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  1. Re:Is that ironic on Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent · · Score: 1
    Doesn't that just beg the question...
    Can you use the compiler from Kylix to compile wine?
    After all, there was a free version of Kylix...
  2. Re:You know... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Until you want to discuss the origin of the designer.

  3. Re:You know... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    But still the oceans, the dry land, and plants all appear before the Sun and the Stars. ...not to say that there isn't a way to reconcile it... I just don't know how.

    Sounds almost as if there were too much fog to see the heavens... kinda like Venus without the bitch'n temperature swings.

  4. Re:Wrong on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1

    Or a dinosaur on Noah's Ark.

    Kill two birds with one stone!

    ;-)

  5. Re:Wrong on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if God was the result of evolution?

    This it the problem I have with the whole "intelligent design theory"... it doesn't answer the problem, it just moves it.

    OK, you figured out where we came from... great... now, how 'bout that designer?

    Not only that... but more questions arise:
    - where is the designer now?
    - how many others are there?
    - do they have enemies?
    - if we hook up with the enemies can we kick the designer's ass?

    Pandora's Box if you ask me...

  6. Re:Fantastic! on Mac OS X Tiger Released and Analyzed · · Score: 1

    it does let you do the same stuff, about 3x faster

    How long does it take to get the "application" to run properly on Mozilla on Linux?

    Or Safari on OSX?

  7. Re:OMG!!!! 19%!!!! on U.S. Wiretapping Surges 19% · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you take into account that it rose 48 percent during the previous 10 years?

    That is 4.8 percent a year if figured without compounding from year to year.

  8. Re:Summary Is a LIE!!! on U.S. Wiretapping Surges 19% · · Score: 4, Funny
    I just RTFA, and nowhere did it say how what percentage was approved vs. rejected.

    George Bush... is that you?

    Did you really read it?

    Huh?

    Even the first paragraph?
    The number of court-authorized wiretaps jumped 19 percent last year as investigators pursued drug and other cases against increasingly tech-savvy suspects. Every surveillance request made by authorities was granted.
    See the last sentence? That would be what we call a "word problem".

    It goes something like this:

    Every WMD in Iraq was destroyed, how many are left?
    a) none of them
    b) all of them
    c) I'm invading anyway
    d) all the above
  9. Re:Sample conversation with judge on U.S. Wiretapping Surges 19% · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's the Republican interpretation of "a judge must authorize".

    They say authorize and the judge must do it.

  10. Re:GPS on FCC to Push VoIP 911 Requirements · · Score: 2, Insightful

    is the FCC a government body

    I think the most important part of the question is missing: American

    As in United States.

    So, you simply won't be able to get VOIP from a US based company... use a foreign one instead.

    "Problem" solved.

  11. Re:The real difference on First Look at Libranet Linux 3.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I haven't got the 3.0 version yet, but I will.

    So, my answer covers version 2.8 which I paid for.

    With that version, Libranet was by far the easiest way to install Debian on SATA drives, install RealPlayer, install Acrobat, install Java, install NVidia drivers and set up the sound system correctly.

    Each of these things alone is not hard, they just take time. So, it really depends on the value of your time.

    My bill rate easily justified the cost, based on the time I saved using Libranet to do the installs.

    Since then, the Debian installer has gotten *much* better. So, at this point I could not justify buying 2.8.1.

    But, if version 3 of Libranet will set up and install on Raid 1 drives, then I can. Because this is something I do often and it still isn't easy with Debian.

    A lot will depend on how often you do the installs...

    HTH

  12. Re:Wish these were rights I want, or could agree w on Bush Signs a New Fair-Use Bill · · Score: 2, Funny

    culturally significant

    Like the Paris Hilton video?

    I think that qualifies as a "home movie"...

    ;-)

  13. Re:Pre beta review on Longhorn Beta is Disappointing · · Score: 3, Funny

    How will MS tear themselves out of this cycle?

    They'll buy the remnants of Amiga and fsck it up so badly that not even the most rabid fan would ever touch it again.

    Then when they've had a good laugh, they'll get back to work and add another 128MB to the memory requirements.

  14. Re:Train wreck indeed on Longhorn Beta is Disappointing · · Score: 5, Funny

    God..Why can't - after 2000, XP and 3 years in development - the HORRID ancient bitmap artwork for "Control Panel" icon, etc. go away!

