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  1. Weeding Out the Non-Republicans on NASA Employees Fight Invasive Background Check · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is an application of all the government collected and cross-referenced data (including Echelon, Carnivore, Poindexter's MATRIX and TIA, Gonzales' TSP, and all the rest we never heard about) plus all the "accidentally" leaked personal info, data mined to determine by association whether someone is a reliable Republican voter droid. They get your "background check" info, and then you stop getting promoted and eventually leave if you're not a "loyal Republican".

    Hello, Karl! Go Cheney yourself!

  2. Re:Lies Come Crashing on Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here's an "English" autotranslation:

    Also in Norway had Microsoft drove on sina associate for that poll through Open XML paternal international standards. Letter with completed argument had send out and now come to Microsofts egna template more than half of they inkomna annotations.
    "Jeg has been done uppmerksom på joke Norway husk was outgoing stemme agreeableå ECMA- standards Open XML", strå that lsaä in letter as incoming to Standards Norway, the organisation as manages omrstningenö if the unborn standards frö Norwegian part.

    Wording återkommer in 37 identical letter, they most insndaä of organisations and fretagö with nraä connection to Microsoft in Norway. The am typing digital today.

    Now bekrftarä Norwegian Microsoft that mjukvarujttenä am laying behind campaign. The frö that raggedå through its egen standards.


    I hope that the mutual coverage of both Microsoft scams gets people to come forward in Norway, too. And that should get more people elsewhere to come forward. Eventually the EU government(s) will have to do something to rein in this rampant monopoly that is corrupting technology and its industry politics in a union that doesn't even get taxes or many jobs from the "deal".
  3. Lies Come Crashing on Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated · · Score: 3, Informative

    Now Microsoft's story is "a rogue employee who didn't affect anything".

    All we need now is someone to come forward from another country with a "coincidentally" similar story.

    I'd offer a cash reward for it, but that would influence the process. They'd just have to be satisfied with a world more free of Microsoft domination, maybe some more real innovation than the stagnation that the 80% Microsoft industry represents.

  4. Re:Gone but not Gonzales on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 1

    I'm going to paste this conversation inside the pages of my bound editions of the first volume of _Metal Hurlant_. Wait, reverse that: this conversation finally explains how the pages containing them got stuck into those volumes years ago when I got them. Is that us? I think I can see the windmill pinwheels now, over the Hawkwind...

  5. Re:Gone but not Gonzales on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 1

    No, that was me drawing the cartoon: Ancient Recovering Ex-hippie libertarian socialist FASCIST KILLER.

  6. Re:Gone but not Gonzales on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 0, Troll

    If your coffee is more important to you than American fascist surveillance and coverups, then you need to drink yours before posting. Maybe several thousand gallons of it.

  7. Re:Gone but not Gonzales on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 1

    I exult in "Jeremiah Cornelius" validating me and calling me "Baby" :).

    Can I have the keys to either the airtight garage, or Una Persson's chastity belt now?

  8. Gone but not Gonzales on DOJ Still Looks To Have Suit Against Verizon Tossed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Evidently, just finally dropping Gonzales from his stonewall turret isn't enough to force the "Justice" Department back into the service of the American people and our legitimate security needs. Eventually this circling the wagons over the illegal domestic spying will start claiming that holding responsible the guilty parties will threaten the existence of corporations like Verizon, and their buddies in the government.

    They will hold our country hostage to get us to let them walk all over our people.

  9. Re:Privateering the Public Domain on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 1

    This will be a difficult discussion to conclude reliably. What you have are examples of some films that were released, which doesn't disprove that Disney either tried to stop them, or that those are just ones that Disney ignored.

    Disney doesn't have the right to stop competing derivatives from public domain stories. They do have the power to do so. But since I don't have evidence at hand of Disney trying to stop that kind of competition, I will concede the point until I do.

  10. Re:Privateering the Public Domain on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not really stealing, which is why I put "stealing" in quotes - to indicate I was using the word in a way that differs from its conventional meaning, and implying I'm using it in this context because someone else (like Disney) has used it in this context. The point I made is that using works in the public domain is not stealing.

    Though I bet that if I made an animated "Jungle Book" that told Kipling's (copyright expired) story, I would get a letter from Disney. Otherwise, I'm sure the Korean animation houses that produce most American animation would have their own versions of every Disney hit from folklore filling the DVD shelves. Which I would prefer, as would probably most people in the world, but Disney's lawyers certainly wouldn't. And there they aren't.

  11. Privateering the Public Domain on Viacom Says User Infringed His Own Copyright · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This kind of copyright abuse reminds me of how Disney routinely "steals" from folk stories (in the public domain) like _Snow White_ and _Sleeping Beauty_ to make movies, then copyrights them, and prevents anyone else from retelling our own stories. Stories that the public has created most of the value in, subsidizing Disney and reducing their risk that the product will fail.

  12. Re:And where is the anthrax attacker? on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 1

    Easy to finger, probably.

    Easy to admit it was a rightwing American, possibly a Republican insider, not so much.

