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  1. Re:So the lesson is... on German Book Publishers Cool To E-Book Market · · Score: 1

    There is a new ruling for German books sold in Austria that takes a stab at the law.

    http://www.thebookseller.com/news/84235-court-rules-out-austrian-fixed-price-imports.html

    I do not respect this law or it's benefactors and am glad any politician here promoting such would become a pariah.

  2. Re:"Meetings"? on How To List FOSS Experience On Your Resume · · Score: 1

    They are the holy writ of corprat Amerika. If you don't know what they mean you're a FOSS sideliner who is a marginal twit of no merit or competence. If you are not spending 10 hours out of 40 in meetings you are NOT DOING YOUR CORPRAT duty and need expelled into the sewer of FOSS.

    Scum sucking malcontent!

  3. Re:slow down investment in broadband on Democrats, Minority Groups Question Net Neutrality Push · · Score: 1

    Is the 'minority coalition' acorn? How much money did the corprats pay to get that sort of 'grass roots effort'?

  4. Re:First post??? on Arrested IBM Exec Goes MIA On the Web · · Score: 1

    Yes you got FP. It looks like the crook will get downsized by the Feds and unsized by his new boyfriend.

  5. Re:No bad or worse on IBM, Intel Execs Arrested Over Insider Trading · · Score: 2

    When they do get caught can we kill 'em?

  6. Re:White trash Re:And things like this are why... on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 1

    I can get that at even the small science fiction and fantasy conventions.

  7. White trash Re:And things like this are why... on Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They use 8 damed decks for blackjack. Poker is a joke. The perpetually spinning roulette wheel is an abomination. Video slots are stupid. It does not pay to play at all.

    There are two reasons to go. For the whores...oh wait Vegas can't stand the competition so you have to drive an hour north for that. So the only reason to go there is so you can say you've been there and paid 8 bucks for a V8.

    A friends wife sums it up nicely:

    "Vegas is like Monte Carlo as re-imagined by white trash." --blkkitty mzmadmike's wife
    http://mzmadmike.livejournal.com/

  8. Re:Will errors ever go away? on CT Scan "Reset Error" Gives 206 Patients Radiation Overdose · · Score: 1

    Yes if you can kill companies who kill people.

  9. Re:hmmm on Why Charles Stross Hates Star Trek · · Score: 1

    It's actually a Vegan from Vega.

  10. Re:Earlier on Swarm — a New Approach To Distributed Computation · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not free software so you can't use it except for personal or educational use. Open Mosix died
    http://openmosix.sourceforge.net/

  11. Re:Plants make their bodies from cellulose. on Commercial Fuel From Algae Still Years Away · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't see how much would be cellulose. The fatty acids can be up to 40 percent which is very good. http://www.oilgae.com/algae/comp/comp.html

    Also algae is not a plant and they've removed cyanobacteria from consideration as algae.

  12. Re:alto-cirrus on Sky Watchers Want Recognized a Newly Described Type of Cloud · · Score: 1

    Kudos for using the right alarmist code word. Considering the code words "Impending Ice Age" and "Glowbull Warming" have been an embarrassment to those using it it was the right call.

  13. Re:Eurosoft PC Check on Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? · · Score: 1

    They will cause various errors which seem to be covered up by the intense error checking of the hardware and operating system. I have had three Gigabyte motherboards. The first one had the leaking capacitor problem due to the corporate espionage that garnered only half of the capacitor formula. The next two Gigabyte motherboards did not have that excuse yet they still had leaking capacitors. I will not ever buy Gigabytes product again.

    With all three boards glitches would start randomly and they would progress as the capacitors continued to fail until I could not use the system. The third board bought in 2006 failed badly enough that it caused excess current to be pulled from the power supply which did not fail but generated a lot of heat.

    I now have an ASUS 'solid electrolyte caoacitor' board and a high end power supply and will see how it goes. I bought them at the beginning of 2009 and have not had an issue other than no support for the ATI Radeon card other than xorgs drivers.
     

  14. Re:OCCT on Software To Diagnose Faulty PC Hardware? · · Score: 1

    It's made by a shit eating cretin who locks up all rights, even the right to give it to your friends. Why the fuck would you encourage such a malevolent asshole is beyond reason.

  15. Fuck the shit eating cretin on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google should block every fucking IP address the fucking asshole has any stench on. All of it AND google should ban every fucking website that has even a hint of a link to his stench.

    Fuck this ignorant neo-Luddite up the ass.

  16. Government run hellcare at it's finest. on Open Source Could Have Saved Ontario Hundreds of Millions · · Score: 1

    Fixed it for you.

  17. Re:Already happened on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    I like the science fiction that's been translated by an English speaking author or that is written in both languages by someone bilingual. Unfortunately I can't read Russian.

  18. Re:In before the global warming discussion on Captain Bligh's Logbooks To Yield Climate Bounty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How many have been changed to fit an agenda? On paper those are difficult to modify but how long after they are in digital form will they be massaged to promote someones religious beliefs?

  19. Re:Err... on Court Rules For Software Ownership Over Licensing · · Score: 1

    They court is chomping at the precedent bit in it's slobbering mouth to rule AGAINST the owner.

    I say we put the horse down.

  20. Re:Hulu? on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    I won't watch it on the Syfylus channel cause it has STD's. I'd pay for and watch Hulu if they weren't asshats to Linux users. I doubt I'll ever own cable again. I've seen enough slide ups, popups, slide down, splats and other vomit that I'll wait for the fucker to come out on DVD first.

  21. Re:Already happened on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Free library of Baen science fiction books http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm

    This is run by Baen but carries other publishers books. It is a no drm subscription service. You can also get electronic advanced reader copies of some books.
    http://www.webscription.net/

    You can buy individual books or a monthly offering.
    http://www.webscription.net/c-81-2009-webscriptions.aspx

  22. Re:Multi booting? on Best Developer's Laptop? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If the laptop does not support virtualization how bad is it to run tight VNC on a machine that is running linux which can run several operating systems virtually?

  23. Re:Why do corporations have to be people? on Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" · · Score: 1

    So we can execute them like any other murderer.

  24. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    You don't understand. The longer you're in school the more time the state has to indoctrinate you. You're just a brick and you will like it and comply or you will be reeducated if you complain.

  25. You're on the ball...Re:And What About... on Melting Memory Chips In Mass Production · · Score: 1

    Samsung had a problem with K6X designated static ram chips. They would fail with the symptom being 'starts to work after a while' or 'starts to work when externally warmed'. They of course blamed the designer of the systems rather than offer to replace the defective parts. This failure happened across all packages.

    It's a part you'll mostly find in embedded systems.