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  1. Re:"shrinking female IT workforce"? on 2010 Salary Survey Highlights IT Woes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd guess that it takes at least a hundred employed people to support one stripper.

    That's kind of silly logic. I guess it's based on some misconception that economics are zero sum, or that some services are inherently worth more than others. Being a stripper is employed. It's providing a service that people want, just like an auto factory or an amusement park or a grocery store.

  2. Re:Video: Why apache gunners are horrible policeme on Wikileaks Releases Video of Journalist Killings · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. You can clearly see an RPG in the video. Also that guy hiding behind the corner of the building sure as hell looks like he was firing on the helicopters.

    If he wasn't, then why the hell do you crouch peeking around the corner of a building pointing something at a gunship? Death wish?

  3. Re:Before / After ban on Fatty Foods May Cause Cocaine-Like Addiction · · Score: 0, Troll

    Salt sprinkled on top does not taste the same.

    Fucking prohibitionists. Should have rounded all of you fucks up and deported you after the repeal of the eighteenth amendment

  4. Like Java on 15 Years of Microsoft Bob · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    s was announced it was hyped to the heavens and briefly accepted as a breakthrough that showed where software was going.

    Kind of like Java.

    Except Java's hype produced a cult that was so dead set on making a bad idea work that they actually did hammer it into something barely usable.

  5. Re:How about a bone marrow transplant? on AIDS Virus Can Hide In Bone Marrow · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do you want, a decree from God or something? We have some pretty large mountains of scientific evidence.

  6. Re:He'll Probably Get Off Easy on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah so many pitfalls like accidentally hacking into people's email accounts using stolen passwords.

    Is that something like the woman falling on your cock and you accidentally raping her?

  7. Re:So will he get a mug shot now? on Facebook Founder Accused of Hacking Into Rivals' Email · · Score: 4, Informative

    Good thing you are not a lawyer, it's from the date it was committed.

    The point of such statutes is because after a long time has passed, the defense is less able to form a coherent defense since a lot of the evidence is gone.

  8. Re:Don't use datamatrix on Privacy With a 4096 Bit RSA Key — Offline, On Paper · · Score: 1

    I didn't know it was safe now.

  9. Don't use datamatrix on Privacy With a 4096 Bit RSA Key — Offline, On Paper · · Score: 4, Informative

    Datamatrix is the Gif of the barcode world. It has a bunch of patents covering it.

    PDF417 does mostly the same thing, can be read with a laser (instead of an imager) and was designed to be open source and patent free from the beginning.

  10. Re:Commercialisation on Senators Blast NASA For Lacking Vision · · Score: 1

    "Only 18 billion a year"

    The private Tier One spaceship cost between 20 and 30 million dollars... from scratch.

  11. Re:Mars on Senators Blast NASA For Lacking Vision · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you want to live in a barren desert, there's thousands of square miles here on earth that no one particularly wants.

  12. Re:typical slashdot scare mongering on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 1

    Second Life says "if you do X, Y, and Z in ways we don't like, you can't use our servers and you must cease distribution of the client, and delete any data you downloaded that we want you to"; .

    Fixed it for you. If this was simply "you can't use our servers if you don't agree with this" then it would be a very different situation.

  13. Re:Contingencies on Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet · · Score: 1

    They usually used private IRC networks, so that blows your theory out of the water.

  14. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's always been this way.

  15. Re:Math on Triumph of the Cyborg Composer · · Score: 1

    Blame the people who are using science as justification for increased government.

  16. Re:Bullshit on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 1

    Second Life viewers can connect to any Second Life compatible world, like Opensim.

    Linden Lab has submitted the protocol to standards bodies for standardization as well.

    So that breaks your analogy right there, since it's not a "Slashdot-only client".

  17. Re:Another angle on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 1

    Printing would be a forbidden export feature.

    My cable provider doesn't have a policy/agreement that prevents me from hooking a third party device up to the cable that can capture the images.

    SL does now, as you are not allowed to offer any export features that aren't in the official client.

  18. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 1

    It wouldn't really matter how many Jews or Scientologists wanted it if the Christians didn't.

  19. Re:The grass was denied individual insurance due t on Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? · · Score: 1

    No. "Insurance" should be for unforeseen costs, not something you get on a regular basis.

  20. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 1

    Because Christians wanted it.

  21. Re:Another angle on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Person A releases a picture under CC-SA-By

    Person B uploads it to SL. Person B has now violated the copyright of person A, because the Second Life environment now places restrictions on further export of the picture.

    Prior to the TPV policy there was no policy against exporting content as long as you didn't violate copyright law.

    Secondlife is now incompatible with CC-SA and any kind of copyleft license.

  22. Re:Bullshit on Second Life Tries To Backpedal On the GPL · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand.

    It would be like Slashdot trying to dictate the terms of Firefox development and distribution because Firefox is able to connect to and use Slashdot.

  23. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What your friend is doing is against the law.

    Only actual expenses are deductible, never labor.

    See here:
    http://www.christianitytoday.com/yc/churchlawtaxupdate/judge_donationsoflabor.html

    Which strangely uses the exact example of donating electrical work to a church...

  24. Re:Ramifications on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 2, Informative

    No. Donations of time or labor aren't deductible.

  25. I'm not sure COCOMO is a good measure on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Something based on lines of code like COCOMO is probably not a good estimate for a kernel. Kernel debugging is harder for one. Many of the drivers required some level of reverse engineering as well.

    I'd say every "Kernel line of code" is probably worth 10 lines of code in userspace, if not more.