User: wardk

Police states don't need reasons

On: The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment

the Bill of Rights is (apparently) totally utterly meaningless to the current US government

Re:And as quick as it is reported

On: Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port

>> the graphical environment is more UNIX

what does that mean? unusable? ugly?

I don't understand in the first place why would anyone even want to argue if a system is "more UNIX" than another, but to say a graphical interface is "more unix than another" sure made me laugh.

and you do know that OS X's pixels are more UNIX than Linux's pixels, right?

and OS X ASCII is WAY MORE UNIX than Linux ASCII

and on and on and on

can it get it's own work done?

On: GM Says Driverless Cars Will Be Ready By 2018

like maybe getting the tires changed. just enter the destination and let it go, couple hours later it comes back with new tires.

now that would rock

Defamation via incompetence

On: Microsoft Apologizes To Rival

oh gee, so sorry

we just didn't realize

we hope we didn't damage your business, we hate it when we do that to our competitors

we're soooooo sorry

hehehehehehhehehehe

Re:better interface, better unix

On: Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

what are you? a moron?

read what I wrote, "underpinnings" would mean the underlying system, which is what you describe

coward

Why words sucks, reason one

On: Goodbye Cruel Word

it cannot even read it's own formats over time. sometimes between single revisions.

or in other words, it's crap

better interface, better unix

On: Is Apple Killing Linux on the Desktop?

of course this is purely my opinion, but if you disagree, of course, you are wrong

Mac OS X vs Linux user interface isn't even a fair fight. seriously. KDE and Gnome are sad kludges in comparison

BSD vs Linux underpinnings. a closer comparison perhaps, but still not even close. BSD wins in a landslide.

Linux kids, feel free to be wrong about this.

Windows users, you embarrass yourselves with this choice. sheep get fleeced

pot meet kettle

On: Antitrust Suit Filed To Halt Apple 'Music Monopoly'

so Microsoft's players support Quicktime? (of course Microsoft is behind this if you dredge deep enough)

Non-apple platforms are openly HOSTILE to mac users (sorry, this service does not support Safari)

it's apple's do-hickey, they can do what they want.

losers

maybe these lamers should just get real computers that import music in non-WMA format, like a MAC

Still wondering if it's all legal

On: Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War

can I buy an HD movie and take it home and watch it without violating RIAA's self-proclaimed rights?

seems to risky to me, at least until we get some clarification

one 9.99 movie used 1/2 of my iPod

On: Report Says 36.4% of World's Computers Infringe on IP

4GB iPod, bought one movie from iTunes for 9.99

used just over 2GB of space

so I buy another movie and I have filled my iPod for 20 bucks, LEGALLY

what a bunch of lying SOBs these music/movie labels are.

can costco handle it?

On: US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012

there's gonna be a run on the pallet-value-pack size if news like this gets out

yeah, my wife

On: Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot?

she should be the basis for any measurement of hot

it's going into "Innovation analysis"

On: Microsoft is the Industry's Most Innovative Company?

it's a new science dedicated to proving ones innovation lead

so surely "Standards Mode" likely also means

On: IE 8 Passes Acid2 Test

Sharepoint won't work...

No, you need "Enhanced mode" which is mo' better and of course breaks like the POS versions we are saddled with now.

maybe I am just too cynical

Cal Worthington does software

On: Microsoft Giving Away Vista Ultimate, With a Catch

I can't eat all these Vistas!

go figure

On: Dvorak Slams OLPC As 'Naive Fiasco'

Dvorak finally has a lucid moment and he's lynched anyway

legal?

On: Using Wireless Signals in Games

how does this jibe with the brave new world of wifi being virtually illegal? as you move around, whose connections are you using?

wanna be annoyed? try this

On: State of the Onion 11

attend a local Perl user group meeting seeking basic knowledge like maybe a few tips about hashes and namespaces

your question may be answered if you are willing to sit through 3 hours of the alpha geeks sparring over who understands Damian Conways latest obsfucation most, hopefully with many examples of their own variations to programs that have no real use. meetup at break with someone who didn't participate in that discussion and note they don't know what the hell they are there for either

besides, anyone who doesn't know enough about perl to make changes to it's internals is a lamer

I love using perl, but in my experience, the community around it is lead by pretentious people who think you suck

ok, I admit I haven't attended one of these in years, but now you know why

your mileage may vary, hopefully much better results than mine were

Perl 6. why again should any mere mortal even give a damn??

screw them

On: Microsoft Wants OLPC System to Run Windows XP

no

good for them

On: EVE-Online Patch Makes XP Unbootable

it's nice to hear a success story now and again, the world is so filled with miserable failure

just habit

On: Chinese Moon Photo Doctored, Crater Moved

the chinese need to alter absolutely everything to conform to some ideological thingamjig, what this would be conforming to isn't real clear

so it's probably just a case of them doing it 'out of habit'

or maybe they were hiding Iran's nukes from our glorious leader's intelligence services

Glad we won the cold war

On: All US Border Crossings Now Require A 'Terrorist Risk Profile'

although it seems we're adopting all the things we used to make fun of the Soviet Union for.

right down to the gulag system and the locked down paranoid checkpoints.

so, we won?

Mac Office, VLC have something in common

On: Leopard as the New Vista?

they exist to attempt to make windows crap run on a mac

and he has trouble with BETA firefox. wow, alert the press.

I have leopard on a 3+ year old dual G5, a 3 year old iMac, and Mac Mini and my wife has an intel iBook

all with Microsoft office and VLC and Firefox.

NOT A SINGLE CRASH EVER ON ANY BOX

however, Office will alway throw a spurious error loading the "microsoft framework" despite service pack after service pack. if anything I'd call it purposeful, maybe to bait morons like this author

PC Magazine? this guy needs to find real work

we need these kids to be aggressive

On: Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking

without violent boys, how else will our glorious war machine purge the world of evil doers?

lets ask the chinese to have pizza ready

On: First Details of Manned Mars Mission From NASA

those astronauts will be hungry when they arrive on the "red" planet