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  1. Overlooking something? on USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent · · Score: 1

    It's a bit naive solution but please enlighten me if such think would work?
    Can't you just open your internet stores in Europe and allow shipping to US or just forward the order to US-based warehouse? In EU we can do [0-9]+clicks, why can't you just move the business to Europe ?

  2. Re:Anyone want to... on Intel Updates Compilers For Multicore CPUs · · Score: 1

    I guess, news from Arse are always cool.

  3. Re:64MB Is crap on Review of Windows Mobile 6-Based "Wing" · · Score: 1

    Well, remember that MS is promoting use of Compact .NET. Garbage collecting and stuff. Slooow. I think that the flaw is with OS design from start. Skip the .NET, enforce C/C++ - as in Symbian, which runs on slower processors with similar performance and a bit smaller feature set and there you go.
    Programmers just use the tools and guidelines provided.
    My first "computer" was ATARI 800XL. We used it at home for some engineering calculations, drawing/plotting, etc. Yes, I agree that today, most of available computing power seems to be wasted.

  4. Re:How do you people come up with this crap on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    "Let me let you in on something. If I own a company, and you WORK for me, what you make FOR MY COMPANY doesn't magically become yours"

    If you OWN the company that has a problem and outsources the creation of its solution outside the US, then nor the people who invent it are from US, and neither is the solution American. I'm not talking about deploying mfg to China. I'm talking about licensing/buying/ordering software and hardware components and patents from companies which HQ and origin is not American.
    No hatred towards US in it.

    Of course, US is renowned for its conditions for entrepreneurship, but remember that some of entrepreneurs are immigrants. Just because they do business in US doesn't make them converted US citizens.

  5. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    I'm not from US so I don't mind your ignorance, it doesn't give you any advantage. Can't argue with what you said, but because it's not an argument, not because I agree with you.

  6. Re:Official "In Soviet Russia..." thread on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    Yeah right and he's using the American Internet to post on Slashdot
    His computer is not American, it probably comes from China (or at least most of its parts)
    American Software - well it depends, I'm not sure if 100% components of his software were written by American citizens.
    His gas or oil could come from Kazachstan, not necessarily from Russia

    My point is that the world today is much more interconnected than it was 50 years ago. Every once in a while an asshole wakes up and claims that everyone owes him and that he's the best. Well, good luck with that. It might be a good idea in short-term, but if you look further - Russia is spending its income without investments in high-tech. That means they will be eaten alive by the Chinese in lets say 50 years.
    Both USA and Russia are arrogant, each of them in their own way. But USA is in debt with China, and Russia need to import food and high tech.

  7. Re:Prior art, etc. on Russia Claims IP Rights In Manufacture of AK-47 · · Score: 1

    Not only copies and variants but also improvements were done. As far as I can remember the version used today is a bit tweaked one, and some tweaks came from countries that AK was licensed to. So maybe at least all of those countries deserve a share in this (pityful) patent?

  8. a mobile version? on AMD Releases Image of Phenom/Barcelona Die · · Score: 1

    Any info on a mobile version of Barcelona ? I think that AMD should follow Intel in the sense of making an uber cool mobile processor first (that motivates squeezing the most from one Watt) and then give it full throttle for a desktop version. Just like it was done with the Core.

  9. Re:the sky's not falling on Job Cuts For Dell, Motorola, and Circuit City · · Score: 1

    Well, I believe the problem mainly touches US, and in some way UK. The rest of the world is still hiring.
    It's high time for US to eat its own shit/blessing named globalization.
    Dell firing globally means probably - 75% we fire is in the US, the rest is in other parts of the world.
    Where I live there's a growing shortage of engineers. Most of the best leave the country, the rest stays and live a employee dream - it's the employers who struggle for them, not the other way (finally).

  10. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying there no information coming from Russia. I'm saying it's far more controlled by its gov. than in EU. Simply put you don't have freedom of press, most critical against Putin papers and tv stations were shut down by gov. under some bullshit excuses.
    You don't have to kill ALL journalists to make most of them scared to write the truth.

    Regarding your other post (this is my last post on this topic) It's not true that 90% smuggling come from Russia. What Putin did, was: he found a few cases of smuggling, smugglers were using forged Polish documents, but (as far as I can remember) were not Polish. They were using Belarus/Russia border. Out of this incident, Putin created a crusade against Poland and tried to use this case to make a conflict between PL and EU. When the threat to use EU veto on the WTO against accepting the Russia into WTO - Putin said that he is wiling to accept import of live cattle to Russia, so that his butchers will process the meat. This is obviously total Putin bullshit, because now he's contradicting himself - firstly the meat was bad, and now its ok (but he wants just to destroy polish butchers and their companies).

