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  1. Re:Is anyone going to use Java again on a product? on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's sort of like napalm. Once it's on you, it burns and burns and burns and it's a bitch to get off of you. Weblogic/Jboss/Tomcat... good luck not using Java unless you want to spend big to get rid of it. Takes quite a fire department to put that fire out.

    Then there is always what seems like the java patch of the week. Seems like it's always a critical.

  2. Re:I'm not an Oracle fan but... on Oracle Seeks $9.3 Billion For Google's Use Of Java In Android (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They are a bad joke. "Unbreakable Linux" "Unbreakeable Database", Java... how many frickin' times do we have to patch java. They don't even fix the underlying problem, they just band aid or scotch tape it. That's why the same old problems - (Apu from the Simpsons) come again!

    I work on one of their Exadata systems. A RedHat knock off OS. They didn't even bother to remove /etc/redhat-release file. A clear violation of that license. Then to patch it, you have to have one of their patch sets. Yea, good luck with that. Even if you have premium support. Then when 5:00 Friday comes - please call back Monday, we're otta here! No kidding.

    Almost as bad as Microsoft. Wish I was at their SF party though. I bet that rocked!

  3. Password was 1234.

  4. Re:isn't it time for it to fall apart? on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    NYC seems to do well with their system.

  5. Re:I sympathize I ride DC's METRO rail on Why BART Is Falling Apart · · Score: 1

    It's terrible. I even have an owners manual to it, published I think in 1976 and given to the public.
    Even way back then I realized it was a stupid idea to stop at all of those low income stops, put in just for the low income people, who never ride it in rush hour. They should have express trains.

    Used to ride it way back in the 1990s. Then stopped when it was just getting dangerous. Drove into town for years, cheaper to drive in, park. Well at least cheaper back before they had all the cameras.

    DC is a miserable little place now. Glad I don't have to go down there anymore.

    Drive down to DC? Park to see the Nats? Today's question - did you get a ticket? Probably.

  6. Re:Another excuse . . . on NJ Legislator Proposes Fine For Walking While Phone-Distracted (philly.com) · · Score: 1

    Texting while black?

    I Hesitate to even do that joke... may not be a joke.

  7. Re:Lie detector on Researcher Measures Brain Reactions To Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    ... this Congress has been blatantly partisan in the extreme.

    Ok, so what is your excuse for when the Democrats controlled congress and they could steam roll anything they wanted through. That's how we ended up with BS from the (non) affordable care act to Frank Dodd. Not even they would pass one of his budgets. Not even they could stomach it. Of course that was by design. They haven't passed a budget since GW Bush, when he bailed out GM, banks and so on. They just keep running it up and up and up, so we have a 20T debt now. Yea, where is all that money going? Answer me that.

    Wake up, Obama is the worst in history. Even Jimmy Carter - the previous worst in history realized it and said so.

    As for one term and so on, a guy at work said that too. I pulled up where Democrats said EXACTLY the same thing (Scheumer for the SCOTUS appt to Reid for other stuff), to Bush and others. All they could come up with is - well just because they did it too doesn't make it right. Complete capitulation on that point.

    Even Bill Clinton mentioned Obama's awful legacy. Hear it from Bill himself if you don't believe it, right about 48 seconds in - http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...

    Ok, now for the usual name calling? Threats? What the crazy left often does.

    50+ years of watching the govt work? That was a good one. Too old to remember maybe? Clearly you forgot about Regan and even Nixon. With Nixon they tried to do a coup and failed. They got Spiro and then went after tricky Dick himself. This guy has had a cake walk. No scrutiny from the press at all. Just some token statements for a token president.

  8. Re:"Heavily Processed" on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't have to be three times the price. Eat as a mother born 70+ years ago would have you eat. More one ingredient foods - chicken, beef, pork, fish, potato, kale, etc. Not beef smothered in a bunch of stuff or a potato that has a bunch of stuff on it. You can eat very well for not a whole lot of money. Get the 101 hcg diet cook book for example.

    Just have to decide if you're going to be a fat person or not. If you want to be thin, the way to do it is out there.

  9. Re:Healthy != Profitable on Fruit Drinks Aren't Much Better For You Than Soda: Study (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends. If you have say 8 ounces, that's fine. About what you'd get if you ate an apple or orange. People don't do that. They substitute it for water, what they should be drinking. So they'll have 24, 32, I've seen a big guy chug down 64 oz of fruit juice, then go back for more. He won't be around a whole lot longer.

    (Not necessarily to you, others reading this)
    Eat like a mother that was born 70+ years ago would have told you to eat. Lot of water. Eat some fruit. If you have OJ, have it in a juice glass, not a water type glass. Eat food with one ingredient (what they tell you in a fat loss doctor's class)- pork, beef, chicken, fish, a potato. Not pork with 8 ounces of BBQ sauce, potatoes that have a bunch of stuff on it... And so on. Sugar doesn't count. Don't think you can just down a lot of sugar.

  10. The rise of crappy sites on Why Learning To Code Won't Save Your Job (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    I've noticed as things are supported by Microsoft based sites, the site is crappy. Sometimes I can't even connect to it because the site doesn't even support the minimum encryption for Firefox to connect to it. Have a problem with the site? Send them a trouble report - fill it out and it doesn't even work because the people that did the site are almost completely incompetent. Oh by the way, they're also in India. Same old garbage. You want it done right, keep it in America, Europe or Australia.

