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  1. Benefits Linux, OSX, Solaris and other *nix on Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols · · Score: 1

    This makes a mixed environment more accessible and I imagine with Microsoft seeing that they are having to deal with many solutions not of their own that they'd treat this as a playing nice in the sandbox. Customers are tolerant but if they can find a compelling solution that saves them money I think Microsoft is wise to put this in so as to stem such customer defections.

  2. Re:Just another example on Microsoft Agrees to Release Work Group Protocols · · Score: 2, Interesting

    that EU did something the US DOJ wouldn't do, on behalf of the current sitting President.

    There, I fixed it for you. ;)

  3. Re:Odd Unit of time.. thousands of millions of yea on Solar System Date of Birth Determined · · Score: 1

    In Engineering terms, 10^9 in SI or Imperial is still 10^9 and if you prefer I say 5.xxx x 10^9 years with a tolerance of .002 x 10^9 so be it. Then people reading the units of time would know the ratio of .002xxx/5.xxx = a very small difference.

  4. Re:Obligatory on Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter · · Score: 1

    You just took a one-to-one relationship to a one-to-many where at least one in that many will hit it's target. They aren't in the same argument domain.

  5. Odd Unit of time.. thousands of millions of years? on Solar System Date of Birth Determined · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to just using billions of years? If they are attempting to keep the years and tolerance in equivalent units they could have just said, 4.568 billion years within a range [tolerance] of 0.00208 billion years and let people do the math.

  6. Re:not exactly a good record on Dodd's Filibuster Threat Stalls Wiretap Bill · · Score: 1

    Again, I ask, why should a person who killed someone on a whim be punished less than someone who killed because of someone's religious beliefs.

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    The symbol of the Cross is a byproduct from the past common use the KKK used. It could have been a pike or some other apparatus, but through the misconstruing of what happened to be their interpretation of the Bible--it could have been any other doctrine--we've associated it with Christianity hates Negroes. Being an Agnostic I can't stomach much of the Bible, but that's painting a broad brush over the real issues. The movement that used this doctrine to create a separation of races through such means including and not limited to Cross burnings is what makes the Societal ramifications on a larger scale greater than the singular heinous act of one individual on another; and hence a Hate Crime.

    With that said, any pre-meditated act to extinguish the life of another individual should be tried equally under Lady Justice. The trial on Hate should be a secondary trial, not the primary trial.

  7. Re:IMPORTANT SLASHDOT QUESTION on Yahoo Becomes Apache Platinum Sponsor · · Score: 1

    Responding to the right parent poster makes it much easier on the reader.

  8. Re:I think Apple.... on FireWire Spec to Boost Data Speeds to 3.2 Gbps · · Score: 1

    Apple engineered and opened up the trademark by foregoing the $1 per interface charge people whined about. Apple holds the Chairman Seat:

    http://www.1394ta.org/Contact/Board/

    Chair:
    Eric Anderson, Apple
    1 Infinite Loop, MS 306-3FW
    Cupertino, CA 95014
    Phone (official business only): 1/408-974-1394
    Customer information: http://www.apple.com/firewire

  9. Re:accessing terminal on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    Mac OS, yes. Mac OS X, no. Try Terminal on Leopard and then configure it with Developer extensions.

  10. Re:My Macbook on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon vs. Mac OS X Leopard · · Score: 1

    AMD has changed that all together. Go check out their support: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux64/linux64-radeon.html

  11. Rebuild US Infrastructure [Modular Power Grid,..] on Boeing 12,000lb Chemical Laser Set to Fry Targets · · Score: 1

    ...or behind this curtain, A BIG FRICKIN' LASER!

  12. Re:The best way to bring people to open source on KDE and KOffice Rebuke OOXML, GNOME Dithers · · Score: 1

    ISO standards doesn't start and end with Microsoft's ability to gain favor. ISO will recover just fine. The media has a way of reshaping reality and does it often.

