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  1. Re:Booo what a pity! on PTO Requests Working Model of Warp Drive · · Score: 1

    Sadly they will just patent a "new and improved" warp drive then.

  2. Re:Not exactly Brilliant commentary... on Garriotts See Shakeup To MMOG Industry Coming · · Score: 1

    Actually both Saab and Volvo are no longer independent companies anymore but bought up by the larger companies. GM owns Saab and Ford owns Volvo.

    Here is a table that shows which company own which brand:

    http://carscarscars.blogs.com/index/2004/03/who_ow ns_who.html

  3. Re:I just read a blog article on what Google does: on Does Company-Wide Language "Standardization" Work? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and all web pages cant be HTML since only Java is allowed! ALl web pages thus has to be java applets if one follow what you say to the extreme.

    If one accept HTML one also accept Javascript and thus AJAX with Java Servelets on the server side is a fine way to make google maps and similar applications.

  4. Re:Firefox is the most unstable program in common on Firefox Slides, IE Gains? · · Score: 1

    From a security point it doesnt matter if the info is stored in an encrypted or a non-encrypted fashion.

    Its trivial to decrypt the info if its encrypted.

  5. Re:For christs sake on Subpoena Resistance Hurts Google Stock · · Score: 1

    So what is better for Google in the long run:

    1. Give out the data and make share holders happy
    2. Withhold the data and make customers happy.

    We know now that 2 will lead to unhappy share holders.

    If google select 1 then the customers will go away and the shareholders will be unhappy. So 1 leads to unhappy share holders.

    Both actions lead to unhappy shareholders. So the better option is option 2 - since they at least dont make their customers unhappy.

  6. Re:Less important than it sounds on Microsoft FAT Patent Upheld · · Score: 2, Informative

    The reason anyone hasn't heard much about it is that NO ONE wants to be on the other end of a lawsuit from Microsoft. Its way too expensive.

    There are free software developers whos been contacted by Microsoft. So yes Microsoft enforce their upatents. One example is Virtualdub and the patented ASF format.

  7. Re:Is it IE or Windows? on Windows XP Flaw 'Extremely Serious' · · Score: 3, Informative

    Its in one of Windows standard libraries - but using IE makes it more dangerous.

    Using Firefox with Adblock installed one can stop all files of this dangerous type by adblocking them until a patch is available.

  8. Re:Support one of the non-registration required si on Quantum Trickery - Einstein's Strangest Theory · · Score: 1

    Hm, is it really slashdotting if one slashdot slashdot ?

  9. Re:China? on RIAA Sets Their Sights on Russia · · Score: 1

    China are a market with 1 billion people - all potential customers. With Chinas growing economy no one wants to be left out of that market. So they all kiss up to a un-democratic country based on pure economics.

    Russia has much smaller population and not many of them are potential customers. Many are poor and thus the potential are less.

    Money talks.

  10. Re:Patent? on Visto Founder Blogs about Microsoft Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually someone tried to patent addding 1 and 1 elektronically!

    They luckily did not get a patent. But this was many years ago when patent examiners had time to actually read a patent!

  11. Re:Film's Challenges... on More Delays for Ender Movie · · Score: 1

    1. Make the age difference smaller so the same actors can play the part all the way. They could have the initial character - before Enders enters the space station - played by a younger actor and let the main actor play Ender from say 8-10.

    2. Battle rooms scenes should be done the same way Hongkong movies are made today - with a human on a string - those fighting scenes should be really good. If they are given covering uniforms in the Battle room most scenes could be done by grown-up stunt people.

    3. Instead of just light blipps it can be done as a 3-dimensional hologram.

    4. The Peter Wiggins sub-plot are not essential to the story.

  12. Re:Bull on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    You sir - are wrong!

    Fascism is per definition about politicians sucking up to corporations.

    RMS has taken the free software movement here - who other could have done it ?

