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  1. Re:The Business Glass Alliance Announces on BSA's Latest Piracy Claims 'Shockingly Misleading,' Says Geist · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, but people using his/her software DOES indicate that something of value has been created, or they wouldn't use it.

    Pay the asking price or use something else, the creator isn't obligated to give you his/her product.

  2. Re:The climate skeptics will have a field day on Peer Review Highly Sensitive To Poor Refereeing · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The funny thing is, the skeptics suffer from the same problem.

    I hope the moderates don't, otherwise were borked.

  3. Re:Derp on Torvalds Becomes an American Citizen · · Score: 1

    Hmm, regarding the add-in, how do you tell which is which in American politics?

  4. Re:Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 1

    Your reply was almost as pointless as his original post.

    The parallel would be handing your friends an act (or a few lines) from a playbook of Shakespeare you don't own.

    Or maybe quoting a movie?

    The former can still be done illegally or legally. The latter isn't prevented by DRM.

  5. Re:What open frequencies? on FCC To Open Up Vacant TV Airwaves For Broadband · · Score: 1

    Just because there isn't space between two particular channels, doesn't mean there is no empty space there. Also, I'm afraid I can pull up quite a bit of evidence. To use your words, You must be one of those persons who offers an opinion, but actually knows nothing about the subject.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_broadcast_television_frequencies

    http://www.avsforum.com/hdtvfaq/HDTV-FAQ.htm#Are%20DTV%20signals%20broadcast%20on%20special%20frequencies?

    Notice how each CHANNEL has a range of FREQUENCIES assigned to it, and how many adjacent channels have space between them? (VHS 4&5,

    Also, each channel actually has more than one precise frequency assigned to it - audio and video are carried on different frequencies. The sub-ranges in this range could potentially be used without interference, with modern radio equipment, where it couldn't have been used before.

    So, yes, there are frequencies between channels, and channels do not equal frequencies, there isn't even a precisely 1:1 correlation, more like a 1:2 (one channel is two frequencies).

  6. Re:Perhaps on Separating Hope From Hype In Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    It takes less than 30 seconds now, for those of us running on hardware more advance than an 80286

  7. Re:Samsung Android support sucks on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 1

    Why do you feel sorry for anyone in my position? I didn't need to root the moment, though I could. It does what I need, but I would like the better performance and nicer hardware keyboard of the Droid/Droid 2.

    The Samsung keyboard seemed ok, but after using it for a while, I found the odd button shape makes it hard to touch-type.

  8. Re:Samsung Android support sucks on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 1

    I wonder if K9-Mail can handle the nonstandard ports issue?

    I use it because it sucks less than the default android mail app, but where I work doesn't use exchange... yet.

  9. Re:Samsung Android support sucks on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 1

    yes, but it is much more powerful (higher clock CPU, better IPC variant of the arm, etc.)

    Also, apparantly no release of the moment has been lacking in huge bugs.

    I'm one of the lucky ones - the worst I get, is every couple weeks my phone megically goes into Airplane mode, and I have to restart it to get it out.

  10. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Oh, I see I missed it.

    Yes. It doesn't have to do with believing.

    But tell me, if you believe something, without knowing for certaint, isn't that faith (2b)?

  11. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Nor is there evidence against it. So, picking any option other than "I don't know" requires faith.

  12. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Oh, really?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic

    Seems to mean exactly that.

  13. Re:Samsung Android support sucks on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 1

    Second the HTC/Motorola comment.

    Particularly the Droid. If I weren't such a cheap bastard, I would have gotten that instead of the Moment.

  14. Re:But ... does it run Linux!? on Samsung Shows Off Galaxy Tab, Android Allegiance · · Score: 1

    Ummm...

    There's a free app called 'App Installer' in the android marketplace. This lets you install any non-marketplace app.

    If you want a less easy-route, you can download the dev kit and install any app you desire, using that. No need to touch the marketplace.

    So, no, you are locked into some app-shop.

  15. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    Once people gave similar arguments against the idea of tectonic plates. I wouldn't hold so much faith in it, if I were you.

  16. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    And I just pluralized agnostic... durrr...

  17. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    No, it takes no faith whatsoever to be an agnostics (neither rejecting nor accepting).

    It takes faith to pick an option, when none can be certain. That includes the 'none of the above' option of atheism.

  18. Re:But what created the law of gravity? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 1

    More like calling bald a hair style.

    At first glance, it doesn't make sense, but if you think about it, it really does.

    You are sure that one thing is right over all others, when none of them can be proved or disproved. That's faith.

  19. Re:If you're looking for fun, you're doing it wron on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 1

    that, or he could bring a new meaning to 'Extreme Frisbee'.

  20. Re:Instant Typo Heaven on Google Testing Instant Search Feature · · Score: 1

    The God Typo would probably produce GI Joe.

  21. Re:Why? on Google Testing Instant Search Feature · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Searching for Dickens could also provide some... undesirable side effects. Especially considering Google's habit of putting pictures in normal search results.

  22. Re:I Wish I Had the Luxury of Worrying About This. on 40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that was the ONLY flaw in Linux...

    Not a safe assumption. If that has been around for 7 years, what else could there be?

    I'm certainly not saying Linux is less secure than Windows (I'm pretty sure the opposite, in fact, is true), however that doesn't mean that you are safe on that high horse of yours.

  23. Re:Only 40? on 40 Windows Apps Said To Contain Critical Bug · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem is - trusted applications can have holes too.

    I mean, many people trust iTunes, and that was one of the apps with the holes (admittedly fixed).

    Are you 100% certain ALL of your trusted applications don't have holes, and the versions you ran in the last 7 years didn't have holes?

    The GUI issue was a HUGE problem - however it is/was fixed, which is the important part.

  24. Re:Alien Versus Predator on Microsoft Silverlight 4 vs. Adobe Flash 10.1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think you grasped the theme here.

  25. Re:Obligatory... on Zombie Ants and Killer Fungus · · Score: 1

    You read comments on slashdot, and you still wonder?

    Personally, I find it a certainty.