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  1. Re:Entity GoDaddy.com girl has been assimilated on GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I'm really stoned right now, and I don't get it.You obviously haven't watched enough Star Trek:TNG.

  2. Re:Easy Way to Limit Population on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 2, Interesting
    great a fair distribution of resources and we'll be able to live sustainable on our planet.

    Oh, you came so close. "Fairness" has nothing to do with it. The key to reducing population growth, is, as you deduced, more wealth. Redistributing resources contrary to the efficient allocations determined by free markets, however, consumes wealth. To counter population growth, you need economic growth, and the absolute best grower of economic wealth is free markets.

  3. Re:Mankind does not belong to Man on Rewriting Environmental Science · · Score: 1

    "m" = "meter," not "mile."

  4. Give me my HUD on World's First Completely Transparent IC · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm crossing my fingers that this might eventually result in a transparent LED. Think of the display possibilities!

  5. Re:Advertising on One REALLY Long Runway for Rent · · Score: 1

    Exactly. The same way that sponsors are never going to put their logos on, say, a stock car that has a high probability of crashing to pieces at some point.

  6. Re:Should Be Clear Why Developers Choose Sony :) on PS3 - Lateness With Linux? · · Score: 1
    Why would you post something so obviously false?

    And just how the hell do you know what he's seen, Mr. Game Engineer?

  7. Well then on PlayStation 3 Delay Official · · Score: 1

    When Sony just recently denied any delay, were they lying or just clueless?

  8. Re:Journalism at its finest on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1
    Apple may have some problems with its agreement with the record industry because their contract may depend on the existence of DRM, and the record industry might argue this is the main purpose of the contract.

    That is the contract I'm talking about, and while it is theoretically possible to read out certain frustrated clauses in the absence of a proviso, I cannot imagine that the either Apple or the labels would have failed to insert a standard "void in the event of frustration" clause to the contract.

  9. Re:Neither: Flailing on Sony's PS3 Strategy Brilliant or Insane? · · Score: 1

    Xbox360 doesn't use x86.

  10. Re:Journalism at its finest on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 1
    The clause would be declared invalid in court and Apple would continue to sell music, just without Digital Restrictions Management.

    Wrong, because if the clause is invalidated, the whole contract is invalidated (this is the doctrine of contract law known as "frustration.") Without a valid contract, Apple has no permission to exploit the copyrights on that music.

  11. Re:How much was for UNIX and now runs on MS? on Microsoft to 'Support and Usurp' Unix · · Score: 1
    Meaning unless the implementation of apache on windows, or windows itself is changed, then running apache on windows will always be inferior

    In fact, Apache on Windows does use threads, and not processes. From http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/platform/windows. html:

    Because Apache for Windows is multithreaded, it does not use a separate process for each request, as Apache does on Unix. Instead there are usually only two Apache processes running: a parent process, and a child which handles the requests. Within the child process each request is handled by a separate thread.
  12. USB over IP on Cost Effective Scan-to-FTP Products? · · Score: 1

    Rather than have a separate PC server at every scan location, you could buy USB scanners like the Fujitsu ScanSnap or Xerox Documate and use USB over Ethernet hubs (example) to connect them as local hardware devices to a single PC server responsible for handling scan requests and routing the documents appropriately.

  13. Re:Petreley makes good points on Linux, to be (Like Microsoft) or Not to be? · · Score: 1
    Right-click the Applications folder in the dock and get easy access to all your apps. Left-click it to open it in a Finder window.

    I am a Mac user. What is this "right-click" you speak of?

  14. Re:Faulty List on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 1

    Babylon was assuredly not, however, "Islamic."

  15. Re:Discrimination on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 1

    Some else read Guns, Germs, and Steel! A really good book, by the way, that asks hard questions and gives scientific, fact-based answwers.

  16. Re:It's sad . . . on 1001 Islamic Inventions · · Score: 1

    So the Koran that Saddam had written in his own blood was a secular Koran? If Iraq was such a secular state, then why did the minority Sunnis have all the poltical power? Coincidence?

  17. Re:Calm down on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1
    Do you seriously claim that America has no laws restricting speech?

    Of course not. So what? Since the U.S. has some restrictions, we shouldn't criticize further restrictions elsewhere? I'm afraid I don't follow your logic.

  18. Re:Calm down on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1
    Both of these decisions are clearly in support of "abridging the freedom of speech".

    The latter, more expansive case you cite is from 1927 It was overruled by the first one. That standard is not the current law.

  19. Re:From the Charter on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1
    As for insane libel laws to quiet people, in general, libel requires that one proves defamatory intent.

    And faleshood! Most countries don't even require that!

  20. Re:From the Charter on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    It has nothing to do with citizenship, it's that military detention is not a criminal or civil trial.

  21. Re:Canada now a part of Europe on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1

    Yes. But mere advocacy of violence and lawlessness is not. Perhaps a result of our founders themselves having been punished for advocating violence.

  22. Re:And he striketh down the free thinkers.... on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 1
    I happen to agree more with the thought here, that by advocating hate and violence - as Phelps and others do - you can cause more hurt than just with physical violence, and should be limited.

    That may be true, but I still think the cure is worse than the disease.

  23. Re:From the Charter on ISP Fined $5000 For Hate Content · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's also one of the few that guarantees juries for all criminal and all substantial civil court cases.

  24. Re:Binary output on Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course it was a big conspiracy on the part of Maryland to rig the elections for BUsh by purchasing electronic voting machines. Silly me.

  25. Re:Mozilla and the Prophets of Global Warming Doom on Mozilla Raking in Millions? · · Score: 1

    He's probably referring to wingnuts who view man as an infestation - a "bad" influence over "good" nature - and talk about drastically reducing population through various methods.