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  1. Mono!=Interoperability on Banshee, Mono May Be Dropped From Ubuntu Default · · Score: 1

    Samba & tsclient inter-operate with Windows machines using their default protocols. Mono like Wine are patent-dangerous attempts to obsolete needing Microsoft Windows for the closed standards they target.
    Open, patent-free standards eliminate vendor lock-in as competitors (including FOSS) catch-up. Free software fits sometimes and improves until it fits more. Proprietary software monopolies can only exist as vendors of closed standards.

  2. Re:Who... on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 1

    It means I can work to get them out of their position without going to jail.

  3. Re:MOD PARENT UP and use folders on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    8.5's series has been out for 4 years. 8.5.3 (just released) is considerably faster than anything in the 8.0 series. Even 9.0 is in the works. Sure many things are still single-threaded, but 8.5 has LiveText (using Perl regex) which is far less likely to be disabled than agents since it's completely client-side.

  4. Re:No, wrong clonclusion. on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 1

    I have 4 folders (getting paid/recognized, educational, Customer-facing, everything else) but rarely go looking for anything because if I file it then I've handled it. My inbox (after 5 years) has 10 to-do items in it. Once done, I'm unlikely to look for anything. But in my job, if I miss something then I'm in big trouble, so this system's optimized for nothing getting missed. And I trash everything unless needed for liability or reference.

  5. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Universal: The best government is one with a fat & happy middle class -Socretes (paraphrased)
    Corruption turns a system into another system, so if it can exist then it will break any system. Greed cannot be ignored, but can be a good thing for capitalism until it overreaches into corruption or is so successful that a re-balancing is necessary to allow more players in a market. The challenge there is how do you sensibly re-balance markets (for the benefit of the general population) and avoid corruption in the process? To that, I think a direct democracy overlay is necessary to our representative system where the representatives can be out-voted by a majority of their constituents willing to do so. Other ideas welcomed.

  6. Philosophical: on Why the Fax Machine Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Every 6-8 years your body's cells are fully replaced with the following generation. Even thoughts not flashed to the newer cells are gone. So what makes you not a forgery of your earlier self?

  7. Re:I am the author of the spreadsheet in question on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    From this language all over To Kill A Mockingbird to the theme of my high school (Mark Twain HS), this list is unacceptable. Nowadays my companies' annual required class from the LGBT community would even be disallowed by this list. Schools need to tackle issues that (if not otherwise taught about) could be problematic not-to-know-about when adults. This list is all items our society empowers to the point of embarrassment when directly addressed. Not using them is not enough. As my history teacher always said "We learn about injustices so we're not doomed to repeat them".

  8. Re:Sorry, looks like a reasonable list to me. on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    From this language all over To Kill A Mockingbird to the theme of my high school (Mark Twain HS), this list is unacceptable. Nowadays my companies' annual required class from the LGBT community would even be disallowed by this list. Schools need to tackle issues that (if not otherwise taught about) could be problematic not-to-know-about when adults.

    That's exactly what this list is: all items our society gives power too. Not using them is not enough. As my history teacher always said "We learn this (injustices) here so we're not doomed to repeat it".

  9. Re:Car Analogy on 3D Printing and the Replicator Economy · · Score: 1

    Today's hobbyists are tomorrows small business leaders. Small business moves the economy. A lot more somebodies build cars today than 40 years ago.

  10. Re:New app on NH Man Arrested For Videotaping Police.. Again · · Score: 1

    I never figured out how to make it work with my site (and I'm a PHP coder) and the site Author never responded. I switched to ustream.tv

  11. Get Organized? on Do Two-Screen Laptops Make Sense? · · Score: 1

    Ubuntu's desktop recently got reorganized (called Unity) and now it's effortless to have a 4-6 apps on the screen at once depending on what you're doing. For those considering this, perhaps getting a better OS, learning windowing, or considering the low quality of the apps you use would help?

  12. Re:US nowadays on UK Developers Quit US App Store Over Patent Fears · · Score: 1

    As an American who realizes that progress and prosperity are about more than money, I also realize that corporations are forced only to make money above all else in America. Anything else will get you fired and imprisoned (it's the law). The corporatists are acting how they must. If the company creeds were different (or could be different), then the culture changes you mention may be worth something. Until then, few see this as a problem, and average Joe is in debt to those corporations too far to make independent businesses to fight it.

  13. Re:Idiots on Security Consultants Warn About PROTECT-IP Act · · Score: 1

    The Internet is about search for most users. No Internet Search== No business incoming investment in the country for vastly many fields.

