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  1. Re:And yet they supported Obama on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    "Traditionalist America has always held homosexuality to be unnatural and immoral, ruinous to body and soul alike, and where prevalent – as in Weimar, Germany – the mark of a sick society. This belief outrages millions. Yet it is as old as mankind and was held universally in the Christian West until this century. Moreover, it is grounded in biblical truth, tradition, natural law and Catholic doctrine." -- Pat Buchanan, March 28, 2013

  2. Re:Google HANGOUTS drop xmpp support on Google Drops XMPP Support · · Score: 1

    From the Google Talk Developers page: "Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP."

  3. Re:Donglegate? Really? on Will Donglegate Affect Your Decision To Attend PyCon? · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    that study doesn't compare children of two-parent opposite-sex couples to children of two-parent same-sex couples, so it doesn't support your position because it's simply not measuring the relevant information.

  5. Re:Humility? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Your opinion on adoption by same-sex couples isn't supported by social science.

    Should infertile heterosexual couples be permitted to marry and adopt children? Their relationships are also "destined to be sterile."

  6. Re:Eating vs. shooting up on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    It's true that the verb is "apexesqai" 'to abstain from", but the context makes it quite clear that it's referring to the consumption of blood. If one interprets a food prohibition this way, one should also avoid organ transplantation since it would constitute cannibalism. Apparently organ transplants _were_ officially prohibited by the Jehovah's Witnesses until 1980, which is at least consistent, I guess.

  7. Re:OpenAFS on College CIO Predicts Tablets Will Kill Smart Boards · · Score: 1

    "Nobody actually uses it"? Listing /afs, I see AFS cells at MIT, Stanford, Harvard, CMU, Cornell... and I know my local universities use it internally, although their AFS space isn't publicly accessible. It might not be popular in corporate environments, but it appears to be very much in use at American universities.

    Re: iOS and other proprietary platforms, you could use a WebDAV client. The mod_waklog Apache module allows HTTPS users to authenticate via Kerberos, which means that WebDAV access works with OpenAFS.

  8. Re:Paved with good intentions, but... on Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 1

    There are *no* requirements for compliance for ISPs that don't impose data caps. What specific provisions in the bill do you think will lead to "loopholes" and "red tape"?

  9. Re:"Global" temperature has not changed in 15 year on Climate Change Could Drive Coffee To Extinction By 2080 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not true; the NOAA says global average temperature is rising: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/indicators/

  10. Re:There is nothing special about programming on Can Anyone Become a Programmer? · · Score: 1

    The authors have not been able to repeat their results: http://www.gwern.net/Notes#the-camel-has-two-humps

  11. Re:Some indications that it's not "Fully Free" ... on Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs · · Score: 3, Informative
  12. Re:GPL on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU · · Score: 2

    They don't "own your code" in any sense. If you violate the license, you're committing copyright infringement, but it has no effect on the copyright status of your own work.

  13. Re:Has anyone embedded Guile? on Guile Scheme Emacs-Lisp Compatibility Matures · · Score: 1

    Guile 2.0 is a huge improvement over earlier releases. Scheme programs are now compiled for a custom VM with an optimizing compiler (not simply interpreted, and AOT or JIT native compilation are now much more practical goals), and Guile now supports hygienic macros, delimited continuations, Unicode, dynamic FFI, R6RS and more SRFIs, and comes with a new debugger and REPL, SXML, and a Web server, among other new standard modules. There's also a SLIME-like Emacs interface: http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

    It's definitely worth a second look if you previously evaluated Guile in the 1.x days.

  14. Re:Bloody really?!?! Another one? on Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just wasted three minutes and forty-one seconds of my life that I will never get back

  15. Re:update on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 2

    Correction: they may or may not have been tear-gassed; some people are claiming fire extinguishers were used (there is obviously some kind of gas being used in the video coming from the kitchen)

  16. Re:update on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 2

    The people in the kitchen locked themselves to fixed structures; they were tear-gassed and are being arrested.

  17. update on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 2

    According to the Livestream, at least 200 people remain and they are being arrested.

  18. Re:I'm coining a new term: on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 1

    It's actually quite useful to support user-extensible control flow. For example, because Guile supports macros and delimited continuations, you can implement Emacs's buffer-local variables as a library, whereas implementing the same feature in a language like Python would require either rewriting user programs or adding an ad-hoc language extension that wouldn't necessarily compose well with other language extensions. Guile's "CS Prof" features can be a considerable advantage for some applications.

  19. Why I'm giving credence to what 2 guys have to say on Xooglers - Google Discussed by Ex-Googlers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Ron" is Ron Garrett, nee Erann Gat. He used to work at JPL, where he created an autonomous spacecraft control system which was named NASA Software of the Year. His homepage has a list of his publications, and you can find his Usenet postings with Google Groups, if you like (he used to post quite frequently in comp.lang.lisp).

    His Blogger profile even links to his homepage. Xooglers is not some anonymous blog; it's written by people using their real names and at least one of them has a decent track record as a software developer. I haven't even seen any particularly negative remarks in Xooglers posts, except for self-deprecating remarks by the authors! Why don't you actually try reading TFB instead of spewing bile?

  20. How irresponsible! on Armed Dolphins Released Into Gulf of Mexico · · Score: 1, Funny

    Won't somebody PLEASE think of the tuna??

  21. Positively mammoth! on Australian Science Makes the Regenerating Mouse · · Score: 0
    This is the first time this has been seen in mammals. The potential implications are positively mammoth.

    Well, I guess they've let the cat out of the bag. We heard this straight from the horse's mouth, after all. I just hope this turns out to be really useful and they're not just barking up the wrong tree; until then I'm sure they'll avoid making mountains out of mole-hills. There will be many copycats of any product resulting from this, but I'm sure that these researchers will receive the lion's share of the profits.

  22. Re:Woo Hoo! on T-Mobile Offers Relief for Hurricane Victims · · Score: 1, Funny

    Frappucino? Wouldn't a nice double tall looté go much better with the free Wifi? (-:

  23. Re:What's next? on Google to Offer Free Wi-Fi? · · Score: 0
    What if Google launched a Mars mission and secured themself exclusive rights for the whole planet?

    Hey, not bad! You should consider submitting some of these - with any luck your exclusive Google news will make it to the front page two or three times...

  24. Re:Bandwidth wasted for non-xhtml pages? on How Much Bandwidth is Required to Aggregate Blogs? · · Score: 0

    So, considering that it's already been done for them, does this mean that CmdrTaco is going to be duping Slashdot's layout? =P

  25. Re:A "patch" activeX plug-in for IE on Windows Guru Calls For IE7 Boycott · · Score: 0

    IE7 does this. That "IE7" isn't the next version of Internet Explorer; rather, it is a JavaScript library that will rewrite standards-compliant stylesheets to IE-bugginess-compatible stylesheets. No ActiveX required.