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  1. Re:Flamebait in Headline on SQL Vs. NoSQL: Which Is Better? · · Score: 1

    Agree - this is total flamebait.

  2. Re:Even GPU costs more on Startup Aims For $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console · · Score: 1

    "Bing use at 9.75%, just edging in front of Yahoo"

    isn't Yahoo using /Bing/ nowadays, even?

    subtract Yahoo from Bing and you end up with what Bing REALLY has.

    :p

  3. Re:first post? on Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released · · Score: 1

    er, s/()/(<>)/ on that last post

  4. Re:first post? on Perl Data Language 2.4.10 released · · Score: 1

    | perl -e 'while () { s/\t/ /; print $_; }'

    there. fixed it for ya.

  5. Re:linux is fail on What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage · · Score: 2

    ...until you have a drive die during a scrub, destroy a zfs filesystem in a deduplicating zpool, or any other number of things that makes ZFS **ANGRY**, that is. and despite all that, I still trust it more than any most linux filesystems.

  6. Re:Resistance? What resistance? on Google Fiber Work Hung Up In Kansas City · · Score: 1

    'Ken Johnson, the company’s vice president and chief technology officer, said his company’s not much interested in hanging its wires up high with power lines. “It’s just much more cumbersome,” he said.' They're talking about a /cable/ company, not a /fiber/ company. You don't put coax next to power lines. Power lines do not interfere with fiber.

  7. Re:China does the same stuff on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 1

    +1

  8. Re:possible bidders on Auction of Copyright Troll Righthaven's Website Underway · · Score: 1

    +1

  9. Re:Nook easy to hack? on Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code · · Score: 1

    I am confused. Mixed up recovery and bootloader.

  10. Re:Nook easy to hack? on Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code · · Score: 1

    See below - Nook bootloader unlocked: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1354002

  11. Re:Complaint Text on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    Doesn't seem to be available yet, or at least not available to download.

  12. Re:Ha ha ha on Feds Call Full-Tilt Poker a 'Global Ponzi Scheme' · · Score: 0

    Let's replace the people with their roles in an actual ponzi scheme:

    "current beneficiaries are getting paid by current investors, and current investors are hoping to get paid by future investors. SS doesn't have any books, all of the funds are fake, they are moving fungible money back and forward"

  13. Re:That's the last straw on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1

    I support this decision.

  14. Microsoft... on Casio Paying Microsoft To Use Linux · · Score: 1

    ...the new SCO. 10 years to bankruptcy, please? Can't we just get this over quick and have all the MS people quit?

  15. Re:It's about time on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    The EPA doesn't do anything about CO2 and global warming - they just regulate smoke stack scrubbers, which scrub out non-greenhouse gas emissions only (soot, etc)... Which means that the otherwise reflective cloud from the smoke stacks don't exist anymore and the greenhouse gases that are emitted are more effective at heating up the atmosphere. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_evaporation#Decreasing_Trend_of_Pan_Evaporation

  16. Re:JavaScript and Perl are not for beginners on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    I dunno...I find perl easy to teach to people...especially if they have already experimented with batch files or other rudimentary forms of coding.

  17. Re:Give me good services on P2P Music Downloads At All-Time Low · · Score: 2

    If the music industry had a simple way to buy rights to songs, etc., people would probably even pay to use that in youtube videos they make, etc. As it stands now, you use one service to find out all 2-5 services you need to get a hold of, then use those 2-5 services to determine all of the fees you have to pay. Ridiculous. The music industry is sometimes as backwards as the Patent and Trademark Office of the US.

  18. Re:Since when... on SCO Fails to Produce Evidence · · Score: 1

    they just love testing these new laws on children before they bring them into public eye....how many times has your kid been suspended for disagreeing with a teacher, so far?

  19. Re:Wind... on Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name · · Score: 1

    Windex existed first.

