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  1. Re:How do you steal moon rock? on NASA Sting Busts Woman Selling Purported Moon Rock · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hm, shouln't NASA be helt accountable for the moon rocks THEY originally STOLE from the moon then?

  2. Re:3.0 ? on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 2

    I'm all in for Linux 3000!

  3. Re:Old news on Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation · · Score: 1

    There's still nothing that stops R2011b from being in beta, right now.

  4. Re:Strict Muslim kills stepdaughter on Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fail, totally unrelated to TFA.

  5. Re:When I want Windows i use Windows on Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced · · Score: 1

    Fvwm is a great window manager. I use it almost exclusively. One thing that I really like about it that I haven't seen in many other window managers is the ability to use hotkeys to focus on a window which is located in a direction relative to the currently focused window.

  6. Re:Don't really like where "Desktop Linux" is head on Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced · · Score: 1

    Well, at one point the development of a piece of software might change. Should it keep going in a straight line just because you liked it that way?

  7. Re:As a 49 year old militant feminist grandmother. on Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced · · Score: 1

    Yep, but nothing stops you from installing them yourself. At one point, it may become harder as you have to replace outdated libraries or update the source code but it's very much doable.

  8. Re:Heavy users? on Verizon Customers: Say So Long To Unlimited Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    It varies. Some are going down but overall most carriers have the same problem where their network just isn't designed to handle the amount of data traffic going on these days.

  9. Re:Now where CentOS 6? on Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1 · · Score: 2

    Cool beans.

    Where's CentOS 6? I don't understand what's taking them so long. Don't they just remove the RedHat branding and re-package?

    According to this thread on the CentOS bulletin board they are about to begin the QA, which means that it will probably be released soon.

  10. Re:So when is 2.8 due? on Linux 2.6.39 Released · · Score: 2

    It has been stated repeatedly that it will be out by Christmas. We just don't know which year yet.

  11. Re:It's hard to see work on Why the New Guy Can't Code · · Score: 1

    One thing that I think is important that you do is that you try to specialize at something. Don't try to be good at everything, you'll just end up being mediocre with most of it. Pick something that you really enjoyed doing and start doing that thing every day. It doesn't matter if all you have time for one day is ten lines of the most crappy code you have ever written; keep the steam going.

    A lot of people think that when you make a new program you need to be really innovative and come up with an idea that nobody has ever thought of. Some of those people succeeds but most of them end up doing nothing because they can't come up with an idea. Don't do that. Pick a piece of software that you like and try to implement it yourself, try to make it better if you want but that's not really important. It could be /bin/ls, it could be Photoshop; doesn't matter, but pick something. Open source it. Put it on GitHub, SourceForge, your personal homepage or whatever. Iterate. *tada.wav* There you have a portfolio.

  12. Re:Age of consent on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 1

    Not really. For it to be seen as that it's required that the agreement is returned to the issuer so that it also knows that it has entered the agreement. It would be kind of scary if two parties could enter an agreement that only one part knew they had entered.

    I don't know what the age of consent has to do with that, it's 15 and has an exception for even younger if the age difference is small. It has nothing to do with legal agreements or surfing the web, well, maybe about surfing the web if you need to find a mate.

  13. Re:It goes beyond that. on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I understand this proposition only covers tracking cookies, not the use of cookies in general.

  14. Re:Header files again?? on ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft · · Score: 1

    My vi session does not agree.

  15. Re:USA #1 on AT&T Cracking Down On Unofficial iPhone Tethering · · Score: 1

    iPhone

  16. Re:Faraday cage on Richard Stallman: Cell Phones Are 'Stalin's Dream' · · Score: 1

    And your point is that if Stallman one day decides to have a phone, he should pick an iPhone because it's easier to block?

  17. Re:I have to wonder on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Huh? Last time I checked (1 minute ago at Wikipedia) the boss at Novell is Ronald Hovsepian.

  18. Re:It's a simple UI issue on Stopping the Horror of 'Reply All' · · Score: 1

    One of the best implementations I've seen was the one that Mulberry did. It has a single Reply button which actually understands the fields in the message such as Reply-To, brings up a dialog where you select which ones you want to send to, cc and bcc, where the default values where taken from what the headers said in the message.

  19. Re:262144 pixels on a grid. on Wikipedia Moves To Delete the Free Speech Flag · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The point is not about the flag, it's about the number that they claim that they own copyright to.

    I claim 5. Everyone who wants to use a 5 out there better contact me because I'm taking licensing fees.

  20. Re:Forgot my password on UK Schools Consider Searching Pupils' Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You're talking about the country that throw you in jail if you "forget" your encryption key. Trust me, this is not a problem for them.

  21. Re:Yes and no on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    That's probably because I think the Mac is an awesome system for the right audience.

    If you look at what comes with a Mac it's all about creating and managing video, photos and music through the iLife application suite. They are intuitive yet advanced and allows you to be creative without being an expert. If you're a regular person that don't know anything about computers and want to do those kind of things then I would recommend a Mac. In a few years I think I'll be able to recommend Linux but it's not there yet.

    The Mac is about letting people do creative things with their computer.
    Being able to do that is for the consumer's convenience.

    You and me, we care about being able to control the way we do computing. We are not part of the audience that Apple targets. We are better off with Linux because it's more suitable to us. But that does not mean that the Mac is a completely useless pile of junk and that everyone that buys it is a mindless zombie.

  22. Re:Yes and no on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    I was a Mac user when Apple was months away from declaring bankruptcy and you had to restart it all the time due to system error 11. I don't remember any more what that code meant but I do remember that whatever it was it did a lot of it. Windows was the "it just works" way of computing at the time. Using Macs was in no way anywhere near "exclusive".

  23. Re:Yes, but... on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    From a technical perspective the AirPort Extreme is actually a quite competent wireless basestation. The only drawback, which can be a significant one, is that all administration has to be done through the AirPort Utility application which is only available for Mac OS X and Windows.

  24. Re:Yes and no on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It depends on what you mean by evil. I've been a Mac user since what feels like forever and I can definitly see that something have changed over the passed few years starting about the same time Apple started to become really popular. They are building what people often refer to as a walled garden where everything is controlled by Apple and if that's okay with you it actually works. I could definitly recommend the Apple solution to people that want to user computers and mobile devices in order to do things but don't want to worry about how everything actually works. I don't think that doing so is particularly evil. I think that most people that choose the Apple way is well aware of what it means and choose it with their own will. Apple actively choose to focus on these customers. For people like me that means that Apple is fading away as not being interesting anymore. Apple knows that. They don't want me as a customer anymore.

  25. Re:Suck it bit.ly on Libyan Internet Flatlined · · Score: 1

    How is registering a completely valid ccTLD "abusing DNS"?