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  1. Re:So be it. on Lingerie Store Required To Get Food Permit For Edible Undies · · Score: 1

    if that were the case, any store selling so much as a candybar would need such a permit.

    Most municipalities require a permit for the sale of food. Preparing food on the premises requires a separate permit.

  2. Re:Vending machine? on Lingerie Store Required To Get Food Permit For Edible Undies · · Score: 1

    Generally, if it is a vending machine, the vendor is the one that needs a permit. If you are stocking the machine yourself and selling the product to your employees, you may need a food permit.

    When running a business, you need to be aware of all local, state, and federal regulations.

  3. Re:Action: on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 1

    I was talking about the California statute. You do not have to be charged in California for DNA to be obtained.

  4. Re:Is there a move among police to "go warrantless on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone in favor of this.

    The majority of voters in California are in favor if it. California already has a law where anybody arrested for a felony, or a crime that could be a felony, has their DNA collected. It was the citizens of the state that made the law happen through a voter initiative. Two other states have similar statutes. This type of law is not an aberration.

    Where do think sex registries have come from? It was from voter initiative, and there is no evidence that it makes society safer. I see swimming pool without fences all the time. Odd, considering more children die in private swimming pools than by sexual predators. Where is the hysteria over swimming pools?

    If you want more direct democracy, this is what you are going to get. If you want more representative democracy, this is what you are going to get.

  5. Re:Action: on House Votes To Expand National DNA Arrest Database · · Score: 2, Informative

    The biggest problem I have with it is that while it has a process for expungement of people who are acquitted or whose guilty verdict is overturned, I didn't see anything in there requiring states to initiate the process when one of these events occurs.

    I would not expect them to require it.

    California already takes DNA from any adult that is arrested of a felony or a crime that could be charged as a felony. People that have been arrested during politcal demonstrations and released with no charges have had their cheeks swabbed. To make matters worse, a person must wait three years before they can request an expungement, which a judge must order but a prosecutor can veto. That is right, no charges have to be filed and the state could keep your DNA forever. The ACLU has filed suit and they asked for a preliminary injunction. The prelim was denied in federal court in December 2009 with the judge stating that DNA is just like fingerprints and it helps soolve crimes. The lawsuit continues.

    Let us not forget, California shares their DNA database with the federal government. There is no requirement that the national DNA database honor an expungement.

    Californians can blame themselves for this. Direct democracy in action. Happy times in America.

  6. Re:Paul is ahead of the class, not behind on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    If you honestly think Paul is briliant, the proof is in the pudding; he needs to publish in credible peer reviewed publications. That is how it works, that is how the world can separate the brilliant from the crackpots. Otherwise, you and all your buddies at NEC are blowing smoke.

    I refuse to continue to have this conversation. Anybody that produces drivel such as the following needs to check into a psych hospital.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1251337&cid=28164237

    Those fancy technologies have been developed. They just never made it to the civilian population because the BlackOps sequestered them for their own nefarious purposes. How many of the UFO craft flying overhead are of human origin? Probably a lot, if not most. Including cloaking technology. Many of the wild inventions of our day have been stolen and sequestered. And anyone who says as much is called a crack pot and put on a list for a concentration camp when the regular civilization starts major meltdown. The military-industrial complex, and then some. MIB on steroids.

  7. Re:Paul is ahead of the class, not behind on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    You had the gall to claim he is a expert because of what his father did. It is like debating a child. Your mental skills are not intact. Get some help.

  8. Re:Paul is ahead of the class, not behind on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1251337&cid=28164237

    Those fancy technologies have been developed. They just never made it to the civilian population because the BlackOps sequestered them for their own nefarious purposes. How many of the UFO craft flying overhead are of human origin? Probably a lot, if not most. Including cloaking technology. Many of the wild inventions of our day have been stolen and sequestered. And anyone who says as much is called a crack pot and put on a list for a concentration camp when the regular civilization starts major meltdown. The military-industrial complex, and then some. MIB on steroids.

    Seek therapy.

  9. Re:Paul is ahead of the class, not behind on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    The problem with undergraduate degrees, you are not required to add to the pool of human knowledge. PhDs are trained to do research. In fact, they must do original research and defend it in order to get the degree. It is then scholarly work for the rest of their career and they are judged by that work. It is a whole different ballgame. Anybody can read a book and declare they are an expert. There is no such thing as expertise by association.

  10. Re:Pipe Diameter? on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1

    There is no need to assume, he has no expertise in the field. He is a software engineer not a geologist. This article appears in the Examiner, not exactly a credible source. Paul Noel writes for an outfit called Pure Energy Systems. PES is a group of self dubbed energy experts. Noel states he supplies extensive expertise in understanding the oil and gas industry. Judging from past articles, as well as the dubious outfits his work appears, that expertise is all in his head.

