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  1. Re:And Linux does too on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 1

    back when I ran Kubuntu I didn't get a firefox, I got a Konqueror. Now I'm running Debian XFCE and I have a seamonkey

  2. Re:And Linux does too on Antitrust Case Over, Microsoft Ties IE 10 To Win 8 · · Score: 0

    And all modern OSes Do include a web browser really? which browser comes with Z/VM or Z/MSE?

  3. Re:Department of Agriculture on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    We measure by the list of duties explicitly stated in the Constitution.

  4. Re:Department of Agriculture on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    what relevance it that, if 66% of its actions and costs are illegitimate?

  5. Re:Screw the government. on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    Have to eliminate the government's owners and operators along with those massive agencies, otherwise they'll just buy and corrupt what's left.

  6. Re:completely missing the point on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    sure, but we're angry they're not pissing money our way

  7. Re:Department of Agriculture on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    Government enriches and empowers its owners, usually not the people (e.g. USA), while manufacturing a facade of acting in the people's interest. It strives to preserve that order.

    No, I'm not a tea party member, they only see the tip of the iceberg

  8. Re:I hear that the greats die in threes on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Some particle are their own anti-particles (like photons). are there good people who are also their own evil doppelganger, such that when they die the universe stays in balance?

  9. Re:Discoverer or Lisp? on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    the invention of the "limit" IS a hand-waving device

  10. Re:Discoverer or Lisp? on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Funny #1, you used the word "Indian", how white european of you. Funny #2, Vikings are Europeans, and they even had children with the "Indians". I'd think having intercourse and sometimes pregnancy by two groups of people implies mutual awareness, maybe even mutual foreplay and orgasms.

  11. Re:Lisp is a fascinating language with honored his on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    While an interesting OS/Program Loader, I'd have to say no, that crappy editor bundled with emacs is of no import to me.

  12. 50 years later, FORTRAN more important than LISP on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    There are still huge amounts of FORTRAN codes used for the bleeding edge of science and engineering. LISP is used for relatively little. There are even huger applications of COBOL moving money and adjudicating insurance claims. The lesson is that things of beauty to the ivory tower, and real world pragmatism, can be two very different things.

  13. misconception on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    AutoCAD is written in C, AutoDesk provides AutoLisp as one way to access its API, but you can also do so from many, many languages. I was former AutoCAD engineer, CADD/CAE/CAM manager, and AutoLisp coder.

  14. Re:US is schizophrenic about nuclear power on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So what? They stay in the fuel.

    Very stupid to put a gold mine of energy into Yucca mountain, we've only extracted less than 15% of the energy from that wrongly called "spent fuel". We can get the rest of the energy and as a side effect transform the stuff into short lived isotopes.

    Yucca mountain is junk engineering, a bad application of science

  15. Re:If only big government had stayed off their bac on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 0

    what "free market"?, we don't have a free market nor capitalism in the USA. We have welfare for corporations, plutocracy, oligarchy, fascism...but no free market nor capitalism

  16. Re:Both devils you know. on Fukushima's Fallout Worse Than Thought · · Score: 1

    Uh, you do know that the Federal Reserve system is made up of big banks?

  17. you sure don't on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    The original implementation, LISP 1, had the letters all capitalized. So did many versions to follow.

  18. Re:Still, nobody gets LISP. on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    oh we get it, but the truth is that anything that LISP can do can be done in many other languages with syntax much easier to comprehend, debug and maintain. Must of the great world-changing softwares were thus not written in LISP. Yes, I'm an old former LISP coder.

  19. Re:Ok, that's it on John McCarthy, Discoverer of Lisp, Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    that's a great gift, please take up java programming, send everyone involved in the creation of java/j2ee to hell. Some of them don't work at Oracle so you need to cast a little bit wider net than just learning their DBMS

  20. here's why you are wrong and don't realize it on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    Some corporations control government, to reduce your choices. Some corporations control government to wage wars for power and profit, and people are maimed and killed. Some corporations control government to permit the poisoning of people. Some corporations make the government give them loans secured by worthless securities, laying the burden of debt on you. Thus your notion that you are somehow master of the huge mega-corporations is upside down.

  21. Re:Corporations alone can't hurt or control you on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    they have governments in their pocket, and they thus do much harm.

  22. Re:here's why you are biased and don't realize it on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    Absolutely false, the bulk of the economy is small and medium sized business, and the individual. Large corporations use illegitimate means to force out the smaller businesses, including corruption, anti-competitive behavior, abuse of patent system

  23. Re:Global Oligarchy? on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    Nope, that "money" is debt notes issued by the big banks. You would only cause some more buyouts and consolidations in the small and mid tier banks, making the big banks even bigger.

  24. Re:Do we have a global oligarchy? on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    You are so funny. The 99% can go vote for Republican or Democrat, either way once past the usual hot button issues they both serve the same masters. Obama is doing a wonderful job of continuing the Bush/Cheney agenda as a mega-corporate bitch.

  25. Re:very useful for kindling interest in coding on Build the 2006 Prototype $25 PC · · Score: 1

    I was only making a statement about computing power. The use for the 3rd worlder is education, which is the project's goal.

    As to access to massive infrastructure, there is this thing called the internet that even 3rd world countries have and are building up. And a usb drive can bring IN a massive amount of information to an area.