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  1. Re:Crackpottery abounds on Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist · · Score: 1

    Vaccinations being cofactors in bringing out any latent condition in the nervous system isn't as far fetched as you make it out to be.

    Jim Carey may not be wrong.

    Drugs are drugs, and having a healthy distrust of them when you are typically presented a one-problem panacea with a laundry list of 20 side effects would not be in err.

  2. Re:Really? on The Web Development Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    The same employees that get laid off during lack of earnings will also jump ship when they don't see any compensation benefits when the company has its "best quarter EVAR!"

  3. Re:Lysol does the trick on What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Hope you or someone near your machine does not have allergies, asthma, or aversion to getting cancer.

    Lysol inhalation has been a suspected carcinogen for years.

    Rubbing alcohol is a far better solution.

  4. Re: GPL makes me angry. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    You're missing the whole point. Its so much easier to just download the code and ignore the so-called licenses. The GPL tries to make a social contract and falls flat on its face because not everyone will agree to it even tho its fruits are available.

    GPL'd code is a half-baked replacement for public domain code.

  5. Re:Big Companies and Hotshot Lawyers on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1

    All your code are belong to us, k?
    U can haz GPL fantasy and we can haz big profitz on your code.

    kthx bye

  6. Re:Make sure to notify the FSF and gpl-violations. on Enforcing the GPL On Software Companies? · · Score: 1


    For everyone one person out there who wants to extol the virtues of the GPL and its enforcement, there are at least 10 others sticking up their middle finger up back at you. Fortunately compliance is costing GPL supporters more and more for litigation and the common practicality is that it won't be worthwhile enough to litigate. This attempts to make the GPL unconscionably (which it is) strong (which it isn't) when in fact it is less enforcible than stopping people from jaywalking.

    If you kinda offer something for free, you'll kinda get some people exploiting your generosity.

    So long, and thanks for all the code!
     

  7. Re:What would 38 years in prison achieve? on Student Faces 38 Years In Prison For Hacking Grades · · Score: 1

    I think a year in prison, 500 hour community service, and financial damages not to exceed $100,000 would be fair punishment. (Society has already proven that punishment via wallet is a very effective deterrent in the form of taxation for wealth distribution).

    This kid is obviously skilled, and someone will want to snatch him up to work at a security company -- and make sure he is never wearing the bad hat again.

  8. The reality is... on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 1

    Where you go is not nearly as important as what you do while you are there.

  9. Re:He's Not a Racist on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 1

    "Or you could just be an incurable racist," "You people", "people like you".

    Nice knee jerk responses there. Resorting to an ad hominem attack when you don't have a good argument to stand on. It is absolutely juvenile to place people into jars the way you are doing, and shows the immaturity of yourself and whatever group and ideals you are awkwardly trying to represent.

    It is not "freaking out" when you hear someone typify a group of people and don't believe it is the right thing to do. It would be unconscionable to speak of 'typical black people' now wouldn't? You can't go applying generalizations like that and expect to maintain credibility. Boxing every 'typical Arab' as a terrorist isn't right, boxing every 'typical Catholic' isn't right, and so on and so forth. To condemn him for labeling people is morally correct. The best thing the nation needs is to stop having a pity party over injustices of the past, and to stop having pissing contests that are based on the emo mentality: "my group was more oppressed than your group". I've listened plenty to people going on about living through and transcending racism, and I think myself and many others have heard enough. Life is too short to listen to people who are depressing. You sir, have found your racist, and he is in your bathroom mirror.

    Some people will succeed and others will fail. People sitting around and crying about how oppressed they are will not succeed, but misery sure does love company.

    Any president in office has an oath to uphold our constitution, and Obama lacks the credibility to uphold it (not to say that W has done a good job, because he hasn't) because of his favoritism tendencies are now blatantly revealed to everyone.

    Damn you for trivializing the meaning of our constitution and what it represents.

  10. Re:He's Not a Racist on The Coming Digital Presidency · · Score: 1

    "Which means you'd actually deserve an intelligent, decent president like Obama. Or you can just have faith in the lies, and deserve what we've had for so long, that's sending us all to hell."

    We deserve Obama like a hole in the head. There were concerns about him not having enough experience to be president. Now he's got 20 years of experience in attending a racist church -- experience that he should not want and that he is too much of a coward to reject and denounce. Even if he's not a racist, he's a stubborn sympathizer. Calling people 'typical whites' however does lend credibility to calling him a racist.

    All of the 3 remaining 'Mainstream Approved' candidates have proven themselves to be liars. Obama has lied to everyone about his church not being as controversial. Indeed, it is controversial and the issues of race are a petty distraction away from the real problems.

    Any sympathizer of Wright's racist church has a place in America...in jail, or at the back of the bus. Dr. King would be ashamed of Wright AND Obama, and we all should be ashamed of the slandering Obama has done of our constitution.

    Doing things in the name of supernatural force doesn't take anyone off the hook for responsibility of the words they choose and the persona they amplify.