    Because Apple doesn't have a control panel icon for them to use?

    (yeah, yeah... I know. System Preferences. It was a JOKE!)

  15. Re:Another Prime Example... on White House: No Kerry Supporters at IATC Meeting · · Score: 1
  16. Re:Short answer on Do We Need a Sarbanes-Oxley for The Internet? · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a response to Enron...

    If it doesn't stop GWB from giving Kenney Boy a pardon, it is a meaningless response to Enron.

  17. Re:for once... on French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs · · Score: 1

    Kinda looks like the missle defense system to me.

  18. Re:Way OT on Providers Ignoring DNS TTL? · · Score: 1

    You have bigger issues than not knowing how to use nslookup (or a man page).

  19. Re:Companies warning to NOT install the upgrade on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    I would waste my time explaining to anonymous dipshits that the browser was not developed as part of the OS, and therefor not a waste of the company's resources.

    Futhermore, and most importantly, I would applaud not having the browser be part of the OS. And not an unnecessary security vector for the entire OS.

    As things should be.

    Can't tell the difference between a browser developed by a company... and one included by a company?

    Try middle school. And stay awake this time...

  20. Re:Companies warning to NOT install the upgrade on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    If I wanted to accept someone else's idea of what I should run, then I'd run Windows.

    I don't... so I don't.

    Installing software is gonna happen.

    As far as I'm concerned, the only use of shipping a browser with an OS is to make it easy to get to Mozilla. But, in all truthfullness... I could do it without a browser.

    [checks...]

    Just for grins, I just went and downloaded 1.7.7 via the command line using ftp. So... fsck that. They can spend the browser money on something else.

    The OS should not have a built in browser. It is a waste of development resources. And, development with the OS invariably leads to security problems.

    Better the OS and browser were developed independently.

  21. Re:Be agile on What Makes a Good Design Document? · · Score: 1

    A) Make sure the bug really exists

    Before I...

    B) Enable debug mode

    and...

    C) Read the design docs (which are embedded in the code)

    If it isn't in the comments, it isn't documented.

  22. Re:Companies warning to NOT install the upgrade on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 0

    I would never notice a bookmark being added to Safari on my Mac.

    If I can't get an idea of where a link is going to send be before clicking on it (like in the status bar) then I see no reason to use the browser.

    And I'm not going to waste my time fiddling around trying to make it work when there is a better alternative, like Moz/Fox.

  23. Re:Future versions of the GPL on GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't the abscence of a version number lend support to the argument that is was licenced under the *only* version there was at the time?

    IE... the first version...

    Did the first version have a version number in anticipation of future versions?

  24. Re:openness, competition on Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM · · Score: 1

    and that's what the point of this congressional work is - to make sure the consumer doesn't get screwed.

    Actually, the point is to make sure the screwing is done by the congress critters donor.

    Believe me, screwing will be done.

    How dare the market decide something that has already been paid for via "contributions"!

  25. Re:Let's get the politics out of the way on Slashback: Electioneering, Blimps, Shuffling · · Score: 2, Informative
    The evidence? Their last names don't sound American enough.

    You forgot the punchline. Dude's last name is: Ringhofer.
    Man says votes from illegal immigrants
    He culled list of voters for names that 'appear' foreign
    Jim Camden
    Staff writer
    March 31, 2005

    A Soap Lake man is challenging the voting credentials of hundreds of Washington voters, saying he thinks they're illegal immigrants who registered and cast ballots illegally.

    But Martin Ringhofer may have a hard time proving the challenges he has filed in Spokane and 10 other Washington counties.

    For one thing, there's the methodology of his research. Ringhofer said he obtained a list of people who registered to vote when they obtained or renewed a driver's license, then culled the list for names "that appear to be from outside the United States," particularly those that appeared to be Hispanic or Asian.

    "We eliminated names that clearly sounded American-born, like John Smith, or Powell," he said Wednesday.

    For another, there's the fact that many of the people on his list are citizens. In fact, The Spokesman-Review contacted a dozen of the 161 people on Ringhofer's Spokane County list, and all of them are citizens.

    ...

    "I was well aware of the fact that there would be errors," he said.

    But he doesn't see that as a problem because people on the list who are citizens can simply tell county officials that they are citizens and provide some proof. It's not his responsibility to correct those mistakes, he insisted, but the job of county elections officials.

    ...
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