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  1. Re:Apt-get??? on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    I know, and I use a MacBook Pro as my primary personal machine. It's Unix that can run MatLab AND Photoshop, but I do not miss apt at all. MacPorts does well enough. But then again, as my nick might suggest, I'm not really interested in Linux very much anyway,

  2. Re:Apt-get??? on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Because people really want to use Ubuntu with a Rolls Royce sticker price on it so that they can pretend that they are both trendy and wealthy. At least, that is my assumption. It's the only one that makes sense in this context.

  3. Re:Still think Wikileaks knows what they're doing? on Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid · · Score: 2

    Causing the pace of an operation to accelerate isn't the same thing as putting Bin Laden's life in danger. If anything, it put the lives of the special forces operators at greater risk by having less time to prepare everything before hand. So, pretty much the opposite of what you said.

  4. Re:Still think Wikileaks knows what they're doing? on Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple and Birkshire-Hathaway's success is, for better or worse, truer or falser, tied to the leaders of the company in the mind of most investors. If Steve Jobs or Warren Buffet dropped dead tomorrow without having left clear plans for a successor, and having had the markets get used to the idea, I suspect the value would drop out of their stocks in a massive way before recovering.

    Killing Bin Laden has changed the political dynamic in the United States. It's given Obama a popularity boost and an improvement in image which he can leverage in his negotiations on domestic policies. It makes it harder to call him "soft on defense" when he's kept up 2 wars, boosted troop levels in Afganistan, and just sent the Navy SEALS into Pakistan, pretty much unannounced, to bust into a house and cap Bin Laden in the face.

    Whether or not getting at Bin Laden is going to have any effect in the "war on terror" is irrelevant. In Afganistan, we've been at it with the Taliban this whole time. There hasn't really been much of a foreign Arab-fighter presence there for several years. The Taliban and Al Qaeda are two different things. The spin-off groups in Iraq and Yemen were basically independent entities which used the name Al Qaeda for brand association hoping that believers in Bin Laden would come fight for them. It's basically trademark infringement.

    The fact is that killing Bin Laden put the final cap on the whole 9/11 thing for Americans. Bin Laden can no longer be the boogey man hiding in the wings, because he's gone. Any threat that we might face going forward isn't going to come from him. Killing Bin Laden is a lot like the fall of the Soviet Union, in a way. The monolithic face of terror is gone and now the small operators are going to have to come up with their own spin on things. we'll see how this goes. We all know what a disaster letting the Soviet Union collapse was for us.

  5. Re:Story Error on Murder Trial May Turn On Missing Router · · Score: 2

    News from the North is always more interesting. It's like a rule or something, so that's probably why.

  6. Re:Let me say on Voyager Set To Enter Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "read yourself when you type" ?

  7. Re:And this is why... on Does China's Cyber Offense Obscure Woeful Defense? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From the interpretation that sensationalist news services give to the words of scaremonger politicians.

  8. Re:Wasn't this the whole point of CALEA? on Does Wiretapping Require Cell Company Cooperation? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yes. I used to work for a company that made CALEA-compliance stuff. Can't talk about that, but most of the major infrastructure companies had CALEA-compliance stuff built in. It is my understanding, from what I learned while I was there (only about a year before moving on to slightly less creepy stuff), that those functionality has to be available to law enforcement remotely, without requiring active assistance from the telco in some cases. I believe that the majority of cases involve telco cooperation, but only a limited subset of employees are aware when a tap is in place.

    I believe Verizon has a couple of hundred people on staff who's full-time job is to assist in compliance with lawful intercept requests and that the information on the existence of an intercept is not shared with other people in the telco.

    However, the commentary in the summary shows a bit of naiveness on the part of the submitter. Lukashenko is basically the last of the hard-line Eastern Bloc-style dictators. Getting a wiretap on an opposition figure isn't hard when you run a police state.

  9. Re:Release some educational rap videos. on ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business · · Score: 1

    It's a slant rhyme (aka a half rhyme).

  10. None worse than SG-1 on The Decreasing Impact of Death In Sci-fi · · Score: 1

    I don't think that any show abused it more than Sg-1. It got so bad, they even started making fun of it as an in-show meme towards the last few seasons.

