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  1. Re:Cool! on ICANN Selects New Top Level Domains · · Score: 1

    Ecstasy, the drug that is as dangerous as your parents said!

  2. Actually, on Even More Porn Image Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    That's not a bad idea. Wonder how hard it'd be to implement.

  3. Re:Power of 2 on Formation of the KDE League · · Score: 1

    And...
    3 is the smallest number larger than 2.

  4. Doesn't violate 1'st amendment on WHO Bid To Regulate Health Sites · · Score: 4

    Since, if you don't agree with WHO, you don't have to be in .health. After all, no one seriously thinks that .mil violates the 1st amend since it's restricted to US military? Or .edu being restricted to schools?

  5. I don't care on Inprise's Kylix To Be Opened? & Gnome Alliance · · Score: 2

    If it's open or closed. As a developer, I just want it! Soonest. I've used Builder from ver 1.0 and Visual C++ from 2.0. Builder is better! Easier to use, and therefore faster to develop with. Linux desperately needs a RAD tool, and Kylix would be perfect for that.

  6. Re:IHLF on Internet Usage Records Accessible Under FOI Laws · · Score: 2

    I Hit Laughing Fnords

  7. Re:Strict Process OR Voters Constitutional Rights? on Statistics, Elections, Frustration · · Score: 1

    Of course, they waited until the last minute to go vote. I voted before 0700. There was no real reason to wait until the last minute. Come on, these people had 12 hours to get into the voting booth. The reason they showed up late was that the party went and rounded them up at the last minute. If they had been truly interested in voting they would have gone on their own, and earlier.

  8. In related news... on Linus Confirms 2.4 In December · · Score: 4

    Understanding the Linux Kernel has been released by O'Reilly


  9. Re:What REALLY is driving Linus... on Linus Confirms 2.4 In December · · Score: 1

    Kernel 2.4 and daughter 3.0!


  10. Re:Could spell end for electoral college.. on And The Winner Is... Nobody! · · Score: 1

    It's not a democracy, it's a republic. There's a difference.

  11. Re:Honest question on Nautilus 0.5 PR2 Released · · Score: 1

    catchup vs katsup vs ketchup, Cry Havoc! and let the Holy War begin!

  12. Re:Whatever happened to a simple net connection? on Two-Way Satellite Internet Is Here! · · Score: 1

    Of course, if you live in the desert/bottom of the Grand Canyon, etc, there are no other choices. The Havasupai reservation has no landline links. The mail comes by mule train. But they do have net access via satellite!

  13. Good specs on Greenspun on Managing Software Engineers · · Score: 2

    "put out a working product built to spec within the amount of time allocated. " You have complete specs? How unusual. As a programmer I have found that the customers desires, and therefore specs, change during the course of a project. One of the hardest things to do is to get a customer to agree that "That feature needs to be in the next version." Because of this, the spec is never complete, therefore the project never is.

  14. Re:Military -- None Yet on Higher Pay For U.S. Federal Computer Jobs · · Score: 1

    Anyone who joins the military, in a tech field, for the money is on drugs. Note, however, that he mentions "better training" as one of the things that would help retention. He doesn't mean tech training. Shows that he knows why he's a Marine!

  15. Who is Margaret Wertheim? on The Net as the New Jerusalem · · Score: 3

    Jon, how about a reference? If her work isn't online, how about article/book titles? It's hard to evaluate her ideas if we don't see them!

  16. Re:Anyone know... on Lawson Of Japan To Install 15,000 Linux Terminals · · Score: 1

    According to zdnet, it's RedHat

  17. No on Explaining The Symbiosis Between QNX RtP & Linux · · Score: 1

    QNX is an embedded devices operating system. Has been for years. It was designed to use very little memory. Be very stable. And very (timeslice-wise) predictable. Having worked in the embedded world I have run on systems where we were trying to sqeze the size of the OS+Program+Data to less than 1k. Try doing that with Be. Or a regular Linux, for that matter. Be, Linux, Windows are "optimized" to run on machines with many megs of ram, large hard drives, other desktop (or server!) type of accessories. QNX and other embedded os's run on hardware that is very small. Think the "opposite" of a server

  18. Re:Quantum Computing Swindle on Further Advances In Quantum Computing · · Score: 1

    Semiconductors were developed based upon quantum mechanics. If quantum mechanics doesn't work then neither do semiconducting devices such as transistors, diodes, etc.

  19. You won't get them back on When The FBI Knocks, A First-Person Account · · Score: 2

    Read The Hacker Crackdown. Written in 94 about this sort of thing being done to BBS users/operators. An important book for anyone who goes online.

  20. Tell my boss about this on Microsoft Cracked · · Score: 1

    As he really likes to use MS software on major systems that we sell to our customers. With Unix we can tweak the security setings at a finer grained level. And (with OSS) find out where the holes are, and fix them ourselves.

  21. Plurality is not the problem on Messages From Democracy's Ghosts · · Score: 1

    The problem, the mathematicians say, lies in the voting system itself, and the way it thwarts the popular will. ... In our system, the winner often amasses only a plurality, not a majority, of the votes

    The majority once thought that africans were property, later that they should not vote. The same applied to women. The majority is not always right, that's why the USA is a Republic, not a Pure Democracy. Pure Democracies make it easy to oppress those of differing beliefs, because the majority can set the laws, and their enforcement, without significant opposition. Multi-party parliamentary systems can go too far in giving minorities power, just look at the influence that small minorities in Israel have had on it's government where small religious parties can wield influence far beyond their size. Note that Britian has a two-party (for all practical purposes) Parliament.

  22. Re:Desktop apps are a dead business on Whole Slew Of Commercial Linux Apps? · · Score: 1


    Do you use e-mail? Is your mail editor a desktop app? What about your text editor? What if you don't want your contact list on someone else's server where they can see it (opinion piece in e-week on this)? Is video recording (a la Tivo) not a desktop app? What about financial management ( Iknow, I know, you absolutely trust the online company where you store your data not to abuse it.)Etc. Etc. Ad Nauseum.

    There are many places for the desktop app.

  23. Re:Along the same lines... on Candidates' Positions On Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Neither tracking your children's web site visits or reading their e-mail is difficult. If you're running Linux or BSD, just use squid as a proxy and log in as root to read the e-mail.

  24. integeration of electronic material on Massachusetts Universities To Require Laptops · · Score: 1

    Obviously, Hemos skipped English classes at NMU.

  25. I wish... on How Will Law Continue to Affect Technology? · · Score: 1

    That people would proofread before posting.
    From the above comment: "classib=cally bin the untimate dfence " What, did you just copy something from a make file? Trying to be funny? A product of the US Public School System? Is "untimate" the opposite of "ultimate"?
    "Dfence" as opposed to "cfence" or "efence"?