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  1. Re:Good luck on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    And we're all sailing fine,
    coffin, nails, fifteen seaman and
    and a bottle of fine Jamaica rum!
    To the hell with that!

  2. Re:No technology, it's the human touch that's vita on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that stories about evil witch and gorgerous king make as good example for role model, as story of Brave Linus & Richard vs. Hordes of Greedy. Or even better, give them both. Let kids choose environmental preference.

  3. Re:Think of the Apollo program on Is Early Childhood Education Technology Moving Backwards? · · Score: 1

    If moon is the last stop where you want to go, then chalk, pencils and books, maybe even slide rules and compass is your answer for nowadays school needs.

  4. Re:cost effectiveness of the war on drugs in gener on Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have nicely lined out how much the drug prohibition costs.

    But to be complete you would have to answer other question too: how much would cost NOT having drug prohibition?

    Thinking of all those good-willed, but stressed workers running to drug-lords and not pay anymore taxes seems like tremendous cost to me. Unless you would tax those operations taxable, too.. (... already happening? legal drugs..)

    So, you cannot call it 'complete failure' yet..

  5. Re:DRM for text is a really ridiculous idea on Amazon Caves On Kindle 2 Text-To-Speech · · Score: 1

    Isn't the problem in distinguation between words 'owner' and 'licensee'?

  6. What are the plants in Japan on Vaporizing Garbage to Create Electricity · · Score: 1

    Could anybody give a link to existing facilities to get actual facts about what's going on?

  7. Re:Is it really random? on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think you are missing one very important point: if the machine reacts to the human mind then this means that not the machine but the human mind is in correllation with future events. And this is much more probable, though the methods are unknown.

  8. democracy my ... on Gerrymandering by Computer · · Score: 1

    and _this_ is the kind of democracy US brings to the middle east and the rest of the world.

  9. killkillkill on OSDL Releases New Paper on SCO's Claims · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well this counts for today's amount of SCO bashing

  10. money as it is is the issue on States Fight Internet Tax Ban, Cite VoIP Concern · · Score: 0, Troll

    when will people realize that the concept of money does not fit to non-material digitally communicating world?

    with the interexchangable information who has done what, the money has lost it's meaning. it have become just an object (to worship), not anymore information in form of coins/bills/whatever showing how much somebody has produced for others (society).

  11. Re:A soldier's perspective on US Army Signs $471,000,000 Deal for Microsoft Software · · Score: 1

    for a half o billion of bucks you'll get the system which won't crash. and is point-n-click too.

    and needs only one guy per 1000 computers to make it run.

  12. Copyright trade on O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From my point of view, the whole issue about copyrighting is questionable because people are applying same rules as they are for money.

    Money is simplyfing things, of course, but the question is, if the thing which you trade for the money rather than for things you produce yourself, has the anymore same quality or will it become something different.

    Trading just things is easy, object remains object even after trade, you can still preted that it is _really_ the same object.

    Ideas are more flexible and their base value can change far more radically.

  13. medical + secrets on Antibiotic Resistant Staph Antibiotic Discovered · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure, go on keeping secrets.
    Go on till you can be called truly 'sick bastards',
    go on till you die thanks to the fact you just didn't happen to know.

  14. Re:Government Funding of Security/Virus Prevention on When Will The Next Slammer Strike? · · Score: 1

    Without fee for personal use: Antivir

  15. way to go america on Bush Names New Cyber Security Czar · · Score: 1

    america, microsoft? what's the difference?

  16. Awareness on GTA and Rating of Video Games · · Score: 1

    I think problem with games is that parents aren't exactly aware of them enough.

    Older people just didn't get to have any games.

    Adults know, that some art material is inpropriate for kids, but they aren't aware about games, because they had no computers in their childhood. And therefore no memories about mom denying playing with computer to kid. No model to follow.

    Time will heal those wounds.

  17. Re: Citrix on Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption · · Score: 1

    For people who just don't get it yet: Its not about the money, it's about the freedom. Is citrix Free? Can you do with it everything you ever need? Or are you stuck with vendor's opinions of your needs?

  18. Re:excellent promotion for alternate browsers on Next-Gen Pop-up Ads · · Score: 1

    And is Microsoft going to develop this into its' browser??? I would mark word IT'S, because it's owned by microsoft (c). That's what free software (mozilla+spawns, in this case) is all about. You (or your good old friend, who happens to be also a skillfull programmer) can write own code, features, whatever you find desirable.

  19. irresponsobility my ... on Hudson River Shipwrecks Secretly Mapped · · Score: 1

    goverment sure does act irresponsobly if it withholds important information.

  20. Re:Perfect Storage Medium on Large IDE Drives as Long-Term Archival Media? · · Score: 1

    Actually, clay has other good properties too:
    fire in Ebla library hardened clay tablets, which contain valuable information about ancient Mesopotamia (3000 BC). Otherwise they might not have survived...