User: linuxislandsucks

Re:I lost him here...finally

On: What The Bubble Got Right

Finally an actual sladotter who read it considered the assumtpions..

Yes, most of P G's articles are based on questionable assumptions and more questionable thesis statments..

Most finanical wizards describe the bubble as the fleecing of Retirement fundws.. which in fact was..as we the investment public moved from indvidual stocks in the 1980s to mutual funds as our major source of funding for IRAs and etc..

and yet

On: Amec Working on Long-Term Nuclear Waste Solution

and yet we still cannot speed up the actiosn to test whether or not after 2,000 years the radiated glass is in fact harmless...

You know they did the atomic wii projects basd onthe same we hope it works long term philisophy and you know where that got us???

hmm VMs

On: Nokia Phone Gets Virus Protection

why not just run Vms on the device..JVMs are secure..and I am sure MS.NET Vms are

Remember folks NEWS?

On: Is Sun Turning against Linux and Red Hat?

Remember folks, NEWS?

Same type of tatics and SUN lost..this why SUN's CEo hatees FOSS and OpenGroup a tpoi9nt stating that FOSS stands fro Forever Opossing Sun microSytems..

They will not win this time either

Fundamentalism

On: Ask Green Party Presidential Candidate David Cobb

We have a current sitting President that see's nothing in his instance of over ruling scientific findings on stem cell research and yet claiming that other Islamic fundamentalism is wrong..

How does your party stand on the issue of going forward into a secular modern USa society in the US or going into civil war between competing fundamentalism explotation of the world's resources??..

Internet vs Arnold

On: New California Law Bans Anonymous Media File Sharing

He will find like othr dimwitted politicians that the Internet was founded onsharing and any law to curtail that will be unenforcible

worse marketing than sun?

On: Is "Marketingspeak" Killing Technology?

Try sys-con media properties themselves..

They claim the lead in insisting that becuase a large readership includes large free magazine giveaways to devloerps is some how mkaing them the i-technology leader magazine..NOT!!!!

how to adopt MSOffice2003 formats

On: Microsoft To Share Office Source Code

Its simple download OO at:

http://www.openoffice.org

and best bet no security flaWS!!!!

ahem java!=javascript

On: Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live

java and javascript are two different things ro animals..

You would think by now that slashdot contributors would wise up or at least the slashdot overseers would pick up on this obiovus big gaffle..

Should we test slashdot contributors for reading comprehension?

and yet

On: Open Source Security: Still A Myth

andyet opensource projects have less ecurity patches..

its not eyes alone that make open source secure but the fact that every architecture decision is out in the open to be verfied and quantified on security..

Can anybody think of a better reason why security in opensource is better by some well known measurments such as amoutn of security patche and etc?

Read the sotry about the discovery abotu RSA crypto algorithyms.. it was analyzed and picked apart by quality eyes, right?

so was DEs, if you rember..

the difference between DEs and RSa was architecture decisions.. they got lucky..

In open source we do not believe in obscuring and luck to secure data..

We believe in open source and ebate and analysis toghether with correct architecture decisiosn makes open source secure!

ahem google competitor?

On: Amazon's A9: How Well Is the Hype Justified?

Come on folks read the freakign fine print..

Google is an investor in a9..

and even google results are supplied to a9 by license with google..

boy did Business week goof up huh?

Vaporware wanring

On: Solaris 10 to be Open Source

Last announcement about this was proven false by Sun's own CEO statments..

This will be the saem way with this announcement..

emebedded jvms

On: .Net On Lego Mindstorm

embadded jvms or MS net vms are not actually true all pure vms..

alot fo JIT compiler tricks nad scaling back fucntions make an embedded vm highly tunned for that environment but a pian inthe ass to write for..

Not the same pian you got from writing game smid 1980s in assembly for small memory machines but similar challenges no matter what VM technology you are writing to..

The only difference is that we somewhat better toools in IDEs and code analysis to help us along the way

he is worng and he is right

On: Paul Samuelson Challenges Outsourcing

he is wrong and he is right..

Let me explain..there are several base tools that cost the same for programmers:

computer hardware
OS
compiler
Internet dialup

these cost similar or 85% of usa prices in India..

so whereas you wold get some wage benefits to outsourcing programmers or it if the companies making the computers are inthe us paying us taxes it does not translate to higher it wage sin US per total..

The biggest outsources per chance are also the biggest sellers of computer hardware accross all levels of both personal and it and software/services.. and their motivationis obvious not ot lower prices for India but to guarantee that their own prices will not erode as when workers earnings go up their purchasing power goes up..

simple

On: Using Debian in Commercial Environments?

Ask them to read and point to Bruyce Perens previous papers and work.. he was the former head of Debian/GNU and now heads the UserLinux project..

just goolge the name and you will find his website with the paper links..

Or the hard way.. start your own business and demand it as per your ceo status.. I went the hard way :)

Re:Flashblock-ahem

On: Exploring Firefox Extensions

ahem why not just not install the player browser plugin?

or is that somehow too easy?

ahem Ballmer flunks patent law

On: Ballmer on Linux

Patnets do not apply to end users only to maker/vendors..same as for copyrights

Try again Mr Ballmer, I suck at Patent Law...

acitveX for moz

On: Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store

there are activex plugins for Mozilla folks..

look in the moz project directory

ahem slashdot reading skills

On: Ericsson Pulls Bluetooth Division

Please reread the article

Eericsson shifted the bleutooth work to a difrferent division folks..no stopping bluetooth at ericsson but a shifting of resources..

Micahel why did you avoid reading the 2nd paragraph?

ahem

On: Does Shareware X-Chat for Windows Violate the GPL?

GPL was written by alawyer in fact where have you been lately say the past 15 years?

ever here of the lawyer for EFF?

ahem Apollo met its goals

On: Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

Ahem Apollo mets its goals except for one.. how about MS?

-Men on moon before decade ended-JF Kennedy
-The only delay was fter the Apollo fire on launch pad..and that was only one year delay

Be engineers better than MS's

On: Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

hmm Be eningeers did not need several years to come up with a similar filesystem..what is taking MS so long?

interesting

On: How Can Companies Profit While Giving Code Away?

Sun preaches subscription as a opensource model.. when are they going to acknowledge and treat the gpl right in their subscription?

its kind of hypocritical to proclaim opensource when misss treating the Licneses of the code tha tyou use..

OMG RIAA bought SCOX!

On: RIAA Sues More Music Lovers

OMG the RIAA just bought SCOX...

suing customers must be the new fangled business strategy

Profits and IOS

On: Red Hat Walks The Linux Tightrope

than how do you eplxain them making profits and getting IPOs?

it snot thin air.. even MS is worried about theri tangible profits and winning strategy