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  1. Re:Misleading summary translated on US Judge Rules Against German Microsoft Injunction · · Score: 1

    Motorola's actions outside US are still outside US court's jurisdiction.

  2. Re:Why? on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    Do you know, how many times a similar project was in exactly the same position, and ended up scrapped?

    My words are not directed toward Wayland developers, those people are headed for either massive failure or massive redesign, they are directed to people who consider "porting" good projects (gtk, qt, kde, compiz) to the clusterfuck in the making, thus giving it mindshare.

  3. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    Actually the whole problem with gold is that there is a very small amount of it available, compared to the total amount of currency that covers all world's trade and investment. If used as the currency of for backing of all currency, it would become ridiculously expensive, so all industry that uses gold as a material, would suffer. Compared to this, "fake debt" is a lesser evil, but eventually it will have to be replaced with something more trustworthy.

  4. Re:CONGRATULATIONS! on Multicore Chips As 'Mini-Internets' · · Score: 1

    But not mainstream CPUs.

    It was in "mainstream CPUs" since the first multicore designs. Better yet, HyperTransport, a CPU-attached bus, implemented routing. As in, rule-based packet forwarding.

  5. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    See my reply one comment above. If Christianity was not dominant, Christians in government would be all over the idea of taxing religious organizations.

  6. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Because government wants to conceal its support of dominant religion by spreading it to insignificant ones.

  7. Re:Actually, that's the fundamental difference on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    To you and the other commenters bringing up labor, yes, I am quite aware. But Marxists believe this is a constant, something that is tied almost exclusively to manpower alone, and that workers in a Capitalist system are always "exploited", by design, because they do not own the means of production. Except that under Marxism, almost all of the value is put on labor-power, not on innovation, special skills, new technologies, and similar — and there is no incentive to create anything.

    Under Marxism, "Innovation" is a form of labor, and "information" is just another kind of product. In 19th century there was (fallacious) claim that "innovation" is produced by Capitalists, what makes them essential in production and therefore "deserving" of their share of the profits, however same capitalists spent most of 19th and the whole 20th centuty shifting this work to just another kind of worker, thus debunking that argument.

    Do you think the internet or anything even remotely resembling a free global flow of information would exist in a Marxist utopia (aside for a moment the fact that die hard Marxists probably believe the world would be so wonderful a place that we wouldn't need free flows of information between and among people)? Do you really believe the world would be a better place? Please educate all of us on why Marxism is such a great system and worthy of any sort of respect or admiration.

    Have I said anything about the validity of Marxism? You made a massively stupid, misinformed claim about an important and widely known historical fact, the content of the Marxist theory. I have explained why your claim is stupid and misinformed. Why are you asking me all this, pretending that my opinion and political position have any effect on the established facts?

  8. Re:CONGRATULATIONS! on Multicore Chips As 'Mini-Internets' · · Score: 1

    Any modern motherboard has that, PCIe is developed around that, HyperTransport uses it, CPU cache architectures use it.

  9. CONGRATULATIONS! on Multicore Chips As 'Mini-Internets' · · Score: 0

    YOU HAVE INVENTED A BUS! It's time to start working on the first multitasking OS!

    What is it with idiots coming out of the woodwork presenting old (and often obsolete and abandoned such as virtualization) technologies as some kind of new development?

  10. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Businesses and governments don't have privacy.

  11. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    You have just described the most common activity in US.

    Yes, this is what their "freedom" is about, and I see absolutely nothing positive in it.

  12. Re:We really had to make a law for this? on Maryland Bans Employers From Asking For Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    $13 an hour for an MCSE certified, computer science background, Cisco router certification a plus, SQL Server administration, etc. No benefits

    That's exactly what those jobs should pay.

  13. Re:underestimated and decades late on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    If China is going to become like US, I should better go back to Russia to deal with both your train wrecks.

  14. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 2

    No, only since intellectuals started questioning religion.

  15. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    For many decades academics have been lapping up every last drop of anti-American propaganda that comes along and then regurgitating it to their students.

    Actually they are the source of it.
    Because it's true.

  16. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 0

    Yes. Over millennia of their history they never pulled a small fraction of the shit US pulled over the last fifty years.

  17. Re:So it begins on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    IF some words, we'll never be able to repay the debt we owe to China.

    What do you mean, if? Of course, US will never be able to repay its debt. Not just to China, to anyone. The only reason why this is tolerated, is because US predictably issues its debt, so it can be used a a currency. Not unlike sea shell used as a currency -- they do not correspond to any value, but there is a predictable supply of them, so with expected inflation they are better than things that are less predictable.

  18. Re:Actually, that's the fundamental difference on FBI Says American Universities Infiltrated by Spies · · Score: 1

    Communism generally espouses the view that wealth can only be transferred.

    Your ignorance is truly amazing.

    What do you think, Marxism recognizes as the only way to create value? It's labor! The whole freaking thing is centered around labor and its relationship to capital, property, etc.

    Seriously, the people who believe, they have something to say about Communism! Shut up, morons!

  19. Re:Load balancing and an experienced sysadmin on Ask Slashdot: Experience Handling DDoS Attacks On a Mid-Tier Site? · · Score: 1

    Why do you think that it worked? Load decreased?
    The goal of DoS is to make your server unusable to the clients. More likely than not, your "appliance" blocked most of legitimate requests, thus fulfilling the purpose of the attack.

  20. Re:NPR shell game on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    They are a nonprofit, dumbass! They can't just go and dip into profits or increase revenue to cover a loss.

  21. Re:Few to admit it, but a lot of parents teach thi on Internet Responds To Racist Article, Gets Author Fired · · Score: 1

    Tax exemption IS government funding.

    I have no idea what kind of justification can be given to this, other than "we are Christian country!!!".

  22. Re:IP does not identify more than the bill player on California Judge Denies Discovery In Bittorrent Case · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't sue you for the amount of "settlement", they would threaten you with a lawsuit for tens or hundreds millions of "damages", what would be a completely different matter.

  23. Re:Why? on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    Why should I talk to ignorant and arrogant people who don't understand basic features and use models of the system they are trying to replace?

    I would rather INFORM everyone else how harmful the "replacement" is so it will never get off the ground.

  24. Re:Why? on Update On Wayland and X11 Support · · Score: 1

    I understand your point, you consider network transparency vital. But if you want to convince people, you have to explain why network transparency is so lightly used.

    it's not ME who has to convince people. I am not the person who is insisting on replacing a working system with some vaporware based on the arguments from The Unix-Hater Handbook. It's people like Wayland developers who should defend their proposals to sabotage the functionality that was present, and in wide use on all Unix-like systems for three decades. All I have to do is to inform ignorant newbies about this.

  25. Re:Yep. So use HTTPS-Everywhere. on Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages · · Score: 1

    hairyfeet's anti-Linux campaign goes on for years -- he just dilutes it with various unrelated copypasta and karma whoring. It's only recently that he started raging on Firefox, and suddenly he presents itself as a random user "reporting" a nonexistent problem.