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Anthony (4077)

Anthony
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One-time Unix Systems Administrator. Linux user, Free Software dilletante contributor Part-time science student, full time HPC support
by Atheil on Saturday August 16, @01:03AM (#24620269)
Attached to: "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK
Specific instances of police abuse of authority does not prove that "all police are evil and should be punished." If anything police are proven to be human. The cops involved in that incident should have been fired and/or charged, and I don't disagree with that. However, saying all police are bad from a specific instance is like saying all black people are bad because a black person robbed you one time. Yes, I'm equating hating the police to racism because they're both discrimination against a group for acts by individuals.
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 [+] comment, metanod

  Favourite Mathematical Statement 2007-09-25 03:22 Anthony

Submitted by Anthony on Tuesday September 25 2007, @03:22AM
Anthony writes "
  • Law of Cosines
  • Euler's Identity
  • Wave Equation
  • Dirac Delta Function
  • Riemann Zeta Function
  • Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
  • Cowboy Neal's Identity
"
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 [+] submission, polls, math, interesting
Posted by Zonk on Saturday August 11 2007, @01:21PM
from the so-what-macos-is-chopped-liver dept.
kripkenstein writes "Jim Zemlin (executive director for the Linux Foundation) gave a talk at LinuxWorld saying that the open source community should stop poking fun at Microsoft. From the VNU article: 'Open source vendors have to recognize that Windows is here to stay and that together with Microsoft it will form a duopoly in the market for operating systems. This also requires that the Linux community respects Microsoft rather than ridicule it. "There are some things that Windows does pretty well," Zemlin said. Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition.'"
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 [+] story, linux, microsoft, haha, playnice, respectmahauthoritah
Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 26 2007, @05:00PM
from the working-together-hand-in-hand dept.
prostoalex writes "Microsoft has launched a site dedicated to collaboration between Microsoft and open source community. The site helps developers, IT administrators, and IT buyers find out what Microsoft's product offerings are, and read articles about open source such as 'Open Source Provider Sees Sales Doubling After Moving Solutions to the Windows Platform.'" Relatedly, CNet has the news that the company has submitted its shared-sources license to the OSI for approval.
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 [+] story, it, microsoft, software, itsatrap, mutuallyexclusive