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  1. Re:Sun is to blame on Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents · · Score: 1

    All right and true. But is Oracle who is suing not SUN

  2. Re:Huh?! on Intuit Still Fighting Government Tax Software · · Score: 1

    Remindes me of a british proverb (not sure if it's really british, i'm not from there but whatever). It is "I'm not so rich as to buy a second hand thing.
    Makes sense.

  3. Re:Spelling contests on Why Are Indian Kids So Good At Spelling? · · Score: 1

    s/effort/need/g

    Expecially if your mother tounge is, let's say, Latvian

  4. Re:Disturbing? on Nine Chip Makers Fined $400M In EU For Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Sorry, s/gack/get/g.
    Wine was good :)

  5. Re:Disturbing? on Nine Chip Makers Fined $400M In EU For Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    Here in Europe, the government is made of filthy people who steal monney, though probably this is the same as everywhere.
    But that same goverment is who gives you healthcare for free, social state and such. Now, you paid more for that peece of sillicon and nobody will give you back what you paid more for that because of the price fixing. And those $400M probably will go for ~70% via strange ways at the bastards that make the government. But what remains would go for the rest of us.
    Here, choose, you paid and you wont gack anything. You paid, EU fined, steald part of the monney but some small ammount got a good use.
    Yes?

  6. Re:Hear Hear! on The Most Influential People In Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    ls -lSh

    Even shorter :)

  7. Re:It may be buggy... on PulseAudio Creator Responds To Critics · · Score: 1

    I started using pulseaudio exactly for the network transparency. I have an old laptop with a brocken screen and a wireless, installed a minimal gentoo in that and pulseaudio and i use it as a gateway and keep it konected with my speakers. My main laptop is configured to send sound automatically at the first one when it's reachable. There are some issues (sound clutters occasionally, seems related to the wifi card actually not pulseaudio itself) but works for me.

  8. Re:What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean on What an IBM-Sun Merger Might Mean For Java, MySQL, Developers · · Score: 1

    More likely the opposite, maybe this was all set up to get Sun's stock _up_ ? Maybe some relation to Cisco's announce to enter the server market?
    Whatever. Time will tell

  9. Re:Some reasons for the Oracle case on Oracle's Take On Red Hat Linux · · Score: 1

    3) They avoid one provider's negotiation as a whole (which is a big win: less paper, less meetings, less vendor talk, less decision process, etc.)

    Then sure as hell they're not the big companies where i've been working as external. Hell, seems that's what seems they enjoy most, 4 meetings just for 1 shell script's line modification with people from 3 other companies, talk, talk, talk.

  10. Re:no update for Windows, or "bad" people in the E on Shaming Russia Into Action On Cyber Crime · · Score: 1

    As for cybercrime and software piracy being low priorities on Russias government (or that of the other E.Europe countries for that matter) does it really surprise anybody? Indeed those are minor things compared to unemployment and poverty in my book so at least this is not something to blame to those governments.

  11. Re:A story for Depression II? on Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter · · Score: 1

    Wow man, i thought that even in what's considered the world's coldest city, Yakutsk the coldest measured temperature was -64.4C (-83.92F). -100F (-73.3F) in Minnesota? Maybe you refer to some other Minnesota that we dont know that happens to be somewhere in siberia? :-P

  12. Re:New ways to steal. on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1

    Well, here in Italy at least when i pay or get cash with my card some seconds a while i get an sms telleing me how much money got spent and where. Sure it does not stop people from stealing from my account but at least i get to know it really soon.
    And as for online banking, to access my account i have to put a username, a password choosen by me and a code generated from an electronic key which is valid just for 30 seconds.
    Of course, the best defense is knowledge obviously.

  13. Re:time to port gnome! on Qt Becomes LGPL · · Score: 1

    Qt Assistant, included with Qt. Add to it kdevelop, probably the best tools for GUI programming on qt/kde supported platforms.

  14. Re:Mod parent insightful, but ... on Barack Obama Wins US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Well, probably when it wont be an "uncommon" thing to have a black president anymore African Americans will start choosing what to vote based on critical polices.

