* Posts by Luke Bearl

8 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008

Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer?

Luke Bearl

But who hears of add-ons for IE?

I am (forced to be) a windows user... and I have never even really heard of the plugins for IE, which means that the 70+% market share probably has never heard of them before either.

Cocaine addicted IT manager hacks ex-employer's mail servers

Luke Bearl
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Six Dollars?

What is with the legal system spewing out such weird numbers?He agreed to pay $54,006... why not just $54,000? Does six dollars really make that much of a difference?

TSA signs off on paperless boarding

Luke Bearl
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Sponsorship for sick bags?

If a company can get sponsorship for puke bags, why is any company having any difficulty finding money these days?

Mine is the the free one with company ads all over it.

Ubuntu lovers slap Canonical over Firefox EULA

Luke Bearl
Jobs Horns

The GPL and Mozilla license require the exact same thing

I know every time I have installed anything under the GPL the license has in large letters something to the effect of: THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT MUST BE DISTRIBUTED WITH THIS PROGRAM. So, is it really unreasonable for Mozilla to ask the EXACT same thing pertaining to THEIR software? Canonical may be going the way of Micro$oft...

Painting by numbers: NASA's peculiar thermometer

Luke Bearl

Cold?

Sure, most of North America has been a little bit cooler, but what about the 70 F weather Milwaukee, WI had in January (or even more prominently, the Tornado that ripped through Kenosha, WI?) It seems to me that no one really has any idea what is going on, and instead are just trying to fit theories to facts.

Comcast rolls out brand new bandwidth throttles

Luke Bearl
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Discount?

So... if they are going to slow the connection (since most people pay for a certain speed), are they also giving those customers a discount, or are customers just not allowed to use the service that they are paying for?

Legal experts wary of MySpace hacking charges

Luke Bearl
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@Steven Swenson

That would be good and dandy--- for the future. Ex Post Facto laws are no good though, so if this happened again something could be done, but as the article said, there really is no law by which to charge.

New NetApp logo already used by lubricating genie shop

Luke Bearl

Its not COMPLETELY identical

If you look really closely, the white space goes "up" farther.... but probably not enough