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  1. Stupid on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's stupid. The problem is not with HTML mail (which is generated by many people unknowingly). They could just standarize in a safe mail program, with some mandatory defaults. They could force the use of a modified version of Thunderbird forcing the (already existing) oprion of "Disable JavaScript" off. Another interesting Thunderbird feature is the ability to "sanitize HTML", that is, remove from the HTML view anything that isn't strictly formatting (paragraphs, bullet lists, etc.).

  2. Please, Linus, Don't! on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS · · Score: 1

    Please, Linus, don't murder anybody!

                                                      -- a Linux user.

  3. Re:If the Brazilian government kicks Google out .. on Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Really? It would just create a big market oportunity for a local search engine to appear and compete. And I'd exchange all the flashy-search-engines of the world for a single child abuse less any time.

  4. Removing the broken CA from Firefox 1.5 on Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates · · Score: 2, Informative
    1. Open the preferences and go to "Advanced".
    2. Then click on "Security".
    3. Push the certificates button and then choose the "authorities" tab.
    4. Find equifax.
    5. Select all those entries.
    6. Push "edit", uncheck the checkboxes for each certificate.
    Done, you no longer trust these folks.
  5. Re:However, what's the question here? on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    I find it very amusing how that statement can be applied to pretty much everything under the sun. And so it doesn't have any meaning at all... =)

    Uh, I shouldn't be off-topic... er... Go GPLv3! Go!

  6. However, what's the question here? on Torvalds Explains Dislike For GPLv3 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Martin Fink tells it like it is:

    The question is not why you should migrate to GNU GPL v3, but why not?

  7. Re:Aready done on The Return of the Commodore? · · Score: 1

    That's a company simply using the Commodore brand for its custom made PCs. It would be interesting to find out if they have the right to use it or not.

  8. Re:Oh no! on The Return of the Commodore? · · Score: 2, Informative

    At least they sell a C64: http://hardware.commodoreworld.com/default.aspx?i= 3&s=category&c=30 .

    It's a joystick which includes a builtin C64 and connects directly to the TV!

  9. What's going on with MySQL? on MySQL To Be Ikea Of The Database Market · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why all these crappy slashdot posts about MySQL we have been seen lately? They speak as if MySQL where an uncontested champion in the free-software database arena. This is far from true. Many articles doesn't even mention PostreSQL. Many of them says "Now MySQL is a big player because it's got... transactions" (!).

    I think there's interest here in building up the idea that MySQL is important. There's currently no reason to use MySQL, because other products already do what it does and better.

  10. Re:StarTrek and "positive views of life" on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? · · Score: 1

    In ST religion tends to be something primitive peoples do. The gods always end to be some alien, or some hiden computer. And there's no signs of religion inside the federation. In B5 you had priest, rabins. Do you remember the Enterprise ship crew celebrating Christmas?

  11. Re:Star Trek is a dystopia on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? · · Score: 1

    Uhm... those are pure speculations. In the universe depicted by ST there's explicitely no poverty, and people don't need to work. Wether teletransportation is or isn't available to everyone seems a minor point when put next to these facts.

    The point is that you need to turn ST into a negative world, because if not it would be to negate the dominant capitalist idelogy. You must find some "hidden cons".

    These are the kind of contradiction ST generates, being so popular and so anti-capitalism at the same time.

  12. StarTrek and "positive views of life" on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Star Trek does convey a powerful positive view on life. No poverty. No money (inside the federation). No "alienated work" (people work to develop theirselves as human beings, not just to manage to simply exist). No religion.

    Is amazing that such an obvious reference to the Marxist utopia came from Hollywood... =)

  13. Re:*sigh* on RMS Weighs in on BitKeeper Debacle · · Score: 1

    Slavery didn't end because people found it morally repulsive. It ended because it was no longer economically viable. It ended because capitalism doesn't work well with it. The same goes for feudalism.

    You should read a little of Marx's historical materialism.

