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Comment Re:Predictive power of evolution! (Score 2, Funny) 186

by Grumpendorfer on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @05:51PM (#26138873) Attached to: Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy

It's really a nice number. You may be aware of its factors (2*11497)... Yes, it's quite pleasant here. Thanks for inquiring and have a pleasant day. ~~G

Comment Re:Predictive power of evolution! (Score 1) 186

by Grumpendorfer on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @05:07PM (#26138273) Attached to: Convergent Evolution Upends Honeyeaters' Taxonomy

A "theory" is one of those not-quite-precise-enough words of which people may hold reasonably different definitions. We should just call it the "Axiom of Evolution" -- that will keep the philosophers happy. People can choose different sets of axioms, just be prepared to see where they lead.

MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par 175

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 01, 2008 @12:28PM from the time-to-fix-the-org dept.

Mad Merlin writes "It's no secret that MySQL 5.1 has been a long time in the making, with the first beta release being in Nov 2005, but MySQL 5.1.30 has finally been released as GA. MySQL users can expect new features such as table/index partitioning, row based replication, a new plugin architecture, an event scheduler and a host of performance improvements from 5.1." Monty also had a blog post outlining some of the challenges faced in 5.1, including crashing bugs and a beta quality to most new features.

Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property 393

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @07:49PM from the shirt-off-your-back dept.

couchslug writes in with a Reuters account of a Federal raid on a California-based motorcycle club, the Mongols, on charges "ranging from murder and robbery to extortion, money laundering, gun trafficking and drug dealing." The interesting twist is that the authorities are asking the courts to seize the IP of the biker club — specifically, their trademarked name "Mongols." "Federal agents and police in seven states arrested more than 60 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang on Tuesday in a sweep that also targeted for the first time an outlaw group's 'intellectual property,' prosecutors said. The arrests cap a three-year undercover investigation in which US agents posed as gang members and their girlfriends to infiltrate the group, even submitting to polygraph tests administered by the bikers ... [T]he name 'Mongols,' which appears on the gang's arm patch insignia, was trademarked by the group. The indictment seeks a court order outlawing further use of the name, which would allow any police officer 'who sees a Mongol wearing this patch ... to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back' ..."

Comment Re:Dvorak? (Score 1) 456

by Grumpendorfer on Tuesday September 13, 2005 @03:20PM (#13550433) Attached to: Dvorak on Microsoft Confusing the Market

And Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" was published in 1952.

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