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  1. Re:Perspective on FSF, Political Activism or Crossing the Line? · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't slavery contracts be written and signed, as long as the transaction is voluntary? It's no more restrictive than any other type of contract - and contracts are the foundation of the economics surrounding any laboral relationship.

  2. Re:Black Box Voting & The Details on Critical Security Hole Found in Diebold Machines · · Score: 1

    ...approved by both parties (and perhaps a third, 'impartial' entity)...

    Please, s/both parties/every party/g

    I know that for all practical purposes every western "democracy" is just a two-party system, but you could at least remember that there are more parties that may want to run for an alection.

  3. Re:Throughly undemocratic on UKPO Workshops Find EU Patent Directive Faulty · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's an absolute disgrace, that the UK media aren't covering this very important issue. The European council have disregarded the decision of the elected Parliament, and have tried to force this through.

    Welcome to modern democracy.

    We will let you vote, as long as what you vote doesn't matter, dear consumer.

  4. Re:iffy on Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture · · Score: 1
    No, what he did was perfectly legal and he wanted to prove it. He warned the SGAE (collecting society) and the police just to let them know what he was going to do, so that they could act *if* they thought they had legal grounds to act.

    Neither the police nor SGAE did anything. Why? Because it was legal.

  5. Re:This time they've gone too far. on Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture · · Score: 2, Insightful
    What they are doing is down-right vile, but disagreeing with corporate practices doesn't justify theft (obtaining something without proper payment).

    What theft are you talking about? In Spain is legal to copy music (or whatever) as long as there is no profit and no damage to anybody.

    That was what Cortell wanted to say in his conference.

  6. Re:Two points: on Teacher Fired for P2P Lecture · · Score: 1
    He didn't break any law.

    And the conference was not actually forbidden, nobody conacted him officially to tell him that he wasn't allowed to give that conference (which, by the way, was organized by the students). But, misteriously, every time he booked a room to give the conference, the reservation was cancelled shortly thereafter.

    He only learned about the pressure by PROMUSICAE by unofficial channels. After the fact, the dean recognized those presures.

  7. Re:Holy... on Bezos Patents Information Exchange · · Score: 1

    Sounds suspiciously like Wikipedia to me.

    I think your hearing abilities are not very good. It sounds just like bullshit.

  8. Re:Hyperthreading is not good for these benchmarks on Linux Shootout: Opteron 150 vs. Xeon 3.6GHz Nocona · · Score: 1

    Hyperthreading does not cut the L2 in half if there is no other thread running. The cache is shared dinamically. However, there are other resources that are actually divided in two halves when hyperthreading is used (some internal queues).

  9. Re:Ogg Theora on BBC Begins Open-Source Streaming Challenge · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually both projects seem to be using similar techniques (besed on the wavelet transform). But Theora didn't get very far and the project seems stalled long ago.

  10. Re:kaffe? on Two Takes on the Java Dilemma · · Score: 1

    You may want to look at ikvm + mono: http://weblog.ikvm.net/

  11. Remember Eazel? on Developers Lose With Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    Do you remember Eazel?

    That company went bankrupt too. The difference is thet they customers weren't so much screwed. Nautilus is still around and improved.