Comment I'm Linux... (Score 1) 460
and so can you!
Comment Re:Pfft... (Score 5, Funny) 356
So that's what 'Ribbed for Your pleasure' comes from!
Comment Re:"The case will continue...." (Score 1) 292
I'm Shakrai, and so is my wife!
Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark 191
mentus writes "Bing! Information Design, a design company from Missouri, is suing Microsoft over 'intentional interference' with their trademark and claiming Microsoft had knowledge of the trademark when it relaunched its rebranded search engine. Microsoft legal representative Kevin Kutz states that he believes the case will be dismissed and that Microsoft 'always respect[s] trademarks and other people's intellectual property, and look[s] forward to the next steps in the judicial process.'"
Comment Re:laughable (Score 2, Insightful) 647
The reason that Communism fails on a large scale is that given enough people, someone will be selfish enough to game the system for his own advantage, and refuse to play nice.
Phew, good thing I live in a capitalist country, where that never happens.
Comment Re:Look before you leap (Score 1) 783
Re your sig: Here you go.
Comment Re:galactic magnetic field (Score 1) 251
Please, think of the kittens.
Comment Re:Cool! (Score 1) 107
Who you wooshin, you insensitive clod?!!?!
Comment Re:Cool! (Score 2, Funny) 107
Right next to Sweden.
Windows Server Trusts Samba4 Active Directory 182
Darren Ginter writes "A group of Samba v4 developers recently spent a week in Redmond to work with Microsoft on Active Directory interoperability(?!). The result? Windows Server will now join, trust and replicate a Samba-based Active Directory using Microsoft-native protocols. Although Samba v4 is still in the alpha stages, this is a huge step for open source. Or it could be a trap."
Comment Re:Free market will fix this (Score 1) 259
s/breech/breach/
Courtesy, your friendly neighborhood Spelling Nazi
Courtesy, your friendly neighborhood Spelling Nazi
Comment Re:And then what? (Score 1) 580
It's funny because it's true. +5, Informative
Submission + - Designing Copyright Laws That Are Built To Last 4
An anonymous reader writes: With all the pressure to reform copyright law in countries around the
world, the Toronto Star focuses
on how to build a law that is built to last. The key ingredients
include a balanced approach, technological neutrality, simplification,
and embracing flexibility.
Submission + - Pirate Bay downloads to flash drive before sale (itnews.com.au)
scrubl writes: An anonymous uploader has provided the database of the world's biggest BitTorrent site for download just days before the iconic pirate website was sold to its new owners. Fittingly, the 21.3 GB file was available as a torrent for download and fits on a high-capacity USB flash drive. When it was sold to Global Gaming Factory, the Pirate Bay said on its blog that "if the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it". But Torrentfreak reported the anonymous uploaded wanted further assurances: "If the TPB deal disappoints us, we can just put it up again."
Submission + - Comcast intercepts and redirects port 53 traffic (wordpress.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: An interesting (and profane) writeup of one frustrated user's discovery that Comcast is actually intercepting DNS requests bound for non-Comcast DNS servers and redirecting them to their own servers. I had obviously heard of the DNS hijacking for nonexistent domains, but I had no idea they'd actually prevent people from directly contacting their own DNS servers.