  14. Re:No good reason to "hire for race". on Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue · · Score: 1
    Wrong. This holds to the idea that "only whites can deal with whites", "only Asians with Asians", etc. A sort of apartheid when dealing with customers! You are also dealing with just the small part of the staff that works with the public....
    No, you're wrong. In this new world of globalized markets (even within the US itself, where consumer tastes run the whole gamut because of the wide diversity of peoples), it's often in a company's best interests to incorporate different viewpoints. Because by your definition, you can hire the best engineers out of JPL and they'll automatically be able to design the best automobile for the entire global car marketplace.
    Race != culture. The phrase "only whites can deal with whites" is still wrong. It's of course right that someone who was raised in the Japanese society will be able to better design a marketing campaign for Japan. But this person could well be white/yellow/pink...
  15. Re:why are there specific categories? on Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue · · Score: 1

    Who should change its behaviour here if we want a better society?

    Since when "lack comfort" has been an extenuating circumstance in a discrimination case?

  16. Some features are still missing on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1

    I've tried at different zoom levels, and in different zones and I couldn't paint zones as being commercial or residential. I couldn't use the bulldozer either.

  17. Re:I won't be extinct on U.S. Programmers An Endangered Species? · · Score: 1

    Right. You'll just earn much less. Unenmployment lowers the salaries for everybody.

  18. Other archs? on Java 5 RC Available, Gold Targeted for this Month · · Score: 1

    Any news of when it will be released for other archs... e.g. I'll probably have to wait for it to be released for Tru64 4 =(.

  19. Re:Don't forget... on IT, Be Free! · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Let's not forget that IBM is also the king of offshoring efforts.

    !!!

    And what does that have to do with anything?

  20. Is this really evolution? on Macaque Monkey Goes Totally Bipedal · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Darwin's evolution always involve a mutation? So it can only happen at birth. The monkey should have always walked upright for this to be evolution.

    This looks like more to the pre-Darwin evolution theory of Lamarck. By this theory, the body of a living creature actually changes. And modifications get carried to the next generation. But this is an old theory which has been replaced by the Darwin's one. If you harm a leg, this harm isn't carried onto the next generation...

  21. Re:Pre-compiled on Reduce C/C++ Compile Time With distcc · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you fell sad, alone. If you think you are wasting your youth in many lonely nights, then compiling your Gentoo distribution with dedicated and optimizing flags may suit you.

  22. Press release quote on Eclipse Reaches Version 3.0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's the Eclipse 3.0 press release.

    A quote from it:

    " support for national languages through I18N-style internationalization".

    How do you pronounce that? internationalization-style internationalization!

  23. Re:C does not assume ASCII machine platforms on Who Needs Case-Sensitivity in Java? · · Score: 1

    For example, I once worked with a C implementation on an IBM mainframe processor that had no stack, so the C stack had to be synthesized using machine registers and memory conventions, but this worked!

    Isn't the stack always synthesized using registers and memory conventions (plus perhaps some shortand instructions). =)

  24. Re:These are a sign of Gnome success on GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts · · Score: 1

    Hence, Wine is a sign of MS Windows (version irrelevant) success over Linux?

    Yes! It's a sign of MS Windows market dominance. With more and more gnome market share expect less and less relevance for the WinE project.

    Note how at first Linux emulated SCO through iBCS. Back then SCO was strong. Later, SCO was trying to run Linux apps =).

    Expect the appearance of more and more Gnome compatibility KDE features.

  25. These are a sign of Gnome success on GNOME/KDE Integration Gets A Few Boosts · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That KDE people are creating technologies to be able to make Gnome apps compatible with them is a sign of Gnome's success. The same thing do BSD/SCO/etc when they trie to run Linux apps and the same thing did IBM when trying to run Windows apps in OS/2. Is the reaction of a platform to the growth and success of the competition.

    Besides..
    Someday one of Gnome and KDE will be obsolete. The remaining licence issues around Qt makes Gnome the obvious winner, as one cannot create commercial apps for Qt without paying fees.