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  1. Re:Why are they so desperate ? on FSF Issues GNU/Linux Name FAQ · · Score: 2

    Some of the rest of the OS. For example, there is no GNU Init, GNU Cron, or GNU Getty at this time.

  2. Re:Shipping? We Don't Need No Stinking Shipping! on US Geeks Recycle GNU/Linux Boxes for Ecuador · · Score: 2

    If you look at the actual figures, you get a different picture. In 1997, the US murder rate was 18,209. In the same year, in England and Wales, there were 739 murders. Population of England and Wales, about 52 million. Population of US, about 270 million.. Therefore E&W murder rate of 1.4 per 100,000 is much smaller than the rate of 6.8 per 100,000 for the USA.

  3. Re:Vendor lock-in on BEA WebLogic Server Bible · · Score: 2

    J2EE is a standard for what an application server should provide. However, it doesn't say anything about how the app server should provide it. In particular, the administration is wide open. This is quite similar to webservers. We have CGI which says how the webserver should interface with the program, but there are lots of different ways that the server can be implemented, and admined. If you write a program using CGI, you can be sure it will work on any server which supports CGI, but there are still books on how Apache is configured. This is no different.

  4. Re:Why are they so desperate ? on FSF Issues GNU/Linux Name FAQ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the tools which were used to create Linux and make it into a self-hosted development enviroment were often Minux. At the time of creation of Linux, a lot of the people who jumped on the bandwagon were Minux users who had reached the limits of what Minux could do. That`s why the announcement was in comp.os.minux, Linux has support for Minux file systems, and for a while, you needed Minux to compile the kernel. Read the Original announcement for the details.

  5. Re:Free Mickey Mouse! on Public Domain Superheroes? · · Score: 2

    You've got it exactly backwards. Mickey Mouse's copyright has been extended to 70 years. There is a move underway to reverse that.

  6. Re:"Never copyrighted"? on Public Domain Superheroes? · · Score: 2

    This is true in the USA AFTER 1976. Before then, the copyright laws required the creator to put 'copyright creator' and register it in order to get copyright. If either was omitted, it was public domain.

  7. Re:They already did this (NT POSIX) on Ballmer: "We'll Outsmart Open Source" · · Score: 2

    Dos adopted Unix features with DOS 2.0, when directory structures were added. Since then, Nothing.

  8. Re:What about SUB-SELECTS? on IBM, MS Critique MySQL · · Score: 2

    5. Encapsulation. The user of the database doesn't have to know the underlying implementation. This allows the database designer to change the implementation when appropriate. This is something we've always found to be a HUGE advantage when making anything other that the most trivial systems.

  9. Re:Why Elvis? on DRM: How To Boil A Frog · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "The Rolling Stones" is a Heinlein book.

  10. Re:Simply put on HDTV and Its Impending Problems? · · Score: 2
    The first is that the 'balanced' budget was predicated on the govt. getting paid a vast sum for the returned analog licenses.

    And now, all educated commentators say that there is little chance of them getting much from it. The collapse of the telecoms market has removed much of the fire behind the late 90's bandwidth sales, and recent ones have disapointing at best.

  11. Re:Librarians, throw down your yokes! on Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians · · Score: 2, Informative

    Every lending library has a record of what books are currently out on loan, and who to. That's unavoidable unless you want your books to disappear. However, once the book has been returned, it's perfectly feasable to destroy that record, and make it impossible to get a loan history of the client. This has no risk - the book has been returned.

  12. Re:GPL Death Penalty on Is UnitedLinux Violating The GPL? · · Score: 2

    Every TLA has multiple meanings. GDP has at least 12 meanings. Adding 1 more won't make much difference.

  13. Re:I was lucky... on Cern Mass Produces Anti-Hydrogen · · Score: 2

    I take it that the answer doesn't involve a giant fridge.

  14. Re:That's not going to happen soon with the FBI! on CA Court Favors Employees in Trade Secret Decision · · Score: 2
    It seems you don't know any real hackers.

