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  1. Re:This doesn't make sense... on New Closed Source Voting Systems Malfunction · · Score: 2

    Yes, but a firmware virus is a LOT easier to hide. There are no boxes or ashes or ballots to find in your closet or the dump, etc.

  2. Re:Just what I wanna see.... on Linux Outpacing Macintosh On Desktops · · Score: 2

    If he's eating this apple that would much more interesting.

  3. Re:Don't use their model on Online Marketing for an Indie Band? · · Score: 2

    Stuff doesn't get played on commercial radio stations unless the stations are getting paid. Usually in stuff instead of cash nowadays.

  4. Re:Campus Net-Radio on Online Marketing for an Indie Band? · · Score: 2

    For that matter, here's another radio station, and if you want a mailing address, contact me directly.

  5. Re:Uh...you did it on Online Marketing for an Indie Band? · · Score: 2

    You'll have a hard time doing that without ponying up some cash or some free goods for the station. Payola's not dead.

  6. Re:Unfortunate on Java Media Framework Drops MP3 · · Score: 1

    You means eradicated, right?

  7. Re:I don't want 100% pure Java on "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder · · Score: 2

    This argument is kind of like the argument over French vs English. French is great if you like a language that is controlled by 9 unelected and unaccountable old farts in the academe franglais. But in the real world we all use English because it is a democratic language where everyone has equal opportunity to extend and improve. English is the Lingua Franca of the Web and is effectively the common language of the EU. Nothing the French government does is going to change that.

    The reason English is the new lingua franca has nothing to do with the Acadmie Franaise. It's all about American cultural exports. As for the Acadmie's control of the French language, apparently you've never heard French kids using all the English words for stuff in video games, and things of that nature. Le Walkman etc.

  8. Re:I made a new language on "MS Killed Java" (on the Client) JL Founder · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Did Microsoft try to destroy language by distributing a similar, slightly incompatible product named OJ? If not, you have no case.

  9. Re:favorite quote on Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000 and XP SSL Flawed · · Score: 2

    The term "operating system" often means more than "kernel". Library patches can be a real pain in the butt to apply if, especially if you've been distributing statically linked binaries!

  10. Re:I don't get it on USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    FireWire uses copper as well. Perhaps you are thinking of Fibre Channel?

  11. Re:While Microsoft talks, Linux innovates on USB 2.0 for Linux Coming Soon · · Score: 2

    During the years of the 286 (the IBM AT) Microsoft however had a genuine multi-tasking operating system (OS/2)

    HANG ON THERE! OS/2 was made by IBM, not Microsoft.
  12. Re:Oh, please... on ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard · · Score: 2

    That's trademarks, not copyrights, that lose their effects if not defended.

  13. Re:Is it possible to Cut'N'Paste yet ? on A User's First Look at GNOME 2.0 · · Score: 2

    It's not a problem with X. X Window has a consistent clipboard interface. The problem is not your X server. The problem is that application developers do NOT understand interface design AND there are two schools of people crashing together to make programs.

  14. Re:No, it still won't work. on Analyzing Palladium · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In this case, I would hope that XESS makes a PCI version of their nice little FPGA boards in which to put this GNU hardware.

  15. Re:What I want to know... on Mitnick Testifies on Telco's Security · · Score: 2

    But didn't Mitnick get convicted in the end anyway?

  16. Re:The downside of virtual machines on Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ · · Score: 2
    I think you may have missed the point a little. Virtual machines are not necessarily used to simulate hardware. (Although they can be used for that. The N64 dev kit was an SGI Onyx running an emulator, IIRC)



    Plus, digital circuits are a little less complicated and better understood than nuclear explosions and particle interactions.

  17. Re:What I want to know... on Mitnick Testifies on Telco's Security · · Score: 2

    OJ didn't get convicted of the murders.

  18. Re:Heh on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 2

    Um, did you guys forget to read 2061?

  19. Speed? on Philips Blue Laser Itty Bitty Disc Drive · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The article didn't say anything about how fast the drive is. Any more info?

  20. Re:Heh on "Living robot" Escapes Lab, Makes It To...Parking Lot · · Score: 2

    Actually, the movie was SUPPOSED to take place in orbit around Saturn, but Kubrick didn't like the Saturn that any of the effects guys made.

    What really bugs me is that 2010 THE BOOK is the sequel to 2001 THE FILM, so if you read all the books in sequence you get some weird stuff happening.

  21. Re:Beats square dancing on Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101? · · Score: 2

    Dodgeball is especially fun in the water. More so with teams of about 30 and about five underinflated kickballs bouncing around. That and full-contact handball are the only two necessary sports

  22. Beats square dancing on Video Games in Gym Class - DDR 101? · · Score: 3, Funny

    In gym class in elementary school, we learned how to square dance. Every year. We also learned some other dances.

    Playing Dance Dance Revolution for a significant length time seriously kicked my butt before I got used to it. Good for your lungs!

  23. Re:TRS-80 on UVA Computer Science Museum · · Score: 2

    How the heck do you get OS9 running on a TRS-80? It won't even run on my Mac LC III!

  24. Re:Why not earlier on Is it Wrong to Accept an Employment Counter-Offer? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IBM also has a quota.

    A certain number of people (I think TWENTY FIVE PERCENT) will NOT receive a raise, no matter how effective they are.

  25. Re:We are the knights .... on Apple Acquires Silicon Grail · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You don't remember the Wild Eep?

    The Wild Eep was one of the default alert sounds for GENERATIONS. I can't understand why Apple doesn't include it anymore.