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  1. FreeBSD wants you... to make a new installer on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1
  2. Re:An important remaining question on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    They usually work well together, but the FreeBSD developers approached threading differently than Linux developers. This happened several years ago, when FreeBSD released version 5. So in certain circumstances WINE will have errors which you do not see in Linux. In my experience Blizzard games do not run on FreeBSD's WINE. I have read that WoW ran on FreeBSD.

  3. Re:STABLE on FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available · · Score: 1

    Explain to me the advantages of journaling over soft updates, which UFS2 supports? I also want to know what the new gjournal FreeBSD utility actually does, especially when used with UFS2. Does it keep a log of changes, along with the metadata updates of the UFS2 soft updates?

  4. Re:And the parasites love it on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 1

    They probably won't steal the entire project and rename it. Anyways this isn't a totally bad thing.

    Since everyone can use BSD code by just leaving the copyright statement in, the BSD license and its relatives help promote standards and interoperability. There is BSD code in the heart of the Microsoft TCP/IP stack, and several useless command line programs in Windows.

  5. Re:Eli Lilly CEO on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    I guess he is only a CEO now... but he held all three position earlier.

  6. Re:Eli Lilly CEO on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Sidney Taurel, who is the president, CEO, and chairman of Eli Lilly, spent his entire working life in Eli Lilly management. He joined right after he got an MBA from Columbia University. Definitely not a scientist.

  7. Re:Some interesting info on jemalloc on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If only FreeBSD's threading didn't break Wine's support for Blizzard games...

    I couldn't play Starcraft D:. I hear WoW works with it though.

  8. Re:FreeBSD Rant on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 1

    I love FreeBSD and all, but if you FreeBSD doesn't support VMWare as a host. Someone hacked an old version of the player to work in FreeBSD, but it only works in i386 non-SMP kernels. It's works fine as a guest though. However, if you want to run FreeBSD guests on a FreeBSD host there is always jails, which are chroot on steroids. Maybe it's more like KVM. Eventually the Xen port from NetBSD's implementation will be done.

    That's the good thing about the BSD, three separate project with three separate design philosophies with a license that makes it easy to port code from one system to the other. I think there is some input from the Apple guys too sometimes.

  9. Parents on Utah Wants To Give ISPs That Filter a "G-Rating" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought Mormons were all about family values. If the parents teach the kids good values, and set the computer in the family room, and watch the kids on the computer, they shouldn't need filter, which is something that doesn't work anyways, as the Australians now realized 47 million aussie dollars later. If you don't teach kids how to filter garbage, they will be doomed believe it once they leave the walls of your home.

  10. Re:AAhhhhh!!! on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    I completed 6 weeks worth of coursework ahead of time

    You were really ill... no healthy college student ever works that far in advanced. I think 2 hours early is the norm.
  11. Re:AAhhhhh!!! on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Ahh... one of those suicide people... most antidepressants increase the amount of serotonin available in the brain, which leads to mania, which makes people more goal focused. If a person has a dark goal...

    People commit suicide all the time. Air is the placebo.

  12. Re:Eli Lilly CEO on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 1

    Also, all the labs working on this are either in the psychology departments of their schools, or in consumer advocacy groups with a some kind of agenda. The psychoanalysts want you on their couch.

    CHIP appears to primarily do research on AIDS in Africa. http://www.chip.uconn.edu/

    Consumer advocacy group: http://www.ismp.org/

  13. Eli Lilly CEO on Antidepressants Work No Better Than a Placebo · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just listened to the CEO of Eli Lilly speak for an hour last night, and he said most prescription drugs work at best in 80% of patients who are diagnosed with the disease it's supposed to treat. Their least effective drugs only treat 20% of patients. Until effective genomics, proteinomics, and metabonomics testing systems come out, which will show exactly how people react differently to drugs, they have to train doctors in choosing criteria where the drug will work, and ensure that they don't prescibe drugs that don't work in that circumstance. Selling drugs that don't work is an unsustainable business policy.

    He talked about Strattera, a nonstimulant ADHD drug, that works works best in people with ADHD combined with clinical anxiety. Otherwise, the patient should be prescribed a stimulant based ADHD drug, which works more often in other cases.

    Anyways, a lot of drug trial data is needed to find the population where the drug works. In a lot of cases the drug might not work at all. Prescribing methicillin against methicillin-resistant Staphtacaccous aureus will probably an efficacy similar to placebo.

