down this modded down? I personally don't know about aftonbladet, but his description fits the two biggest norwegian newspapers, VG and Dagbladet, like a glow. Each time I read one of the dramatic double words I die a little bit inside.

  9. I know this one... on Twins' DNA Foils Police · · Score: 1

    they just have to ask what the other twin would have said if he was asked

  10. Re:Won't stop Palpatine err I mean Conroy on Filter Vendor Agrees Aussie Censorship Can't Work As Promised · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're driving your car, but they're riding their bikes there.

    Were where this when I needed it?

  11. the article, for your convenience on Web Copyright Crackdown On the Way · · Score: 5, Funny

    A coalition of traditional and digital publishers this month will launch the first-ever concerted crackdown on copyright pirates on the web, initially targeting violators who use large numbers of intact articles.

    Details of the crackdown were provided by Jim Pitkow, the chief executive of Attributor, a Silicon Valley start-up that has been selected as the agent for several publishers who want to be compensated by websites that are using their content without paying licensing fees.

    In a telephone interview yesterday, Pitkow declined to identify the individual publishers in his coalition, but said they include “about a dozen” organizations representing wire services, traditional print publishers and “top-tier blog networks.”

    The first offending sites to be targeted will be those using 80% or more of copyrighted stories more than 10 times per month.

    In the first stage of a multi-step process aimed at encouraging copyright compliance instead of punishing scofflaws, Pitkow said online publishers identified by his company will be sent a letter informing them of the violations and urging them to enter into license agreements with the publishers whose content appears on their sites.

    If copyright pirates refuse to pay, Attributor will request the major search engines to remove offending pages from search results and will ask banner services to stop serving ads to pages containing unauthorized content. The search engines and ad services are required to immediately honor such requests by the federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

    If the above efforts fail, Attributor will ask hosting services to take down pirate sites. Because hosting services face legal liability under the DCMA if they do not comply, they will act quickly, said Pitkow.

    “We are not going after past damages” from sites running unauthorized content said Pitkow. The emphasis, he said is “to engage with publishers to bring them into compliance” by getting them to agree to pay license fees to copyright holders in the future.

    License fees, which are set by each of the individual organizations producing content, may range from token sums for a small publisher to several hundred dollars for yearlong rights to a piece from a major publisher, said Pitkow.

    Attributor identifies copyright violators by scraping the web to find copyrighted content on unauthorized sites. A team of investigators will contact violators in an effort to bring them into compliance or, alternatively, begin taking action under DMCA.

    click the link to read the last 21%

  12. gnu moon mission on FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Put a Stallman on the moon, Im shure you will get funding

  13. Re:Yes we all know size is everything... on Scientists Postulate Extinct Hominid With 150 IQ · · Score: 1

    What is the puma going to do? Ask riddles and kill you if you're wrong? A classical predator would start of with nerds and handicapped people.

  14. Re:I still dont see the point on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 1

    Debian is in effect raising BSD from the dead.

    How do you think the number of kFreeBSD users compare to the number of people using otherBSD?
    How do you envision this ratio will change over the years?

  15. Re:Privacy on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    So, I shine my flashlight in your eyes. It's ok because you can buy sunglasses?

    Only a moron would put up with needing a firewall to stop his school from spying on him.
    Also, most people, morons or not, do not know what a firewall is.

    But what is sadening is the mentality that lies behind such behavior. Not the annoyance of
    defending any particular piece of freedom. The few people that are careful what they put up
    with will be taken care of when all the others have gotten comfortable in the boiling water.
    The man is turning up the heat I tell you.

  16. Privacy on What Restrictions Should Student Laptops Have? · · Score: 1

    # We also have the ability to monitor any machine remotely...

    You fucking what? Thats it, I hereby resign from society, good luck to you all

  17. Serendipity? on Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    How fortunate to accidentaly learn a new word from a tag. Now just to make shure im not offtopic - I think this photosynthesis thing is cool, and we should try to find more of it.

  18. Re:Tell us Bill on Linux Kernel Surpasses 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ship Date Product Dev Team Size Test Team Size Lines of code (LoC)

    Jul-93 NT 1.0 (released as 3.1) 200 140 4-5 million
    Sep-94 NT 2.0 (released as 3.5) 300 230 7-8 million
    May-95 NT 3.0 (released as 3.51) 450 325 9-10 million
    Jul-96 NT 4.0 (released as 4.0) 800 700 11-12 million
    Dec-99 NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) 1,400 1,700 29+ million
    Oct-01 NT 5.1 (Windows XP) 1,800 2,200 40 million
    Apr-03 NT 5.2 (Windows Server 2003) 2,000 2,400 50 million

    Offcourse, you can't compare a whole OS to a kernel.
    Data is from http://www.knowing.net/PermaLink,guid,c4bdc793-bbcf-4fff-8167-3eb1f4f4ef99.aspx

  19. tagged bsd? on GNOME 2.24 Released · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Don't try to push this onto us. This is gnu all the way

  20. Bad vibrator on Mars Soil Frustrates Phoenix Again · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's how it goes when they send a vibrator to do a mans job. Anyway, are the exploring that hole they found a while back?

  21. Re:Not to mention on NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then they will all die hard

  22. Re:Intel? on Nvidia CEO "Not Afraid" of CPU-GPU Hybrids · · Score: 1

    In other news, Aston Martin makes better cars than Hyundai! Please don't start another Aston Martin VS Hyundai flamewar.
  23. Re:Fighting Microsoft at OSI. on Bruce Perens Aims For OSI Executive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Parent is not Bruce Perens. its .Bruce Perens.

    note the period at the beginning of the name...

    Maybe he's hidden
  24. Re:$3.99 for Botnet ops on $5 Per Month Fee Proposed For Legal Music P2P · · Score: 1

    Their crap will skyrocket to the top ten. Worst is we probably wouldn't notice
  25. Re:I have to ask... on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 1

    I mean this as advocacy bait :-D

    Why would I choose FreeBSD over, say, Solaris x86 or Linux? It's a whole operating system. The different pieces actually fits together.