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  1. Re:It's not open source. on ACP, One of the Oldest Open Source Apps · · Score: 1, Insightful

    http://opensource.org/docs/osd

    There's quite a few more requirements than just having the code be available.

  2. Re:the list Before a karma whore can... on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't care at all, since it's irrelevant.

    But feel free to fixate on the details of the plucked out of the air company name.

  3. Re:the list Before a karma whore can... on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 1

    Whereas I'll instead trust what they wrote:

    Below we look more closely at the companies which are employing kernel developers. For each developer, corporate affiliation was obtained through one or more of: (1) the use of company email addresses, (2) sponsorship information included in the code they submit, or (3) simply asking the developers directly. The numbers presented are necessarily approximate; developers occasionally change employers, and they may do
    personal work out of the office. But they will be close enough to support a number of conclusions.

    So clearly using a company email address is enough to qualify - of course they might do some extra checking, but that checking is more likely to happen the other way I would suspect (I know Bill, and sure he never mentions it but he FooBar Corp pays him for his kernel work).

  4. Re:Wait, really? on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you should be able to buy fire insurance after your house burns down.

    Do you have the slightest clue how insurance works?

  5. Re:the list Before a karma whore can... on The Myth of the Isolated Kernel Hacker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But since there methodology was garbage all that means is that someone using a Volkswagen email address wrote some code.

    It says nothing about whether it was done as part of their employment with Volkswagen, or whether it was done out of business hours while hiding in their parent's basement.

  6. Re:Cost effective? on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    It's not about global warming, that's just the feel good spin put on it for the greenies.

    It's about an aircraft carrier that does not need to be resupplied with jet fuel when the shooting has started.

    Now if they could just work out munitions and food...

  7. Re:Closed Loop on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Just like the CO2 we remove from under the ground by burning fossil fuels will eventually return through the same process that put it there in the first place.

  8. Re:Or... on US Navy Tries To Turn Seawater Into Jet Fuel · · Score: 1

    Nuclear is the obvious thing, they aren't going to mention that because people still freak out and they lose the "green cred" they are trying to build.

  9. Re:Holy Crap on Neural Networks-Equipped Robots Evolve the Ability To Deceive · · Score: 1

    Cool!

    I'm guessing my zombie invasion defenses won't really work so well against these robots, oh well back to the drawing board.

  10. Re:Social Security #s are for Social Security ONLY on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 1

    And getting job, renting a house, and the numerous other things that do stupid credit checks.

    I'm not saying you are liable for such debts, but you have to go through exactly the same hassle as those who do use credit in order to get them off your credit history.

  11. Re:Social Security #s are for Social Security ONLY on SSN Overlap With Micronesia Causes Trouble For Woman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not using debt doesn't help when the idiots are assigning someone else's debt to you...

  12. Re:Holy Crap on Neural Networks-Equipped Robots Evolve the Ability To Deceive · · Score: 1

    It's not a lie. It's trying not to attract others to the "food" you found.

    So more hiding.

  13. Re:Yea, ideas are dime a dosen on Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights · · Score: 1

    Which is what I said, but without the stupid hinting because I'm too embarrassed of being wrong to state what I think.

  14. Re:You Obviously Are Unaware Of on Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you argument against soviet "tech" sucking is that they were dumb enough to not notice that one of their physicist/mathematicians had laid out a great way to do stealth and instead of doing it let the Americans stumble across his work 20 years later and do it.

    That seems like an argument against their "tech" if anything.

  15. Re:receiving a call is the biggest complaint? on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    It's got nothing to do with safety. It's just technology.

    But muting the phone is encouraging talking on it while driving and at the same time making the driving part harder.

    Similarly with the iphone and turning the entire map off on a call.

    It's the way the devices work and they both seem stupid. Then again I'd rather my devices didn't stop me doing stupid things when I want to.

    I don't drive as car at all, so driving while on the phone is obviously something I have never done. But it's completely irrelevant to the point that was being discussed, well until the moralist arrived anyway.

  16. Re:Good thing... on Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant · · Score: 1

    What the fuck does that have to do with someone providing links with only acronyms in the comments?

  17. Re:receiving a call is the biggest complaint? on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    Some people aren't completely socially inept and have other people in the car with them who can answer the damn phone pretty safely.

    Others have these magical devices called hands-free-kits which let them legally (but not much more safely) answer the phone while driving. Others are in jurisdictions where using a phone while driving is perfectly legal (not anymore safely of course).

    Again, what is the point of the phone muting the GPS navigator other than making talking on it while driving easier?

    Seriously if you think no one in the world talks on a phone while driving or has a passenger answer their phone while driving you are epically stupid.

  18. Re:I Want *Un-balanced* Classes on The Challenges of Class Balance In MMOGs · · Score: 1

    single player RPGs are unrelated to MMO games.

  19. Re:receiving a call is the biggest complaint? on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    Because that's what phones are for.

  20. Re:receiving a call is the biggest complaint? on TomTom Releases iPhone Navigation App · · Score: 1

    Because you might actually want to know about the freeway exit you needed to take when someone called to ask when you were arriving.

    You might like the volume off, I'm sure other people don't and yet more other people don't want the map to vanish.

  21. Re:Good thing... on Amazon Confirms EC2/S3 Not PCI Level 1 Compliant · · Score: 1

    Because the links in the summary were so hard to understand...

  22. Re:Lottery, Stock Market, Gambling--All Sucker Gam on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 1

    But there was more than just "fair". There was also your game not being robbed by guys with guns who heard about it somehow. Which could also happen at a casino, but the security is better and there's juicier targets than the poker table.

  23. Re:Lottery, Stock Market, Gambling--All Sucker Gam on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real scam is the poker tables. The casino risks none of its own money on the poker tables, yet feels entitled to a percentage of every pot? WTF?

    The provide a nice playing table and chairs. They provide nice cards and chips. They provide a dealer who vaguely knows the rules. They provide a public location with security to find people to play with without having to sit in a private location with strangers and large sums of money. They provide an unbiased party for dispute resolution.

    And they don't always feel entitled to a percentage of every pot, pay by the hour isn't that uncommon.

  24. Re:Victimless crimes? on BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We also only allow people to buy a six-pack of beer a week, right?

    And only jog 30 minutes a day?

    And only eat 1 chocolate bar every 2 days?

    And only watch TV for 2 hours a day?

  25. Re:You have no idea what monetarism mean, do you? on Charlie Stross, Paul Krugman Discuss the Future · · Score: 1

    If wikipedia is good enough for you then that very same article you quoted from also says:

    "There are also arguments which link monetarism and macroeconomics, and treat monetarism as a special case of Keynesian theory."

    Monetarism is about using monetary policy to manipulate the economy. High rates to slow growth in booms and low rates to reduce busts. Keynesian is about using fiscal policy to manipulate the economy. Spend less/tax more to slow growth in the booms and spend more/tex less to reduce busts.

    Yes there is more to it. But when the topic area as interference versus non-interference they are both so similar the differences don't matter.