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  1. Re:Exploitation is the most prized product on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    [...] the third parties frequently pick even worse candidates, some who are outright loony. Just look at the Green Party's candidate who got arrested by Israel trying to sail into Gaza after the election.

    what's so loony about that? people can bring medical supplies to gaza (if i'm remembering the event correctly) if they want to. they have the freedom to do so, you could say

  2. Re:Exploitation is the most prized product on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Frankly, I see little problem with regulation of limited liability enterprises.

    and neither evidently do limited liability enterprises. if they didn't like paying the costs associated with being an llc, they could simply choose not to incorporate. they don't do that of course because they find the benefits of incorporation to outweigh the costs

  3. Re:There is a simple solution on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    there was a time when libertarianism and anarchism referred to the same philosophy. i support taking back the term libertarian from the Libertarian Party and cato just as much as i support taking back "anarcho"-capitalism from murry rotharbard and taking back socialism from the marxists

  4. Re:Joke on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    henry kissenger won the peace prize once. for negotiating an end to war crimes he himself commited. the peace prize has very little to do with peace in general

  5. Re:Joke on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    military intervention into [...] East Timor

    would you elaborate please?

  6. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 1

    I don't expect to see this changed, but it is still a nice idea that could conserve a large amount of IP addresses currently wasted on SSL website hosting.

    what's stopping people from hosting http and https on the same ip?

  7. Re:Theres one technical point on Tim Berners-Lee Is Sorry About the Slashes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Remember, you don't say port 80 to go to Slashdot. Why not default to the SRV record (then port 80 for backwards-compatibility) unless the user specifies otherwise?

    Extra complexity for little gain.

    why not get rid of the url altogether and encode it in xml? surely that would clarify the problem of figuring out what website the user wants to go to

  8. Re:No communication is no communication. on Facebook User Arrested For a Poke · · Score: 1

    see how absurd that is when you apply it to the physical world.

    well he wasn't applying it to the physical world was he? let's put your pointless strawman aside for now.

    The victim probably has so many friends she didn't think to remove the offender.

    but she thought to get a restraining order? maybe she has so many restraining orders she gets confused

  9. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1
    as a member of the un and a non-privileged signatory of the npt, they have no legitimate reason to develop nuclear weapons. things get a little fuzzier when you consider that the us holds security council veto power and routinely violates the npt, but the correct solution is not for states to act outside the un charter and the npt, thereby weakening them, but to strengthen them by holding those who violate them to account and by making the security council a more democratic institution.

    what i find disturbing about this discussion is that is it based upon the assumption that iran is enriching uranium or is even capable of doing so when no evidence has been presented to support such a conclusion. let's consider the "evidence" from the fucking article:

    Israel said the disclosure of a second nuclear enrichment facility in Iran proved the country was seeking nuclear weapons [...]

    not exactly. the existence of uranium enrichment facilities proves an intent to enrich uranium to use for either power plants or weapons, depending on how highly enriched the processed uranium is. all parties agree that iran has the capability to enrich uranium to the 4% or so U-235 required for power generation. no one however has proven that iran is enriching, or even has the capability to enrich, uranium to the 90% or higher U-235 required for weapons.

    They [spy chiefs] fear Mr Ahmadinejad could create a nuclear bomb within a year.

    sorry, but fear of something isn't proof that it exists. i can fear santa claus or skynet or anything else, but that in no way implies that those fears are a reality.

    now i expect murdoch news outlets (sky news is owned by news corporation) to draw baseless conclusions for their audiences, but this assertion is accepted from government officials without question almost universally.

  10. Re:Much as I like Slackware... on Slackware 13.0 Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so recompile with your root fs built into the kernel. that's probably what most slackware users do anyway. leaving code required to boot as modules is a headache waiting to happen. if you don't want do build a custom kernel, you can always stick with the huge kernel used for installation

  11. Re:Individualism? Oh, no! on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 1

    Hitler's stated purpose was to improve the lives of the German laborer, who was being ruthlessly exploited by capitalists.

    hitler's stated purpose was also to bring peace to europe. whether he genuinely thought that conquerorring europe would bring peace is debatable i suppose, but a europe unified under hitler isn't what most would call peace

  12. Re:Individualism? Oh, no! on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 1

    The ONLY example of a truly oppressive "right-wing" government is ... () the national socialist party of Germany.

