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  1. Re:Expired? on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    And profits are the only motivation for doing anything, right?

  2. Re:The cosmology controversy on The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble · · Score: 0, Troll

    And there are a lot of things that Newtonian physics can't explain. Doesn't mean it's not a useful approximation. NOTHING in science is settled. The idea is to come up with successively better approximations. Our current cosmology was able to do the closest agreement between theory and experiment ever. The next one will get even closer.

  3. Re:Did Microsoft just wake up? on Microsoft Sees No Conflicts With Patent Initiatives · · Score: 1

    And that's why the USA uses metric!

  4. Re:No defense of selfishness on The Drive For Altruism Is Hardwired · · Score: 1

    1929-1938.

  5. Re:This could be a dangerous bluff on Microsoft, Sue Me First · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To accept OJ is guilty you need to believe that a knife can injure a hand but not the glove surrounding it. That's a pretty reasonable thing to doubt.

  6. Re:It's called "Gamer Influenced Design" on Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game · · Score: 1

    I disagree. If you have more then 3 factors involved, visualization is impossible. When you come up with n-dimensional displays, then we'll talk.

  7. Re:Optimus. Because people quit caring about Amiga on Optimus Keyboard Pre-Orders In Mere Hours · · Score: 1

    Like the POWER 5?

  8. Re:Not free speech, free enterprise! on XM Satellite Radio Backlash · · Score: 1

    It appears that public opinion is on the side of Opie and Anthony. Besides, if I say i'm giving you an uncensored platform, I should give you an uncensored platform. It's called honesty, and it applies to everyone.

  9. Re:RTFA, dumbass on Sunken Treasure Worth $500 Million Found Off England · · Score: 1

    RTFWA. The US has not signed the Law of the Sea treaty. So the EEZ is not recognized in American law.

  10. Re:Wild west economics.. on Spyware Maker Sues Anti-Spyware Maker · · Score: 1

    Not happening. You can take control over what I can and cannot do on my machine over my dead body. It's not worth ending spam to end free speech and free software as well.

  11. Great, on Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But could they only apply to GPL v2 software? Does anyone know the wording of one of these cupons?

  12. Re:Hard to prove on Netflix Sued Over Fradulently Obtained Patents · · Score: 1

    You should *at least* research common, similar, technology. It's not about being perfect, it's about being reasonably honest. To make things short: When our reason tells us something is unreasonable to expect, it is.

  13. Re:Software was not; but math properties were on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Math is not, and never was, subject to patent law.

  14. Re:I'm amazed no one's said it yet on US Senators Question Indian Firms Over H-1Bs · · Score: 1

    How about a little more moolah and some sanity in hiring practices(ex. experience requirements)? I'm sure you will find a lot of qualified applicants once you do that.

  15. Re:References on MIT Hacks XKCD Talk With AACS key · · Score: 1

    One of the dorms at MIT has a room full of bouncy balls!. That might also be related.

  16. Re:Sad or Telling? on Linus Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Does this include FTP.EXE? Remember kiddies, Microsoft stole 4.4 BSD to make NT and screwed it up completely.

  17. Re:Devil's Advocate on Why Microsoft Won't List Claimed Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    Wow. Like Squeak, Scheme, Emacs, Vi, 4ti2, GLPK, GMP, LaTeX, FTP (including Microsoft's FTP.EXE) don't contain anything innovative? Or how about FFTW? Metasploit? Automake and friends? Name one innovation in programing language theory that Microsoft ever made. Or what about MPL, Pthreads, and Fortran? BLAS and BLAST? LINPACK? LAPACK? Do these contain no innovation? As for Singularity,1960 is calling and wants its Lisp Machine back.

  18. Re:Isn't that the definition of.... on US Military Launches YouTube Channel · · Score: 1

    Brezhnev doctrine: One man, one vote, once. Then we start building socialism, and can't afford dissent.

  19. Re:Editorial decisions on US Military Launches YouTube Channel · · Score: 1

    How is this a troll, speaking of editorial decisions? He's not trying to insult anyone, or get them to flame. The socratic method is not a crime.

  20. Re:The truth on US Military Launches YouTube Channel · · Score: 0, Troll

    BS. The news media concealed atrocities in Vietnam, such as the destruction of Huan, and the widespread use of defoliants that killed thousands of children. The bombardment of Laos, and the creation of the world's biggest minefield were all ignored. They ignored the death squads in El Salvidor, and are currently ignoring the genocide in Sudan. The NY Times had the balls to publish a picture of US Soldiers attacking a hospital in violation of the Geneva Convention without mentioning that they had been committing a war crime. The American news media is a propaganda arm of the US government.(Source: Noam Chomsky). No mention of the fact that we assisted Saddam with the crimes we executed him for has been made, or that the only chemical weapons he ever had were the ones that we gave him.

  21. Re:The volume of SPAM precludes this approach. on France Launches Anti-Spam Platform · · Score: 1

    Won't work. We don't have a micropayment scheme, and it will affect mailing lists.

  22. Re:interesting, but on 3-D Model of Breast Cancer in the Lab · · Score: 3, Informative

    Cells behave differently depending on configuration, and interactions between different cell types are hard to make realistically in a petri dish.

  23. Re:Well, which is it? lb of kg? W or kW? on NASA Gears Up for the Regolith Rumble · · Score: 1

    No, it's the force exerted by 453.59237 grams on the surface of the earth. After all, PSI is a pressure unit.

  24. Re:Ain't surprised. on Posting Porn Link Judged Unlawful in Hong Kong · · Score: 2, Informative

    They are not communist or socialist anymore. They are keeping the name, but betraying the principles. "From each according to ability, to each according to DEED" lasted for about 1 day after the revolution in China.

  25. Re:Intel making a play.... on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1

    Windows has the problem that it makes children learn the route muscle actions required to do things. They rarely understand what they are actually doing. Windows also does not make a nice LaTeX environment, and programing on Windows is a pain. The command line on windows is crippled and you need to install Cygwin to avoid it, but by then you should have just gone with Linux.