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  1. Re:Huh? on The Open Source Dilemma for Governments · · Score: 1
    If we can pay for software one time and share it with all government entities, we empower Americans to participate in the security of the homeland.

    Yeah but I hate it when I get empowered. It usually means I gotta do something.

    If I wanted to do something about homeland security I wouldn'ta bothered voting for someone who said they'd do it for me. Well I woulda if I hadda voted at all.

  2. Re:Tactical considerations on The Open Source Dilemma for Governments · · Score: 1
    That's why you test software in a realistic situation before you deploy it operationally.

    Amazingly enough the Military has a lot of experience at that. In fact they spend almost their entire career training in realistic scenarios. Lots of military personnel never actually use their skills in combat related activity.

    So I don't think a missing hourglass is going to fool them in the heat of battle.

  3. Re:Tactical considerations on The Open Source Dilemma for Governments · · Score: 1
    Conversely, would you want all your image recognition algorithms (for TV guided missiles), your IR decoy rejection routines, your frequency hopping timings to be known to all and sundry, including the adversary?

    Why would you show those items to anyone especially your adversaries.

    Oh, that's right. If I use Open Source software to develop my application I have to let everyone in the world have a copy of the entire program if they ask for it. Even the DSP algorithms and frequency tables I developed myself.

  4. Re:Haiku? on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1
    OK it shoulda been

    2.6.0

    a bell sounds the ones birth. Close,

    a long horn it's death.

    so it fits 5-7-5.

  5. Re:Haiku? on Linux 2.6.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1
    2.6.0

    a bell sounds the ones birth.

    Close, a long horn it's death.

  6. Re:So? on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines · · Score: 1

    Fuck Not Another Radio System. Probably a proprietary version of the Linux prog YARS (Yes Another Radio System)

  7. But this is FEMA on FEMA Opposes Broadband Over Powerlines · · Score: 2, Funny
    the secret government of the USA. So what is the 'real' reason they oppose this. And what is the hidden link with the internation space-borne mind control laser system that even now seeks out independent thought and snuffs it out like

    ohh look at the pretty daisys. mummy where are you, i cant see you any more.

    mummy ... sniff

  8. Re:Iraqi, U.S., or international trial appropriate on Saddam Hussein Arrested · · Score: 1
    He is referring to the asertion that mixed in among the retreating Iraqi forces there were women and children and probably non-combatant males also fleeing the advancing US forces.

    It may be true. It certainly is conceivable that this was the case. Many iraqi and palestinian civilians would have had good reason to get out of Kuwait even if they hadn't been directly involved in the occupation.

  9. Re:screw foreigners on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1
    with the knowledge we ahve agained0 and build a btter one that only americans can access

    That would be two world firsts.

    Americans learning something from experience

    and

    building a better version of something in place of the servicable old one. Maybe you should start with NTSC TV.

  10. Re:not good for the Internet on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    They openly state in their charter that all humans have certain rights, like freedom of speech, as long as using that right doesn't interfere with a stated goal of the UN

    No they don't. Are you misunderstanding what the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is saying or are you just lying. To make such a broad statement you need to be able to point out which part of the Charter supports you.

    Article 19. of the UDHR states that

    Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

    Where does it say unless it interferes with a stated goal of the UN

    In fact the last article of the UDHR states that

    Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

    Exactly the opposite of what you say.

  11. Re:beware: the UN wants worldwide gun control! on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1
    The UN wants helpless citizens under the thumb of UN stormtroopers and Black Helicopters.

    Yes, you have obviously read the secret papers. Fortunately we know where you live. Did you also know we have developed 'silent invisible helicopters'. There's one just outside your place right now.

  12. Re:not good for the Internet on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1
    Having 1 entity with ALL power is NOT a good thing but that *should* be obvious

    I totally agree man. We have to stop the Republican Party by any means available.

  13. Re:not good for the Internet on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1

    A good one to end on. Its the clause that most nations referred to when the US said we need to get rid of bad old Iraqi killing SH before the US invented WMD as an excuse to go in.

  14. Re:not good for the Internet on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1
    Chairmanship of many UN committees is by rotation of members. Everyone gets a go. When its Libyas turn they get a go. Nobody voted them to chairmanship and at the time they weren't being particularly brutal to anyone.

    The UN has been a joke for a very long time.

    Only to a few people. Most people see it as a valuable institution in spite of its faults.

