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  1. My dream outcome... on Oracle v. Google Trial On Indefinite Hold · · Score: 1

    Android made Java relevant in the mobile smartphone revolution. J2ME is so 1999.

    As such, Android is good business for Oracle. They should strike a deal where Oracle becomes a stakeholder in the Android Open Source project. The, a cross-licensing patent deal. The finally, hold hands while they piss on Jobs' memorial, and sue Apple back into the insignificance where they belong.

  2. sorta like an organic FPGA on Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules · · Score: 1

    Or at least that's the best explanation I could think of. I wonder how stable this molecules are: If they degrade or are sensitive to light.

  3. Safer than thermite or shooting with a .30-06 is: on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    If you have access to metal working equipment, I'd just use an oxy-acetylene cutting torch. The thin metal case and platters melt away in a second or two... This is by far the most effective method i've discovered, you can do 20 hard drives in 20 mins.

  4. Re:Sorry, no Segmented Stacks on Neal Gafter On Java Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the sarcasm brackets...

  5. Sorry, no Segmented Stacks on Neal Gafter On Java Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    The Ruby/Scala/Python/Erlang/Hipster crowd wants closures, and they're the most important thing in the world. Oh and operator overloading. Oh and no checked exceptions. See other languages don't have those things. And we want all languages to be the same. So Java needs those things.


    All this engineering mubmo jumbo about segemented stacks is for weenies. Languages Features are the most important part of a language, how it runs isn't important anymore.

  6. Re:Of course! on Followup: Anti-Global Warming Story Itself Flawed · · Score: 0

    Blasphemy. Please see the science report from the climatologists.

  7. "galactic proportions" on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 1, Insightful

    facepalm, ow

  8. copyright infringement? on More Oracle Patents Declared Invalid · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there alleged Copyright infringement in this case too? I thought someone had copied hotspot code straight into harmony/dalvik...

  9. So we don't know what affect sunspots have, but on No, We're Not Headed For a New Ice Age · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So we don't know what effect sunspots have, but we're absolutely, positively, 100% confident that human caused global warming is happening and would counteract it anyway, because we've completely proven that's true.

    Here's the thing, it's not that I don't believe it, because there is evidence _something_ is happening. It's that one, no matter what, the attitude of warmers is 'it can't be disproved.' The red light in my head for 'apply critical thinking here' is going off, but the minute I open my mouth to ask a question I'm berated.

    In conclusion, I don't feel sorry for your cause and I'm buying a Ford Explorer on the way home. If supporters would change their attitude, maybe they'd win a few more. I'm completely turned off by the polarizing, cliquish, elitist, school-girl attitude.

  10. Re:Stop using crap languages and hardware on Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops · · Score: 1

    I bet you worked for Cerner...

  11. Stop using crap languages and hardware on Federally-Mandated Medical Coding Gums Up IT Ops · · Score: 1

    If you really have a problem with extending a field by a few bytes, you're using the wrong language. By now, you should expect the world is going to change constantly. If it's a surprise to you at this point congress is going to re-invent healthcare ever two years to boost their ratings, please beat yourself with your keyboard.

    Let me guess, the people complaining are using z/os hardware and wrote everything in cobol accessing a ADABAS database. Some idiot business manager said, "It ain't broke, lets not upgrade" and decided to continue using their billion dollar IBM dildo for the next 15 years.

  12. Re:Stopping Science = Stopping Thought. GL,HF on Activists Destroy Scientific GMO Experiment · · Score: 2

    Not to steal your thunder, but this wasn't religiously motivated. No where is there a mention in the article about God. If you look at the big time American environmentalists (Al Gore, Obama, et all), none of them are religiously motivated in fact... If you have an external source saying this incident was religiously motivated, I'd be interested.

    However, I do agree with your point before you got off topic. Stopping Science _is_ stopping thought and prevents people from questioning their beliefs. Also, stopping religion is also stopping thought. Both must continue and neither should be accepted without the converse.

  13. Re:Droidwall already did a good job at it on Marlinspike's Droid Firewall Kills Tracking · · Score: 1

    Yep, WhisperWall is the _Second_. I've been running DroidWall for months.

  14. I don't think time is a dimension though on Was the Early Universe 2 Dimensional Spacetime? · · Score: 1

    Yes, flame me. No I don't have any scientific proof sorry. Yes I know Einstein probably disagrees. I'm a sofware engineer, I don't get paid to study these things. That being said, I don't believe time is a dimension. I think time is a separate classification of measurable attributes, but honkin it with with physical dimensions doesn't make sense to me. It's most likely the by-product of multiple very real physical dimensions we cannot sense and therefore is an derived(artificial) measurement (like acceleration, or volume). Time is probably product of two or three dimensions, just as volume/mass/density is the product of 3 physical dimensions. I really can't explain it I guess... but I think if the first three dimensions could be measured with a measuring tape by aligning it with the dimensional plane, it doesn't make sense that the 4th dimension couldn't be measured with a measuring tape as well.

