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  1. Re:M.A.D. on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    As long as enough people support their cause, yes, they are saying that if they don't agree with you, they'll disrupt you. But they can't do that alone, they need people supporting them.

    How is that any different from other kinds of protest?

  2. Re:M.A.D. on WikiLeaks Defenders Threaten Amazon · · Score: 1

    The government will use a protest against its control of the internet to get greater control?

    Now, I also think that is true, but it is usefull to stablish it as a fact for once. It is harder to get anoyed about something you think somebody will do. It is much easier to get disturbed by something somebody did actualy do.

  3. Re:Conference rooms on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    My laptop has an NVidia card exactly because when I was looking to buy it I found so many examples of Randeon failures. Also, NVidia isn't without fault, when I bout it I turned away other 2 models because their GPU was documented to not work well with multiple screans or projectors. I don't have the examples on hand, but they exist, and you'll be able to find them at Google.

    The funny thing is that shortly after I bought the laptop I changed everything I worked with, and never had any reason to plug it into a projector. But I've used multiple screans, without any fault.

  4. Re:That didn't happen has a lot of data on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    We've always be at war with Eurasia too? It was called Global Warming, and for a long time. People decided calling it "Climate Change" after the shills at the media started "debunking" Global Warming by showing examples of local cooling.

  5. Re:Asking the right question on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    Option 1 does not always mean to live a poorer life. Often it is the other way around, by making some (somewhat expensive) adjustement one'll be able to live more confortably and recover the original investment on a viable timeframe.

    By the way, that is an almost certain way of verifying that the adjustment will really help the environment and is not some bad proposal by some math chalenged greeny. If the investment on conservation pays for itself on a reasonable timeframe, it will almost certanly help the environment. (Note, for the logic impaired, THE RECIPROCAL DOESN'T HOLD.)

  6. Re: Asking the right question on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    You are thinking about relocating some 60% of the people on Earth. I don't have a cost-benefit analisis, but it is not as simple as biulding a city and moving people there.

  7. Re: Hopefully on Doubling of CO2 Not So Tragic After All? · · Score: 1

    You want your program to work, that is because of an ideology. You could alternatively simply deny realism and say that it doesn't matter if your program works or not. And yep, after you decide you want your program to work, you'll be subjected to the same thinking steps of a scientist, since your program working or not is defined in some way that you have any control of.

  8. Re:Conference rooms on Goodbye, VGA · · Score: 1

    "I don't know why it seems to be so hard to get a Windows or GNU/Linux system running on a decent notebook to talt to a VGA beamer."

    That is because of bad device drivers. Most free drivers for Linux work ok, but the closed ones aren't in any way reliable.

  9. Re:Kindof Summary on X Particle Might Explain Dark Matter & Antimatter · · Score: 1

    People versed in quantum field theory talk in a way that implies that it comes from the theory. I know that the spin, that was first postulated does come from the theory, that is certain, but I have never received a definitive answer from the exclusion principle. As I said, I don't know the theory to know the answer myself.

    By the way, are you a physicist? Is that a definitive answer?

  10. Re:FTA: "separate, secure facility" on USDA Services Moving To the Microsoft Cloud · · Score: 1

    No problem. You just ofshore some work for China, and if there an employee leaks some information, you coudln't have done anything to stop it, could you?

  11. Re:FTA: "separate, secure facility" on USDA Services Moving To the Microsoft Cloud · · Score: 1

    Yep, that seems to be the case. But there will be some unforseen consequences. Since MS drones (those admins that can't learn how to adminitrate anything, but can play as if they administrate MS software) are one of the most important marketing plataform of MS, they'll lose that plataform (that has hight decision power inside their clients). Microsof is in a bad situation, where they are damed if they do, and damed if they don't.

    Also, I doubt there will be much in the side of cost cutting. MS services require nanning, and they won't require less so just because they are located at a MS building.

  12. Re:What does the wasp do with it? on Scientists Discover Solar Powered Hornets · · Score: 1

    Every example we have creates electricity, and it is probably a requirement, since the light interferes only with electrons... Maybe there is an organism that does it purely by chemical reactions, but every one I'm aware of turns the light into electricity (on a stable molecule), conduct it to some other place (a molecule that changes form) and use that later place to make some endotermic reaction happen.

