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  1. Re:Mod parent down; -1, Mentally Ill on High Court Trims Whistleblower Rights · · Score: 1

    You cant create new refineries or pipelines in the US because of extremely strict EPA laws. Democrats bitch about oil prices, yet their laws are the cause.

  2. Re:NOT "GNU/Linux friendly" on Red Hat Not Satisfied with Sun's New Java License · · Score: 1

    You can already get the source, you can compile it, you just can't redistribute it. Create your 64-bit clunky patch and distribute that along with the source and have the user patch and compile.

  3. Re:Browser Speed on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Hmm, using time to start and close as soon as it appears, looks like Opera is the slowest?

    joe@gentoo ~ $ time opera

    real    0m13.832s
    user    0m1.970s
    sys     0m0.617s
    joe@gentoo ~ $ time mozilla
    No running windows found
    /home/joe/.themes/T-ish-Brushed/gtk-2.0/gtk rc:2: Unable to find include file: "iconrc"

    real    0m4.412s
    user    0m1.466s
    sys     0m0.143s
    joe@gentoo ~ $ time firefox

    real    0m1.009s
    user    0m0.033s
    sys     0m0.026s
    joe@gentoo ~ $

  4. Re:Obsession with small business on Google's Love For Small Businesses · · Score: 1

    Actually the poor get free healthcare as well. Its called Medicaid. Work in a hospital, then see a poor family see 8 doctors for the mother, father, and 6 kids, who have nothing more than a cold. Pay nothing, leave, and be back again in a couple weeks with the same thing. Then realize its coming out of your pocket. Whereas the "middle class" doesn't want to pop for the $50 doctor's visit copay on their HMO, so they only see doctors when they are actually ill.

    Not saying that it is right, but your assumption that only the rich get healthcare is false. Only the rich and poor get healthcare, its the majority that doesn't. No swing votes there.
  5. Re:Memory on Firefox 2 Alpha 2 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The only extensions I use are Forecastfox and Adblock on all of my Firefox installs spanning FreeBSD, Linux and Windows XP+2k. I have never had any memory problems. In my experience it seems to me that they are usually caused by 1) outdated Flash and 2) outdated JRE. On the few machines I've seen this on, updating those fixed the problem.

  6. Canadians on New Google Services Announced · · Score: 1

    love their midgets!

  7. Re:Terrorist threat is minimal on The NSA Knows Who You've Called · · Score: 1

    Are you really serious? We were lucky that only 4,000 people died. Change a few variables and those buildings go down 15 minutes earlier, you are looking in the tens of thousands. Since we are so concerned about "freedom", we are still free to smoke, free to drink, free to skydive, free to do thousands of other things that might kill us. Ignoring the real terrorist threat is what got us into 9/11 in the first place. USS Cole, US Embassy Tanzania, the first WTC bombing anyone?

  8. Re:not very... on FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its simple, the Left in this country cannot win elections. They are willing to put our national security in jeopardy just for some bad press on the current administration. In the same vein, the disclosure of our terrorist prisons in Europe should be treason.

  9. Re:MSFT down 10% overnight on Microsoft To Invest Heavily In China · · Score: 1

    Plus there are delays in new products that missed expections.

  10. Re:Open Standards / Open Source on MN Bill Would Require Use of Open Data Formats · · Score: 1

    Its "stable" version still doesn't.

  11. Re:I'd use it if... on Super-ATMs Being Rolled Out · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised bars cash checks for less than $100.

  12. Re:Good news, everyone! on Windows Vista Capable Machines Coming · · Score: 1

    The cheap dell's do not come with a hyperthreaded processor, which is a Vista requirement for Aero, they have a Celeron D.

  13. Re:BSD could beat Linux to the desktop on DesktopBSD 1.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    Samba is available during the install, xorg I guess is a bad example, but parts of it are licensed under the GPL. Besides, the OP made it sound like if it was GPL it was incompatible with BSD, which is not the case. Ok, since we are being pedantic, how about these from the base system: awk, bc, cpio, cvs, diff, gcc, gdb, groff, less, ncurses, patch, texinfo, tar I'm sure there are others.

  14. Re:BSD could beat Linux to the desktop on DesktopBSD 1.0 Final Released · · Score: 1

    Uh, there is plenty of GPL licensed software in FreeBSD. I don't know, maybe you've never head of Xorg or Samba for example.

  15. Re:Highly Critical Hole Found in IE? on Highly Critical Hole Found in IE · · Score: 1

    Its userbase?

  16. Re:Inconcievable! on Linux 2.6.16 released · · Score: 1

    "i" before "e" except after.....

  17. Re:2.14? on Gnome 2.14 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Stable in a month? You must not use Gentoo. Gnome 2.14 will be hard masked for atleast a month, then in ~unstable probably until Christmas. I love Gentoo, but the stable release cycle is absurd.

  18. Re:Targeted links to adware sites cropping up? on Firefox Users Surf Safer · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, Spyware installs YOU!

  19. Re:Global companies VS Local Laws on Yahoo Allegedly Sells Reporter Out to Chinese Authorities · · Score: 1

    I think you're OK as long as you don't inhale.

  20. Re:Good faith? on Google Execs Happy With $1 Salaries · · Score: 1

    The marginal tax rate is 15% for Married jointly filing between $14,300 and $58,100, after that it is 25% up to $117,250. Remember that is Jointly, I hope that any married couple is pulling in more than $58k.

  21. Re:Why is the NUMBER of patches released an issue on Microsoft vs. Computer Security · · Score: 1

    Actually you have it backwards. Microsoft doesn't release as many patches, they seemingly do no security audits themselves. They wait for an active exploit or a proof of concept to show up on a mailing list, then they get on the patch whenever they get back from vacation. Linux benefits from the lesser installed base in active exploits, but there is also the fact that pretty much noone runs Linux as root, and you pretty much have to run Windows as the Administrator. Linux also proactively releases patches, someone perusing the source notices a bad line of code and submits a patch, it gets committed and released. I cannot remember Microsoft ever preemptively releasing a patch before a proof of exploit. They don't fix their bugs unless they are already being exploited, never before. That would cost money that they don't have to spend.

  22. Re:How do you prevent voids? on Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil · · Score: 1

    Sure you get the energy absorbed by the phase change, but its not as easy to convert something from a liquid back to solid as it is from gas to liquid via a compressor. Plus as you stated, voids forming would be very bad, as motionless air is quite a good insulator.

  23. Re:You're missing the point, though on Interview with Ilfak Guilfanov (WMF Patch Hero) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually I believe that this was being exploited as early as December 14th according to one security blog [which I can't find at the moment]. I don't think the exploit was widespread until the 27th. Either way, it still took too long to patch.

    I understand that gdi32.dll is pretty much the equivalent of glibc, so its not something they want to modify without testing, but they should have at least went ahead and released the patch to the home users, production servers and the like, shouldn't of been affected by this [shouldn't be browsing around porn or warez sites, atleast not on the server] and their administrators could have easily held back the update until further notice/testing.

      Imagine if say, google.com or yahoo.com or microsoft.com were hacked in this time period, for nothing other than to upload and display an infected wmf file...............

  24. Re:Danger? on Explosion on Moon Spreads Moondust · · Score: 1

    So all of those other craters just formed themselves?

  25. Re:file format extortion on Autodesk Embracing Open Source · · Score: 1

    Or use LT like my firm does. We use a mix of 2000i-2006LT, so we set the default save as as 2000 format. You don't have to update with every version release. I do agree however that nearing $4000 for a license is pretty steep, but AutoCAD was not meant for personal use. LT is still around $800.