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  1. Re:Comparisons like this don't mean squat... on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    I run Ubuntu 10.04, how does it rate a 7 on drivers and compatibility when Ubuntu admits there are problems with it?

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-3/Lucid
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook6-1/Lucid
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesDesktopsApple

    I've had issues getting the wifi to work on Macbook 5.1, 5.3, 6.1 and iMacs

    If wifi and other features, like video out, isn't working with an install of Ubuntu but will with OS X, how does it tie in usability, performance and drivers?

  2. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 1

    What phone is Apple selling with an iOS other than 4.x?

  3. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 1

    iPad is not a "mobile device". You can't make a phone call with it.

    The original iPhone isn't for sale anymore, yet the Android fragmentation of 4 versions of the OS for sale is about phones for sale right now.

  4. Re:The "choice is bad" argument on Will Android Flavors Spoil the Platform? · · Score: 5, Informative

    The issues on the iPhone you linked to are for a model that is over two years old. I had a 3G until two weeks ago, with iOS 4 it could get slow at times launching certain apps but it wasn't a big enough issue to warrant reverting back to iOS 3.x and it's not a big enough issue that my fiancee complains about it.

    It's not like there are any iPhone 3Gs sitting on shelves across the planet with the slow ass iOS 4 while a iPhone 4 is sitting next to it for sale. The fragmentation chart you linked to comparing iOS to Android is flawed in that the 3.x flavor fragmentation isn't because of Apple, its because users just don't update their phones. The Android fragmentation is the fault of the vendors, so apples and oranges for that argument.

    So really its 44.54 iOS 3.x, 34.05 iOS 4.x and 21.42 running jailbroken or iOS 2.x and are never going to patch anyway or get apps anyway so who cares? At least in early August

    The Android issue being discussed here is fragmentation of current phone models. Apple is shipping iOS 3.x for iPads and iOS 4.x for iPhones and iPods, so mobile wise Apple is shipping one flavor of the iOS, 4.x

  5. Re:and the qualifier is... on Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The public doesn't know who wikileaks is.

    Besides, does the US Government really care what the world public thinks? I think US Foreign Policy since 1964 shows the US really doesn't care.

    "Everyone" is not standing up for Wikileaks, hell even big transitional media outlets like Wired and Gawker are pointing at problems with Wikileaks and it's public face.

  6. Re:and the qualifier is... on Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm serious that if they keep poking at the US military, State Department and intelligence agencies, they'll end up on the receiving end of retaliation.

    If you think they can keep antagonizing the most powerful nation in the world and the most powerful military in history you are being delusional.

  7. Re:and the qualifier is... on Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right and by using something like that as the guide, then when Russia says Journalist X is a terrorist, M$ can say "no they aren't, they aren't on the State Department or Interpol's list."

    I'm waiting for Wikileaks to make State's list

  8. Re:and the qualifier is... on Microsoft To Issue Blanket License To NGOs · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Being on the State Department or EU terrorist list is probably going to keep a group for qualifying.

    Here is a wiki of who is on whose list

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_organizations

  9. Re:Shame on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    So you weren't ashamed by the Somalia Affair, but are about this?

  10. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    While voting is a right protected by the Constitution and subsequent laws, automobile and motorcycle licenses are not.

    Literacy tests have one fundamental use, to exclude a group of people from exercising their right to vote. There is nothing in the history of Jim Crow laws that argue their intent was to ever sunset

    Just like how firearm ownership or speech aren't dictated by a license, at least at the Federal level.

    There should never, ever be a test or minimum educational level to vote.

  11. Re:Doesn't really matter... on Geocentrists Convene To Discuss How Galileo Was Wrong · · Score: 1

    So eliminating laws that made it so minorities couldn't vote is a bad thing in your world?

    Let me guess, you have stormfront either bookmarked or it's your homepage.

  12. "Still not reported elsewhere" on Boeing Hummingbird Drone Crashes In Belize · · Score: 1, Informative

    This was on Flight International's iOS app yesterday.

    Flightglobal news has it as 1239 Friday.

  13. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    I lived near the Canadian border from August 2008 to September 2009. Never stopped. My finacee was stopped once for going 15 over the speed limit at 2am three blocks from her home by town police, no ticket, no search, no delay, in that same time period.

    I crossed the US/Canadian border 11 or 12 times at Lynden and Sumas from 2008 to 2009. Never inspected.

    I crossed into Canada at Lynden with truck and trailer, not inspected or searched.

