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  1. Re:I hate... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he did. I'm pretty sure Batman and Gordon both had lines explaining that they tried to do what Dent wanted, but ran out of time and had bad information.

  2. Re:If you can lose a blackberry... on UK PM's Aide Loses BlackBerry In Chinese Honeytrap · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like turning it off.

  3. Re:Vendors sign with keys. on Package Managers As Achilles Heel · · Score: 1

    How do you even know the world exists? Maybe you're part of an experiment by an evil genius who has your brain in a jar and all of this is just a creation of his making? Nothing you know actually exists.

  4. Re:Choice of file system on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    I'm shocked to see everyone reply this wouldn't stop them from using Reiser. Of course it should! The only reason it's even in the linux kernel is because Reiser bitched and moaned for months. He's the only person who can fully support it. I believe his company is now defunct. Unless someone else steps it to fill Reiser's role as both architect and main contributor using Reiser is a stupid risk.

  5. Re:When they distribute binaries, then complain. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    Appliance is a marketing term. If GPL software is distributed in binary form, the only pathway for a company to distribute those binaries is to accept the GPL and abide by its conditions. Unless you've developed some ternary processor, no matter how large or small, your "appliance" is still a binary distribution.

  6. Re:Not a thief on Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Bad analogy. I ring your doorbell and a ticket drops from the mail slot that says "You're free to enter the house and watch some tv."

  7. Re:"like heroin and pot" on Media Dustup Pits Bloggers and Wired Against NYTimes · · Score: 1

    Wow. LSD like hallucinations? haha Powerful drug? Pot is the Zima of the drug world. Pot makes people sit around and not do much when they're high! News at 11.

  8. Re:Aging Engineers on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    "A trivial example is the STL. Java/C# containers don't come even close to the STL's power. Go further and look at Boost.MPL/Fusion/Proto, and you'll see stuff you simply cannot do with Java/C#." Was what I was replying to. You can do every in Basic you can do in C++ too but the parent was talking about stuff you "simply can't do." So it was a pretty valid question. Although I guess asking for an example of what ardor was talking about was trolling.

  9. Re:Aging Engineers on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have an example of something you can do with STL that you can't do in java?

  10. PS3 backwards compatibility on Sony To Launch PS3 Video Download Service · · Score: 1

    I Just bought a ps3 two days ago. I figured it was time as I had plenty of cash on hand and an itching for some call of duty 4 and GTA IV is coming out next week. And Soulcalibur 4 in a month I'm really pissed at Sony. They didn't include any HD cable at all. They didn't include any backwards compatibility, at all. They don't even attempt it in software anymore. I'm still waiting on my HDMI cable but hopefully i'll get some PSubuntu going with Mame to make up for losing all my ps2 games. Bleh. Fuck Sony.

  11. Re:Worthless advice, here's why. on Open Source Patent Donations? · · Score: 1

    Except the author does it wrong. You place the stamp on the evelope across the sealed section. Not only do you have to seal the envelope, but once stamped the postmark is added which also crosses the sealed opening of the envelope.

  12. Re:I'm relieved on NVIDIA's Drivers Caused 28.8% Of Vista Crashes In 2007 · · Score: 1

    First, it doesn't "beg the questoin" Second, they aren't ashamed of anything. They are protecting their product. They sold something to nvidia and if nvidia was to turn around and give it away for free, then the company who sold the component no longer has a revenue source.

  13. Why didn't OpenOffice sue? on Possible Manipulation of OOXML Process In Poland · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This seems like pretty big trademark infringement. All the stories I see it is easy to confuse OpenOffice's xml format and Office Open XML format. Isn't the entire point of trademark to guarantee consumer confidence in the brand they are using? Someone know of a release by the OpenOffice team as to why they haven't brought a lawsuit about?

  14. I could conduct stings for the fbi on FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll get a folder and write "CHILD PORN. HOT TOT ACTION" on it then I'll walk around trying to hand it to people while saying "This is child porn." Anyone that takes it from me will be instantly arrested and charged. I bet I could trap plenty of random people.

  15. The Embargo is retarded. on The Cuban Memory Stick Underground · · Score: 1

    The embargo against Cuban travel by the united states is a terribly counter-productive policy. If Americans were hopping over to cuba for the weekend, dropping off laptops, satellite dishes and money, the citizens of that nation would be free by now. Instead Cuba has remaned the communist boogyman on our doorstep for 50 years. Sick.

  16. Re:Linus has already changed his mind on Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status · · Score: 1

    That's why some people are having trouble with this. NDIS wrapper taints the kernel because it provides hooks for binary blobs. Even though it is GPL'd software, Linus wants it marked as tainting, which makes sense because that module's entire job is to taint the kernel. Instead of triggering the GPL_ONLY flag, they had a PROVIDES_HOOKS_TO_ALLOW_KERNEL_TAINT_FROM_BINARY_BLOBS instead, I think this wouldn't be much of an issue.

  17. Re:Linus has already changed his mind on Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status · · Score: 1

    Nope, you've got it. The hooks are GPL, which is fine. But by using those hooks you are loading binary blobs which are not, thus tainting the kernel and making it "Non-free" therefor ndiswrapper in a running kernel is not GPL

  18. Re:it's interesting to see on The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    It's always interesting how people can see something drastically different when watching the same thing. When Six broke the neck of the child, I thought it was out of curiosity. There are no child-cylons. Six had a chance to touch a human baby and took it, but did not understand the delicate nature of the young human.

  19. Re:by a jury of your peers (unless you're a cylon) on The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica · · Score: 1

    Should the Nav and Targetting computers be called for jury duty?

  20. Re:!Censorship on Utah Wants To Give ISPs That Filter a "G-Rating" · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is absolutely no need for the government to become involved in this. If a company wants to offer a filtered package, that is something they can advertise. The government has no business rating ISPs based on its arbitrary standards.

  21. Re:Tell MIT and IBM on IPv4 Address Crunch In 2 Years, IPv6 Not Ready · · Score: 1

    Proper routing is the point. NAT breaks the internet in a horrible horrible way.

  22. Re:Diplomacy much? on Apple Crippled Its DTrace Port · · Score: 1

    If I was a contributor to dtrace I wouldn't want people coming to me with bugs when it's apple who is knowingly creating the issues. It destroys the credibility of the dtrace software. If I released a Firefox based browser which didn't render GIF images at all and called it a "Feature" I'm sure more than one Mozilla coder would be a little peeved.

  23. Re:Not suprising on KDE's Version Timing Drops It In Ubuntu Support Priority · · Score: 4, Informative

    KDE 3.5 will be perfectly usable for many more years, but people working on the Kubuntu project have moved to KDE4 for the most part. Considering they are volunteers it is perfectly reasonable for them to do so. But without anyone working on the packages, Kubuntu can't release a long term support version of Kubuntu with KDE 3.5. There just isn't anyone around to maintain it.

  24. Re:ubuntu shmoobuntu on KDE's Version Timing Drops It In Ubuntu Support Priority · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ubuntu feature freezes all releases. For six months nothing about your desktop changes, at all. Only security and bug fixes are released. If they moved to a one year release cycle they would either end up hopelessly out of date, or would have to sacrifice desktop consistency without a given distribution. Ubuntu doesn't want to surprise users with an update to their desktop that changes functionality.

  25. Blade runneris overhyped on Blade Runner's Influence on Videogames · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blade runner is a decent movie, at best. It is a boring crime drama with a boxing match thrown in. And yes, I've seen it a few times and OMGWTFBBQ Deckard is a replicants/!!?!