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  1. Re:Mass mailing on Student Faces Suspension For Spamming Profs · · Score: 1

    I think...

    The fact that MSU is considering punishment of Spencer simply for exercising her right to contact selected faculty members by e-mail shows a disturbing disregard for students' freedom of expression

    ... is the greatest concern here, this is a display of ill will from the administration.

  2. The winning combo: Python, Erlang, D, C on What Programming Language For Linux Development? · · Score: 1

    Python for anything where speed or concurrency aren't absolutely critical, Erlang for anything where speed or concurrency ARE absolutely critical, D for low level stuff like graphics or writing python acceleration extensions, C for maximum portability.

  3. Re:Er. on Triple Helix — Designing a New Molecule of Life · · Score: 1

    which proves their superiority *bah da bum!*

  4. This can't be called free software. on Red Flag Linux Forced On Chinese Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    This is NOT what I expected the year of desktop linux to be like...

      But look at the bright side, that's lots of user testing!!

  5. Re:Ha! on Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share · · Score: 1

    Yeah but I think desktop Linux is making bigger market-share returns proportionately to its marketing campaign investment. Nonetheless I agree with your original complaint, however take note that, by itself MacOSX does NOT reach above 10% so yes, you need to say "MacOSX and Linux have surpassed 10% market share" because we wouldn't let them gloss over that that easily.

      Oh and you are an asshole.

  6. Re:Differential Pricing? on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 1

    Christian hypocrisy at its best. My post argues that and I could simply tell you to reread it over and over.

      This is your pretend scenario: "My prices are fair but I give discounts to nice guys, but please don't let my ugly customers I despise know about it because it can hurt their feelings".

      Laughable bullshit.

      Real world scenario: "I try to see how gullible are the clients to charge as much as I can and still make them believe I'm giving them special favors".

  7. Re:IT pricing on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 1

    I don't how you will be using it but it seems it makes more sense to you to drop oracle for postgres.

  8. Re:Differential Pricing? on HP Seeks to Block Competitor From Revealing Its Pricing · · Score: 1

    > This is not evil or greedy, it is business.

      It's greedy because if you really believed in your pricing schemes you could be open and stand by them.
      No, instead you prefer to use UD (as in FUD minus the F) to get a better cut for you without accounting for it.
      Quoting bible shit flags you as a loon automatically, that passage justifies HP for charging whatever they want, nobody is discussing that, this is about HP trying to silence third parties to keep its costumers immersed in ignorance.

      But that okay! They are shady because they are too humble to take credit for their generosity

      Christianity, stupidity and greed are never two feet apart.

  9. Re:Not the good professor on Who Will Obama Choose As Copyright Czar? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Gridlock is preferred over movement in the wrong direction.
      But why does (s)he have to be a lunatic? Does believing in freedom of information means you have to be dumb and eccentric?
      A mathematician recently showed a formula to determine optimal copyright terms and it resulted in about 14 years for most situations. And there have been numerous studies that show DRM is not worth it (so much that some corporations are stepping out of it on their own).
      I think it is very possible to be very rational and still in pro of reducing the scope and length of copyrights, in fact it seems inevitable so.

  10. Re:more evidence that apple is crap on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 1

    The question is, how many standards and public organizations would Apple subvert if it had the financial resources at Resmond?

  11. This is why Open Source is Awesome on What The Banned iPhone Ad Should Really Look Like · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is what I love about linux, ubuntu and the whole community, honestly. They don't do much adverts instead we rely on blogs where products are filmed operating in real time and even if it crashes so be it. This should be our motto:

        Open Source, not out to get you.

      I can't believe fanboys are still defending Apple in case.

  12. Re:Could we call it the General Patent License? on Startup Seeks To Preempt Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    I think this is a very bad idea, and that the company sets itself up for being bought by someone with less scruples.

    Assuming that is not their real plan...

  13. Re:Not a tech support issue? on BT Silences Customers Over Phorm · · Score: 1

    Exactly my problem with blogs that censor negative comments.

  14. Re:imagine on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    No, in reality *we all* got to post first, this is just the universe in which the first poster was Anonymous Coward.

  15. Re:The anthropic principle isn't a principle. on Science's Alternative To an Intelligent Creator · · Score: 1

    A you tube video argues that saying the universe is particularly suited to life is like saying a rock is a car because it contains one atom of iron, which is several orders of magnitude more car/kg that the ratio for life/volume in the universe.

  16. Re:IP and Hardware addresses on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    The heeeeeeeeeeell?

  17. Re:IP and Hardware addresses on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Younger than you, and thanks to your reality check I feel even more younger myself :P

      See I'm even using cutesy emoticons! It's like a god damn fountain of aol youth.

  18. Re:IP and Hardware addresses on (Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Wow that's the lowest uid I've ever seen in /.! How old are you if its not too personal?

  19. Re:Try Io on Ioke Tries To Combine the Best of Lisp and Ruby · · Score: 1

    Hey! it basically it is Io for the JVM! What's not to like? (Except the JVM).

      Io feels so right, I always have suggested Io instead of Javascript for browser scripting.

  20. Dunno what's comming but its epic. on A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is legion. CoreFlood is legion*s*.

      Like in a legion of legion, legion^2.

      So strong in numbers it is a force of nature, taking into account that it is competing with the Storm, or do they coexist nicely?

      Is there any way to pit both networks against each other? I just hope it doesn't degrade into a bot-on-bot sin-fest, spawning little bot-nets into each and every single Internet in the web.

      Alas, with what is known, could WE build this bot-net eating bot-net? I know it sounds dangerous but think of it like a fast car driven by a bad man, now replace the bad man with a cop :) totally gonna work.

      At least Britons don't have to worry about securing their PC from these threats. Criminals simply read the account info from the surveillance main frames,

  21. New Meme on UK Outlines Plan For Internet Black Boxes · · Score: 1

    Britain is the new USA.

  22. Re:Why is there a browser in the music player? on iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition · · Score: 1

    iTunes doesn't use Safari, it just looks web-like. It's custom rendering.

    [[citation needed]]

      Honestly would be too stupid even for Apple, I'm sure iTunes uses WebKit and least some safari code!

  23. Inversion of control on Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself? · · Score: 1

    My rule of thumb is that if it takes you longer to learn to use a tool than writing it your self you should probably just write it.

      But really code change is inevitable because reusable code isn't so always. For instance, I made a simple mysql wrapper because the senior programmer thinks ORMs are bloated, now that we have to work with oracle I made a different wrapper for oracle, he said that I should extend the mysql wrapper to handle oracle as well, but, the dialect of sql that oracle and mysql use are so different there is no chance we will ever swap DBMS.

      Rewriting is inevitable, I once read (in TDWTF) that any task that is done more than there is worth abstracting out.

  24. I wonder on IBM's Teri-is-a-Girl-and-Terry-is-a-Boy Patent · · Score: 1

    Would that software return an appropriate avatar for ssj4chan?

      And because I don't know if I want to be modded funny or interesting.

      Would it return a brown skinned guy I say Raul? what about Abdul, Cole or Hiro? Do I smell a lawsuit?

  25. Re:lmao on The Gym Arcade · · Score: 2, Funny

    But I'm antisocial you insensitive clod!!

      WTF, it's the first chance I get to make this joke and it turns out to be sincere.