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  1. Re:But, the Blogosphere likes creating controversy on Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default · · Score: 1

    Yeah. As has been said, the community promise has nothing to do with Novell.

  2. yeah right on In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    "but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics. You'll get more out of the hardware, be that virtual or physical, than you will on a generic Linux binary installation.'"

    Prove it.

  3. Re:Was he really criticizing religion per se? on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    Sure. I'd care to hear it. If anything you just said was correct. But it's not.

  4. Re:So on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    "Questioning" evolution isn't science. Presenting evidence and tests to counter specific claims made by evolution would be. And scientists do that. Creationists try, and fail, a lot.

  5. Simple: on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    This is simple. Teaching about science and logic is okay, teaching about religion is not. When science and logic contradict religion, teaching that they do, isn't a problem. The position isn't to disparage religion, it's to teach science and logic. That religion is disparaged by that automatically is only religion's fault.

  6. Re:So on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 3, Insightful

    False dichotomy. The other possibility is "we have no idea."

  7. Re:I sympathize with the teacher, BUT... on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    Uh. That's a pretty naive view of what's at stake.

    She's an employee of the Government. Congress made a law to support her job. If she advocates something against the first amendment, while fulfilling her job duties, then congress has made a law that violates the first amendment.

  8. Re:Why not both? on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    It can't be both. The scientific opinion is that "we don't have any evidence that said God exists, or did exist, so let's not invent facts." Occam's razor.

  9. Consistancy! on Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client · · Score: 1

    First a story about how .Net is being ignored. And now a story whose headline claims MS has been giving priority to .Net.

    Ahh, slashdot.

  10. Re:Java and .NET falling by the wayside? on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 1

    I really wish I knew what you meant by "go soft on .Net". It's the premier development platform for the most widely distributed desktop and server OS on the planet. And their new phones use it.

    Yeah. I don't know what you mean.

  11. Re:We had this happen at a previous job on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With the Business Software Alliance? · · Score: 1

    CS 5 Prem is like, $1700.

    I'm a big fan of the subscription stuff they offer now.

  12. Google+ on Blockbuster Trying To Woo Disgruntled Netflix Customers · · Score: 1

    "You'll hate us less than Facebook" seems to be working for Google+.

  13. Re:Scaaam.... on Bitcoin Is Not Anonymous · · Score: 1

    The 'work' involves searching for a very hard to find hash. The result has to be legitimately random, in order to prevent tampering.

    If you can figure out how to process 'real data' and still keep it 'random', then you can certainly raise it.

  14. Re:Well submitter is clueless... on Android Password Data Stored In Plain Text · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really help for PLAIN or LOGIN methods though, does it?

    Or even DIGEST, really. That stuffs simple to break.

  15. Re:What else is new. on HTC Infringed Apple Patents, Says ITC's Initial Determination · · Score: 1

    Wow seems i"m late to this party.

  16. Re:What else is new. on HTC Infringed Apple Patents, Says ITC's Initial Determination · · Score: 0

    All patents should be voided on the grounds that every action is simply an expression of existing physical laws. When it comes down to it, every idea is really nothing more than universal physical laws playing out in people's heads.

  17. Re:Uh. So? on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 2

    I got a free pizza out of the deal. I'm cool with this.

  18. Uh. So? on Banks Find Way To Sell Consumers' Shopping Data · · Score: 0

    I fail to see any issue with this. The bank that owns my credit card has a list of the transactions I've made on it. And they are now going to send me spam targeting me based on those transactions. The bank has always had the information. The bank still has it. There is no privacy issue here.

    What there might be is banks annoying their customers. That shouldn't be illegal. It should result in customers finding banks that don't annoy them. Or, if customers don't care, then whatever.

    Another thing that puzzles me: I work in the credit union marketing industry. We sell insurance to members of credit unions. The credit unions send us a list of their members names and account numbers, we mass snail mail them enrollment forms for free offers (with potential to buy in for more.) We don't get transaction history. But that doesn't matter. We buy the user's profiles from Experian and other companies. I'd be amazed if banks didn't already do this, since we've been doing it for a decade. And we have lots of competitors. So... maybe their user profiles are going to be better and they'll not annoy people with products they definitely don't care about. Beats the status quo.

  19. Re:You know what? on NJ Judge Rules GPS Tracking of Spouse Legal · · Score: 1

    Yes. It is like that. And it's perfectly fine.

  20. Re:Your data. on Facebook More Hated Than Banks, Utilities · · Score: 1, Insightful

    My personal data isn't worth a dime to me. It's data. It's not like an investment. So, yes, it's still free, and did not cost me a dime.

  21. Re:Everything is an INCOMPATIBLE object on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    Bad question. Consider it "with a vmm size > 800Mb"

  22. Re:Everything is an INCOMPATIBLE object on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    ps | where-object {$_.VirtualMemorySize -gt 800000000} | ForEach-Object { $_.Kill() }

  23. Re:Everything is an INCOMPATIBLE object on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    Cool. So how do I kill all processes consuming more than 800MB of RAM?

  24. Re:Everything is an INCOMPATIBLE object on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 2

    Translation: it's foreign to me and I don't want to learn it. There is nothing convoluted about any Unix command once you learn how to use it. Grep and awk are second nature to many people. That's a particularly weak and, quite frankly intellectually dishonest argument when presented to expers and power users like many people on Slashdot are.

    I know them. I've been using Linux since the mid 90's. i write kernel drivers for fuck's sake. PowerShell commands are self discoverable. Man pages are auto generated from thedocumentation stored with the commands themselves. If anything is weak it's your argument that I don't know the commands.

    The core utilities have been going strong for 30-40 years and most changes have only added features not taken old ones away. You have no idea what the future has in store for PS so that too is a weak argument.

    Well, you just made my point for you. In that sentence you acknowledge that I'm right. Only a small set of core utilities have had non-altered output for the last 30 years. I'd like to point out that 'ps' at least has been altered a few times in the last decade. ifconfig, same. Replaced with 'ip'. So you admit, Unix utilties break when the author changes them.

    My entire point about powershell was that you don't have to know what changes are in store in the future. Didn't I mention that? You can add properties without requiring downstream users to be concerned with it. That's the point I made. You missed it, I guess.

    There is nothing PS can do that can't be accomplished by streams of text. The Unix model is very simple, every argument I've seen against it has amounted to little more than strawman bs,and unlike your flavor of the week utility, it will be here long after we are all long gone.

    There's nothing that C can do that can't be accomplished in assembly. Really? This isn't even an argument. It's a basic fallacy.

  25. Re:Everything is an INCOMPATIBLE object on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    And if your last statement is to say that object orientation is somehow inferior to an OS based on poorly defined text output, then you've just pretty much written off most of computer science since the '70s.