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  1. Re:Pfah. on Yale Researchers Prove That ACID Is Scalable · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Unless you're writing the code for the database engine, you are NOT a database programmer, you're an application programmer...

  2. Re:Does it still require you to install a RDBMS? on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    And if you do, why not just use Sqllite?

  3. Re:Why won't ASCAP or BMI people show themselves? on ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates · · Score: 1

    Like this: http://www.ascap.com/about/board-intro.html

    Or this: http://bmi.com/about/entry/533112

    Personally, I've been giving Paul Williams too much credit for being cool. This stuff shows he might be kind of a dick.

  4. Case Study, Martha Stewart... on Lower Merion School District Update · · Score: 1

    Fibbed to a Fed, while not even under oath, and did a year behind bars.

    18 USC 1001 is a hell of a law.

  5. Re:I don't get it? on Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention · · Score: 1
  6. The prototypical implementation... on ISS To Get Man Cave · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Impeach George Bush!!! on Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? · · Score: 1

    The word you're looking for is INDICT.

  8. Re:The glasses suck terribly on The Movie Studios' Big 3D Scam · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of a pair of these. But I don't expect another movie to motivate me to the cinema now that I've seen Avatar.

  9. Re:Devil's advocate on Gates and MS Don't See Eye-To-Eye On CO2 · · Score: 1

    Space Based Solar/Beamed Microwave. Nukes are only worthwhile until we have the constellation of satellites built.

  10. Re:You don't. You find out what the software did on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Good luck with that. There a business rules implemented by people who aren't there anymore for people who aren't there anymore. And it's all tied to whether $variable_1 is an "A" or "B" and $variable_2 being 999.

  11. What's with this CoreSurface licensing restriction on Code Review of Doom For the iPhone · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only way to do this on iPhone with an acceptable framerate would be to use CoreSurface/CoreSurface.h framework. But it is unfortunately restricted and using it would prevent distribution on the AppStore.

    Now this is what really annoys me. Here are tools. Appropriate tools. But you aren't allowed to use the tools, because what you're going to use them for offends The Gods.

    What was that RMS was saying again?

  12. Re:Honestly on "No Scan, No Fly" At Heathrow and Manchester · · Score: 1

    How do you feel about these employees checkout out your wife and daughter's breasts and asses?

  13. Re:Are you sure? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, why would anyone, including Microsoft, want to bring down CPAN?

    Jealousy?

  14. Re:Smaller companies? on NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't speak to other states, but in New York, it's ordered by County ( with a very few City jurisdictions ), and you remit the total tax collected on a single check with a quarterly form. It's fairly trivial.

  15. Better Answer on Music While Programming? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fire off a memo/email to the boss and HR every time you're distracted by the ambient noise.

    Guy comes to fill the vending machines? That's a memo.

    Someone in a nearby cube on the phone? That's a memo.

    Boss walks through the cubes talking to someone else? That's a memo.

    Make the point that unless you either have a private office with a door, OR SOME METHOD OF ISOLATING THE AMBIENT DISTRACTIONS IN YOUR CUBE, you're going to continue documenting every time you're distracted due to his stupidity.

  16. Remind me what that "G" in GNOME stands for again? on GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You're not going to be able to call it GNOME, will you?

  17. Hex, is that you? on Ants That Can Count · · Score: 1

    ++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start.

  18. Redundant Technology on How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Given that the US Government had AT&T put optical splitters on the network backbones a while back, isn't this CAELA stuff obsolete? It still presumes that Warrants count and stuff and that they're not already copying all voice and data communications.

  19. Re:Traffic court... on Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? · · Score: 1

    The only reason it remains is because of the sheer massive size of the monstrosity, how much income and how many jobs depend on the entire thing.

    That -- and the little fact that you agreed to these crazy rules when you signed that driver's license application and vehicle registration application. Caveat Emptor applies to transactions with the State, too. But hey, the value of a good set of Papers is without measure, so it's generally worth the extra hassle.

  20. Good thing everyone ENCRYPTS their private email! on An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment · · Score: 1

    Wrap that thing in an envelope for Cripe's Sake!

  21. Re:What a Troll! on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not that anyone cares that MSFT booked the revenue in Nevada.

    BUT, That means the Laws of Nevada are dominant, not Washington. Microsoft needed to make one choice, but they seem to want the best of both worlds.

  22. "Those lights are off on purpose" on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    I think it's intentional.

    MSFT *knows* there isn't a single compelling reason for anyone to move off of XP, and everyone would REALLY rather have XP fixed than to go through another upgrade cycle.

    But MSFT also knows that without that upgrade cycle their revenues are gonna be hurting.

    So. The do the whole "XP replacement" (Windows 7), and then back out some of the better changes (Vista), release that to overwhelming derision, and then slowly un-revert the code, releasing the beta and RC versions, resulting in the eventual release of Windows 7.

    BUT. The get ahead of all the negative. "Oh, THAT was Vista.. This is Windows 7. It's got ELECTROLYTES!"

  23. Re:Can I tell it to go away when I don't need it? on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    I think that's a very important point. Up above in an prior comment, one of the devs was talking about the bad distro packaging.

    BUT... What pulseaudio needs is a VERY CLEARLY LABELLED Off Switch.

  24. This is why we have Macs on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe the solution to any *PROFESSIONAL* Linux Audio Production issue is to just go buy a Mac.

  25. Re:A 10:1 consultant to employee ratio? on Open Source Could Have Saved Ontario Hundreds of Millions · · Score: 1

    Or you could deploy the VAs VistA system.