Comment no purchase until (Score 1) 503
...there's no drm. and maybe until it runs Linux.
Comment Re:Ctrl-A S (Score 1) 303
lol. I would love to see someone do that in a standard text editor. Select all text, Delete it all, and replace it with a capital 'S'. very useful that. It's long past time for vi and emacs to die (let the flaming commence).
Comment intellisense? (Score 1) 303
does context-sensitive auto-complete count?
Comment Like every other Opera user (Score 5, Funny) 405
spoof the agent, just like everyone else who uses Opera
Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" 436
yuna49 writes "Online Media Daily reports that a federal judge in Seattle has held that IP addresses are not personal information. 'In order for "personally identifiable information" to be personally identifiable, it must identify a person. But an IP address identifies a computer,' US District Court Judge Richard Jones said in a written decision. Jones issued the ruling in the context of a class-action lawsuit brought by consumers against Microsoft stemming from an update that automatically installed new anti-piracy software. In that case, which dates back to 2006, consumers alleged that Microsoft violated its user agreement by collecting IP addresses in the course of the updates. This ruling flatly contradicts a recent EU decision to the contrary, as well as other cases in the US. Its potential relevance to the RIAA suits should be obvious to anyone who reads Slashdot."
Comment price is right, now how do I hand them a dollar (Score 3, Interesting) 268
My primary concern with low-cost services, is that of transactional security. I don't want to expose my CC to compromise over only 1$. Paypal is just as bad. if I subscribe to 100 1$ services per month, how much does that increase my exposure, vs one transaction for 100$? low cost webservices may be the answer to making money online, but I'm not here so a provider can make a buck.
Comment Thank goodness (Score -1, Troll) 465
'bout time. Perhaps now, RMS will shut up about it.
Comment Hats (Score 1) 856
if this works, then so does my "Designated Smoking Area" hat.
Comment Stallmans just mad because (Score 4, Funny) 1008
he can't make us call it "gnu-mono", so it must be bad.
Comment Law enforcement (Score 2, Interesting) 95
It seems to me that the powers that be have it backward. instead of using technology to enforce the law, they should use it to make the law irrelevant. The internet could have saved us from many laws, but no, they just went and wrote more of them.
Linux.com Relaunched Under New Management 70
mikesd81 writes "Linux.com has been relaunched under the direction of the Linux Foundation. The goal of the site is supposed to be a community hub that lets the Linux community participate and contribute their knowledge. An initial look as the site is today makes it look like a news site. Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin insists that the plan wasn't for Linux.com to be a breaking news organization but rather as a resource for the Linux community as a whole."
Comment Re:Zeitgeist (Score 2, Informative) 354
do you think that everyone woke up late may 1941, and said, "Hey, Lets have a Holocaust!". the answer of course is No. small changes like this culminated in atrocity.
seriously, search slashdot for "yro germany", and tell me you don't see a disturbing picture appearing over the last 2 years. probably not a sign of impending genocide, but that was only one aspect of the regime. everyone focuses on it (and rightly so), but it's not the only bad thing they did.
Comment Re:goddard (Score 1) 354
http://xkcd.com/261/
lolz
Comment Re:goddard (Score 1) 354
I still think the op meant godwin's (the context implies such anyway), there is in fact a "goddard's law" internet meme. http://wiki.freetalklive.com/Goddard's_Law
I hadn't heard of it before today either.
Comment Re:Zeitgeist (Score 1) 354
if your in the us, political media must recieve equal time and access (with in limits)
