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  1. Re:ha on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    somehow they were relevant enough to push and make popular by being early adopters, even of tech they didn't invent and even of things others sold but didn't make wildly popular. USB, Firewire, SCSI, gui with mouse, touch smartphones,

  2. Re:Sorry your Operating System is not supported on Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One · · Score: 2

    Are those malware researchers developers? Reading the developer's forums, It seems the Linux and BSD crowd do try to pay a little more attention to the mistakes and poor programming memes that enable malware spread (true, they sometimes fail), and moreover are usually quickly to respond to dangerous bugs (again, not always)

  3. Re:Looks like on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Yes, two-thirds of the Christian Bible are those Old Testament "Jewish Texts".

    Or, if you're of the "but we just pay attention to the New Testament" crowd, I'd still make the argument those are self-claimed to be Jewish texts too. Jesus, a sn of a Jewish woman and jewish rabbi (addressed as such and described as teaching at times in temple), who comes to extend and fulfill the Old Testament ("I come not to destroy the law but to fulfill"), gathers a bunch of Jewish men (the disciples) some of whom later write New Testament books, and appears to a Jew (Paul) and upgrades him to a Christian (who quotes many Old Testament texts in his instructions to the Churches).

    The Bible, "those are Jewish Texts"

  4. Re:Sorry your Operating System is not supported on Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    With the explosion of non-microsoft-os running mobile devices, we'll soon see if the "popularity" argument can trump the assumed higher security of alternate OS. Hope we don't all get embarrassed

  5. Re:Humans are more valuable than Computers on Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    nah, those infected PCs running the billy bloatware tend to clog up the inter-tubes of webdom for those of us running the better stuff

  6. Re:Sorry your Operating System is not supported on Malware Is a Disease; Let's Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    How much of a problem would malware be if everyone ran something other than Windows? Sure, malware for the other OS exists, but I haven't seen an infection of them since the late 1980s. Windows, all the time, my employer (except the two of us not running windows) is brought down at least twice a year because of infection in one PC that propogates to the others.

  7. Re:Looks like on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, how many of the billion are trying to do that? We have over two million muslims in america, are they constantly blowing up shit? are you seeing them beating christians in the street? your hatred had caused you to create scapegoats out of innocent people.

  8. Re:Looks like on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that they may not teach you to do according to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against the Lord your God”(Deuteronomy 20:16–18)

    There are several other instances in the Bible where God commands the destruction of the unbeliever.

  9. Re:Looks like on Terror Attack On Norwegian Government · · Score: 1

    every major religion in world has groups of followers that do violence, even the Hindus and Buddhists. I've heard even groups of atheists have done similar. who'd have thunk, humans can be violent SOBs, individually or acting in groups?

  10. Re:RAM on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    also, should have added it was for non-nefarious purposes, just experimental changing of some old in-house codes for which source was not available

  11. Re:RAM on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    I have friends that delight in such things, probably you do too. There are tools to help, on older architecture machines I've done search and replace of instructions, though for much, much simpler purposes than what we're talking about of course

  12. Re:But... on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    I prefer punched card capacity; excluding columns 1-6 and 73-80, of course.

  13. Re:RAM on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    problem, the decryption algorithm and keys would also be in memory.

  14. Re:I think the military should use BSD instead. on A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is Kylin, but China's government uses GNU/Linux and Windows too.

  15. Re:But... on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    it's so fun yanking peoples' chains around here. or yanking people chains. or yanking people's chain.

  16. Re:Ron Paul 2012 on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 1

    "The gold standard survived, with several modifications, until 1971." -- same link

  17. Re:Not impressed on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    Pure marketing genius!! Heck, let's give the shareholders some real wood and say it's an improvement of 6.25 MILLION times ! !


    (over the capacity of a punched card)

  18. Re:But... on GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon · · Score: 1

    What's the difference, sum of storage of many hypothetical Libraries each with the capacity of our Library of Congress, or summing the storage of libraries of a bunch of hypothetical Congresses, each having a Library?

  19. Re:Ron Paul 2012 on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 1

    Since we went off the gold standard in 1973, your little fun history lesson of increased manufacturing capacity in WW II is pointless.

  20. Re:Ron Paul 2012 on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 3, Informative

    no nonsense, U.S. went off the gold standard in 1973. The Depression had everything to do with self-referential paper pyramid scams, same as recession of now. Quit being a shill for the banking cartel parasites who have been draining our wealth.

  21. Re:Ron Paul 2012 on Fed Audit's Initial Report Reveals Trillions in Secret Loans · · Score: 2, Funny

    We became a superpower while on the gold standard; your statement is absurd.

  22. Re:Less user enablement is what we need on Wolfram Launches Computational Document Format · · Score: 1

    the only people I know who used or are using Wolfram's products are/were scientists, students, and engineers. You know, the people who build things, discover things, or are in training to build or discover things. Enabling them isn't the worst we can do. Of course, I'm glad some of their needs can be met with open source now, but there's still some things that aren't yet possible with oss

  23. Re:Anything over 2TB should be ZFS... on Build Your Own 135TB RAID6 Storage Pod For $7,384 · · Score: 1

    Except OpenSolaris is dead, better to keep data on a filesystem that runs on living OS. FreeNAS is FreeBSD based, so we're down to one open source OS that supports ZFS.

  24. Re:Yawn... on Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle · · Score: 1

    One competing theory is that the Higgs is indeed composed of two tops, needs that funny thing called "experimental verification". And of course, the Standard Model itself has the Higgs, how you can say it needs no ongoing verification? Sounds like ivory tower recluse talk. Reality trumps theory.

  25. Re:Yawn... on Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle · · Score: 1

    there are major parts of the standard model that have not been verified at all. Higgs boson, for a big one.

    silly conference going non-scientists.......