  15. "Runs on Linux" But what is the app written in? on London Stock Exchange Finishes Switch To Linux · · Score: 1

    I hear a lot of fanfare about the OS, but what is the danged trading app written in? You can't "write something in linux"... is it C, Java, COBOL what?

  16. I can't wait to try out the innovative game contro on Duke Nukem Forever Release Date Revealed · · Score: 1

    Not sure if everyone heard, but the game will be a first of it's kind as far as how you control the FPS character. Rather than "up key for move forward" you will need to move each body part individually... Check out one of the :
    earlier reviews

  17. Costs on Tevatron To Shut Down At End of 2011 · · Score: 1
    Tevatron is a ridiculous project to shut down... But hey, everyone wanted free health care, we want the government to employ 67,000 people to violate our constitutional rights, 'out' senators have free healthcare for life and get a raise every year (by law)... Sorry Tevatron, but you're just not important enough!

    Curiously though, I looked at our national budget, for 2010: $3.55Trillion, and I decided what to see what I could buy for $3.55 Trillion:
    • All of IBM
    • All of Microsoft
    • All of Apple
    • 5 NFL Teams

    Isn't that great? Oh and with the $2.7Trillion left over you'd be able to rent the entire island of Jamaica for a nice weekend vacation.

  18. Another Example on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved] · · Score: 1

    http://www.fadingred.com/senuti/

    This used to be open source on Google Code, but now the company 'changed the license' of the source code.

  19. Big Media called and wants it's payment... on DOJ Ramping Up Crackdown On Copyright-Infringing Sites · · Score: 1

    Dear Mr. President,

    You may recall how we helped elect you to presidential office. 50 years ago, a man with your experience level would have been laughed out of the primaries if he attempted to run for president. We contributed to your campaign with continously underhanded degradtion of your opponents, emphasizing nation origin (race) was not a factor yet at the same time running 'historical documentaries' on your specific national origin, as well as an obsessive celebrity gossip style following of your personal affairs.

    In return, we would appreciate swift action on the following case numbers, be aware however we really want these to be illegal even though they are not specifically outlawed. In addition, we would appreciate increased regualation of public resources (to boot out any small competitors) with a focus on emerging technologies (such as digital distribution over public networks) that way our aging business model is protected at the expense of the public (it's easier to have you legistlate these things; change is expensive).

    We'll be sure to distract the public during this time with season iv of desperate couger's housewives of real miami (Civil participation in democracy is for agenda toting extremists). We look forward to working with you in 2012,

    Sincerely yours, the CNN, FOX, MAFIAA, NPR, NBC et al.

  20. As predicted by Tenacious D on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    The second decree: no more pollution, no more car exhaust,
    Or ocean dumpage. From now on, we will travel in tubes!

    Get the scientists working on the tube technology

  21. Re:Summary Correction: Sprint's 3g footprint on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 1

    Try Manhattan, KS. Sprint/Verizon 3g is everywhere out here (Even Dodge City, KS!) but AT&T is nowhere to be found if you leave Kansas City, MO.

  22. Summary Correction: Sprint's 3g footprint on Verizon Will Sell iPad+MiFi Bundles, Starting Oct 28th · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think you mean Sprint's 4G footprint. Sprint has 3G coast-to-coast like Verizon does (They often share the same towers). AT&T has a city-central 3g network and 2g technology everywhere else.

  23. Isn't this just another game? on EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy · · Score: 1

    I know a lot of people think all of society's problems can be solved with more regulations and laws, but don't you think that manufacturers will just find another way to game this new system?

    I guess i really don't have an alternative, but it's just a little frustrating to watch us go through the cycle again...

  24. At 500,000 volts on Low Energy Supercomputing · · Score: 1

    And you have might have a typical datacenter...

  25. But you can't trust wikileaks either on Interview With the Man Behind WikiLeaks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think Wikileaks is a great idea in theory, but just like the USA, EU, and everyone else... Wikileaks also has a political agenda.

    Lets says Pres Obama said, "I'm going to release 70,000 war documents about Afghanistan." And such documents detailed mostly happy things about the war in Afghanistan. We'd have CNN, Foxnews etc saying how the documents were released strategically to paint a light picture of a grim war.

    Yet somehow, when a third party receives documents and ADMITTEDLY filters through them, absolutely no one is questioning the political motivation of such third party.

    I'd like to believe in Wikileaks, but I don't trust the man's agenda, and neither should you. It's merely business as usual, and should be taken as 'another piece of the whole truth'.