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  1. Re:Why should I care? on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    I keep hearing this in the thread...do your kids not age? Are they selling robot kids that are perpetually too young for the shots? I mean, we're talking months at most, here.

  2. Re:An episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit says on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    Your immune system doesn't know how it got the blueprint for immunity. A vaccine and being exposed to it are no different to what is basically a molecule catcher and matcher.

  3. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    So long as you make the source available upon request to the associates, you're free and clear. You don't have to make it available to the whole community unless you release it to the whole community.

  4. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    Exactly. That's all I keep hearing here. People seem to think that keeping them from stealing from a community to enrich themselves is an unfair limitation.

    Here's a better analogy, since the slavery one didn't hold water (I don't agree with it either). Think of it like anti-trust laws and anti-cartel laws. They limit very specific freedoms, which in turn allow for the health and well-being of the economy. In the same way, the GPL forces people to either enrich themselves from their own work or follow the rules of the GPL which are made to protect the entire programmer community (yes, all of us; MS and Apple would not be where they are without open source code) and the economy of that community (an economy of code and work, but an economy nonetheless).

  5. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    Restricting the freedom to be a dick is working as intended.

  6. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    But Raptor Jesus can eat them both!

  7. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    I just don't see how it's vicious. It includes a mechanism to prevent people from being a dick and taking code they didn't create, claiming it as their own, and selling it as binaries. It was meant to do that. Maybe preventing people from being exploitative dicks is your idea of vicious, but it's my idea of "working as intended".

  8. Re:Anyone should be free to decide on Only Idiots Don't Give Back To Free Software · · Score: 1

    I don't have any problems using GPL code. Must be a personal problem.

  9. Re:wrong argument on Mandriva 2011 Out · · Score: 1

    That's where they're getting it wrong. Young boys, old ideas.

  10. BS on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Cited exploit(?) does not work or already fixed.

  11. Has anyone else noticed... on Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    That the rep for the company, Prayag, is on this thread and answering questions and issues, but he doesn't respond to the question that keeps getting asked: How much, in numbers, is a "fair wage" for these workers?

    Quit avoiding the question. Otherwise we are going to assume the only thing you've invented is the crowdsourced sweatshop (look, exploitative corporations! all the benefits of a sweatshop without having to rent or maintain a space!).

  12. Re:Doesn't sound very promising. on Crowdsourcing Makes an API For Human Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Did he ask you if you actually paid for it?

  13. Re:donations on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    OMG you live down the street from the Munsters! What's Herman really like?

  14. Re:Validation of a "Leak - of a - Leak" on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    It's obvious...you need a leak to confirm the first leak. And now, of course, you need a third leak to confirm the second, etc., etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseum. It's proof that goverments don't work...the only way to get return values on their methods causes a recursion error.

  15. Along with many... on Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github · · Score: 1

    I have to say I think this is a bad idea, but I also want to add that it's something no one asked for or wanted...a pointless feature that will probably cause more harm than good. I expect more out of the Github crew.

  16. Re:Most people don't travel or do business so glob on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much every scientific and engineering application already uses metric. Having both standards in practice have led to stupid, wasteful, and avoidable accidents, plus it's just silly. Metric is obviously superior; it's not a matter of opinion. We would have to deal with less bullshit coding for multiple units for everything, (though I practically think in pixels and ems anyway) plus (once they got used to it) people would be able to benefit from the simpler conversions.

    However, OC is wrong about the motivation. It's not that Americans are too lazy to make the switch. The real reason we don't change is because we are America and it's a way to be oppositional relative to the global community. We're the teenagers of global culture.

  17. Re:Why fix it? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    Because it is broken. It pretends like time is something it isn't and introduced unnecessary complexity. Rule of Simplicity FTW.

  18. Re:Is this even a real question? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    This was supposed to be "AC less than *". WTH is with that? I tried using the character code, etc. but it just disappears. Last time I looked we didn't have special markup around here.

  19. Re:Is this even a real question? on Ask Slashdot: Could We Deal With the End of Time Zones? · · Score: 1

    I only apply one form of elitism: AC *

  20. Re:In other news... on Adrenaline May Damage DNA · · Score: 1

    Well, to each their own, but I will take the piecemeal approach to medicine any day. Health is not an all or nothing affair.

  21. Re:In other news... on Adrenaline May Damage DNA · · Score: 1

    This is /.; there are reasonably good odds someone was trolling along thinking that whole bathing in the blood of virgins thing sounded pretty sweet and this post, by virtue of informing him of a more attractive alternative, helped avert a bloodbath.

  22. Re:Five years? Ruby on Rails barely lasted that lo on Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent · · Score: 1

    Clearly this is an attempted troll post..

    Rails = COBOL. It's dead tech. You need to get your head back in the game and switch to ASP.Net

    Now this is a troll post, bitch.

    Impressive! (in Mortal Kombat announcer voice)

  23. It just goes to show... on Neanderthal Sex Boosted Immunity In Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    ...there are some problems that really can be solved by a good boning.

  24. Re:Stopgap till Wayland on X.Org Server 1.11 Released · · Score: 1

    Unity is Jaime.

  25. Re:Why are these releases still news on X.Org Server 1.11 Released · · Score: 1

    It's the natural result of the shift to more and more iterative project styles. I am sure it's gotten even worse on the rolling release distros.