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  1. Re:You've got to be shitting me. on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, the judge will toss based on ripeness, but who knows with judges these days.

  2. Re:Flash cookies remain too on Browser Private Modes Not So Private After All · · Score: 1

    You've confused /dev/random and /dev/urandom. The latter doesn't block waiting for more entropy.

  3. Re:so that bigger then going after rapist in DNA l on FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons · · Score: 1

    ...ever heard of HTML entities? Forget it, just type &lt; when you want <, okay?

  4. Re:Phone home? on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    ubuntu-minimal etc. are all dummy packages. They can be "safely removed".

  5. Re:Confused on Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse · · Score: 1

    The GPL vs BSD license argument never gets old for some folk does it?

    YES!!!

    We have this stupid argument every *single* time anything involving the GPL happens. Will everyone please drop the sticks and back slowly away from the horse carcass? Nobody cares which license *you* use for *your* project; it's almost as dumb as text-editor wars.

  6. Re:Completely Google's Fault on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    I think there were two problems with Wave:


    1. It was very over hyped as a general product when it's more of a niche thing

    2. Google didn't fix anything that was broken (the interface was kind of wonky)

    Other than that I think it was a fine product

  7. Re:SURVEY SAYS?? ...Meh. on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    It was intended to be used more for communications, and close collaboration (hence the simultaneous editing; can you imagine Wikipedia with simultaneous editing?)

  8. Re:Did anyone ever actively use it? on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    I believe Google was working on (and may have finished?) federation with Jabber/XMPP/Google Talk/what-do-you-call-it.

  9. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 1

    Absent government, law abiding people are generally able to put together spontaneous posses outnumbering any lightly organized criminal gang.

    Absent Government, what laws are those people abiding by?

  10. Re:Of course they can on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    Two things come to mind:

    1. Doesn't Congress have the power to declare war?
    2. The Bill of Rights was not originally intended to apply to the States. That was changed by the 14th Amendment, which you may look up (or not) at your leisure.
  11. Re:Of course they can on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    If you take away books and stop giving people magazines, the frequent fliers will get pissed off (except the sleeping ones).

  12. Re:Of course they can on Denials Aside, Feds Storing Body Scan Images · · Score: 1

    Well then the private entity is going to be maintaining the machines itself, with no public help other than the rental fees. If noone rents its services for a long time, so much for the machines.

  13. Re:One space on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia's featured article on the subject (happens to be today's, actually).

  14. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    Thus was created "indent", which converts code from all those other people's atrocious formatting styles into your preferred on and back.

    Here's what I did when I read this:

    $ whatis indent
    indent: nothing appropriate.
    $ apropos indent
    $ indent
    sh: indent: not found
    $ aptitude show indent
    Package: indent
    State: not installed
    Version: 2.2.10-2
    Priority: optional
    Section: devel
    Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
    Uncompressed Size: 512k
    Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
    Description: C language source code formatting program
      The `indent' program changes the appearance of a C program by inserting or
      deleting whitespace.

      `indent' also provides options for controlling the alignment of braces and
      declarations, program indenting, and other stylistic parameters, including
      formatting of both C and C++ comments.
    Homepage: http://indent.isidore-it.eu/beautify.html

    What an enormous waste of time... how that got up to 512K I'll never know. (Okay, fine, 512K isn't that much in this day and age, but just think, someone had to write all that.)

    ObTopic: Wikipedia doesn't care how many spaces you use.

  15. Re:They collected $75,000... on Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools · · Score: 1

    I'm from LI and I know that lots of people have unlicensed stuff in their houses/backyards. This is a logical development.

  16. Re:Best way to fix it on No, Net Neutrality Doesn't Violate the 5th Amendment · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I own what I can defend from taking.

    Interesting theory... but it's not really ownership if anyone can just organize a big enough gang to steal it with no repercussions (no matter how good your defenses are, someone will always be able to get more people than you can handle). You "owning" something means that you are exclusively entitled to possess and use it, and that such rights don't disappear just because someone failed to respect them.

  17. Re:K-12 level... on Sun Founders' Push For Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    Sorry, kids aren't going to understand Elements, the style of writing is a little advanced.

  18. Re:Information... on Sun Founders' Push For Open Source Education · · Score: 1

    What about Wikibooks (a Wikipedia sister project)? The only problem is that most of the books are half finished, if that.

  19. Re:Browser market share on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that's a real page? Firefox blocked it as an "attack" (which I'm choosing to read as phishing).

  20. Re:Browser market share on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's partly because the US sucks at regulating anti-competitive practices.

  21. Re:It's The Law! on Terry Childs Denied Motion For Retrial · · Score: 1

    Can you actually get "extended validation" (the URL bar turns green etc.) without using such hardware?

    ObTopic:Why bother? Childs was an idiot.

  22. Re:Oh, Christ, Not This Tedious Tale Yet Again...! on Terry Childs Denied Motion For Retrial · · Score: 1

    Not having the passwords for the time it takes to arrest Childs and persuade him to give the passwords to the mayor is less damaging than taking the system down, even briefly, since it still runs without the passwords, provided you don't have a crisis.

  23. Re:Welcome... to the REAL world (NEO) on Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released · · Score: 1

    So buy RHEL and stop flaming.

  24. Re:Still no ZFS. on Linux Kernel 2.6.35 Released · · Score: 1

    Oh noes! Not another GPL/BSD flame war! Anything but that!

  25. Re:Just to be clear on A How-To Website For Australian Voters · · Score: 1

    So, what do they do if you do a "donkey vote", but instead of 1,2,3, you do 2,3,5,7,... or 1,1,2,3,5,8,... Do they just throw the ballot out?