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  1. Re:Don't bet on it on How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold · · Score: 1

    Agreed.

    And it had nothing to do with the Republican Party being a bunch of greedy megalomanics and everybody was sick of them turning their country into a Fascist state?

  2. Re:Don't bet on it on How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold · · Score: 1

    I'm sure it had nothing to do with her trotting her pregnant daughter up on stage.

    If you are a walking hypocrite you might get called for it...

  3. Re:Don't bet on it on How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold · · Score: 1

    Youtube? Killing turkeys in the background of her thanksgiving day turkey pardon.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0r7TJUTn1c (at 4:00)

  4. Re:Proof of that Statement? on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 1

    Pretend that you know more than one programming language and pretend that they might do something sensible with -1 as an index.

    If you don't have time to learn another programming language, lets just assume [-1] means the last entry in a list or array of objects.

  5. Re:Proof of that Statement? on Sothink Violated the FlashGot GPL and Stole Code · · Score: 1

    give things almost as much functionality as COTS

    If you consider IIS remote exploits as functionality, then yes i completely agree with you. Open source sometimes forgets to put those remote exploits in place or plugs them up.

  6. Re:flourished? on Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects · · Score: 1

    python, perl, ruby, c, c++, java, php, bash, basic, c#, lua, pascal, cobol, lisp, brainfuck?

    I don't care what we pick, just that in comparison to other languages it doesn't appear to an outsider that it's flourishing. I'm just trying to understand the magnitude of it's flourishment.

  7. Re:Headline Spin on British Court Rules Against Blogger Anonymity · · Score: 1

    Britain doesn't want the truth anyway. They have the worst libel laws in the universe. Fuck the British legal system. It's broken.

  8. Re:Not convinced... on British Court Rules Against Blogger Anonymity · · Score: 1

    No one has ever suggested that they can remain anonymous to a court of law. You are inventing a strawman.

  9. Re:flourished? on Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects · · Score: 1

    So depending on how you define flourishing it still has some distance to go...

  10. Re:flourished? on Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects · · Score: 1

    Only a million more projects to go....before it catches up to something like fortran.

  11. flourished? on Erlang's Creator Speaks About Its History and Prospects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    flourished ever since

    define flourished.

  12. Re:open source software on Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fail!

    ISO 32000-1:2008: PDF

    Because stitching together numerous TIFF files on your own is so much better!

  13. Re:What about epigenetics? on Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Testing Makes a Splash In Boston · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure why you are responding to my post. I don't disagree that there genetic factors play a huge role in disease (ie: heart disease).

    I am saying just because stupid people would "overplay" their cards is no reason not to offer the testing.

    As long as the companies are truthful in their information they have no duty to prevent people from being stupid with it.

  14. Re:Try the slow down method on How Do IT Guys Get Respect and Not Become BOFHs? · · Score: 1

    You have heard of internal billing haven't you?

    If one department uses up all of the resources of the IT department, the other departments are getting cheated. And the company is inefficient.

  15. Re:Honestly though... on Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Testing Makes a Splash In Boston · · Score: 1

    I see an opportunity to become a certifier of genetic testing companies.

  16. Re:What about epigenetics? on Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Testing Makes a Splash In Boston · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't that a good thing? The stupid people die off to make room for the rest of us?

  17. Re:Stay With Me Here on What Do You Do With a Personal Domain? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, don't fully wild card email.

    Just do something like *-AZ@domain.com I use my initials instead of AZ.

    Eventually you will get huge amounts of spam. I know. I do the same trick and have moved off the wildcard.

    I was getting spam to microcenter@mydomain.com. And acephotodigital@mydomain.com. hmmm.

  18. Re:Appropriate? on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Try interacting with real live individuals for a change?

    Says the person on slashdot....you are going to fucking lecture the OP about interacting with real live individuals?? The irony hurts.

  19. Re:Holy Crap! Calm down on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    I don't think 24-7 tracking precludes the ability to teach his daughter what to do... defense in depth and all...

  20. Re:Forgive my ignorance WAS:re: Garbage collector? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    Five dancing Memory leaks!

  21. Re:Seriously Java? on Java Gets New Garbage Collector, But Only If You Buy Support · · Score: 1

    Apache HTTPd vs IIS?

  22. Re:Offer the Ebook for free. on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 1

    If 1600 years is too long, then why 10 years isn't?

    I don't even know if that question makes sense. I could ask if 0.1 seconds isn't too long then why is 1600 years too long? A reasonable time limit is a compromise between a limited time monopoly and encouraging people to invest and develop time consuming endeavors.

    The steam engine isn't even related to copyright, though. And I don't know how copyright even matters in software. Who cares if someone has an infinite copyright on software? It doesn't stop someone from writing their own code that does the same thing. It's completely different from patents.

  23. Re:lack of vision. on ZigBee Pro, the New Home Automation Standard? · · Score: 1

    ...a renegade cop....a robot renegade cop....out on the edge of space...

  24. Re:Offer the Ebook for free. on What Can I Do About Book Pirates? · · Score: 1

    You care that he can earn money for something 10 years old? WTF?

    What if people build things that take 10 years to come out ahead? What do you care that it's 10 years?

    This is the worst example every about why copyright needs to be reformed. Please don't champion copyright and tell everyone 10 years is too long. We really don't need you on our side.

  25. Re:could someone explain what the issue is here? on Dealing With ISPs That Use NXDomain Redirection? · · Score: 1

    Downloading a video game patch while connected to the VPN would be grounds for dismissal at most companies.

    Do you have numbers on that assertion? I'm willing to bet, most companies would not want to fire their employees for something as silly as downloading a game patch. Maybe big, stupid companies, but not the ones that value work output over rules.