  20. Re:DVD, $14.99, CD, $11.99 on RIAA Threatens More Music-Lovers · · Score: 1

    What I love, is how the "industry", and pretty much the "industry," only, makes money off of artists who have been long dead. As a descendant of a popular musician, you'd only recieve 20% of what the musician was granted by the "industry," even if you were sole descendant, even though the price of the actual cd hasn't really changed...i.e. - if yr father got $1/cd from the RIAA maddogs, you'd only recieve $.20/cd(at most)/cd they sell now, which A) doesn't amount to much, and B) doesn't do justice to the fact that they're STILL selling the CD at a similar price to what they did when the artist was alive.

    btw...I'm sure many other people noticed that, for packaging and materials, total, it costs about $3/cd to make a CD AND have it represented by a competant legal figure, at a quantity of 2,000 CDs sold?(i.e. - $1.00/ for a cd/plastic packaging, $1.00(max) for artwork/CD printing, and ~$1.00/cd for lawyer fees for a copyrighted work(max))?...

  21. Re:E-voting is simply a bad idea. on Diebold Issues Cease and Desist to Indymedia · · Score: 1

    The wrong president DID get elected, and HAS launched a series of Napoleonic wars...

  22. Ah.... on Novell To Cease NetWare Development? · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that Novell is probably going to keep to their promise of supporting older revisions of Netware, and not pull the same FUD Microsoft does every time they release a new revision. Why?...NOVELL DOESN'T HAVE TO...Because of how rock solid they've made Netware....They will continue to gain new revenue from the trust that sysadmins place in them...they don't need to push their linux revision, as people may just decide to not even use the netware revision...they're very good about choosing how they market...

  23. Re:Imagine if the Scriveners tried to sue? on 2191.78 Years for the RIAA to Sue Everyone · · Score: 1

    Ok...you will be deified for this perfect analogy of what it was like back then to what it is today....by the way, was that a sheet of carbon paper I saw you use to write this here?

  24. Re:Cash for updates? on Gates Provides Windows Crash Statistic · · Score: 1

    hmmm....interesting that I hear someone compare a digital "item" to a physical one when there is a small comparison: IT ALL COMES DOWN TO MACHINE CODE....I mean, heck, if you really wanted to create a program without bugs, you have to get down to the "nanotechnology" of the programming code the way that every machinist has to get to the literal nanoscale of a part of a car....and, unfortunately, programmers don't do that anymore....someone, please post a poll of how many programmers still know assembly, or are actively pursuing the use of it in getting rid of bugs, and I'll believe you that I should pay to get a portion of my OS fixed if you can find that at least 25% of today's programmers do...unfortunately, working on a program in an interpreted language like Visual Basic or even C++, is an attempt to create a car part that has to be within one ten-thousandth of an inch of the size specified in the plans, with a non-CRC lathe....it just DOESN'T work correctly, because you have to rely on SOOOO many variables of that lathe not working properly from other people's mistakes in creating it for a human to use it to change LARGE parts that don't require that much detail...Microsoft can s***w off, afaic, as I am sure that at least 75% of their code was not even created with assembly or even checked at the machine-code level for integrity or even just simple conflcts. I don't hate Windows(as I do NEED to use it for work and whatnot), but I do find it somewhat offensive that someone who creates programs in Visual Studio can consider themselves a programmer, if that's all they know...it's frustrating...very, and yes, assembly takes a lot of time to learn, and has a VERY large amount of detail which needs concentration on, but it is EXACTLY what the machine understands completely...it just isn't used as much anymore.... ok...enough of my flame....I'm just ticked that assembly has gotten the backburner since all of these interpreted languages came along...I mean, heck, how many people can check their header files for something that conflicts anymore, BEFORE they compile the program?....grrr....

  25. Re: little_black_rabbit on Working with ADHD? · · Score: 1

    I like you...and I can fully agree....Please tell me you've read Principia Discoridia. I'm not joking or bs-ing with you. I'm serious. Chaos theory is a very awesome way to hone in what you can do with adhd... and, yes, I have done all the things you specified, even down to spending 3 years in my senior class, after 2 years as a junior cuz those damn HS prix jus won't let me do what I want and leave me alone, get out of the frieckin square-dance class(not like I'm ever gonna use it afterwards), jus get outta my life, u know?...only diff is I'm 23, not 26, and don't take the pills... I like you.