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Comment Re:Hormone therapy? (Score 1) 784

. . .but how many will remember it in 7 years ? Or get past HR, who tend to frown on things like a stint in prison and a dishonorable discharge. And even if he keeps his IT skills current (unlikely at Fort Leavenworth. . .) no employer will trust him for ANYTHING sensitive. . No, for the most part, his prospects look pretty dim for anything significant. . .

I think he can get a job for WikiLeaks or a torrent search engine web site. He will also be able to give speeches and charge around $10,000 per speech.

Comment Re:Linus management technique works (Score 1) 1501

Linus thinks cursing is the best way to communicate sometimes. At times it is. But, on a developer mailing list, most of the time it isn't. The fact that Linus thinks it is needed shows his limitations as a manager. As a programmer and architect, he is awesome though. Anyway, someone should tell her to go to the OpenBSD mailing list...

Comment Re:Rural land lines are going away soon (Score 1) 372

As someone who lives in a rural area, even though I'm not rich, I can tell you that the quality of phone lines in rural areas are pretty much crap and you're better off going with a mobile phone. If the phone companies are being paid per active line, this whole thing will go away in a few years anyway.

You underestimate the power of lobbyists.

Comment Re:Government math (Score 1) 372

Where my dad lives, there is no cell phone coverage at all. He does have a phone line though. Where my mom lives, they only got a cell phone tower maybe like 3 years ago. But they have had phone lines for a long time. Personally, I would rather see them build cell phone towers than phone lines. But, if we are subsidizing phone lines, then all endpoints where a phone will be connected should be required to have an open public wifi access point if they are getting DSL or a cable modem. That way, the rest of us benefit more by having free wifi when we are out in the middle of nowhere.

Comment Re:Nice try NSA (Score 1) 381

You can't legalize unconstitutional activity with legislation. Either amend it to allow what you think is necessary, or scale back your concept of necessity. There are no alternatives.

Well, that is technically true. But there are all sorts of tricks you can do. #1: Stop people from having standing to sue #2: Prohibit any evidence that would prove the violation from being admissible #3: Assert some state secrets privilege to make evidence inadmissible IANAL, so there is probably a bunch of other stuff.

Comment Re:Microsoft: 'own goal' once again. (Score 1) 543

Apple could just install apps directly from the App Store. Android copied them. By the time Microsoft got around to even noticing, they had ceased to be relevant.

Um. Don't you mean, "Android allowed you to install apps directly from the Internet. Apple still doesn't have this ability." Or maybe, "Android allowed you to install apps directly from an App store over the internet. Apple copied this feature from Android." Because, as far as I know, you used to have to hook your iphone up to your computer to install apps.

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