  11. Re:I'm glad, honestly. on Judge In Oracle-Google Case Given Crash Course in Java · · Score: 1

    Well, assuming he doesn't have anything else going on during the run-up to that hearing, he could check out the open courseware for Stanford's into comp sci course, which is taught in Java. not that he's likely to be reading this, or that lawyers are interested in turning the judge into a programmer.

  12. Re:They don't get it on iPad Just Another TV Set? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, radio with pictures is played out.

  13. Re:No news here on Thousands of SSL Certs Issued To Unqualified Names · · Score: 2

    You know you can add your internal CA to the trust chain and take care of the problem without having to abuse the system, right?

  14. Sun on Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support · · Score: 2

    If Sun is anything to go by, this just seems like a signal that they're about to go under and are trying to throw all the extra weight off of the boat.

  15. Re:Clones around, it's "enhanced clones" with trou on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    If they made that easy, companies wouldn't need Oracle DBA staffs whose primary job is to deal with Oracle Support, so their support and training business would take a hit. I don't think they really want to make it easy.

  16. Re:Clones around, it's "enhanced clones" with trou on Red Hat Nears $1 Billion In Revenues, Closing Door On Clones · · Score: 1

    I suspect that's just so they can make sure that the plebs use it and only their customers can have ZFS on Linux without a bunch of hassle.

  17. Re:GPL is the problem on Apple Remove Samba From OS X 10.7 Because of GPLv3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Those who release code under a BSD license know that down-stream users can take the code wholesale, or make modifications, and do with it what they will. Those people aren't complaining about it. The only people who seem to make an issue out of it are people who haven't or wouldn't release code under a BSD license. Licenses are essentially a religious debate at this point, so please pardon my analogy when I say that pretending there is a debate on the BSD license is like pretending their is a debate on ID vs Evolution. Only one side is interested in having a debate, and that means there is no debate.

  18. Re:Table Laptop on My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Tablet · · Score: 0

    Whats the average crumb-per-key of your table?

  19. Re:Traffic hungry iPad? on British ISPs Could 'Charge Per Device' · · Score: 1

    Because people with iPads are obviously willing to pay way more than they need to to get what they want, and the ISPs want a slice of the pie like the cell carriers do. Its like the perfect storm of economics and psychology.

  20. Re:*could* charge .. on British ISPs Could 'Charge Per Device' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the other problem is that the government is real and god isn't, and certainly isn't about to come down smiting people for alienating the inalienables. Frankly, I think I have more to fear from religious folks than from government types, especially where the two over-lap, which seems only to happen in statistically siginificant numbers in the US and the Middle East. Funny why the two don't get along so very well, isn't it?

  21. Re:Silly. on China Switching To Home-Grown Chips For Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    In addition, most of the Computer Organization and Design books I've seen use the MIPS instruction set to teach assembly and machine code and diagram the processor fairly well, so the architecture should be understood by a good number of computer scientists and therefore coders. You would think that would give MIPS an advantage, although the general attitude around them seems to be that MIPS died with Irix. I don't recall ever seeing a non-SGI MIPS computer on the market, but I haven't really been looking too hard, honestly.

  22. Re:Big Deal. on Hungary Uses iPad To Draft New Constitution · · Score: 1

    John Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence, but iirc, wasn't at the Constitutional Convention at all. But to the GP, James Madison drafted the Constitution.

  23. Re:CentOS on Red Hat Stops Shipping Kernel Changes as Patches · · Score: 2

    But Fedora isn't a free version of RHEL. It's a test bed for things which may or may not feed into RHEL at a later date. I miss the days of the RedHat box sets. Those were pretty quality. Fedora always seems broken in some way to me.

  24. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1

    There is a slope. How slippery it is depends on what intentions you use to grease it.

  25. Re:So who is he really? on Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker · · Score: 1

    Indiana (right next door to Ohio) had the first state-sponsored (little 's', not big-'S') eugenics program in the world, before the Nazis came to power. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, gave talks to both the KKK Woman's Auxiliary and in Nazi Germany and started the organization specifically to cut down on the number of minority births. The point is, there's a time when Cleveland wouldn't have been all that unreceptive to Hitler's ideas compared to what impressions you have of them today.