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  1. Re:And this is why... on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    and have that be a script that runs every time you save a file, so it appends the appropriate amount of garbage based on the file length.

  2. Re:And with that on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 2

    The problem is that, no matter what you do, practically any online presence will give them some justification to say you're under their jurisdiction.

  3. Re:Enemy #1 on Stop Being Poor: U.S. Piracy Watch List Hits a New Low With 2012 Report · · Score: 1

    and the solution seems to be to approve increased powers to kill the problem, be it in a literal or figurative sense.

  4. Re:a first time for everything. on Microsoft Backs Away From CISPA Support, Citing Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'm on a mobile device right now but can you point me on examples of such type of analysis that you'd consider credible?

  5. Re:So... on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 2

    The more I think about that list, the more fond I am of the Mount & Blade series.

    The world needs more sandbox games. One makes the story with freedom and imagination. Create a simulation and let it run, tweak the fun/boring/grinding elements.

  6. Re:Hotmail Challenge on Microsoft Patches Major Hotmail 0-day Flaw After Widespread Exploitation · · Score: 1

    you're right. I mixed that up.

  7. Re:First on House Passes CISPA · · Score: 1

    Not always apathy though. Fear induced impotence has a great responsibility in lowering the odds of any resistance to authority. And for those who are bold even in the face of huge adversity, there's always surveillance followed by violence.

  8. Re:Stupid to Sell on NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook · · Score: 1

    What about IE9 mimicking Chrome?

  9. Re:Hotmail Challenge on Microsoft Patches Major Hotmail 0-day Flaw After Widespread Exploitation · · Score: 1

    He is right though. 7 words, all lowercase is to be frowned upon when you're allegedly knowledgeable about technology.

  10. Re:Let's Face It on Mozilla Considers H264 After WebM Fails To Gain Traction · · Score: 1

    I do too. The thing that hurts those formats is the lack of hardware support on music devices.

  11. Re:Yes, but other than that, how did you like it? on Microsoft's Hotmail Challenge Backfires · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I couldn't help but roll my eyes when I read that.

  12. Re:Well, good. on University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks · · Score: 1

    excellent, now I'm absolutely convinced that I must read Feynman's book.

  13. Re:A bad idea that "sounds good". on Billionaires and Polymaths Expected To Unveil a Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 2

    Don't you understand? One non-technical paragraph is enough for me to make a completely informed decision about what a group of scientists does.

    I don't even have to have studied any of that because I can use a mixture of quick, logic, common sense and, If I feel really smart, maybe even google something.

  14. Re:Encrypt on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    And there seem to be some introductory courses from both Stanford's Coursera and Udacity (Sebatian Thrun's new start up).

    They're programming oriented, if I'm not mistaken, though.

  15. Re:anyone surprised? on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do your research. Obama didn't want to get out.

    President Obama pulled the plug Friday on negotiations that would have kept American troops in Iraq past the end of this year. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the president's demand for immunity for U.S. troops stationed there was the dealbreaker.

    It's not about Bush vs Obama, it's' about being represented and Obama does not represent the people who voted for him because his policies go the opposite way from his candidate promises.

    It's not about R vs D. It's about trying to not get fucked for once.

    PS: And it would be awesome if you cared a bit about the effects his policies inflict upon the rest of the world. Drone indiscriminate murders of innocent people are not only ignored but actively hidden against any accountability.

  16. Re:Constituants. on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    Even if you believe that, the end result is that you don't get what you were promised (and a continuation of the previous policies).

    I'm not wondering WHY it didn't happen, I'm just saying it didn't. People who elected him were not adequately represented and this is an example of it.

    anyway, I don't see any reason to get your hopes up either. Skepticism and history analysis has always been a healthy attitude.

  17. Re:Constituants. on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 1

    I wasn't trying to dehumanize anyone. It probably got it mixed up thinking about the party (it) and the whole election mechanism.

    If I said "he" instead, I fear someone would find a reason to tell me I'm the root of all our problems because I focus on Obama as a person when there's a whole party out there.

    Addressing semantics and deriving negative intentions from them is useless. You can always do it.

  18. Re:One funny gem in the groklaw report... on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    overall, it was quite interesting. It reminds me of Scott Turow's novels.

  19. Re:WWSD? on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    Most people - if you ask them what they understand by 'free software' - will tell you 'software whose price tag is $0.00.' What Stallman calls 'gratis' (like we're living in the 16th century - the only reason I know what it means is that I once had to read Shakespeare). So when he insists on using a term that only confuses people, it's right to call him on it.

    There's this language called spanish, you know...

    Gratis = Free (no price)
    Libre = Free (freedom)

    He might be looking for that lack of ambiguity when using the word.

  20. Re:WWSD? on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 1

    And not just travel. He engages in and supports movements that align with what he preaches.

    He gave a couple of talks in Argentina (in excellent spanish) recommending gnu/Linux for different purposes and helped a movement to include a distro (I think it was Ubuntu) alongside Windows on the government granted netbooks for schoolchildren (A very important nationwide program)

  21. Re:Constituants. on CISPA Sponsor Says Protests Are Mere 'Turbulence' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd think that Obama was a better example of the failures of apparent democracy.

    His photo appears in the dictionary when you look for charisma or oratory but he ran on a platform of opposition to most of the things than by the "Other Party" and ended up maintaining very much the same policies in large scale (expanding many of those concerning civil liberties and foreign policy).

    You had this option to oppose what Bush did. It said it would do things differently (in very specific terms). Once elected, it didn't.

    Democracy doesn't work because we've developed the science of propaganda to a point where the amount of money you have is directly related to the odds of winning an election.

  22. I'm offended! on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 1

    I bet you're offended by the FreeBSD logo as well.

    Steve Hughes: Offended

  23. Re:Great! on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 1

    Soon, they wanted to release for April 1st but got delayed... Soon.

    Till then, as others have said, there's the Release Candidate.

  24. Re:Inadvertently... on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 2

    And Blender *must* be a mimic of 3dStudio and Maya...

    Happy Blender, Thunderbird, LibreOffice and Gimp users everywhere disagree.

  25. You better believe it, then. on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 1

    There's a Single Window mode already.