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  1. Re:What's a "knowledge economy"? on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    Unless you can patent such an economy, in which case I give it 20 years.

  2. Re:This, finally, will bring sanity to the system on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do.

  3. Re:Quality on China Now Top Patent Filer · · Score: 1

    I pretty sure that not all the rest of the world outside the US speaks English.

  4. Re:FAIL on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers, Safari has 11.2% usage share, and Other has only 3.5%.

  5. Re:FAIL on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    What if the only computer you have runs Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit, and you need to see how your web pages render in Safari?

  6. Re:Does anyone read anymore? on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    At about 100 pixels per inch, that's about 180,000 inches. That's almost 3 miles. Also, if the image is 200 pixels across, you have 3.6 billion pixels. At three bytes per pixel (RGB), that's over 10 billion bytes. That's more than most people have in RAM plus swap. Shouldn't something check to see if the computer can handle such a request

  7. Re:Both Major Parties' Face of Future Medicine... on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    Picking on Congressional earmarks instead of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? They're being penny wise and pound foolish.

  8. Re:The Declaration was anything but Civil on FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    Do you mean the Publius of the Federalist Papers? There was no civil disobedience there, as the British had recognized American independence by then.

  9. Re:And there's no such thing as being truly anonym on FBI Cybercrime Director Comments On Hacktivism · · Score: 1

    And the Pope wasn't as good an astronomer as Galileo. But he did have the Inquisition.

  10. Re:What about those who insist on providing IT... on How To Thwart the High Priests In IT · · Score: 1

    So having the server up during registration is just his/her need, not the college's?

  11. Re:Both Major Parties' Face of Future Medicine... on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it were Republicans in power, folks on the right would be beating the drum of fiscal responsibility.

    As they did during the Bush 43 administration?

  12. Re:it is harder to get high on on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    What if the GP meant that we assigned the name "diamorphine" to heroin?

  13. Re:I don't think Asimov was naive on Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics · · Score: 1

    The point of Friendly AI is to program AIs to want to do what is beneficial to humans.

    Beneficial to which humans? Using robots in war means that they might harm some humans (the enemy).

  14. Re:Uncool on Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines · · Score: 1

    As others have mentioned, Canonical can no longer provide updates, which means that it cannot fix the current vulnerabilities. If you had appendicitis, would you complain to a doctor who performed an appendectomy?

    Should people running servers have automatic updates enabled?

  15. Re:Java is obsolete! on Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines · · Score: 1

    Odd, I always thought the syntax was snordoblulous and the memory management flubriglated.

  16. Re:I feel their frustration on Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target · · Score: 1

    So what is PostgreSQL, a Cuisinart? :-)

  17. Prefix question on Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target · · Score: 1

    As a city you should not think in business and macro-economic terms, you have to look on it from a macro-economic viewpoint.

    Should the first "macro-economic" be "micro-economic"?

  18. Re:Cost saving? on Munich's Move To Linux Exceeds Target · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Germans have a different view of working for the government?

  19. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 1

    I knew Microsoft used the BSD network stack, but I didn't know Microsoft used the MIT graphics library. Thanks.

  20. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 1

    Fair enough, but then who is the OP complaining about?

  21. Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea on GPL, Copyleft Use Declining Fast · · Score: 1

    There is nothing more annoying then say a company that makes an OS which uses an MIT licensed graphics library or a BSD licensed network stack but at the same time fights aggressively against free and open source software.

    Apple?

  22. Re:Not all religions are bad on Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 · · Score: 1

    If there is no God, then there is no will of God to communicate through the prophets. I asked what was "objective moral truth". Is objectivity compatible with a religious paradigm?

  23. Re:Not all religions are bad on Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 · · Score: 1

    His first question is an absurd one because there's no such thing as objective moral truth in an atheistic context.

    And what is objective moral truth in a theistic context?

  24. Re:IT needs apprenticeship not degrees. Tech schoo on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 1

    Can we please either have a Computers in Business degree that teaches useful skills

    Wouldn't that be MIS (Managemnet Information Systems)?

    business sees a CS degree as the basic starting point for a career in IT.

    Don't people read the CS sections of college catalogs? Wouldn't the course descriptions make it obvious that this isn't what CS does?

  25. Re:yes and no on In Favor of Homegrown IT Solutions · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you are being facetious, but I can't even get Excel to draw histograms so that successive bars touch.