Comment Re:Hope and Change, baby! (Score 1) 528
That is what democracy is all about. If we can't criticize the president, then we don't have democracy. Can someone criticize the Iranian president, and remain free in Iran?.
Comment Re:Waitaminute: (Score 1) 316
I agree with you, Bruce.
It seems like your issue is that they didn't acknowlege your contribution in BusyBox, with regard to this lawsuit.
BusyBox is widely used and your contributions are invaluable to the project. I can see why your upset.
Just because someone else took over maintainance and development, doesn't remove your right as a copyright holder.
Regards,
John
Comment Re:Stability - IE7/IE8 (Score 1) 891
On the verge of dumping firefox after years of use. 3.5.2 was horrible. 3.5.3 crashed within the first 5 minutes of use. The #1 reason I would dump any SW product is stability. If it can't perform its intended function without crashing then nothing else matters. Lets just hope I don't need to switch to Chrome to get this to post.
One of my laptops has an issue with IE7/IE8 crashing on certain pages. I'm almost certain this is a javascript issue somehow, but I haven't found a solution on Google. Firefox 3.5.2 works fine on the same laptop. Should I go out and tell everyone IE7 is junk, and IE8 crashes after 5 minutes?
Submission + - Microsoft Puts C# and the CLI under Community Prom (technet.com) 3
FishWithAHammer writes: Peter Galli of Microsoft posted a blog entry on Port25 today, regarding the explicit placement of C# and the Common Language Infrastructure (the ECMA startard that underpins .NET) under their Community Promise:
It is important to note that, under the Community Promise, anyone can freely implement these specifications with their technology, code, and solutions. You do not need to sign a license agreement, or otherwise communicate to Microsoft how you will implement the specifications.
... Under the Community Promise, Microsoft provides assurance that it will not assert its Necessary Claims against anyone who makes, uses, sells, offers for sale, imports, or distributes any Covered Implementation under any type of development or distribution model, including open-source licensing models such as the LGPL or GPL.
This clears the way for Mono to be fully integrated into GNOME, and Boycott Novell can go back to crying in their corner.
Submission + - Jammie Thomas Moves to Strike RIAA $1.92M Verdict (blogspot.com)
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "Jammie Thomas-Rasset has made a motion for a new trial, seeking to vacate the $1.92 million judgment entered against her for infringement of 24 MP3 files, in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset. Her attorneys' brief (PDF) argues, among other things, that the 'monstrous' sized verdict violates the Due Process Clause, consistent with 100 years of SCOTUS jurisprudence, since it is grossly disproportionate to any actual damages sustained. It further argues that, since the RIAA elected to offer no evidence of actual damages, either as an alternative to statutory damages, or to buttress the fairness of a statutory damages award, the verdict, if it is to be reduced, must be reduced to zero."
Submission + - BT drops Phorm -- More Pressing Priorities? 1
Tom DBA writes: The Register reports in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/06/bt_phorm/ that "BT has abandoned plans to roll out Phorm's controversial web monitoring and profiling system across its broadband network, claiming it needs to concentrate resources on network upgrades...BT's announcement comes a day before MPs and peers of the All Party Parliamentary Communications Group are due to begin an investigation of internet privacy. Their intervention follows the EU's move to sue the UK government over its alleged failure to properly implement European privacy laws with respect to the trials, drawing further bad publicity to the venture."
Shouldn't the story read BT "have"?
Shouldn't the story read BT "have"?
Comment You Sure?? Re:Broke up from flying 'too fast'? (Score 1) 403
Actually... Aircraft can break apart due to excess speed, or more importantly "high speed buffeting"
Commercial Airliners fly at a very narrow range. Known as Coffin Corner Where the aircraft is neither low-speed or high speed buffeting.
Comment MOD Parent Up - !Flambait (Score 2) 403
You are correct in stating that a pitot tube malfunction is not a computer malfunction.
The question becomes how did the pilots handle that.
Your 100% correct in stating that a plane could accelarate through "coffin corner" and break apart.
I'm suprised that there isn't a better web reference than WSJ for updates to an aircraft story.
Comment Why dont they use a cutting laser (Score 1) 291
Why dont they use a high powered cutting laser to cut it in half?
Comment Re:Listen to the Nerds (Score 1) 345
Microsoft has had a pretty tarnished name among the nerd community for a long time. Is it any wonder that their products are losing market share? It's really only inertia that's propping them up now. ALL of the following are gaining market share at the expense of Microsoft:
When did Microsoft have a good name in the nerd community? 1975 before objecting to the sharing of Altair Basic?
Comment MOD PARENT UP - All drugs have side effects. (Score 1) 281
I Agree, All drugs have side-effects.
Heparin, a very old drug requires regular blood tests to prevent overdose and hemorrhage or stroke.
Heparin, a very old drug requires regular blood tests to prevent overdose and hemorrhage or stroke.
Internet Could Act As Ecological Early Warning System 63
Wired is reporting that ecologists think the internet could act as an early ecological warning system based on data mining human interactions. While much of this work has been based on systems like Google Flu Trends, the system will remain largely theoretical for the near future. "The six billion people on Earth are changing the biosphere so quickly that traditional ecological methods can't keep up. Humans, though, are acute observers of their environments and bodies, so scientists are combing through the text and numbers on the Internet in hopes of extracting otherwise unavailable or expensive information. It's more crowd mining than crowd sourcing."
Comment Google Cache Link (Score 3, Informative) 285
Federal CIO Kundra Takes Leave of Absence After Woes 193
CWmike writes "The fallout from Thursday's arrests of a District of Columbia IT security official and contractor quickly raised questions about the fate of Vivek Kundra, the new federal CIO who until recently ran the office now mired in bribery allegations. Appointed by President Barack Obama as CIO less than two weeks ago, Kundra was CTO for the District of Columbia. But yesterday, Kundra's former office in a downtown government building was a crime scene. A White House official, speaking on background, confirmed today that Kundra took a leave of absence from his new CIO job shortly after federal investigators arrested two men in the DC government office on bribery charges. The official would not elaborate on the reasons for the leave; there were no indications yesterday that Kundra was involved in any wrongdoing. Kundra's decision could slow his plan to create a 'revolution' in the federal government's use of technology."
Comment Re:skip those doctors (Score 1) 324
The problem is the AMA has shielded BAD TERRIBLE Doctors from being found out. They get lawsuits sealed and keep on issuing credentials to worst 2%. The worst Doctors account for a huge percentage of the lawsuits. The AMA protects them, we can't find out who they are.
[citation needed]
