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  1. Open Hardware? on Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders · · Score: 1

    One of these in an OpenSPARC machine?

    Oh yes... the future is now

  2. Re:Good on YouTube Refuses To Remove Terrorist Videos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And if we don't let them make these videos, then it's moot because we've already lost

    Think that they're wrong? Say something, don't prevent them from saying something

  3. Re:Well, obvious stuff: on Fermilab Calls For Code Crackers · · Score: 2, Funny

    I got a piece of spam that read exactly like that!

  4. Re:Not dual boot; the network IS the computer on Securing Your Notebook Against US Customs · · Score: 1

    some of us are capable of working offline.

    Also, some of us are intelligent and therefore don't trust baggage handlers not to destroy the machine

  5. Re:Good luck with that on Shuttleworth Calls For Coordinated Release Cycles · · Score: 1

    Linux was never part of the UNIX wars. Linux is not UNIX.

  6. Re:Mississippi on First Space Lawyer Graduates · · Score: 1

    uhh... yeah... that was a joke, son.

    "I wouldn't be so quick with the notion that cosmology and religion are incompatible, or that religion and science in general are incompatible."

    They're not, unless you ask the "Evolution is just a theory" southern evangelicals. Hence the comment about Mississippi not believing in space.

    and to leave on a more positive, funny note (unfortunately the original was removed by socially retarded humourless E2 admins ): The "Moon": A Ridiculous Liberal Myth

  7. Mississippi on First Space Lawyer Graduates · · Score: 1, Funny

    They believe in space in Mississippi? Has nobody told their wonderfully enlightened pastors about this widespread heathen encroachment on freedom of religion?

  8. Re:Who cares? on OpenSolaris Indiana Released · · Score: 1

    and Sun's IHVs would immediately abandon the platform, as people like NetApp don't really want to give away their code.

    In conclusion, fuck the GPL. Their reaction to the BSD license went too far the other way. Apache/CDDL/MIT/Mozilla are somewhere in the middle, and it works great for them & everyone else

  9. Re:Though is some places? on Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search · · Score: 1

    Here, anyways, the state picks up the bill for good-faith search efforts.

    Bad faith is like the woman a few years back who got drunk on a boat less than a mile away from the city and sent out a drunken m'aidez call. She had to pick up the ( hefty ) SaR bill on top of the normal penalties

  10. Re:I have said it before on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 1

    Sad enough most other people don't seem to care so I can't.

    mac friends? point them at adium. PC friends (incl. open-source PC)? gaim proper.

    I have adium set up to automatically send OTR packets if the other side is capable, so my mom & I talk encrypted. She doesn't know or understand what it means even, but it's easy for her to use ( she has to do absolutely nothing ), so it works.

  11. Re:My professor has a beard on Facial Hair and Computer Languages · · Score: 1

    Proves nothing

    Beards are a necessary, but not sufficient condition

  12. Re:Security not just about encryption. on Lawyers Would Rather Fly Than Download PGP · · Score: 1

    Think of it from an information warfare perspective.

    You're the NSA. You can crack RSA. Do you want to reveal that you know how to crack RSA to arrest a gangster/druglord/whatever ? Or would you rather crack it, and then look for some other excuse of why you know this info?

    Especially in light of the fact that if your superiors were on an invading spree and were looking to target some states that may or may not be using RSA because they think it's uncrackable

  13. Re:Going back to my youth on GPL Edutainment Software · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but I think someone thought they were doing good by creating that, but LOGO is mostly designed to get kids interested in programming... this kinna defeats the purpose of that, no?

  14. Re:CDDL on Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Picking CDDL was to keep people from taking the code like they did with the original 4.xBSD series, while still allowing people to write closed-source drivers for it when it gets popular enough to attract people to do that.

    Imagine how good the hardware support could be on Linux if Linus had just picked a license that lets people link in to the kernel with non-GPL code, and kept a stable ABI so that it made sense to do so. THAT'S what Sun was after

  15. Re:Gnu/Solaris on Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dear $deity no!

    GPL was a reactionary statement to the BSD licenses' freedoms being taken advantage of by corporate powers. The license OpenSolaris is under now ( CDDL ) is much more balanced. It keeps the code under a viral clause ( change it? share it! ) but it doesn't spread to the surrounding code like the GPL does ( link to it? share it! )

    The GPL illustrated some fine points about giving users too much freedom, and now it's time to lay it to rest with Marx and pure Smith economics as political tools that were found to be unworkable except in a modified form.

    That Linux is successful and also GPL is an anomaly rather than a general rule, and even in that case it serves to illustrate that the hardware manufacturer's unwillingness to write GPL drivers is holding Linux back. Were Linux under a more permissive license, with the market share it has now, hardware mfrs would be rushing to write drivers for it

  16. Re:Kudos to them, I guess on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Actually I think you should reexamine the Mozilla/Apache/CDDL style licenses.

    They keep your code free, in as far as any code licensed under them can't change licenses, they have the viral clause for that code ( change it? share it. ), but they limit the viral clause to only the files which carry the license. None of the ambiguous "project" language the GPL uses.

    more teeth than BSD, not a lunatic communist license like the GPL

  17. Re:Kudos to them, I guess on Sun to Fully Open Source Java · · Score: 1

    Somewhat less arbitrary?

    Can you link to GPL code at runtime? are you sure? Forget what RMS has to say outside the scope of the license, do you think you could reasonably sue someone under the viral clause for runtime linking to GPL code?

    What about the nVidia hacks? legal or no?

    All the places the GPL has been tested have been for obvious violations, it's the edge cases that make it arbitrary

  18. Great... on F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Murdering made more efficient isn't "news for nerds"

  19. Re:Am I missing something? on OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC · · Score: 1

    and /usr/ucb is quite broken. ps(1) works, but not much else

  20. Re:Good on EBay Mulling Skype Sale · · Score: 1

    "Maybe they were going to flog off switchboard hardware for a dime a piece."

    Plus $1000 shipping & handling

  21. Re:Okay on IBM's Pilot Program For Internal Use of Macs · · Score: 1

    And now that they're not, they're switching over... odd, no?

  22. Re:No roast on demand on The Javabot Combines Engineering and Coffee · · Score: 1

    FWIW, I roast all my coffee. ( go sweetmarias! )

    The gasses aren't dangerous, it's mostly just C02. They just make the coffee taste off. There's been a bunch of discussion on how to speed up the process in the homeroast community, but the conclusion everyone inevitably comes to is that it's impossible. The beans need time to develop their flavours and get rid of the off-taste of CO2. Takes about 24hrs or so, depending on the beans & roast.

  23. Re:OSX? on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    Oh, i'm not saying that you shouldn't be able to un-integrate it, but at the moment it cannot be properly integrated. It does not act like an OSX app, and there's no way to make it so. Camino doesn't have all the firefox plugins, so it's not a suitable substitute.

  24. Re:OSX? on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and from the looks of it they just simply don't get it. OSX integration is about much more than making it look at first glance like it fits.

    OSX users are pedantic when it comes to UI design. If the keyboard shortcuts are off, if the app doesn't act like you expect UI wise ( fade to light grey when not at the foreground, which is where the new beta falls flat and sticks out like a sore thumb ), it's unusable.

  25. Re:OSX? on Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost · · Score: 1

    adblock. filterset.g without which I go insane and want to stop using the web altogether