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  1. Re:Does my liberalism require that I reject this? on Campaign Financing Cyber Loophole · · Score: 1

    I thought the idea behind campaign contribution laws was that it's the content of a candidate's platfom that matters, not how many times it is repeated on every concievable media.

    Furthermore corporations are NOT people. They're not even human, and I fail to see why they should be protected under the first amendment which was written supposedly for the people.

    Fine, let people contribute as much as they want, but be warned that if you give a someone enough cash they will also cease to be human.

  2. Re:hand count more accurate? on Senators Clinton and Kerry Submit Open Voting Bill · · Score: 1

    Have you ever examined the human-recount process? There is a way to conduct it to minimize any bias.
    Have you ever examined the machine code that counts ballots? Me neither.

  3. no-pulse artificial hearts are common on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1
    It's not the "no-puse" part of this LVAD, but the no-bearing part that's interesting. This one is more fault tolerant. Artificial hearts that produce no pulse are very common. Mechanically it's harder to make an artificial heart that provides a pulse than not.

    I remember reading about a condition in a heart-lung patient called "pumphead", and found a partial article online. So there may be something useful to the body that a pulse provides. Some capillaries may have come to mechanically rely on the high and low pressures provided by a pulse. I'm reminded of how tides are useful to life on ocean shores like certain sea anenamies, or gremlins or turtles that deposit their eggs during the highest tide of the month.

  4. Re:My first question on First Science From A Virtual Observatory · · Score: 1

    Well, I thought i was logged in. #923388 was from me. Yeah, I'm a goof.

  5. Re:Sad day for Debian on More Info on Debian.org Security Breach · · Score: 1
    but why crack Debian in the first place? here I am stumped, but then I've never fully understood the cracker mentality.

    Keep it simple. Debian has enemies. That's really the only worthwhile point of all this. I know that the Debian folks are a happy bunch, but is this point so hard to understand?

  6. Re:What about kernel modules? on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1
  7. Re:What about kernel modules? on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1
    Well ok the third entry of this thread pretty much answers my questions.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=82213&threshol d=0&commentsort=0&tid=117&mode=thread&cid=7210 403

    And why don't the page links on slashdot act reasonably?

  8. Re:What about kernel modules? on The FSF, Linux's Hit Men · · Score: 1
    Warning: I know little or nothing about system programing, but the sounds like a resonable idea. It was touched on i earlier posts about IBM employing 100 GPL programmers working on Linux, and at the same time churn out proprietary binary applications. So my questions are:
    1. What are the technical reasons why it wouldn't be practical to put kernel enhancements into a module.
    2. Is this not a "derivative work"? Does the GPL actually allow this?

    Thx in advance for your response.