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  1. Re:Misuse of the GPL is a problem on Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and what "GPL" libraries would those be EXACTLY?

    GNU SASL, Lib Gtop. Of course, the classic one is ReadLine.

    Now that's wasn't too hard was it?

  2. Re:The US isn't all first world. on Developing World's Parasites, Diseases Enter US · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those doctors helped her beat the cancer, (She got sick from having no immune system, that's what we lost her from.) I truly believe that if they didn't earn that money, and say, " Hey, I worked hard to learn this, I will charge for my goods." she wouldn't have gotten expert care.

    I'm curious to why you think experts in countries with socialized medicine don't get paid.

  3. Re:why would you ... on The Decline of the Landline · · Score: 1

    Businesses still need land lines unless you plan on giving everyone a work cell phone or have them share phones.

    At my company in Norway, everybody got a cellphone (or the company pay the bill if you want to keep your current phone). In fact, my understanding is that when you call, say, customer's support, the call gets routed to the cellphone of the person who is supposed to be on-call.

    And I got the impression when I was interviewing around that it was pretty much standard.... Then again, the coverage in Norway is a little bit better than the US.

  4. Re:Good thing, too on Financial Issues May Force Changes On Games Industry · · Score: 1

    Then stop relying on licensed IPs and start making compelling games that people want to play.

    Maybe the cost of IP is going up because those games sell and people want to play them?

  5. Re:Any problem is in using app store on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    It does not state that you may charge a fee for anything else.

    Disagree as much as you want. There has never been a limit on selling Free software.
    Selling Free Software

  6. Re:Braille ATMs on Prototype Vehicle For the Blind · · Score: 1

    Drive through gyms?

    Of course not

  7. Re:That could be pretty cool on Sony Pondering Game/Phone Hybrid · · Score: 1

    Kinda like N-Gage was huge

  8. Re:Thanks EU regulation on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 1

    New Nokia is using microUSB

  9. Re:another way to look at it on The Internet Helps Iran Silence Activists · · Score: 1

    _corporations_ help silence activists in Iran

    So it's the corporations that are identifying the activists?

  10. Re:So, for the Norwegian Slashdotters: on Norwegian Lawyers Must Stop Chasing File Sharers · · Score: 1
  11. Re:So, for the Norwegian Slashdotters: on Norwegian Lawyers Must Stop Chasing File Sharers · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. What's the tech economy like over there?
    2. How long does it take to learn your language OR how English friendly is it?
    3. What's the average cost of living in your cities?

    1. It's OK. Mostly in finance and oil industry. Java (SOA) is heavily used.
    2. Business is basically English (even for Norwegian companies). My company has Swedes (lots), Sri Lankan, Englishmen, couple of Indians/Pakistani, French. Coding/documentation is in English.
    3. About like Bay Area.

    All that, and we get standard 5 weeks of paid vacation, paternity/maternity leave (husband/wife get to share how much they spend at home the first year), strong currency (relatively cheap to buy stuff when you travel), beautiful Swedish women.
    Minuses: a socialist government and Jante Law ingrained in the Norwegian psyche.

  12. Re:This topic is too hot to handle. on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would anyone in the market have had an interest in loaning to high-risk individuals,

    When it's not your money your lending out.

    Say, I'm a loan officer. I see someone being high-risk. Do I loan out to that person? Well, if I'm at risk, I might not, but since the home prices are going up, I give the loan, and then sell the loan to someone else. I'm not stuck with the loan, and I make money on loaning out money. See where my incentive is to loan out money whether the person can pay back or not?

  13. you got root on Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you got root, aren't there easier way to install a rootkit? Just load a rootkit module into the kernel.

  14. Re:When everyone is special, no one is special on Facebook Users Get Lower Grades In College · · Score: 1

    DC: maybe take your date of birth and address off your CV? Employers don't want to see that anyway, in case they get accused of discrimination

    True in the US, but different countries have different rules. In Norway, they want to see your date of birth and address

  15. Re:Summary is inaccurate on South Korean Financial Blogger Faces 18 Months of Prison · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the Washington Post article:

    Prosecutors claim that one of his postings is clearly false. The government issued an emergency order Dec. 29, Minerva wrote, urging top banks to stop buying dollars. The government has denied issuing the order, but a number of currency traders have told the South Korean media that the government did urge banks that day to refrain from buying dollars.

  16. Re:I have an easier solution: on Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services? · · Score: 1

    I've gotten a 'happy new year' as late as 1:20

    You're lucky. I get "Happy New Year" a day late from my US friends (even taken into account the time difference)

  17. Re:closed source language on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I view code and documentation and ideas (and research and literature) written in languages other than english as 'closed source': for whatever reason, you have deliberately chosen to exclude others from understanding you and using or enjoying your work.

    And you couldn't be more wrong.

  18. Re:I could use it on Gmail Adds 5 Second Send Rule · · Score: 1

    2,000, 000, million billion US dollars

    That's, what, 200 â these days?

  19. Re:Chromium crashes on intrepid on 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux · · Score: 1

    I can't get any pages to load with it on Intrepid

    Maybe you need to load it on a Constitution class ship? Although I'm a little partial to Galaxy class ships, myself

  20. Re: brilliant and dangerous? on Are Quirky Developers Brilliant Or Dangerous? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sometimes you need a solution NOW, and you will have time to clean it up (or re-implement it more carefully) later.

    Except, cleanup (or re-implementation) never happens. What will happen is layer upon layer to work around bugs and problems. Because you can (almost) never justify to upper management that you need to reimplement something that works and the finish product is basically the same you started out with (with cleaner code, maybe).

  21. Re:One size fits all on Living Free With Linux, Round 2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The list could go on. Amarok/rhythmbox/banshee/etc aren't really as good as iTunes

    That's funny, since I have a friend who just moved from Linux to MacOSX and one thing he miss is Amarok

  22. Re:Will the 3 strikes policy affect him? on French President Busted For Copyright Violation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck you frenchy, I hope you and your fat wife drown in a vat of wine.

    Fat wife?

  23. Re:no shit? on Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? · · Score: 1

    A government has the power to kill it's citizens. A business does not.

    What if you are Blackwater?

  24. Re:Piracy a competitor? on Microsoft Sees Linux As Bigger Competitor Than Apple · · Score: 1

    The very idea that there are more word processors than MS Word still blows the mind of people like, say, my grandmother.

    Given your premise, why aren't everybody still using WordStar and Lotus 123?

  25. Re:So, the Ebay equivalent in finland is on Norwegian Websites Declare War On IE 6 · · Score: 1

    finn basically means find in Norwegian.