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  1. Re:How does this aid in education on Some Aussie High Schools Moving To Two Devices Per Child · · Score: 1

    Perfectly correct, and thanks for the links.

  2. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 5, Informative

    KDE 4.5 is to KDE 4.0 as a Maglev is to a trainwreck.

  3. Re:Hey, on New Video of Apple's Enormous iDataCenter · · Score: 1

    Well you'll benefit by all the jobs it creates, right?

    In Soviet Russia, Jobs creates datacenters!!!

  4. Re:Reality check people on In the Face of Android, Why Should Nokia Stick With MeeGo? · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as an invulnerable company. It doesn't matter how big they are or how many products they ship. History is full of fallen Goliaths.

    Actually, it does. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailout#US_TARP_and_related_programs

  5. Re:Don't do it on Recommendations For Home Virtualization? · · Score: 1

    What benefits does Windows take away when used as the host?

    Security.

  6. Re:Control on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    He wasn't born on a wheelchair.

  7. Re:Control on Ex-Apple CEO John Sculley Dishes On Steve Jobs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, most of those tasks end with the word "Ville".

  8. Re:Honor Amongst Thieves on Thief Returns Stolen Laptop Contents On USB Stick · · Score: 1

    Mine are like that (held just by clips), and they were stolen this year right in front of my home. Now I drive around with Seat caps on a Polo.

  9. Re:Losing battle on Hacker Business Models · · Score: 1

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
    A cracker is a baked good commonly made from unleavened grain flour dough and typically made in quantity in various hand-sized or smaller shapes.

    We definitely need a better word.

  10. Re:Look at the member list on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1

    Quark? I should never have trusted that Ferengi...

  11. Re:Repugnant on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 2

    First they came for the BSA. I did not speak up because I do not hold any software patents.
    Then they came for the makers of cellphones and their weird plugs...

  12. Re:YOU HAVE NO "RIGHT" TO MAKE MONEY on FSF Announces Hardware Endorsement Criteria · · Score: 1

    Calling it something else does not make GP any less right, or dumber, or you smarter.

  13. Re:I predict more are going to jump ship from Micr on Microsoft Admits OpenOffice.org Is a Contender · · Score: 1

    The real big problem is that a huge majority of people is not paid according to their productivity. I realise that would be non-trivial (near impossible in most cases), but as long as people who work at different speeds (and hence at different productivities) get paid the same per hour there is no incentive to increase the productivity. Because of this, the comfort of not having to learn anything new is more important than a slight increase in actual work done, or the savings from one less software license.

    This, of course, is not related to only MS/OO.

  14. Re:It looks like it'd take an economic meltdown to on Economy Puts US Nuclear Reactors Back In Doubt · · Score: 1

    That is true, I don't know how is it in America, but here in Europe diesels are quite popular.

    Unfortunately, biodiesel in its current state is not really good for engines. Most German diesel cars have a "not for biodiesel" sticker on them. I have heard anecdotes that it clogs the engine.

    Over the summer, I worked in a lab that was measuring the content of biofuels in diesel and gasoline, and the more bio-heavy samples are much less stable. Fossil fuel don't change at all over a period of a year, while biodiesel changed both colour and radioactive properties.

  15. Re:Interesting... on New Tool Blocks Downloads From Malicious Sites · · Score: 1

    Yeah, who cares about servers anyway...

  16. Re:set sail on Alaska To Export Billions of Gallons of Water · · Score: 1

    I still don't understand why any ship company would not want to have things like these installed. Is it because most of them carry oil?

  17. Re:Well I think _someone_ needs to on Ubuntu Won't Moan To EU About Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Thank goodness for open standards such as html, www, email; twitter, facebook, gmail, googlechat protocols etc etc, or else Linux, for the home user, would be almost useless!

    One of these things is not like the others.

  18. This is good news on China Becoming Intellectual Property Powerhouse · · Score: 1

    Perhaps now the Americans will want to eliminate unreasonable patents.

  19. Re:I don't know for you... on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    If I pay for my bandwidth and I got cut-off because of malware, I expect a full refund for the loss of service plus compensation for the trouble.

    Three words: Terms of Contract.

  20. How do they know it's encrypted? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    Is it illegal in Britain to have a disk/folder full of large, strangly named files with random data in it? If not, how do they tell it from encrypted data?

    Of course, this is wrong on so many levels that not all of them have to do with encryption or computers. What if he really forgot the password, or the policemen accidentally removed and discarded the sticker on the monitor while seizing the computer? What

  21. Re:What is he hiding? on British Teen Jailed Over Encryption Password · · Score: 1

    His porn collection; like every other male.

    FTFY

  22. Re: Non Justice of Convenience on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    Contrary to popular belief, the right to internet is not an inherent human right. It is provided by a provider as a service, with a contract and for a compensation. The provider has every right to set the terms of the contract as he pleases, just like the user has every right to refuse it and/or propose a different one.

  23. It was random segments of code on Stuxnet Worms On · · Score: 1

    One day they'll have secrets... one day they'll have dreams.

  24. Re:Yes on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They could simply give the customer a LiveCD, it doesn't have to be new to install it and browse the web. I think they're cheap enough even for ISP's.

  25. Re:As I recall... on MGM and Warner Near On Deal For Hobbit Films · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I suppose you didn't read Silmarillion?