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  1. Re:Linux has lots of monocultures on Virtues of Monoculture, Or Why Microsoft Wins · · Score: 1

    But the very replacement of XFree86 by Xorg shows that Linux monocultures lack the permanence of their MS Windows counterparts.

  2. Re:Breaking News on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    The Germans had submarines in the Atlantic. While the Germans were not an immediate threat to the US, Roosevelt could not simply let them (or the Soviets) occupy all of Europe.

    As for the Islamists chanting "Death to the United States" (probably in Arabic or Farsi), by what means can they make good on their threats, and is traditional military intervention the best way to stop them?

  3. Re:Breaking News on Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers · · Score: 1

    FDR promised not to send troops to Europe, after Pearl Harbor, he did, and if saying something (be it Iraq has WMDs or I won't get involved in Europe's war)

    Was he just supposed to let Germany declare war on us with impunity?

  4. Re:A show of hands if you are surprised on DOJ Names Dozens of IT Vendors in Kickback Scheme · · Score: 1

    When you're spending other people's money -- and taking that money by force -- you're not exactly bound to the laws of economics.

    Not immediately, perhaps, but even governments cannot waste resources with immunity without having to face consequences down the line.

  5. Re:Out of YOUR control on SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are the searches case sensitive? I don't want any porn when I'm doing a search for "LaTeX forms". Of course, others might not want web pages about computerized typography when searching for "latex forms".

  6. Re:Hello, 1959 is calling on HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints · · Score: 1

    And what would one click in 1959? The mouse hadn't even been invented then.

  7. Re:governor on Montana Says No to Real ID, Passes Law to Deny It · · Score: 1

    I'm from Montana, and all I can say is: I am very, very glad that Schweitzer is governer now. Judy Martz, our previous governor(governess?) would have gone along with the REAL ID act, just to be compliant with our wise and noble leader in DC.

    We have a wise and noble leader in DC? Why doesn't this leader try to talk some sense into President Bush?

  8. Re:Linux Wi-Fi? What Linux Wi-Fi? on Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    The Atheros chip set is well supported in Linux. In fact, I'm using it right now.

  9. Re:From what I remember... on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    Listing it in Article I specifies that it applies to Congress, which the Supreme Court ruled in Merryman. Of course, Lincoln faced an actual rebellion, with Beauregard in command of Confederate troops at Manassas, not far from Washington.

  10. Re:As someone who voted republican... on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    And by what means are we to fight against the terrorists? Did President Bush request that Congress expand the armed forces on Sept. 12, 2001? What effort has he demanded of the American people? Did ask people to enlist in the armed forces? Did he ask citizens to pay higher taxes to fight terrorism? No, but he did ask the American people (well, members of Congress) to grant him more power. Has this increase in power helped the War on Terror more than asking for greater effort from Americans?

  11. Re:From what I remember... on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    It isn't illegal for Congress to suspend habeus corpus, as the Constitution specifically lists that in Article I. Lincoln lost ex parte Merryman because he suspended it as President.

  12. Re:Quit lying to yourself on National Intelligence Director Seeks Expansion of Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    All the evidence that was presented was factually true, even if it was presented as being more compelling than it really was. It is up to the media, and private citizens to doubt what they are told and preform their own assessment, because no source is so impartial that it is beyond bias.

    First, how many private citizens can vote in the Senate? Second, how many Americans have an education that is conducive to doubting the government constructively?

  13. Re:Drag and Drop on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I didn't realize that Microsoft Windows XP included unzip. What about 98? Yes, some people still use it.

  14. Re:Students Not Second-Class Citizens on MySpace is Free Speech, Case Overturned · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Income taxes yes, but what about sales tax?

  15. Re:Drag and Drop on Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail · · Score: 1

    What if the recipient doesn't have unzip?

  16. Re:The sad truth is... on Celebrating the HP-35 Calculator With a New Model · · Score: 1

    But my 48GX is smaller and has more battery life than my laptop. Also, doing numerical programming on the 48GX is wonderful, just put stuff on the stack and process.

  17. Re:Not in my experience. on Windows Expert Jumps Ship · · Score: 1

    I don't know how to use old-school editors like EMACS

    Let's see.

    day@ockham:~ emacs myfile.txt

    (Type stuff, then click File->Exit,and save at the prompt)

    day@ockham:~

    What's so difficult?

  18. Re:He's too kind to UAC... on Windows Expert Jumps Ship · · Score: 1

    The problem of running software as an unprivileged user has always been because of broken applications, not because of Windows.

    So were applications supposed to deal with the problem of running software as unprivileged users in Windows 95 or Windows 98?

  19. Re:Made such a change a long, long time ago on Windows Expert Jumps Ship · · Score: 1

    And what Linux distro compels you to install Firefox, or Konqueror?
    Or maybe it's Lynx?

  20. Re:Old news on Windows Expert Jumps Ship · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that Linux is about being hard, rather than free?

  21. Re:or are they - on Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom? · · Score: 1

    No, breeches of security are non-muzzle-loading firearms.

  22. Re:Every Few Months on Enemy At The Water Cooler · · Score: 1

    I can't stand beer, you insensitive clod!

  23. More like limits to "freedom" from being offended on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    The main problem isn't whether Scientology is or is not a religion, but to what extent people shouldnot offend Scientologists (and others).

  24. Re:Ecumenical Councils: the Christian Party Line on Scientology Critic Arrested After 6 Years · · Score: 1

    If Christ defined was Christianity is, then what room would there be for personal interpretation?

  25. Re:Yeah, but where does she... on The Privacy Candidate · · Score: 1

    She also voted to criticize the Ninth Circuit's ruling on the Newdow case.