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  1. The real issue on Blizzard Tries To Forbid Open Sourcing Glider · · Score: 0

    Make leveling actually fun instead of a "grind". If there is such a huge demand for Glider maybe they need to re-think some of their game's design. Other MMO games have dynamic updates as you play, the WoW world feels static, and they have to take the servers down completely to apply updates.

  2. Contradictions on Anatomy of a Runaway Project · · Score: 0

    "Many of the people involved in FUBAR - developers, testers, team leads, managers - lack the qualifications, insight, or experience to make FUBAR a success."

    Later on he says ..

    "The FUBAR project is represented as something that has never been done before, and the staff as a world-class development team."

    So which one is it McCain?

  3. Question on FBI Wants Authority To Filter Net Backbone · · Score: 0

    How long are the American people going to put up with this shit? Our government has done more damage to this country than the terrorists did on 9-11. They don't even need to attack us again, they can sit back and watch us self-destruct.

  4. NoScript on Consumer Groups Advocate for 'Do Not Track' Registry · · Score: 0

    I use the NoScript FireFox addon. I am surprised at how many popular sites are using tracking scripts (and how many scripts they are using).

  5. Re:Gravel! Turn back! on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 0

    Yeah, that is why I added my last bit. Ask them to take it down, not sue them!

  6. Re:Gravel! Turn back! on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 0

    Why should that be apparent? There are gravel public lanes (and even a road or two) in my city, and it never would have occurred to me that such a thing would automatically mean private property.

    Do the gravel lanes in your city have a mailbox next to them as well? Did you even look at the pictures? Dead giveaway that it was a driveway and not a road. Either way, they should have asked for it to be taken down, not sue Google about it.
  7. Probably Not on 2008 - Year of Linux Desktop? · · Score: 0

    There seems to be a lot of games coming out with DirectX 10 support. I run Ubuntu server here at work, but when I go home I play games on my PC, as I am usually sick of programming. I have used Cedega for WoW, the performance wasn't really that great. I think the year for linux on the desktop will be when the gaming industry starts providing support. Lets hope it comes sooner than later.

  8. Wasted Time on Should Vendors Close All Security Holes? · · Score: 0

    Has this guy figured in the time to re-investigate bugs when they get brought up again? Chances are if they blew it off in the first place they didn't take the time to document what was at fault. This would create a huge re-investment time for every bug that is reported by a vendor/hacker later on down the pipeline. Maybe he should compare the time re-investigating against the time to just patch the bug. I bet they are similiar, but the latter would give them a better, more secure product.

  9. Re:Ohhhhh Sources on Microsoft To Open Source Some of Silverlight · · Score: 0

    Maybe you should check monster.com or craigslist. Those .NET Kool-Aid jobs seem to be pretty attractive.

  10. Re:Linux not the threat; the GNU GPL is on Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source · · Score: 0, Troll

    The GPL is their enemy because the GPL proactively defends our freedom. Is the BSD license a Free Software license? You bet! But it doesn't proactively defend our freedom like the GPL does, and it is that characteristic of the GPL that frightens Microsoft to its core. That's also why they're fighting so desperately against the OpenDocument file formats; to Microsoft, actual, true Freedom for users is a very, very scary thing. Microsoft is a technology provider. Why would they want to give out their source code as GPL and *force* their end users to open their program as well? The GPL is great for some things, but if you are giving your code to paying customers, let them do what they want with it. This "defend our freedom" sounds like a bunch of bullshit. Viewing sourcode isn't a freedom.
  11. Re:0 Unpatched = 100% Patched on Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls · · Score: 1

    I think everyone else understood you, he just can't read.

  12. Re:email keyword on Google's Silent Monopoly · · Score: 1

    Probably because Yahoo! mail has been out a LOT longer than GMail.