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  1. Re:Here's your debate on Linus Responds To RdRand Petition With Scorn · · Score: 1
  2. No. Only those that require a "checkout; modify; check in" work pattern. Git, SVN and others follow a "modify, merge, commit" pattern which requires no locking. Though SVN can be configured to "require" (more like "request") locking on binary files which would help.

  3. Re:there's always looking right at the camera on Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then you're not looking the other person in the eyes. Hence no "eye-contact."

  4. Re:Where will this end? on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1

    Yes, the good old "shut your site down to gain publicity and traffic to your now shut-down site" trick.

  5. Re:Details on Google Apps Status Dashboard on Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% · · Score: 1

    You know Google provides advertisement services right? It's not just a search engine anymore.

  6. Re:NSA has cribs? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    I'd be willing to bet that those who are interested in these files have been notified.

  7. Re:see the Xerox user manual on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's "Normal" quality? That could be *very* misleading. If you have an option that has negative side-effects such as this then the option should be titled something to indicate the risk - "Super-compressed", "dangerously small" or the like.

    Though I'm surprised Xerox would even allow such a compression if such an obvious issue occurs. People would expect image quality to suffer - but full character substitution?

  8. Re:Really? on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 2

    A $12,000 scanner/printer is "consumer level?"

  9. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? on Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You also swear an oath to defend the constitution from all enemies. If you feel that your oath to protect papers violates your oath to defend the constitution which do you go with?

  10. Re:Gawd on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    Why are you all feeding the troll? Let the moderation work and ignore the asshole.

  11. Re:Let's look in the mirror on MS Handed NSA Access To Encrypted Chat & Email · · Score: 1

    He's had a lot to do with expanding it. I mean after he closed gitmo, er, stopped the war in, er, made for a more transparent government, er, hrm. HOW was he better than the other option again?

  12. Re:Ah... on The Dangers of Beating Your Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    To me it's still the best RTS ever created.

  13. I'm not sure I follow. By your logic does the US mint "just make rectangular pieces of paper?" And if people *happen* to use them as currency then that's up to them?

    Bitcoin's own website calls it "an open source P2P digital currency."

  14. Re:GIT sucks on windows on Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? · · Score: 1

    I thought so as well until I really started using git. Now I *never* accidentally commit my changes to log4j.xml where I turned up debugging while I worked out an issue. It forces me to think about what I'm committing. You may be wonderful and do that automatically (in which case you can create an alias which does it for you) but for us mortals it's quite useful.

  15. Re:Someone start a defense fund on USA Calling For the Extradition of Snowden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He did go up the chain of the command. If we are indeed still a democracy then the people are the highest authority and ought to have a right to know what its government is doing.

  16. Re:$860 Million on NSA Building $860 Million Data Center In Maryland · · Score: 1

    Seriously - they're going to need *somewhere* to store all our info.

  17. *sigh* on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As a Java developer let me just say - God I hate Oracle... Can't we just turn Java over to the Apache project now? They would be far better stewards of the technology. Christ *anybody* would probably be a better steward of it than Oracle.

  18. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    Fine - change your video driver then without editing xorg.conf. Like, say, to change from a generic VESA driver to the nvidia driver.

  19. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    I'll say it again for the remedial English crowd. That Linux *does* force you edit config files more often than Windows forces you to make manual registry changes.

  20. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand *completely*.

    The person I replied to said "You are not forced to edit config files any more often than windows forces you to make manual registry changes" which is demonstrably wrong as my example shows.

    What I prefer has NOTHING to do with it.

  21. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    A "permanent" mount point?

  22. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 3

    Careful with those arguments! They're antiques!

  23. Re:Why aren't there more contributors to this proj on ReactOS 0.3.15 Released · · Score: 1

    How do I setup an NFS mount point under Linux without editing /etc/fstab by hand?

  24. Re:one time my apartment complex gave me $50 on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 3, Funny

    My KINGDOM for some mod-points!

  25. Re:Learning to do more in 8 than most do in 16? on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you realize that the long-term maintainability of the re-write is worth it though. Especially if the original is confusing or buggy.