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  1. Re:If they can keep it clean, fine on Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks · · Score: 1

    But if you're not exposed to the advertising, you're not going to spend so much money, and you'll have more left to support the site through donations.

    Have you seen that business model work for anyone who wants more than $3000 a month in revenue?

  2. Re:Sounds like an abuse cool technology on Google's New Patent on Commercial Breaks · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... but the community...

    There's the problem. You assumed that there's a single dominant opinion.

  3. Re:And this is why Linux is still laughed at... on The REAL Reason We Use Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm sure/I hope if I'm missing something it will be pointed out...

    I usually use sudo aptitude search subversion , which helpfully lists any packages with subversion in the name. I'm sure there's a way to do that from the graphical package manager, but I don't use it.

  4. Re:Finding things in IPv6 Cyberspace... on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's a dirty lie.

  5. Re:Descartes on Why Don't We Invent That Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    I believe that his basic premis can be extended: "If it can be thought, it can be done."

    I've always understood his basic premise to be "I must doubt everything -- everything can be an illusion -- except the fact of my doubt, which gives me confidence that I do exist."

  6. Re:Oh, come on. GMail? on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 1

    So that's a no then? The difference between an airplane, a building, and the software is that the design of the software is the finished product.

  7. Re:Moot controversy? on Congress Turns Up The Heat on FCC's Chairman · · Score: 1

    Once people realize they're being fed misinformation, demand will surge for a local paper with news closer to the truth, and individuals will see that demand and want to cash in on it. They will create new newspapers to fill that demand. The only thing that could stop that from happening is the barrel of a gun backed by a law.

    ... or apathy, which explains why it hasn't happened much at all.

  8. Re:I'm sorry, but it just sounds like giving in. on Linux Foundation - We'd Love to Work with Microsoft · · Score: 1

    .NET and the idea of multiple languages being able to use the same libraries is very cool.

    Microsoft hardly invented the idea.

  9. Re:Oh, come on. GMail? on Vaporware - the Tech That Never Was · · Score: 1

    I then asked him how many iterations it would take to design a building or an airplane, before he got it right? How would you test that?

    Do you know the difference between a building, an airplane, and a piece of software?

  10. Re:Unacceptable. on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 1

    What's that got to do with anything?

    Equal access regardless of platform has been a feature of the Internet for a while. If you break that feature, you have to do it deliberately.

  11. Re:Unacceptable. on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 1

    Your point about the licence fee and different ways of accessing content is correct, we should be treated equally, regardless of OS / Browser / Device. Having said that I'm happy to cut the BBC a little slack in this.

    Good point. Non-Windows machines have only been accessing the Internet for some 40 years now.

  12. Re:iLawsuit on BBC Offers iPhone Version of iPlayer, Accessible to Linux Users Too · · Score: 1

    For people who don't see that, well, it means they want more out of the iPhone, first, I think.

    I expect something called a computer to be a general purpose computing device, not an appliance.

  13. Re:Only in America II on Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery · · Score: 1

    If you believe putting "Vista Capable" on something that does indeed run Vista, but doesn't run the whole whoosh-whoosh warrants a class action lawsuit for "fraud"...

    That's the legal question the lawsuit asks. I realize when you're King of The Cosmos you can impose tort reform and magically dismiss this case, but I certainly didn't vote for you.

  14. Re:Only in America on Microsoft Tries To Prevent Further Discovery · · Score: 1

    But of course, a bunch of whiny tech know-nothings being deprived of said UI is a crime against humanity according to the Slashdot Hivemind (TM).

    I don't particularly care about Windows, but fraud is certainly illegal.

  15. Re:Mod this guy up on White House Email Follies · · Score: 1

    Begin?

  16. Re:Which platform? on When Should We Ditch Our Platform? · · Score: 1

    If it's perl, he should shift to php as soon as possible, because perl code becomes very hard to maintain the longer it goes...

    Citations, please.

    Feel free to throw out any studies or (especially) anecdotes where the Perl programmers did not write effective test cases, did not refactor regularly, and did not take advantage of the breadth and depth of prior work found on the CPAN (including Perl::Critic, Perl::Tidy, and Test::Class).

    Those are the techniques I expect from any professional development team, regardless of language. I've seen Perl teams use those techniques effectively -- so I doubt that any problem you've had is the result of the language.

  17. Re:summary wrong on Record Box Office Indicates MPAA 'Piracy Problem' Hot Air · · Score: 1

    Your math is too simple. Theaters keep some of that money for themselves.

  18. Re:And this licensing bit is necessary why? on Linus Denounces NDISWrapper, Denies It GPL Status · · Score: 1

    Things like this make me not want to have anything to do with GPL software.

    What does this have to do with the GPL?

    Is it really a ZOMG Linux users might be able to use a Windows driver situation?

    No, it's a "You can't debug a kernel containing obfuscated binary blobs" situation.

    FreeBSD has had project evil for quite a while now, and I don't recall having seen any evidence that the OS is worse for having that option.

    The Linux kernel still supports more devices.

  19. Re:Ruby Saved Us From Perl on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Try reusing Perl code, outside of stuff written to be part of a Perl Module (.pm).

    It's often easier to reuse code designed to be reused. You're dangerously close to tautology here.

    DSL's let you mold Ruby into something else that you'd like Ruby to be.

    ... sort of like APIs in other languages, except that most other APIs don't require you to learn the ins and outs of Ruby's particular parser corner cases if you want to debug things.

  20. Re:Ruby Saved Us From Perl on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Ruby has been a godsend. Clean, clear, powerful and maintainable.

    ... and full of magic unicorn fairy dust powers which suddenly turn teams unable to write decent code into gods among men.

  21. Re:Here be Dragons on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    You could argue that these aren't "normal Ruby" because they're specific to certain libraries/gems, but ... they really are just Ruby.

    Then they're not really DSLs, are they?

  22. Re:Why can't this book be free? on The Ruby Programming Language · · Score: 1

    Why do computer software worth less than paper-printed books?

    It's somewhat easier--and consequently cheaper--to make a bit-perfect duplicate of a piece of software than a physical book.

  23. Re:So, the basic argument against SW patents is... on End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you can POSSIBLY prove that to be the case in any objective way...

    History rarely supports repeating experiments.

  24. Re:While part of me dislikes restraining speech on Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution · · Score: 1

    You're taking yourself far too seriously.

    Perhaps you're not taking sexual assault seriously enough. Do you honestly think anyone deserves it?

    Don't presume...

    Don't presume that I've never run a mail server, that I don't believe convicted spammers deserve the full consequences of the law, and that I don't have loved ones who have survived sexual assault.

  25. Re:While part of me dislikes restraining speech on Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I could use much worse language and still get nowhere near the grief and frustration spammers cause me.

    How does that make it okay to equate rape with justice?