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  1. Re:Might work ... on Second Mac Clone Maker Set To Sell, With a Twist · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe the point is that $129 is the right price for a lovely operating system, if one has the choice of operating systems.

  2. Re:The Devil must be pissed off on Microsoft Blesses LGPL, Joins Apache Foundation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    maybe this is a whooosh but...
    At this point it would be stranger if more banks didn't fail.

  3. Re:Obligatory "does it matter?" on Debian Maintainer Hints At September Release for Lenny · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. If you need Unstable you are either a Debian developer, should think about becoming a Debian developer, or better off using Gentoo.

  4. Re:You've missed something important on Police Director Sues AOL For Critical Blogger's Name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The way the constitution and the amendments was designed was supposed to protect individuals against the majority rule of government. Mistaking that for "protect you, for your safety" is the single largest misconception that the USA has, and it's killing the once fine form of government we had.

  5. Re:So basically, no learning help? on Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order · · Score: 2, Funny

    The first rule of Apple SDK is that you don't talk about Apple SDK.
    The second rule of Apple SDK is that you don't talk about Apple SDK.

    Or one could look at it from the stand point that a population that isn't
    allowed to talk to one another is easily controlled, ala 1984...
    which would make this all the more ironic.

  6. Re:Economics 101. on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 1

    The owners don't care because it's not a huge loss TO THEM, and they know that the city will eventually sell bonds and subsidize new business in order to spruce the place up.

    Sound like you found the real problem right there. If there wasn't a safety net (real or perceived) the impetus to actually have the store occupied would be exist.

  7. Re:*Relative* bargain on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By that reasoning shouldn't SPAM disappear too?

  8. Re:For the love of god - DON'T! on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 1

    I see you read the article I posted... uhh high five?

  9. Re:Sure... on Global Warming Stopped By Adding Lime To Sea · · Score: 1

    Because we allowed them to dictate to the government that a gallon of their tears is worth more than a gallon of our sweat.

  10. Re:For the love of god - DON'T! on Guide For Small Team Programming? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I agree with the 3 man team idea. It's the same idea as the surgical team from the Mythical Man Month. However, as is proposed here the original idea of the surgical team has changed. The best way to make a surgical team these days is to follow OOP and section of your product in manageable packages with everyone knowing what vaguely goes on in each package, but have a designated person that is known as an 'owner' or 'maintainer'. At least that's what works best for our group at work. I work on an embedded system at John Deere. We have 3 Programmers (one EE, one CE, and one CS), a Control Theory/MechE/Systems (Group Lead), and one Testing Technician (functional hardware testing). This works out really well for us. YMMV

  11. Re:GDium on Mandriva Joins the Netbook Market With the GDium · · Score: 1

    I think DSL and SLAX were doing this for a while now....

  12. Re:Actually, this really could be legitimate... on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 1

    I'm not all for this, but think of the buisness men who might like to use this kind of technology...
    There is some trickle down here, but not as much as say, better body armor.

  13. Re:Not enough information on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    FreeRTOS has an x86 port so that would cost less than QNX.
    There is also eCos which might get you more hardware support.

  14. Re:Applies to ALL embargoes on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe you are asking the wrong question. The idea that the US has to prevent any nation from attacking any other nation or the idea that the US should make the world a better place is a totalitarian idea and doomed to failure. The US should mind it's own business, and not be afraid to let it's citizens have the right of free association on a global scale.

  15. Re:Surprised? on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    There was a book covering the same subject...

  16. Re:Applies to ALL embargoes on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    Fuck embargoes. Yes all embargoes. Isolationism doesn't solve anything. Free-trade and the free exchange of ideas could solve a lot of things the world wide. US-Iran, North Korea-South Korea, Mexico-US, US-China. Ok so the US as it stands politically could solve a lot of things if we would just practice more Free-trade and the free exchange of ideas, but as it is the US barely talk with other nations before we
    1. Santion/Embargo
    2. Bomb
    3. ....
    4. Profit!

    I just expect more rationality from my government, Is that so wrong?

  17. Re:Surprised? on Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela · · Score: 1

    The US if far from ideal capitalism. We have industrial well-fare for some companies, and over-regulation of others, which has created the nearly all the overpricing problems in the US. Or at least that's my general theory. The problem with capitalism is that while I can hold myself to the ideals that make it work, most people can't. They want to take value and not give in return*. It's called trade for a reason...



    *Incidentally, I think the same problem exists in Socialism as well. The problem isn't capitalism or socialism, it's just human greed that fucks them both up. But given the choice, I'll go capitalism.

  18. Re:How about the reverse quotas? on The Push For Quotas For Women In Science · · Score: 1

    It would be nice for us if it were the other way around....

  19. Re:I just finished the first installment(No Spoile on Joss Whedon's "Doctor Horrible" Set To Launch · · Score: 1

    BALLS!

  20. Re:Coal Liquefaction on What Tech Should Be Seen At TED? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think America, taken on the whole, is quite a lot less evil than the Nazis and the South African regime. Now if you want to talk individuals... feel free.

  21. Re:catch-22 on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 1
    Have you read the Constitution or is your reading comprehension just at a 3rd grade level?
    The 4th Amendment states:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    Here is your homework assignment: Compare and contrast with the ACLU's Statement.

    The law challenged here supplies none of the safeguards that the Constitution demands. It permits the government to monitor the communications of U.S. Citizens and residents without identifying the people to be surveilled; without specifying the facilities, places, premises, or property to be monitored; without observing meaningful limitations on the retention, analysis, and dissemination of acquired information; without obtaining individualized warrants based on criminal or foreign intelligence probable cause; and, indeed, without even making prior administrative determinations that the targets of surveillance are foreign agents or connected in any way, however tenuously, to terrorism.

    Next, start trying to understand the principles behind the 4th Amendment.

  22. Re:Security Concerns on Memristor Based RAM Could Be Out By 2009 · · Score: 1

    No different that today's current suspend...

  23. Re:A PI license? on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 1

    Maybe I should have stated IANAL and IANAEW before this all started...

  24. Re:A PI license? on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you dense?
    Expert witnesses are used to interpret hard to understand information. Domain specific information. If your jury can't understand the evidence you find, then it's not worth anything to either side. A expert witness has to have something to interpret for the jury. So if you find something as a professional security analysis, there is no problem using it as evidence, but most likely without an expert witness to interpret it they won't know what it means. Find all the evidence you want, just make sure it's understood by the jury.

  25. Re:A PI license? on RIAA's SafeNet Caught In a Lie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Having evidence is one thing, interpreting it for a court of law is another.