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by kprobst 16y ago
I especially liked the GNOME member's response. Classy and dignified.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Now I'm a "rabid Mono pusher", brilliant. Thanks for reminding me why most everyone hates people like you.
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by kprobst 16y ago
I did a search on techrights.org of your username and it seems you're one of the regulars there. I guess paranoia pays off sometimes. The "gnosis" account that posted on this same thread is a, um, friend of yours, I take it? In any case, so
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by kprobst 16y ago
> smeared them If you do a Google site search on that blog you'll see that the term 'smear' is used endlessly and quite carelessly by the author. It's interesting to see that you use it in the same way - and like the author I don't thin
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by kprobst 16y ago
Yes well, I could have used the same argument against the GPL back in the day. And really, I don't need to read through an article by someone who declared the Mono project "dead" a few months ago because he couldn't find the SVN repository.
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by kprobst 16y ago
> techrights.org That's where I stopped reading, but I'll say this: Nowhere in the FSF's critique of the MCP is it mentioned whether or not the promise itself is legally binding. From a bunch of people who are supposed to be legal exper
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by kprobst 16y ago
"To whom brother"
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by kprobst 16y ago
The main problem with deletionism in WP is the fact that the notion of notability is very subjective in some cases. There are situations that are very clear (people who have competed in Olympics are a shoe-in, garage bands that have never c
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by kprobst 16y ago
I'd be interested to know what platform they're running Redis on. Is it Windows or Linux? Edit: Oh, the article link mentions it's running on CentOS. I was looking for that in the parent's link.
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by kprobst 16y ago
I've also said on occasion that I have to "shoulder the responsibilities" of watching football in my PJs all Sunday. No one at my household is fooled by it either.
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by kprobst 16y ago
He's speaking now on TV over there and the BBC says he'll stay in power until elections in September, which is basically the same thing the protesters were offered before.
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by kprobst 16y ago
When they rolled it out was free. I didn't even pay shipping. I guess they're charging for it now.
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by kprobst 16y ago
I've been doing this with PayPal and their free security token fob for three years and I couldn't be happier. This kind of thing should be the standard for any 'critical' accounts like banking and email. If you don't have a token you probab
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by kprobst 16y ago
I wish there was a way for these guys to disengage from the Death Star and go independent. It doesn't seem like living inside CN has a ton of advantages anyway. Maybe the ultimate Reddit community project would be to raise a large amount of
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by kprobst 16y ago
I use GD's DNS and domain management. I would _never_ consider hosting a site with them.
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by kprobst 16y ago
This is a bogus argument. Google is not the "messenger" any more than Microsoft is the victim (as they seem to be portraying themselves). Google is the accuser, and they have their motivations for bringing this to light. Microsoft is free t
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by kprobst 16y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't work from behind most corp proxies. They see the Google cache (and even Google Translate) as an evil way to get around their restrictions.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Perhaps we're jaded with visions of the previous one, with its excesses and unrelenting and misplaced hubris. Maybe the next one will be muted, but it doesn't mean it can't or won't happen. On the other hand not all bubbles are bad.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Well, not all knock-offs are bad :) My experience with both the older (state-built) and newer (Norinco) Type 56's has been generally good.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Yeah, pretty much. It's an extremely simple (albeit clever) design so there's only so much you can get wrong when you're copying it. Note that the Type 56 like most other AK knock-offs are really copies of the later AKM "improved" model, wh
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by kprobst 16y ago
I think most movies use the Chinese Type 56 assault rifle, which is a Kalashnikov knock-off and is far more common in the US than the real thing. Most people can't tell the difference between the two. BTW, I highly recommend "The Gun" by C.
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by kprobst 16y ago
That's impressive. Thanks for the ref.
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by kprobst 16y ago
My reading of material like `The Sword and The Shield` and other books sourced from the Mitrokhin papers don't really support the idea that the Soviets had much success in HUMINT, especially after the 50s.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Incidentally, I'm working on a project now that is a good fit for MongoDB. I've been testing it with the stock C# driver running on Server 2008 and I like the performance so far. It takes a while to mentally switch paradigms (for me at leas
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by kprobst 16y ago
Glad to see someone's doing something like this on top of the Microsoft stack. I was expecting the usual Linux+Ruby+Hadoop+Redis+etc thing. Pretty cool.
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by kprobst 16y ago
Isn't that boycott novell? IIRC that guy calls everyone who disagrees with him "Microsoft booster" so I'd take it at face value.
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by kprobst 16y ago
um, this isn't Slashdot. Feel free to address the issues in his analysis and comment on them.
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by kprobst 16y ago
I hope not, that would kill their P/E ratio.
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by kprobst 16y ago
$6 billion profit on almost $27 billion revenue... that's almost 50% YTD. That's insane. And 62% of that from outside the US. Say whatever you want about Apple, but they know how to print money.
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by kprobst 16y ago
I don't think his main problem is with the interface.

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