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  1. Re:Mitigate Proliferation risk? on IAEA Forms Nuclear Fuel Bank · · Score: 1

    3% enriched fuel is a better starting point for making a weapon than raw ore

    If you have uranium mines in own country and want to start clandestine manufacture of nuclear weapons, buying nuclear fuel is not better starting point. If you buy nuclear fuel, you show that you have nuclear technology, but you still don't have weapons that enforce MAD or make you nuclear weapon club member. Purchased nuclear fuel is still controlled by nuclear club.

  2. Re:Because I like being on cutting edge... on Google Quashes 13 Chrome Bugs, Adds PDF Viewer · · Score: 1

    the pdf rendering is ridiculously fast.

    How accurate it is? Any pdf reader can be ridiculously fast, if it dumps half of specification or does not render complex objects.

  3. Re:Do it! Do it now! on Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN · · Score: 1

    Messy. Question: which root do you ask for google.com? All of them? What if they reply with different addresses...which one's right?

    IMHO google already does it in current single-root DNS layout.

  4. Re:Google but not Adobe? on Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins · · Score: 3, Informative

    Adobe demands to install an extension just to let you download Flash, because downloading normally is out of the question.

    http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe
    http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
    Try to avoid installing Adobe download manager harder.

  5. Re:Don't stop them from adding, auto remove... on Apple, Microsoft, Google Attacked For Evil Plugins · · Score: 1

    Not that difficult to code in a startup screen "X addons installed since last restart. Should I remove?"

    IMHO plugin can modify user preferences and hide the fact that it is newly installed.

  6. Re:Anyone else... on Microsoft (Probably) Didn't Just Buy Unix · · Score: 1

    6. Don't go to America (or South Korea) ever again.

    Or Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan. Or any other US controlled piece of land. Not sure about South America. Some of them are not USA friendly and might welcome enemy of their enemy.

  7. free software released under a BSD license on Microsoft Finally Certifies an Open Source Web App · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when they certify something under GPL.

  8. Re:Supernova!? on Scientists Propose One-Way Trips To Mars · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure any nearby supernova that threatened Earth would be pretty efficient at ending life on Mars, too.

    Humans made only one step in 1969. Mars is best suited for making second step. Mars won't save us from nova and is outside of habitable zone, but we must make a second step in order to move further.

  9. Re:Koffice has just split! on Where Do I Go Now That Oracle Owns OpenOffice.org? · · Score: 1

    Group A: KWord Group B: KPresenter, Krita, Karbon, Kexi

    And Abiword is not part of Gnome Office.

  10. Re:Well, this is not a surprise actually on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 1

    But the better question is - how will other passengers know?

    They will know when plane's unofficial name is "widowmaker" or "flying coffin". Or when aviation agencies forbid landing of the plane on some airports.

  11. Re:Well, this is not a surprise actually on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 1

    Chinese have already (successfully) copied fighter planes.

    I think I've read somewhere that PLAN pilots prefer to use Lyulka engined planes instead of ingenious engined ones. Taihang is not as good as Lyulka. Their copy might fly, but users don't want to fly on that copy.

  12. Re:Oracle is doing everything they can to fuck up on Oracle To Monetize Java VM · · Score: 1

    ALL of the libraries, frameworks, languages on .net are free.

    Not all. Windows is not free OS.

  13. Re:IBM & company on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    And IBM will just hire more cheap labor. So, your point being?

    You had stable job for 5 years. IBM hired 5000 (80k/(8*2)) people who left in 6 months in order to deal with 10% a month inflation running faster than salary raises. It is possible that same people were rehired later with higher salary, when they again applied for job position in IBM.

    My point is that your 80k numbers are inflated by Indian inflation and short lived jobs. I would rather have stable job instead of running between temp ones in order to outfight inflation. Or I am wrong and you are counting job positions at IBM India instead of counting hired people.

  14. Re:IBM & company on Obama Says Offshoring Fears Are Unwarranted · · Score: 1

    IBM alone has hired 80,000 people in India in the last 8 years. Meanwhile, my colleagues and I have not had raises in the last 5 years.

