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  1. Re:I absolutely agree with them on DRM Drives Gamers To Piracy, Says Good Old Games · · Score: 1

    If you typo your password during the "Play offline?" prompt, then you can't.

  2. Re:No on Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? · · Score: 1

    It's a nice story, but they only partially do accurate modelling. They have a long history of lettting graft, corruption, and redlining "influence" their models, just a tad.

  3. Re:Pamela Jones on Groklaw Declares Victory, No More Articles · · Score: 1

    Florian is deserving of ridicule.

    Ask him bluntly what what if any are the sources of his funding for doing this "work". He will say many things, but he will certainly not answer you.

    He's paid by Microsoft to invent problems in the open source world.

  4. Re:badly needed on Groklaw Declares Victory, No More Articles · · Score: 2

    I think its the reverse.

    I think law needs to be understandable, and if it isnt accessible, its a failure.

  5. Re:The real reason people like noSQL... on SQL and NoSQL are Two Sides of the Same Coin · · Score: 1

    Funny, as I fire up my mutt mail client and instantly open enormous mailboxes by that are backed by nosql caches in tokyocabinet. I guess my personal mail is really a problem that requires 7 architects and 30 servers.

    Oh wait...

    Yeah, you could do this with a sql engine, like postres, or an in process sql approach like sqlite, but the keyval store actually maps much more closely to the problem, and the memory consumption is kept *very* low even for hundreds of thousands of messages. Just bringing postgres up without any data in it would cost about an order of magnitude more ram.

    So nosql does make sense in other usage domains. Its just a matter of being careful in identifying when its the right KIND of tool, and further being careful in selecting the right nosql tool, since many are quite dissimilar.

  6. Re:Chrome and Firefox's Development Process on Firefox 5 Scheduled For June 21 Release · · Score: 1

    Yeah, same here.

    We'll basically end up saying something like IE 7-9 are supported, along with Firefox and Chrome versions no one in the world uses.

    In reality, pretty much all browsers work, but sometimes there are small glitches the customers do not like. Those customers will just have to use internet explorer.

  7. Re:Just algebra? on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    Totally wrong.

    I skipped math entirely my last year in high school and learned far more by spending time in other areas. My 3rd year math class (BC Calc and other stuff) was mostly a waste of time, I have never used this information in my life ever.

    I program computational systems for a living.

  8. Re:Opinion != Fact on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Plans, projections, expectations.

    I agree with all these. However the outcome is in fact, NOT, a matter of fact, because it did not occur.

  9. Bring back usury law on Friends Don't Let Geek Friends Work In Finance · · Score: 1

    To fix our ailing economy in so many ways, simply reinstate usury law as it existed in the 1960s and earlier. Do not allow lending of any kind with interest rates over a reasonable maximum, such as 10%. This will drastically reduce the profitability of the financial sector, allowing other sectors or our economy to compete for both capital and talent. It will also do wonders towards fixing the problems we are current increasing with consumer debt.

  10. Re:Windows is popular because it works. on Miguel de Icaza On Usability and Openness · · Score: 1

    Funny. My work osx laptop has apps that stop working at every significant point release, while my desktop linux install has had only one or two 10 minute problems in the past 12 years of continuous upgrades.

    I don't believe you.

  11. Re:Why? Visit our App store! on HP To Put WebOS On PCs In 2012 · · Score: 1

    They stated that they implemented the code to let the clients go free, and tested it. I believe that, but don't know how to be certain.

    This leaves dangling the question of: in the event that they are going bankrupt or whatever, what will be the motivation to actually use this technology? What about acquisition situations (nearly necessary in bankruptcy)? It's questionable whether they will be legally able to take this action in such a situation.

    Thus I view it as a well intentioned but fundamentally empty promise.

  12. Re:That will teach him! on New Hampshire Man Sentenced To 7 Years For Robo-Calling Malware · · Score: 1

    Are the victims well identified? I like the idea, but sometimes it's hard to restore to thousands of victims who may not be well documented over a period starting 8 years ago.

