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  1. Re:Dangerous and disturbing this is on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Are you forgetting Oklahoma City? Are you forgetting Atlanta? Are you forgetting the abortion clinic bombings? Are you forgetting the return of lynchings, hangings and church bombings in the south?

  2. Re:Dangerous and disturbing this is on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 1

    Actually, a lot of us "radical liberals" are steaming mad at Obama. I didn't drink the kool-aid, I knew he was no different than Bush, I knew he was a corporate-feudalist puppet who would support fascist police state policies from the start.

    On the other hand, I've known about the apocalyptic christian death cults for the better part of 20 years now. The group in Michigan is only the tip of the iceberg.

  3. Re:Better than the alternative? on The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 Passes Senate Panel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It depends on your definition of "harm" and "good". An revolt with widespread popular support by a significant minority or even majority of citizens could require the internet to be shut down to prevent the people from organizing to rally against an oppressive regime. It worked out pretty well for Iran.

  4. Re:Not so HD ? on Next iPhone — Front-Facing Camera, A4 Processor · · Score: 1

    The cpu is irrelevant. The hardware video decoder is what matters. A lot of the arm cortex A8 devices can output 720p at reasonable framerates if the video is in the right format.

  5. Re:What a bunch of pussies on Warner Brothers Hiring Undercover Anti-Pirates · · Score: 2, Informative

    Additionally they are essentially working as unlicensed private investigators. This is illegal in many jurisdictions and any evidence they may gather is likely to be inadmissible. The RIAA has already been sanctioned for exactly this.

  6. 2 P or not 2 P? on Pirate Party Pillages Private Papers · · Score: 1

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    , promptly promoting periodic proactive promulgation pertaining to promiscuous perfunctory prosecution.

  7. Re:Missing something on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    If you are developing software you are still underpayed.

    In Mississippi, one of the lowest cost of living states in America, I started at 38k.

  8. Re:Crazy on Cooling the Planet With a Bubble Bath · · Score: 1

    The last ice age did not end 16 thousand years ago. It hasn't ended yet at all. As long as there exists permafrost and low altitude glaciers it is an ice age. We are merely in a mildly warm period of an ice age that has been going for at east a million years.

  9. Re:Why uses a PC to do banking? on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    Single Mobility System? How is a military transportation tracking system going to help? Though I suppose it would be fairly secure.

  10. Re:The Best Kind of News on We're Staying In China, Says Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when is china's government socialist? It is much closer to feudalism for the vast majority of china.

  11. Re:Pwahahahaha on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    The JVM source code is available to be compiled on any platform. Its licensing isn't nearly as liberal as gcc though.

    c through gcc may target more platforms. Though I would challenge you to write a non-trivial c program that compiles and runs on each and every one without modification.

  12. Re:Why uses a PC to do banking? on Can Ubuntu Save Online Banking? · · Score: 1

    SMS? As in text messaging? You mean a completely unencrypted plain-text signal broadcast for miles in every direction that can be traced to your identity with a reverse phone book look-up and with known data-mining operations operated by criminal organizations, police and intelligence services throughout the world?

  13. Re:Pwahahahaha on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    An installer is not a library included in the program. The app isn't using it at all. The installer is merely there to get the app on your system and set up your environment variables, icons, links, etc.

    A java app can be deployed to any platform without an installer, either as an executable jar or as a collection of class and resource files (often including .sh and .bat scripts to make launching the program in common OS's a little easier).

  14. Re:Pwahahahaha on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    Java would be more cross platform than c.

    Java has binary cross platform compatibility, not just source cross platform compatibility.

  15. Re:C# and F# on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    In java there are some real pain in the ass "features" with inheritance and interfaces that I prefer the c# implementation for.

    Please: can I have static method in my god damn interface?

  16. Re:Pwahahahaha on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 1

    This. Silverlight does not play well on the mac, at all. I really don't want to talk about the horrors of that project.

  17. Re:Pwahahahaha on De Icaza Says Microsoft Has Shot .NET Ecosystem In Foot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How is java's cross platform ability a myth? How many java programs that you know of are not cross platform when written correctly? With the not very notable exception of a few non-standard libraries, the occasional difference in performance and developers that hard-code file paths, java works very well on multiple platforms.

  18. Re:News? on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 1

    I have a table that my grandfather made from good wood and proper construction. It looks great with a dark and rich finish. It is 50 years old. It weighs so little I can lift it with a single finger. It can support at least 500 lbs.

    You can get a table of similar size for a hundred bucks. It will never look as good. It will never support that weight. It will never be so light. It will break in 2 to 5 years even if you are gentle with it.

    Decent furniture can outlast you. Good furniture will outlast your children. Great furniture will last so long that your descendants will be unsure exactly who first started handing it down.

  19. Re:HDMI jack? on Sprint Unveils HTC Evo 4G Super Phone · · Score: 1

    also because the hdmi jack is smaller than all all other high def video connectors. a lot of cortex A8 development boards have hdmi jacks just because it fits better than a dvi or analog output.

  20. Re:Don't do that on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary is not the story. one editor was detained 22 hours and had is laptop "confiscated", another was followed internationally, their editorial meetings were bugged, and recorded.

  21. Re:News? on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the thing is made from the materials and quality of work that they claim? The price is not that unreasonable. A standard hand crafted cabinet or table made from those materials with old fashioned proper construction will cost thousands of dollars.

  22. Re:Like TV on Google Wins European Trademark Victory · · Score: 1

    So... its not like the news?

  23. Re:where did they get their numbers from? on The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets · · Score: 1

    Using anything for a thousands separator is an unforgivable sin in computer science. What happens when you put the data in a whitespace seperated format like xml? What happens when you put the data in a comma seperated format like CSV? What happens some dumbshit converts using a different localization format?

  24. Re:I hate to say it, but... on Multicore Requires OS Rework, Windows Expert Says · · Score: 1

    Your understanding is wrong.

    You are not a programmer.

    You lack the fundamental foundation to even begin understanding what is actually happening in software on even a basic level much less a moderately advanced topic like parallelism.

    Using a traditional threading model I can "tell my program to create a thread here" GCD allows this with less code on my part, it also has some minor advantages in thread management that it handles automatically. But it does not solve any of the special problems involved in breaking a program down into threadable chunks.

  25. Re:Doesn't matter on Planned Nuclear Reactors Will Destroy Atomic Waste · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And the times before that it was Reagan and Bush Sr. who killed the breeder reactor research project. And before that is was Carter. This is not a partisan issue, both parties are equally retarded in respect to nuclear power.