And our civilization will be remembered as bullshit lovers, to say the least.

Hundreds of billions ? Hardly. Humanity is too busy making commercials. There's more public enthusiasm in the most worthless bit of mainstream matter than in science and technology, and space exploration.

No degree needed to know that the people taking part in the simulation will likely be very different from the ship crew, who won't be faking love and hate stories like their favorite TV reality show.

Answer is no.

And the psychological and medical aspects of 520-days period are bullshit, Slashdot readers have sat on a chair longer than that and they're fine.

Quit the safety mumbo-jumbo, send them first, ask questions later.

All I know is that if you take a look at the "alsa-utils" Ubuntu init script, it shouldn't be PulseAudio that horrifies you anymore.

here: http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-anti-fud-calm-certainty-and-confidence/

ShooterNeo's message and yours made me realize how pathetic are economic textbooks and the students who perpetuate the doctrines coming out of them.

Cooperation, curiosity, inventivity, creativity have been and are still the major forces that drive progress. Not competition, especially not in the high tech. No good researcher or engineer is driven by the desire to be better than others, it's a manager thing.
And your stupid doctrines become cumbersome when they promote greed to the highest ranks of corporations.

Or almost, Netgear provides instructions for compiling our own apps : http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/13860/WNR3500L-Open-Source-Guide-Resources/
That's more open, but not much to do with open-source.

Also from the same page: "WNR3500L is running Linux 2.4.20."

Anyway, that brings Netgear closer to Nokia claims e.g.
But what a nice selection of open-source friendly parts, dear!

Just.. what are you talking about ?

A binary module isn't a first step, it's what open-source trashes away.

You're talking about Linux support, right ? Netgear boxes are all running Linux (you're probably confusing with the desktop situation, where some devices have no non-Windows OS support at all).

Harald's post ends on a courteous note because he suspects the false advertising comes from their PR. Other than that, Netgear "open-source router" is no different from any of their routers, even less friendly towards open-source than some of their previous models.

Because they're the most popular routers, period.
They're not the best modder routers, but a large part of modded routers. Learn the difference.

Then is there any reason why Broadcom and other companies are playing Gollum with documentation ?

Also why Netgear goes for Broadcom instead of Atheros ? Cheaper ?
I remember that Texas Ins used to make AR7 boards with Atheros Wifi G, perfect for home use, fully supported by OpenWRT, AND cheaper than everything else..

No, he's wrong or I fail to see his point.

By allowing developers to just forget about IE, Chrome Frame pushes for adoption of standards.

In fact after reading TFA I find all their arguments very weak..

E.g:

"It would be better for the Web if developers who want to use the Chrome Frame snippet simply told users that their site worked better in Chrome, and instructed them on how to install it,"

Yeah right, that's why IE is still pissing everyone off..
Chrome Frame on IE and native on standard-complying browsers, where's the problem ?

Hmm, wrong:

Peter Kasting says
From the article: "It will also eventually be integrated into Google's Chrome Web browser."

I am a Chromium developer, and as far as I know, this is untrue; I believe the hope is to make this a Chrome extension, not something that's part of the base product.

(from the Ars Technica comments)

This really has nothing to do with artist protection or a supposedly french tradition, which might be an outdated or preconceived view of yours.

This has more to do with a president and a majority totally devoted to the richest and the MEDEF heads.

Our friendly conservative would rather like to believe in the contrary, but Hadopi's motives are not of any rational or well-intentioned kinds.

Haha, tell that to the 99% business who have little regards for anything beyond their navel and are perfectly successful.
The rise of MBA-types just reflects that the system tends to promote unlimited greed instead.

I wouldn't be so sure that Google is entirely driven by self-interest.
Sure they have obligation to make profit from their activities, but their ecclectic behavior might simply arise from the fact that Google might have truly different views from those of most business on what should be the purposes of human activity.