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  1. Re:My understanding is .... on SugarCRM 6 Released, But Is It Open Source? · · Score: 1

    that open source is simply that users have access to the source code.

    you missed modification and distribution rights. You can see the code, but if copyright owner does not grant you distribution rights, you can't distribute it. If you distribute code without grant from copyright owner, you would be braking copyright law.

  2. Re:The key to not getting beaten up as a nerd on Nerds Still More Likely To Get Bullied · · Score: 1

    Learn social skills. THAT'S the lesson.

    How do you socialize with bully or idiot, who thinks that spitting on others is cool.

  3. Re:Artificial limits R US (tm) on Half of Windows 7 Machines Running 64-Bit Version · · Score: 1

    Is there a realistic way of testing it past that amount?

    Maybe 200 GB pagefile will do the trick.

  4. Re:The Brannigan Counterstrategy on South Korea Deploys Killer Robot In DMZ · · Score: 1

    Nice try, but the North Koreans will just send wave after wave of their own men at the killbots until they reached their pre-programmed kill limit of 999,999.

    So South Koreans can reduce order to 25 robots.

    Human wave might work for Chinese, Vietnamese or Japanese, but Kim's army will have some problems with that.

  5. Re:There's a reason they call it extreme on The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves · · Score: 1

    Or to get chicks. Some people will do anything to impress chicks.

    Stupid chicks might be impressed. If one has some brains, she will understand that she can't have future with such person. He will be MIA one day and she will be left alone with kids, debts and lots of useless stuff that killed her second half.

  6. Re:SCO! on Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux · · Score: 1

    How do you kill that which is already dead?

    Since we are dealing with bloodsucking parasite combined with rotting corpse and SEC/IRS/legal system failed to do the right thing, we could try several options.

    • silver bullets
    • wooden stake in his heart
    • expose it to the sun. Ask NASA or Russians to send it to the Sun just to be sure

    There are ten other ways of dealing with rotting corpse.

  7. Pot meet kettle on China Says US Uses Facebook To Spread Political Unrest · · Score: 1

    China uses various tools to control and suppress political unrest.

  8. Re:Favorite Quote on Free Clock Democratizes Atomic Accuracy · · Score: 1

    Credit goes to Mark Twain (IIRC).

    He was a writer and not mathematician. I suspect that he never thought that having 10K+ clocks and being able to calculate average will make a difference.

    Although I would not call this clock thing a replacement for atomic clock. It does not show atomic time. It shows statistical time average. It might be most accurate atomic clock only when sources use atomic clocks.

  9. Re:so looking on Oil-Spotting Blimp Arrives In the Gulf · · Score: 1

    why aren't we sending these?

    Blimps can stay in area longer, don't carry air to surface missiles and IMHO they cost less than 5 mln USD.

  10. Re:remember the reason for copyright on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 0

    To be honest I would love to see at least one example of an author who created a culturally significant work pre-1950 who has created another meaningful work in the last 10 years.

    This sets very strict restriction on time. Such person must stay alive for at least 65 years. 75 years old or more in saner personal activity estimates. more than 50 years of public activity. highly unlikely to happen.

    Asimov. "I, Robot", 1950 and "Forward the Foundation", 1993. at least 42 years of activity. stopped by heart and kidney failure.
    Einstein. Started in 1901, ended in 1950-1955. Stopped by abdominal aortic aneurysm. High AAA risk factor for 65-75 year olds.

  11. Re:Poor design.. on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    Why is the inserted media not mounted read only? These kiosks only need to print photos, they don't need to write to the media.

    I suspect that they also allow to delete unneeded photos before printing them.

    People saved few bucks on hardening windows and result is vulnerable kiosk. It might be more economical for them to reflash kiosk and ignore customer problems. Old as Pinto philosophy from 197x.

  12. Re:Just burn a CD on Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices · · Score: 1

    Just burn a CD and give it to them. Blank CDs cost like 10 cents each if you buy a spindle, and you don't have to worry about them losing your USB drive or infecting it.

    After you process more data, those CDs take more space in trash container.

  13. Re:Next please! on Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue · · Score: 1

    Apple didn't just fail at design of the new iPhone, but also abandoned previous generations with the iOS upgrade.

    I am not iPhone user, so I might be wrong. Was iOS4 upgrade forced on your phone or you did it yourself? You should be free to use latest available software version that works on your phone without degradation of use quality. Doing major version upgrade is big NO for any older hardware.

