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  1. Re:Surprising on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When in the UK it was hilarious to read in the newspapers, about the numerous citizen complaints against the police. Turns out the police didn't want to hire the staff to check the video footage for certain reported crimes like theft (despite knowing the times AND places the thefts occurred, giving a solid starting point) to identify and catch crooks.

    Well done UK, saving your draconian measures for political agendas. Your people deserve what they get.

  2. Re:Huh? on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't expect you'd see anything, since even light would be pulled into the center. No grid at all, nothing on which to gauge the distortions.

  3. Huh? on What Would It Look Like To Fall Into a Black Hole? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't assume you see red grid lines?

  4. Slashdot fails again. on Warner Bros. Acquires The Pirate Bay · · Score: 0

    Yes, as of today, youtube consistently outplays Slashdot in good april fools jokes. Both the rickroll and new "layout" are more technical than spamming lame jokes as misinformation, and consistently more entertaining. Slashdot fail.

  5. Re:Sesame Street & the Importance of Bilingual on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1

    english is considered one of the easiest

    English is a high context language that is incredibly difficult to speak WELL and there is always a difficulty with the fact that so many english sounds are similar. Enunciate. Because of the reliance on context, even broken or misspoken english can be meaningful, but not when the accent is too heavy to discern the root object(s) of a statement.

  6. Re:Uhhh on Anonymous Blogger Outed By Politician · · Score: 1

    But you're turning this around. Again, that's a question of abuse of power, which really has nothing to do with protection of privacy.

    Turning it around? How is the determination (if the goal or act is illegitimate) NOT integral to whether or not it's abuse of power?

  7. Re:PostgreSQL on Locating the Real MySQL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And others know any (Wiki) article, online, is equally suspect.

  8. Re:North Central United States on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Calling my logical argument "bullshit" does not address any of the points I made.

    You made no points. Anyone who read your "response" is now dumber for it.

  9. Re:Just me? on How Google Routes Around Outages · · Score: 1

    Took me about 15 seconds to think about it. Knight-Rider style, load the car (into/onto/via grapple) a specialized truck/platform that exists to fix flats in transit or simply en-route. The car analogy is only bad because it doesn't really define the constraints based on the nature of the data, imo.

  10. Re:-Enterprise on Enterprise FOSS Adoption Beyond Linux Servers? · · Score: 1

    People in management like a single sign-on system and a well-knit integrated system that works,

    So XBox Live, the DMV, and the automated grocery checkout at Ralph's meet those requirements (which are as arbitrary and as loose of a definition, as I've heard in awhile). Those systems must all be enterprise-level?

  11. Stallman, wtf? on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    The reason those scripts are near-impossible to interpret is because they are compressed (Minifying+), wherein all comments (like the happy license) are stripped out for pragmatic reasons. This is a standards issue.

    What's more, a user still has the source code. So now you don't just want access to the source, it has to be spelled out for you in a way you can understand? How long before I have to provide the GNU license in every known language?

    I have no problem with the Free Software movement in general, but you can't really expect the world to prefer to simplify complex processes in the name of ideology. Funny enough, that just leads to more complexity. Thanks for throwing in the reference to EMCAScript I hadn't heard since 1996. Was that a backhanded attempt at an appeal to "I'm an old unix hacker" AGAIN? I've never thought of Stallman as a nut (just a zealot, akin to House, if you will) until this rambling luddite suggestion which truly shows a lack of understanding and purpose.

  12. Re:Good News! on Programming Language Specialization Dilemma · · Score: 1

    If a large percentage of jobs are in .Net/C#, there's a good chance that there are equally large numbers of candidates flocking to apply for those jobs, and that the number of applicants is likely to exceed the number of jobs by a significant margin.

    There's no evidence of an adequate number of applicants yet...primarily indicated by the large number of postings. Few people choose C#, but there is plenty of work if you know it to any degree.

  13. Re:Not civil disobedience on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    I'm going to post these links for absolutely no reason that concerns you.

    As I've obviously read them. Does linking to them somehow demonstrate a point?

    To whit:

    Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence.

    Your interpretation may differ, which is to the point of "defining" C.D.

    Troll troll troll your boat.

  14. Re:Not civil disobedience on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    Here, "civil" has more in common "civilized" than not "civil servant".