    The Nazis were't socialist and neither was Hitler. And it's amusing that you try to equate them as being left-wing.

    don't you get it? national socialist. just like the people's republic of china represents the people. and how the american democratic party believes in democracy. and the south korean democratic justice party pursued justice thru democracy. you just don't get it do you? you can tell everything about a political party and its policies by its name

  13. Re:Individualism? Oh, no! on "Violent" Video Games To Be Banned In Venezuela · · Score: 1

    The economic benefits of this vast works program never flowed to most workers,

    now why exactly do you consider this nazi policy to be socialist? it is the aim of a socialist economic policy after all to benefit the society's workers. someone who feels that policy need not benefit the people can hardly be called a socialist

  14. Re:People definitely neglect science... on Parents Baffled By Science Questions · · Score: 1

    He would also remind everyone at the beginning of the test that if no one answers any questions everyone would get 100%, but if even one person answers one question correctly everyone would get 0s on the test except that person. Watching him put the entire class into a prisoner's dilemma was pretty amusing.

    my highschool chemistry teacher would do this too. he said that it had never happened because there were always students who wanted to actually test their knowledge. as far as i know, noÃne ever tried organizing an all zero test

  15. Re:Looks like a case of patent problems on Classic Game Console Design Mistakes · · Score: 1

    i wrote a little program to translate f9,f10,f11 events into mouse events. you need to move your right hand up and down between clicking and typing, but i don't find it bothersome. as a bonus you get a laptop with more than two mouse buttons

  16. Re:That's not the only value of learning assembly on Which Language Approach For a Computer Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    he stated that k > 0 and that i = k

  17. Re:Unscientific? on Study Highlights Gap Between Views of Scientists and the Public · · Score: 1

    Democrats are known for stealing money from people and giving it out to their certain blocks of special interests.

    it's interesting that you consider being slightly more responsive than republicans to the opinions of the masses to be pandering to "special interests". what then do you consider to be the general interests?

  18. Re:Americans are unemployable... on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Breeding is not a requirement. If people can't afford to, then they shouldn't do it.

    i agree that having a child that you are unable to support is irresponsible, but a society where only the rich are permitted to breed isn't such a great solution

  19. Re:What's a European? on Lucky Thirteen On the ISS · · Score: 1

    BTW, when was the last time your armed forces were used for defence?

    used to defend our freedom to exploit others? well i'd say that covers most of our wars

  20. Re:Teachers wrong here on Student Who Released Code From Assignments Accused of Cheating · · Score: 1

    Considering that it was developed while at the institution, as part of a course taught by the institution, likely using the institution's resources, that seems like a particularly poor analogy.

    resources that the student paid to use

  21. Re:BushCo "bailed out" the banks on Time Warner Confirms Split With AOL · · Score: 1

    And it was BushCo that failed to properly regulate businesses that led to most of the problems in the first place.

    financial deregulation began under carter and were continued by every president after

  22. Re:Wait a second... on Europe Funds Secure Operating System Research · · Score: 1

    Personally... I'd be more interested in an operating system written in a managed language, much like MS's Singularity. Given an efficient and secure JIT compiler, and a "safe" language, one could write an OS that is both (more) easily provable to be secure, and probably efficient enough for the "real world".

    http://www.vitanuova.com/
    i've found it secure enough, but i don't know if it's provable

  23. Re:A matter of the environment? on Where's Your Coding Happy Place? · · Score: 2, Funny

    ; pom
    The Moon is Waning Crescent (19% of Full)
    ;

  24. Re:Death announced before death? on Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital · · Score: 1

    In other news, ailing former dictator Fidel Castro is still alive.

    In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

  25. Re:So, basically the parents are screwed? on Worst Censorware Blocks Cannot Be Fixed · · Score: 1

    I don't think a school is a place where kids should be hanging out streaming the NCAA tourney either... Cause I'll bet that's not part of the curriculum.

    my old highschool tired blocking ncaa streaming and ended up with a bunch of pissed off teachers who liked watching during their office hours