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  1. Re:Al Qaeda group claims responsibility on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1
    I really don't recall the IRA ever doing anything so big. Their worst attrocities were two incidents where they blew up pubs.
    Personally, I thought planting bombs outside McDonalds on Mothers Day while not huge in the scale of casualties, definately ranks up there as an atrocity.
  2. Re:No. on Are Blogs the Future of Journalism? · · Score: 2, Informative
    The fact is, blogs provide an excellent filter for information. Most of it is tripe, but there are informed writer's such as Juan Cole's commentary on Iraq.

    Or you could even read Iraqi's writing their own opinions about Iraq, there's plenty of Iraqi blogs around such as:

    Healing Iraq

    Iraq the Model

    Hammorabi

    Nabil's Blog

    Iraq at a Glance

    Road of a Nation

    A star from Mosul

  3. Re:ifilm on Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire · · Score: 1
    The Daily Show's top priority is to be funny, and if their facts aren't 100% accurate, it's not funny.


    Indeed, 'fake' news programs and websites are renowned for their accuracy.

    I still remember waking up drunk in the north atlantic a few years back.
  4. Re:Informed Comment on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1
    I find actual Iraqi people's opinions and comments on daily life illuminating, especially in regards to the never-ending war on terror.

  5. Re:Split Post Moderations & Ratio of Friends t on Your Favorite Political Weblogs? · · Score: 1
    For example, I have about 17 freaks (people who hate me, denoted me as a foe)


    I'd suggest that 'hate' is rather a strong word and a lot of people simply use the 'Foe' option to killfile people.

    When your tired of one person making some inane comment, its easier to just Foe the guy, move on and have the persons comments filtered out in future.

    If people really hated you, they'd be stalking you, using the system to highlight your posts and take every opportunity to insult you.
  6. Re:Says Who? on MGM Purchase Gives Sony An Edge In Disc Format War · · Score: 1
    These days there are HD capable displays close to the $1000-$1500 mark (of course they arent the best displays but the cheapies never are).


    I can't think of that many people who would call a $1500 TV a 'cheapie'. Even if they came down to $500, the vast majority of people won't see why they should have to spend $500 replacing a TV that works fine as it is.

  7. Re:The other side? on Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly · · Score: 1

    You don't think their parents wrapping them in suicide vests since the age of six, and society promising the benefits of martyrdom to them and their family would have effect on their thinking?

    As Golda Meir said 'There will never be peace until the Palestinians love their children more than they hate the Jews'.

  8. Re:D'oh - dumb article, solveable problem on Software Usability As A Technical Problem · · Score: 1
    "If you need a database, use a real database."
    there isoverhead there you may not want to aquire. Also a database is more difficult for a user to understand then a flat file. There are many uses for flat files.

    Why is it at all necessary for the user to understand how the application saves its internal data?

    Its bizarre, Linux users are stuck with the two extremes.

    On the one hand most applications have have (documented) textfiles storing configuration data - In some cases, taken to extroadinarily verbose lengths using XML.

    On the other side, there's Gnome, GConf and friends where the data's stored in a proper database, but totally disassociated from the application.

  9. Re:Now hold on pardner on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1
    In my current job we're only expected to be reached 24/7 the one week out of three that we're on call, and for that week we carry a company phone so it's no biggie

    Same situation here, and its easily the most sensible & flexible solution. You can organise to swap weekends if theres something special on, the company only has one phone bill to take care of and one phone number to pass onto other people that need it.

    Plus you actually feel you can be off duty when your not carrying the phone.

  10. Re:My Pet Goat on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The fact is before the event started, Bush was told that a plane crashed into the World Trade Center. Bush, not 6 weeks earlier had been given a briefing called "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in the United States".

    You've been watching too many films where American Presidents single-handidly defeat a place load of terrorists, attack alien spacecraft and save the whales.

    Life isn't Hollywood, nothing like 9/11 had ever happened before. Only in Hollywood would a president instinctively connect a briefing six weeks ago regarding Bin Laden's evil terrorist network to the news about a place crash.
  11. Re:Don't spare THOSE places! on Win a Part in the Hitchhiker's Guide · · Score: 1

    Canberra, which must be the only city in the world built purely for politicians.

