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  1. I have a challenge for the DoD: on The 23 Toughest Math Questions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't use MS Word.

    I also have a challenge for the slashdot janitors: Link to the original source instead of an ad-laden blog.

  2. Re:But... on Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework · · Score: 2

    It was dual licensed (commercial or LGPL) before the switch to (commercial or ) GPL. I don't know if they gave a coherent reason for the switch (although it was probably to discourage use of the free version) but they did make some bizarre claims about what needed to be GPL (which hasn't been tested in court) although I think they later got a little more realistic about server side being unaffected.

  3. testing is a waste of time on Working Effectively with Legacy Code · · Score: 0, Troll

    testing is a waste of time and only means you satisfy the test conditions. You're better off just proving your code correct.

  4. Re:But... on Microsoft and Nokia Adopt OSS JQuery Framework · · Score: 1

    The MIT license doesn't prevent anyone else from doing that either.

  5. Re:Creating a machine? on OS X On the MSI Wind · · Score: 1
    1. The MSI Wind is smaller and lighter than the MacBook air
    2. The directions involve opening the MSI up to install an extra gig of memory and replace the wifi with something OS-X can support. It's not just a change in software.
    3. You must tbe new here.
  6. Re:Every time I read an article like this on OS X On the MSI Wind · · Score: 5, Informative

    The mid 90s called. They have the answer to your question. But here's a reminder:

    • Other companies eat away at Apple's hardware sales and Apple heads towards bankruptcy
    • NeXT sells OpenStep for x86 computers. It's at least a decade ahead of everything else (except maybe BeOS). It's very expensive.

    The fact you don't remember/know those two pieces of history suggest it wasn't really a stunning success.

  7. Re:question: on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 4, Informative

    sorry, the emphasis isn't on race, but on income and ability to repay loans. Fannie, Freddy, and other lenders were threatened with lawsuits and congressional complaints for not approving (subprime) loans in ghetto/slum areas. Maybe they didn't approve the loans because they are racist. Maybe they didn't approve the loans because they were a bad business decision.

    From a George Bush 2002 speech:

    More and more people own their homes in America today. Two-thirds of all Americans own their homes. Yet we have a problem here in America 'cause fewer than half of the hispanics and half of the African Americans own their home. That's a home ownership gap, a gap that we've got to work together to close. And by the end of this decade, we'll increase the number of minority home owners by at least five and a half million families.

    (applause)

    And of course, one of the larger obstacles to minority ownership is financing. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have committed to provide more money for lenders, they've committed to meet the shortage of capital available for minority homebuyers. Freddie Mac recently began twenty-five initiatives around the country to dismantle barriers and create greater opportunities for home ownership. One of the programs is designed to help deserving families who have bad credit histories to qualify for home ownership loans. You don't have to have a lousy home for first-time home buyers. You put your mind to it, these first-time home buyers, or low income home buyer, can have just as nice a house as anybody else.

  8. Not FOSS and Mac Only on FOSS Multicast Document Sharing? · · Score: 1

    but subethaedit has some cool text editing collaboration functionality.

  9. question: on Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where is the congressional accountability for the subprime loan mess? The Bush administration, as well as democratic members of congress, pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac to make more loans to poor people, inner city hispanics, african americans, etc. Not surprisingly, they defaulted (maybe that's why they weren't given loans in the first place?) and everyone is suffering as a result.

    All I hear is complaints about greedy wallstreet types. What about the people who signed up for loans they couldn't afford? What about the congress that ignore Allan Greenspan's 2005 testimony that Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were a serious problem? What about the congress that didn't believe poor credit meant an increased risk in defaulting on a loan?

  10. Re:Heuristic scanning v2.0? on New Approach To Malware Modifies Linux Kernel · · Score: 1

    That sounds cute, but I don't see how it helps all that much. If you download and run a trojan/malware that deletes all your files, it's doing what it's supposed to be doing, so it's not malware. If (for example) apache has a buffer overflow/stack smashing problem that lets mr hacker run arbitrary code, that code can still make the same syscalls apache makes.

  11. Re:99% off-topic question on How Close Were US Presidential Elections? · · Score: 1

    Usually, the press has a liberal bias but they're interested in scandals and the story dujour, so they focus on what sells. This time around, there's a more blatent pro-Obama skew in the press, and more blogs, partisan websites, and the need for immediacy that doesn't fit in well with an indepth look at the issues.

  12. Re:Weird turnabout on Run Mac OS X On Non-Apple Hardware, With a Dongle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once there was a fox. Not a firefox, just a regular fox. As he was walking by the orchard, he spied some apples. They looked lickably delicious, but out of reach. He tried jumping, he tried climbing, he tried shaking the tree, but they were out of reach, so, as he walked away, he told himself, "they were probably sour.". Then he raped a penguin.

  13. Re:The only thing that matters... on SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Give the fat people AIDS. They'll lose weight and die, decreasing the amount of methane they produce, which will solve global warming.

  14. Re:Biased much? on SDK Shoot Out, Android Vs. IPhone · · Score: 1, Informative

    T-Mobile has already said they're limiting what can be run. No skype/voip for example.

  15. Re:well on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 5, Informative

    In order to get rejected (or accepted) from the apple store, you need to pay $99 to join the iphone developer progeam, which involves accepting the terms. While there is no pen and ink signature, you need to unambiguously accept the terms.

  16. Re:It's too bad that you need a $2300 mac to make on Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4 · · Score: 2, Informative

    the iMacs (excluding the 24") use screen dithering.

  17. Re:I don't buy it on dual licensing on Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US? · · Score: 1

    QT is the missing 6th.

  18. good start on Clean Code · · Score: -1, Troll

    when you're done cleaning your code, maybe you can clean yourself? Take a shower daily. Use soap. Wipe your ass. Wear clean clothes. Trim or shace facial hair.

  19. Re:What a waste on Complaints Pour In After Digital TV Test · · Score: 1

    It's not nearly as wasteful as buying up loans for deadbeats who bought more house than they could afford.

  20. I don't buy it on dual licensing on Is Open Source Different In Europe Than In the US? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Ok, off the top of my head, these are the "European" Open Source (tm) projects I can think of:
    • KDE - GPL, but depends on QT which started is/was dual licensed.
    • Linux - GPL.
    • MySQL (now part of Sun) dual licensed
    • InnoDB (now part of Oracle) dual licensed
    • Virtual Box (German, now part of Sun) dual licensed.

    So of the 6 European Open Source projects I can name of the top of my head, 4 are dual licensed.

  21. Re:Good news cause PDF's should be shunned on PDF Exploits On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Two suggestions: postscript. DVI.

  22. Re:Not to worry. on PDF Exploits On the Rise · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use Apple's Preview/display PDF. The only time I've needed to use Acrobat was for filling out IRS tax forms (Preview didn't save the data I entered).

  23. Re:simple solution on Unemployment Hits New High In Silicon Valley · · Score: 2, Interesting

    good call. Good curry, lots of women (most of them put out for Americans, no game required ), and plenty of opportunity for high level jobs in their outsourcing industry. Plus, with the lax laws and easy access to grade-A Afghanistan opium, the place is wilder than Las Vegas. I spent 6 months there, partying like a rock star nightly.

  24. Re:increasingly irrelevent on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 2, Informative

    That damn apple. They're using the proprietary GCC compiler. And the proprietary darwin kernel. And using the proprietary OpenStep. And the proprietary WebKit. And the proprietary CUPS.

  25. Re:*Yawn*, I think I'll stick with Ubuntu. on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    You must not be using FireFox.