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  1. Re:Its funny... on Larry Page: Google Was an Accident · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Uh....dogpile is simply a meta-search engine, and it searches google and many of the others. Seems to me that it makes perfect sense in some cases to use a higher level search instead of relying on google (which while great is NOT always the best for a particular thing you're looking for).

  2. Re:Closed-mindedness on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    BTW "you are biased against me, therefore I am right" is a ludicrous logical fallacy, no matter whether the first clause is true or not.

  3. Re:Closed-mindedness on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    And obviously UFO nuts are right because I call them nuts too.

  4. Re:Closed-mindedness on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    My confusion clearly continues. My point was that the person I was responding to was credulous and had no business attacking my reasoning abilities. Since it was their sig, I assumed they believed that site. I don't.

  5. Re:Closed-mindedness on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1

    My apologies, I meant that the site was badly argued, and I believe that HIV definitely is involved in AIDS, most likely as a cause. My presumption was that, being the reference in the sig, you believed it. If that's wrong, I apologize completely.

  6. Re:Closed-mindedness on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 1
    I can be convinced that the sky is green and grass is blue

    Apparently you already have:

    The "HIV==AIDS" hypothesis is the biggest medical fraud in human history. http://www.virusmyth.net/

    I would hardly call the "evidence" sufficient or argued validly.

  7. Re:Not Java but the Solaris JRE on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 2, Insightful
    and provide services like food, cars and this nice Internet we all enjoy.

    Or Else!

    Like, say Disney, AOL, Amazon and their lovely patents, etc. Not to mention the accounting bs that goes on; you can't convince me that Enron et. al. were just a couple of bad apples. They just had the misfortune to be poster children to let the rest of the corporate world know they better shape up enough to squeak by in the short run.

  8. Re:Hypocrisy? on Even Sun Can't Use Java · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If the memo is real, then it's being kept in a very small group.

    Can you say "duh"? As if even strong engineers could actually keep their jobs after telling everyone that Bill Joy's (yes, I know Bill didn't write it, but he sponsored it) baby is not just ugly, but hideously deformed? Keep it small, build support, when you have some safety in numbers, THEN come forward to a wider audience. Seems eminently politically practical.

  9. Re:Too little, too late on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 1

    He didn't bloody have alzheimer's when the trials were going on.

  10. Re:So is this the real thing? on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 1
    What should Congress do then?

    Congress should tell them they're full of shit and kick their asses for not using the resources they already had to do their jobs correctly.

    But of course we already have a precedent for this behavior, and we know what Congress will do: roll over and ask that they get it in another orifice.

  11. Re:In some ways, a return to the norm on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 1

    Riiiight.

  12. Re:Conspiracy theory... on PATRIOT II Legislation Leaked · · Score: 2

    Bingo. My thoughts exactly. Pragmatism would make this an obvious strategy; let's have this legislation ready to go so we can take the next step when the time is ripe.

  13. Re:Too little and too late for suntel on Sun Releases Solaris 9 for Intel · · Score: 1

    Except that there are customers who demand that Solaris on x86 continue to be a viable option. Keeping those customers happy and buying Sun equipment across the range is important.

  14. Re:they used to have these things ... on Dealing with Employers Who Perform Credit Checks? · · Score: 1

    As opposed to all those thrown into debtor's prison in the Victoria Era.... Now THEY knew how to handle finances.

  15. Re:IMHO on E-commerce Sites to Collect Sales Taxes Nationwide · · Score: 1

    Hey, we have people on EBay spending more than retail plus shipping to buy crap already, what makes this any different?

  16. Re:They're just not saying, 'cause... on Baked Apple · · Score: 1

    If she was willing to just walk away from a $2500 machine, you don't think she's made of money?

  17. Re:Competition works on Gnome 2.2 Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Has GNOME ceased being a resource pig?

  18. Re:Somebody better let Sun know... on Gnome 2.2 Released · · Score: 1
    Sun knows.

    Sun's 2.0 is more like a 2.1 release anyway, and a lot of things they fixed from a "generic" GNOME 2.0 to release theirs are wrapped into this 2.2 release.

  19. Re:12 Year olds? on Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age · · Score: 1

    I just wish I could find that one-click solution! Everything I've seen makes it a real bitch to back up a DVD or just to burn my own video at an acceptable quality.

  20. Re:Costs of Production on Jack Valenti's Views On The Digital Age · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously he was only referring to a CD that he had to pay Clearchannel to push.

  21. alternatives? Where? on Columbia Coverage · · Score: 1

    I read the article on space.com and I saw no discussion of what other alternatives there were, only what alternatives wouldn't have worked.

  22. Re:Let NASA make the decision on Where Should Space Exploration Go From Here? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the Point is that NASA needs funding.

  23. Re:that's what's suspicious... on Inspection Microsat Tested In Orbit · · Score: 1
    Ah, so we should stick lots of hamsters into microwaves so after they explode we'll know that it was a bad idea?

    Which particular part of the current disaster is analogous to this ridiculous analogy? Do you think we're tossing astronauts out of airlocks or something?

  24. Re:Good to see on Gnome 2.0 Officially Available For Solaris · · Score: 1

    Its worth noting that the Sun version of Gnome 2.0 is supposed to have a number of fixes that aren't in the "regular" release of Gnome 2.0, but are in Gnome 2.more. So it's perhaps not so out of date as 2.0 might indicate.

  25. Re:that's what's suspicious... on Inspection Microsat Tested In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Autopsy leads to prevention, moron. Or don't you think they fixed the O rings back in '86?