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  1. Mod parent up on First US GPL Lawsuit Heads For Quick Settlement · · Score: 1

    There is little victory in a settlement to release the code. The real victory would have indeed been a precedent for GPL.

  2. Re:Not surprising on TorrentSpy Must Preserve Data In RAM For MPAA · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A more accurate statement would be that you write on the Post-Its, then at some point scribble all over them with a yellow ink pen and start writing something else. At some definite point, will you be able to produce the original text you wrote?

  3. Re:You failed programming, didn't you? on Sun Lowers Barriers to Open-Source Java · · Score: 0, Redundant

    When a Java program I compiled and ran on my computer doesnt work but compiles and runs on someone elses perfectly, there is something wrong.

    HINT: Its not the computers.

  4. Re:Analysis of the "hack", or how sum of parts bre on The Java Popup you Can't Stop · · Score: 1

    1. Validate applet size to be always significantly less than screen size And honestly, how hard can it be to program the setBounds method to check if the desired size is greater than the desktop? Sun is just being lazy.
  5. Re:I love it. I won't buy it. on Protoss For a Day · · Score: 1

    Starcraft came out in 1998 and looked out-of-date even then But you say that like it's a bad thing... You are spot on about the warcraft franchise graphics, but Starcraft's original UI and graphics are what made them unobstructive to gameplay unlike WC3. (except during carrier rushes :D )
  6. Re:ACLU Wrong Again on ACLU Protests Police Scanning License Plates · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about that is that it is computationally simpler and doesnt require absurd amounts of data storage. Too bad the government cant seem to figure out how to serve the public more effectively and keep its noses out of the public's business.

  7. Slashdotter's creed: on EU Slaps Intel With Formal Antitrust Charges · · Score: 1

    In karma we trust!

  8. Re:Welcome to America on What's Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age? · · Score: 1

    ... or of course it could very well be an accurate description of a specific population. One of which that may be disproportionally tuned in to the Paris Hilton / Lohan craze. I am a sheeple. There, I admitted it. I will now form my own language so I will not be following the crowd. It will consist of hand gestures of high and low relative heights to one's head.... ohh damnit....

  9. Welcome to America on What's Keeping US Phones In the Stone Age? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You see, foreigner, in America, innovation costs money. In American society, profit is the bottom line and the only winner is the company. If the company can change the lineup just enough to keep the sheeple fooled into buying in to slightly different products, the CEO gets a nice, fat bonus. (The same goes for Apple, btw.)

    And here I thought everyone was well-versed on the sad state of corporate America.

  10. Re:Irrelevant on Punchscan Wins Open Source Voting Competition · · Score: 1

    Another, once very powerful man, said the Jews were the root of all problems. Yet another said to take everything with a grain of salt.

  11. Re:What is this? on New Hack Exploits Common Programming Error · · Score: 1

    Its more like the bad guy figures out which wire lights the lamps in your room when you flip the switch. Bad guy then installs a bomb to go off when you flip the switch.

  12. Re:heyho on Sony Displays New PSP, Polished Games At E3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And here I am with no mod points....

  13. Re:Congressional testimony on Hot Fuels on Motorists Sue Over 'Hot' Fuel · · Score: 1

    Either mommy pumps your gas or you are lucky. Around my area, you can feel the hot gas through the metal in the handle.

  14. Re:Solid state on Sony Develops Fluid-Filled Bags For Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    Cars can run their entire lives without leaking. My 23 year old car is just now developing a pressure leak and slowly letting steam out somewhere. If you have a leaky coolant system, you should probably learn from automotive engineers instead of "geek boutique" websites,

  15. Re:yeah, but.... on Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Snoops · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Great, so neither one of you know about inductance? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induc tion

    I dont suppose you would be someone to think that shorting some 20 gauge wire in an electrical socket won't vaporize the wire? Why dont you try picking up a physics book or doing some experiments yourself before commenting on a topic which you obviously do not understand?

    This isn't magic, for fucks sake. A film of plastic doesn't block out magnetic fields of any sort without being even slightly conductive.

  16. Re:yeah, but.... on Newly Declassified Window Film Keeps Out Snoops · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Even Faraday cages have their limits. Presumably, you would already have aluminum insulation or a faraday cage within the walls.

    However, there is no conceivable way that a plastic film embedded with any sort of thin, transparent conductor will be able to hold back a nuclear EMP blast. I'd hate to be standing next to it and then suddenly be covered with molten, burning plastic. Although I do suppose a nuke going off within a few hundred miles is a tad more important than immoliated.

    Lazy, none physics-knowing editors...

  17. Re:How could a presentation "undermine" security? on Controversial Security Paper Nixed From Black Hat · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Or kick him down a well.

  18. Re:AI65 Thermal Interrupt is not generated... on Theo de Raadt Details Intel Core 2 Bugs · · Score: 1

    Its a sad, sad day when Intel cant get a simple 8-bit ADC measurement right.

    Today's ironic CAPTCHA: "simply"

  19. There is no difference, you and I.... on Google Says Vista Search Changes Not Enough · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I am someone appauled that some of you still dont get it. Google's bitching to Redmond is the exact same thing as if they went to Torvalds say "We want in or we cry to Mommy". If you code your own OS, but by George you better not have an integrated file search program or you might find Google knocking down your door. Are YOU obligated to provide Google anything? Of course you are not, and neither should Microsoft.

    Google capitalized on some areas where Microsoft's offerings were lackluster or nonexistent. Thats cool.
    Now the gravy train has run out and Google shouldnt have a case. Its offerings are not as great as Microsoft's and Microsoft should not be forced into supporting it. As long as they dont break patent laws, let them do whatever the hell they want since it is legally their code.

    For the record I would love to see each and every Windows OS replaced with Linux.

  20. Re:Hmmmm. on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    Lets see: tank or gyro-stabilized ICBM. tank or ICBM.... I'm going to have to go with the ICBM, Bob.

    Tanks arent that much of a leap forward over the armored car. It was just an armored car that had tracks, a big gun, and most tanks of WW2 had little armor. On the other hand, you have a state-of-the-art missile that can touch down in another country, and, after launch, was completely invincible.

  21. Re:It's an American Thing on Innovation's Role Is Sorely Exaggerated · · Score: 1

    And if Gatling doesnt do it for you, Maxim sure will.

  22. More details... on Judge Orders TorrentSpy to Turn Over RAM · · Score: 1

    http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9727965-7.html

    According to that article, we see that the judge knows basically what RAM is.

    They thing that puzzles me is that if one were using, lets say, closed source service software, how the hell are you supposed to figure out exactly where the IP is in memory to log it?

  23. Re:So what? It's North Carolina... on NC Man Fined For Using Vegetable Oil As Fuel · · Score: 1

    If you dont, Helios will be very angry with us.

    Today's CAPTCHA: lulled.

  24. Cold day in a hot place.... on A Field Trip To the Creation Museum · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When the rest of y'all "sciency" types can explain ultimate origins of the universe in a fashion that is actually *gasp* scientific I will consider believing it. Hypotheses about ultimate origins are just as much religion as Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, et al.

  25. Re:A question on NVIDIA's Andy Ritger On Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    that probably contains a vast amount of work they spent their own R&D budget on Fair point. Although it is moot because they arent making a single dime off it because they give it for free.