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  1. Re:Felonies on Running a Website from Your Prison Cell · · Score: 1
    You're wrong. Only 13 states remove voting rights permanantly. Four even allow people in prison tovote.
    Disenfranchising
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Disenfranchising refers to the removal of the ability to vote from a person or group of people.

    An example of intentional, legal disenfranchisement of individuals is how some U.S. states deny the ability to vote to a convicted felon. Specifically, 13 states disenfranchise all convicted felons for life; Texas bars ex-felons from voting until two years after they are released from custody, and two other states (Arizona and Maryland) permanently disenfranchise two-time convicted felons. In addition to these 16 states, 13 others also ban persons who are on probation for a felony but were not sentenced to prison time from the suffrage, and these plus three more states (or 32 in all) disqualify those on parole from voting. Four states -- Maine, Massachusetts, Utah and Vermont -- actually allow prisoners to vote while in custody, and 14 exclude only persons who are presently serving time in a state prison. Some states treat a dishonorable discharge from any of the armed forces as the equivalent of a felony conviction.

  2. Re:Information on OSS/FS SCM tools on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 1

    There's also SVK, which is like decentralized Subversion.

  3. Re:CRASH? on Mozilla / Firefox Memory Exposure Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Javascript is not java;
    Javascript does not have the Java security model.

    Java does suck, but for other reasons...

  4. Re:No CPAN == GOOD on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Solution: Download CPANPLUS, use it to install whatever you need, with dependencies.

    usage:
    # cpanp
    CPAN Terminal> i Module::Name

    Done.

    I have CPANPLUS download from HTTP mirrors because it seems faster, so I really don't see why you'd ever have to directly download something.

  5. Re:Python still has severe limits on Python Moving into the Enterprise · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've always be told that in C, free() doesn't (usually) return the memory to the operating system.
    The memory is only available to other programs after the program exits.

    As a result of this, most daemons will re-exec themselves to free up memory for the rest of the system.

    At least, that's what I've always heard. Maybe newer versions of the linux kernel are much smarter...

  6. Re:I can't be the only one... on The World's Most Devious Alarm Clock · · Score: 1

    oh, it's easy. music player daemon + mpc + cronjob.

  7. Re:Britney Spears needs to eat too! on Allofmp3.com Wins Court Case · · Score: 1

    Is Lenin's music in the public domain in Russia, too?

  8. Re:Serial burglar at 19... on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 1

    From WordNet (r) 2.0:
    burgle
    v : commit a burglary; enter and rob a
    dwelling [syn: {burglarize}, {burglarise}, {heist}]

  9. Re:I know a vast amount about computer science on How Heraclitus would Design a Programming Language · · Score: 1
    1 -- LISP is simple and elegant. LISP has a pure functional design, without any of that procedural/imperative/OO junk that people use to actually write software that does stuff. LISPs purity and simplicity keep it in the lab, where languages belong.

    I'm not a lisp programmer, but... Lisp is not purely functional. Prodecural/imperative programming is possible. In addition, Common Lisp has objects and object oriented programming. Lisp isn't a pure language. :)

    Other than that, I'd mod you +1 Funny if I had mod points.

  10. Re:Role Reversal on Why Does Windows Still Suck? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apache is #1 webserver. Why is it not attacked as often as IIS?

  11. Re:How can "dark energy" count as mass? on Dark Matter Discovered · · Score: 1, Informative

    it's dark because we can't see it, not because it is anti- anything.

  12. Re:Space on Open Source is Not a Career Path · · Score: 0, Redundant

    d) PROFIT!!

  13. Re:Land Ho! on Amateurs Beat Space Agencies To Titan Pictures · · Score: 1
  14. Re:Which religion? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    True enough. I have a lack of knowing of if I have a religion or not, and I'm agnostic.

  15. Re:Which religion? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Which is why I'm agnostic. I also think a complex system where life arises from chaos without aid is more fitting of an all-powerful being than just, like, building fish. But that's just me.

  16. Re:Which religion? on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I know it is popular to call atheism a religion, but that doesn't make it true. That is like calling the lack of atmosphere an atmosphere.

    If I have a religion, as in what I believe in, I'd call it the scientific method. And my god would be Truth.

  17. Re:Wow.... on Creationist Textbook Stickers Declared Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    It is not that it is a perfect theory; it is that it is the *best* theory. Same is true for physics, geology, astronomy, etc. The best current theory *is* the truth, until a better theory is found. Or, as close to the truth as human minds have yet been able to see.

  18. Re:Impartiality = credibility on Observer Gives Wikipedia Glowing Report · · Score: 1

    Well, then, add that? Keeping an NPOV, add those factoids? With sources, of course.

  19. Re:Stage 5 Today - you forgot on The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    The LiveJournal software is open source, btw. One can in theory run it on one's own server.

  20. Re:If all safes are crackable... on Safecracking for the Computer Scientist · · Score: 1

    Well, most auth systems won't let you retry very rapidly, and most I am aware of balk after more than 4-8 failed login attempts from the same place / for the same user.

    6553600000000 is a pretty large number, too.
    For example, even if the system allows one try per second (and that is *VERY* generous, and assuming the machine is on a fast connection, too),
    it would take 207,675 years to try every possibly combination.

    It doesn't matter how many machines *you* have, as the system doing the authentication controls how often you're allowed to try.

  21. Re:when did you ever need to clone a process on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    LOL, I hope that is a joke. I mean, a great deal of UNIX programs use fork().... and UNIX has had named pipes before Windows even existed, man mkfifo.

    I won't go into the horror stories regarding Microsoft's win32 executable format. Of course, ELF shared objects don't have namespaces for *C* code, because C does not have namespaces. C++ does, though.

  22. Re:Just one slight problem with the name.... on EFF Promotes Freenet-like System Tor · · Score: 1

    Ah, right. I guess in Danish versions of SG:SG1, it's Tor. :)

  23. Re:Just one slight problem with the name.... on EFF Promotes Freenet-like System Tor · · Score: 1

    It is spelled Thor, though.

  24. Re:Can Someone Clarify? on GPL Revision Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes, but if you don't distribute, you don't have to give the source. Quite logical, no?

  25. This is lame. on Kerry Blows Red Sox Stats, Again, and Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This... is lame. God I can't wait 'til the election is over, and the pro-kerry and pro-bush supporters stop taking drugs....