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  1. Re:Unlock and get out of contract? on AT&T Vs. Apple Store At the iPhone Launch · · Score: 1

    What is generally true of AT&T, that one can cancel the first month, or that the coverage is not good? I've had good coverage on Cingular (now AT&T).

  2. Re:It's dangerous on CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    Something like chopping off the president's ring finger to get his ring in Escape From New York

  3. Re:Not surprising on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: 1

    And how large an error does one usually make taking notes? And why would people correct a thier/their error in their notes?

  4. Re:Not surprising on School's Out Forever at SV High Tech High · · Score: 1

    There is no easy way to apply corrections to pen and paper.

    Use pencil instead?

  5. Re:Hopefully, with GPL version 4 on RIAA Web Site Moved To Linux · · Score: 1

    The FSF website specifically discusses the Hacktivismo license and concludes that it is unenforceable.

  6. Re:There's probably more they could learn from IBM on What Microsoft Could Learn from OSS and Linux · · Score: 4, Funny

    You do realize that dinosaurs are extinct and rats aren't?

  7. Re:It's not that easy. on Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping · · Score: 1

    3) go fuck yourself.

    Not a viable option. Most people aren't that lithe.

    Most adults are women, and how many of them have a clitoris that
    is long enough?

  8. Re:It is actually Senate Resolution 205, not 207 on 'Dangers of the Internet' Resolution Passed By Senate · · Score: 1

    How long can one live without eating? And if living isn't important, then what is?

    Also, I suspect that the GP meant that such resolutions are of so little importance (and the Senate has more important issues), that it should not waste its time on them.

  9. Re:Updated version. on The Apple II At 30 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a freethinking Atheist I feel all religions should be banned globally. The quicker religions are banned, the quicker we will achieve peace globally.

    As an atheist, I must ask by what means do you hope to achieve such a ban, let alone enforce it? Are you willing to be more tyrannical than Stalin?

  10. Re:Bias for Bias on Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House · · Score: 1

    I treat is as plural, and I'm in the States.

  11. Re:Bias for Bias on Misuse of Scientific Data By the White House · · Score: 1

    The word "data" is plural (singular: datum). Or is being grammatical a bias?

  12. Re:Doc Formats? on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    One could also use dvipdf, but except for using Open Office, they require TeX/LaTeX.

  13. Re:Doc Formats? on Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format · · Score: 1

    And how are *nix users supposed to generate PDFs? The only way I know is to use pdflatex.

  14. Re:How can the BSD be "too open"? on 8 Reasons Not To Use MySQL (And 5 To Adopt It) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that Enron's customers were counting on having Enron not implode.

  15. Re:The Camerons are spot on: on Microsoft Details FOSS Patent Breaches · · Score: 2, Informative

    Toohey was in the Fountainhead, not Atlas Shrugged. You also could have
    mentioned that Rand wrote, "You cannot patent an idea,"

  16. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    Or

    You don't have a machine with IIS, but have three Linux boxes with Apache.

    The work is not in ASP.NET, and is not based on an IIS install.

    Your admins are skilled in Unix, but they wouldn't touch Windows with a 10-foot pole.

    You prefer Apache.

    Your infrastructure is heterogeneous.

    You decide that Microsoft has enough money this quarter.

    And so forth

  17. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    But then the time/effort difference between configuring Apache and IIS is also very minor, so why use IIS?

  18. Re:Unwinnable on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    Who fined him and suspended his license? Did they have to be certain beyond a reasonable doubt?

  19. Re:What the obstruction of justice was really abou on Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted · · Score: 1

    But noooo, Bush is worse.

    Clinton's perjury and obstruction of justice may be legally worse than Bush's conduct as president, but I don't recall those blowjobs costing the lives of 3,000 American soldiers and hundreds of billions of dollars with little to show for it.

  20. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    I think you may be misunderstanding the server products.

    You cannot buy IIS, and there is no enterprise version.


    My bad, I was looking at another product whose name had the same initials.

    And I could do the same thing on my XP box if it had included XP Pro instead of XP Home. As for Windows 2003 Web Server Edition, what languages does it include besides ASP.NET and .NET? Can I run other services (mail, ftp) on it? As for the free stuff, why should I download when Linux distros already have such software, including PHP, Python, and Perl?

  21. Re:finally on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that the only use of mathematics is problem solving. What about schools getting students in the habit of demanding proof, or at least justification? Would a mathematically educated (as opposed to mathematically trained) populace readily accept (or reject) what politicians say?

  22. Re:Reason for choice on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that Microsoft Windows' greatest deficiency is that it doesn't target geeks, and is therefore susceptible to attack?

  23. Sorry for repost, let me try this again on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    Clickable link

  24. Re:Apache vs IIS on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    I'm not a sysadmin, either, but at $24,999 for a single-processor version of IIS (Enterprise) I'll try to do without. The trial version is free, but still requires Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server. Apache and PostgreSQL may be harder on my brain, but they are easier on my wallet.

    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/miis/evaluate/how tobuy.mspx

  25. Re:Reason for choice on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    The most serious "deficiency" of Linux is that is doesn't come preinstalled on ~90% of the computers sold on this planet. I don't know what Linus is doing about that.