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  1. Re:Umm , I think a completely blank hard drive... on P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults · · Score: 1

    So do laws prohibiting me from firing a gun out of my window in a densely-populated urban residential area. How dare they!

  2. Re:Umm , I think a completely blank hard drive... on P2P Defendant Destroys Evidence, Case Defaults · · Score: 1

    Where I live, the majority of The People also believe that speeding in a car is not a crime, or at least they don't consider it wrong behavior. They still are at risk of getting a fine and/or other punishment. Whether there's a moral obligation to follow an unpopular (or largely disregarded) law is one question, but there is still a LEGAL obligation to obey it, until such law is changed. You don't get to pick and choose which laws are relevant to you based upon which ones contravene your wishes, unless, of course, you are willing to face the penalty.

  3. Re:This really isn't anything new on Korea's Online Aggression a Taste of the Future? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've seen photos of her dressed similar to Shirley Temple, dressed as a Vegas showgirl, dressed as a school girl, a Nashville country queen, but I haven't found the "cheap whore" photos of her. Sure, the Mom dolled up her daughter, but why the intense animosity? Playing dressup with your daughter doesn't lead to the conclusion that parents were involved in child sex abuse, which is a leap that many made.

  4. Think of the acronyms, please! on War Declared on Caps Lock Key · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the folks at SOUTHCOM, ODASD(CN) or JPEO-JTRS sending correspondence to the DEPSEC would disagree with you!

  5. Re:Better choices - go back the originators on The Greatest Software Ever · · Score: 1

    And on M*A*S*H (TV show), Sparky was the phone operator that "Radar" O'Reiley frequently called.

  6. Re:Does it still matter? on Java to be Open Sourced in October · · Score: 1

    C# may be an option, but you don't explain what it is about C# that makes you prefer it over Java (or why others would, either). After all, you say your productivity went up with Java vs. C++, why wouldn't you continue using Java for "big projects" unless C# gives you clear gains over it?

  7. Re:Javascript on Yahoo! Launches Python Developer Center · · Score: 1

    Wrong, and though I'm redundant, I'll repeat it so it's visible in the thread. You can write Python in DOS edit, notepad, TextPad, anything on windows that saves as plain text, and as long as you are consistent with what you use for indentation (all tabs, or all spaces), it will work.

  8. Re:I love it in the deep south on Where the Highest Paying Tech Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    You miss a point - you say you eat at the same restaurants as the rest of us? Those who might hesitate to move down south because they fear a loss of culinary choices aren't thinking Applebys or Outback.

    How many Korean grocery stores do you have? Can I get a wider variety of cheeses other than Cheddar and Swiss? Can I get real proscuitto? These things are "quality of life" to some of us as much as your big yard and fresh air are to you. So is the ability to go do things (go to library, movie theater, music performances, shopping) without using a car.

  9. Re:They forgot one on Where the Highest Paying Tech Jobs Are · · Score: 1

    I've lived in the DC area for decades. The number of people moving here is amazing. Yes, it's not a long drive to the mountains (approx. 60 miles), but now there are so many people with the same idea on any nice weekend, so you're bound to get stuck on I-66 or Route 50 or 7.

    Real estate is very high, though cooling now. Half a million $ for a 3 (sometimes 2) bedroom townhouse is the norm in Alexandria/Arlington. I lucked out by selling a condo during the hottest time and buying a house close in.

    But, I'm really itching to move elsewhere, but not sure where. And this article's list is hilarious. Sandy, Utah? Riigght. Cary? My visits to RTP 8 years ago reminded me of the boom in Northern Virginia - too many cars on too few roads, the need for a car in order to get anywhere, and "anywhere" was probably a strip mall. Wonder how Portland is? Seattle probably matches DC in cost, but it'd be a change. I've finally had it with the heat + humidity here. Hazy, hot, humid, had it.

  10. What happened to Zope4Edu? on Blackboard Patenting Educational Groupware · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Zope Corp used to have Zope4Edu, and Duke University was helping with it. Now it's not listed as a product on zope.com, but it is mentioned in their "about" page. Anyone have experience with it? Wonder if BB would sue them.

