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  1. Class Project on Tenenbaum Lawyers Now Passing the Hat · · Score: 1

    What'd you expect?

    A competent legal defense? This isn't the movies. You want a real lawyer with real legal guns, you gotta pay real money.

    Charles Nesson isn't a real lawyer. He's been a law school professor for 40 years with less litigation experience than the ambulance chasers on TV. You don't send Coach into the big game and expect him to make the big shot. He's a coach and not a player for a fucking reason.

  2. Re:Too much work on Apple Keyboard Firmware Hack Demonstrated · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not entirely dumb. I have a US keyboard/top case for a late 2006 MB that began registering as a UK keyboard after a Coke spill.

  3. Re:Straight from the horse's mouth on The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone · · Score: 1

    But it doesn't matter. Despite the overwhelming majority supporting the OP's position, the whiner will find that tiny fraction that agrees with him and say that there is no consensus. That there is a controversy and that scientists don't agree and the earth is clearly cooling down.

    Wait, what were we talking about again?

  4. Re:Terrible summary text on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    Yep. This is a good exercise in demonstrating how many /.ers actually RTFA and of the ones that do, have enough reading comprehension to understand what the article is telling them.

  5. Re:What this article was about on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    The Nijmegan group is a different group from Sanaria, which is a US based organization. The former is what this article was about, the latter is irradiating anopheles.

  6. Re:I think they are missing something on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    People can have falciparum relapses and onset of symptoms, partcularly for cerebral malaria can be delayed as well.

  7. You are factually wrong on Malaria Vaccine, Via Mosquito · · Score: 1

    This process induces immunity. Thus, it is a vaccine. By strict or loose definition.

  8. Mac on Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter" · · Score: 1

    Duh.

  9. Re:From TFS on How The Matrix Online Went Wrong · · Score: 1

    This is Slashdot. Those who don't get the joke will downmod you: -1 Troll.

  10. Re:A browser ballot is stupid on Opera CTO Thinks IE Will Be Forced To Support SVG · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You can download Opera the moment you start up your Windows PC for the first time.

    Can you do it without using Internet Explorer?

  11. Re:26 years on 26 Years Old and Can't Write In Cursive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, he can't write and you can't read, so it all works out, right?

  12. Re:+1 for Linus on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you're right. I apologize.

    I still think you need to work on your reading comprehension.

  13. Re:Experiment on Linux Notebooks Selling Well On Amazon Germany · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah?

    I took an old TRS-80 and installed Gentoo. Once I optimized for speed, it ran so fast, web pages were loading before I could even turn on the computer.

  14. Re:+1 for Linus on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    I think you need to work on your reading comprehension.

    He's calling the irrational hatred of Microsoft a disease of the mind. Exactly the opposite of what you think.

    It's also a figure of speech that dates back centuries. After you work on your reading comprehension, you should consider actually putting that skill to use to learn the language.

    How's that for rude?

  15. Re:+1 for Linus on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 1

    I like how you're trying to turn this into an extremist issue. You can accept someone as a leader without buying into a cult of personality. For all I know, Linus likes to piss on dogs and his shit could smell enough to knock over an elephant. I don't really give a shit. What's his favorite color? I don't a clue.

    I don't have a problem with the overall Linux leadership. I think they do good work and when things happen, overall, they make reasonable choices.

    Richard Stallman, on the other hand, is tilting at windmills. There was a time when he was relevant and a technical driver. These days, he's more a figure to represent an extreme wing of the party. That's okay, because if you're trying to change the way people do things, it's convenient to have a guy you can point to as an example of why you're not so irrational and unreasonable.

  16. Re:Premium price, not premium PC on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 1

    I think it changes, depending on the updates. A couple months ago, it was over $22k for just hardware.

  17. cen u reed? on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parent clearly states MacBooks and iMacs. The closest he comes to saying "pro" is when he says "pro"blem and "benefit."

  18. Re:+1 for Linus on Linus Calls Microsoft Hatred "a Disease" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And Linus once again shows why he's the reasonable, rational alternative to Stallman.

  19. Re:Premium price, not premium PC on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 1

    Go to the apple.com. Choose every hardware option. By the time you're done, you're well over 20K USD.

  20. Re:I was at the Seacom launch party in Uganda on East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable · · Score: 1

    You have to be extremely knowledgeable and have a LOT of connections to not get bent over in Uganda.

    I used to drive the Kampala-Tororo road. Extremely busy road that's one of the major supply arteries from Kenya. Trucks, cars, buses, all sorts of shit. Mixed dirt/asphalt, with potholes big enough to drown a cow after the rains. It used to be VERY dangerous because at several points, there's several lanes of traffic on seperate dirt tracks. During dry season, visibility goes to nothing if you're driving anywhere behind a truck because of the amount of dust.

    So finally, someone gets the contract to improve the road. For a while, they were really working on it. Then it stopped. WTF? Turns out the primary contractor ran out of money because they didn't budget enough for the corruption. The company was extremely honest about it, too - "after the kickbacks and the bribes, we just ran out of money."

    You think some guy is going to be able to walk in to compete against all the local heavy hitters, all of which are somehow lining the pockets of a lot of the local government? Then you don't Africa.

  21. Re:I was at the Seacom launch party in Uganda on East Africa Gets High-Speed Internet Access Via Undersea Cable · · Score: 1

    You're responding to two people who can't pick up on the fact that your post was obviously written by an American.

  22. Premium != Performance on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've seen this comparison a number already here.

    Here comes a car analogy.

    For me, a premium car has nice interior materials and a good balance of comfort, performance, build quality and a few intangibles.

    If I just want pure perfomance, I could get a Mustang or a Civic and slam it out for much less than say, an M3 or an IS.ï

    My gaming computer is the equivalent of that Mustang or Civic. I use it run games with everything turned up to 11 but for everyday computing, I vastly prefer my Mac.

  23. Apple doesn't sell kitchen sinks on Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market · · Score: 4, Funny

    But there's an app for that!

  24. Re:Misleading point in summary on Electricity From Salty Water · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think you need to consider this more deeply.

    You need two water sources, fresh and salty. The chambers are flushed alternately from each source. The only way this happens naturally is if you use the tides. Which gives you a total of 1 cycle a day.

    Nature is not going to do all of the work. At some point, water needs to be moved against a gradient.

  25. Re:Anyone Give A Shit What That Clown Says? Anyone on Stallman Says Pirate Party Hurts Free Software · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stallman gives everyone perspective.

    He's the the guy you point to and say, "See that guy over there? That guy's the alternative." Makes anything you say seem moderate and rational in comparison.