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Comment Re:Modern South Korea (Score 4, Insightful) 299

That's the thing about the corporate system that many people fail to realize. It's very easy to get a corporation to change what they're doing if there's a coordinated effort by consumers to choose not to buy from a certain manufacturer until practices are changed.

That's the thing about the corporate system that corporate apologists people fail to realize. It's almost impossible to get a coordinated effort by consumers because the corporations have so more damn money than individuals, and can drown out any opposition to their pracices.

Comment You need to read more before commenting (Score 3, Interesting) 452

It's a great server OS, sure, but lets look at this realistically:

- the Windows / .NET trading system was based on Windows 2003 and SQL 2000, and was deployed in 2005.
- the Linux-based system is under development now, to be deployed next year.

You missed

- the Windows / .NET trading hardware has been upgraded continuously because it was unable to cope with the load.

Just based on that, you'd expect substantial performance differences from just using newer hardware.

Sure, except for the part that the both are running on new hardware.

Chances are that the original kit was certified as a part of the solution, and hasn't been replaced since.

"Chances are" - except that is 100% wrong. They had problems since day 1, which were blamed on the hardware, so they've been constantly upgrading it trying to fix the problem.

Even ignoring the hardware and the OS, one would expect 90% of the performance to be determined by the application, not the OS. Decisions like writing the software in .NET versus C or Java, or using a special-purpose Java runtime would make a huge difference, irrespective of the OS.

The old system was written with the help of MS. They were the ones that said that .NET was the best way to implement it, and they even touted this in their press releases.

On top of this, the software stack is completely different, and developed by a different team. Just about every design decision, small and large, will be different.

Of course it's completely different - that's the entire fscking point.

Comment Re:You Know What They Say? (Score 4, Interesting) 594

They are trained to take control of situations and something silly like not respecting their authority and blowing bubbles can sometimes escalate quickly into something worse.

So, a cop sees you doing something he doesn't like (say maybe dancing, or listening to music) and decides you're not "respecting his authority" - it gives him the right to come over to you and harrass you?

fuck that.

This cop had a choice - he could have just ignored it. The female cop that was talking to the protester has no problem, why did Officer Bubbles have to stick his nose in it?

Comment Re:Breaking News: (Score 1) 287

Eat well, exercise and get regular chiropractic adjustments [...] You'll never get heart disease or cancer.

And how much of that will be due to the last, rather than the first two items?

Jesus, you sound like the adverts for sugar-laden cardboard which claim their product is "part of this healthy breakfast"..

Comment Re:Incidentally (Score 4, Insightful) 795

Why is math education important in public schools?

The vast majority of students will not be mathematicians or accountants, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.

--OR--

Why is english education important in public schools?

The vast majority of students will not be writers, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.

--OR--

Why is history education important in public schools?

The vast majority of students will not be historians, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.

--OR--

Why is physical education important in public schools?

The vast majority of students will not be althletes, and will not have any opportunity to reinforce the information they learn, and hence will forget it all by the time they are 20.

You can apply this argument to pretty much every school subject - so your question is really "why do we send children to school"?

Comment Umm, no. (Score 4, Insightful) 161

My Wi-Fi has no password, and that's a purposeful choice.

Which doesn't mean it's not unsecured. It just means that it's unsecured on purpose.

Supposed you have a bicycle. You chain it to a lamppost. It is now secured.
Supposed you take the same bicycle and decide purposely to not chain it to anything. Just because you decided not to chain it doesn't make it magically secured. It's still unsecured, you just made the decision not to secure it.

Comment Re:Oh dear oh dear oh dear (Score 3, Insightful) 270

And you are clearly completely unaware of the contracting world.

I have yet to meet a contractor that knows much of anything about screwdrivers or any other tool than a hammer. On the other hand the majority of them have complained about how hard it is to drive screws with the hammer.

They ALL do this. You're telling thousands of contractors to change how they do things, and honestly, not for the better. They know how to use a hammer and know how to drive nails.

A large portion of them took contracting because it was supposed to make them a lot of money, these people don't even use 1/10th of the functionality provided by a hammer, lets not try to make them learn another entirely different tool skill set, ok?

Even if you're currently working in contracting supply and are like "Oh, no, our contractors have access to all this stuff and they would never do that". Trust me, they do. It all ends up pounded by a hammer somewhere eventually.

Comment Re:Is this legal? (Score 3, Informative) 148

It would be illegal if the CBC did NOT have this policy.

Bullshit.

their PodCasts are ad supported. Almost all CC music forbids commercial use.

So - because some CC-licensed music is non-commercial, then *ALL* CC-licensed music is illegal on an ad-supported blog?

Logic. You fail it.

The CBC has said that you cannot use music that forbids commercial use

No. They said you cannot use Creative Commons licensed music, some of which (as you have already pointed out) does not forbid commercial use.

Slashdot, of course, went the same rout it always goes with news: Outright lies.

No, that would be you.

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