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  1. Re:The BSD folks seem to be whiners on GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver · · Score: 5, Informative

    Except if this was done in private no one who pulled the tainted code from the public CVS would know. There would be copies of the code floating around in public that were in violation of the GPL. It had to be public to guarantee everyone knows (Especially Broadcom) that the BSD code in the public tree is actually GPL code.

  2. Re:In the Jet Stream... on Harvesting Energy in the Sky · · Score: 1

    You need to send them a email right now! Those are some very important things I'm sure haven't been considered! You could save lives!

  3. Diablo I on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    Bug in the Diablo I engine allowed the duping of items by simply picking them in a well timed manner. You could convert potions into items.

    Long time ago, but I think it wasn't fixable at all because of the system design.

  4. Re:Two megs? on LinuxBIOS Gets GUI · · Score: 1

    X.org is large, but there are other smaller implementations of X servers.

    TinyX and Xvesa are two examples.

  5. Re:Peru is not the only one in trouble on World's Largest Tropical Glacier Vanishing · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about this.
    If the glaciers are receding is it because of lower amounts of precipitation or is it from rain instead of snow?

    If it's less precipitation, then obviously there will be a water shortage, but so far I've seen no mention of less precipitation. If the same amount of water falls from the sky each year then the dam will simply have a steady supply of water instead of a shortage in winter and a rush in the spring.

  6. Re:"Inbuilt undelete" on Microsoft Admits Vista Has "High Impact Issues" · · Score: 2, Funny

    ext has aimed for stability and predictability as well as backwards and forwards compatibility. And Reiser seems to have murdered his wife and probably won't have much time to write any new code.

  7. Re:2008 if they rushed every aspect on Blizzard Hints At New StarCraft, Launches Burning Crusade · · Score: 1

    wc3 engine perhaps? That would provide an massive shortcut.

  8. Re:Good Luck to him on Jack Thompson Gearing Up For GTA IV Fight · · Score: 1

    Films are voluntarily restricted by a rating system set up by the film industry. Just like games already are. It is entirely the choice of the movie theater to allow in children to R rated movies (there are repercussions from the FILM industry and not the government for this.) Just like video game stores are able to sell Mature rated games to children if they choose.

  9. Re:Just ask on Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? · · Score: 1

    If you can't tell the difference, is there a difference?

    If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck?

  10. Re:Microsoft must feel vindicted on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Upgrading windows takes the same amount of time as upgrading a linux install.

    Do you have any reason whatsoever to run an old version of Fedora or are you just being contradictory? Do you know better?

  11. Re:Microsoft must feel vindicted on Fedora Legacy Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Since Fedora is free there is little reason to still use old releases. Upgrading is free. Windows, not so much. I am running Fedora Core 6 right now and I don't see why you'd want to run an older release. Stable and the software is up to date. I wouldn't trust it on a server but that isn't what it's designed for.

  12. Re:What about Microsoft? on Google Reaches Second-Most Visited Site Status · · Score: 1

    I always looked at mod points as being like Jury duty. Everyone gets the notice from time to time but no one really wants to have the burden. Why would you want 3x as many jury duty notices?

  13. Re:Becareful with casual derogatory labels. on Nintendo To Replace Wiimote Wrist Straps · · Score: 1

    Using the Wiimote with normal force also includes you not letting go of it. If you use the Wiimote in such a way that you throw it at your TV screen you just threw it at your tv! It's like blaming a seat belt for making you chip a tooth in a car accident when you hit a tree going 100mph.

  14. Re:Awesome on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/author ities_war.html

    It has happened already. Where were you in 2004?

  15. Re:Poor Java Support with Webhosts on Open Source CMS Solutions Based on Java? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's the easy part. The hard part is connecting to a database and writing queries (combining strings with variables in java is a pain compared to php).

    I'm not saying PHP is better than JSP for the purpose of CMS. I was answer why there are almost exclusively CMSs written in PHP. Ease of setup and connection to a backend is the reason.