  13. Re:Non-English speaker have a question on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    There's social-liberalism which are more about social issues (many socialdemocratic parties in europe are more or less social-liberal) and then its neo-liberalism which is more like the US libertarian party and wants less welfare and lower taxes.

  14. Re:Ivory towers and actually working on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 1

    When reading RMS bio I see several referenses to that I would call real jobs.

    By your definition many people I know has no real job even though they been empleyed many years by large corporations. However since none of them has been in a position to casue their Top500 corporation to fail - they must not had had a real job. :-)

  15. Re:Good Article but... on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 2, Informative

    My definition is more the original meaning. What you are talking about are neo-corporatism which is alive and kicking in Netherlands and my own country Sweden.

    ""neo-corporatism" refers to social arrangements dominated by tri-partite bargaining between unions, the private sector (capital), and government. Such bargaining is oriented toward (a) dividing the productivity gains created in the economy "fairly" among the social partners and (b) gaining wage restraint in recessionary or inflationary periods."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

    For example Sweden has no minimun wage. Instead the unions and the corporations have agreements as what they see as reasonable wages for labor. As soon as one employee are part
    of the unions in a corporation they have to abide by those agreements for all employees. The different egreement in the different business sectors thus controls the minimum wage within that sector.

    What I am talking about is corporatism when the goverment are so dependent on certain business that they give them large input in how the legislation is done - basically witout letting the opposing side have any input in the matter.

  16. Re:Good Article but... on ZNet interviews Richard Stallman · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Fascism is associated with one or more of the following characteristics: a very high degree of nationalism, economic corporatism, and, after attaining political control of a country, a powerful, dictatorial state that views the nation as superior to the individuals or groups composing it."

    -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

    ""A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
    -- American Heritage Dictionary

    Even though there are no clear definition of Fascism there is definititly clear that corporatism - the merging of big business and the state - are part of Fascism.

    US today are leaning more and more towards fascism. Not many likes it - but its the sad truth.

  17. Re:Java programmers are more expensive on Java Is So 90s · · Score: 1

    Yes, strangely enough most of the building blocks needed to write applikations with Java are free software. Still most applikations built using Java är not free software.

    I wonder why ?

  18. Re:Wrong angle on IPv6 Transition to Cost US $75 Billion? · · Score: 1

    Well 8 years is a lifetime.... ... for a US president.

    Nothing needs to last more than 8 years.

  19. Re:Question for experts? on The Letter That Won US Internet Control · · Score: 1

    None can reach a EU domain. It opens next week for booking of domains on 7 december 2005.

  20. Re:Army of Programmers != Agility on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1

    Yes you are right, thats why free software are more bug free. Bugs can be fixed.

  21. Re:Only two dozen??? on Why Can't Microsoft Just Patch Everything? · · Score: 1

    We are talking about security issues - i.e. those that sometimes can escalete into remote exploits.

    Normal bugs are too many to count.

  22. Re:Buggy Browsers on Open Source Worse than Flying · · Score: 1

    You should have suggested "Internet Firefox" since most normal people are used to search for a icon named something with Internet go surf the web.

    And also "Internet Firefox" seams to be a direkt descendant of "Internet Explorer" since F comes after E.

  23. Re:To Sid Meier: on Exception Expands Domestic Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Apperantly capitalistics states with huge population of fanatic religious people seams to become police states too.

    Like US of A which became a police state the day the congress voted for the Patriot Act.

  24. Re:Oh Please... on Richard Stallman Accosted For Tinfoil Hat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Countries pay according to their BNP and since US has a large BNP compared to many other countries US pay more than any other nation. Second largest are Japan with 19 % compared with US 24%.

    BTW Germany UK France and Italy together pays more then the US so EU totally pays more than than the US.

  25. Re:You are only hurting yourself you know.... on Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    You're right. The more correct term is Judeo-Christian-Muslim since all three are based in the same tree of worship but now has gone separate ways through normal evolution.

    The Judeo-Christian-Muslim followers all worship the same God, but in slightly different ways. Some call God God others call God Allah but it is the same god:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God