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  1. Re:Why civil disobedience is the only answer? on U.S. Sides with Record Labels Over DMCA Subpoena Powers · · Score: 1

    It is only my own opinion:
    You have no moral right to profit from your own creativity.

  2. rebate is on Are Rebates Scandalous? · · Score: 1

    1) A free credit to the producer for 3-6 months
    2) Your personal mailing information given to them
    3) Usually information about how the thing has been bought, with what else and where - by reading the receipt.
    Depending on quality of thing you buy and the
    rebate amount it's worth or not to accept the rebate. You are not forced to accept rebate in any way.

  3. Nobody ever been fired for buying Microsoft... on Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think that will happen soon...

  4. Re:Python == Snake Oil on Python in a Nutshell · · Score: 1

    Python == Snake Oil
    Python == Snake
    Snake Oil can be a Python Oil
    can be
    Python == Python Oil

    Oil == NULL!

  5. Re:Declarative languages on The Post-OOP Paradigm · · Score: 1

    Yep. Especially if you have to change your program constantly to meet specifications.
    For example in most procedural languages you may see
    the construct
    if (a) {
    if (b) { ...
    if (c) { ...
    } else { ...
    }

    } else {
    }
    and if you need to put conditions in different order, you are usually out of luck to make it without a lot of mistakes. In Prolog it's extremely easy to do.
    By the way, XSLT is actually a Prolog in disguise, but with worse graphical representation and limited functionality...

  6. Re:Fake food! on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    Looks promising. But I am expecting something like
    good-tasting cotton. Something that I can chew on
    and what can be bitten and tastes like meat or chocolate, but have 0 calories. No fat, no carbs,
    just cellulose and additives.
    May be eatable chewing gum?

  7. Fake food! on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    The best diet is to eat fake food.
    The food that looks like food, feels in mouth like food, but is not digestible at ALL..
    Do you know any?

  8. Re:Exercise anyone? on Lose Weight The Slow, Boring Way · · Score: 1

    If you are older than 25 a lot of exercize MAY hurt a lot, especially if you didn't exercize before.
    I tried to enter taekwon-do group and a hard way got that my heart can't tolerate it now.
    I heard a lot of stories, and even about my close friends who got heart attacks after they start to run every day.
    It's a good idea to consult a doctor.
    A question list for a doctor (please add to this list if you can - I really need ideas on what to check)
    - heart condition
    - bone condition
    - diabetes
    - ?
    Be careful!

  9. Re:What to say when asked to the wrong thing on When Should a Consultant Question Decisions? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to put this decision and discussion in writing, that will allow you to have a material to shut them up later when they blame you.

  10. Finally! on End of The Von Neumann Computing Age? · · Score: 1

    We are not slaves of the uni-processor systems!
    eh... when I'll finally be able to buy 16-CPU notebook or PDA?
    Or 65536 CPU?

  11. Re:Titles are not the problem on A Title To Replace "Systems Administrator"? · · Score: 1

    In Russia,they are called
    AnyKey Mans :)

  12. Imagine! on Networked Refrigerated Microwave · · Score: 1

    what this thing can do if the link to it is HAXX0RED!?

  13. Beware this on VIA C3 Random Number Generator Reviewed · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. A good hardware built-in RNG introduced
    2. Everybody starts using it
    3. Some guys in a CPU company change it to not so good
    hardware RNG (for example f(x)=exp(sin(x)) etc)
    4. ...
    5. Profit?!

  14. Re:For those who are interested... on Analysis of RIAA vs Princeton Student · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every 142th american is in jail now... You want to increase the number?

  15. This article deserves modding flamebait! on What Would You Put Into A Software Survival Kit? · · Score: 1

    I will NEVER take Windows to any seriously remote travel!

  16. Re:Isn't this the job of the compiler? on Quantum Computing Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Why not Ada? Why not Fortran90?
    Why not Erlang??
    those languages better fit for non-sequental
    stuff that happens VERY asynchronously.
    Why not Prolog? Getting goals checked simultaneously is a huge advantage for that language!

  17. Re:Piracy is good? on BSA IDC FUD · · Score: 1

    Remember, piracy is double-edged.
    Pirate can create a redhat-like CD, for which you'll
    never be able to get any sources of packages, therefore violating GNU GPL.

  18. Re:If it's not a joke... on From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · · Score: 1

    1. Raise chicken and send its legs to Russia
    2. Use chicken waste to get oil
    3. ...
    4. Profit!

  19. what's suggested in article is the best way on Psychology of a Programmer · · Score: 1

    to make ME an ineffective programmer.
    People ARE different, what fit one, not necessarily
    fit other.
    My performance when I am alone and uninterfered
    is about 5% compared to when I can talk about what I am programming to other person (even not necessary a programmer, just a good listener).

  20. Re:Even XHTML? on Why XML Doesn't Suck · · Score: 1

    I did not.
    I used "plain text" option.
    I am avoiding manual writing of *TML languages at all costs.

  21. XML as dough on Why XML Doesn't Suck · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who say XML sucks are the people who are forced to look at it and change it by hand.
    But XML is not for that!
    XML is like dough. Nobody eats raw dough (it's probably OK to eat it, but it ISN'T tasty), but eats cookies and bread instead.

    XML is NOT for user and/or administrator usual exposure, XML is for application data transfer.
    And applications that require XML to be written by human are only half done: they should be used in combination with HumanInput -> XML generation programs.

  22. Am I the only one on Hacker Leaks Unreleased CERT Reports · · Score: 1

    Who read the header as
    Hacker "Leaks" unreleased CERT reports
    THAT would be cool!
    (Leaks as a nickname).

  23. Sun stuff.... on Sun to Build Alternative Desktop ? · · Score: 1

    What a large pig Sun gives to me! :(
    I mean Model-Controller-View "standard".
    Ok, ok. you created an application, based on that
    standard.
    But what else? What if you want that application to be compatible with others? What if you need it to
    generate XML instead of HTML?
    You are out of luck, you have to parse the html pages, produced by JSPs, nothing else.
    My last hope is Cocoon. Any other ideas?
    How to change and make modular the MCV-made application?

  24. Re:Tonight at 8 on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    Actually, I prefer America's funniest videos at 7...

  25. Re:What next? on Spider-Man Has Back Problems · · Score: 1

    Ikhtiandr?