  11. In your little web shop, maybe on Ubuntu to Bring About Red Hat's Demise? · · Score: 1

    Sys Admins usually don't choose the OS in large corporate or government environments. They administer the servers chosen by others, who through procurement departments, arrange for what gets loaded on the servers, and some guy who likes Ubuntu and is ticked off at RedHat's perceived slights is not the decision maker in this chain of events.

  12. Re:Diebold lobbied slashdot... on Worst Ever Security Flaw in Diebold Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    8(?) years and counting...

  13. Re:Because he doesn't want you to see it on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    Are you equating the morality of using the lives of innocents as shields for your forces, and for your propaganda gains when they get killed (after you herded them into your areas of operations or moved your operations into their neighborhood) with the use of a conceptual phrase "anti-semetic" as a defense against your critics? I don't think using the anti-semetic shield inappropriately (in your views, at least) in any way justifies the other side's shield of using civilian populations as quasi-combatants in a propaganda war.

  14. Re:And now... on Cyberwar on NASA Websites · · Score: 1

    Blogs, their own website (hosted in USA or not), Yahoo forums, other forums, newspaper "Your comments" areas, etc etc ad nauseum. Last time I posted on BBC it didn't perform a citizenship test prior to me getting my message heard.

  15. Re:I only skimmed the article on OSS Web Stacks Outperformed by .Net? · · Score: 1

    They list the tested portals in the fifth paragraph, and none of them are straight CGI. They didn't use mod_perl because no Perl-based portal was tested. They didn't use mod_python because the Python test was against Plone, which runs on Zope's ZServer. I understood from the article that they tested with requests going straight to the appserver, with no Apache intermediary.

  16. Your govt at work on Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace · · Score: 1

    I listened to some of the Congressional meetings on CSPAN, and I was struck by how ignorant Congresspeople are about the Internet. One woman from Tennessee was particularly clueless, yet her fears about how "scary" MySpace was can potentially drive legislation that affects the Internet. "oh my word, you mean someone can lie about their age, and MySpace doesn't do anything about that??"

  17. Re:These look great! on First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not just 3 different colors - 3 different models. The orange, light blue, and green ones shown all have physical differences. So which one is the one to be produced? I vote for blue.

  18. Too silly! on Henry's Python Programming Guide · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Too silly, far too silly...

  19. Re:He's sorta right, but mostly off target on Can Ordinary PC Users Ditch Windows for Linux? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've seen professional Windows users (that is, programmers, administrators) flounder when stuck in front of WINDOWS! Double-clicking every hyperlink on web pages, hunting all over a menu for something like notepad instead of winkey-R notepad, general confused look while I sit back feeling like Nick Burns. "Move!"

  20. Wasn't this on BOFH? on Microsoft Customers Balk at Hard Sell · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of this.

  21. Re:Ahhhhh.... on Vim 7 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    This feature (ctrl-n auto-complete) was available in vim 6. The change in 7 is that the possibilities for completion now appear in vertical group; before, I had to press ctrl-n multiple times to cycle through the possibilities.

    From what I'm reading in the vim7 docs, what *is* new is "omni completion". You press ctrl-x ctrl-o to invoke it. But when I tried that on a Python file with vim 7 installed from their Windows binary, I got "Error. Required vim compiled with +python."

  22. Lemmings stick with Windows on Boot Camp For Suckers? · · Score: 1

    So if you continually feel frustrated by Windows' limitations, you're supposed to NOT switch to something better? I'd call THAT the lemming-like behavior!

  23. Re:BMW C-1 on Low Emission Cars Continue to Gain Popularity · · Score: 1

    The test driver of the Clever car is wearing a helmet because he's driving a version without the bodywork. The bottom picture in the article shows a driver without a helmet. If these things had a passenger seat behind the driver, I think they'd be great. Comfortable driving position and protection from messy weather.

  24. Bugfest for Linux/Open Source users! on Linux Snobs, The Real Barriers to Entry · · Score: 1

    Ticket entered for "snobbish attitude".
    See unresolved ticket for dressing poorly.

  25. Re:Basic English on Red Hat to Acquire JBoss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This line says that somebody thought Red Hat was going to buy Oracle.

    While the sentence is confusing and could be better, it states "it will be Red Hat that will buy JBoss and not Oracle as previously thought."

    Who will buy JBoss? RedHat, or Oracle? It will be RedHat. Not Oracle.