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  1. Re:How "official" is this? on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SOME would say better? Is there any rational basis for ANYONE to claim MySQL is better than PostgreSQL in ANY meaningful regard?

  2. Re:Dear French voters on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 1

    That WOULD be nice. Has there ever been one?

  3. Re:Dear French voters on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 1

    Marginally better? I would say it's even worse.

  4. Re:The Chinese are notorious for these tactics on China Embargos Rare Earth Exports To Japan · · Score: 1

    The Chinese government and industry are in bed together. Exactly which has "control" over the other is as pointless a question as it is in a marriage. It is a union intended to dominate the people and it is as corrupt as hell.

    Anyway, big duh. The government and industry are in bed together, and it is a domineering and corrupt union. Sounds just like ... let's see ... the U.S. ... EU ... Russia ... Japan ... ad nauseum. The entire world is run this way.

  5. Dear French voters on In France, Hadopi Reporting Begins, With (Only) 10,000 IP Addresses Per Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You signed up for a filthy corrupt fascist regime. This is the shit that comes with it. Enjoy.

  6. Re:Does this smack of a hidden agenda to you? on DX11 Coming To Linux (But Not XP) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As the developer claimed:

    the Direct3D 10/11 APIs are vastly better than OpenGL and can be supported with orders of magnitude less code and development time

    I call BULL SHIT. I call it loudly and I call it with a big raspberry. Because: OH REALLY??? ONE HUNDRED or more times more code and development time? Thats what "orders of magnitude" with an "s" means.

  7. Re:Firebird is better on PostgreSQL 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    -1000, out in left field. Cuckoo. Woo-oo-oo. Twilight zone. Needs brain scan.

  8. Re:Postal Service on Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution · · Score: 1

    Jeeze, did you guys never hear about signing a waiver so UPS and Fedex just leave the package at your door when you're not home? This is what everybody I know does. As for wasting gas, the truck has to drive down the main highway, 1 mile from where I live, anyway, so next to no gas is used to make the jog to my house. I MUCH prefer UPS and Fedex to the postal service, which makes me drive to the post office, wasting far more gas, to check the P. O. box.

    As for the post office, everybody I know just has a post office box, so they just hold it there, about 2 miles from home. Of course your mileage may vary.

  9. Re: early origins on Looking Back At OS X's Origins · · Score: 1

    try.c:1:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME" or <FILENAME>
    try.c:3: error: expected ')' before 'char'

  10. Re:FUD on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 1

    Absurdly sensationalistic line in the summary.

  11. Re:Just lower the manufacturing cost on Is SSD Density About To Hit a Wall? · · Score: 1

    Your math is a bit suspect. That's 555 times more, not 5 times more!

  12. Re:Patch on Hole In Linux Kernel Provides Root Rights · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Patch contains an even worse vulnerability. It renders your system a piece of crap.

  13. Re:What's a canton of . . . whatever? on Swiss Canton Abandons Linux Migration · · Score: 1

    A bit like states in the US. The real question, to my mind, is WHY DOES A CANTON HAVE A CIO?

  14. Re:Hey Adobe! on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    Perfectly understandable, old boy.

  15. Hooray for freedom on HDCP Master Key Revealed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And hooray for common sense. You knew it was hopeless.

  16. Re:The problem on Boeing Hummingbird Drone Crashes In Belize · · Score: 1

    According to Merriam-Webster, "automotive" doesn't have to mean "car." It could be a truck engine or some other ground vehicle (military?) engine. My guess is that it IS from a car, though. You can readily get over 500 hp from a WRX engine.

  17. But are they any good at all on Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What is the efficiency of these particular organic solar cells under ordinary solar radiation? What is their lifetime before the organic matter decays?

  18. Re:SmartBooks? on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Very interesting and (sorry) stupid product. 1024x600 is for the birds. Absolute crap. I require a REAL display (1280x800 absolute minimum), and Ubuntu, with all its available packages, or something very like it. The horsepower is most definitely there to support this.

  19. Re:Might as well get used to it on Assange Asks For New Lawyer, Denies Blaming CIA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Too high profile to assassinate? Oh come now. A man is an enemy of Agency X; a man is found dead or dying. Who is ever to connect the two facts with an assassination authoritatively? It's one thing to have suspicion, but it's completely another thing to have proof. The guilty party for the assassination of Georgi Markov in 1969 was never held to account. There is no antidote for ricin, and the stuff is damn near impossible to detect in the body because of the phenomenally small amount necessary to kill. The KGB was never proved to have been responsible.

    See here and here.

  20. Re:Killer feature. on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wow, I want these new cellphone chips in notebooks and network attached devices! They are far ahead of the watt sucking crap from Intel and AMD.

  21. Re:Enlighten me please on Dual-Core CPU Opens Door To 1080p On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    What good is a delicate tiny miniaturized HDMI connector with a great stiff heavy hulking cable attached to it?

  22. Hardly just LA to LV on Gubernatorial Candidate Wants to Sell Speeding Passes for $25 · · Score: 1

    I suspect 90 is typical in most areas. In Massachusetts, large sections of the commute on incredibly congested highways are normally bumper to bumper at 90. Both lanes. If you go any slower, you are a major obstruction to traffic. If you let a space open in front of you as much as one car length, an endless stream of bozos will pull in front of you from the other lane. Anything below this speed feels abnormal, like you are crawling. The fact that most of the highway mileage in the eastern half of the state is marked down from 65 to 55 because it is "urban" is just the subject of mockery.

    This is not just on interstates, either. Older divided highways, where the merge lanes at interchanges are either very short or entirely absent, see the same traffic conditions.

    During commute time, speed enforcement is pretty much given up, because every square inch of every highway is hopelessly packed with hurtling cars, and stopping anyone would be incredibly dangerous. On the other hand, ironically, when it is not commute time and traffic is much lighter, it is true that you are somewhat more likely to get stopped for this speed, if you don't pay attention and allow for known enforcement hideouts.

  23. Already has that power on Senate Trying To Slip Internet Kill Switch Past Us · · Score: 1

    Sheesh. The President already has the power to shut down the internet. He is the commander in chief of a large army. That is just one tiny aspect of the vast power he has. He can launch nuclear weapons, for gosh sake.

  24. How can this be enforced? on China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users · · Score: 1

    So Obi-Wan has a private transaction and sells his phone to Skywalker. Skywalker then calls the service provider and tells him "his" address (i.e. Obi-Wan's for all the provider knows) has changed from 4523782378 First Street to 4361278 7th Avenue (where Skywalker in fact lives). How does the Gesta^H^H^H government know the phone has moved to Skywalker's hands now?

    Anyway, bless the internet and chat. Fat chance trying to enforce traceability with that. Since any fool can set up OpenFire on his own cheap VPS server and run it with SSL to boot.

  25. Re:Really? on First Review of Avatar Special Edition · · Score: 1

    The only thing you're missing is the discrimination to know it was crap without having to sit through it in the first place.