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  1. Intermediate license on GPL Revision Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    I'm ashamed, I R'ed TFA!

    But I'll live. Anyways, the purpose of a license is to give people the opportunity to state the terms that they're willing to agree to. There could be a billion licenses, they still must be understood and a greed to.

    Now maybe there needs to be an intermediate license. One that all licenses are compatible with. Modifications to code could go in this license and be passed on between software of different licenses. But for that too happen we need better component management tools. There still isn't a tool that let's me write a short script that joins all the code that I want into an application. If there were such a thing it would be very easy to determine where the boundaries are between different pieces of software.

    Then again witness the arguments against making modules separate from the kernel. I agree that as long as corporations couln't care less about the quality of their drivers I would want the open ones, and drivers can be written more easily tied to the kernel, but the current situation isn't feaible, and look at the argument given: That modules were an after thought. Excuse me, are you kidding me. An after thought, as if there is no logical need for the separation? Ughh.

  2. Re:My Eyes! on Humans Born to Run · · Score: 1

    It couldn't be simply clearly defined color that stands out. Nah, couldn't be...

    Freaks!

  3. Re:Murder? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    Look I know you get a craving for the hitting Ctrl and Shift+Direction every once in a while but please keep it to the games.

  4. Re:Murder? on Internet Hunting · · Score: 1

    You HAVE to ASK?

  5. Re:Sorry, this is good.... on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 1

    RFID's must be programmed with the features you need. Scanning who is out of the building will not tell you where they are in the building during a fire. It's technology, not magic. You Have To Care and Be Involved.

    Well, just know that maybe if you administrators would take an interest in realizing that school has been dumbed down and turned into trend hell, students might have some respect because they seem to be able to notice these things.

    Your none of your business attitude is telling. Did it ever occur to you that if you are using a technology so that you don't have to work as hard, you are not as involved therefore your assessment of any situation will be overly monopolized by what the computer says and you do not deserve the paycheck you are receiving?

    I can almost see one of your species administrator buddies caring more about the fact a student was late to class than the fact they were getting beaten. In one case a little girl brought a metal knife and fork in her lunch box from home. Mind you, this was a child, so keep your anti-dissident radar down, it's a false alarm. This child did the responsible thing to go to a teacher and ask if it were all right to bring those to school. The teacher promptly called for her to be suspended. Now does it need to be in the school rules that a child asking a question responsibly is exempt from such punishment for teachers to use the limited IQ that they have? and where were your administrator buddies to set this straight?

    You need to know intimately from actually caring about students whether they're in school or not.
    The only thing an RFID should do is know that someone is in a room, not necessarily who. All that crap about knowing if someone is in the building during a fire is going to mean little if all you do is scan at the gates.

    Scenario 1
    RFID: Suzy's about to be burned alive.
    Teacher: Where's Suzy?
    RFID: Not part of my programming, not part of my responsibility.

    Scenario 2
    RFID: Someone is about to be burned alive.
    Teacher: Who?
    RFID: I do not know.
    teacher: Tell me now who?
    RFID: Look, dumbass, that's irrelevant. Go to the third floor in the chemistry lab where there was a nitroglycerine experiment done.
    RFID: To get there in time, here's an incentive: The lab is going to blow if no one stops the fire. The cost will probably come out of your paycheck. Now do you care? and on the way out don't forget to save the kid, dumbass.

    I'm sorry but you people are out of touch and the only technology I would want to see in my kid's school is such that makes teachers care MORE not LESS!

  6. Re:I don't see this as very eventful or important. on Space Elevator Prototype Climbs MIT Building · · Score: 1

    I think the problem I'm having is with the motion of a sphere with a long needle coming from it. Zoom that in and you have a picture of the Earth and this thing sticking out. Something not right.

    I'm sure spider activists will also have something to say about it.

  7. Re:Late again on FTC P2P Deadline For Public Comments · · Score: 1

    Incidentally, care to share what that tech list is so this doesn't keep happening.

  8. So put the documentation on Intel Linux Driver Version 1.0 For Centrino WLAN · · Score: 1

    task in a job on rentacoder.com. er so I can bid on it.

  9. Re:Yes but... on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um not quite. Warp numbers are exponents so... it would be log 3.4029 in base 299,792.458.

    See each warp re warps the previous one so...

    Now where's my autographed shot of Kirk telling Picard he was out saving the galaxy while his grandfather was in diapers?

