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  1. Re:BOO, Apple! on Apple Expected to Demo Leopard Successor Next Week · · Score: 1

    Yet at the same time, you come to understand the hardware issues in a more and more straightforward way since with Linux (and GNU) you have the possibility of helping yourself.

    I fail to see the value in "understanding the hardware issues". I want to watch Battlestar, not pretend like I'm at work.

  2. Re:All Programming Languages Suck on What Makes a Programming Language Successful? · · Score: 1

    Ericsson

  3. Re:Retardedness on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071111202112177

    That shell script is a good start. You have to run it after each boot, since it modifies a cryptographically signed plist. (If you're interested, you can figure out how to use OS X's plist utilities to change the plist's cryptographic hash)

  4. Re:Retardedness on Apple's Mac OS X 10.5.3 Has Landed · · Score: 1

    No, that was a pretty crappy "fix". I want my "Unsorted" folder icon to open a Finder window, like it did in every other OS X release before Leopard. Not a 500 item long list of files. I currently have a shell script set up to change a plist file and kill/restart the Dock at boot. I haven't been interested enough in changing the plist's cryptographic hash, so OS X won't "fix" my changes at boot.

  5. Re:Freedom is more important than profit. on $4 Million In Fines For Linking To Infringing Files · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dunno... why should there be perpetual ownership of property.

    This doesn't answer my question. I am a voter. I want to know what I am getting out of granting, for example Disney, the exclusive right to copy and distribute hundred year old cartoons. Convince me.

  6. Re:Freedom is more important than profit. on $4 Million In Fines For Linking To Infringing Files · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It might as well be. There have already been two copyright extension acts, and the Supreme Court has decided that there is no upper bound on the number of extensions. Yes, perpetual is the right word.

  7. Re:Freedom is more important than profit. on $4 Million In Fines For Linking To Infringing Files · · Score: 1

    So what if it is "simple entitlement"? Why should we grant copyright holders perpetual monopolies?

  8. !news on Welcome to the New Slashdot Chicago Cluster · · Score: -1, Troll

    Please tag this story !news.

  9. Re:Almost no-one buys Windows unbundled anyway. on Ballmer Says Vista Selling Really Well · · Score: 1

    I remember that. I was 12, and despite having a Falcon 3.0 and Doom 2 playing 486 SX/33, I thought those nerds were stupid.

  10. Re:I for one will have a tab open permanently on How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web · · Score: 1

    No problem. My intention was to parody the kind of person who wants to stop the spread of knowledge. Mexicans were an easy "target" for my "character", since they are already a hot topic, and people who complain about them discredit themselves in my mind.

    Here's a link to it: http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/modest.html

  11. Re:I for one will have a tab open permanently on How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web · · Score: 1

    I might suggest you look up "A Modest Proposal".

  12. Re:I for one will have a tab open permanently on How NASA Will Bring the Phoenix Mars Mission To the Web · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, the site is a great idea. Mankind is destined to visit the stars, and Mars is our second step. A manned mission to Mars has the potential to provide us with limitless knowledge about the origins of life, and can provide practical experience that can help make traffic to Mars routine.

    My only concern is that NASA won't be blocking foreign nations from visiting their site. I, for one, don't want my tax dollars paying for Mexicans to learn about Mars.

  13. Re:Meh. I don't see the attraction on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 1

    Yes. It got boring after Lito killed L. Death Note needed more Rasengans, and maybe some Devil's Fruits.

  14. Re:Meh. I don't see the attraction on How Japan's Biggest BBS Keeps Things Simple · · Score: 1

    RRRRRRRASENGAN!

  15. Re:Pretty crappy FPGA on Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "If you aren't happy with this Open Source project, buy a Radeon"

    FTFY, HTH, HAND

  16. Re:Yikes on Getting Credit for Programming Accomplishments? · · Score: 1

    But in the end, what happened in the end?

  17. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    YAML Ain't a Database. You're thinking of YAAD.

  18. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 1

    That's a pain in the ass. Why bother implementing something like that, poorly, when SQLite does it already? I have a life, and sometimes it needs a small database. It doesn't need to write a small database.

  19. Re:Python? on F/OSS Flat-File Database? · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, he's completely wrong. A relation is a subset of the Cartesian product of sets. And one can form the Cartesian product of a set with itself. For example, the plane is realized by the product RxR.

  20. Re:Holdon....we are getting something | spkrs on ET Will Phone Home Using Neutrinos, Not Photons · · Score: 1

    4 8 15 16 23 42

  21. Re:Correction on 66% Apple Market Share For Sales of High-End PCs · · Score: 1

    If that's your only complaint, you should switch.

  22. Re:In Short, Yes on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 1

    Nuts to that. The true significance of the halting problem is to demonstrate that a class of problem exists for which no solution can ever be provided even with infinite computation.

    The halting problem (alone) doesn't do that. You can model Turing's oracles as computations at limit ordinals, and a single oracle is sufficient to solve the plain old halting problem. Then again, the argument can be adapted to show that oracle machines have insoluble problems. (And that there is no last ordinal, and that uncountable sets are bigger than little omega, and so on).

    Unbounded and infinite are not synonyms.

  23. Re:In Short, Yes on Do Static Source Code Analysis Tools Really Work? · · Score: 3, Funny

    A program that depends on Goldbach's conjecture for its validity over all inputs isn't particularly absurd. Have you never written a program that decomposes natural numbers into a sum of primes? Never? Wow, you must write pretty boring programs. Additive prime decomposition is a straightforward way to partition a space for combinatorial problems.

  24. Re:Oblig.. on IBM Touts Supercomputers for Enterprise · · Score: 1

    Only if you max out the RAM.

  25. Re:Frist post? on Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade · · Score: 1

    OH SHIT