  11. You're pissing in the wind. For sure.

    The only way you're NOT pissing in the wind would be to vote for Trump. Why? Because it's clear the established politicians want to stop him. He'll change things. The last chance we had at this was with Perot. I voted for Perot. I was told I wasted my vote. Clinton became president and I had to explain to my kids what a BJ was, among many other things. Too many people wouldn't vote for Perot. Cattle, so we were screwed. Still screwed. Lots of cattle/sheep out there.

  12. Re:self driving cars on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I could see politicians using this defense. I told the google car to take me to a party that my wife was at, not to the prostitute's place where they were doing meth and was busted by the cops.

  13. Re:Doesn't anybody double check? on Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I was thinking they should demo the CEO's house. See if he thinks it's a big deal then.

    Having lost the house I grew up in to a fire, there's nothing like it. You never forget it.

  14. Re:RHAT IPO on Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought as much as I could. It was open to the public, however you had to have some involvement in the company. Even if you were just contributing to bugtrack you were in. I fully support that. Why should we let those that have no involvement make a bunch of money. My lesson is I learned the difference between a market order and a limit order when it was around $300/share. Don't worry, I made plenty.

  15. Re:"ending" poverty on Millionaires: Raise Our Taxes To Address Poverty, Fix Roads (go.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a big problem, I think more of a scandal in the US. Years ago I approached the superintendent of schools about spending all this time on liberal crap like African art or how great President Clinton is and not on how to balance a checkbook. They taught nothing useful like how to figure out how much seed for your lawn, how to figure out 15% for a tip, or much of anything else of a practical value. He agreed and fixed that. This is just one county in Maryland. He's long since gone and I wonder if they even teach it still.

    I rent houses. A lot of houses. I'll actually sit down with tenants and teach them this stuff. How to budget. How to save. How to balance a checkbook. Why you need to not buy your kid a cell phone, besides them not needing one in the first place. Some families it works until something happens like a car breaks down. Then everything is out the window. I have to evict them. There's a reason poor people don't have money. They don't know how to hold onto it. They don't know the value of what they have. No matter what they have, they want more. Even if they in fact live better than a King did a century ago.

  16. Re:Where have I heard this attitude before...? on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    Theo de Raadt, is that you?

    Don't be silly. Not enough ass showing.

  17. Re:As Jeff Goldblum said... on Rust-Based Redox OS Devs Slam Linux, Unix, GPL · · Score: 1

    Eh? Let the young'ns play. It'll give them something to do.
    While they think they're so smart, I wonder if they moved out of their parents house as well.

  18. Time to admit they're wrong, clearly on Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    So we're adding CO2 like no other time in history, let's believe that. We have had a period for over 15 years where we haven't seen an increase in temperatures. The UN simply admitted it and said they didn't know why. Well this is a classic case of the scientific method. Their hypothesis is CO2 causes GW. Since it didn't, and isn't based on the numbers it's time to admit they're wrong and CO2 isn't the cause. It's not even a contributor. What the history record tells us is CO2 always follows warming events, not causing them. What a lot of us scientists have said for decades. It's just those trying to profit off of us say co2 causes GW because man makes CO2. Not hard people. Admit it or reject science.

  19. Someone still uses twitter? on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: the 140-Character Limit 'Is Staying' · · Score: 1

    Stupid platform used by stupid people.

  20. Re:Because catering to heterosexual men = EVIL! on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? I've been married for 30 years. I really appreciate my wife. However I told her when I married her that I will be looking at other women. I can even comment on them. Up to 3 times. Just because you're married doesn't mean you're dead.

    There is nothing wrong with appreciating a very attractive woman. That's all though, just appreciate them.

    Shesh... we need to loosen up a lot more. Way to uptight.

  21. Re:What's the problem? on Sexism Is Still a Thing At Microsoft's GDC Party (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Those ladies are working, not partying.

    So what's the problem? They got paid. In fact, complaining about this is interfering with commerce. There are no laws against this. They should go after that reporter and everyone giving them a hard time for trying to stop interstate commerce.

    Just a bunch of ugly women that can't stand other women getting the attention.

  22. Re:Patents expire in 20 years..... on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    17 years. Problem is determining when the clock started. You can also take a patent and improve upon it and get a new patent. http://www.uspto.gov/

  23. Re:Achievement unlocked: HTTPS support on Microsoft Tries Hard To Play Nice With Open Source, But There's an Elephant In the Room · · Score: 1

    Seconded by ACs everywhere :)

    Jokes on them. They haven't been a real anon since 2003. They know who they are.

  24. Re:Trump is untouchable on Anonymous Doxes Trump, But Leaked Info Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    You don't know anything about business, do you. That's common when you're in business. It's bullshit. Just call him a bunch of names because they don't want him to become president. They want the status quo.

    Don't buy into it. Think. They really hate it when people think. Politicians could lose their jobs. They don't want that.

  25. I hope nobody will mod you down for that. Disagree doesn't mean mod down. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. We should allow people to express it as long as their being respectful.

    They used to be the best. Nobody else in the world could compete and the auto industry will tell you that. That's because nobody else in the world had an auto industry in the 1940s and 1950s to speak of. In fact the best cars of the past 100 years, there are more GM products in that list than any other, even by individual decades I think for every decade. Today they're right up there again. Maybe not the best, certainly among the best. Whatever you do, don't buy a new European car. They closed their stuff off so only they can fix it. The Japanese and Americans are still open to consumers knowing how to fix stuff.

    That's not the point anyhow. If GM is doing it, so are the rest of them. If not right now, very soon. Just makes me nervous, not having a physical way to steer a car in an electrical failure. Used to make me nervous that there was no physical cable from the gas peddle to the throttle. Yet not one of the cars I've owned with them have failed me in the past 15 years.