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Comment Re:Distinguishing conflict from disagreement (Score 1, Insightful) 1152

by Mr. Ghost on Monday October 29, 2012 @01:22PM (#41807041) Attached to: Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting

2) Thats a really ominous statement. Would your position make using coercion to inhibit religion justifiable?

It entirely depends on what the parent had in mind. If he means outlawing religious freedom, then I would be against it. If by limits he meant that a religious group should not have the power to enforce its beliefs upon society in general, then I am completely for it.

Maybe I should stop before I beat a dead horse even deader, but isn't atheism in and of itself a religion. There fore is Dr. Dawkins attempting to promote his religion as the only true religion and all other religions as less valuable than his?

Comment My New Patent (Score 1) 76

by Mr. Ghost on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @03:18PM (#41467495) Attached to: SceneTap Patents Using Cameras To Determine Bar Goers' Weight, Height, Gender

I think it is finally time for me to finally get the ultimate patent:

A process by which I can garner information, steps for process:

1) Gather inputs

2) Lookup data

3) Present results.

I believe that their is definitely no prior art for this patent and I can see multiple potential uses for it in the future.

Comment Re:Sounds like defeat (Score 1) 169

by Mr. Ghost on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @03:13PM (#41467427) Attached to: Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners

If it means we still have the TSA and their nudie scanners then we all lose, whether we realize it or not.

Seriously,

If they can push this tech to the point where we see it in Total Recall (the original, haven't seen the remake so don't know if it is in there). I would absolutely love it, I would be thrilled to be able to go through airport security that quickly, YIPPEEE!!!!

Besides, I can't really see how anybody would be either offended by or excited by these images... I mean seriously I know there are strange psychopathic individuals out there, but then are they really any different the the strange psychopathic individuals excited by shoes, socks, mud, etc...

Comment Re:Won't somebody think of the D&D children? (Score 1) 47

by Mr. Ghost on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @08:40AM (#15872731) Attached to: Gen Con To Take the Place of E3?

One of the side-effects of the traditional games and gamers being squeezed out of GenCon would be an increase in the size and importance of Origins which is already more of a gamers convention than GenCon has become.

D-Link Settles Danish Time Dispute 192

Posted by Zonk on Thursday May 11, 2006 @02:40PM from the cash-out-your-chips-now dept.

igb writes "The Register reports that DLink has settled the time server dispute described a little over a month ago here on Slashdot. They're going to stop using an NTP server they're not really authorized to chime with, and they've reached an amicable settlement over the use by existing products. The details of the settlement are, not unsurprisingly, somewhat vague, but let's hope that the good guys aren't out of pocket any more."

Father of Wiki Speaks on Collaborative Development 55

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @01:32AM from the many-helping-hands dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that Ward Cunningham, creator of the wiki, has predicted an encouraging future for open source and collaborative development. From the article: "Cunningham, who is director of committer community development at the Eclipse Foundation, said open-source software will continue to grow and thrive because it enables user innovation. '[...] No end user wants to be a programmer; they just want to get their jobs done,' he said. But more and more people with powerful tools and powerful languages will be able to work together to build better systems, he said."

Comment Oracle's Cost of Doing Business Mesurement (Score 1) 425

by secscend on Monday February 14, 2005 @03:15PM (#11670381) Attached to: Should Dual Cores Require Dual Licenses?

Oracle will soon announce their latest license revolution: The Cost of Doing Business Monitor (CDBM). The CDBM is a stand-alone computer that monitors your entire enterprise and charges you for each unit of work in which your enterprise engages.

It is a very sophisticated system that will track every mile driven, key pressed, KW/h of lighting used, oxygen breathed by employees, phone calls made, line of open source code used, etc. and will use electronic funds transfer (EFT) to forward those "license fees" in real-time to Oracle.

What if you don't use Oracle? Have no fear, the CDBM uses Oracle 10g to keep track of your units of work, so you will still owe the same amount if you use Oracle products or not.

Apparently, the philosophy behind this revolution is that anyone who makes money doing anything, most likely owes money to Oracle.

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