  10. Wussies on X-43A Mach 10 Mission Scrubbed For Today · · Score: 1

    So what if they would have spun for a few seconds before taking off.

    Design by committee. Gauranteed to fail on their flagship product, but always careful with their experimental stuff.

  11. Re:Late again on FTC P2P Deadline For Public Comments · · Score: 1

    Maybe some /. editor thinks anything with comments is going to be competition for /.

  12. Late again on FTC P2P Deadline For Public Comments · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Call me crazy, but why is this information coming up at the last minute. It always seems to happen with opportunities for comment.

    Do we need to start giving out bounties to the first 100 people to find out about an important issue? And second stage bounhties to the first 1000 to inform another 100 each?

  13. Re:Mandelbrot's ideas... on Interview With Math Legend Benoit Mandelbrot · · Score: 1

    Actually, the Mandelbrot set is a catalog of Julia sets by varying the Z.
    Now all you need is to define a coastline in a julia set and you can have a catalog of those too.

  14. ANN COULTER! on Greens and Libertarians Team Up to Demand Recount · · Score: 2, Funny

    sorry the blog lists her as columnist worth reading. I think I lost a kidney processing the shock (ok so it wasn't really a surprise) of that one.

  15. Re:Some little problems... on Segway vs. Roomba · · Score: 1

    I have a Pinto I would like to sell you. It's next to the gift wrapped bridge I'm sending someone for christmas.

  16. Re:Well... on US Army Testing Robots with Shotguns · · Score: 1

    Maybe but but the bullshittitude of the common news source has caused for the adoption of the cynical view which at this time is more useful.

  17. Re:Dell and Suse on Dell Teams Up With SUSE · · Score: 1

    -->Just a little hit to help remove some ambiguity... :-)

    try again slowly. :)

  18. Will someone please do something on Mother Nature Does Nuclear Power · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    about the X is DYING jokes? Maybe we can get the Dept of Homeland Security to sue the writers on Kreskin's behalf (that would be trademark law correct?)

    On another note, I wish X would die.

  19. commercial security on Australian Government Agency Moves Towards Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    does this mean the australian government is going to try to run w32.whatever worm on Linux to see if it spreads? and if it doesn't is that considered a failure to meet the commercial standard?

    they are switching but why if the commercial security ware is the standard to go by?

    i'm confused

  20. Re:harsh criticism on Flying By Brain · · Score: 1

    I would guess it's a balancing act, kind of like the way you react to slipping on wet tile, unsuccessfully of course and yet we do it anyway. Now that would be learning to be aware of the futility flapping one's arms in the split second one is falling or for that matter.

    The brain could have been said to have learned if it feared flying too fast as that would be a preventative measure. Learning at least as I would imagine involves finding better or secondary inputs for making decisions. Otherwise is a gradual adjustment of the balance of information. And unfortunately every molecule in the universe knows how to distribute information in the way of temperature so we can't call the results here learning.

    Was an entity capable of producing solutions made, possibly but given a different plane w/ different characteristics would it question the information and decide to learn anew while retaining the memory of the old plane or would it have to relearn the old plane's configuration after it learned to fly the new plane?

  21. Re:Null routes? on DDoS Extortion Attempts On the Rise · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly why is letting a DDoS crush your service to everyone when they attack on of your sites better than blocking customers in one group?

  22. Look just because on Yahoo Shuts Down Their PayPal Competitor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Paypal was going through some stability problems doesn't equate it to Microsoft which is a monopoly.

    But really there's a ton of merchant accounts put there.

  23. PegasosPPC + MorphOS owns on Updated AmigaOS4 SDK Available · · Score: 1

    AOS is produced by halfwits at Hyperion who still use 68k code for the PowerPC OS.

  24. Re:Maureen O'Gara??! on IBM Tells SCO Court It Can't Find AIX-on-Power Code · · Score: 1

    Michael Sims is a bot that knows how to ban those he disagrees/competes with. I have yet to see anything particularly eye opening from him. He keeps the slashdot signal:noise ratio constant neither improving nor damaging it just making the average more likely to stay below "...and?"

  25. Re:The Problem with Technology is Dependancy on How Technology Failed in Iraq · · Score: 1

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    You think that the Evening News would be allowed to present you with that information? after pictures from funerals of soldiers were censored? Enjoy whatever drugs you're taking to maintain that reality. Please share some.