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  1. Re:Oh really? on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, because it is impossible that the US would keep someone locked up at gitmo for years without any chance of ever getting a proper trial or even hearing what the hell you are accused of.

    That would never happen.

  2. Re:So let me get this straight: on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The post just mentions it is 'presumed' that it was based on mtr...
    I find that a bit week. First you have to prove that there ever was mtr code in winMTR, then you accuse them with a GPL violation.... Either the summary is incomplete/incorrect, or the submitter is jumping to the second part without doing enough fact checking.

  3. If it is only their code... on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 5, Informative

    They might actually have that right IF:

    - It contains only code they have copyright over
    - They have permission from (if any) all other copyright holders.

    However they can't revoke the license they gave everyone who downloaded their gpl versions, these old versions and their license is still valid.

    However if the code indeed contains mtr code and they have no permission from the copyright holders to distribute is under something else than the GPL.... Then they have a problem
    But you have to prove that first.

  4. Re:The Source Article on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Easy to believe... you obviously never researched chiropractors either.

  5. Re:Or: on Michael Moore Posts Julian Assange's Bail · · Score: 1

    No, most of them are NOT marked 'Top Secret'.
    I find it rather ironic that you complain about 'grade school comments' when your own comment shows that you have no idea what you are talking about and use 'fuck' in halve of your sentences.

  6. Re:Black and White on X-37B Secret Space Plane To Land Soon · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try reading before posting next time....

    From your answer:

    Emmisivity, or the ability of a black body to radiate or re-radiate in some cases, is highly dependent on many variables. Try re-asking the question.

  7. Re:NOOOOOOO on Can Large Scale NAT Save IPv4? · · Score: 1

    they'll probably use one of them randomly

    No they won't, they'll use the most appropriate: a site-local when connecting to site-local and a global when connecting to another global...

    Your argument against ipv6 still doesn't hold... study it a little, you might be surprised what it can do.

  8. Re:How do you anticipate weak points on Teacher Asks Students To Plan a Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    No, Australia was for the regular criminals.
    The religious nutjobs went to that other continent on the west side.

  9. Re:UVB-76? on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually reflector size compared to wavelenght is very much relevant.
    A shortwave radio signal with a wavelength of 64meters isn't going to be reflected very well by a 3m dish.

  10. Re:It's SO GREAT! on SpaceX Completes Dragon Parachute Test · · Score: 1

    Shuttle safety is not age related....
    Its the fact that someone put the thing on the side of the rocket instead of on top.

    A capsule is the most efficient way to get people back to earth. They are not reinventing the wheel... it never went away. The shuttle fanboys simply ignored the wheel for 40 years.

  11. Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now on House Passes Massive Medical Insurance Bill, 219-212 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you're all communists living under oppressive regimes

    As long as our elections are done better than those in Florida it can't be that bad?

    instead encouraging laziness and crime.

    And still our crime numbers aren't as bad as those in the US.....

  12. Re:Good programmers aren't easily ruined on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Actually object orientation does mix them up.... atleast most implementations and compilers do.
    Things like methds and overloading are done by passing function pointers around as data.
    I like object orienting, if all you know is classes and objects you are never going to grasp how your code enabled a certain bug or exploit.
    It is the exposure to things like Basic, Assembly, Pascal and C that teach you how your object oriented piece of code actually ends up inside this magic thing called the CPU....

  13. Re:BASIC is irrelevant on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    I made my first Basic program when I was about 9. There is a special kind of magic in seeing your first few basic instructions work.
    The concept of a computer executing just a long string of instructions becomes very clear.
    If somebody had shown me pascal at that time and started to tell me I had to first make functions (I had never heard of such a concept, and probably couldn't have imagined how a computer was supposed to handle that) and only then could do some work inside them you would have lost me...

    I saw Pascal and later C only after I had done a lot of exploring in basic and literaly poked the entire machine...
    If you have been lost in spaghetti a few times the concept of a function (and later objects) becomes much clearer.

    I have seen some being thought programming in Delphi. They don't grasp functions and objects as easily simply because they don't know which problems are solved by them.

  14. Re:apparently in Spain, the accused have privacy on Mariposa Botnet Beheaded · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between pulic records and huge bold letters on the front page of a newspaper......

  15. Re:If you are worried about it... on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 1

    The intensity in this case is many times less then the amount you need for unfavorable effects.
    The amount of energy you get from exposure is less than when you step from the shade into the sunlight.

  16. Re:...and pick a better title... on Killer Apartment Vs. Persistent Microwave Exposure? · · Score: 1

    So instead of being exposed to an EM field, which has not been proven to be harmfull, you want him to expose himself to lead-paint?

  17. Re:nasa is not gonna get much done on NASA Prepping Plans For Flexible Path To Mars · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Delta-IV and Atlas-V both have more than 20 years of history.... And can launch the Orion just fine. Only thing needed was some human rating on those rockets which would have been cheaper than the sinkhole Ares-I turned into...

  18. Re:Trying to make your mark, eh? on Best Practices For Infrastructure Upgrade? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is it so hard to not mix up dhcpd.conf and named.conf? Do you need virtualization for that?

    Let me give you a hint: YOU DON'T

  19. Re:Cloud Computing(TM) on Best Practices For Infrastructure Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    Also not completely true...

    When your new cluster comes in and it is not the same architecture (e.g. Ultrasparc instead of your current x86 box) your not going anywhere with your shine VM.

    You should make sure the application itself can be scaled, not the machine it is running on.
    Sometimes that means using virtualization because the application is a bitch...
    But a lot of applications can be scaled without virtualization.
    The administrator that uses virtualization for his fileserver should be fired because he is incompetent. His data itself can easily be moved from his old single cpu box to the new SAN array.

  20. Re:Insightful on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Fraud isn't even needed....
    Builders tend to follow certain patterns when putting in wiring.
    If you have seen a lot it isn't hard to guess where they are in the next building.
    You don't even need to be aware that you 'know' these patterns... you can simple compare the rod with dombo's feather.. you are doing it all yourself.
    Add some conformation bias and random change and you get nice results...

  21. Re:X11 is not bloated on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 1

    GTK folks, please fix it.

    Have you tried posting your test to the gtk mailinglist?
    I am sure they would love a nice objective testcase like that.....

  22. Re:not "s" on X11 Chrome Reportedly Outperforms Windows and Mac Versions · · Score: 1

    "X window system" not "X window"

  23. Re:Noah's flood and a massive deluge on Giant Rift In Africa Will Create a New Ocean · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except that it didn't happen in just a few days....
    It is still a nice theory though... just not as dramatic.
    Another nice theory is that the 'flood' was just a local one.
    Not so long ago the world ended at the horizon for most people since they never traveled far from home.
    And since a lot of civilizations started in river deltas (which tend to flood now and then) it is not a surprise that many religions contain some flooding in their myths.

  24. Re:Bonk bonk on the head on Virus-Like Particles May Mean Speedier Flu Vaccines · · Score: 1

    No it can't, the flu vaccine contains virusses that are dead.
    (Dead really isn't a good way to describe it since a virus isn't alive in the first place)

  25. Re:Do not want on Nationwide Shortage In Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    For legitimate death-threatening viruses

    The flu kills. Stop pretending it is some innocent little virus.

    and every time you are infected with a virus and successfully fight it off, you are stronger as a result

    Which is exactly what a vaccine does... only difference is the amount of collateral damage.
    Even if you only suffer a mild flu your body will be damaged more than when using a vaccine.
    Your immune system gets better (just like when using a vaccine) but research has also shown that on average you die earlier. It simply costs the body more to recover....