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  1. Re:What a nightmare. on Carriers, Manufacturers Are Strangling Android · · Score: 1

    You've got to wait for the carrier to get your update? There's a fundamental problem right there.

  2. Re:Oh wait, what? This again? on Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case · · Score: 1

    How can he be overusing it, since they explicitely said you can pay for your own usage, being considered that in excess of 25000 characters? If it all had to be work usage, then they should pay the whole thing regardless, and do some checks if it seems excessive.

  3. options on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    I think your main two options are to hit everyone up with heavy duty lawyers, or else bombard Google with so much other information about yourself, that this drops down to page #100. Maybe a third option is to fabricate an identity of someone else with the same name as you, and pretend you were a different person.

  4. Re:Broken processors on Microsoft Advice Against Nehalem Xeons Snuffed Out · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you've missed the entire trend towards power saving in the data center?

  5. Re:It's obvious on Fedora 12 Lets Users Install Signed Packages, Sans Root Privileges · · Score: 1

    A web server, no they shouldn't be allowed. But basic user level apps, why shouldn't they be allowed, at least as a default policy for a shipping OS?

  6. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    I reckon I probably can't tell the difference through ear buds, even good quality in-ear ones. But give me a nice quality stereo, good quality speakers and sub-woofer, and I'm damn sure I can tell an MP3 from a SACD.

  7. Re:Should they get off tax-free? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1

    "I don't think *any* organization, association, or person should ever have tax-free status period."

    Ok, when you bring money into your organisation that you call a "family" let's tax it one more time. When you give your kids pocket money, lets tax it again. Exactly the same principle you are asking for. Money that goes into clubs and organisations has already been taxed. A tax free organisation is a group of people communally spending their post-tax dollars.

  8. Re:Should they get off tax-free? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1

    Hillsong and and "the church down the road" are probably exactly the same. The members throw money in the hat, and it pays the wages and rent and activities of the group. Hillsong have a lot more people on the payroll and rent, but no real difference. Anyway, since all the money goes on wages, more or less, at the end of the day, there is no "profit" because there are no shareholders. Sooner or later all money is dispersed. If it is on wages, then the person getting the money is taxed.

  9. Re:Should they get off tax-free? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1

    And what is a profit? If you and I and our friends throw $50 each in the hat to hold a party, have we just made a "profit"? That's what a non-profit organisation is.

  10. Re:New form of taxes! on City Laws Only Available Via $200 License · · Score: 1

    Huh? This is not ignorance of the law, this is ignorance of the facts. Facts and Law and completely different animals. I'm sure you are fully aware that driving without a license is against the law, and that you have to pay your fines etc. What you were ignorant of was the fact that your license was suspended and you had tickets outstanding.

  11. Re:Bah! on Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil · · Score: 1

    It's not irrelevant because all those alt-fuel schemes are a lot more expensive (if they are feasible at all on a global scale), so at best the economy will take a big hit, at worst it will take a body blow.

  12. I for one.... on Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our new botnet masters.

  13. Re:hmm on The NoSQL Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Berkeley DB is a piece of shit. I was talking about something UP the scale of sophistication, not way DOWN. Something like an advanced object database as an example.

  14. Re:why? what is the point? on In the UK, Big Brother Recedes and Advances · · Score: 1

    Is that necessarily so? I don't think anyone has seriously attempted a democratic communist state.

  15. Re:hmm on The NoSQL Ecosystem · · Score: 1

    "But I'd much rather see effort put into solving the lack of horizontal scalability associated with relational DBs"

    I think I'd rather see the opposite: That non-relation DBs become the mainstream, and they have SQL added for the odd occasion it is useful. Relational has some nice properties for ad-hoc querying, but for everything else they are a nuisance.

  16. Re:USB3 superior to FW? on USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet · · Score: 1

    The nice thing about Firewire is you can chain devices without a hub. That's why most machines have one firewire port, and any number of USB ports.

  17. Re:IEEE1394 on USB 3.0 the Real Deal, SATA 6GB Not Yet · · Score: 1

    There are no unibody macbooks anymore. They were superseded by the Macbook Pro 13", and they do have Firewire.

  18. Re:I'll get right on that on AU Classification Board To Censor Mobile Apps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I actually listened to some of the senate committees this week on censorship. Boy does this government LOVE censorship. You should hear the self-righteous prattle they were going on with. The ridiculous thing of course is they are trying to stick their fingers in the dyke while the whole thing is coming down around them.

  19. Re:Cloud Computing is Evil!!1! on Sun Microsystems To Cut 3,000 Jobs As Oracle Deal Drags On · · Score: 1

    True, but if Oracle kept Sun's US assets, including all the IP and manufacturing, and simply sold a European sales company because of EU regulators, what would the regulators have actually achieved in terms of competition? Possibly, not a lot.

  20. Re:Hyperbole much on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    That doesn't change anything unless they somehow disabled triggers and stored procedures in the database.

  21. Re:Hyperbole much on Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    Even if it did not have interpreted code, mere use of an SQL database ALLOWS you to insert triggers and various stored procedures that could influence the election. It doesn't seem useful to merely ban interpreted code. You need to ban INTERPRETERS.

  22. Re:That's impressive? on iRobot Introduces Morphing Blob Robot · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but they required a BBC employee underneath to move it along.

  23. Re:let the flames begin on Amiga and Hyperion Settle Ownership of AmigaOS · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the appeal be to play the old games and software that runs on the original architecture?

  24. Re:I sent them a dozen roses and said "please..." on HTC Dragging Feet On GPL Source Release For "Hero" Phone · · Score: 1

    It's not unlikely that $random_slashdotter actually contributed a few lines to the Linux kernel and thus is legally positioned to ask HTC to cough up.

  25. Re:Why isn't this an iPhone App? on Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99 · · Score: 1

    You can have it. There is an app for that on the app store. Takes about a gig or 2 or storage and costs about 10 bucks.