  13. Re:Kindof Summary on X Particle Might Explain Dark Matter & Antimatter · · Score: 1

    It seems it does, tough I didn't yet understand it enough to know.

  14. Re:Business vs Open Source on Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source · · Score: 1

    There I disagree a bit. If your competitor is Microsof you indeed do create products just to outdo them. Otherwise, they'll create products just to outdoo you, and you'll get out of business.

    But even creating those products, you should make sure that they aren't that costly, so you'll stay in business. You can form a consortium (there are plenty of people threatened by MS, at any time) if you are too ambitious, but keep your costs down.

  15. Re:Doublethink on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 1

    If Wikileaks made something clear was that it was Saudi Arabia on the strings.

  16. You don't understand!!! on US To Host World Press Freedom Day · · Score: 2

    They are aware that comedians are the last one telling the truth to the US public, and plan to bankrupt them all by a thread of elaborated government decisions that will take their public's atention away!!!!!

    P.S. Gee, all that text and I couldn't get ride of that last comma... When reading it, don't take a breath, that would not reflect the intented message.

  17. Re:AVG sees LOIC as threat on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 2

    An anti-virus is calling some software that will give remote control of your computer to a thrid party a threat?!?! That is just unbelivable!!!

  18. Re:why mastercard? on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    Yet, you don't want to put the mirrored data on a liveDVD, because it must be updated. Anyway, the hardest part is to set get a fixed address, and letting WikiLeaks know about it. That can't be automated.

  19. Re:Wikileaks Vs Sites of Ill Repute on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    But they can't kill Wikileaks anymore. Really, there is no rational reason from them (and the US government) fighting Wikileaks that hard now. The best they could have done was to ignore it.

  20. Re:"voluntary botnet" on MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks · · Score: 1

    I know the average level of comments here isn't that hight... But I'd think most of them pass the Turing Test, so I wouldn't call /. a botnet.

  21. Re:Agreed on Google Wants To Take Away Your Capslock Key · · Score: 2

    # ifdef SOME_MACRO_NAME_THAT_WILL_BE_CREATED_BY_A_SCRIPT_SOEWHERE .......
    #endif
    #ifdef SOME_OTHER_MACRO_THAT_THE_SCRIPT_CREATES ........
    #endif
    #ifdef AGAIN_SOME_OBSCURE_MACRO_CREATED_BY_SOFTWARE ......
    #endif

    Now, get me some software that auto cases C!

  22. Re:NASA is becoming sad... on NASA's 'Arsenic Microbe' Science Under Fire · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "I mean, at least WW2 produced SOMETHING that altered science... the atomic era. What do we have... Remote-control planes? better guns?"

    The atomic era, and the computers era, let's not forget the latter. That happened because duing WWII the budget for science was huge, much bigger than during the previous times. And that happened because there was a real war going on, and everything implied that the party with the best science would win (as it did). Nowadays, the budget for science is being cut for letting more available to spend on war, on those countries that are participating on the current warmongering.

    "Why does it seem like we're in high school and the asshat "cool" kids have taken office?"

    Well, one thing is for sure, if you live in a democratic country, the ones in the office are all "cool" man.

  23. Re:Business vs Open Source on Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is the point. Java is only valuable begause it is given away for free. If Sun (or Oracle now) tried to sell it, it would be nearly worthless.

  24. Re:First Pedant on NASA Launches Micro Solar Sail · · Score: 1

    "It is called a living language..."

    The funny thing on this entire thread is that "small" and "even smaller" are the original meanings of them. The exact number we assined to them are the new language. The Romans didn't use SI prefixes.

    Yet, I can't happen being anoyed by people that use nanotechnology for things that aren't done botton up (by chemistry) or don't have a huge (nanoscale) structure. That is hipocrisy, I know.

  25. Re:Detection = failure on Vuvuzelas Blare On Pirated Copies of Music Game · · Score: 1

    They are not more skilled than the game developers. But they aren't trying to solve a mathematicaly impossible problem (DRM), and that is a huge advantaje.