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  1. Re:False on Fedora 15 Changes Network Device Naming Scheme · · Score: 1

    I specialize in Linux administration and have never had issues even in monster deployments. But guys switching over from Solaris on Sparc seem to go into a melt down over the ethx scheme.

  2. Re:Thanks for the redesign! on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    Barley registers on my machine. Tried upgrading your browser?

  3. Re:Horrible. on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not sure why that got modded funny. I like it way better than the last version. Looks sharp, feels good. Good job to the coders.

  4. Gee, never heard this before on Biotech Company Making Fossil Fuels With a 'Library' of Bacteria · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many times have people made bold claims like this? I'm guessing they are looking for investors err suckers. It's news when you have a commercially viable plant up and running. When I say commercially viable I don't mean with a $4 a gallon subsidy. Those yield figures are going to be wildly optimistic.

  5. Say what????? on Why Linux Loses Out On Hardware Acceleration In Firefox · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Who modded this up to 5?

    They weren't interested in ideological purity or the like, they were interested in having good support,

    They weren't interested in good support. They weren't interested in doaing any support at alll. Which is why every distro has a 100 threads 50000 posts long about how to hack the shitty blob into place. Then don't ever dare to update any thing on your system or your blob breaks your system. Rebuilding and reinstalling may or may not work depending on whether NVidia felt like staying up to date with the OS or not. When you have to teach people how to compile their own drivers and then hack them in trashing the rest of the system it makes it a tough sell to pass it off as great support.

  6. Re:Why does Congress make engineering decisions? on NASA Pitches Heavy Lift Vehicle To Congress · · Score: 1

    If you use the same components then the jobs in that district aren't going any where.

  7. Re:Everyone does it on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 1

    Then you can repeat with .net, .org, .tv etc,etc.

  8. Re:Everyone does it on Bank of America Buying Abusive Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much management will have to bonus themselves for this cleverness?

  9. Who's had sucess? on NX Compression Technology To Go Closed Source · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am trying to think of any company that has closed their source and been more successful and I can't think of any. It sure didn't help SSH. NX used to be really great and a number of people I know used it. But I don't know any one that still does.

  10. Audit code? on FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack · · Score: 0

    Are these the guys that are supposed to be secure because they audit their code?

  11. Big deal on Archaeologists Find 2,400-Year-Old Soup · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big deal. I have older soup than that in my fridge.

  12. Re:Confusing freedom, privacy, and openness on Why We Shouldn't Begrudge Commercial Open Source Companies · · Score: 1

    No you are right on the money. What a surprise to see Canonical coming along and selling out the opensource world for what, about the billionth time.

  13. Re:bullshit about bullshit on UK Asks News Outlets Not To Publish WikiLeaks Bombshell, US Prepares For Fallout · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should wait to see what is actually being released before decrying the end of diplomacy. I highly doubt people are going through the kind of risks they are to let the world know that some one picks their nose. Lets get the facts first.

  14. Re:If you want the story, see Groklaw on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 1

    Some one mod this post up.

  15. Google != Google. on Hard-Coded Bias In Google Search Results? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google != Google. Duh!!!. Beside the results are covered by free speech.

  16. This message brought to you by ... on The Problem With the Top500 Supercomputer List · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This messages brought to you by Microsoft. If we can't compete we'll FUD. If FUD doesn't work we litigate. If litigation doesn't work we get the laws changed.

  17. Silver Light & itune on How Hulu, NBC, and Other Sites Block Google TV · · Score: 1

    Imagine the protests that would ensue if Internet services arbitrarily blocked video only to Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers!

    Isn't that what silverlight was about? Isn't that what iTunes is about? It's not like this is new. Heck up in Canada every one blocks us.

  18. Re:wtf? on USPTO Decides To Lower Obviousness Standards · · Score: 1

    They really need to hire some of those Robo-signers that the banks use. They could clear that back log in no time and push a whole tsunami of economy wrecking patents out the door.

    Really nothing helpful is ever going to come out of the patent office. The only hope is that they tick the courts off so much they do some thing rash like making a reasonable decision or some thing.

  19. Math is easy to mark on How Much Math Do We Really Need? · · Score: 1

    Math is easy to mark and as long as it is schools will be in love with it.

  20. Re:It's not like the DNA was already functioning on US Says Genes Should Not Be Patentable · · Score: 1

    What happens when your organism mutates?

  21. Re:File under on Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History? · · Score: 1

    It will be entirely because of Steve Jobs and only because of Steve Jobs.

  22. Re:Reminds me of XFree86 vs XOrg on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1

    I use the Rawhide branch of Fedora and the update I did last week automatically switched out my OO.O rpms for Libre ones. Whats in Fedora usually ends up in Redhat and by extension Centos and Oracles Unbreakable Linux. Of course the last one is interesting. Oracle will want to keep using OO.O but that will mean one more thing that isn't binary compatible with Redhat. Eventually they will end up running an entire fork. Keep that in mind when buying Oracle licences.

  23. Re:not really a good name on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1

    As a Canadian, when I think of Libre I think of Charles de Gaul standing on a balcony in Quebec calling for the break up of Canada. "Viv la Quebec libre!!!" Excuse my spelling. This only a couple of decades after so many Canadians lost their lives freeing France from Germany. Not exactly Frances finest hour.

  24. Re:French on Oracle Asks OpenOffice Community Members To Leave · · Score: 1

    Because Microsoft Office was stopped dead in it's tracks when it hit Quebec?

  25. Re:Eh? on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    If you read again you will see that only certain scientists need permission and only with certain types of publications. I see both sides of this. On the one hand this does smell authoritarian and ham fisted which is what out prime minister is best known for. But on the other hand there have been some super left wing scientists taking tax payer money and using it for PR champagnes designed to wreck the Canadian economy based on some very specious claims. If we need to do things differently that should be a decision by the people and the government. Not a decision taken by one scientist acting like he speaks for the government based on getting a grant from them.