  12. Re:Disclosure? on Why Users Blame Spatial Nautilus · · Score: 1
    User options are regarded as bad things. The user shouldn't have to think.

    This is exactly right. Options are bad. When Sun asked new Gnome 1.4 users to change settings, such as Panel properties, the users were confused by the range of options available. As a result, a lot of the users either failed to carry out simple configuration tasks, or took a long time to get the right result.


    I'd love to see the same tests regarding Gnome 2.6, and measuring ease of use by asking users to change settings using obscure GConf options.
  13. Re:GNOME sucks - read why! on Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo? · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Then a lot of stuff inside GNOME are hardcoded UI's, some are using *.glade files (not to mention that GLADE the interface builder is still not aware of the new Widgets in GTK and even not aware of the deprecated ones)

    And Fedora Core 2 comes with GTK 2.4, deprecating GTK_COMBO and a host of other widgets. With glade generating code that directly references private internal data structure of said widgets, assuming of course that they'll never change, makes fixing such applications even more problematic.
  14. Re:Some questions on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1
    So you can call him a liar, but I think he's telling the truth.

    I don't think its the complete truth. I enjoyed the film BfC, but the audience was misled about the procedures the bank operated their "Weatherby Program" under.

    According to woman in the bank scene, Jan Jacobson

    the background checks were done months before the film, not on-the-spot as it appears.

    Normally a person must specify a gun-dealer to collect the gun from. Its not done in the bank.

    The guns are not kept in the bank, but in a vault, four hours away.


    I still don't think the scheme is a sensible idea, but its not what is portrayed in the file.

  15. Re:Documentary? on Cannes' Palme d'Or goes to Michael Moore · · Score: 1
    but it's not his right to lie or to distort the truth with the intention of deceiving his audience.

    No, that's the job of the politicians...
    Republican or Democrat?

  16. Re:Windows viruses and GNU/Linux on Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? · · Score: 1

    Just the VB programmers please.

  17. Re:Its look like Qmail Vs Postfix war on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 1

    I doubt any organisation doing 4 million messages a day is going to be comfortable relying on anything bought off ebay.

  18. Re:No Problem on Using Spyware to Report Pirates? · · Score: 1

    I have no problem with this as long as its on the outside of the box, so I can agree or disagree before paying for the software.

  19. Re:Windowmaker + AS on Afterstep 2.0 Beta Includes XML Graphics System · · Score: 1
    I haven't seen another pager that has the same functionality as afterstep's. I can see at a glance where all my windows are, and the title of each window (well, most of it anyway, but if you mouse over the window in the pager, the full title of the window shows in a popup).


    I'd have to agree. No WM since afterstep has got its pager to be as flexible or functional. KDE decided that it was just all too hard, and gnome that it was too confusing :(
  20. Re:Interesting ... on Slow And Steady Leads To Windows Refund Success · · Score: 1

    I guess smoking all that crack really does leave you paranoid, broke and with zero sense of humour.

    Way to go mods..

  21. Re:Longtime GNOMEr Ready to Try on KDE 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The best place for IMAP filtering is on the server itself. That way it doesn't matter what mail client your using, kmail, evolution, mozilla or webmail, your email still gets filtered through one set of rules.

  22. Do something about this on Australian Gov't Lobbied To Implement Media Levies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It doesnt take much time to send off an email to your local federal representative about this otherwise they'll only hear APRA's side of the story.

    They may donate $$$, but everybody has to vote.

    The Australian had a negative editorial on this proposal, so not all of the media lobby is behind it.

  23. Re:pipelining is what is being described in the bl on Why IE Is So Fast ... Sometimes · · Score: 1

    If your going to simply cut'n'paste for karma, you could at least give credit to the source

  24. Re:That's unfair on ZDNet Australia Interviews Richard Alston · · Score: 2
    While you may not be able to buy individual votes, the HDTV debarcle shows that the owners of the major media networks can buy laws that protect them from competition.

    HDTV is designed to distract the average consumer from the fact that the government has legislated away the possibility of using the spectrum much more efficiently allowing a lot more competition.

  25. Re:It still works... on Microsoft vs. Modded Xboxes · · Score: 2

    Thats a brilliant solution. Of course MSFT may just have the FBI knocking on your door as a potential terrorist, but its still a great idea.