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  1. Re:cowards hide anonymously on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    Anonymity is NOT one of the cornerstones of a functioning democratic society.

    In any given city, county, or state I can walk in and find out who voted in any given year. I can't find out HOW they voted, merely if. So voting most certainly isn't anonymous.

  2. Re:To repeat: on Australian Gov't To Consider Spyware Laws · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Difference is people want drugs... Drugs are fun... SPAM isn't.

  3. Burning rubber on Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne · · Score: 1
    From CNN New definition of burning rubber
    The fuel -- more than 3,000 pounds of nitrous oxide and 600 pounds of a rubber ingredient -- was already loaded into SpaceShipOne's tanks. Late Sunday, the plane was sitting in a dark hangar awaiting its 6:30 a.m. launch.
  4. Re:It's amazing on Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne · · Score: 1

    Ok, largest can mean any of three things, and all three have or have had space programs.

    land mass=Russia
    Populus=China
    GDP=United States of America.

  5. Re:I confess to a little excitement ... on Mike Melvill Chosen To Fly SpaceShipOne · · Score: 1

    Try an island in the south pacific. Of course, outside of (US) military jurisdiction, you get to worry about pirates, bandits, no potable running water, no sanitation, poor food, no accessible medical care, but you can go there,

    Please DO!

  6. Re:Great! on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Commercial=sold for money. personal computer= one designed and marketed to persons not businesses, and Yes, they did it first.

  7. Re:BASIC is incomplete on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    And every for every microcomputer created before 1984 microsoft either bundled(sold to manufacturer) or sold directly a BASIC interpreter. SO MS does have the claim to PC(not IBM) BASIC

  8. Re:What do they mean by programming language? on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    powerbuilder isn't a language. I've checked.

    If you wish to counter, write the powerbuilder code to display "hello, world"

  9. Re:Ha! I was right! on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1
    Man, I miss Borland.
    Why? have they gone somewhere?
  10. Re:What amazes me on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Huh? Latin 1.2a and 1.3b are included under latin, Arabic and sanskrit did not make direct contributions and WTF does cobol have to do with English.

  11. Re:VMs will solve this issue on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I don't object to an ALTERNATE statement completion marker or a line continuation marker for readability, BUT when a statement must end in a statement completion mark and a CR/LF, thats just another thing to worry about when debugging. And of course C uses statement completion, and encapsulation with the { and ( , and suddenly programming becomes work and not fun.

  12. Re:Great! on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 5, Informative
    And of course in a very small way they are correct, since that is an abridged version of the statement
    develop the first commercial programming language for a personal microcomputer.
    Which is a true statement.
  13. Re:PHP from Perl but not C/C++ ? on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    The inheritence is C->awk->nawk->perl

  14. Re:What amazes me on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Um I speak English, which is a merged fork from Anglish, a german dialect; Celtic; Latin, an artificial language; and Greek the ancient trade language.

    What do you speak?

  15. Re:Interesting read on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you can load a ton of bricks and take it home using visual basic, but when developing an operating system a pickup truck is much more effective.

  16. Re:VMs will solve this issue on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Well, since BASIC, ForTran, and COBOL are older than C and using a CR/LF pair to end a statement is much more logical, discarding such an abomination is perfectly reasonable.

  17. Re:Easy on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1
    What if you go to a peaceful protest, some jackass starts throwing bricks, other people join in turning it into a riot, and then a policeman clubs you, when all you're doing is trying to get out of the area and away from the violence?
    WHEN

    If you are at a protest and someone starts throwing bricks, its NOT peaceful

    As unpopular as they are in most places, KKK marches don't get broken up with rubber bullets and hoses.
  18. Ghostbusters on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    Ok, someone call the ghostbusters, these guys stole their weapons.

  19. Re:Easy on Next Generation Stun Guns? · · Score: 1

    I've never seen a peaceful civil protest broken up with gas and rubber bullets.

    Are you refering to the million man march? Or the protesters on both sides protesting the florida recount?? Or the pro-military and anti war protesters since the Afgan and Iraq invasions?

  20. Re:Yet Another Degrading DVD on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    No, but Farenheit 9/11 has.

  21. Re:Absolutely Stupid! on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    How do they eat popcorn?? I think a bubble(vs hose) solution might be more effective. Also, I would imagine a Halon(vs argon) solution might be more cost efficient.

  22. Re:Right on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    If it was profitable and efficient, the government wouldn't have to make it the law.

    which is why up until the mid 80s the only products recycled on a commercial basis were glass and aluminium. In sufficient quantity it is reasonably cost efficient to recycle glass. Remember turning in a 6 pack of bottles to get a free coke?

  23. Re:Absolutely Stupid! on Yet Another Degrading DVD · · Score: 1

    Yup, and quite a bit of it tastes like chicken...

    EAT MEAT!

  24. Re:weapons of mass destruction? on Japanese Balloon Battle · · Score: 1

    30/= thousands.
    how can you compare the actions of a battalion or army to the actions of a platoon or squadron??

    do you see the difference.

    War is constantly changing. As weapons grow more precise, the death tolls rise and fall. They rise when weapon technology makes existing tactics very high in manpower cost and fall as tactics change to account for new tech. Imagine for a moment, fighting a 18th century pitched battle at 30 m using modern bolt action or even lever action weapons?

  25. Re:Multiple raid arrays? on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Yes, Most controllers can do this, my promise SX4000 supports multiple RAIDsets.

    I would assume that the 3ware and Hipoint units can do the same. I know that most onboard units are crippled in one or more ways so you may need a seperate controller, but any good controller should do this for you