  11. Re:Ron Paul Not A Troll on Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal · · Score: 1

    He is still in, and hopefully he will take all of the money remaining and do whatever it takes to get himself the GOP nod between now and September. Back room politics and even bribery would be justifiable to prevent the screwing that the remaining other candidates are going to give us. The best thing you can do for Ron Paul is to write him in, or vote for him in the off-chance he changes his mind about running as third party. It's best to not let everyone forget that dissent is patriotic and is what the country was founded on.

  12. Big deal. on Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why should this be important? GPL is less enforceable than cops catching speeders. Linus is tilting at windmills a bit too much.

  13. Re:Bye bye my application on Dealing With a GPL Violation? · · Score: 1

    I can never understand how programmers stand to watch their creations being usurped for commercial purposes

    They are acting out of charity, and simultaneously driving down the value of their own work and that of their peers. There *can* be some kind of business motive for this, as illustrated in http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free
    so long as there something that the programmer can profit from (ala the razor blade model, but in software it equates to
    having to deal with the *suckage* tech support service business model), if not, it is purely a race to the bottom.

    It's hard to not believe: "Hurrah for the companies that wish to exploit these misguided idealists!"

  14. Re:Olden Times on Supreme Court Won't Hear ACLU Wiretap Case · · Score: 1

    At the time, the slaves weren't men -- they were property; as were wives and livestock.

  15. Re:You just can't repress anything these days on iPhones Produced in China Smuggled Right Back in · · Score: 1

    The problem of Apple comes from within. Since their early days their mindset has been to always have a locked-down closed box, closed regime hardware. They aren't the world's biggest little monopoly for nuthin'.

  16. Re:did you ever stop to consider... on Has Ron Paul Quit? · · Score: 1

    I think you are correct. The majority of people who don't agree are brainwashed with socialist groupthink, and McCain best represents them and their views.

  17. Re:Pro and Cons on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Your anecdotal evidence supports your stance. Government health care is not expressed or suggested as an inalienable right. It is not the place of government to provide health care and the Declaration of Independence never intended for us to have government health care dependency.

  18. Re:lolwut on Ron Paul Campaign Answers Slashdot Reader Questions · · Score: 1

    If you want the answer so badly, get off your butt and do the investigative journalism yourself. The reality of it is, you don't really want the answers enough to do anything about it. This isn't a hard problem; everyone who cites the newsletters never has credibility or does proper sourcing of their trolling claims. He has given an answer that you don't believe is good enough for you. I'm not telling you or anyone else to not seek the truth; by all means go for it and come back with some credibility.

  19. Re:Pro and Cons on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Fees: The fees Romney created raised $260million. The budget gap was $3 billion dollars (or less than %10 required to pay it off). This doesn't show fiscal responsibility. That's like me putting %100k on a credit card, and thinking I save the day by paying off $10k of it. Healthcare: The quality of healthcare will now go down, and we are forced into it. This mentality punishes those who don't get sick, or have to go to the doctor often. People who are generally healthy are now getting screwed with this as an implicit tax. Altruism has no place in healthcare. If you can't plan for your own medical savings, or be able to pay to take care of yourself it's your responsibility to put yourself into debt, and should not be the burden of everyone else. Essentially, the iterative prisoner's dilemma.

  20. Re:lolwut on Ron Paul Campaign Answers Slashdot Reader Questions · · Score: 1

    Funny how few people hearing about the newsletters are actually influenced by them, and even funnier
    that you've never heard of any minority organizations openly shun or denounce him. You'd think in the many terms
    in Congress someone like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would have brought him into their radar for their
    own agendas by now.

    The net effect is that you have some very spiteful anti-Paul Caucasians attempting to be somewhat sensational and shocking to dissuade voters. So, nuff said about the newsletters, mmmkay?

  21. Re:Romney on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Romney is no conservative. He supports universal healthcare which is a socialist/Democratic ideal.

  22. Re:Pro and Cons on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    The Romney "turnaround" is a crock. He raised many fees which is an implicit tax. The only reason he looks like a good choice is because he's done less damage than Devil Patrick. Yes, Romney "sucks less" than Patrick. He's also mandated Universal Healthcare in Massachusetts which is a Democratic ideal - thus making him not a conservative. The only true Republican conservative in the race is Ron Paul, and I will be damned if I let a liberal-pwned media influence and tell me who is and isn't "viable".

  23. Re:Ron Paul? on Best Presidential Candidate, Republicans · · Score: 1

    Don't you dare tell use who can and can't win. BTW, I support Gun Owners For Ron Paul.

  24. Re:Warning on playing with the demo on Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked · · Score: 1

    All binaries are open source when you have a good disassembler.
    Nothing can hide from one.

    How paranoid do you want to be today?

  25. Re:Eliminate Copyrights and Patents on Bill Gates Calls for a 'Kinder Capitalism' · · Score: 1

    > We DO have people at universities working on drugs. You mean aside to the faculty in the liberal arts departments and the administration?