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  1. Re:Good and bad. on Charles Nesson Ruled Jointly Liable To Pay RIAA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There's a large, large difference between free counsel, and court appointed counsel. If you're charged with a crime you're entitled to a court appointed lawyer, and at the end of the case you get to make payments on the bill regardless the outcome or validity of the charges most of the time. If you fail to repay the debt, you get spend time in jail. Some jurisdictions credit you as little as $20 day for time served(maybe less in some areas for all I know), so that $2000 bill your court appointed attorney turned in can easily turn into quite a sit in lockup. So the lesson is don't do crime, especially if you're poor cause then they are really going to stick it you.

  2. Re:Too bad on Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina · · Score: 2, Informative

    Impress them with what? Your gullibility? You are quite misinformed and would do well to educate yourself before speaking urban legend as fact.

    http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/8425/can-texas-secede-from-the-union-no

    Or this fine piece of Secessionist literature.

    http://www.texassecede.com/faq.htm

    Notice in the first answer it takes special pains to emphasize "note that it does not state "...subject to the President of the United States..." or "...subject to the Congress of the United States..." or "...subject to the collective will of one or more of the other States...".

    All that is well and good, but the gret secessionist geniuses down in Texas seem to forget the fact the Constitution of the United States does in deed outline our form of *guberment*, in particular the President, Congress, and the rights of States. That means they are getting exactly what they signed up for.

  3. Re:on-board AES? on Intel Details Upcoming Gulftown Six-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    Yeah AES is relatively fast with the keyword being relatively. Those of us who like to use disk encryption applaud this move since it would great reduce the need for seperate and expensive crypto hardware.

  4. Re:PHP is cross-platform on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    wow, seems like a lot of pain to avoid:

    X -configure

  5. Re:methodology? on OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you bank, but where I do there are convenience pc's to browse the web in the lobby. It would be extremely difficult to conduct business in the financial sector without internet access seeing as how many activities are done through that medium. A couple of examples would be credit checking, and interacting with legal document eg titles.

  6. Re:methodology? on OpenOffice Tops 21% Market Share In Germany · · Score: 1

    It's been a long time since I walked into an office environment without internet access. Seems like a good portion of even the run-down, niche-market small businesses even have a hotspot. I think it's a stretch to make your assertion "a lot of businesses don't allow internet access".

  7. Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't know why this has not yet been linked

    Just taking a shot in the dark here, but I'll attempt an answer. The reason no one else linked to it is because you're the only one who considers it obligatory. Slashdot regulars will know that this type of thread happens on a near daily basis and with all due respect to xkcd there is simply no need to make another tired attempt at karma whoring.

  8. Re:Overreaction on Fixing Security Issue Isn't Always the Right Answer · · Score: 1

    You've solved the issue. Why didn't anyone else think of this?

  9. Re:As an advanced user, this does not bother me! on Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not about "you". This is about the consumer which gets scammed into a worse than neutral purchase and someone else gets to clean it up. That someone is frequently an IT type person doing work for their employers, families, and friends. So continue to business with an organization known for it's perpetual fraud and know that you're only creating a more problems for youself and your peers, as it's your choice, but after considering to choice to do so maybe you'll understand it's not harmless, nor a net gain for yourself.

  10. Re:Stop with the drugs already on How Norway Fought Staph Infections · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MRSA would have exsited with or without antibiotics.

    Do you even know what MRSA means?

  11. Re:Nautilus following KDE's Dolphin? on Gnome Switches Nautilus Back To Browser Mode · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's what the columns view does. Dolphin is the best file manager I've ever used, now that it's stable, used to crash frequently.

  12. Re:it's stoopid because on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 0, Troll

    You excrete shit as well. I suppose that sewage pond known as your mom's basement isn't polluted either.

  13. Re:Poor reasoning in the review on VMware Workstation vs. VirtualBox vs. Parallels · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you actually bother to boot up and try VirtualBox you will find it very buggy compared to VMware, to the point of being not very usable. I spent several days trying to get VirtualBox to work for me but there were just too many problems.

