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  1. Re:Why do they assume on Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    > It don't work like that.

    Neither does english.

    (sorry I couldn't resist)

  2. Re:Why Yahoo on Microsoft/Yahoo! Merger a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    > I would actually be interested to know what products (if any) they have that are powered
    > mostly or entirely by Python. Does anyone know?

    At least they have Guido van Rossum http://www.python.org/~guido/ who invented Python.

    So I suppose they need this language one way or another...

  3. Re:Lucky he wasn't shot... on French PM Unreceptive To RMS · · Score: 1
    > Actually none of them was answered.

    You wonder why, here's an explanation : RMS is a genius, but our "beloved" prime minister clearly is not.

    Maybe he didn't want to look stupid when asked some questions about DRM...

  4. Re:Should share credit with Perelman on Chinese Mathematicians Prove Poincare Conjecture · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I thought too !

  5. Pictures on Parasitic Infection Flummoxes Victims and Doctors · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't speak about what these people feel, or why.

    But, what I can speak about from experience, is that all the pictures on their website ARE NOT made by medical personnel or equipment, or else this personnel has to be fired. I know since I view medical pictures every day in the course of my job.

    They are all blurred and noisy and there's no way to know the exact size of samples. This, more than the stories themselves, makes the whole difficult to be trusted.

    BTW I've myself got a strange condition : I've got greenish, slimy, self reproducing insects which live in my nose, and which make me want to scratch it all the time. As of today, noone has been able to explain this very rare infection to me.

  6. Re:Same with WiFi and cell phones on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1

    > There were some rooms where my eyes would water

    Did you have laser printers in the room ?

    Did the room have a fresh air supply ? (like opening the windows for a few minutes every day)

    In a previous job we had a laser printer in a very small closed room, staying there more than a few minutes was very very difficult and the smell in the room was strange when the printer was up for a few days.

    I think laser printers produce ozone and many greats things like that, see http://www.safety.ed.ac.uk/resources/General/print ers.shtm for details.

  7. Re:Journalism at its finest on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1

    > Thirdly it would be the first time the French government is interested in the
    > consumers and not doing wathever the music lobbies want it to do.

    So we can reasonably believe this is highly unlikely.

  8. Billions... on Lab Produces 3.6 Billion Degree Gas · · Score: 2, Funny

    If it's billions, we don't care if the unit is Kelvin, Fjfhskjdhheit or Celsius...

  9. Re:Just try OTRS on Personal Ticket Tracking System for Admins? · · Score: 1

    Bug tracking systems are completely overkill and inadapted for sysadmins who don't need to track source code revisions, source patches, etc... Also, I can't see a need for a BTS to accept phone tickets, but they are definitely a must have for software like OTRS.

  10. Re:Just try OTRS on Personal Ticket Tracking System for Admins? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.

    You are confusing Apples and Oranges.

    The OP wanted a ticketing system for administrators, and NOT a bug tracking system. Both things exist, but serve different purposes.

  11. Just try OTRS on Personal Ticket Tracking System for Admins? · · Score: 1

    OTRS : http://www.otrs.org/

    Works like a charm and is relatively simple to setup.

  12. Re:NewSQL on MySQL's Response to Oracle's Moves · · Score: 1

    Zope is a full-blown object database, with connectors to most if not all existing relational databases. Zope doesn't need to integrate a Java Virtual Machine, Python is way ahead of Java in functionnalities and ease of use. Zope is not entirely written in Python, since some routines are written in C.

    That being said, Zope IS a resource hog, but comparing it with PHP is a joke. You are comparing apples and oranges here. And for the inabilities to meet the functional requirements, the problem is probably more with the developers who didn't knew Zope enough and knew PHP well.

  13. Re:NewSQL on MySQL's Response to Oracle's Moves · · Score: 1

    If I could, I'd mod you up !

  14. Re:NewSQL on MySQL's Response to Oracle's Moves · · Score: 1

    > revolutionary development platform for the web

    "Revolutionary" ?

    You mean like... Zope ? Zope became Free Software around 1998 IIRC, and existed even before.

  15. Re:Three words: on Rumsfeld Requests 24-hour Propaganda Machine · · Score: 1

    Wahabi... Isn't it a Japanese sauce ?

    (just joking)

  16. Re:Employment Opportunity: on Robot Piloted by a Slime Mold · · Score: 1

    > Cephalopods could also apply.

    Cthulhu ?

  17. Re:I wonder on Operation 'Cyber Storm' Starts Tomorrow · · Score: 5, Funny

    Solving such a problem is easy : just tell your president to call Jack Bauer !

  18. Another reason on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe they want their product's performance to not look too bad...

    Once an antivirus is bundled, chances are that the overall performance will fall.

  19. Re:Damned if they do, Damned if they don't on No Anti-Virus in Vista · · Score: 1

    > I can shop around between Microsoft, Symantec, McAfee, etc. It also
    > gives the hardware (eg Dell, Gateway, HP, etc.) and network (eg
    > Time-Warner, Verizon, etc.) vendors the ability to provide this
    > protection.

    You forgot Sony !

  20. Re:Who out there stilll doesn't get it? on Clock Ticking for Nyxem Virus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Excepted that the election was recognized as being a democratic one, so you've got absolutely nothing to say if the results don't please you, and that "on average" the whole Hamas is probably less harmful to the world than GW Bush alone, and caused less deaths.

  21. Not exactly a living but... on Making a Living Building Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    ... not bad for part time and GPLed work :

        http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/spons orinfo

  22. Ouch ! on Canadian Record Label Fights RIAA Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    a McBride who doesn't like to sue people !

    I think he is probably not from the same family than the other ones...

  23. Don't you think... on Getting Fingerprint Readers to Read Your Prints? · · Score: 1

    ... that maybe what didn't work was when you registered your fingerprints for the first time, instead of when you try to make the scanner check them ?

    If the original fingerprint was bad, you can put as much shit as you want on your finger, this won't make the scanner think your actual fingerprints match the original one.

    Or am I writing something stupid ? (I've never seen a fingerprint scanner in my life)

  24. Re:100,000 personnel on French Military Police Switches to Firefox · · Score: 1

    > Is the military police force in France used for more than just policing
    > members of the French military?

    Yes.

    I don't know the details, but you usually find the "gendarmerie nationale" in small towns, while you'll find the "police nationale" in larger cities.

    Their work sometimes overlap, which gives interesting results...

  25. Re:That's certainely great and all, but... on Microsoft to Open up Office Formats · · Score: 1

    I think we already have this :

    http://www.oasis-open.org/news/oasis_news_05_23_05 .php

    so we don't need MS' crap.