    Most people don't. The majority of 'hackers' are script kiddies.

  15. Re:Evil on David Brin on "Attack of the Clones" · · Score: 2

    However it's his 5th with 'story by' or 'written by' credit, and out of those, 3 did have the little ship blowing up the big round ship storyline. I'm still sure that Leigh Bracket's influence on the storyline of ESB is the majority, and responsible for it's excellence.

  16. Re:The Biggest Problem... on David Brin on "Attack of the Clones" · · Score: 2
    The nature of stories is timeless

    I disagree with this. The nature of stories on the printed page, in live performances, and in recorded performances are all different. A live performer can react to his audience. A book and a movie can't. On the other hand, a book taps directly into the readers imagination, while both plays and movies have to deal with what they present. This means that movies are unlike both books and plays, and the nature of them is unique and unknowable to anyone before 1930 or so.

  17. Re:I'm not a sysadmin, but... on How Well Does Perl2exe Work for Large Applications? · · Score: 2

    Actually Indigostar are the answer to this too. Indigoperl is a perl5.6.1 which requires no registry settings, and can be installed with a simple bat script (which adds to the path & does a file association).

  18. Re:mod_perl is not just "quicker CGI" on mod_perl Developer's Cookbook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    An example of one of these content management systems would be mason, http://www.masonhq.com, and mason apps such as Fuse CMS and Bricolage. I find Mason to be just as powerful as multi-thousand dollar applications such as StoryServer

  19. Re:BBC already made a TV version ... on Hitchhikers Guide To Be Made Into A Movie · · Score: 2

    The visual special effects are much better in the radio version.

  20. Re:Greg's Previews has had info on this for two ye on Hitchhikers Guide To Be Made Into A Movie · · Score: 2

    This is obviously a hoax. The real Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal would eat all of the assoicate producers.

  21. Re:Volcano question - found the right link! on Alton Brown Answers, At Last · · Score: 2

    No. The reason you can walk on hot coals is that most people get confused about temperature and heat. To take an example, if you turn on your oven, and put a cake into it. After 30 minutes, everything is at the same temperature. If you put your hand into the oven, you'll find that you can easily bear the air. You can touch the cake, but it's uncomfortable. If you were silly enough to touch the metal rails, you'd get burned. This is because air has a poor heat capacity, it takes relativly little energy to raise it 1 degree. The metal has a high heat capacity, it takes lots of energy to raise it 1 degree. The coals, while they have a high temperature, they have a low heat capacity, and therefore there is little available energy to transfer to the firewalker's feet.

  22. Re:Open standards on Helping Computers Help Themselves · · Score: 2
    more info on this guy (Robert Morris), here is an

    Just make sure you get the right Robert Morris. You want this one, not this one, nor this one. (Anyone got a link to a picture of the elder Morris?, the only one I can find is google cache

  23. Re:Why 'Kahn is so great on Star Trek: Pick A Plot · · Score: 2

    Nowadays it is, but syndication didn't come in until after the FCC's 1970 Financial Interest Syndication Rules and Prime Time Access Rules. This created the market which demands the 5 years of epsiodes. If these rules had been in place in 1969, then Star Trek may have remained in production for an additional series or two in order to round the syndication package.

  24. Re:Why 'Kahn is so great on Star Trek: Pick A Plot · · Score: 2
    The original star trek series was cancelled -- early

    I wouldn't call it early. Very few series get as many as 79 episodes, especially one hour series. Getting cancelled early is something like the ex-Seinfeld shows with 5, 8, or 10 episodes.

  25. Re:Open Code Doesn't Guarantee Integrity on Electronic Voting's Fundamental Flaws · · Score: 2
    Since the dates of US National Elections are fixed to infinity (they are always the 1st Tuesday in November) and since many voting systems (as well as computer systems) rely on real-time clocks, it is certainly plausible to create a hardware trap that only goes off on election day.

    I agree with what you say, but this particular issue should be defeatable by having all tests of the voting equipment with their internal clocks set to the date of the true election.