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  1. Re:Crazy.. on Study Claims Point-of-Sale Activation Could Generate Billions In Revenue · · Score: 1

    charged 'per brain'

    and soon it will become 'per brain per second'

  2. Re:Hmmmm...... on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 1

    Or someone just buy them. Candidates: RH, Canonical, and Microsoft (the "extinguish" part).

  3. Fedora doing this since F9.. on Ksplice Offers Rebootless Updates For Ubuntu Systems · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/fedora-ksplice

    fedora-ksplice
    Script Collection for Using KSplice on Fedora Linux

    fedora-ksplice is a collection of shell scripts to use ksplice in a Fedora environment.

    The scripts allow to prepare a kernel for use it with ksplice.

    fedora-ksplice-prepare will download the source rpm of the current installed kernel. After this the kernel sources will be created in the rpm build directory. Additional the ksplice subdirectory with the System.map file will be created.

    Fedora-ksplice-create will apply a patch given as an argument to the kernel sources prepared by fedora-ksplice-prepare.

  4. Re:"M$" on Richard Stallman Says No To Mono · · Score: 1

    Wow, what are you

    He was one and he was many... ;)

  5. Slightly off-topic on Ulysses Space Mission Finally Coming To an End · · Score: 1

    Should I tag this story "sun" or not??

  6. Declare independence and start your own state on Emigrating To a Freer Country? · · Score: 1
  7. Re:False dichotomy on Pirate Bay Retrial Denied, Judge Declared Unbiased · · Score: 1

    Box Office revenue has grew by 5% between 2002 and 2008 (6 year period; 0.9% average annual growth). On the other hand, it grew by 118% between 1987 and 2002 (a 15 year period; 7.9% average annual growth).

    Your math was terribly wrong. 5% growth in 6 years is 1.05 ^ (1/6) == 1.0082 or 0.82% average annual growth, while 118% in 15 years is 2.18 ^ (1/15) == 1.0533 or 5.33% average annual growth. Learn about geometric sequences before you post.

  8. An interesting story... on Protesting China's Required Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    ...from the ancient history records of Guoyu . In the dynasty of Zhou, a king (King Li) was so corrupt and cruel that the people began criticizing him widely, in public. The King tried to suppress the dissidents by strong censorship measures with harsh punishment attached. As a result, the people *stopped speaking* at all -- no public speeches, no private talking, not a single word said by anyone. Shocked by the situation, an advisor of the King told him "To censor the speech of people is even more dangerous than blocking a flooding river" and advised the king of cancelling the strong censorship. The King refused to listen, and finally was overthrown in the inevitable revolt of an angry mob under his oppression. He was exiled by his people, leaving the kingdom in a state of power vacuum (the "Gonghe" period in Chinese history).

    OK so much for stories.. I'm not suggesting that Ai's proposed protest should be expected to result in similar consequences, but I wonder whether he was having the story in mind when he got the idea. On one hand I admire his stand on the matter of censorship; on the other hand I doubt whether this is able to deliver a message strong enough. Individuals in this society have been so dependent on communications that it is no longer possible to do as the ancient Zhou people did. Look at what's happening in Iran -- we can *still* hear the voice of dissidents because they actually tried their best to take advantage of the Internet instead of burying their voices in a silent protest.

    Unless you produce a *really* massive and well-coordinated voluntary silence. Which I think, given the diversity and decentralized nature of the Internet, is no longer possible.

  9. Re:Option of Protesting from the Top Down? on Protesting China's Required Censorship Software · · Score: 1

    If you're a netbook manufacturer and you put it on the disc instead of the netbook (which are almost always sans disc drive) what are the odds anyone's going to bother figuring out how to move that to their computer unless they themselves personally want it.

    And if they *do* want it, support nightmare ensues.

  10. Re:A good translation for default to other languag on On the Humble Default · · Score: 1

    Sorry for replying to myself, but on a second thought, I found that the phrase might be translated more accurately as "accepted without an explicit choice/decision". Anyway, I hope you get the idea ;)

  11. Re:A good translation for default to other languag on On the Humble Default · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quite easy in Chinese. Since /. is too US-centric to tolerate Unicode, I'll just post the Unicode codepoints for these two characters: U+9ED8 and U+8BA4. Look them up in a Unicode table ;)

    This Chinese word for "default", in a more literal translation, means "tacitly accepted/recognized". It has nothing to do with the financial meaning of the word "default", which translates to a completely different word in Chinese.

  12. Re:Slashdot is, as usual, behind the times on Dutch Gov. Wants To Tax Online Media To Fund Print · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Begs an interesting question. on ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings · · Score: 1

    Or just ask Guido why "beg ValueError" is not acceptable.

  14. Re:enjoy capitalism on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    The endless drive to increase the bottom line means that businesses no longer concern themselves with ethics or morality.

    But by definition, corporations are not supposed to care about ethics or morality. Profit is the Reason of Existence of corporations.

    If you want ethics and morality but meanwhile trying to find it in the corporate world, you are looking for it in the wrong place.

  15. Re:unreasonableness? on In Round 2, Jammie Thomas Jury Awards RIAA $1,920,000 · · Score: 1

    Nope. All she needs to do is becoming a pop musician --- producing shit and earn money while not working.

  16. Re:93/100... on Firefox 3.5 Hits Release Candidate Milestone · · Score: 1

    You don't have to understand it. As I said in another post, Acid3 score is the new penis size.

  17. Re:How does Microsoft define what is 'explicit'? on Bing Gets Porn Domain To Filter Explicit Content · · Score: 1

    Easy. y = f(x) --> explicit. f(x, y) = 0 --> implicit.

  18. Re:What a waste on China's Green Dam, No Longer Compulsory, May Have Lifted Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Best programmers want the best pay. Stealing may be cheaper.

  19. Re:Acid 3 test on Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality · · Score: 1

    It's the penis size of web browsers. (--I'm IE. --And I'm Opera. --I'm sweet but- --but *I* got the bigger gun!!!!1!!)

  20. Re:Fine on Security Firms Fined Over Never-Ending Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    What we need is an application of automatic EULA parsing and analysis.

  21. Re:vs. GNUPlot on PLplot Notes Its 10,000th Commit · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm no expert, and this is how I understood about the differences between PLplot and GNUPlot.

    GNUPlot is modelled like an interpreter. It works by interpreting the input as a stream of commands. If you are to embed GNUPlot in your own application, you need a separate process for GNUPlot, and you construct the GNUPlot commands from your data and send them to the plotter process. On the other hand, PLPlot is a library with multiple language bindings, making it easier to embed in applications (you just call the library functions in your app and link it to the library).

    There are also PLPlot front-ends geared towards interactive usage, just like the GNUPlot interactive shell.

  22. Voluntary downtime as a silent protest on Chinese Social Websites Go Under "Maintenance" · · Score: 1

    or they could just copy the Slashdot way and put the messages in HTTP respond headers.

  23. Re:Who cares. on KDevelop4 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.

    But it's a level 5 dwarf with the genuine Amulet of Yendor!

  24. Re:article calls it a "virtual" computer lab on Sorry For the Detainment, Here's a Laptop · · Score: 1

    Same question here. I imagine a Beowulf cluster of virtual machines running in BSD jails.

  25. Re:a nusiance on Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Others Blocked In China · · Score: 1

    There's a Firefox extension "CustomizeGoogle" that could be used to work around the Google Cache nuisance. Check the extension preferences and select something like "rewrite cache links", restart FF and you are done.

    Well, I'm assuming you are able to use Firefox and reconfigure your user profile at work...