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  1. Re:No option of Fortran? on Good Language Choice For School Programming Test? · · Score: 1

    Given that they are students, he may need to add a module for creating neckbeards.

  2. Re:Freedom is not binary on What Aspects of Open Source Projects Do You Avoid? · · Score: 1

    Really, using the FreeBSD network stack code as a basis for version one of the windows networking stack would have been a good business and coding decision.

    Was FreeBSD extant when Microsoft first used TCP/IP?

  3. Re:How the Constitution could have saved us... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    The Constitution and the Bill of Rights state that the federal government has jurisdiction in a number of areas

    And two of those areas are copyright and patents (Article I, Section 8)

  4. Re:Future wars on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    I can't wait until the US launches a pre-emptive military strike against [Free Software Foundation] for a grave and gathering threat
    of...copyright infringement!

    You're going down, Stallman!

  5. Re:Come on... on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    The AMA?

    Yeah, that's why the government has stuck it to personal-injury lawyers and reformed medical malpractice laws. Oh wait, it didn't?

  6. Re:GPU acceleration and Opera on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    I haven't noticed that gnash's performance on Firefox/Linux is any worse than Adobe's. Do you have hard data?

  7. Re:Fud fud and more fud. on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    Even if HTML5 "efficiency" sucks now, give it 6 months; it will improve. Open source evolves into a superior product because of the ability to innovate with legal freedom.

    You mean like this http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

  8. Re:I have a great idea! on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    How is H.264 any more cross-platform and open than Flash? While Adobe's implementation of Flash is closed, I suspect that this one http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ might be open.

  9. Re:GPU acceleration and Opera on A Skeptical Comparison of HTML5 Video Playback To Flash · · Score: 1

    With Adobe being closed, the open source crowd isn't free to search for the exploits that the black had people keep finding.

    Yeah, because FSF isn't going to let anyone inspect the gnash code. SWF is a format, not an implementation. And yes, gnash works on YouTube.

  10. Re:no, Python is not the language to start with on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language · · Score: 1

    First of all, you're clearly not an article reader.

    Articles? We don't read no stinking articles! -- Slashdotter of the Sierra Madre.

  11. Re:Sub-Optimal on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Then you meant "local minimum".

  12. Re:To be fair... on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Of course, we could also compare the prices of 1985 Unix versions with current *BSD and Linux offerings. If Microsoft is just beating inflation, its development is inefficient.

  13. Re:Anyone remember reversie? on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Was Windows stable enough to use as an anchor?

  14. Re:Sub-Optimal on The Secret Origin of Windows · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you meant "local maximum" instead of "saddle"? It would be difficult to get stuck in a saddle as you could go up in some direction.

  15. Re:Amazing How Easy It Has Been For Microsoft on Why Microsoft Can't Afford To Let Novell Die · · Score: 1

    Does that mean that Linux is Lamborghini? Would *BSD be Bugatti?

  16. Re:Physical Access on Researchers Find Way To Zap RSA Algorithm · · Score: 1

    But of course, no sysadmin at say, a dinosaur zoo would ever resort to such shenanigans. And he certainly wouldn't smuggle the hardware in a can of Barbasol.

  17. Violent games and toys? on Venezuela Bans Hostile Videogames and Toys · · Score: 1

    Would that include Hugo Chavez?

  18. Re:Time to take him out back... on SCO Zombie McBride's New Plan For World Litigation · · Score: 1

    Somebody just needs to put this guy out of our misery.

    Fixed that for you

  19. Re:Congratulations, slaves on The Billion Dollar Kernel · · Score: 1

    You do know that (some) kernel developers have jobs at places like OSDL, Red Hat, etc where they get paid to contribute to the kernel.

  20. The cube root of 2.88 x 10^77 is 6.6 x 10^25, so it would be 6.6 million light years on each side, which is 66 times the diameter of the Milky Way Galaxy and long enough to reach the Andromeda Galaxy.

  21. Let's do the math on NHS Should Stop Funding Homeopathy, Says Parliamentary Committee · · Score: 1

    Having one caffeine molecule in 1 x 10^100 means that you have 1.6 x 10^76 moles of water. This has a mass of 2.88 x 10^77 grams, and thus a volume (at STP) of 2.88 x 10^77 cubic centimeters. This is the volume of a cube having sides of 3 x 10^25 centimeters, which is 3 x 10^19 kilometers. As a light year is a little less than 1 x 10^13 kilometers, this would be 3 million light years. This is much more than the diameter of the solar system.

  22. Re:Gatto: Schooling is a form of adoption... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    Yes, I feel it fair to call schooling a secular religion, along with a "scientism" that is often connected with it.

    From your previous post:

    Of course, compulsory schooling trending towards a police state has now become a secular religion in the USA,

    which is somewhat different.

  23. Re:Gatto: Schooling is a form of adoption... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    What does showing up in a church say about someone's core beliefs or actions?

    That is shifting the burden of proof. What evidence does Gatto have that Rockefeller denied a belief in a Creator or afterlife?

    But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations, and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to perform in the social life of man.

    And are there ultimate ends?

    Of course, compulsory schooling trending towards a police state has now become a secular religion in the USA,

    A widespread belief, yes. A religion?

    So, was Rockefeller religious? Yes, certainly in those ways. But, we are all religious. Having values and making assumptions and having feelings about things is just part of being human, and all those things connect to formal and informal religion of various sorts.

    Again, what is religious about having values?

  24. Re:Gatto: Schooling is a form of adoption... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    since they had abandoned a belief in a Creator or an Afterlife, this material abundance WAS the best that a human life could aim for.

    Rockefeller abandoned a belief in a Creator or an afterlife? That would be news to the parishoners of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church.

  25. Re:I thought camera's were supposed to make an ... on FBI Probing PA School Webcam Spy Case · · Score: 1

    Don't webcams have video capability? Do you want 24 clicks per second?