User: Dwonis

It's probably been said 10/100 times before...

On: Degrade Your Own Network

"This device ... attaches to your network ... degrade network preformance ... windows."

No comment.
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Latency problems

On: Internet Access Via Pneumatic Tubes -- Whooosh!

latency problems.

I'll say. There might be latency problems, but never underestimate the bandwidth of a stream of MRAM chips hurtling your way. ;-P

Note for the humour-challenged: This is a joke.
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Re:GNU not UNIX

On: Is Mac OS X real UNIX®?

Well, I said it ages ago, but I might not have been the first (since it's obvious).
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Re:What is UNIX?

On: Is Mac OS X real UNIX®?

This post brought to you by Konqueror and the letter K.

... and by the number 131072, because that's how many K of ram you need to make Konqueror practical.
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Re:Ooooh, we're so scared.

On: Supercavitation: Ultrafast Underwater Weapons

Nice, except the H-bomb (which is a nuclear weapon) is about 3-4 orders of magnitude more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. It could take out D.C.
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Re:I need glasses...

On: Supercavitation: Ultrafast Underwater Weapons

In newspeak, there is no "god", and "are" is redundant. Here's the corrected version:

You is unfunny.
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Re:Battlegrounds

On: AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War?

Heheh.

Red Hat: Millions of AOL users can't be wrong.
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Re:Define a problem domain for your language

On: Open Source Programming Language Design

I sort-of half-agree with you. People will always produce equal or better assembly language code than compilers, because people can *use* compilers, look at the results, and optimize in whatever ways they want.

To put it another way, compilers will never be better than people (in best-case scenario, where the people know what they're doing), because people can use the compiler and improve on the compiler's output.
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Re:Microsoft based

On: Internet Aware Pacemakers Planned

Your pulse has changed. You will now be restarted in 15 seconds. Press Any Key to Abort.

Where's the any key???
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Re:U.S. Citizens

On: Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked

I was only talking to the people who have the money to run for office, but don't want to because they're good people.

I know what it takes to win an election in the US.
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Re:Yep, remember the Microchannel PC Bus?

On: DVD Watermarking On Its Way

But "the rest of the world" can't even send a probe to Mars. Wanna play ball with us? You'll do it our way, Euro boy.

I'm Canadian. BTW, where do your best scientists and pilots come from (i.e. are born)?
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U.S. Citizens

On: Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked

You guys in the U.S.A. have an obligation to the rest of the world to fix your government. Soon, something like this will be mandated by your government, and through "globalization", will pollute every other country who isn't an enemy of the U.S. Your country will be responsible for the downfall of the entire planet, and we'll have either an Orwellian culture (*shiver*) or a third world war of corporations versus the public masses (*equal*shiver*).

I'm talking to YOU. You know who you are. You're the guy with the ability (money) to run for political office, and could probably win, but you don't want to get into politics. You're leaving the governing of your nation to the more corrupt or power-hungry or lawyer-type or self-centred bastards who don't give a damn about society as a whole.

Run for office, for Christ's sake, because the way it's going, it will only get worse! Get off your ass and make a small sacrafice for the rest of us. You can do it! We're only asking for two terms.
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Re:Think ahead - who will build these?

On: Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked

First of all, there are really only three picture-tube manufacturers for monitors, and Sony's one of them. I can see them making contracts to only sell tubes to companies who implement this.

Second, the current corruption of the United States government will allow a law to be passed, mandating this.

This shit better not leak into Canada, or they're going to see skilled labour (namely myself and anyone with the means who gives a damn) leaving.
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Re:No, all it takes

On: Digital Display Encryption Details Leaked

Except it will become mandated by a law passed by the corrupt government of U.S.A.
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Re:Yep, remember the Microchannel PC Bus?

On: DVD Watermarking On Its Way

Didn't one of the Mars missions fail because of "metric conversion" errors? If you used the metric system like everyone else in the world, there would be no conversion errors.
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Re:Mass-produced watermarks?

On: DVD Watermarking On Its Way

2)Automatic determination of content. Think Napster. All the noise about how can they block songs if they don't know who it's by (renaming, pig latin, etc). If all .mp3's had a watermark witth the artist, label, copyright etc it would be trivial to identify them automatically.

Nice, except because Napster Inc.'s servers don't actually see the data, people will be able to use cracked clients and/or proxies to bypass this.
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Re:Logic flaws abound

On: DVD Watermarking On Its Way

10 megabits == 1.25 megabytes.
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Re:My thoughts..

On: DVD Watermarking On Its Way

IIRC, DeCSS is the parent of libcss, which is being used in the LiViD (Linux Video) project to play DVDs. I'm sure that's used more than DeCSS in itself.
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Re:Patents prevent the abuse of open source

On: Red Hat Working w/UCITA Backers to Change Law

Corporations are only supposed to exist for the benefit of consumers. If open-source software benefits consumers more than its commercial counterpart, tough.

Put another way, should a corporation that does not benefit consumers be allowed to exist? No.
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Re:RedHat Bashing

On: Red Hat Working w/UCITA Backers to Change Law

Oh yeah, I don't support the Red Hat Inc. bashing, just the Red Hat Distro bashing. Bashing the corp is uncalled for.
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Re:RedHat Bashing

On: Red Hat Working w/UCITA Backers to Change Law

Why do you think Debian users all seem to become "elitist"? Usually it's because they used Debian after using Red Hat, would never go back, and want to tell the world. That's not exactly a bad thing. They're trying to encourage people to use Debian, but they have crappy advocacy skills.
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Re:It's the same stuff that makes the GPL valid

On: Red Hat Working w/UCITA Backers to Change Law

Actually, I don't know about what UCITA covers, but pre-UCITA, if a publisher illigally copied somebody's work and sold it in a book to me, the publisher is responsible, not me. The exact same things applies when the "publisher" is your next-door neighbour.
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Programs as expression

On: Report From The 2600 Appeal Hearing

Programs as speech/art: The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
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What about emissions?

On: Zero to Rutabaga in 6 Seconds

They say "environmentally friendly", but mention nothing about emissions. I'm skeptical that those cars won't stink really badly.
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Re:Microsoft blurs definitions

On: MS VP Speech Online

I suspect you can use the NSA's patches without constraint, because under US law, the government cannot hold copyright.

Thus, the modifications are public domain, even if it's not explicitly stated.

Of course, once incorporated into a GPL work, the work as a whole remains under the GPL.
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