  14. Re:Find project you like or use on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 1

    did you even read what the topic was about? that's exactly what he is trying to do. In this persons case, he knows he wants to contribute, but he is looking for a place the index's open source projects and can find job descriptions.

    If person does not realize how things work in OSS and correct answer is "Find project you like or use instead of looking for some totally unrelated software that you don't know", do I have to answer differently? If person knows or likes software, he or she will have dedication required to be good OSS contributor. Otherwise he will be just some dude or chick from the street that has some free time and he/she will leave the moment he is employed.

  15. Find project you like or use on Finding Open Source Projects Looking For Help? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Find project you like or use and start contributing. Or ask them if they need any help.

  16. Re:compromise idea to prevent regional isolation on ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names · · Score: 1

    日本人.jp is xn--gmqr87cb2a.jp. Ever block between periods is encoded individually.

  17. Re:Do they resolve to cn or are they seperate? on ICANN Approves Internationalized Chinese Domain Names · · Score: 1

    I know the new ccTLDs for China (they approved two - traditional and simplified) are aliases for each other (resolve to the same sites), but are they also both aliases for the existing cn ccTLD or do they resolve to an entirely new domain? If they are separate, why did they choose to do it this way? It seems like it would only cause confusion.

    those ccTLDs work and there is no commercial money sucking rush to register new ccTLD domains. Looks like really good reason to me. Introduction of new internationalized TLD is done right way.

  18. Re:Ya think? on Many Popular Windows Apps Ignore Security Options · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA, is there a list of unsecure apps?

    Apple Quicktime, Foxit Reader, Google Picasa, Java, OpenOffice.org, RealPlayer, VideoLAN VLC Player, and Winamp - no DEP/ASRL Flash player - ASRL only
    Adobe Acrobat Readder - DEP only, but DEP can be circumvented
    Firefox - DEP only
    http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/depaslr-236x300.jpg

  19. Re:A house built on sand cannot stand. on IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Obviously, this all works flawlessly in Safari, Chrome, Opera. For IE, we get to re-architect all sorts

    Welcome to web developer world. Standard complaint code usually works in most of browsers and IE is always an exception.

  20. Re:Dodge this on MS Design Lets You Put Batteries In Any Way You Want · · Score: 1

    Let's say it use 2 batteries and the user place them like this

    [- +}{+ -]

    Their hardware design works on batteries that have something in common. Batteries where plus contact is higher and minus is flat. Circuit has contacts for both in all locations. No matter how you put your battery minus contact on circuit never touches plus contact on battery and plus contact does not touch battery's minus. Everything else is wiring. It might be compatible with AA and AAA, but it is definitely not compatible with button cells.

  21. Re:Sounds familiar. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    Once we reach a point where creating the possibility that a crime might occur is,

    It is not about crime. It is about harming others due to carelessness or lack of technical knowledge.

    If people saw your rocket, you were not building it in distant farm. You were building it within flying distance of their private property. 6 feet. That thing is taller than me and it would look dangerous especially if it also stands on some pad and you are not rocket scientist. Even rocket scientists f..ked up 49 years and 9 months ago.

  22. Re:Just Return It on Apple, AT&T Sued Over iPhone 4 Antennas · · Score: 1

    What planet are these people on?

    America is not planet.

  23. Re:Well, yeah actually. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    It does pack a wallop!

    Idiots haven't learned anything after 0:48 and tried to prank (or injure) another person.

  24. Re:Sounds familiar. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    f I started messing with liquid fuels, or built rockets over 6 feet tall, I would likely get harassed by local law enforcement (or more likely my neighbors would call for them), assuming I could even get the proper permits to be allowed to build the thing... permits to build something with my own two hands and then test it out on my friend's private property (a farm)? CRAZY, and wrong.

    People are afraid that your 1.8 meter wonder might explode in their backyard and not in yours. People are not that stupid and careless as they were 50 years ago. Although I think "do whatever you want" time was 60 or more years ago. Before a-bomb, cold war and wunderwaffe

  25. Re:Yep on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    I bought three last week, and their customer service already knew what was going on. A tech already came out next-day to replace the faulty components. No questions asked. Next?

    When loads of customers start returning same or similar hardware, customer support service and techs know what is happening. It does not mean that they knowingly sold you faulty components. It only means that they sold you broken things and now their support is handing problems. Dell does not want such flood of returns. It is bad for publicity and bad for finances, because they are forced to spend money on warranties.