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  1. Google does not like RMS on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 1

    Google exists thanks to free software.

    Linux should use the Affero license and end that 'the monster takes-it all' attitude.

  2. Re:do their own then... on Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support · · Score: 1

    Then why Google does not defines his own 'limited profile' in the standard java specification process. Not that difficult. Make no mistake Google is using his monopoly muscle here.

  3. Google is a monopoly on Google's Plan For Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged · · Score: 1

    Not only in 'orphan' books, but also in web advertising, in geographic information, in web search, etc, etc. So what about a bit of external control?

  4. Ludicrous on If We Have Free Will, Then So Do Electrons · · Score: 1

    Mixing quantum physics amd human awareness, is just old plain non sense. Scientist should have to take some philosophy courses before trying to talk about 'what' 'the' 'world' 'is'.

  5. Mandriva on Living Free With Linux, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    The best/easiest choice for windows users.

  6. Mandelbrot on The Formula That Killed Wall Street · · Score: 1

    Mandelbrot some years ago already warned that current financial annalitical methods failed to capture the fractal nature of market oscilations, and that they simplified in excess the model. According to Mandelbrot, not only the amplitude of oscilations behaves as a fractal, but also his time distribution.

  7. Postits on How Do You Document Technical Procedures? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Postits Everywhere.

  8. Re:Sheesh on Quantum Test Found For Mathematical Undecidability · · Score: 1

    The existence of things like a negative square root in an equation have predicted the existence of things like anti-particles, and those particles have been found experimentally.

    That's only word playing.

    There's no more 'existence' in a negative square root, than to a positive one. You have to define what 'existence' means, and only then we can decide if there's some relation between anti-particles and negative square roots.

    It's a false dicothomy to talk about math and 'physics' as separate things.

  9. Gordias vs Alexander on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: 1

    A rather old problem. The curious thing is that knots are formally described as closed loops, but Alexander 'solved' the problem, by "cutting the Gordian knot".

  10. Re:Why not just improve the site? on Stuck In Google's Doghouse · · Score: 1

    But surely google must serve its customers in the way it deems best.

    Come on! Google just serves itself, like any other bussines.

    Google does not hesitate to screw his 'customers', any time they see fit. Ever heard of Google's money machine?

  11. Hardware vendors will be happy on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    Maybe I am wrong, but when I see that cpu-usage goes up, just for reading slashdot posts, I think there's something fundamentally wrong.

    Bloat is taking the web, optimizations will not help, just make-it worse.

  12. Re:Javascript can never run as fast as C on Firefox Gets Massive JavaScript Performance Boost · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the goal of making JS "as fast as" C is impossible

    Good JS can be faster than bad C, but that's only word playing. The parent has a point, Jitted languages are conceptually slower than native ones, there's no way to eliminate the extra-overhead in 'strictu sense' (you need to restric 'faster' to some specific asumptions).

    I could also say than 'C can be faster than assembler', but it's not true.

  13. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    including Iberians over other Iberians.

    I am sorry, but your still wrong. Catalonia was a Principality, not a Kingdom, there was no 'king of Catalonia', never, it could not exist, because of the tradiction of the land, that goes for millenia from anciens Iberians, to current catalonians.

    In that tradition, the maximun power estament is the County, and between them one is choosed to represent the plurality of the land. In that case, the Count of Barcelona. But that count is not king over the population, it has to negotiate, between other counts and staments from the society.

    The count of Barcelona managed to acquire the crown of adjacent Aragon kingdom, (they were severely menaced by the kingdoms of Castilla and Nafarroa, and turned to Catalonia for 'help', that the dinastycal liason you quoted), but this kingship does not resulted in aragonese culture or language anihilation, because the iberain political tradition has a strong bias towards agreements, not impositions.

    So, go back to the first post, and read: first european parlament (from catalan 'parlar' 'to talk' in english), never imperialistic.

    There was no 'other iberians' on the iberian peninsula, there were other peoples, other traditions, not other 'iberians'. It was some of those other cultures that managed to overpower iberians tribus, not the other way around.

    Now, history is full of violence, true, iberians are not an exception, true, but they never tried to become an empire, enforcing a language or his own laws, overpowering other cultures or nations, that's a fact, and that was the thread starting point.

  14. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Iberia is NOT Spain, my dear.

    There are different cultures-nations on the iberian peninsula. Spain is a classical imperialistic kingdom. Catalonia, (iberian culture descendent) ha never been a imperialistic nation.

    Don't get fooled by political propaganda. Spanish nation has been trying to erase-minimize Iberian/Catalonian culture for more than 3 centuries.

    So no, 'iberians' are not 'spanish'. Iberian is a millenary culture, Spain just is a 5 centuries old imperialistic estate.

  15. Re:Nations vs. Internet on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Don't they just divide us?

    Oh Yes!, and a single specie, is much better than millions of differents beings, also!

    Don't get fooled, diversity IS the norm, monolithical conceptions are just a one's mind nightmare.

  16. Re:Government as usual on Navajo Nation Losing Internet Access · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Examples, please.

    Iberians for example.

    Current Catalonia, ancient people, ancient culture, first european parlament, never imperialistic.

  17. Re:Anti-Linux? on Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle? · · Score: 1
  18. Re:800 pages in length on VIA Releases 800 Pages of Documentation For Linux · · Score: 1

    I suggest you visit the local bar. I believe its name is /dev/null

    Fantastic name for a geek's bar!!....

    See ya at /dev/null! Great!

    Disclaimer!: No!, I! don't! work! for! Yahoo!

  19. Re:KISS on Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet · · Score: 1

    It could be useful, even in the form of a simple red light in the control panel that glows proportionatelly to probability*severity of a frontal impact. The FCW of the wikipedia article I suppouse...

    That way the driver could visually perceive in a continous way the risk he is really taking. Too bad, those systems are only found on high end models, it should integrated in every new car.

  20. KISS on Robocars As the Best Way Geeks Can Save the Planet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not start by coupling a frontal sonar and the gas-brake control to enforce the safety distance? Easy to do, and could save a lot of lives.

  21. Re:Average Consumers? How about average internet.. on Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse · · Score: 2, Interesting

    market forces seem to be pushing away from annoying your customer.

    Not in my experience. Market forces seems to depend more and more on erratic criteria, that's just the beginning of the end of online advertising.

    Take the Google case: They pay to publishers what they want, but still have severe problems!.

    The whole ads economy is flawed, bots can act like persons, in fact there's no difference at all between casual visitors and random bots. If spam has virtually destroyed email, ad-clik-bots will terminate internet advertising.

  22. Re:So let me get this straight... on Mandriva Joins the Netbook Market With the GDium · · Score: 1

    I thing you are not getting the point:

    The key is 'your computer', you can use it in any GDium machine. Decoupling user-data+system from hardware (internal hard disks) can be really useful in a lot of situations.

    So the whole 'if you lose-it...' thing is meaningless, the system is designed to be that way, and for a good reason.

    On a personal note, IMHO Mandriva is maybe the best linux distro, by far, give-it a try.

  23. NADA nothing on P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet · · Score: 1

    Well, NADA (spanish) means NOTHING (english), that's what's all about, hot air, and beatiful and inexpensive bridges.

  24. Re:Heh... on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    Also: Knowledge = Work/Money so the more you have the less you understand.

    Fantastic example of applied mathematics!

  25. making old things new on Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format · · Score: 1

    Wow, define a datatype, and generate code snipets to manage-it. Fantastic! And that's news!?

    It seems people is just too bussy reading new acronims, to learn computer programming fundamentals. Go figure!

    But... hey!, that's from Google, it must be great somehow... Bullshit!