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  1. Re:What did you expect? on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    There are no such rules, except possibly for US citizens.

  2. Re:There is a deeper meaning here on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    Who would exact this punishment? From what I've read, releasing these documents would only be illegal under US law. And Assange is not in the US. Extraditions only happen when the act is criminal in both the source and destination countries.

  3. Re:Buckle up folks... on WikiLeaks Publishes Cable Archive In Full · · Score: 1

    Which are these innocents who are exposed to harm? Are they the same people as last time people were saying the very same things about Wikileaks releases, or do they actually exist this time?

  4. Re:Lua? on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 2

    Last time I looked at the C API for Python it was beyond horrible. Boost.Python improves on it quite a bit, but it still not anywhere near "nice".

  5. Re:People hate paren languanges on Sixteen Years Later: GNU Still Needs An Extension Language · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would anyone write it like that? You use line breaks and indentation to convey structure, just like you do when you write in any other language.

  6. Why? on Windows 8 To Natively Support ISO and VHD Mounting · · Score: 1

    Why would anyone distribute software in an ISO image on a USB stick rather than just putting it on the USB stick?

  7. Re:Totally Legit, Easily Abused on The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles · · Score: 1

    In most legislations it's perfectly legal to let your friends make copies of your music or movies or whatever. That doesn't change because you're doing it over the net. It's when you make it available to the public that it becomes illegal.

  8. Re:Totally Legit, Easily Abused on The Pirate Bay Founders Go Legit With BayFiles · · Score: 1

    Good, that will encourage them to actually write new and interesting programs instead of regurgitating the same things over and over.

  9. Re:Paging Darth Vader on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But if you do those things so often that they need to be fast, wouldn't you just learn the keyboard shortcuts after a couple of times and do it even faster without moving your hands from the keys?

  10. Re:Don't Be Evil? That's just a lie on Schmidt: G+ 'Identity Service,' Not Social Network · · Score: 1

    Don't! Be evil.

  11. Re:20 right-wing organizations? on Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents · · Score: 1

    Next week: Daniel Domscheit-Berg buys Greece with unexpected funds.

  12. Re:Carmack on C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code · · Score: 1

    Except that Android phones have abysmal battery life most of the time.

  13. Re:Honest Mistake on Samsung Tablet Ban Lifted For Most of EU · · Score: 1

    There's an app for that.

  14. Re:big animation companies on A Linux Kernel More Stable Than -stable · · Score: 1

    Isn't this exactly what cgroups is for? They have been in the kernel for about a year now.

  15. Enterprise? on A Linux Kernel More Stable Than -stable · · Score: 1

    What does "enterprise" mean in this context?

  16. Aspect ratio! on Flawed Evidence In EU Apple vs. Samsung Case · · Score: 2

    No no, they didn't change the aspect ratio of the photo. You see, the Geniuses (TM) at Apple have designed the iPad to be viewed exactly at 21.3 degrees for the most ergonomic User Experience (TM). At that angle, it has the intended aspect ratio of 1.36.

  17. Re:That's silly on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Unless the computer isn't connected to the internet, in which case it has no way of checking. A web browser has many uses on a local network as well.

  18. About what? on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    So if the "About" box is only going to say whether Firefox is up-to-date or not, does that mean that it won't have any useful information at all when you're offline?

  19. Re:This was proposed in Oregon on Dutch Government To Tax Drivers Based On Car Use · · Score: 1

    If that's what they want to do, why not just add congestion charges for the busy areas such as city centres? It seems to work well in many other European cities.

  20. Don't. on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    Just leave the gas down there. Do these people never learn from their mistakes?

  21. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 0

    Right. With that one partner.

  22. Re:Obummer on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 1

    And that's the main problem with most first-past-the-post elections. The way to do them properly is like the presidential elections in France, with a second round with only the top two candidates if no one receives a majority in the first round. This encourages votes for smaller candidates in the first round, and still ensures that a candidate that a majority of the voters really don't want probably won't win.

  23. Why was it on a USB stick? on Hundreds of Bank Account Details Left In London Pub · · Score: 1

    Who the hell brings tens of thousands of case details with them on a USB stick when they go to the pub? Taking a bit of work home over the weekend? Surely you would just access it on the employers VPN in that case?

    The only plausible reason I can think of is that the person meant to give or sell it to someone who wasn't allowed to access it.

  24. Re:My right of notbeingrecognized is being recogni on Germany Says Facebook's Facial Recognition Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    I don't see how laws about gathering and maintaining databases of personal information would apply to you recognising someone on the street.

  25. Re:But they're Cyber Contractors! on Anonymous Releases 400 MB of FBI Contractor Data · · Score: 0

    That was meant to be greek letters. Stupid Slashdot doesn't appear to handle UTF-8 input.