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  1. Re:Stay classy on Snow Leopard Drops Palm OS Sync · · Score: 1

    Then whine more because the way to solve it happens to be RTFM too.

  2. Re:Cue complaints on FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    The constitution was written in the 18th century, of course internet is not specifically mentioned, this is ridiculous literalism. An ISP is not a news outlet, local news are published locally and not supposed to be for cross-state consumption, whereas the internet is supposed to be the same everywhere, and the FCC does regulate a lot of news outlets.

  3. Re:Slogan time on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    No, it IS a disappointment, only MS has given us a bad habit of having lower expectations.

  4. Re:Really? on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    GNU is NOT an embedded system, that's Linux. GNU is only a desktop system when Gnome is involved and that's over X. If you mean the OS typically called Linux, you're mistaken and the proper name is the name used by each distro, GNU is a set of utilities and no, not an OS (until the HURD works - I, too, can set up a website and rewrite grep and then pretend it was a full OS while failing to produce anything that actually makes the computer work)

  5. Re:And we should attack the FSF... on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    No, the definition of a child is a juvenile member of the species. Your definition is the "I-pulled-it-out-of-my-ass" definition.

  6. Re:These people are delusional. on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    IIRC, it varies a lot - probably about 4-6 years would be accurate (so Panther pretty much dead, and some of the g4 macs have been put off the support list - as of last year, the Xcode IDE still came with the tools for Panther compatibility), with little to no major updates (but security patches) after release of the new OS version.
    According to Apple's website, the last security update made on Panther was in June 2008.

  7. Re:Is Computerworld confused? on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    Or the utilities for 200$ a pop

  8. Re:Is Computerworld confused? on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Redhat and Novell sure don't make a dime with their Enterprise releases.

  9. Re:These people are delusional. on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    I can't help but think of Warhammer 40k techpriests with the expression Windows Wizard - which given a lot of the stuff required to make it stay working, we might as well be chanting psalms in latin to the machine spirits :p

  10. Re:And we should attack the FSF... on FSF Attacks Windows 7's "Sins" In New Campaign · · Score: 1

    They were prominently on display in a book name Mein Kampf, which was then a bestseller - apparently nobody in Germany who bought it (which would be most of the country's population) had bothered to actually read it, because it's written inside. Of course in hindsight it helps that we also have internal party memos and correspondance, but also, the 1932 electoral plan went pretty hard on the antisemitism.

  11. Re:It's a search without a warrant. on ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    That would also basically screw most of the population of the north east and the west if it's also from the coastlines

  12. Re:And for the Mac users.. on ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches · · Score: 1

    Have they even repaired it for case sensitive FS.

  13. Re:Let the porn industry take the lead... on Who Will Fix the Internet? No One, Apparently · · Score: 1

    Unless X remained devoid of applications for 11 years, the first build of Xchat is from 1998, so yeah.

  14. Re:Let me say.... on FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Progressivism just means being in favor of progress.
    Socialism is a fiction created by the Marxist-leninists to justify the existence of a state in a system that should be controlled by the workers, with a name derived from the popular social-democratic groups in the rest of Europe.
    And when you're faced by a guy holding a gun and a guy holding the bag, the guy holding the bag is no less complicit or scary.

  15. Re:Cue complaints on FCC Declares Intention To Enforce Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Interstate Commerce clause, along with roads and post.

  16. Re:That is literature on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    When the last refuge is reached, there's no point in holding out primo
    And secundo, the quote is about war, offing bomb the bomber, if it averts war, is the solution that goes with it.

  17. Re:That will depend on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    The market doesn't begin and end on desktops.

  18. Re:Will they never die? on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    a) you missed the point of the Asimov quote
    b) the world wars are each the result of the peace treaty of the war before it, and so on. None of the issues involved were settled, and a lot of them still remain unsettled.
    c) every military leader quoted left the world with more wars as a consequence of their "settled" business"

  19. Re:That is litterature on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    They're already in the refuge of the incompetent.

  20. Re:That is literature on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Bomb the Bomber is already resorting to violence, which means the system is already to the lowest possible denominator, nice try.

  21. Re:wtf on Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision · · Score: 1

    The US legal system concerning corporations decided sometime in the 1890s that instead of temporary entities that can well stop existing, we'd be better served by IRL eldritch horrors. So unless business law is overhauled, sadly, no.

  22. Re:power saving tip: disable the optical drive on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    "It Just Works" because it was the oem build, for the same reason it works on MacOS on a Mac and on linux on a preinstalled linux laptop where the OEM is not apparently employing drunken sloths for its software department (case in point, MSI) - ask people who do hackintoshes or who run windows in Bootcamp how their computer goes. It has nothing to do with the OS and everything to do with the OEM utilities.
    I helped arrange an Inspiron 1525 under XP, Dell refuses to support the model on anything less recent than Vista so the drivers had to be cobbled up, and it shows, that thing overheats like crazy and uses up power like there's no tomorrow.

  23. Re:RTFM on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    Humor? What is it with somber sarcasm-deprived windows users.

  24. Re:no solutions? on Why Is Linux Notebook Battery Life Still Poor? · · Score: 1

    Likely the same reason windows on a mac and macos on a hackintosh laptop swallow battery life like a camel.

  25. Re:Has anyone corrected for sex? on Habitual Multitaskers Do It Badly · · Score: 1

    Heh, okay, still, corrected for sex makes little sense though. And I'd suspect the organizing and coping skills tend to be just as poor (I know mine are always hanging on a loose thread :p )