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  1. Re:Control of the means of production... on Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet · · Score: 1

    why not to develop a P2P payment system on top of Freenet? Surely people who want to donate to Freenet are likely to be Freenet users.

  2. obligatory Simpsons quote on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 1

    Rocky II plus Rocky V equals Rocky VII, ADRIANS REVENGE!

  3. Re:prove it on Updated Schedule for U.S. Biometric Passports · · Score: 1, Insightful

    why is this flamebait?
    This is a popular opinion expressed in non-offensive and appropriate way.
    Dont mod people down just because you do not agree with them.

  4. Re:Terrorists? I don't think so... on Updated Schedule for U.S. Biometric Passports · · Score: 2, Informative
    >>all of the Sept. 11 terrorists were: a) unknown as terrorists and b) here on valid passports and visas.

    that is actually not correct. 3 or 4 of them were known terrorists (to CIA) but there were no shared database (that exists now) to cross-check and identify those individuals at the border.
    Another group within 19 were here on expired / invalid visas.

  5. Re:Search engine != entire web on How Hard Is It To Write Your Own Search Engine? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    exactly. A buddy of mine developed and now sells search appliance that can search network windows shares as well as web servers - EnterFind.
    it is not complicated at all.

  6. Re:Secrecy on The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick · · Score: 1

    >>feature comparison of the Google search appliance vs. its competition
    here we go!
    Disclaimer: it is my friend's company I ocassionally consult for

  7. Re:Why the garage? on The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick · · Score: 1

    because people who would have a spare bedroom or something are already making enough money and already lazy and not hungry for life anymore?

  8. interesting formations on Second Opportunity For Mars Rover · · Score: 3, Interesting

    .. at the bottom of the crater. ( seen here, 2M file). Is it created by wind? Or maybe water? Something like that can be seen at the bottom of a shallow round body of water on Earth.

  9. I donno.. on Emotional Bonding with Space Probes · · Score: 1

    bonding with some probe might not be such a good idea ;-)

  10. Re:Well... on Review: LinuxCertified LC2210 Laptop · · Score: 1

    >>Now, these are all rather standard issues with a non-linux certified laptop
    Could not agree more. I had exactly the same set of issues with Xandros on my Fujitsu E series.
    The only reason I still boot Windows is because I need a reliable sleep function on my laptops. I believe there are many like me.

  11. Re:Why open Java? on Gosling on Opening Java · · Score: 1

    and why is this a troll already?

  12. Re:Zamil? on Miguel de Icaza on Mono, Ximian/Novell, XAML · · Score: 1

    If you Google "Zammel", the first page to come up is something hosted on SKYNET.be.
    Coinsidence? I think not. XML is becoming self-aware.

  13. Re:struts is a pig on Struts Survival Guide · · Score: 1

    I'd say: variable creation is a form of redundancy as well. Numeric value pointing to a memory location should be enough for most of the people.

  14. Re:Openness is the first casualty of going public? on How does Google do it? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    unfortunately the technology spending IS part of the cash flow. "We went dumpster-diving and picked up a dozen new machines for the indexing farm" and "we entered agreement with Dell to secure a reliable source of cheap Intel servers" would both show up on the shareholder statements but the impact would not be the same.
    Going public WILL expose the siginificant portion of Google technology, more sp when it has to do with hardware.

  15. Re:thanks for your insight. on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 1
    As far as secret police, there were _traces_ of such activities. I bet my parents know a lot about it but somehow this subject never came up ;-)
    Every organization had informant (and party commitee) on payroll. And the elite was there; often intermixed with local nationalist mafia.
    So more or less the picture painted here was accurate.

    As far as US, this the time people need to wake up and take the country back. I hope one of the side effects of the Internet prolifiration will be that.

  16. Re:conditioning on Schneier on National ID Cards, Key Escrow Locks, E-voting · · Score: 3, Informative
    >>I was taught in school was only done in places like soviet union or east germany.

    I grew up behind the iron curtain and I can assure you they did not have "random checkpoints" there, IMHO. Number of searches you are the subject to was not even close to what you are in US.
    so maybe the idea that communists were stumping over the individuals in this way is part of brainwashing as well?

    Having said that, I totally agree with your points. Great post.

  17. Re:I'm being serious here: Does it count if.... on National TV Turn Off Week · · Score: 1

    Finally one slashdotter truthful about not watching TV ;-)
    Ross and Monica are brother and sister.

  18. Re:RedHat or SuSE? on THG Linux Migration, Part Two · · Score: 1

    Is not what they mean by "apply all the necessary updates"? ;-)

  19. Re:[Collaborative] UML on UML Fever · · Score: 1

    >>we'll be that much closer to being an engineering discipline, instead of a hodge podge trapped under one roof.
    I donno. Hodge podge pays really well when I come in to make things right ;-). Which is part of the problem of course.

  20. This morning I was... on The Importance of Collaborative Development · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...reading this very article over breakfast and I was thinking: why something like this is not discussed on Slashdot instead of the recent crap!

  21. Re:UML on UML Fever · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I could not get the article either and there were only 7 slashdot comments...
    I personally (speaking from 12 years of experience) found UML useful in many situations when certain (already coded) solution was presented to someone else. So just to illustrate some point, it is much easier to sketch a few diagrams than to write a textual description.
    On the other hand I have seen environments where the UML was adopted as sort of cornerstone of top-down approach: all the design is done first and captured in UML. The problem is that disagrams become absolete very quickly and people stop referring to them which accelerates the decay even more.

  22. Re:Move along... on "Project Rave" Beta Released · · Score: 1

    you forgot:
    Java is slow
    Real men do not need memory management

  23. Re:Don't bother visiting with Firefox on Microsoft Launches 'Channel 9' Blog · · Score: 1

    Was the third option: "Close Firebird"?

  24. coming soon to the med. office near you... on Playing Video Games Makes For Better Surgeons · · Score: 1, Funny

    Colon Strike 2004!

  25. Re:Now look here... on Java Evangelist Leaves Sun After MS Settlement · · Score: 1
    >>I have no illusions that Sun is going to open-source one of its most prized, closely-guarded secrets. They are almost Microsoftian in the protection of certain code.

    How so if I could always download and look at Java source code?
    If multiple (competing, specialized, OSS...) implementations of Java exist?

    Does not sound Microsoftian to me!