  14. Re:Alternatives on DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · · Score: 1

    Also, why is this listed under Your Rights Online...

  15. Re:Alternatives on DivX Pulls Plug on Stage6 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Use a h.264 codec to encode it, like x264. It's usually a little smaller with less artifacts.

  16. First article (Third link) is not bull on Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The telecommunication authorities are claiming in Pakistan that YouTube was blocked for featuring allegedly blasphemous documentaries. While this move if triggered by this motive is as foolish as burning an entire library just because on a page of one of the books someone has scribbled a couple of words against you, it is far from truth. Actually Musharraf is a very self centered and insecure man these days and has recently learned from his sycophants that YouTube carries many videos critical of his government especially his torture on lawyers and political captives and since during this campaign technology played critical role in influencing people he wants to block out every kind of criticism. This is exactly what I'm talking about.
  17. Smokescreen for government corruption. on Pakistan Blocks YouTube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The government spokesman claims that its due to blasphemous videos on youtube, but you have to realize they just shut down a television station because it allowed two banned television anchors work there; anchors who said negative things about the Musharraf government. The entire nation is under martial law and opposition parties are talking about Musharraf rigging the vote. Right before he declared martial law there was courts were look into allegations of election fraud, but he removed the judges from the case immediately after martial law started.


    Pakistan is currently run by a former military leader who gained power in a military coup d'etat, and has in reality always been run by the military at some level. They are a Muslim country only in name; their mullahs/imams have little affect on the government; sort of comparable to Libya, except Pakistan pretends to have a democratic society. Read into the atrocities committed by their military during the Bangladeshi Liberation War ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_atrocities ). I read an essay written by Henry Kissinger who compared it to the rape of Nanjing. This is the same guy who advised Nixon to aid Pakistan, in order to prevent Soviets from gaining a foothold in the area.

  18. Re:What do the electrons "reflect" off of? on New Electron Microscope Shows Atoms in Color · · Score: 1

    However, the thin slices and embedded heavy metal "stains" are totally conducive to life.

  19. So.... PEBCK on Growth of the Underground Cybercrime Economy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the end, the majority of security problems lies with the user. We need better computer security education in schools and instill a healthy sense of paranoia in the youth.

    Do we really need Trend Micro's PC-cillin?

  20. 15. Engineer smarter politicians on The Century's Top Engineering Challenges · · Score: 1

    In the end, politicians write the checks for most large-scale engineering research and development. The current crop is too shortsighted and rational, and isn't investing in crazy stuff that is useless now, but lays the groundwork for useful things in the future; like the space program.
    Anyways, I'd rather have them create self-repairing transportation infrastructure than almost everything else on that list. Something that insures that bridges won't collapse when you are on it.

  21. Re:It's already on UNIX!!! on Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux · · Score: 1

    For a good part of the 90s, SGI ruled the graphics workstation world with it's IRIX Unix-like OS. Eventually, the x86 computers became so ridiculously powerful that all advantages of running SGI's MIPS-based dedicated graphics workstations was gone. Also a bunch of their engineers left and made nVidia, which specialized in processors for x86 systems. Adobe probably still has a bunch of engineers that port stuff to IRIX systems that they can't fire due to union regulations or something.

  22. Google + Codeweavers = native 64-bit wine? on Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux · · Score: 1

    Seriously, that would make my day. Photoshop likes to eat all the memory it can. While it renders superhuge things more efficiently than Gimp, I guess Photoshop would be more useful if it could access all 8GB of someone's Linux graphics workstation's memory, especially when you edit those 9000x9000 pixel photos.

  23. Re:Thats it! on Scientology Given Direct Access To eBay Database · · Score: 1

    You already can't use Paypal for the backbone of the internet economy, porn. It is already totally useless.

  24. Re:Surprised? on Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research · · Score: 0

    Actually... Google owns this interesting company called 23andme.com. It's run by one of the bigwigs' wife, who has a PhD in some biology related field. Currently they will run your genome through a gene chip and tell you if you are positive for some 30 or 40 deleterious SNPs for a mere $999.99. Another older company based in Iceland, Decode, is doing the same for slightly less money. It's only a matter of time until Google gets into the medical research business. The Decode guys have written some important papers on the genetics of obesity and diabetes.

  25. I called this. on Gates Foundation Vs. Openness In Research · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When I bash Gates, people always tell me that Bill Gates has donated more money to medical research than anyone else in history. Which is true. But I always say that he donates heavily to organizations he controls. And finally he has shown his true colors.