  11. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't argue with that no place is paradise. Still, Europe at least has freedom of speech whereas in Russia journalists are murdered. It's not that Russia's conscience is clear, it's just Europe hears less objective information from Russia than Russia hears from Europe.

  12. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    Still, citing even a hundred cases of meat smuggling doesn't mean that all European meat is bad, just that somepeople commit crime. Rising such crimes to political level is a deliberate exaggeration.
    Somehow neither Poland nor Europe does not declare war on Russia for all those vodka and cigarettes smugglers.
    As for Ukraine - their current PM is Russia's dog (mind me - I'm pro Ukrainian revolution).That would explain why Ukraine is behaving like Russia. Furthermore, Ukraine is not using this argument in political disputes, Russia does.

  13. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    You forget that Russian papers and news agencies (indexed by yandex) are politicized and therefore not reliable as a source of information.
    To all of EU countries it is clear that Putin and his horde tries to use meat issue to cause havoc in EU integrity.

  14. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course Poland exports meat to Western Countries. It's a bit weird though, that neither German nor French authorities find Polish meat bad. It is only Russian that see something inappriopriate in Polish meat.

    The reason why detailed audit was refused, is because all exporting farms have EU quality certificates. Russia accepts EU certified meat from other countries, but forbids Polish meat even though it complies to the same quality standards. Such behavior smells of politics.

  15. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    I admit the case of Georgia wines has not been researched by me. However, main point of my post was about Polish meat that Russia told was bad and didn't meet their standards, and even though audits did not confirm thouse rumours, Russia continues to use it as a political argument.

  16. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    It's a bit offtopic, but next time do some research before you actually claim that something is crap. I can bet it's better than anything that's sold in the Western Countries - simply because it has less chemicals in it.

    As for Russian and them finding out that Polish meat is crap, well if you'd googled, you'd found out that those accusation are total political bullshit. The meat is fine, and was tested by many independent labs. It's typical of Putin to create embargos with fake evidence and blaming it all on to others. Same with Estonia.

  17. Re:Monbiot:"People - and the environment - will lo on Ethanol Demand Is Boosting Food Prices Worldwide · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, but could you explain why is it rude and illegal? Actually, I found interesting what Monbiot wrote, he was given credit, then what is the problem?

  18. Re:All this leads to... on Intel Sees Communications As Company's Next Frontier · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think they're looking for yet another application of their processors' increasing performance. Since real-time radiosity is still beyond reach, Intel looks at multiplexing communication features.

  19. Re:Man in the Middle Attacks on Rerouting the Networks · · Score: 1

    BTW: the site where Nietzsche's document is hosted has a self-explanatory domain name. They are nihilists indeed.

  20. Re:shame for soccer fans on English Premier Football League Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    Gee, Americans cannot watch something. That's a big problem. What does the rest of the world has to say? In some European countries we can't watch NFL or baseball. It might be a pity for some, but for the rest it's nothing really important. I'm just saying that probably the marketing potential of soccer has not been discovered yet in US, or the sales/marketing people haven't done their homework yet.

    Give it sometime and the soccer will come to your TV.

  21. Bugzilla way. on Custom Charts w/ Perl and GD · · Score: 1

    Perl and GD. That's how charting is done in Bugzilla. Can't say it's superior, but it fits the needs. If I ever write something in Perl that would require charting then I might resort to GD.

    For now, I'll avoid Perl if I can.

  22. Re:Limit on Researchers Break Internet Speed Records · · Score: 1

    wider tubes, you meant?

  23. Laptops? on S3 Standby State Done Right · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if how does S3 work on a laptop? Does laptops' built-in energy saving mechanism collide with tricks described in the article?

  24. Re:Just Like The M16 on U.S. Soldiers Hate New High-Tech Gear · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. I had to carry AK47 like you're saying much longer. Piece a cake. You can fire the AK47 from the prone position. I did that many times on my training. No I don't look like Arnie nor I am an athlete. I just happen to be in the army. When you have to run with your weapon, you do. When you have to shoot, you shoot.

  25. Re:Lame article on The Fine Art of 'Boss Science' · · Score: 1

    Well the article has 'American' in its subtitle. Management analyses show that in Europe, esp. in countries like Germany there is sometimes bigger pressure put "on the system" then "on people". It's structure vs people. You could choose. Differences in management approaches have quite deep roots. Philosophy, culture, etc.