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  1. Good on Storm Worm Being Reduced to a Squall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that it's down to 5 million we can all breathe a sigh of relief...

  2. News for nerds? on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Linking the business plans of airline executives to net neutrality is a bit of a stretch.

  3. Re:I drive at every opportunity on United Makes Plans to Drop 'Baggage Neutrality' · · Score: 1

    Rail includes the worst aspects of all transport. It's slow as well as being inconvenient.

  4. So don't buy their crap on Viacom Wants Industry Wide Copyright Filter · · Score: 1

    Nobody is forcing you to watch their stuff, to read their stuff, to listen to their stuff.

    You are paying them. You are supporting them. You are encouraging them. You are to blame.

    You want to stop them?

    Stop watching their films. Stop reading their newspapers and magazines. Stop watching their TV shows. Stop listening to their music. Boycott them.

    If you're not willing to do that, well you can go fuck off, I'm not interested in what you have to say.

  5. Re:It is NOT piracy in Canada! on Canada May Tax Legal Music Downloads · · Score: 1

    Well which segment of society is going to disagree with a free subsidy?

    The next stage is for retailers to require a subsidy for loss of revenue due to shoplifting.

    Then of course it will be compensation for loss of revenue due to "economic conditions".

  6. Re:Fine... pay the government back, then. on Court Upholds Internet Deregulation · · Score: 1

    I advocate free and fair markets. You can't have free and fair. You can only have one or the other.

  7. Re:none of the above on eBay The Vote · · Score: 1

    You don't know where money comes from, do you.

  8. Re:none of the above on eBay The Vote · · Score: 1

    "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." - Amschel Mayer Rothschild Boy is that one coming home to roost.

  9. Re:He doesn't address the evolution of ideas on Evolution and the 'Wisdom of Crowds' · · Score: 1

    How can you consider yourself any better or wiser than the American kid who gets sent to Jesus camp? His philosophy begins from a rational viewpoint. All others do not.

  10. Clearly on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 1
  11. Riiight on Robotic Cannon Loses Control, Kills 9 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The biggest concern seems to be finding the glitches in the system instead of reconsidering automated arms altogether. Because human beings are so good at shooting down low flying supersonic aircraft.

  12. Re:As Ron Paul says on The Real Problem With the US Patent System · · Score: 1

    Privatise the patent office and create licenses for anyone who wants to manage patent applications.

  13. Re:nothing scares me more on The Real Problem With the US Patent System · · Score: 1

    Nothing scares me more than 75 year old people approving software patents. I'm sure they can wield a rubber stamp with the best of them.
  14. WTF? on The Real Problem With the US Patent System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "In the global economy, innovation, technological progress and the protection of intellectual property rights are keys to U.S. competitiveness. Keeping up with the demand for patents is critical to the nation's health."

    Really?

    Is that why the dollar is in free fall, there's 48 trillion of debt, vast amounts of production shipped off to competing countries, the housing market in meltdown about to take the rest of the world with it ... and they've stopped publishing the money supply figures...

    Basically... Bullshit.

    LOL. Patents are damned near irrelevant and have fuck all to do with the nations health.

  15. The Peter Principle. on Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format? · · Score: 1

    Save all my own files in ODF format. Anything I'm sending to someone else goes as PDF or DOC. I suspect pretty much everyone else will do the same. There's that network effect for you.

    Of course the executive will only see DOC files, and well, because he's retarded mentally like so many of his ilk, assume that everyone uses DOC for everything.

  16. Re:Good on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    It logs to /var/log/gdm/:0.log by default.

  17. Good on Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out · · Score: 1

    It's been reasonably stable[1] for me recently. The ra2500 wifi pretty much just works. The printer pretty much just works, the apps pretty much just work.

    To be honest I'd forgotten all about it, it just gets out of the way (unlike Windows) I think they're really into usability tweaking and performance optimisation territory.

    In particular the Window List. I use mine in a vertical panel rather than the more traditional horizontal panel and someone's mucked about with it so that it flips to two columns as soon as I have 8 apps open whether all the space is used or not. Well, this is Linux, people 8 is nothing, I often have 20, 30 apps running...

    [1] Where reasonable is defined as 3 nines.

  18. Re:but... but... on Evidence Found for Earliest Modern Humans · · Score: 1

    It's widely accepted the world over apart from a among small percentage of the population, that "god" is a man made concept used to explain the world before modern science did so. It is still a popular idea among the less well educated.

  19. Re:Isaac Asimov already thought of this on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 1

    We call it "economics".

  20. Ah well. on Computer Software to Predict the Unpredictable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You see.

    People will trust the answer a bit of software gives them when they won't trust exactly the same answer, calculated in exactly the same way but presented by the same expert who wrote the software in the first place...

    Particularly if the software system cost 8+ figures.

  21. Re:Good grief on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    That's basically what you're doing. But this way you guarantee a swat team on site. Instant escalation.

  22. Re:Good grief on Man Hacks 911 System, Sends SWAT on Bogus Raid · · Score: 1

    A more nefarious criminal could use the same exploit to send a SWAT team to the other end of their jurisdiction while they carried out a robbery. A more nefarious criminal would use the government to take out his competition...

    Hmmm. Wonder what that particular service would be worth.

  23. Re:odd...I know people who got fired.. on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    - My boss (owner of the company)
    - Me Good luck making progress in that situation.
  24. Re:odd...I know people who got fired.. on Swearing at Work is Bleeping Good For You · · Score: 1

    unless your in a dead end job and need the catalyst to get off your duff and go get a career All jobs are "dead end". Have a look at the depth of the management hierarchy next time you're in work. The whole paradigm of "a career" is an HR idea to motivate you to work 60 hours for the price of 40.

    The only sane way to "make progress" is to work as an independent.

  25. Re:How about non-traffic violations? on Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would suggest that these devices were for the most part utilised to avoid arrest rather than protect innocent passers by. Yet it shows foresight and a predilection for taking precautions.