    It is not a matter of word origin, but usage, across the world. Ghandi chose another version "civil resistance" to describe Indian civil disobedience. As the english language is high context, and generally poor at conveying meaning from individual words, phrases and even proper sentences, he felt it necessary.

    civil disobedience is still reserved for the breaking of laws, and sometimes the refusal to acknowledge the authority of a government or an army

    It is not reserved as a tool for any specific organization, regardless of the wikipedia entry (yay legitimized misinformation!) Again, subject to the assumed meaning of the english language, anyone in authority can be the target of civil disobedience. Regardless of how this authority is derived or even if it exists outside of an individual's perception, is largely irrelevant. The concept can evoke the often touted comparison of one man's freedom fighter vs terrorist, but distills it to less immediate-feeling decision that forces an objective assessment of one's own moral compass.

    If a 70 year old chains himself to a bank door as an act (of what he considers civil disobedience) against his losses in the stock market, how is that act any less C.D. than the first Indian to protest the U.K.'s occupation? (one can extend this to people sitting in against laws that do not apply to a situation, etc etc) Is the concept of C.D. based on the participant's perception or your own? What acts count and what protocols must be followed?

    If there is disobedience, and it is civil, I will argue it fits. (I believe Thích Qung c's self-immolation was C.D. as well, as it caused disruption without actively fighting.) Your Morals May Vary.

  15. Re:Not civil disobedience on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    Google is not a civil authority

    I'm not sure why you think that matters? Civil is the description of the act. Obedience is a subjective term. It is civil disobedience.

  16. Re:Not civil disobedience on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 1

    The act isn't about "really hurting google" it's about hurting google, which it accomplishes by causing google to pay out on traffic that generates 0 revenue. I don't see how this is anything but pure civil disobedience. Probably as effective, but the same premise and consequence, nonetheless.

  17. Re:Anonymous Coward on Developers Looking to Set Up Alternatives To Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    I don't just like it, I expect it. Since it doesn't exist (Apple fails in this regard), I don't even purchase an iPhone.

  18. Re:I love the smell of burning bridges in the morn on The Art of The Farewell Email · · Score: 1

    We sign a contract saying "I will do X, and it return you'll be me Y (every week, two weeks, etc.)". Isn't that selling? When you buy anything major, you usually have to sign a contract.

    It is not selling when my contract says you pay me every two weeks for every hour I spend at the company and in return I'll try to do X. There's no difference, as it is a two way contract. I don't guarantee anything, the employer guarantees a deliverable.

  19. Re:no offense.. on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    And I asked, why didn't you change or remove your own? Linked in has nothing, I didn't give them and none of that is information I cannot change.

  20. Re:no offense.. on Linked In Or Out? · · Score: 1

    Why not just remove all the information from Linked in instead of railing against the site?

    Either way, there's no reason NOT to market yourself effortlessly. What's more, in California I've had 0 inquiries from LinkedIn but been able to aquire references whenever I ask from (most of) the people I've worked with, see where their careers have gone. I could just as well change my profile to be Goofy Mickey @ nowhere.com and still retained those benefits, changing my information back when I'm motivated to be contacted by whoever.

  21. Re:Interesting... on Acquired Characteristics May Be Inheritable · · Score: 1

    The article (did you even read the summary?) indicates this may not be strictly true. The idea that an individual animal can adapt, passing on a change to the offspring, is right there in the description. Can your kids read?

  22. Re:Got a better way to do things? on The Role of Experts In Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can "prove" things via publishing that letter in a book. The people with money still successfully control information through Wikipedia. What a waste.

  23. Re:Yes, but not soon. on Is the Relational Database Doomed? · · Score: 1

    MySQL is good, unless you need a highly performent query analyzer.

    It's really sad, but true, that the best query analyzers...or any kind of tool...for MySQL are not made by MySQL/Sun.

    See:
    MONYog (versus the EXPENSIVE bundle that gives you the MySQL Enterprise Monitor)
    Maatkit

  24. Re:Artistic Freedom in Gameplay on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 1

    But wouldn't it be awesome if someone did?

    Demonstrably not. These are called bad games for good reason. There is an absolute metric.

  25. Re:Games have been legitimate for years... on On Game Developers and Legitimacy · · Score: 1

    only the most idiotic of individuals could possibly isolate any one of these media and consider them not to be works of art.

    You misspelled "rational".
    Balance implies an absolute value that has correctness. There is no art to most games, other than the assets. Technology? no. Gameplay? no - you never choose to make a game less fun in the name of "artistic freedom", rather simplify to distill gameplay rather than make it intentionally less fun. Most of the games named are specific examples of games that are not art.