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  1. Re:What the heck? on Does Android Have a Linux Copyright Problem? · · Score: 2

    The majority of the linux kernel headers ARE copyrighted. Look for yourself. Perhaps you are trying to make a claim that "headers are not copyrightable", but that would be crazy. Perhaps google is doing this with the idea that "although the headers are copyrightable and people are claiming copyright on them, after you strip all the comments from the files, what you are left with is no longer copyrightable". I'm sure you could find people on both sides of that argument.

  2. Re:That's nothing... on Computer Defeats Human At Japanese Chess · · Score: 4, Funny

    its totally winnable. you just have to get three in a row! (do you not even know the rules!?) :)

  3. Re:Oh no! on OpenOffice.org Declares Independence From Oracle, Becomes LibreOffice · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I see names of this kind I know that the project is now dead.

    You mean like how it [didn't] die when transitioning from "StarOffice" to "OpenOffice.org"?

  4. Re:19 yr old with $40,000+ car? on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    In the thread he says his parents paid $40k (canadian I'd guess) and pay for the insurance, and he paid the rest.

  5. Re:Moot because of tethering? on Servers Ahoy — Startup To Build Floating Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a piece of land near the sea and simply pump the ocean water around for cooling?

    Not when the sea you want to be near is the San Francisco Bay, where real estate prices are insane.

  6. Re:technically on Prankster Jailbreaks Apple Store Display iPhone · · Score: 1

    Are you sure this guy agreed to and is bound by a licensing agreement? Do you have to enter into an agreement with apple to use one of their display models?

  7. just what I've been missing on Possible Room Temperature Superconductor Achieved · · Score: 1

    I'm going to use some of this superconductor in my perpetual motion machine that feeds the cold fusion reactor I'm planning.

  8. Re:And this is news? on Java IO Faster Than NIO · · Score: 1

    Except, in this case, the newer version is also not any easier to use, and the old version isn't going to be dropped.

  9. You dun goofed on Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots · · Score: 1

    Because they backtraced it. And they called the cyber police.

  10. Re:We all know the ideal language has two function on Google Engineer Decries Complexity of Java, C++ · · Score: 5, Funny

    You obviously aren't paid by the hour to write java code, or else you'd have come up with something like:

    ThreadFactory.getInstance().setExecutionTarget(new Runnable(){ public void run (doWhatIWant() }).addExecutionObserver(ExcecutionItemObserverFactory.getInstance()).start()

    Which is much more "enterprise ready" than yours.

  11. Re:lol on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    Beer still takes a lot of work and equipment... Weed is virtually the only drug that requires no infrastructure

    You can make beer by putting sugary water and yeast into a bucket. You'll certainly end up with a substandard product. The same goes for growing weed. You can put a seed in soil and it will probably grow. If you want better and or quicker results, you can invest a lot of effort and equipment.

  12. Re:Other impacts on Industrial Marijuana Farming Approved In Oakland · · Score: 1

    They already have a school dedicated to such studies.

  13. Re:What the!? on Death Grip Tested On iPhone Competitors · · Score: 1

    They're seriously comparing phones that lose signal with a standard grip to phones where hold the phone with both hands deliberately trying to cover the antenna and pretend the result is somehow meaningful?

    Did you watch the video? They were also testing jelly doughnuts and papper bunnies. So I think that the seriousness might be up for debate.

  14. Re:Variety is the spice of life on A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released · · Score: 1

    And if we were still using the old version number format, and devfs had been removed in 2.7.13 or 2.8.0 rather than 2.6.13, you still would not be able to upgrade to that version or later until you'd removed your requirement for devfs.

    Yes, but if the new features were going into 2.7.x instead of 2.6.x, you'd not need to worry as much about upgrading to 2.6.latest in order to get the latest bugfixes, as Hatta was asking about above.

  15. Re:Variety is the spice of life on A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    This might have been a more reasonable thing to do when we had the "even numbered" series (2.0, 2.2, 2.4) for stable kernels and "odd numbered" (2.1, 2.3, 2.5) kernels for new features. But now 2.6 is where both stable kernels and new development is released from, So things you might have been relying on could drastically change from one stable release to the next. For example, the entire devfs subsystem was removed completely in kernel 2.6.13. If you had something that depended on the existence of devfs, you could not upgrade to 2.6.13 or later until you got rid of your dependance on devfs.

  16. Re:Monsanto effect on Doubled Yield For Bio-Fuel From Waste · · Score: 2, Informative

    An overwhelming majority of the beer and wine and spirits we drink are made from specialized yeasts. Its not terribly difficult to keep a specialized yeast strain from being contaminated by other yeasts. Ask any homebrewer (like me).

  17. Re:Why pay? on Tearing Apart a Hard-Sell Anti-Virus Ad · · Score: 1

    . All the free antivirus software specifically says it's for non-commercial use only

    clamwin is GPL which, of course, can be used in a commercial setting.

  18. Re:this is the part that blew my mind: on Is Diaspora the Future of Free Software Funding? · · Score: 1

    they haven't started programming it!

    From their Project page:

    We already have a rudimentary prototype of Diaspora running on our machines.

  19. Re:Now, the true app experiment begins. on Android Sales Surpass iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    It seems there are different expectations on the two platforms. It seems like people with an iPhone EXPECT to pay for even pedestrian apps. Whereas android users expect apps to be there for free.

    When I look at lists of "Our top picks for *must have* iPhone apps". It is a list of mostly for-pay apps, and apps with the same functionality are available for free in the android market.

  20. Re:trying to figure something out on (Stupid) Useful Emacs Tricks? · · Score: 1

    > Is there a way to dual boot between Vista and emacs?

    There is no reason to dual boot, you can boot emacs as a guest OS in most other OSs

  21. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 1

    also the README in the source code in quesiton says, "Development is coordinated on the openssl-dev mailing list (see http://www.openssl.org/ for information on subscribing)."

  22. Re:It will be fixed on Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think the point was that if the Debian maintainer had submitted his patch upstream, he'd have been told exactly how stupid it was.


    Actually, here is where the Debian maintainer brought this up with upstream, and he was not told how stupid it was, in fact the Debian maintainer says, "the pool might receive less entropy." and upstream says, "If it helps with debugging, I'm in favor of removing them."
  23. what about human powered? on The Super Superhighway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    UGH,

    If its going to be a quater mile wide, couldn't they devote 8-10 feet of it for pedestrians and bicycles? Wouldn't even have to be 8-10 feet of paved road, just 8-10 feet of dirt. What's worse is that they even call this a "Multi-use" roadway. Well hopefully this will keep more cars off the secondary roads to leave more room for bicycles.

  24. Re:is it really a weed on Round-Up Ready Coca Plants · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Its always amusing when people classify plants they dont like as weeds... Just because you dont like plants of specific types doesnt mean its a weed.

    from: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=weed

    1. a. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.


    Seems like a reasonable classification to me.
  25. Re:Hmmmm. on IBM Tech Detects & Changes Spin of Single Electron · · Score: 1

    the Heissenberg Uncertanty Principal states that for certain pairs of properties, you cannot measure one without changing the other. Position and Momentum is the most famous pair. The principal also states that you cannot know the spin of a particle in two different axes at the same time. Measuring spin on one axis changes the spin on any other axis.