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  1. Re:Java is the new COBOL on Apache Declares War On Oracle Over Java · · Score: 1

    Most banks in the United States are running some combination of Cobol and Java for the bulk of their back end/front end, respectively.

  2. Re:Not Open Source Specific on Introducing Students To the World of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Granted, but these tools are more specific to open source. Many companies don't use IRC/Git/Trac-Bzr-Bigzilla/etc. in their corporate environment. Especially if you're not a programmer by title *cough ME cough* then you have a hard time acquiring the overpriced POS tools the company uses, but are not allowed to get what you want.

    tl;dr The tools presented are largely open source.

    And as many have stated, it's great he's showing them this, because no, most programmers aren't aware of just how useful these tools are in college.

  3. Re:mind blowing? on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Now I get +1 troll. I wouldn't have modded you down, but I certainly, absolutely disagree with your proposition.

    That's like saying, "If Nazi Germany had just loved Jews, it would have been great!". When you take away what defines someone or something, can you really even compare the outcomes by calling them the same thing?

    Anywho. I'm clearly drunk right now. If it's not clear.... it is now.

  4. Re:mind blowing? on The Science of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Also, less allegory would have been had about the torture of faceless, godless enemies, and the realization that they're just the same as us, etc. etc.

    It would have been a totally different show, and for the millions who enjoyed the show thoroughly (especially when discounting the ending), it would therefore have been worse.

    You get +1 troll.

  5. Re:Diesels already do this. on Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed · · Score: 1

    UPvote, I noticed this as well.

  6. How convenient... on Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.

  7. Re:One other thing on Desktop Linux Is Dead · · Score: 1

    s/can't/doesn't

    Canonical could take an ad out during the Superbowl if they wanted to. Mass marketing like that isn't their way in, yet.

  8. Re:Buddy of mine picked it up on Final Fantasy XIV Launches To Scathing Reviews · · Score: 1

    FFVI and VII were the best, IMO. V was -ok-.

    Lame post, but I'm at work... I just felt like chiming in since these games meant a lot to me in my younger days.

  9. Re:You need a good scanner on Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves · · Score: 1

    Paper in a mine doesn't need a farad cage to exist after the Goldeneye hits.

  10. Re:DON'T DO IT! You'll get fired on Simple Virus For Teaching? · · Score: 1

    >Let's not do an instructive simulation of a common computer anomaly, lest some tech-retarded administrator punish you for being a good teacher.

  11. This Is Why Privately-Owned Companies Are Bad on GoDaddy Up For Auction · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoever buys it is able to do a rate hike and truly screw over pre-existing consumers, and that's just if they're feeling generous. There's far worse they could potentially do.

    Everything should be owned by the Government! That way no-one would ever be screwed over.

  12. Re:What else but PayPal? on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1

    Then use some other tool to shop in Europe, or take Opencuro's idea and start the business. Get a friend to buy you cheap American products. Petition Opencuro to work internationally. Finally, as you imply, find someone else to use that does online, secure, quick international currency transactions.

    I can only imagine that setting up an international cash-exchange website is a high barrier-to-entry endeavor, thanks Government.

    In any case, I like Opencuro's system better than Paypal's. I had a business idea better than Opencuro's (in theory) but got demotivated when I saw it'd been done.

  13. Re:What else but PayPal? on PayPal Withholding Indie Game Dev's €600,000 Account · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Price on WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down · · Score: 1

    >You could argue that there should also be a general social norm requiring that people unconnected with the case presume innocence, but it's hard to see why that should be the case.

    It's hard to make it the case, since people are suspicious, finger pointing, politically correct, and don't want anyone with a past to be in public... rape is a more damaging claim to a person's reputation than murder. There's no justification for it, like there can be for killing a person. The perfect way to get someone's life [url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/]ruined.[/url].

    If he brought the personal matter into Wikileaks public forum, he was successfully trolled (assuming innocence). Shouldn't have done that. To immediately remove him means one of several things:

    He was told to stop using the soapbox to talk about the allegations, and didn't.
    The other board member(s) don't value his contributions to the organization over the potential "image distortion" trap they're falling into.
    Others have been bribed or blackmailed to remove a charismatic figurehead of an enemy of the bureaucrats of many nations, such as the United States.

  15. Re:Solution: Tax gas more. on Is a US High-Speed Railway Economically Feasible? · · Score: 1

    Steal more from the citizens and give it to the unproductive poor, and other countries!

    Shit, wish I'D thought of that.

  16. Re:If Microsoft did this... on Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations · · Score: 1

    They probably already do it through their update mechanism and we don't know, or don't care.

  17. Re:The Net is no Substitution for University on Forget University — Use the Web For Education, Says Gates · · Score: 1

    Cisco Telepresence can sync the Web 2.0 experience and proprietary best-in-class Voice and Video compression to provide you with the most information-rich, next-generation Collegiate education ever offered.

  18. Re:Web-Based Private Is An Oxymoron on Web-Based Private File Storage? · · Score: 1

    No, it's not.

    Encrypt -> Internet.
    Internet -> Decrypt.

    If you have any faith in the host, encryption would be transparent.

  19. Re:hmm on 'Old School' Arcade Still Popular In NYC · · Score: 1

    PABST BLUE RIBBON is an excellent trash beer. Sounds like my kind of joint! I miss my Bubble Bobble at Dairy Queen.

  20. Re:Any Fair Tax Supporters? on Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software · · Score: 1

    I think both the bolded areas are meant to be "working population" as in, "income-tax-form filing".

  21. Re:Yes. on Should Professors Be Required To Teach With Tech? · · Score: 1

    Powerpoints, clickers, and other 'cutting edge' learning tools are great at masking the incompetence of a teacher.

    This is not to say that all teachers who use powerpoints are bad; one of the best teachers I had in college (a year ago) used them to provide formulas while he explained them using a whiteboard.
    My other two 'best teachers' used only a chalkboard. No content management system, no slides.

    What I believe happens, is you have teachers who feel they have to explain less or work less because all the info is already given on the computer. When you have only a blank slate (literally) to explain Calculus or automatons to students with, you must make sure you cover all topics.

  22. Re:Ubuntu is about Ubuntu, not about Free Software on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    I cannot BELIEVE Ubuntu put their window controls on the left side! What a shot over the bow of free software's existence!

    Are you fucking KIDDING?

    From the very beginning of FOSS, it's been all about the ability to go your own way and try new things and modify as you desire. Ubuntu does its own thing, makes SIGNIFICANT changes AVAILABLE UNDER GPL which upstream could use at their will, but often chooses not to. If GNOME liked what Ubuntu was doing ,they could incorporate it in mainline immediately.

    Almost everything Ubuntu does is open source in process and in code. If you're Richard Stallman, that doesn't cut it. For most people, it does.

      (P.S. I read RMS interview from reddit... that guy is a fanatic. Truly. I strongly disagree with him on several things, but it's always good to have a fringe group to keep the balance against the other extreme).

  23. Re:Mr. Shuttleworth should try to understand himse on Tribalism Is the Enemy Within, Says Shuttleworth · · Score: 1

    Nice story. Thanks for explaining the circumstances and your qualifications for judging him, and the reasons behind your grand assertion.

  24. Re:Stolen content? on Why You Never Ask the Designers For a Favor · · Score: 1

    Because the guy's a dick, and I am now upset that, having read TFA, I drove traffic to that guy's website.This guy makes maddox look like a nice guy. /She is kinda stupid for being led on so much.

  25. The experiment didn't fail. on Nexus One a Failed Experiment In Online Sales · · Score: 1

    It just didn't provide a conclusion consistent with the hypothesis.