  11. Re:Oh, good Lord. on Oracle Restricts Access To Sun Firmware Downloads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah yes, Linux, the McDonalds of server operating systems.

  12. Re:MIPS on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    it has pretty much disappeared from the server market

    I would disagree with that with that statement. It is in the server makert, in application specific appliances. The only server maker pushing MIPS was SGI and it was not exactly going anywhere under their ownership.

    it has become harder and harder to find cheap MIPS systems

    You can get development boards. I would not know about Linux. I work on reliable systems, that means QNX and Integrity for us.

    I just did a quick search and found a few boards from $100-$200, including from MIPS itself.

  13. Re:MIPS on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Still around? MIPS is going strong in the embedded market. My company works on transit systems and MIPS represents about half of our work. There are lots of networking products that uses MIPS, from the customer to the core. RMI has a MIPS64 eight core SoC with four threads per core.

  14. Re:Just Bash? on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    In its standard distribution, TCL is installed as a shell.

  15. Re:Just Bash? on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    Tcl normally functions as a shell, hence why it is called as tclsh. It even supports an init file, history, and command line editing.

  16. Re:tcl/tk on Adding Some Spice To *nix Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    ditto

    Shells are fine for the bare minimum. About 99% of my company's scripting needs, including all of our system tools, are writen in Tcl. Its simple and consistent syntax is the biggest win. Rather than webapps, we use Tcl/Tk on the desktop. I have been using it for almost 20 years with no regrets.

  17. Re:So, India + N Korea, but not Israel.. on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    They are an undeclared nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon state. They run active programs for all three types of. Nobody knows the exact number of nuclear warheads; it is estimated to be from 100-200, with about 30-60 in deployment.

    Mordechai Vanunu blew the whistle in the 1980s on Israel's nuclear weapons program. He was later kidnapped by Mossad and transported back to Isreal for a sectret trial on treason and espionage charges.

  18. Re:Irrelevant words on Obama Unveils New Nuclear Doctrine · · Score: 1

    The United States has never been in full compliance with the NPT. It is the old American double standard at work. There are many nuclear states that have never been a party to the NPT. North Korea withdraw from the treaty, which they have every right to do. Iran has a right to make nuclear fuel for civilian use under the treaty.

    The United States has been the aggressor nation for the last 40 years. This announcement is nothing but hot air.

  19. Re:penalizing stockholders on The Short Arm of the Law · · Score: 1

    Ownership is not the issue, it about who has direct control over the animal. Should the entity holding title to real estate be held responsible for illegal acts done in that property? Following this logic, if Pfizer leased property, the owner of the office building should also be held responsible? How about the property mnagement company? Should the bank be held responsible because the mortgage holder is growing pot in a bedroom? If Pfizer leased computers from HP and those computers were used in a crime by Pfizer, should HP also be charged? How far do you want to take this?

    If you going to force the company to issue stock, the best avenue to prevent major disruption would be nationalization.

  20. Re:I feel sorry on Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer · · Score: 1

    You know nothing about the types of servers. They could be entry or enterprise.

  21. Re:NoSQL is nothing revolutionary on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 1

    The saddest part to me about the "new hotness" of NoSQL zealots is that a scalable, fast, flexible key-value store isn't new at all. It's called LDAP.

    The saddest part is you are commenting on a field you know nothing about. You may want to look a little further back in time, around the 1960s.

  22. Re:I'm Still Fuzzy on NoSQL on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unfortunately the NoSQL people should have called their movement "nonrelational". You can have a relational database and not use SQL; the two are not dependent on each other as there are nonrelational databases that allows the use of SQL. Although the movement for the use of nonrelational databases may be new, the use of nonrelationals is not. My first exposre to a business class database was Pick in the 70s. There are plenty of these types of systems in use today. Nonrelationals have been going strong for over 40 years

    This article is another case of somebody that does not have the breadth of experience in the field. The same applies to the the people that started this movement. I have to ask, does college no longer teach the history of computing?

  23. Re:Just One Race -- American on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    Most biologists these days will tell you that race is not a biologically meaningful concept.

    Incorrect. Perhaps you should learn something about race and medicine.

  24. Re:Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    I suggest you take a remedial reading class, then attend law school (I already have, class of 1992).

    The "100 years of case law" is in reference to "do whatever it wants as long as it serves some nebulous government purpose."

    You too need to stop commenting on a subject you know little to nothing about.

  25. Re:Useful to whom? The racists who care about skin on Will Your Answers To the Census Stay Private? · · Score: 1

    You seem to have missed the fourth and fifth amendments.

    You seem to have missed the first year of law school.