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Comment Re:So confused (Score 2, Informative) 376

No sane person is going to think an "old" WMD is just fine and a "new" WMD is not.

You do realize that not all weaponry lasts forever right? Even nuclear weapons are retired because the components may not be as effective as when they were put into service. Since the Iran-Iraq War, the world knew Iraq had mustard and sarin gas. This is not news.

Old or new, if the basis for the war was that Iraq had WMDs in its possession, this fits the bill.

Not when the actual claim by Colin Powell and the administration was that Iraq was MANUFACTURING new chemical weapons.

Let's look at one. This one is about a weapons munition facility, a facility that holds ammunition at a place called Taji (ph). This is one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq. We know that this one has housed chemical munitions. In fact, this is where the Iraqis recently came up with the additional four chemical weapon shells. Here, you see 15 munitions bunkers in yellow and red outlines. The four that are in red squares represent active chemical munitions bunkers.

It's irrelevant either way at this point, we left. There's no reason to spin it unless we're going to try and hold someone accountable for them being in Iraq. Are people so hateful of Bush that this kind of spin is even seen as worthwhile?

No, it's conservatives that are spinning these discoveries that Bush was right when in reality they are not. That's dishonest. That is spin.

Comment Re:No WMD's...Really? (Score 4, Interesting) 376

Colin Powell's specific claims against Iraq:

When they searched the home of an Iraqi nuclear scientist, they uncovered roughly 2,000 pages of documents. You see them here being brought out of the home and placed in U.N. hands. Some of the material is classified and related to Iraq's nuclear program. . . This one is about a weapons munition facility, a facility that holds ammunition at a place called Taji (ph). This is one of about 65 such facilities in Iraq. We know that this one has housed chemical munitions. In fact, this is where the Iraqis recently came up with the additional four chemical weapon shells . . . The four that are in red squares represent active chemical munitions bunkers. . . . First, you will recall that it took UNSCOM four long and frustrating years to pry - to pry - an admission out of Iraq that it had biological weapons. . . One of the most worrisome things that emerges from the thick intelligence file we have on Iraq's biological weapons is the existence of mobile production facilities used to make biological agents.

The Bush administration claimed that Iraq had biological, chemical, and maybe nuclear weapons. As for biological weapons, especially the mobile weapons factories, were never found. The nuclear weapons were also never found as Iraq never had the capability. As for chemical weapons, the world has known that Iraq already had mustard gas and sarin since the end of the Iran-Iraq war. The claim by the Bush administration was that they were manufacturing more and newer chemical ones. This was never substantiated. Most likely US soldiers uncovered the old mustard gas and sarin stockpiles.

Comment Re:Absolute BS (Score 2) 376

Well Fox News of course will be spinning it as vindication. To be clear, the position of the Bush administration was that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons and had mobile biological weapons factories. Both of these claims were never found to be true. Since the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq has used chemical weapons like nerve agents, and the world has known about it. They used them against the Kurds since 1988. This was most likely what was found. Why it might have been hushed up was that the handling of this aspect of the war (as well as the war itself) was poor and the Bush administration didn't want more negative press about them botching something that should not have been botched.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 2) 178

LLVM and Clang were developed at the University of Illinois.

And Apple hired the team that developed LLVM to continue to develop it further. Just like CUPS. As for Clang, it was developed originally by Apple to work with LLVM because Apple had performance and philosophical issues with gcc.

OpenCL is a standard, not a program.

OpenCL standards for Open Computing Language. It is also a standard as many companies have adopted it. That's like saying C99 isn't language but a standard.

Zeroconf is a standard, not a program.

Again, because something becomes a standard does not mean it isn't used for what it was originally designed.

WebKit is a fork of KHTML from the KDE project. Try again.

Originally, WebKit was based entirely on KHTML. As development as continued, it is bears little resemblance to the original code. Apple has chosen to continue to release as open source even parts they were not required to do.

Comment Re:Why does this seem fishy? (Score 1) 178

The mobile devices (smartphones and especially tablets) made electronic documents viable and portable, so nobody prints things from their phones or tablets - they already have a presentation of the document, a paper copy is not needed.

I would say less needed. There have been times where a mobile boarding pass was not good enough to get me through security at an airport. I had to go to a kiosk and print out a paper one.

Definitely there is no smartphone to printer workflow at homes.

Do you mean there commonly is not a printer workflow because AirPrint works well at my home. It runs on a Samsung printer hooked up to a Linux server running CUPS.

Comment Re:Wait... (Score 5, Informative) 178

No. If Apple had developed it, it would not have had any command-line interface except for XML files and the "defaults" program, its interfaces would have been proprietary to Apple,

Yes that's why LLVM, Clang, OpenCL, Zero-Configuration, and WebKit only works on Apple machines.

and it would have been even more confusingly documented.

Yes because all open source software is meticulously documented.

It would never have become widely adopted across the Unix world, partly because Apple would not have chosen GPLv2.

Yes Apple would never choose GPLv2 unlike all the other GPLv2 software they've chosen to use.

CUPS was widely used before Apple bought it. Apple can't turn it into an Apple-like program without causing a user revolt, so it's still very much like how it was before Apple bought it.

Yes Apple is EVIL for not completely changing the software they own to be proprietary and they are also EVIL for forking software they didn't own (WebKit). Face it folks, Apple can do no right.

Comment Re:it solves some unicode issues (Score 4, Insightful) 774

Systemd goes against the KISS principle that Linux and Unix have long followed. However, many would argue that Linux has become too complex for this principle to work when it comes to system management. For user space, it is becoming more of necessity. Those who are using Linux on server side, it seems to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

Comment Re:This is typical of the "Jobs era" Apple (Score 1) 135

Yes I had a Rio PMP 300. It could only hold 32MB and later 64MB. There was an additional SmartMedia slot but that was maxed out at 32MB at the time. At most you could hold 90 minutes of music. From what I remember you could use playlists or directory navigation. I don't remember being able to search using ID3 but then again with 90 minutes, I didn't need to.

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