  13. Re:And there is still the unsolved issue of... on Former Anti-Nuclear Activist Does A 180 · · Score: 1

    When Solar panel efficiencies at the Home surpass 50% Energy extraction efficiency--were about to see 40% efficiency panels--we not only achieve solvency in the economics, we also benefit from the scale of panels being very small. Within 5 years, Solar will be at the general consumer level, at the state level for powering control systems of all kinds [already widely used], at the federal level to help modulate power fluctuations; and by then the leading companies will be very profitable and the darlings of Wall Street.

  14. Re:Maybe it's me on Java 6 Available on OSX Thanks to Port of OpenJDK · · Score: 1

    Landon Fuller used to work at Apple inside the BSD team. I sure as hell hope he knows a wee bit of how the Java/Cocoa marriage works.

  15. Re:LLVM == Hot Air on Intel Core 2 'Penryn' and Linux · · Score: 1

    If a new compiler frontend/backend/whatever improved the performance of those routines 100x, it's because the original routines were horribly inefficient. That is a simple fact and it is still true even when Apple is involved.
    Apple is driving the costs behind LLVM. They are accelerating it's development goals and no GCC was not capable of providing the improvements to OpenGL and Quartz that Apple needed.

    Apple buys CUPS and makes sure it remains the same licensing while paying the salaries of its development staff and also extending it's Apple specific functionality for OS X Leopard.

    I'd read up on what has changed to LLVM 2.0 and future releases, LLVM 2.2 Feb 2008 than to compare it to the LLVM branch available in, say, Debian (LLVM 1.8b-1) which is quite old.
  16. How ironic: Telecom firm disavows Telcommuting on AT&T Calls Telecommuters Back To the Cubicle · · Score: 1

    Classic. Instead of benefiting from the costs and testing of their own network designs, they'd rather accrue massive on-campus costs to keeping the staff under lock and key. Really dense AT&T.

  17. Apple's change to LLVM on Intel Core 2 'Penryn' and Linux · · Score: 4, Interesting

    makes a lot more sense with these latest processors. Sure the SSE 4 instructions won't be that immediately useful to Linux. They sure as hell will be for OS X Leopard.

  18. Re:Huge in Japan on Leopard Claims Half the Japanese OS Market In October · · Score: 1

    Germany.

  19. Re:Just add a better video output on Low-Price Compact PlayStation 2 Due Next Year · · Score: 1

    Blue-Ray is not selling well due to the initial run up costs of the devices. Make them affordable and generic on PCs and you'll see it own the industry. Problem is that SONY hasn't figured out how to open it up and be comfortable with not all the spoils.

  20. What's the point of just mentioning the School... on Carnegie Mellon Wins Urban Challenge · · Score: 1

    ...when major players on the Auto Industry worked jointly with them and they weren't mentioned, unless one actually checks out the team bios?

  21. Re:How many of those have you heard of? on Google's OpenSocial Platform Releases · · Score: 1

    Give me a break. The 100 Million MySpace counts can be carved down to 10 to 15 million REAL ACCOUNTS. That site is a horde of spam sites and useless trash covered in fake accounts left and right trying to pawn off some useless crap that makes the QVC channel seem cool.

  22. WiMax Auction in January 2008? on Verizon Might Deliver Google Phone · · Score: 1

    From what I've read both Verizon and Google are polar opposites on open access. Google has admitted to making plans to deploy their own Network. It only makes sense that they are negotiating an access/right-of-way across these competitors networks and not jumping on-board with a hardware OEM/Telco relationship.

  23. Re:Somethign doesn't add up on The Real Mother of All Bombs, 46 Years Ago · · Score: 1

    In theory.

  24. Re:OS Firewalls on OS X Leopard Firewall Flawed · · Score: 1
    Heard from a friend who, heard it from a friend who...

    The parent poster to your response wasn't talking about 3rd party Firewall Software. They were referring to a dedicated hardware appliance to be your firewall. This is not a solution for the vast majority of people, unless someone like F5 Networks plans on providing a hardware solution that is secure and affordable to the average Joe.

  25. Re:Huckabee's answer on Call for a Presidential Debate on Science · · Score: 1

    Your comment would be hilarious if the reference was to the actual candidate who stated this: Mitt Romney.

    http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/romney_all_business_well_have.html