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  1. Re:Note to SAP on Judge Nixes, Lowers Oracle's $1.3B Award Against SAP · · Score: 1

    FTFA: "SAP had admitted liability for illegal downloads of Oracle software and support materials..."

    You might also want note to SAP not to do that again...

  2. $272 million is still huge! on Judge Nixes, Lowers Oracle's $1.3B Award Against SAP · · Score: 2

    I should think Oracle would be happy to take that and have case closed. Somehow I doubt actual damages were that high...

  3. Re:SkyNet on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    I am using 64-bit, but there are still problems...

    You still have to set, at start time, the maximum memory you'll be allowed to use, and then that can't be changed. If there's not enough VM for that, you crash immediately, otherwise you have a lock on what you might not need. Also, is more VM is available, but you didn't set Xmx high enough, you're out of luck...

    Quite simply, the only tunable parameters in memory usage are hard constraints, and even they are not reliable...

  4. Re:SkyNet on James Gosling Leaves Google · · Score: 1

    I'm still wondering why I can't -Xmx"as much as you bloody well need"...

  5. Just 27 light years? on Baby Red Dwarf Found Just 27 Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    We should pop over for the weekend...

  6. Re:Wasn't a forged certificate a big part of Stuxn on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 2

    If you are still using IE6 you have bigger problems than diginotar...

  7. He's right, but... on Acer CEO Declares a Tablets Bubble · · Score: 1

    ... for the wrong reasons.

    Notebooks and tablets will merge. Tablet HW is already good enough to run desktop OS & software...

  8. God knows... on Can Google Save Us From Slow Internet · · Score: 1

    AT&T can't.
    Comcast won't.
    Verizon could, if the could afford it, eventually.

    Otherwise I'll be waiting on Sonic.net.

  9. Sorry but you're too late on Firefox 7.0 Beta Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Firefox 7.0 has already reached end-of-life at the time of this posting...

  10. Re:Baby with the bathwater on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    Try again: the carriers pay BART, not the other way around, but yes, the OP's point is still valid, just not for your reasoning.

  11. Re:BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    Safety risk of protest unproven. Show me the bombs, molotov cocktails, etc. They didn't exist and BART police knew this.

    As far as "underground train station, with limited space, limited egress, trains moving through, and high voltage" this applies whether or not one is a protester, so maybe they should shut down BART entirely, due to "safety".

    The whole idea of public protest is to be seen, and they selected the site of the incident. Maybe you should suggest that they protest in the closets of their own homes?

    Finally, once you get off the escalator, please move the hell away from it, as others are about to be slammed into you. (I see this as a greater risk at Montgomery station).

  12. Re:Wouldn't it be cool if... on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    Why do you think I chose "malaria"?

    This is well known. I hate having to explain my posts after the fact, but the basic idea was for the reader to compare and contrast Gates' & Thiel's philanthropic endeavors...

  13. Re:Wouldn't it be cool if... on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 1

    Why do you think I chose "malaria"?

    Maybe you should use some of your cash to get an education.

  14. Wouldn't it be cool if... on Paypal Founder Helping Build Artificial Island Nations · · Score: 2

    ... tech billionaires used their cash to say, help find a cure for malaria, instead of telling kids not to get an education, and this latest anti-societal rant?

  15. Re:BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    > large relatively immobile crowds have the possibility of pushing people into places where they shouldn't be. Between an enclosed space causing crush problems, the electrical lines for the trains, and the trains themselves

    Sounds like any rush hour at Montgomery station to me...

  16. Re:BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    Your stupidity knows no bounds.

    The safety red herring is unproven. Might as well blame them for child pron too...

    As far as rights go, why not simply arrest anyone WHO ACTUALLY BREAKS THE LAW, instead of deciding all protesters must be stopped from legal protest?

    And the kicker: if A->B rights are so important why close the four busiest stations in the entire system? BART is the only entity that prevent people from traveling on BART yesterday.

  17. Re:BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 2

    Justified killing is still "violent police action". And justification is up for each and everyone to decide for himself.

    Personally w.r.t. BART police killings, I think protests were in order for the Oscar Grant manslaughter (officer tried, convicted, served time), but probably not for the knife guy, even though the video clearly shows the cops shooting *after* the knife was already gone (no longer an actual threat)...

  18. Re:Baby with the bathwater on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 5, Informative

    The cell phone antennas in the BART tunnels and platforms are own and operated by the carriers, who pay a hefty sum of cash to BART as rent.

  19. Re:BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 0

    Yes, this IS what it's really about.

    If you really think this was about safety, terrorism, or the limited set constitutional rights that BART officially recognizes, then you're dumber than your idiotic posts already reveal.

  20. Re:Shut it all off! on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 1

    The last person who tried this line of thinking is currently lying on a hospital bed during his trial...

  21. BART really doesn't like dissenting voices on BART Keeps Cell Service Despite Protests · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They'd rather shut down service than allow people to freely speak their mind...

    This is clearly due to the BART police's influence on decision-making--it was originally a protest against violent police action, past and current.

  22. Re:Does it now? on OS X Lion Ships With Faulty NVidia Drivers · · Score: 1

    Try again.

  23. Re:Does it now? on OS X Lion Ships With Faulty NVidia Drivers · · Score: 2

    Mid-2010 15" MBP here. I use it to develop and test 3D visual analytics software. Neither the kernel nor I have yet to panic...

  24. Re:What about virtualization? on Wall Street Predicts Merge of OS X and iOS · · Score: 1

    And thus mac development will be limited to writing word processing apps?

  25. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Both MySQL and Postgres have GUI admin tools (combo of mysql query browser + mysql administrator, pgadmin3).

    Both are also much closer to "standard SQL" than MS SQL and "unlearning" its weirdnesses may increase the learning curve, but both are easily approachable, all in all. Similarly, if you grew up on Oracle, you'd have a tough time migrating to anything else, probably more so...