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  1. Re:you mean: solve one problem and get another one on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Umm, well, good luck with that. The only problem with your argument it the complete fantasy that your altruistic busybody is both going to show up and his/her replacement is going to continue in their do goodery. As flawed as free market and capitalism is, it feeds of the basic human instincts of greed and desire to harness them and use them to further the economy. What you suggest is a one track path to fascism.

  2. Re:OOOK on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    He who controls the past, controls the future. He who controls the present, controls the past.

  3. Re:Maybe it's just me on Bickering Blocks US Mobile Phone Payments · · Score: 1

    what are you afraid of from the rfid in the card that you are not afraid of from the signal broadcast by your cell phone?

  4. Re:Maybe it's just me on Bickering Blocks US Mobile Phone Payments · · Score: 1

    "...all I see is one item that does everything "not quite as well" as the original separate items"

    Except fit in my pocket.

  5. Re:Five years? on Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional · · Score: 1

    I have to agree. 5 years per offense seems reasonable. You hack a computer you get 5 years in jail. You hack 250,000 you get 1.25 million years in jail.

  6. Re:So much for not sacrificing ideals for safety. on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 1

    Then you deserve everything you get, as a so-called "Republican". I'll be laughing at you, not with you, when your best laid plans and hopes and dreams go circling the drain.

    With the rest of our rights in the US of A. We have developed a one party system Democracy. you can vote for the republican wing of the party or the democrat wing of the party. It's your choice. You'll be losing rights either way.

  7. Re:You are wrong on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 1

    I've heard he already has an appointment with Micheal Jackson's doctor.

  8. Re:Bad summary of bad article on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed this so much I had to write it on my white board.

  9. Re:Marketing isn't just advertising on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 1

    ha, that's funny.

  10. Re:just sad on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 1

    "You are just another example that people will find reasons to bitch about anything, except themselves of course."

    Pot meet kettle. Who would be the complainer if they didn't give these things out.

    I have no real qualms against you using it for the reason it was given. Occasionally it is difficult for a free market to uproot a scarce resource to change it into something else such as what is being forced. This is why we wont likely see ipv6 without something similar.

  11. just sad on Most Hackable Coupon-Eligible DTV Converter? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    perhaps you should throw out your coupon or give it to someone who can't afford to purchase one and missed getting a coupon. If you're looking to hack something you should use your own money to buy one and not mine.

    Thank you.

  12. Re:Marketing MIA on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been using windows now for a little over a year. Coming from and exclusively Unix and/or Linux background since 1994. I am regularly told by the windows admins to go to the command line to do things such as recently ipconfig \flushdns I don't know for sure, but windows still seems to need a terminal for similar tasks.

    Plus sudo apt-get install foo seems much easier than the windows version of get in your car and drive to the store and scan through the packages or download from some freeware site or research many vendors about foo to find a package for foo and break out the credit card in order for you to do anything.

  13. Re:Marketing isn't just advertising on Canonical Close To $30M Critical Mass; Should Microsoft Worry? · · Score: 1

    What you are talking about is sells. It is different from marketing. Marketing is what made people need MSOffice or iPods. Sells is what then provides them. If marketing was able to say use OpenOffice and gPhones the sells would follow.

  14. Re:And that applies here ... how? on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    Great idea if the world was full of frictionless spherical cows.

  15. Re:Mod parent up! on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Product A in lab tests always performs over 100% better/faster than product B.
    Product B in normal use always performs over 100% better/faster than product A.

    Which are you going to want to use? Perhaps product A is designed to max the test, while product B is designed to handle varying conditions.

  16. Re:Even if the answer is no... on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    In the end, the only hardware configuration hat would make that much of a difference is if the windows box hat 10basetx or half-duplex. a 100basetx or 1000basetx would should saturate the 25mbs line that he seems to have. He also did say he tested it a few times so it wasn't just a one off chance of congestion.

  17. Re:*plop* (mind blown) on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1

    It's much worse than that, it's the liberals training us from birth to be use to bondage. It wont be long before we are all indentured servants of the state.

  18. Re:Is this bug currently affecting .... on Hope For Fixing Longstanding Linux I/O Wait Bug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Given enough eyeballs, all bug tracking software is fragile

  19. Re:GE working with DC. on DC Power Poised To Bring Savings To Datacenters · · Score: 1

    Of course they are, they have lobbyists in DC all the time.

  20. Re:*plop* (mind blown) on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1

    My fathers 1961 International Scout didn't have a back seat, just a lightly padded board to sit on. Now I'm legally required to have a $100+ strapped down saftey seat???

  21. Re:Open Source on FOSS Development As Economic Stimulus · · Score: 1

    The problems with funding this to a greater degree is you end up with more people there for the money than the mission. You also start to end up with things like powerful teacher unions that keep crappy teachers in place only because they've been in place for so long.

  22. Re:Seriously... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Well, unless it's your co-worker that just helps himself to download your songs with his USB cable while you step away from your desk. Then replaces your iPod before you are ever the wiser. That is until the RIAA is knocking on your door with proof that you've shared your songs.

  23. Re:Reasonable compromise... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    I suggest everyone go into it and edit it to say something more creative like billg@microsoft.com

  24. Re:Good luck with that on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    Hair-dressing and designing CPUs or hypersonic airliners is more advanced than building CPUs or hypersonic airliners?

    and the answer is yes.

  25. Re:Good luck with that on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    ...real goods cannot be copied infinitely without a marginal cost of reproduction...

    yet.