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Yeah, thanks, but I knew almost as soon as it happened months ago (I only browsed HN logged in on one device), just thought I'd see if it'd been reversed. Apparently not. I'm not g…

He did none of those things. None of the code he suggested requires root. Some hardware information collection may require root (though darn little of it in Linux, at least), but t…

A lot of the countries you're talking about are relatively poor. Many of them are going to need international help to make a concerted push. Others are already working on such thin…

Yeah, but there just isn't much installed PV capacity in the world yet, Germany is one of the few countries to have anything like a concerted effort toward it. It's also very much …

You're talking about losses due to market forces. Those aren't at issue. The losses complained of are due to NASDAQ's already-admitted breakage and subsequent mishandling of the fa…

The capsules holding astronauts obviously have to land intact at some point, unless you thought we sent all astronauts prior to the Shuttle up to their deaths. The Shuttle's uncont…

> Up until now, space operations have always been nonpartisan, co-operative, and peaceful. Oh please. Space operations grew directly out of unbridled Cold War militarism, and have …

Where exactly have you lived that you've avoided knowledge of Vostok, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Soyuz, the Space Shuttle, Skylab, Salyut, Mir, the International Space Station, and t…

WTF?! I'd call that more like three orders of magnitude, and the world has been launching rockets and landing capsules since 1961. Nothing even remotely like what you are speaking …

No, in many cases these are actual, realized losses, as in "we bought at this price and sold at this much lower price". They have no money, and no stock. Recovery of the stock is i…

The problem I have with this attitude is that transparency only helps if people are paying attention. Americans aren't paying attention.

This seemed extremely bizarre to me until I read the filing itself[1]. The RSUs in question are unvested. Apparently a change was just made by the board that means unvested RSUs wi…

He's actually wrong. Starcraft introduced usernames/passwords and unique names to Battle.net in early 1998. The support was then patched into Diablo 1.05. Diablo I's Battle.net fun…

I decline to engage in a debate with someone who has decided he can divine my worldview from a single comment about privately-owned search engines. Hint: I'm a socialist.

I'd be fine with that. In fact, it'd probably be an objective improvement with regard to my search results. Not all of us believe search engines have some magical obligation to be …

I said "theoretically", did I not? And there was nothing particularly special about the module aside from the extreme concentration. Every piece of Java I've ever written or even l…

> I reckon every few function calls you make could potentially trigger an exception. One Java module I had the misfortune of writing theoretically had to deal with checked exceptio…

What percentage of people actually get angry at this sort of thing? It's insane for luxury items -- either you value an item at the price it's listed for or you don't. If you don't…

Frankly, I didn't have much confidence in this jury. It was stacked to avoid techies, its findings on other copyright issues (e.g. rangecheck) didn't instill much confidence in me,…

I guess my only direct source is that every time she's spoken of working as a paralegal, it's been in the past tense. e.g. her H-Online interview: http://www.h-online.com/open/feat…

Why do you think she's employed by any law firm? She's a former paralegal, not a current paralegal.

By "suspiciously silent" you mean "Groklaw covered it", right? http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20090926131450...

Since you've attempted to deflect instead of disclose, I now assume you are a hypocrite in Oracle's employ.

Why, exactly is it OK for you to make up a pseudonym and libel Ms. Jones? I demand disclosure. Your full name, your address, your phone, bank, and tax records for the past year, so…