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  1. Re:Sure! on New Bill Would Ban Public NOAA Weather Data · · Score: 1

    I agree, they shouldn't have it both ways, and congress will give it to them.

    Where does this notion come from that there must exist a private profitable weather service ? If the data is already bought and paid for by the tax dollars, and the market won't support a company that takes the free data and sells their version and analyses, the market has spoken.

  2. Re:Answer on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Are you talking out of your ass, or just never used as Mac ?

    The thing that's missing is seamless functionality and implementation, as usual.


  3. There is only one thing to do on Congress Declares War on File Leakers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We must fight this by playing their own game. If anyone knows a congress-person's kid who uses p2p to share copywritten files, the time has come to turn them in. Only when the government class has their own going away for three years per offense will they understand how pathetic this legislation is.

  4. Battle ? on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    Does this imply both sides have their team in position to do the fight? I would call this a forfeit by MS. Hype for three years in the future never wins a fight when the other team is delivering the good next week.

  5. Re:I don't get it on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    They search in real time as you type, instead of for several seconds to minutes after hitting return.

  6. Re:iTunes? on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    No, they mean the search interface that appeared years ago in iTunes was the original innovation that sparked the desire to put the search mechanism in place for searching the whole machine. Spotlight is the product of that desire.

  7. Re:Google Desktop Search? on Apple and MS Battle For Desktop Search Supremacy · · Score: 1

    In the third party applications.

  8. Mod Parent Up. -- Insightful on AP to Charge Members to Post Content Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mod Parent Up.

    If the wires are pay per view, the only news reported will be news that someone wants you to see, paid for by the interest the news best serves.

    Poster might be going for funny, but I think there is lots of insight into that statement.

  9. Re:Prior art on MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use · · Score: 1

    That is indeed wierd, collecting what basically amounts to forced feedback, on commercial software. I've never heard of such a thing before.

  10. Re:Prior art on MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use · · Score: 1

    I haven't been paying very close attention to the XP world, and think I'm out of the loop on these bug reports. Are they like the ones on MacOS X, where an application will crash and a dialog asks if you want to submit a bug report to apple ?

  11. Prior art on MS: Beta Software Good Enough for Production Use · · Score: 1

    Windows 95. Most definately beta software released to the public, just didn't have the beta label.

  12. Stupid Question on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't there be a menu in firefox that does a lot of the work for users, and presents a list of all the available pluggins, and a brief synopsis of what they do ? It seems that something like a web browser should be intelligent enough to find pluggins and install them all without making the user navigate the web. Lemme guess, there is the pluggin tracker pluggin that does this....

  13. Re:Enlightening... on Pros and Cons of Firefox Critically Evaluated? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's one thing if there are 1000 people and 50 people using the fake products, blah blah blah as per the article.

    In this case though, the 50 people of fake product B, have used large corporation's product A and are expressing their preference for B over A, and not merely cheerleading for product B. Users of product A, have not tried product B, and are basing their preference on absolutely nothing whatsoever.

    Further more, a lot of the users for product B have log files that indicate users of product A are morons who let their machines become compromised and cause havoc for a lot of users around the world, so it would be a slight of hand type of deal to place equal value on the opinions of the two groups of users.

  14. Re:Out of curiosity on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But, He wouldn't be limited by the amount of RAM, instead he could have up to $FILESYSTEM_LIMIT amount of space. Pretty much any mother board will work with it, and he doesn't need to go 64 bit unless he has to for other reasons.

  15. Re:Out of curiosity on Best Motherboard for a Large Memory System? · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing it's for a database that doesn't do a lot of changing, and needs to respond quicker to queries.

  16. Re:charging for . release? on Tiger's 200 New Features · · Score: 1

    I think MS released beta software, and then improved it for free while the users had to put with the effects of their incompetence. I haven't noticed anything new, cool, innovative, or even significan't better from the XP service packs, at least not on par with the OS-X releases.

  17. Re:Linux comes with backup software? on Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection · · Score: 1

    It really depends on what the word "backup" means to you.

    You might be able to use rsync to make your backups with very little effort.

  18. Re:Adaptive Optics on Hope for Hubble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And if I could ask a follow up to that question, Will ground based telescopes be able to adjust to increasing level of contaminants in the air, and changes in the atmosphere ?

  19. Re:Space telescopes are obsolete on Hope for Hubble · · Score: 1

    Anyone have a link to some sites showing the pictures from these next generation scopes ?

    I'm curious to see how the images will stack up against the images from hubble. Right now it seems like a lot of hype, and not a lot of eye candy.

  20. Re:Too costly on Hope for Hubble · · Score: 1

    We could roll back the 4.6 billion dollar bush tax cut given to citigroup, and recover more than enough to repair huble, build the next replacement, purchase a new fleet of shuttles and renew interest in science and engineering in this country.

  21. Re:Hubble is obsolete on Hope for Hubble · · Score: 1

    Any links to pictures from the new scopes to get an idea of what to expect from the next generation of scopes ?

  22. Re:There is a solution on Sea Life Wiped Out by Neutron Star Collision? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would we gain more protection from moving 50 ft underground or living on the surface in another solar system ? We pretty much need to leave the galaxy to escape this type of event. Wouldn't we have to travel about 10000 years to escape this type of event only to get to another location where the same event could happen ? I guess the species is preserved, but since we wouldn't have any quick way of knowing, and no effective interaction, does it really matter any more than other life forms in the universe. I can see leaving the earth, and appreciate to continuation of knowledge via keeping the species alive, but it seem this isn't the type of thing we have the technology to escape by moving far enough away. Maybe an glbal warning system, so if it happens again hits, the other half of the planet can go way underground ?

  23. can anyone make change on Is Ubuntu a Compatibility Nightmare for Debian? · · Score: 1

    for a dollar, I'll drop my two cents.

    Who cares. The ubuntu packages released this year wouldn't make it into the debian default install until 2015 anyways. Why is the debian crew acting like this is going to hurt their compatibility ? It seems that not keeping up is more of a problem than another .deb based distro releasing current packages that won't work with debian sarge.

    I advocated debian for a few years as the best distro back in the 90s. It had everything I wanted as an admin, but I eventually had to leave to get better integration with the versions of software I wanted to run. I suspect the problem with integration isn't ubuntu package maintainers, but something much closer to home.

  24. Re:Innocent until proven guilty? on Museum Director Indicted for Stealing NASA Artifacts · · Score: 1

    In the post 9-11 world, we can't be too hasty to condem a person.

  25. Re:Why is everyone going nuts over this? on Is Obtaining a Windows Refund Still Difficult? · · Score: 1

    But in this case, the "audio setup" part of your analogy is a software package that contains a phrasing very similar to "return for refund if you don't agree with the licensing agreement".