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  1. Re:Profit on Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? · · Score: 1

    Unless they are Brazilian laws no one is going to extradite over this, though your VPS might kick you off and keep your money. And if you don't provide full details of of your Brazilian address then they wont bother to track you down. I guess if you say you are from the US it's fraud but is about as trivial fraud as you get.

  2. Re:Profit on Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? · · Score: 1

    Just should point out the site is primarily for low cost web hosting.
    Though most VPS hosts probably don't care.

  3. Re:Profit on Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Go to http://www.lowendbox.com/ 20 dollars is a rip-off. For just a proxy you should be able to get away with bugger all RAM and storage. Transfer speed might be a bit slow though 10Mbps wont cut it for streaming.

  4. Re:My theory, probably your theory too on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    You could have copy and pasted that paragraph, in case you missed my point rather that just ignore my previous post 95 percent of middle class parents are not that dedicated, the rich can pay other to do this and the poor have more immediate problems to worry about.

    The problem is not the lack of teaching programs I would think everything from fancy unproven infomercial products to Ivy league educations programs would do but the parents for any number of reason will not force them on their children or the child will approach them with the wrong attitude due to today’s culture.

    If you support the ideals of your user name (http://goodnewsjim.com, you not talking like its a joke) then go out and experience the real world and find up what you are really up against. Is converting the entire world to (American Good News) Christianity also something that will fix the world as well?

    If you don’t have constructive on topic reply don’t expect a response (and i might foe you just so I won't reply again).

  5. Re:My theory, probably your theory too on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    If you have a parent that forces you to do your school work, it being more entertaining than Quake is irrelevant because you're forced to do it.
      It would be my hope that in the future, people from all around the world valued getting an education just for the sake of having an education.

    There is racial stereotype of Asian parents that proves this works (to an extent) without needing tutor games. If the child is forced to do it or has other options removed then you can just bring out your TI-99 again, they don't know or need anything better. While I have no idea about your learning, imagine being forced to learn the subject you most struggled with like this.

    If every parent was competent and willing to manage their child’s learning you would not need any teachers.

    It would be my hope that in the future, people from all around the world valued getting an education just for the sake of having an education.

    You can hope it as much as your like but you are currently not changing anything. I think you are far too idealistic about this and need to look at the reality, you are missing the main problems with something like this there are plenty of decent tutor programs our there they are just not that fun compared to real games.

  6. Re:My theory, probably your theory too on Sesame Street Begins Teaching Math and Science · · Score: 1

    On it there weren't many games, so I enjoyed playing a math tutor. The math tutor was not a game, but it used graphics and was engrossing. I am now extremely good at math, with my last course being differential equations about a decade ago.

    You need to disprove that you were inherently good at maths and were therefore successful at the game, enjoyed it and played it more that other would have. You may have been able to pick it up later.

    Also if you were to have access to your current or last favourite game would you still have played it.

  7. Should have sold earlier on Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe owners believe that they own a rock solid idea or product rather than the latest fad. It must just be greed that keeps them from selling when there company reaches say 50 - 100 mil per person (they certainly don’t need any more).

    As do most here I don't believe these companies are worth much more than 2 to 5 times their yearly profits as with risk added your aren’t likely to see much more back and that curve that looks exponential is just nearing the peak (as the sum of a lot of one off pulses wear out).

  8. Re:Does anyone else think this is supid? on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    Come on you know what it means.
    My lack of punctuation on the other hand is pretty bad. Sorry to anyone who had to read a sentence again.

  9. Does anyone else think this is supid? on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and that he missed the point of the expression?

    Of course it will work the Mersenne twister will eventually cover the entire 9 letter space and then he can search though for the parts that match (yes he is doing it concurrently but that’s just an inefficient way of doing it). If he had the RAM and time he could eventually recreate every book possible.

    The Wikipedia page explains it better that infinite random sting is bound to contain something that is perceived as useful. Of course the literal take on on the expression is the most funny.

  10. Re:If you want to admin, learn the CLI on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    I take it you have not used Yast. Though i am well aware not everything can be done YaST is a bit more extensive than other distros.

    Yast is cross between a GUI and a config file wizard you can set/append the same options. I would think a basic server is entirely possible with yast with remote admin though the ncurses/screen interface (dont know what it uses but you don't need X).

  11. Re:Easy. on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1

    SUSE has, essentially, not been heard of since it was split off Novell. I don't know what the status of that distribution is.

    Try opensuse.org they are still very much alive they had a conference and have contributed their package management to Meego. I don’t think they are having any funding issues.

  12. Re:It already IS NOT a crime. on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    Come on, democracy is used by the US to install the politically acceptable version of a puppet government in these counties. A democracy is easiest form of government to influence from another country. Neo-cons don't believe in real democracy for these countries.

    There have allegations of vote rigging in Afghanistan where a pro US candidate won.

  13. Re:Native Client (NaCl) on The Great JavaScript Debate: Improve It Or Kill It · · Score: 1

    Well you could bundle TCC with every browser and apply static analysis to the source code for security holes first.
    But since no one cares NaCl always going to be faster and less buggy.