    I crossed back into the US the last time, in late September 2009 at Alcan, with the mentioned 16 foot trailer. Never inspected.

    I had my US Passport, which I've had since 1993, for all border crossings. Never ever inspected or delayed.

    I drove I-8 in July and August of 2008. Never stopped besides the California fruit inspection, never detailed, never searched, never stopped by California, Arizona or Federal authorities.

  14. Re:Exploitation for the win! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Microsoft told the German government they'll move lock stock and barrel for a tax rate lower than the US, how long would it take Germany to pass that law?

    A week?

    Same for DuPont, Apple, Intel, etc

  15. Re:Exploitation for the win! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So you'd what, hammer them till they left, so a post industrial Zimbabwe deal.

    Yea, I'm so not in favor of that.

  16. Re:Bad consequences on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more about console games, like say Mass Effect 3 or the next Dragon's Age. I knew about SC2, same goes for WoW, theres no reselling the game because your account is tied to the game.

  17. Re:Exploitation for the win! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 1

    The DPRK is one example, but look at the isolation in South Africa, that lead to reforms. US isolation of Cuba leads Castro to admit his way was wrong.

  18. Re:Exploitation for the win! on Foxconn's Founder Opens Up About Making iPhones · · Score: 1

    Europe, the Middle East, Russia, China, there are a ton of places big business could go and develop new markets.

  19. Re:Bad consequences on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    Here goes selling games.

    They'll license them to you and make it illegal to sell or hand them off to friends.

    This is a very bad decision.

  20. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    I lived for over a year near the Canadian border, less than 60 miles, never once was stopped.

    I've driven I-8 from San Diego to it's end and then down state highways to Kerney AZ. Never been stopped.

    I get it that your brother was stopped and I'll take that they tossed his vehicle. But it is still nothing at all like what the Nazis did to the Jews or Roma. Nothing at all, it's not comparable and to compare traffic stops (which when unwarranted are bull) and the erosion of rights in the 1930s is ignorant drivel.

    But there are no absolutes, not everyone who lives within 100 miles of the borders gets randomly stopped and annoyed.

    I didn't get searched at the US Canadian border any of the times I've crossed and the last time I crossed with two vehicles and a 16 foot trailer.

  21. Re:For what purpose? on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Most studies show that single homeless adults are more likely to be male than female. In 2007, a survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that of the population surveyed 35% of the homeless people who are members of households with children are male while 65% of these people are females. However, 67.5% of the single homeless population is male, and it is this single population that makes up 76% of the homeless populations surveyed (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2007).

    http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/who.html

    http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

    Veteran-specific highlights from the USICH report include:

    23% of the homeless population are veterans
    33% of the male homeless population are veterans
    47% served Vietnam-era
    17% served post-Vietnam
    15% served pre-Vietnam
    67% served three or more years
    33% were stationed in war zone
    25% have used VA homeless services
    85% completed high school/GED, compared to 56% of non-veterans
    89% received an honorable discharge
    79% reside in central cities
    16% reside in suburban areas
    5% reside in rural areas
    76% experience alcohol, drug or mental health problems
    46% are white males, compared to 34% of non-veterans
    46% are age 45 or older, compared to 20% non-veterans

  22. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    I know all about the imprisonment of Japanese, German and Italians because my Great-Grandfather was imprisoned for a time because he was a National Socialist and involved in the Bund even though he was an english speaking German-American.

    Seriously though, saying being pulled over and searched by the Police is like how the Jews were treated is complete crap and thats why I took that stance in my reply. It exaggerates what happened with the police and makes the treatment of the Jews, Roma, Slavs and Homosexuals seem less important.

  23. Re:For what purpose? on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    It is not true that 3/4 of homeless men are veterans

    http://www.nchv.org/background.cfm

    "Although flawless counts are impossible to come by – the transient nature of homeless populations presents a major difficulty – VA estimates that 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Over the course of a year, approximately twice that many experience homelessness. Only eight percent of the general population can claim veteran status, but nearly one-fifth of the homeless population are veterans."

    And the rate is dropping

    http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1863

  24. Re:For what purpose? on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Cold War - George Orwell and Bernard Baruch came up with it
    War on Drugs - Richard Nixon came up with it

    So none of those terms came from the media or Congress

  25. Re:This is why we vote Pirate on EU Surveillance Studies Disclosed By Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    Only if you are white. Australia has a deep seated and ingrained racist bent across anyone they perceive as "Black".