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  1. Re:no surprise there on Apple's OS X Leopard In Depth · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Vista still beats WinME!
    (kinda...)

  2. Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... on OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th · · Score: 1

    'Coz "M$ & Vista" copied a *load* of OSX features, but badly. (Expose, Dashboard, Spotlight, .MAC ...)
    What he should do is just copy back (ZIP folders...

  3. Re:What will happen to English? on The World's Languages Are Fast Becoming Extinct · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nothing is new. English started so that "Norman knights could chat up Saxon barmaids"
    And now it's used for Russian Rubyists to insult Portuguese Pythonistas? Plus ca change ...

  4. Re:Dickhead on Justice Department's Bio-terror Mistake · · Score: 1

    You are full of shit. Israel was founded on terrorism - look up the King David Hotel Bombing. Planned with the help of the first leader of Israel at the orders of the sixth leader. And this wasn't an isolated incident, but was part of a terrorist campaign. All this before the Arab wars / War of Independence.

  5. Re:Freefall.... on Canadian Dollar Reaches Parity with US$ · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:Nested Rings of Decreasing Trust on Internet Security Moving Toward 'White List' · · Score: 1

    This is the way Windows *should* do it, and did in the early versions (up to NT 3.51). The catch is this way
    is slower, so for performance reasons various exceptions have been made. The Graphics subsystem in NT4, IIS when it was getting spanked by Apache, SQL server and more, and now even parts of .NET
    Any of these "privilidged" subsystems can now compromise the security of the OS.
    And that now includes IE and Clippy...
    So the M$ engineers tried to do a good job, but were overruled.

  7. Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    That's cool! Hadn't seen that one, and I run Debian. Must give it a go...

  8. Re:Interesting... on GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC? · · Score: 1

    What happened to the Linux distro with the BSD userspace - haven't heard about that in a while now...

  9. Re:She's a Federalist, that's not enough? on USPTO Sued Over "Unqualified Appointment" · · Score: 1

    Dude, you need an eyetest.

  10. Re:Mixed feelings on Slot Machine with Bad Software Sends Players To Jail · · Score: 1

    No, we do not live in an "everything you can get away with is legal" society. You need cash to get away with it, oh and to commision new laws.

  11. Re:First Sale Rights on eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past? · · Score: 1

    Doh!

  12. Re:First Sale Rights on eBay Bargains Soon To Be A Thing Of The Past? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How quaint. Right of fist sale's going the way of right to privacy.

  13. Re:Microsoft's plan is to keep adding cores... on Will Pervasive Multithreading Make a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Atypical? Not at all.

  14. Re:prompt? on Warning On Office 2007 "Try-Before-You-Buy" · · Score: 1

    Second data point. The trial does do that.

  15. Re:Fork? on Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' · · Score: 1

    Without GNU, the Linux movement would have had a different compiler, linker, shell and the old Sun libc. Without the Linux movement GNU wouldn't have more than a few hundred users. (Remember how often gcc updated before it got a kick in the pants from the penguin? Say "Thankyou, Linux community, for getting rid of the abomination of gcc v1 and the stagnation of gcc v2") Putting GNU first is shameless and ungrateful self publicity. Gnu without Linux is *nothing*. Linux without Gnu would be different, but only slightly poorer. It's time for quite a bit of gratitude from the FSF for dragging them out of academic obscurity. And that can start with an apology for *ever* putting gnu in front of Linux.

  16. The relevent equation... on Optimum Copyright Period Decided by Math · · Score: 1

    Disney$$$>math

  17. I'm not going to run this... on Scanner Spots Open Source Installations · · Score: 1

    Until there's a Linux version.

  18. Tagging beta... on National Archive File Format Time Bomb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ITSATRAP!

  19. Re:Highly improbable on Deathbed Confession Says Aliens Were at Roswell · · Score: 1

    And what about those things the government *has* been able to keep secret? I haven't heard about any of them - damn, they're good!

  20. Re:What Do We *Already* See No Evidence Of? on Far Future Will See No Evidence of Universe's Origin · · Score: 1

    Life's been around fow, what, 1.8E9 years? Fossil fuels are, what, 3E8 years old? So there's been no civilization in a while. And remember, that long ago unrefined uranium was reactor grade... (OK, so highly unlikely, but deep time can hide a *lot*).

  21. Re:Moore isn't Neutral on Google Protects Healthcare From Michael Moore · · Score: 1

    These decisions will get made. But will they be made on the basis of clinical reasons or financial ones? Which descision will benefit most patients or which decision will maximize profit?

  22. Re:Star Wars on The United States Space Arsenal · · Score: 1

    The morally bankrupt *never* win. However, after most victories the concept of "morally bankrupt" is retrospectively redefined.

  23. Re:Not yet on Is the CD Becoming Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Vinyl isn't as good as you'd think: at theoretical best only slightly better than CDs, in reality quite a bit worse. Here's why

  24. Re:Non-paternity rate: reference on Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but my money's on somewhere in Essex.

  25. Re:Why was the altitude changed? on First Ever Scramjet Reaches Mach 10 · · Score: 1

    Hmm, lemme see. First page of google hits on "mi" Michigan and MI5. Nothing about distance.
    Better disguise, but still a strawman.