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  1. Curse of binary floating point on Why Computers Suck At Math · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Use decimal floating point or simple swich to fixed point. Fixed point not used as often as it should, and many developers don't know how difficult ordinary floiting point really is.

  2. Re:We're looking to AUSTRALIA for advice on broadb on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Most of the problems I see presented on this issue stem from the fact that competition is artificially limited through regulation

    Well, you need glasses. Most of the issues due to the fact that competition is naturally limited and the lack of regulation.

  3. Re:Vishing? on Asterisk Vishing Attacks "Endemic" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Vishing? Really?

    What is that, voice phishing? What's next, we're going to call telemarketers "vammers"? And we'll call phreakers "vackers"?

    I'm sure we could come up with a better term than "vishing".

    If the alternative is phreashing and phreammers, then I'll prefer "vishing". That said, I doubt most cases are using an actual "bug" in Asterisk, it is much more likely there are different setups, were some are incorrectly setup to handle _one_ of the many combinations of diversion, refer, redirection, route, proxy, RFC and draft SIP features that Asterisk "supports".

  4. Re:humans on Neanderthals "Had Sex" With Modern Man · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Arabs are Caucasian. Caucasian is wider term than Aryan so that it includes Semitic people like Jews and Arabs.

  5. Re:Go to your room and no video games! on Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Check the statistics. Contrary to early reports it is less deadly then the regular flu. So he is actually trying to inform you our of your irrational fear.

  6. Re:It had to be France... on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    Again bullshit, try your own advise and read history again. The church funded science including your mentioned Copernicus and Galileo. Who where prosecuted by other branches of the church as part of a scheme against their patrons.

  7. Re:EULA in germany... on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 1

    Do you sign it? If not, it is not valid.

    Also the product has to explicit state you are buying a license and not a physical product, otherwise any license terms are inconsequential anyway.

  8. Re:Android and what? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    His point was that Apple has a much smaller market share than Nokia. If something only ships on Nokia that means 10+ times bigger market share than something that only ships on Apple. And iPhone apps doesn't seem to have problems despite the severely limited market.

    The biggest problem is that Nokia has so many platforms, and if you limit the market to only smartphones Nokia is only 2-3 timer bigger than Apple.

  9. Re:Or, if we are about the open source, on Psystar's Rebel EFI Hackintosh Tool Reviewed, Found Wanting · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *HUNDREDS* of cases about violating EULAs have been brought to court in the US, and in many cases, they were found enforceable.

    In the US.. And specifically in California. EULAs are generally not valid, except for certain states in the US and the far east.

  10. Re: xkcd on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    Yes, blink is an old netscape extension, and Mozilla Firefox carries a lot of Netscape background.

  11. Re:ldd pwned on Arbitrary Code Execution With "ldd" · · Score: 1

    The easiest think would be to not use ldd and use "readelf -d" instead

  12. Re: xkcd on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    text-docoration:blink is optional and usually only implemented by the evil browsers already implementing

  13. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    No, you ship the dependencies inside the binary package. Just one package. Or you statically link the libraries into your program so you don't have dynamic dependencies.

  14. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that is an advantage of the Linux way, which makes the binaries slimmer. There is however nothing preventing a .deb files from containing all its dependencies and installing them to a package specific location or having them statically linked.

  15. Re:We need 1-file installs on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    It's dead simple. We need something like this in Linux.

    You may want to check out something called RPM and DEB files. They are single files packages used to install applications. The rest is just a matter of user-interface. Create an io-slave (KIO, GVFS) that shows installed packages, and executes install when files are dropped there and you have everything you ask for.

  16. Re:Does Linux even need them? on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    No Linux does not need them, even if you want to distribute multi-arch "binaries" linux already have a universal "binary" format called shell-scripts

    Replace installed binaries with a symbolic link to a simple shell-script and you magically have a multiarch "binary".

    #!/bin/bash
    ARCH=`uname -m`
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/$ARCH
    `/usr/bin/$ARH/$0`

  17. Re:Karma Burning Friday on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    It more looks like the rebutal confirms the original article by reiterating the proposed delusions in the following comment. Is he trying to sarcastically agree with the original article? In that case it is not a rebutal.

  18. Re:Really? on When Libertarians Attack Free Software · · Score: 1

    Microsoft haven't been using their patents to sue everybody else of the marketplace. They have been using their dominant position to threaten OEMs and suppliers to freze others out of the marketplace. They have been doing it completely on their own and in direct conflict with government regulation.

  19. Re:Uhhhh, no... on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 1

    I don't try to control my emotions or instincts, but that doesn't lead me to think they are related to logic. You questioned logic, but bring up emotions.

    Sure doing the right thing when it feels wrong is hard, meaning they are both factors of decision making. Logic and emotions are still completely unrelated however. The existance of emotions does not invalidate the soundness of logic. There is not even a reason to think that using emotional data would be wrong. Emotions are perfectly correct data about how you feel. How you feel might not be based on logic, but neither is the weather or the lotto number. Yes biased data might lead you to "imperfect decisions", but what on earth are you trying to optimize? You are a human being not a robot. Being wrong is okay.

  20. Re:Those 40 other... losers? on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    You are using bubble logic. Please review the economic development the last 24 month, and rethink your advise.

    Bubble logic is sound economic advise as long as things are going up, once they go down you need to know what things are _really_ worth.

  21. Re:Two way street on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    How's your full POSIX API handling e.g. non-blocking sockets, these days?

    The same way they did in 80's and 90's: perfectly fine.

  22. Re:I'll ask it again on Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone · · Score: 1

    More likely, Nokia's profits are down because the economy is down and they are not on a significant rise. The already dominate everywhere except the US, so it is hard for them to grow except in the US, where they, like everybody else, just haven't found out exactly what it is Apple are paying all those journalists for free advertisement.

  23. Re:Still, GIGO on The Science of Irrational Decisions · · Score: 1

    No, if your logic is internally consistent, it will form a valid base of logic-space and will only lead to correct results. The problem is a lot of people have and defend broken logic. It doesn't matter if you rationalize about emotions or the bible, if you can manage to make it coherent you are right. I do admit that cohorent emotions are hard, and the bible itself is incoherent, but those are just examples.

  24. Re:Ah, that nice French law... on EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's the problem with legal/archaic English when you not a native speaker. My browser-dictionary gave up and died.

  25. Re:Finland legalizing use of unsecured wireless ne on EU Paves the Way For Three-Strikes Cut-Off Policy · · Score: 1

    Finland is considering to legalize unauthorized use of unsecured wireless networks. Wonder how such a policy would work in combination with a three strikes rule :)

    Legalizing?? That would require it to have been illegal in the first place. Those crazy finns.

    By the way, my router supports multiple wireless networks; one of them is unsecured and named "freeinternet", please consider doing the same.