  14. Re:FFMPEG To The Rescue on The Looming Video Codec Fight · · Score: 1

    I wonder if a dedicated sever would get you around this?
    Can the patient make transferring a binary file illegal?

  15. Re:FFMPEG To The Rescue on The Looming Video Codec Fight · · Score: 1

    Only if the patient are valid in your country, which i'm fairly sure is not here.
    Don't know about exporting the finished product back to US though but no ones going to extradite over that.

  16. Have a look though the CC licences? on Ask Slashdot: Best Copyright Terms For a Thesis? · · Score: 1

    Some of need are vague and slightly contradictory when i read them.
    Have a look at the Attribution-NonCommercial one that xkcd uses but that might interfere with journal publishing.
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/

    What to do you mean pirates if a pirate can access the file and they don't care about the copyright then it does not matter what license you use.

  17. Re:As long as the algorithm can't be a scapgoat on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    " so soldier blames the programmer "
    how is that different then:
    " so soldier blames the officer"

    If the programmer can be and is held liable in a (war crimes) trial nothing. When the culture and trial precedents start allowing them to pass it back and fourth so no one is held fully accountable there is the problem. Soldier says I did not know the drone would do that and the programmer says it was not appropriately used it makes it far easier to let everyone off.

    If you hear the news saying it was a computer glitch that caused the people to die and it has now been fixed (so humans are not to blame) that also part of what I am meaning.

  18. Re:As long as the algorithm can't be a scapgoat on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    Not that anything pass the first line of your response is relevant to the GP. I hate AC that do this.

    Defending against this sort of weapon is pretty much like attacking a minefield; utterly pointless.

    I don't know what the compensation for a dead soldier is but I don't think its the millions that it cost when these go down. Its going to be cheaper to have soldiers than drones for a long time yet the financial cost will hurt as much as the human cost. I think EMP technology will become a high priority as well.

    You are making stupid hypothetical assumptions; the US still win their wars (which are being called off due to cost at the moment rather than lives). As for WWIII hypothetical situations you have to wait to see the response from the other side.

  19. As long as the algorithm can't be a scapgoat on US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing · · Score: 1

    As long as the soldier who pushes the button to activate the drones is equally responsible as the one who pushes the button to drop a dumb bomb then I don't really see the issue.

    As long as someone mucking and and causing friendly fire or collateral damage is equally liable then I think this is just an arms race that has the potential to avoid casualties.

    When you can start shoving blame around so soldier blames the programmer and vice versa is where this becomes dangerous I think. If the soldier can blame someone when a done behaves unexpectedly and not feel or be held responsible there is the potential for miss use.

    Don't use the technology if it has the potential to go wrong.

  20. Re:That's the last straw on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't get this either you are in the US and they can get you (you don't sound coherent enough to hold a Diplomatic Passport or something).
    Or you are outside it and you really should not care as they have no legal standing were your live. Patients are only good for the country you have them in or Australia.

  21. Re:Guess it will no longer be in the linux repos on Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions · · Score: 1

    Well it appears there is still at least 4 more years for the base package. I should read the article and the extent of the extensions. But that does not change that some distros might use this as an excuse to drop the oracle product from first class support and the default install.

    Unless half the dev team defect there will be no devs able to release patches and security updates let alone new versions so it falls behind and will be less secure. There are no patches to from upstream.

  22. Re:Guess it will no longer be in the linux repos on Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions · · Score: 1

    You are right the the core is still good (so I guess GP was alarmist) but the moment new releases are not GPL it will be rejected as foreign by a lot of distros*. Yes there are some that wont care as well i guess.

    Forking mySQL is not as likely as OO as there are other alternatives that could be work on instead and will not have the trademark.

    openSUSE has switched java versions due to lack to openness.

  23. Guess it will no longer be in the linux repos on Why You Shouldn't Panic About Closed Source MySQL Extensions · · Score: 2

    I would think most distros will have policies that will make this a second class DB or drop it entirely. It rules it out of Debian for the next release, openSUSE will drop it to non-oss, gentoo wont like binaries and so on.

    Having to go the Oracle website to get it would put off the majority of new non-commercial users or anyone wanting automatic update notification.

  24. Re:Libertarian on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 1

    I would just like to add that when i though more about it; I think they are (making up the term) "youth conservatives".

    They want the internet to the 90s where no one policed it, IP laws working for the benefit of the creators as it was intended and as far as I know originally worked and they want business being subservient to government as previously has been.

    They are wanting to reverse some the 'negative' changes of the past few decades rather than moving towards some abstract idealism of "piracy".

  25. Re:Libertarian on Pirate Party Wins Seat In Berlin · · Score: 2

    That's a stretch. There is defiantly a mistrust of government and established corporations there but as to making any attempt to force libertarian values onto the citizens or change the role of the government I don’t really see it.

    Increased privacy and government accountability and the destruction of IP monopolies are not really core political policies. I guess they might develop into libertarians but they could just as easily be a centrist (status quo) party with these views. I think the party core values is minimise the influence of corporations on the state and keeping a free internet and a part from that they would be fairly moderate.