  13. Re:Enough of this already on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 2

    Frivilous lawsuits are germane. This one would have been. The trademark use is non-infringing.

    The only law which "enables" this behavior is the general structure of civil lawsuits which allow anyone to sue for anything, and the reality that this is costly for all parties.

  14. search seim on Book Review: Security Information and Event Management Implementation · · Score: 1

    SEIM is about knowing the questions you need answers to ahead of time. The reality is, you don't. You need something that lets you find out the answers you know you have right now.

    That's something that can do arbitrary live searches. There's a single largest player in that space, but others will come. Look for them.

  15. Re:Who needs the URL bar? on Chrome May Drop the URL Bar · · Score: 1

    I keep my warez in a directory labelled 'porn'. Meanwhile my porn is stored in a directory called 'notporn'. Is this the kind of system you are advocating?

  16. Re:But... on Are Tablets Just Too Expensive? · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to understand what open system means.

    Open system doesn't mean "you hack at the guts to get anything done." It has never meant that. Depending upon who you talk to at what point in time, open system has meant "the parts are all documented", "you can locally administrate/control the system if you need to", "the system is build to public reviewable standards", and other sensible things. That it's meant a number of things and people insist it's one thing is unfortunate, but your version is completely new.

  17. Re:It's called a breeder reactor on Stanford, UCD Researchers Say 100% Renewable Energy Possible By 2050 · · Score: 2

    Breeder reactors are relatively efficient. "Never run out of fuel" is a pipe dream. The 1800s perpetual motion machines want to talk to you.

  18. Re:A Waste, Nannyism and Not a Priority. on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    Agriculture can be done almost entirely entirely in the city. It's done so in Havana, feeding basically the whole population in city limits. Meat is more tricky to do in dense spaces.

    Al those other products are more available in population dense areas.

    City dwellers generally have better health, largely because they get more exercise than suburbanites or rural dwellers.

    City costs are fundamentally lower than those for suburbanites and rural dwellers. The cost of access to goods, the energy costs for living, and so on are all lower. It's just that we have such a paucity of quality dense urban space that the laws of supply and demand drive the housing costs up.

  19. Re:Integrate the LaLeche League! on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    making statements about "the female brain" and the "the male brain" being wired in categorically different ways may not be a representation of sexism, but it does encourage it.

    The fact is individual variance is far far larger than normative gender gaps. Any environment which is so highly polarized (13%) is not going to be from natural causes, but rather some other issue. There are many possible such other issues. For example the lack of trash-women (sanitation engineers) is probably for different causes than the lack of female CEOs.

  20. DMCA takedown! on Pirated App Sold On Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    If they don't respond promptly, I'd send apple a nice DMCA takedown. They can't be capricious dicks about people selling their own stuff and then fail to act on blatant copyright violation.

  21. One more example on App — the Most Abused Word In Tech? · · Score: 1

    In my world, "app" is a couple of additional configuration files for our already installed software.

    It confuses everyone.

  22. Re:And... on EFF Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations · · Score: 1

    Right, the EFF helps nobody, even if they don't see all problems to their eventual conclusion and full resolution.

    Absolutist much?

  23. Scarlet Letter on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    Maybe he didn't, maybe he did. I don't know.

    But the idea of labelling players with a "you suck" label forever seems extremely obnoxious. If people cheat on their taxes should they have a litlte holographic "tax evader" over their heads forever? It's just a really awful feel. Bad call by microsoft.

  24. Re:Citation Needed on Congressman Introduces Video Game Warning Label Legislation · · Score: 1

    Don't be a pedant. "there is a link" and "there is not a link" are considered opposites.

    The poster did not say "inverse" or "reverse" or "opposite outcome".

    Survey appreciated.

  25. Re:ObXKCD on The Matrix Re-Reloaded · · Score: 1

    The problem with 2 was that it was _boring_.

    I have no idea about 3 because I refused to go when my dad wanted to go see it. He had fun on his own, though felt it was ridiculous.