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  1. Re:Spock's Brane on The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you meant to ask, "Mmmmm, Brane, what are we going to do tomorrow?" To which the reply is obvious: "Same thing we do every day, Pinky -- try to create the universe!"

  2. Re:Obviously on The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble · · Score: 1

    Maybe I can get some suggestions for the set-up on this q&a joke. The obvious set-up, "what do string theorists and zombies talk about during lunch?" (Mmmmm-brayns!) Is a bit weak. It needs some depth and resonance, and probably a secondary physics allusion as well.

  3. Re:Reliable? on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    > They need redundant everything, which this doesn't have.

    But two of them do.

    > SATA drives are not as reliable long term as SCSI.

    False. In fact, your 15k fc drives will fail significantly more often than my 10k sata drives. Cf. Google's report.

    > Businesses also want service and support.

    That's why it's such a great world in which to live and work, innit?

  4. Re:123 Incorporate ! on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    > If a bear...

    You misspelled "the pope".

  5. Re:Specifics please. on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    > As a storage solution for ten (or two hundred) business critical server systems, no way.

    Now two of them, on the other hand, would do that nicely. No downtime, ever.

  6. Re:RAID controller failure on Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs? · · Score: 1

    > a well known solution

    software raid.

  7. Re:I don't know about you on Apple Sues Over iGasm Ads · · Score: 1

    But copyright does not protect *ideas*. It only protects a specific expression. Apple can't copyright the use of silhouettes, which have been in use in art for thousands of years.

  8. Re:The last box to vote with ... on Congress Debating "No-Work" Database · · Score: 1

    I think you have that backwards. The people would have rebelled against the government long ago, because the government is so abhorrently, unspeakably evil, malign and corrupt, were it not that they are disinclined to shoot the military, which is made of their friends, neighbors, and relatives (or so the people are taught to percieve, while in fact it is increasingly composed of alien applicants for citizenship -- foreign mercenaries), while, by contrast, the military is very intensively trained to kill people without the least trace of moral conscience. The fight, therefore, is very unequal, and everybody knows it, so they don't take it on.

    The result of course is that evil inexorably advances in triumph after triumph, with millions of dead bodies of its innocent victims piling up, decade after decade, as every last vestige of the glowing principles with which the populace is deluded into obsequience is dragged deeper and deeper into shit. And that's probably a good thing, because if people think they can get a positive outcome by means of human effort, they will invariably turn away from less comforting sources of strength.

  9. Re:It's a financial institution on How Far Should a Job Screening Go? · · Score: 1

    Most of the things which the current government deems to be crimes are more conventionally known as "good sense", or "political opposition".

  10. Re:seriously on Experts Now Say JFK Bullet Analysis Was Wrong · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can tell you one thing that is impossible: That Oswald was the shooter. There's a nice photograph of the front of the TSRB as Kennedy rides by, published in Look magazine immediately after the assassination, which shows Oswald on the sidewalk, street-level, wearing the same shirt he was wearing when Jack Ruby killed him.

  11. Re:Anyone surprised it began in Germany? on Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life · · Score: 1

    A better title for the article would have been "Germans crack down on short people", since the youngest person involved was 27, and the only meaningful visual basis for estimating age in SL is height. Short people have no right to have sex. Untermenschen, doncha know. Can't have them breeding and poluting the gene pool.

  12. Re:Crippling ignorance? on Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations · · Score: 1

    > The page was finally deleted.

    Which is a sad commentary on Wikipedia. A far more useful encyclopedia would simply mark the page as crackpot, and let them have at it.

  13. Re:No license, no install on Would You Install Pirated Software at Work? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That would effectively protect you against legal action based on your deeds; however, misprison of a felony is also a crime, so that unless you inform the authorities of your boss' crime, you are still liable to legal action based on your boss' deeds.

  14. Re:What does it mean for us to observe something? on Quantum Physics Parts Ways With Reality · · Score: 1

    Or, one can admit in all honesty that no such axioms are in play, and that all of the behavioural characteristics of science in practice are quite adequately explained in terms of a system of rules for manipulating symbols in a chaotic environment for the sole purpose of gaining tenure.

  15. Re:Too Late on Prior Art On Verizon Patents · · Score: 1

    I have since learned that VZ also filed other patents in the same time period which referenced the documents describing the prior art. I think it's a pretty slam-dunk case that VZ is in bad faith, and in an investor lawsuit, they should fork over about 2bn usd.

  16. Re:Too Late on Prior Art On Verizon Patents · · Score: 1

    I think you'd have to show that the defense of the patent was not in good faith in order to claim damages. I bet VZ is shredding their SMTP server hard drives as we speak.

    The judge, OTOH, is definitely impeachment material. Allowing the court system to be abused in order to destroy publically held companies is aggregious.

  17. Re:One rule for you, one for Him on New Australian Laws To Censor Terror DVDs · · Score: 1

    You write as though the two sides were equivalent. But it's important to remember that in the global crusade against Islam, they are the evil terrorists, and we're the ones who kill three-quarters of a million people to take their oil. The two sides just aren't interchangable, so arguments based on the inherent human moral abhorrence of hypocrisy don't apply.

  18. Re:Why do this? on AMD's New DRM · · Score: 1

    It's just corporate suicide. AMD cannot afford to piss off their customers like this. Intel could, but not AMD. I'd say it's grounds for a shareholder lawsuit.

  19. Re:Fundamental problem: AJAX = mistake on People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps, Do They? · · Score: 1

    Webstart is by far the best. Orders of magnitude. The best GUI apps that I use all day are all Webstart based -- the exceptions being Firefox, Thunderbird, and XEmacs.

  20. Re:true perspective on Google Faces Plagiarism Questions Over Chinese Software · · Score: 1

    Given the surplus of males in the populations of both India and China, an apocalyptic conflagration seems inevitable, in order to cull and rebalance those two populations.

  21. Nearly Free Speech .net on Decent Co-Location or Virtual Server Hosting? · · Score: 1

    NFS is nearly free, and offers as much control as you can possibly get on a shared server without paravirtualization.

  22. Re:still rather hard on Where Can You Find Cheap DVI Video Cards? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that a little $2 dongle adapts d-sub to dvi, right?

  23. Re:MS would owe at least the key on Vista Activation Cracked by Brute Force · · Score: 1

    Not if they use the Vista activation cracker.

    Kantian ethics *require* that *everyone* use the Vista cracker, because otherwise people will get hurt.
    Not to use it is immoral.

  24. Re:why bother on MPAA Fires Back at AACS Decryption Utility · · Score: 1

    > As far as I am concerned, if the encryption can be broken by information
    > release by the patent holder outside of the realm of a patent application,
    > it's fair game.

    However, you are clearly not a lawyer. Such advice from a lawyer would be legal malpractice.

    I do not think, however, that any AACS decoder program is a circumvention device. It's merely a device.
    A device for extracting keys, on the other hand, would be a circumvention device. Once you have keys,
    prima facie, you have a license, and any decoder program which is only useful when you have keys
    is not a circumvention device. If it worked without keys, then it would be a circumvention device.
    Otherwise, it's like claiming that lock-pick laws apply to door locks. Door locks provide access to the
    key holder. That does not make them circumvention devices.

    The MPAA is going to lose this one, and regret it, if anyone fights it.

  25. Re:mod parent overrated, off topic on DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail · · Score: 1

    A) The preferences of the U.S. government pre-empt the laws of other nations.

    B) 1991

    You live or die at the whim of POTUS. He has killed about a million so far, this POTUS.