  14. Re:Same story, different day... on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    hmmm... Lets look at the year:
    Nokia partners with Microsoft..... Then has the worst quarter ever & is slated for serious trouble & buyout.
    Facebook partners with Microsoft (Bing, Skype)..... Then has innovation stalls & is slated for serious trouble & buyout.

    There's a much bigger anti-Microsoft crowd than Slashdot.

  15. Re:Whats wrong with you people? on Infertile Daughter To Receive Uterus From Mother · · Score: 1

    When raising a child allows you to experience the behaviors you and your spouse had growing up, there is a lot you can learn about yourself and your view on the world. There's also greater understanding about your spouse that's only partially visible in their responses to a different child; the other part being how the child acts.

    Instincts are therefore a big piece of it, but the child's instincts are the ones of interest that allow the parents to better understand themselves and better prepare the child for adulthood.

  16. Re:C/C++ faster but produces more bugs on C++ the Clear Winner In Google's Language Performance Tests · · Score: 1

    I fix for C++ & Java bugs. Error rates are the same afact, but C++ code is full of reimplemented mem tracing and (for C adapted code) error handling code making the functionality obscured. Features are assets, but code is liability. So any feature gained with cleaner code is better.
    So I write tools in Python for a minimum of code with high readability.

  17. Re:Basic OS functionality on Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode · · Score: 1

    If I go to the local river when it's crowded and stand there, I can "still" into a lot of things. That gives me a UI idea!

  18. Re:Thank you, Mozilla on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 1

    Look at the Marlin project and Xubuntu. They both use GTK3, yet have unloaded a lot of Gnome libs.

  19. Re:I am a Silverlight Developer on Silverlight Developers Rally Against Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Or Qbasic, or FoxPro, or MS Certified Admins, or W16 APIs, or anything DOS..
    MS knowledge is useless knowledge in a few years, and gives hints about any knowledge of closed-source languages. There's a reason embedded systems are rarely with Microsoft technologies anymore.

  20. Pattern Found on What Makes a Photograph Memorable? · · Score: 1

    memorability Looking at the images, there's definitely familiar objects helping recognizability, but I saw a much more computationally-easy pattern. Look at the edge detection results of the images. Now count the internally terminated edges (of some length at-least 5px on the thumbs) vs the "lines" that extend to the end of the image.

    Memorability = (internally-terminated edges) / (edges touching border)

    At a glance, this appears much more likely. Why? I think people put more importance on fully-framed "objects" as life demands a high ability to detect objects and we do so with corners. The more unterminated edges, the less we can trust that we see "objects" rather than just data, so it's thrown-out as noise.
    The formula should be easy to test: 1. Edge detect 2. "Walk" edges: remember ones that don't split, end, or considerably change direction (circles ok) in 5px (appropriately scaled) 3. Of all the #2 found edges, mark those that touch edges 4. Memorability = [ #2 (all) - #3 ] / #3

    Let me know how it goes...

  21. Re:"Can it replace. . ." is the worst phrase in te on Google WebRTC: Can It Replace Skype? · · Score: 1

    That's called a Federated Protocol. Great federated protocols require great voice/video protocols FOSS and patent-free (just as email). This is the first step. Google Wave's Federated protocol layer atop standard XMPP appears to be the strongest direction toward what you're looking for.

  22. Re:Utterly reasonable on Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War · · Score: 1

    America(n lobbies) must have America attack China eventually. They have industry and money. It would allow America to wipe the debt record and setup a puppet government to funnel money back around better, thus improving they American (lobbying business) situation.

    But since that's only the after-sale, what's the reason? They've been generally friendly and their power hasn't created invasionary ambitions as other powerful countries. They're even more effectively anti-terrorist. So expect the weird reasons to begin as even a "weapons of mass destruction" claim isn't going to fly. This is actually impressive enough that it might work.

  23. So "security through obscurity" is the US model now? Because that works so well with closed-source operating systems? What other culture or situation applies? (third world countries don't apply).

  24. Re:Don't sign dumb deals on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 1

    On the surface, yes, but the lawyers could potentially stop Microsoft thus reducing the costs to both parties eventually.

  25. Re:GUI and CLUI: Two Great Tastes ... on Imagining the CLI For the Modern Machine · · Score: 1

    Some of my first GUI experiences was learning AutoCAD. Along with the Mouse UI, type always goes to the command line on the bottom. Simple commands there visibly enter you in to extended processes with questions if you didn't specify on the command-line. Then you usually are given ways to chain this command with others (end of a line starts another line). After that, Unix command lines mostly appear to miss the questions. Questions would hang automated scripts, so you wouldn't want them in the commands, but in the shell.