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  1. Re:DRM isn't dangerous. on RMS Calls to Liberate Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    As I understand it, free speech allows people to say bad things about you against your will.

    It is possible for a legislative solution to handle this without interferring with people who are willing to say good things about you.

  2. Re:The people who criticise Richard Stallman... on RMS Calls to Liberate Cyberspace · · Score: 1

    The GPLv3's web services clauses are akin to clauses to disallow piping output and input between GPLed and nonGPLed programs; in other words RMS has completely lost it.

  3. Re:Before anyone asks... on Billions Donated to Charity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That wouldn't make sense as he bas been a proponent of the estate tax because it encourages giving to charities!

  4. Re:Bull on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 1

    Hey dumbass, he didn't say he was still 15. And no, if it is a 15 year old kid who did this, he should not 'rot in jail'. If he takes pws and begins breaking into bank accounts with them, sure.

  5. Re:The IRCD could have helped with some of that... on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Internally the server just sends a message to nickserv when you do this, so it wouldn't have helped.

  6. Re:Alienation on Internet to Blame for Lack of Close Friends · · Score: 1

    Ok; decent reply. But isn't it true that widespread fear isn't necessarily bad? For instance, widespread fear of snakes caused Springfield to have an annual 'Whacking Day'. Look at how many snakes they managed to kill. By killing snakes, they managed their fear, in the sense that there was now less snakes to fear.

  7. Re:Password on IRC and you're worried? on Freenode Network Hijacked, Passwords Compromised? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I hope you aren't in a dorm room.

  8. Re:Internet, yes, but other factors too. on Internet to Blame for Lack of Close Friends · · Score: 1

    "sophisty"
     
    That looks like some prototypical typo from something like a column in a local newspaper. Also, nice troll.

  9. Re: population increase...from immigration on Internet to Blame for Lack of Close Friends · · Score: 1

    It isn't as simple as that article paints it. Download netlogo and look for one of the simulations in the social section. You can watch the effects of logo 'turtles' only being comfortable if they are around at least some minimum threshold of turtles of the same color as them. The result is always that the turtles will arrange themselves in such a way that those minimum thresholds are passed throughout almost every point in the distribution.

  10. Re:Alienation on Internet to Blame for Lack of Close Friends · · Score: 1

    Homer overcame fear when he attempted to ramp bart's skateboard over a canyon, and look where it got him; it isn't as simple as one little word.

  11. Re:Corporate advantage? on U.S. Secretly Tapping Bank Databases · · Score: 1

    'so long as those rights are stamped with the approval of the electorate.'
     
    The US constitution also involved an electorate.

  12. Re:Promise broken ...again on WinFS Gets the Axe · · Score: 1

    Beagle doesn't do what WinFS was going to do. In fact, there is something very similar to beagle that *is* to be shipped with Vista.

  13. Re:IPv6 Adoption on U.S. Government to Adopt IPv6 in 2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless the boxes are going to be communicating with each other that is a total nonissue. You can communicate behind NAT with anyone else 2-way; as long as they aren't also behind NAT.

  14. Re:Advertiser Fraud on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Other obvious though(because surveys might be a bit too intrusive, and unreliable): simulate paying customers in a statistically relevant way yourself and see if the sales are getting reported.

  15. Re:Advertiser Fraud on Google Launches Cost Per Action AdSense · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Handle this like any other similar problem: randomly survey users on whether they made a purchase. Smaller volume advertisers would be able to get away with it very often, but it would have a panopticon like effect.

  16. Re:I think... on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    If Google can't find out why that takes away the whole purpose of this, or at least of one major aspect of it. The telcos wanted to charge google etc. for preferential access. If they make this offer, then google knows; they don't need discovery. After any such offer they could simply put up a page, saying, "your ISP is treating us differently than the rest of the internet, so we thought we'd treat them differently as well: you can't search today."

  17. Re:I think... on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    Campaign finance reform has all of the trappings of a bad hack.

  18. Re:I think... on Net Neutrality, Schlocky Salesmen vs Monopolist Plumbers · · Score: 1

    Yo, my friend Shannon wants a word with you.

  19. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    The translation to bytecode isn't much more than what an assembler does... maybe it's an assembler.

  20. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    So, back when the G++ guys were deciding to make the C++ front-end to GCC, they should have instead just compiled the C++ to C++, sinc you know everyone uses GCC, and the fact that C++ is standardized doesn't mean anything.

  21. Re:Deserve what they get? on Telecommuting Backlash · · Score: 1

    "If they forget it, they are told, the HD is toast...but that makes them MUCH more careful!" No, that makes them write the password down somewhere. Also, in this case telling them you can recover it would probably make them use a stronger password.

  22. Re:Idea? on Ask Håkon About CSS or...? · · Score: 1

    Read his other interviews he has already answered this.

  23. Re:One thing on Yahoo! Opens up Their Instant Messenger · · Score: 1

    Google is completely open; you can connect with any jabber client and you can also connect any jabber server to their network (e.g. you can talk to people on google talk from your own jabber server and have a name like firstname@lastname.com).

  24. Re:Go Linux! on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 1

    2>>x... come on man.

  25. Re:There are valid uses for a GOTO on Linux 2.6.17 Released · · Score: 1

    That will only get called each time the top loop executes! We are talking about a deep nest here!