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  1. Re:NO... on Does Android Have a Linux Copyright Problem? · · Score: 2

    SOMETHING needs to strip it out. Whether it's the preprocessor during compilation, or the guy who checks it into SCM.

    Let's consider a shop with continuous integration of checked in code. EVERY TIME it compiles, that stuff needs to be stripped out. Might as well do it once and save the compiler farm's resources for actual compiling...

  2. Re:Again? on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    And he also agreed to blow the whistle on unlawful acts, didn't he?

  3. Re:Wow on PayPal Freezes Support Account For Bradley Manning · · Score: 1

    Being a "private entity" doesn't remove from you an obligation to act in Good Faith. This clearly sounds like it's not done in Good Faith.

    ( I use quotes because the 'privacy' of a registered corporation is something which should be quantified better, and depending on where you draw the line, pretty much every corp, llc, and llp can just STFU and obey whatever regulations are imposed. They always have the option, should they not like the regulations, of finding another way of structuring their business dealings which don't obligate them to obedience to regulation... )

  4. Re:What does this say... on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 2

    these guys haven't given up the desire to fight us.

    No one has proven that they had a desire to fight us in the first place. Due Process FTW!

  5. Re:WTF, seriously?! on N.C. Official Sics License Police On Computer Scientist For Too Good a Complaint · · Score: 1

    Dr af ting?

  6. Re:Don't buy anything from Sony for some time. on Sony Wins Restraining Order Against Geohot · · Score: 1

    Take a look on archive.org sometime and see how many shows in the live music archive were done on either a D5 or a D6. 20 years ago, Sony was the leader there. Around 10 years ago, I had a really nice Vaio.

    Now, I can't think of a product they make that I've got any interest in.

  7. Re:It isn't eveil if it benefits Google on Does Google Pin Copyright Violations On the ASF? · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, the allegedly infringing sections could be rewritten cleanly...

  8. Re:When this happens to the US or its allies on New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Why do you believe that Iran controls all of the Strait of Hormuz?

    What would it take? A couple of containers full of Chinese missiles?

  9. Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. on Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore · · Score: 1

    Who needs VLC when you have Mplayer?

    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890761

  10. Re:Something the judges should read on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    There is no consent to a breath test (or any other test) implied by driving.

    There's that little bit on your driver's license and vehicle registration forms about obeying the regulation of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

  11. Re:Why would you refuse a breathalyzer? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    I have never heard of a police officer, when being suspected of drunk driving, submit to any sort of tests. They take the suspension hearing every single time.

    Curious, that?

  12. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    Who is the Sovereign in a Constitutional Republic?

  13. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 2

    "For a third, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in what you do at work. For a fourth, the concept doesn't apply to the US government as a whole."

    I'd say that your 4th point is in direct contradiction to your 3rd point, given the government ( Of The People, By The People, and For The People ) is made up of employees, and employees don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

  14. Re:Hypocrites on Why WikiLeaks Is Unlike the Pentagon Papers · · Score: 1

    So far, Wikileaks has published approximately nothing that is shocking or surprising or that reveals unlawful activity

    I consider this shocking, surprising, and revealing unlawful activity: Anyone with half a brain should be able to realize that buying drugs and hired dancing boys for the entertainment of Afghan police you are helping to train is not something you want to do.

  15. Re:wtf on Is Wired Hiding Key Evidence On Bradley Manning? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can that contract compel him to commit criminal acts? No. Unlawful contracts are unlawful.

    Consider that cable about US Treasury funds ultimately being used to buy children for sex. If you have knowledge of that crime, Nuremberg tells us that you damned well better NOT follow orders, and you better to the right thing...

  16. Re:Netflix is not mooching ... on Netflix Touts Open Source, Ignores Linux · · Score: 1

    What O/S are they running all that on?

  17. Re:I think that MS WILL come out with something so on MS Hypes Win7 Tablets For CES — Again · · Score: 1

    Legacy applications? Can I install them through the App Store, or Package Manager?

  18. Re:The most surprising turn of events on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    Lets say your ISP assigns you 10.0.32.128. Now, kindly tell me how you plan to connect to your home PC from work.

    You pay a premium for a static, routable IP address?

  19. Re:Soo... on Free IPv4 Pool Now Down To Seven /8s · · Score: 1

    Those expensive routers already have IP addresses...

  20. Re:Legit? on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    I hate the way Eliot Spitzer's warnings about and prosecution of AIG will always take a back seat to the inconvenient fact that he liked to hang out with hos...

  21. Re:It's the apps, stupid on Hands-On With Acer's New 10-Inch Android Tablet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can you take this iPad, plug it into a USB jack on any PC, and copy over whatever files you want?

  22. Time to move to RHEL 6 on Oracle Solaris 11 Express Released · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a wonderfully simple solution to this. Time to move off them expensive SPARC boxes...

  23. Re:That AND the cost. I'll stay at home thanks on Prepare To Be Watched While You Watch a Movie · · Score: 1

    COOL! Admission to movie theaters in New York State is governed by NY Civil Rights Law, section 40b.

    No person, agency, bureau, corporation or association, being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public entertainment and amusement as hereinafter defined shall refuse to admit to any public performance held at such place any person over the age of twenty-one years who presents a ticket of admission to the performance a reasonable time before the commencement thereof, or shall eject or demand the departure of any such person from such place during the course of the performance, whether or not accompanied by an offer to refund the purchase price or value of the ticket of admission presented by such person; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed
    to prevent the refusal of admission to or the ejection of any person whose conduct or speech thereat or therein is abusive or offensive or of any person engaged in any activity which may tend to a breach of the peace.

    The places of public entertainment and amusement within the meaning of this section shall be legitimate theatres, burlesque theatres, music halls, opera houses, concert halls and circuses.

    I don't see "Or is holding undeclared snackfoods in the Law, do you?"

  24. Re:The Cathedral and the Bazaar on Devs Grapple With 100+ Versions of Android · · Score: 1

    You might not have noticed this, but your phone IS a computer.

  25. Re:digg does not need to worry anymore on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids!