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  1. Re:Radioactive ooze! on New Radioactive Water Leak At Fukushima: 300 Tons and Growing · · Score: 3, Informative

    nice guess but no. Level 0 is called "deviation", an event with no safety concern. Something might break or leak or even trip the reactor offline but with no danger or threat to anyone's safety.

  2. Re:isn't music already open source? on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    if you play that music you might get sued for unlawful performance. if you copy that music on a Xerox machine, or put on a web server, or transmit it by email you might get sued for copyright infringement. no it is not open source

  3. Re:Of course there can. on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 4, Informative

    but the media cartel has extended copyright to ridiculous lengths of time to prevent music from becoming part of tradition or belonging to the people. the original reasonable limits had exactly that in mind.

  4. so PJ wakes up and smells the coffee on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    The US government has been out of control, corrupt, ignoring constitution and law, and in the pockets of power and money grubbing interests before PJ was born.

    I'm glad in the past year so many people have finally started to get it, though.

  5. Re:not low enough on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 1

    eh? I've thin clients for $20 acting as low-load domain servers, heck almost my gear is used crap but I do buy disks new (masssive discounts of course)

    bottom fishing is the way some of us live

  6. Re:not low enough on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 1

    is there really a barrier? I've certainly put Linux and BSD on devices burned with the predecessors of windows rt

    if there's a fireside sale of these things I'll try to pwn it with open source OS, but it'll have to be $100 or less

  7. Re: not low enough on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 1

    do they make Itanium tablets? might wind up with "intel inside" branded on your scrotum

  8. not low enough on Dell Dumps Keyboardless Windows RT Tablets · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sell those silly things for $100 and people will be able to put a real OS on them to be useful

  9. Re:and by 2040 on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    nonsense, do you see any flying magic ponies over those thirsty or hungry people? no, I thought not. the ponies are coming

  10. world hunger and thirst will be solved by flying magic ponies that poop colored manna and piss purple mineral water

    on what the fuck did this "institute" base their figures, tea leaves?

  11. Re:I've been wondering about something on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    no, slightly more than half survive having cancer (of all types)

  12. Re:I've been wondering about something on New Treatment From Australia For All Cancers · · Score: 1

    before Steve went to real doctor, he wasted time with health-quack nonsense, that's why he had to have his guts removed.

  13. Re:One of the best on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    no, stable versions of good distros have regular bug fixes for their packages

  14. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    your viewpoint is laughable, the candidates are irrelevant and can change nothing. power is not held by elected officials. your ignorance of how your country works is astounding.

    I have been in countries during civil war, by the way.

  15. Re:winner on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    As rabid a Unix/Linux/BSD fan I am, I'd still maintain IBM and Unisys mainframes run the world, because most the world's money is in them. Outside of that, it's largely Unix all the way down from supercomputers to network appliances.

  16. Re:Nonsense on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    BSD "not doing too badly"??? hah that stuff is everywhere in embedded systems from appliances to elevator controls, most people probably have some BSD running devices at home and not even know it

  17. Re:So the old timer Unix unix, not the new time *n on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    the number of embedded systems running openbsd or netbsd (from everything from printer to elevator controllers) goes into the millions

    so ubiquitous they're invisible

  18. Re:They must mean the IPv4 internet on Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour · · Score: 1

    no they aren't, I can make as many addresses as I want for my machine with certain techniques, and each can have 65K ports

  19. Re:They must mean the IPv4 internet on Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour · · Score: 1

    you aren't thinking fourth dimensionally, Marty.

    Suppose, for example, my server had 128 virtual IP addresses its single interface.....

  20. Re:One of the best on Debian Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    your sample size is of systems too simple, is all. you are not dealing with large complex systems

    Of course there are monsterous java ee issues going from 1.5 to .6 to .7 on any large scale enterprise project, I deal with TC Server and Websphere at work. most of the time one cannot simply change JVM. Java is not backward compatible, and the list of issues is of course readily available online.

    Your Rails as example is very funny to me, being an avid Rubyist (see handle). Of course Ruby 1.8, 1.9 and 2.0 have huge differences, only extremely simple code would run unchanged.

    serious systems can't follow the bleeding edge, things break. This is why, for example, the latest Websphere 8.5 still runs java 1.6 with option to run 1.7 with certain caveats.

  21. Re:What is it with momentum wheels, anyway? on NASA Abandons Kepler Repairs, Looks To the Future · · Score: 1

    contract undoubtedly says the wheels would be good for primary mission length and have probability curves for anything beyond that for which the live and dead wheels are entirely contained. space is an extremely tough environment for mechanical things.

  22. Re: And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    no, they benefit certain large corporations. that's why "obamacare" didn't have a robust public option, instead it just injects even more money into big pharmy, insurance, and major health care chains. The USA is a corporate fascist state, moving in the direction of a corporate fascist police state.

    Interesting parallel to the Nazi regime, where social programs for the masses were trumpeted while corporate fascism was framework

  23. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    those hot button issues are just a smokescreen, the underlying system is corporate fascist and Obama is doing a wonderful job continuing the Bush/Cheney agenda

  24. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 1

    wrong, the very large corporations took control of the country almost a century ago, no one alive gave up anything. There is only one extremely painful solution to the problem possible, and it has nothing to do with the "democratic process"

  25. Re:And the peices fall into place on FISC Chief Judge: We Can't Effectively Oversee the NSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Obama delivered on the Transparency though, can see right through him