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  1. Re:Despite myself on Rescued Banks Sought Foreign Help During Meltdown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The problem is, none of those "theories" were Capitalism. They were forms of pseudo-Capitalism designed to maximize consolidation of market players [anti-competition/pro megacorporations too big to fail] and form legally protected Oligopolies.

    Real Capitalism with government oversight guaranteeing a large pool of players in all markets is something the US power brokers fear the most.

  2. Re:This will come up on Local Police Want To Jam Wireless Signals · · Score: 0

    Try, ``impoverished labor force of the US Industrial Complex.''

  3. Re:Hmm on PC's Waste Heat Could Add To Processing Power · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No offense, but physicists always leave it to engineers to come up with a viable solution.

  4. Re:Prior art is available on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    Someone who actually bothered to read a bit on the patent I see. There is hope humanity isn't completely braindead.

  5. Re:Basic touch screen plus Firefox mouse gestures? on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    No. The patent filing is over 600 pages. Read up on it.

  6. Re:Hope on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    You can say it, but it holds absolutely zero credibility beyond your own opinion.

  7. Re:Prior art? on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    How about you read up on the concept of Patents and grasp the context in which the iPhone gestures, with it's hardware, actually interacts and how come it's an innovation and won't be challenged as prior art. Seriously, an excellent text on Patent Law and how it works is ``Patents and Trademarks, Plain & Simple,'' by Michael H. Jester-Registered Patent Attorney. ISBN1-56414-728-2

    His last name aside, the man destroys all the misunderstandings of the term, ``prior art'' and cites countless examples on how the patent system is designed and continues to sustain it's value.

  8. Re:Prior art. ??? on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    Last I recall, the Apple Newton in 1989 paved much of the advances and foundations for pen and PDA interaction.

  9. Re:Microsoft Is Not Going to Like This.... on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    Since their implementation isn't remotely touching that of the iPhone and it's hardware/software interaction they'll be sitting on their hands for a long time.

  10. Re:Meet the new boss, same as the old boss on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 1

    They most likely weren't born to witness the 80s and early 90s.

  11. Re:Prior art. ??? on Apple Awarded Patent For iPhone Interface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then defend it. What? You never filed a patent on this?

    As I recall Leibniz was to Calculus what Newton was to Calculus. Newton got most of the fame for publishing first and Leibniz notation became the most commonly used notation.

    If Apple didn't patent their work, Microsoft would and claim they invented it first [citing the patent] and screw everyone over.

  12. Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 1

    There are hundreds of thousands of an extremely well-educated americans who aren't in their educated fields due to this globalization process of the past decade. I know at least a dozen engineers of various fields who can't get work because they are either overly skilled commanding far more than visa counterpart or they are rusty in their skillsets because it was too easy to downsize in the states and upsize in India since 1998.

  13. Re:Republican? on Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans · · Score: 1

    Publicly traded corporations makes it the federal government's business when it's in the best interest of their constituents and thus the US Economy. You forget, the Federal Government, under the auspices of the US Constitution, gives Microsoft the legal right to exist in the US and be a US Company.

    It's a partnership.

  14. Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 1

    Somehow, I imagine without Newton's Theory of Gravity Space travel would have been far more problematic to ascertain all sorts of fields in physics. But then again, if Newton had the technical advantages that his theories pioneered today, back then, we'd probably been traveling the Universe and arguing about green colored women.

  15. Re:Just because PHP is popular on Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects · · Score: 1

    PHP stands on the shoulder of Giants. Without C/C++ and Perl, amongst others, Facebook and Yahoo wouldn't work.

  16. Re:Takes the idea of "open source" to a new level on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    When is Etoile going to be ready to just build against the stable GNUstep APIs and not the unstable? Debian is so far behind the curve on having the latest Stable, let alone Unstable that it's rather annoying.

    Of course, if the Debian maintainers for GNUstep published their build procedures I'd keep amd64 packages current with both Stable and Unstable.

  17. Re:Takes the idea of "open source" to a new level on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Objective-C is a superset of C. End of story.

  18. Re:Takes the idea of "open source" to a new level on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    ``(I won't even mention Objective C, which is an abomination unto Nuggan)''

    Bravo! Nice shot of bs.

  19. Re:50 people? No problem on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 3, Funny

    With the way financing guys have performed of late here is a perfect opportunity to blame your analysis on a broken Excel and switch products.

  20. Re:Short and long answers? on Can a Small Business Migrate Smoothly To OpenOffice.org v3? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He was speaking off-the-cuff with no real basis in reality. If you can't ascertain the difference between out-of-office rhetoric to your own in-office politically correct rhetoric life must be a struggle for work to be enjoyable.

  21. Re:Takes the idea of "open source" to a new level on Building Linux Applications With JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Know it? Really? Try, `` a hell of a lot more people have tried it'' on for size, if Truth is what you're projecting.

  22. So on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1, Interesting

    With over 6 billion 1% possibly looks like a natural population control mechanism.

  23. Re:When I was breaking in on More Than Coding Errors Behind Bad Software · · Score: 1

    Not to be overshadowed are the enormous egos the self-proclaimed geniuses are who more often than not are just complete dickheads to work within a team focus.

  24. Re:Exploitation on Universities Patenting More Student Ideas · · Score: 1

    Build your own research lab. What's that? You can't afford one? It's a business compromise.

  25. Who really gives a S***? on Chrome On the Way For Mac and Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've got enough browser options to choose from with WebKit, Gecko, Opera and IE options. I don't need a tie-in to Google by Google using WebKit.

    How this f'n company became big is still a mystery.