    And I'm talking about connecting to an external database (The entire point of writing the CMS in the first place)
    Taking your example would be a great way of getting tomcat to run on a local computer, unless you're running linux, which has it's own share of hassles with system permission and tomcat. It's really easy to deploy tomcat locally as long as you want to develop in the preconfigured webapp examples directory, but moving to production is a pain and with a default setup require root access to add a webapp.

    PHP is as easy as creative an archive and extracting it on the server in the root directory you want to use. Done.

  16. Re:Poor Java Support with Webhosts on Open Source CMS Solutions Based on Java? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't think that's it at all. I think it's that it takes less than 10 minutes to have a presentable PHP based website. Just talking hello world here.

    Trying to do the same thing with JSP? The overhead for configuration and security layers is just awful. Not to mention the documentation is atrocious. To find a step by step guide for getting tomcat set up as you need is painful at best and impossible at worst. Deploying webapps is a huge pain and the amount of xml you have to right to configure your webapp is daunting.

    That is why php is chosen. Someone could start small site, displaying "Hello World!" from a database for instance, and then the CMS can grow and mature. Java on the other hand takes a huge commitment to just get the program to displaying "Hello World"! from a database.

  17. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 2

    Wow that came out terrible.

    It isn't a good thing to shoot a "bad guy." What is a good thing is that a home invader did NOT injure or kill members of a family.

  18. Re:From my cold dead hands on Second Amendment Questioned · · Score: 1

    It isn't that it's a good thing to shoot a "bad guy." It's a good thing that a home invader did to injure or kill members of a family.

  19. Re:Performance? on PostgreSQL 8.2 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not only does mysql silently truncate (and I just tested this on mysql 5) If you insert 2006-2-30 into the date field, i just completes the insert and makes the date 0000-00-00. Go Go Data integrity!

  20. Re:only 150K? on The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case · · Score: 1

    The lump sum payment would be guaranteed while he had no way of knowing if Google would be able to stop his software from running after a couple months, at even a few days.

  21. More choices, less length. on The Importance of Game Length · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Beyond Good an Evil is a great game. Amazing story, and it's short. 10 hours to beat. I enjoyed every minute of it. Problem is, no replay value. (You can go around and take pictures, sort of, but that really isn't a game)

    Tales of Symphonia, Amazing story... and then you're 30 hours in. You're tired of the same fights over and over again. The combat system has lots of variation, but once you find something that works well enough, why bother futzing around? And by this time, i forgot why the story even started. I'm going to rescue someone? No that was every zelda ever made.. trying to save the world? Yeah, I assume so. Save it from who? I can't even remember.

    My point is, if I can beat a game in 10 hours, that's a week of after work play and I can still remember the plot elements from the first hour. But for me to buy another game it's going to need a 10 hour time frame from start to finish, but also have multiple paths and choices I can make so it'll be a different game the next time I decide to play it. Oh, can cut out the item fetching quests, they suck. Mind puzzles, that's where it's at.

  22. Re:It was great.... on Google Answers Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1

    Personally, instead of .02 I was looking more in the area of .50

  23. Re:Protest the Microsoft-Novell Patent Agreement on Novell Dumps the Hula Project · · Score: 1

    You're using the word welsh properly and in context.

  24. Re:Gov should NOT be in ths biz of education on What's the Problem With US High Schools? · · Score: 1

    you ignore that private schools do not admit stupid pupils. And disruptive students are quickly expelled. It's really easy to have high test scores when you only take the top 50%.

  25. Re:whats next on Intel Takes Quad Core To the Desktop · · Score: 1

    Funny you should post that as I was just considering upgrading my laptop from a Dell 600m with a 1.3 Pentium-M to something beafier, but then i realized, for what? Instant messages, email, and word processing? no need, ever again. I'm going to ride this thing until it dies and then pick up another one for $500 and be able to salvage parts from this one.