    No you will not. Recent Virtualbox is very stable, I haven't seen a crash on Vbox version > 3.0.1 I use it in complex networking high peak load setups without issue. Only time I can bring it down is running high load in a nested hypervisor environment.

  14. Re:Does XEN have a future? on The Book of Xen · · Score: 1

    Either way it's still wrong. Dom0 isn't limited to linux, opensolaris and netbsd are also capable of running that hypervisor. Amazon has also been prodding the FreeBSD Foundation to finish their work in Dom0 as well.

  15. Re:to be honest, i dont really like drbd on DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33 · · Score: 1

    That's my experience in testing active/active.

    You may be interesting in this though.

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-October/001279.html

  16. Re:know your history of green solutions on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    That quote says oxygenates, not MTBE. Not sure what the purpose of it's inclusion is. Care to provide any real evidence of your claim:

    I clearly remember MTBEs sold to Californian voters as the solution to clean air emissions.

    Something of such a public nature seems likely to have plenty of sources. Since you can't provide any, bullshit still remains.

  17. Re:Skepticism is required on The Science Credibility Bubble · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, that's complete revisionist history.

    http://www.ewg.org/reports/withknowledge/

  18. Re:$5/machine? Depends on the machine... on SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation · · Score: 1

    You sound like you've been forced to run SETI. Name the perpetrator!

  19. Re:LED lighting vs. CFL question on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: 2, Informative
  20. Re:Deniers? on Where the Global Warming Data Is · · Score: 1

    You can certainly disagree with facts however willfully ignoring, dismissing, and spreading fud about them is clearly the domain of wingnuts.

  21. Re:if only... on FreeBSD 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work with l4d2 dedicated server (segfaults), it doesn't work with rosetta (signal 4). Reproducible failure > "works for me."

    Too bad. File a bug report.

    Bullshit. [freebsd.org] UFS snapshots have been broken for a long time; read the thread. Core developers acknowledge it. Dump -L relies on UFS snapshots, and is therefore broken.

    No dump is not broken, sorry you have crappy hardware. No "core developer" agreed with you.

    Still broken.

    Works good here. Works good according to mailing list feedback. I'm so sorry it doesn't work for you. Maybe file a bug report.

    It works on Gentoo AMD64. Why can't FreeBSD support it?

    Gentoo AMD64 has 64 bit wine? Really? Maybe you should switch to Gentoo then.

    That's right, you are guessing. You clearly haven't tried any of the things I described. So far, you're 0/6.

    I see you have Internet Tough Guy Syndrome, but I assure you I've done these things.

    Feel free to actually reference a bug report. You're full of it.

    Well works for me is actually pretty informative. You say it doesn't, I say it does which mean one of us is wrong. I'm betting it's not me since the public archive agrees with me.

  22. Re:If only java was supported on FreeBSD 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Billy you'll be happy to learn USB received some long needed love in 8.0. A new well performing library has been integrated into base, chances are your cheap keyboard will now work under FreeBSD again.

    native and ported jdk's and jre's have been available and usable in FreeBSD for quite some time. FreeBSD has a special licensing agreement with Sun which the reason you need to bootstrap a native build. However the linux-sun and diablo ports install quite fast and usable for most anything.

  23. Re:Why would a desktop user would run it? on FreeBSD 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If you want to use it on a laptop ... better look elsewhere. It will run, though.

    Runs great on my Inspiron M600.

  24. Re:if only... on FreeBSD 8.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Linux emulation is broken and has been broken for ages.

    Works for me.

    Live UFS dump is broken.

    Works for me.

    USB mass storage support is broken.

    Wine is not supported;

    And this is FreeBSD's fault why?
    http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64

    ZFS in double parity mode is broken

    Haven't move to zfs yet, but given your pattern I'm guessing you're wrong again.

    MTRR for older ATI cards is broken

    If you're referring to bug I think you are, it was fixed awhile ago and was non-serious in first place. As with the rest of you're statements it's hard to know what you're talking about without referencing a bug report.

  25. Re:Funny how similar the free Unices are on FreeBSD 8.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    The maintainer of the freebsd port of pf is the same person as the openbsd author. FreeBSD current usually lags a few weeks in patchset from openbsd in regards to pf, and in either release you're generally running the same version.