    Hired for how long? I suspect that most of employees left after working for several months in order to get a raise in other Indian company.

  15. Re:Oracle is doing everything they can to fuck up on Oracle To Monetize Java VM · · Score: 1

    Oh, the dot net crowd are going to eat Oracles lunch over this. Microsofts dot net is free as the wind (well not free as in speech, but whatever) and has a lot of "enterprise-y" features.

    Go easier with stuff you are smoking. You missed dependency on OS and price that OS in enterprise environment. .NET is not free. It is only freely distributed addon of commercial operating system.

  16. Re:So what? on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    I'm amazed that one person would own 75M shares of ANY company. He's damned right he needs to diversify.

    He is Microsoft oldtimer and got lots of stock options. Number of initial stocks multiplied by 288 (source: wikipedia). It is harder to sell stocks, when you work for same company and especially when you are *EO of that company. He is diversified. 2B USD is less than 20% of his wealth.

  17. Re:NEVER let spammers know the address is legit. on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Because the e-mails that social network sites send are not unsolicited

    It is not up to email sender to decide whether his/her email is solicited. Email receiver never asked to bombard him/her with invites to some shady social network site.

  18. Re:Which part of "optional" is objectionable? on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    BTW - I haven't seen Adobe complaining that M$ offers Silverlight in the Optional section of M$ Update, even though M$ has clearly made some statement against Flash.

    Adobe does not sell subscriptions of Flash player. Adobe's flagship products are PhotoShop and Creative Suite.

  19. Re:GOOD! on MS Adds Security Suite To Update Service, Antivirus Rival Objects · · Score: 1

    1) Keep an icon in the system tray indicating that "You Are Protected" 2) Stay out of your way and use very few system resources.

    Does it actually protect you? If it is not onaccess scanner, then it will use less system resources than other AV products.

  20. Re:Where do I click .. on Adobe To Push Emergency Fix For Flash Bug · · Score: 1

    Where do I click to get 'infected`, besides there is no authplay.dll on my computer.
    ...
    Shockwave Flash 10.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 ..

    Your quote said that autoplay.dll is in Acrobat Reader 9.4 for Windows. You maybe be vulnerable only to Flash part of this security report

    You don't have Shockwave Flash on your machine. You have only Flash. Adobe does not provide Shockwave packages for Linux. Current Shockwave version is 11.5 something.

  21. Re:ACPI features? Best of luck then on OpenBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 1

    I had changed one ACPI related setting in Bios, and XP failed to boot at all.

    OpenBSD is not f... Windows. It won't freak out when you switch power management from APM to ACPI.

  22. Re:KDE on Fedora 14 Released and Reviewed — Advanced, and Not For Wimps · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've always used KDE with RedHat/Fedora. He needs more friends that run Fedora.

    Friends don't let friends use KDE4 plasmoid monstrosity.

  23. Re:What kind of a "standard" is this? on W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser · · Score: 1

    I think most mail clients are 100% IMAP and POP3 compatible.

    God does not write IMAP server or client software. He does not make mistakes. If God makes mistake, we all are doomed. There are myriad of ways to fsckup email program. I don't think that all (or most) IMAP clients are compatible with IMAP specification. There are not compatible. They are good enough and normal user can't notice incompatibility with email standards. Some commonly used email programs (Mozilla and Outlook Express) break email standards in their default settings.

  24. Re:limiting? on Mr. Pike, Tear Down This ASCII Wall! · · Score: 1

    26 letter lets you write anything, you dont need more letters, really. ask any novelist.

    Only if your "anything" is limited to basic US-English and Swahili.

    We are not talking about real world texts here and limiting programming language to ASCII is good thing. Article tries to introduce real world texts into programming. Not gonna work. ASCII is small character table shared between large group of people. Symbols outside of ASCII are generally limited to some language group and other language group people will have trouble recognizing them.

  25. Re:He seems to be forgetting something on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    Some jerk will eventually show up with a hammer

    Hammer is heavier than pack of chewing gum.