Comment Re:true (Score 2, Funny) 457
Communism has always resulted in expansion of freedom and in no cases resembled a police state.
Comment Re:Common sense? In MY judiciary? (Score 5, Insightful) 457
I don't see how this is different from warning people not to break other laws.
If I say to someone who is under investigation by law enforcement for trafficking narcotics "Hey, you shouldn't do that, you might get in trouble", am I committing a crime?
If my wife is driving and we are, unbeknownst to me, approaching a speed trap and I warn her to slow down, am I committing a crime?
If they pull me over for this, what do they charge me with?
Getting Young Women Interested In Open Source 545
New submitter Jason Baker writes "It seems like a perennial question: 'How do we get more women involved in tech?' The open source community, like any other part of the technology industry, is grappling with finding solutions that are more than just talking the talk of diversity, but actually make some demonstrable difference in the numbers. While there have been numerous success stories, the gender gap is still rampant. The answer, at least to one freelance entrepreneur, is providing strong role models of women using open source to have fun and make money. But is that enough to make a difference?"
Comment Re:We elect the greediest, most ill-informed... (Score 1, Funny) 156
if MyPartyIsInPower()
{
ExpandGovernment();
}
else
{
ComplainAboutProposal();
Vote(random());
}
Comment Re:Translation (Score -1, Troll) 156
So... you're thinking the introduction of government into this system will make the system cheaper and higher quality?
Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Insightful) 156
The reason Comcast is the only broadband provider is because alllllll the telecomm companies have mutually agreed to divvy up everything so that they can all keep rates as high as possible without competition to drive costs down.
fixies~
Comment Re:Good (Score 4, Interesting) 156
This is why I do not believe google fiber is the answer. They are not going into dense cities who are underserved. They are going into over served areas and trying to take the low hanging fruit.
Well, they're going into areas that are already served and putting the garbage existing providers (Comcast, Time Warner, etc) to shame.
They have to prove that this is workable and profitable before it can go everywhere.
Comment Re:We elect the greediest, most ill-informed... (Score 5, Insightful) 156
No one votes on issues anymore. Everyone has been conditioned to vote based on identity politics.
const "I am a (voting_block_01), therefore, I vote for (party_01)."
Comment Good (Score 4, Insightful) 156
Comcast_blackhat_01: "They've got a better product, we'd better lobby to have them kept out for no reason. We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph!"
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 125
What I think would be more tempting would be an all-in-one. I'm sure that Asus could build essentially just a monitor with ChromeOS on it, and a bluetooth keyboard and mouse that works natively. It would be slicker than this, and no wires.
Comment Re:Really? (Score 3, Funny) 125
This will definitely make 2014 the Year of ChromeOS on the desktop!
Comment Re:Went over my head. (Score 1) 593
It's a fact that I'm experiencing this emotion.
Comment Re:I am reminded of pigs and engineers here (Score 3, Informative) 593
Ken Ham is well spoken and should provide a reasonable point-counterpoint.
I don't think that the idea that we should not wrestle with pigs is the attitude of a responsible scientist. Eventually, all conventional wisdom needs to be challenged. At one time, you'd have been laughed out of a room of distinguished scientists for rejecting geocentricity. An idea has nothing to fear from examination if it is sound.
Comment Re:Picasso (Score 1) 360
The fact that it's intellectual/code/electronic/non-physical/content seems to mean it should be free.
Comment Re:IIS better in almost every way. (Score 2) 303
Why has Apache started to lose ground?