  13. 7.10 PS3? on Ubuntu Hardy Heron Announced · · Score: 1

    Any word on any improvements in the next Ubuntu release ("7.10", I guess) targeting PlayStation3 features?

  14. Google DB/LDAP API? on GWT in Action · · Score: 1

    Is there anywhere I can find out how to make the Google DB accessible to software that can query only an LDAP API?

  15. Re:Where's OSAMA? on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moderation -1
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    Bush worshipping trollMods burst into flames when they hear the truth.

  16. Re:Java CPU/DSP? on State of the OpenJDK Project and Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Call me when your phone runs on a Java chip. In fact, just have your phone call my phone, and they can argue about it on our behalf.

  17. Re:You are so wrong. on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 1

    Ah, maybe the "pacemaker" story is just another lie. Maybe he really is the Tin Man.

  18. Re:Java CPU/DSP? on State of the OpenJDK Project and Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Most of those articles/PR were published in late 2000 and early 2001, with the Nazomi introduced in 2003. I see no news of Java HW uPs since then. Only a tiny fraction of the Java-capable phones running today were built as long ago as 2003, or even 2004. Java itself is now in v6, not v3.

    So it looks like "Java chips" had a brief resurgence in 2001-3, in the phone market, just like their initial hype for other devices in 1995-6. There's no evidence that I can find that any of that tech is in HW today, except perhaps in the rarest, most exotic apps. That's a total difference from "it's in every Java cellphone" as you claimed.

  19. Re:Where's OSAMA? on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Bush is evil. And "stupid" is an oversimplification. He sure is stupid generally, but he's a savant politically. "Intelligence" means having an accurate working model in your skull of the world outside your skull. Bush's world outside his skull is limited to the aristocracy he was born into, especially the Republican Party that his father ran for Richard Nixon. He is extremely intelligent at the cokehead fratboy manipulations that raise ratfuckers to the top of that cesspool. By the same token, abusing that much power solely to enrich and empower your Republican cronies, at the necessarily wasteful expense of the rest of the country (and the world that depends on our 1/3 of the global economy), is very stupid.

    But it's inescapable that Bush's mountain of "failures" have all benefited him and his cronies. He has had maximum success. His only expense is his "popularity" and the ruins (possibly temporary, if Bush history is any indicator), but thieves don't care about popularity once their getaway car is full. He has cashed his check, and it's the biggest ever written. That's not so dumb, even if it is epically foolish.

  20. Re:Where's OSAMA? on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: -1, Troll

    Moderation -1
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    Ladies and gentlemen, your anonymous trollMods at work. Dick Cheney's metal heart, is that you?

  21. Where's OSAMA? on FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All this spying on Americans, justified by "the hunt for Osama bin Laden". But instead of catching him, Bush invaded Iraq. Said he doesn't spend much time thinking about Osama, doesn't think catching him is important. 6 years since 9/11/2001, and where's Osama?

    It's more important to Bush to spy on Americans than to catch Osama, because catching Osama might mean the "temporary suspension" of American rights (including Habeas Corpus, when Bush says so) could end, leaving Bush with less power.

    Now let's watch the trollMods try to suppress me for telling the simple truth.

    WHERE'S OSAMA?

  22. Re:Global Warming Reliever on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 1

    Energy that solar cells absorb then send to manufacture materials and structures, is not directly warming the Earth. It might eventually return as heat, as those materials and structures degrade, but any that survive is that much less heat. And just delaying it buys time to find better solutions, including decreasing the amount of energy consumed and increasing the warming, or selectively releasing the warming to less sensitive systems than the atmosphere, or even remediating heat to space without intermediary warming of delicate systems.

    Of course displacing other energy sources that could remain locked in materials without adding to the warming energy is a bigger gain from using solar. But there does seem to also be a gain from the remediation itself.

  23. Re:Global Warming Absorber on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 1

    The energy PVs redirect from its natural effect of immediate warming into instead manufacturing materials and buildings is less warming. When those materials and buildings do eventually fall back to their ground state the energy will probably eventually cause the same amount of warming. But any stuff that survives is less warming. And buying time for other technology and conservation to better mitigate future warming is one way to keep us from cooking ourselves before we can change course.

  24. Re:Global Warming Absorber on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 1

    Just because you're a religious fanatic who refuses to believe the science of Global Warming doesn't make your enemies religious fanatics.

    Manufacturing materials with solar energy that would otherwise go directly to heat instead locks solar energy in chemical bonds, rather than heat. Likewise building anything not consumed into lower energy states than when it was first made.

    You don't understand either physical science or political science. You have nothing worth hearing to say about either. Your Climate Change denial cult will be popular for a while, as the rationals among us save you from the fate you're praying for. But as the damage from your ignorance crusade becomes undeniable because you forced us to wait too long, you deniers will be laughed at as much as are flat earthers.

  25. Re:Java CPU/DSP? on State of the OpenJDK Project and Java 7 · · Score: 1

    Do those phone's CPUs execute bytecode in HW, or do they run a JVM? Got an example of one by name?