  15. Whats the problem again? on CRF Reveals Draft of New DRM Technology · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Currently, people who send files through file-trading networks, or via e-mail or instant messaging, are largely locked in to sending a specific file that may not be readable by people who lack the appropriate software or hardware.

    And they plan to correct that by providing files to download that are specifically designed not to be readable by people who lack the appropriate software or hardware

    These people don't actually use the English language. Or at best its a version of English that has been taken out the back, given a good thrashing and been convinced to do what its told or there'll be more of the same.

  16. Why Minnesota? on VoIP Gets A Big Backer And Another Lawsuit · · Score: 2, Funny
    Interesting to see how this one works out, given what happened in Minnesota a few months ago.

    Not knowing what you were talking about I did a quick search on Minnesota and you're right. This is the most exciting event in the history of the World compared to what has happened in Minnesota in the past few months.

  17. Re:Stupid on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 2, Insightful
    A credit card with a $20,000 limit.

    Even if I was stupid enough to apply for one I don't think theres a issurer who's stupid enough to give me one.

  18. Re:Shouldn't be a problem in that case on Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam · · Score: 1
    You mean some poor sod at Telstra is going to check the email habits of the 1.5 million old age pensioners who log on for two minutes a day to send 30 emails, download their 30 email messages from their friends and then log off.

    He wi;; be very busy.

  19. Re:Sorry, hang on on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1
    Finally got to read the article and it says Dell don't put the software on their machines. so the above is off topic.

    Sorry

  20. Re:Sorry, hang on on Dell To Techs: Don't Help Customers Remove Spyware · · Score: 1
    To get software on a Dell machine Dell would normally have agreements of some kind with the distributor/developer. A lot of software is free for personal use but not for commercial use except with permission of owner.

    Dell may ber able to get it on machines for free but any agreement I suspect would require Dell not to assist users to remove it from the machine.

  21. Re:Missing the point on FCC Forum Divided on Future VoIP Regulation · · Score: 1
    They are monopolies but did they become monopolies or were the monopolies granted to them. In Australia Telstra started as a monopoly and provided all telco services from day 1. In US as I understand it many entrants eventually became one Bell which had to be broken up and forced to 'compete'. We have the same problem with Telstra being forced to 'compete' with companies who lease their wire.

    Apart from anti-monopolistic regulation and technical standards regulations and the USO what regulation is there. The tax people keep talking about is I presume the fees imposed to fund rural etc connections.

    Is industry screaming to have new regulations in place to stop VOIP or is it merely a desire to have any regulations in place amended to fit a business dominated by VOIP rather than circuit switched calls.

    The telcos have an investment in their wire and current systems. VOIP uses these as much as current methods. They will find a way to charge about the same total amount to someone. VOIP is free only while they work out a way to do that.

  22. Re:How quaint. on FCC Forum Divided on Future VoIP Regulation · · Score: 1

    that's what his dad said about iraq and look at the fine mess he got us into.

  23. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1
    He took the trouble to respond to me but never refuted this point.

    Why would he refute it. It's obvious what he meant when he was talking about NY/Chicago etc. Maybe he thinks that Vermont has less spread between the rich and poor and there is less discrimination against poor whites in Vermont than there is against poor blacks (sorry BLACKS) in NYC/DC.

    The presence of "minorities" is not the cause of crime, but you'll sure be willing to provide excuses for crimes they might commit in spite of this.You ask why someone commits a crime and I tell you why I think they might commit a crime. That is not excusing them for the crime.

    Note that poor and minority are enumerated separately as distinct groups

    Or he could just be a poor grammarian like I am a poor speller.

  24. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1

    Kabul, Afganistan Gun ownership (heavy automatic weapons preferred) is practically mandatory. Crime is *INSERT ANSWER HERE PLEASE*

  25. Re:more reviews of this book on Nine Crazy Ideas in Science · · Score: 1
    My sense of what he 'said' was that the presence of minorities who are poor and/or discriminated against is a likely indicator that some crime rates will be higher. And you have offered nothing to refute that.

    In the case of NY/Chicago etc the minorities are African Americans, in LA, South Americans, in London, Albanians, in Cabramatta (Sydney, Australia), Vietnamese, In Eastern Europe, Romanies.

    Minorities don't cause crime. Oppression leaves few alternatives to crime for some people either as survival or in fighting back.