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  1. Re:The Russian Method on MS Speaks Out Against New Zealand's Anti Spam Bill · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately for every spammer you kill, two rise up to take his place.

  2. Re:Explain your misunderstanding of its use. on Miro Replies to Mambo Allegations · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we'd get further if you explained why exactly you fail to understand its use in that sentence. Put simply, we are seeing a combining of a form of socialism (as displayed by many open source projects) with the practices and philosophies of the corporate world. Hence the term "socialist-corporate". Not very difficult to comprehend, my friend.

    I believe he's implying that the rest of the sentence suggests that corporations are cashing in on community projects, therefore eliminating any sort of socialist element.

  3. Re:More than just using the taped password on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    So expel them, don't make them do prison time or pay hundreds of thousands in fines. That's just wwrong.

  4. Re:Human error on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    Expulsion, what?

  5. Re:Moan ... on Kutztown Students get Felony Charges · · Score: 1

    It seems to me the proper order of school sctions should be Detention->suspension->expulsion not Detention->Felony but what do I know?

  6. Re:Hidden racism on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Christ you reply sarcastically to one post that's crazy, that post gets modded into oblivion and suddenly everbody thinks you're accusing someone of racism. Damn.

  7. Re:Hidden racism on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Nice one AC, did you even read the rest of my post?

  8. Re:Hidden racism on Laser Surgery Goes Online · · Score: 1

    Ever think you're taking things a little too deep? I mean really? I'm sur that comment was made precisely because he hates Indians, and not for the more probably reason of the absurdity of haveing doctors do surgery remotely across the globe just to save money. If you were so pro-Indian you'd fight for them to have equal wages with American IT workers instead of complaining that Americans don't respect them. You make me sick, tubacolossus.

  9. Re:Unfortunately... on Mac OS X on x86 Videos Get Apple's Attention · · Score: 1

    Well um when the "l33t hax0rs" saw linux install disks on bitorrent they were sure it was pirated and downloaded extra copies for their collections, which made it easier for free software advocates to download updated linux installs for legal use at install fests. See! It's all thanks to piracy.

  10. Re:Non-sequitur on Sun's Linux Killer Examined · · Score: 1

    Having Installed WindowsXP and Mandrake Linux in the past few days, 'll take the linux install anyday. Mandrake 10.1's install was totally graphical with a mouse and meaningful controls, nad excellent explanataions of everything that was going on during the install. Windows XP booted to an ominous blue screen had arbitrary letters, which were different for every step and 20 minutes to format the hard disk, blue screening a few times while copying data.

  11. Re:The reason for the downturn. on Firefox Share Slipped in July for the First Time · · Score: 1

    I suspect it's do to an upsurge in new pcs, pcs having widows reinstalled fresh with SP2, or just because all the kids are back in school and their parents are slipping back into old habits.

  12. Re:We need a way to avoid duplicating work on What are the Next Programming Models? · · Score: 1

    The problem is that if new programmers never get a chane to implement things that are trivial, they'll never develope the skills necessary to implement non-trivial designs. You can offset this with more education but in general the next generation programmers would have serious issues with not understanding the "leaks" in the chain of abstractions.

  13. Re:An uneducated guess... on Where Can I Find Linux Porters? · · Score: 1

    Unforunately, Java vmm's are currently too slow to be competitive in the game market. Also, 90% of the game industry lives in the C/C++/Assembler land, and as such your average expert game developer would not be knowledgable about how do write great java code, and likewise your average great java developer problably doesn't have experience writing games requiring realtime performance.

  14. Re:Timezones obsoleted by communication on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    GMT + 8. The clock above my desk says the time there is 12 hours ahead of me (Eastern US Timezone). It's not very hard, because as the great great grandparent poster mentioned time zones keep things spaced out by integral amoounts as opposed to being say 700 minutes ahead which would be 11 hours and 40 minutes instead of just a simple 12 hours, or switching the am/pm.

  15. Re:As mentioned by Paul Graham on 'Design Patterns' Receives ACM SIGPLAN Award · · Score: 1

    I'm bsting my ass to learn lisp based it's ability to map to my problem domain, but it's damn hard to fnd documentation on how to interface with the rest of my system facilities for the free lisps. That's a barrier to entry at least that may be impractical for many. Also all this research (on socket programming in this case) Is really killing the productivity gains the rest of the language provides. As a college student this isn't a deal sealer for me, but if I were on the clock...

  16. Re:Can we say what we will think 500 years from no on U.S. Moves to Kill Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read the post above? Timezone's make it possible to quickly estimate what time it is in Singapore right now even though I'm living in New York. With no timezone's I'd have to bust out a sextant, look up some astronomical indexes for the country (sunrise, sunset statisitcs), or see if anyone remmebers what the difference used to be before we quit using time zones.

  17. Re:And I quote..... on The Lawsuit of the Rings · · Score: 1

    This is the single best thing I've read all day.

  18. Re:Apocryphal Story on Windows to Have Better CLI · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, moral of the story: Never get in an argument with and old guy with a beard about Unix.

  19. Re:Why control the cockroach? on Cockroach-Controlled Robot · · Score: 1

    Well if the robot's proximity sensors direct the light, you basically have a cockroach signal processor, which may or may not have quicker refelexes than some sort of threshold matching algorithm.

  20. Re:Collage Students on Exporting Knowledge Via Students · · Score: 1

    No but it is full of glue code.

  21. Re:Before anyone goes off... on Apple Powerbook and iBook Battery Recall · · Score: 1

    A fire was caused in a dorm room at the Savannah College of Art and Design by an apple laptop under a towel this year.

  22. Re:I guess this is the end of Amazon and Netflix.. on Give Your DVD Player The Finger · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You could still buy films from hong kong and other film producing nations.

  23. Re:Could these patents be GOOD? on Macrovision Applies for P2P Interdiction Patents · · Score: 1

    It's not like the don't intend to license the patents.

  24. Re:A fair and even price on India Eyeing Its Own Open Source Licence · · Score: 1

    Do thumbs count?

  25. Re:Gnome has better apps on KDE Developers and Usability Folks on Cooperation · · Score: 1

    Gnome is GPl'd, you are restricted to the GPL for gnome applications as well.