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  1. Do not use Gugul on How Do You Find the Right Tool for the Right Job ? · · Score: 1

    Use Vivisimo instead. Then the results are broken down into categories. Can't find what you want because it's buried on page 10 amidst mountains of unrelated crap? Vivisimo to the rescue.

  2. Re:My beef with lawyers... on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    And that's why Virginia passed the real 13th amendment in 1819.

  3. Re:Nail on the head on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    > However, it completely ruins the business model of
    > music distribution to allow for anonymous,
    > limitless music sharing. At some level, it's that
    > business model which funds music.

    And that's a big mistake. I don't want the RIAA to
    trash our system of justice in order to enforce
    their broken business model.

    > The landscape of music production and distribution
    > will definitely change in the next decade, and I'm
    > not sure it's going to be for the better.

    I'm not sure it's going to be for the worse. But we WILL find out, won't we?

  4. Re:Something to point out... on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    You, sir, are no lawyer.

    They don't give credit cards to minors precisely because they are presumptively deemed incompetent
    to enter a contract. You may invoice all you like, but no court will enforce it. And when you act
    to collect, you can and will be sanctioned in court. Fortunately for you, justice is not available to
    any but the wealthy.

  5. Re:OMGOMGOMG on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    > they can be used [to] ...

    More to the point, they can be used to kill politicians (http://www.fixedearth.com/hlsm.html)
    when they commit atrocities (http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration. html)
    in order to halt that injustice.

  6. Re:About time on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see a monkey fighting one of these.
    Does that mean that I'm a vile speciesist?
    How about this idea: In soviet russia you bite
    political correctness on the ass.

  7. Re:Finally..... on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gandhi was not operating according to the principles of this world. There are few people alive who can achieve the kind of success he did, and using his success as a precedent will almost invariably lead you astray. That doesn't mean that he wasn't right about the principles, but it does mean that you should consider the cost before applying them. Then go for it.

  8. Re:one more thing. on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1

    Um, excuse me, but if my dead grandmother can't use it, it sucks. She can't open RTP ports in her router BECAUSE SHE'S DEAD! It doesn't matter what elite packet-head skills I have, I can't configure her router for her BECAUSE SHE'S DEAD!

    Are you beginning to understand now how much SIP SUCKS?

  9. OMG on New Algorithm for Learning Languages · · Score: 1

    "U.S. and Israeli researchers"

    Oh my! Now that they have this technology, they will be able to enslave and pillage the whole world!

    Oh... I guess they already did. Nevermind.

  10. Re:My ban list is extensive but I'm a home user on on Blocking a Nation's IP Space · · Score: 1

    If you're providing a hosting service for my business with the expectation that Internet users can reach my site, and I lose all my Asian revenue because you blocked China and Korea without informing me in advance, I'm gonna sue it right back out of you, plus cost and punitive damages. Because it's the right thing to do.

  11. Re:I can still use an old DOS program on Examples of Obsolete File Formats? · · Score: 1

    Of course, a 5.25" 1.2MB drive will read those just fine.

  12. Re:Best strategy for Skype on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 1

    They can keep their protocol closed, but offer an IAX2 bridge. That would rock. On the other hand, it's not hard to build a new business offering the SIPSkype bridge service.

  13. Re:Wake me... on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 2, Funny

    > when it runs on Mac's and Linux boxes

    For some strange reason, I first read that as
    "when it runs on Marx and Lenin's boxes".

    I just had to share.

  14. Re:one more thing. on Microsoft to Launch "Skype Killer" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Skype does not use SIP becaue SIP *SUCKS*. Its NAT and firewall behaviour is atrocious. Forget SIP. Any client using SIP is almost useless in the real world. SIP is what has prevented VOIP from taking off as it should have for the past 10 years. It's a bad protocol design. Dynamic server port numbers is StuPId.

    Skype is good because it JUST WORKS. Skype should add a SIP bridge, though, to leverage the SIP installed base, like they leverage the POTS installed base.

    Now if Skype switched to the IAX2 protocol used by Asterisk, that would rock. But NO SIP PLEASE.

  15. Re:Leave it alone on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    the port of southern louisiana stretches over 50 miles of coast. it's not part of new orleans.
    what it is however is the heart of american commerce. it's the 5th largest tonnage port in the world, far bigger than houston or new york/new jersey. also, 95% of the oil coming from the gulf has stopped flowing -- that's 15% of national consumption. the impact of this storm is going to be enormous and last for years.

  16. Re:Move New Orleans on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Or ship the Ethiopians to New Orleans.

  17. Re:Donate on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'm eager to donate to alleviate suffering and injustice, but New Orleans? You're kidding, right? They're Americans. They've got SUVs and lake homes and insurance and FEMA grants. Sorry, but I'm going to put my money into the Sahel or South Asia where it will save lives from malnutrition, alleviate malaria and dengue, etc., not subsidize Joe McDougal's Harvard education.

  18. Re:Donate on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Is it anti-gay to allow religions to employ co-religionists? I don't think so. You're free to start a Church of Species Suicide that prohibits heterosexuality, and apply for federal contracts to provide relief services, as long as you don't discriminate against heterosexual recipients of those services.

    The Red Cross is a money pit with a recent big embezelment scandal. The SA is putting 100% of donations into relief, with external audits to prove it.

  19. Re:The future.... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Personally, I would not want to wait. Why not float it? Just inject enough water under positive pressure to keep the land surface well elevated. Designing the drainage would be key. Energy for the pumps might be had from geothermal steam, for cheap.

  20. Re:Canada Rocks on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    Except, of course, for Ontario. Blighters.

  21. Re:I wonder... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Personally, I'm one of those Americans who thinks that all Americans are rich. Some are just richer than others; but, they are all (modulo a few mental patients and bohemians) way, way too rich, and should be eaten.

  22. Re:I wonder... on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 1

    National Socialism was much more National than Socialist. They adopted Socialism in name in order to differentiate themselves from the Communists, but never made an attempt to implement socialism, which is collective ownership of the means of production mediated by government. The NSDAP had much more affinity for Mussolini's Fascism than for Marxist-Leninist Socialism (socialism as an intermediate stage between capitalism and future communism, direct collective ownership of the means of production without the mediation of a state), and made very cozy with monied interests to bolster the economic power of its inner circles. They didn't even nationalize arms manufacture in the midst of total war, for pete's sake.

  23. Re:Let's blame Congress on 9 Weeks to Pump Out New Orleans? · · Score: 5, Funny

    The blue states giveth, the red states taketh away.

  24. Re:Won't someone please think of the snowmen! on Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic · · Score: 1

    > The only flaw in your logic is that polar bears don't mind being wet.

    That's what the oil companies *want* you to think!

  25. Re:Won't someone please think of the snowmen! on Ice-Free Summers Coming To Arctic · · Score: 1

    Greenland is in the Arctic circle. Many large islands are in the Arctic Ocean. Many of these islands were once covered with ice year-round, but will not be again for the foreseeable future. Some small island countries and one very populous Asian nation are already in the process of being destroyed by rising water levels. The subways of New York City could well be flooded by the end of the century. If the Gulf Stream shuts down, however, the whole trend may reverse, with more ice accumulating at the end of this century than at the beginning of the previous century. Personally, I'd rather not pay the price of losing Scotland in order to see the happy result of London being rendered uninhabitable. Therefore, I rather hope the warmer scenario is what plays out.