  15. Re:not just their pollutants on Scientists Fear Impact of Asian Pollutants On US · · Score: 1

    Too bad i dont have points to add a +1

  16. Re:The land of the free (as in beer). on Google's Streetview Seen As Culturally Insensitive In Japan · · Score: 1

    Uhm the suspects pics on newspaper are not a new in Italy neither.
    And i have yet to find a hotel here in Italy where you cen get away without giving your documents. Even more, a friend of mine that worked in a Hotel here told me that they everyday bring the list of people that stays in the hotel to the police as the law requires it. So no, it's not only in the USA...

  17. Re:Go Georgia! on Evidence of Russian Cyberwarfare Against Georgia · · Score: 1

    Common, you cant really believe what you're saying.
    During Kosovo's war there were around 1,000,000 people mooved from Kosovo to neighbouring Albania and Macedonia. Even being followed and bombed by the Yugoslavian army. Even inside Albanian borders. And i fucking can confirm it, my father happened to have an empty building, and there we gave a way to stay to 39 people from Kosovo. This in Tirana which is far from the border. Tirana those days was full of people from Kosovo as were other cities but i talk for what i know in first person.
    After the war ended some of the people that stayed in my father's building asked me and my brother to visit them in their cities in Kosovo. So it happened i went there 1 month after the war. In Prizren, Gjakovà and PrishtinÃ. And i can tell you the smell of corpses was present everywhere. The burnt houses too, the explosive holes on the highways and much more. And everybody i knew there had at least a parent killed.
    Now dont come and tell me things were exagerated.
    Even just considering that except Macedonia and Montenegro, everybody else in the Former Yugoslavia got his ass kicked from Miloscevic's army (i refuse to think all serbs were ok with that), and who got kicked harder were the Bosnians and Kosovars.
    As a side note on Kosovo, it was an autonomy till when Miloshevic came in power (exactly exacerbating the ethnic hate in Kosovo BTW).

    Now as for the relationship with Georgia, there are some resemblances or not, i cant say much as i dont have much knowledge on the history in those places. But just judging from the arrogance the Russian government uses i tend to believe more it's just a reaction of the Russians
    to Georgia's willing to join NATO.

  18. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    c) by contract i have to provide a computer for my own, so it's my laptop and i use it how the fuck i want out of work. And as for your d) i dont have to be married for being able to "have it". And neither had the need to pay for that either. But of course being here i should had expected this reply.

  19. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    Nope, has to do with the fact that i use my personal laptop on job too. And damnit, is my fucking business how i use it out of job

  20. Re:Awesome bar disable? on Firefox 3.1 Alpha "Shiretoko" Released · · Score: 1

    Because i'm used as in all other browsers to just type the first URL characters (not considering the www) and getting URLs that start with those characters, not a randoom collection of stuff that just happens to have those characters somewhere. In short, it should be a location bar.
    It's okay for me to have to change an obscure about:config setting to, no problem with that. But fucks sake, at least leave it configurable.

    And, okay, an episode that happened to me related to the awfullbar; i was with the boss in front of my computer and had to make a quick search on google for checking something or such. Typed the first characters and got the pull down with the usual randoom collection of URLS not starting with what i typed. And much of those were from a porn site. And the icon included in the urls was the top of all.

  21. Re:The font still sucks on KDE 4.1 Released, Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Spot on! I use kde from the 2 days and a month ago i had to buy a new laptop. then tried ubuntu (the only linux distro i had around) on that and got surprised with the fonts, really the best default choices. But now back on my favorite, gentoo/kde as i found this setup better swits my needs. While we are at it, anyone knows how to (or where to get) the fonts used on ubuntu in kde?

  22. Re:Law of Economics Applies... on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    It's us from Balcans that are used to act that way indeed. And having a lot of imigration abroad makes it easy for us to ask to "the cousin" in US to buy a laptop as it's cheaper there or such.

  23. Re:so we can hate the french again? on France Seeks To Push 3-Strikes Law Across Europe · · Score: 1

    You can say the same for people all around the world ... Expecially lately, when nearly in all western countries you have to choose between 2 parties being forced to choose the least worst ...

  24. Re:Drool over Drobo on What NAS To Buy? · · Score: 1

    So how can you watch the moovie while changing the drives, 3 eyes? :P

  25. Re:VLC is "mature"? on VLC Hits the Device Market · · Score: 1

    Uhm, nearly everybody that i know under windows uses VLC. Actually was a surprise for me at first, i thought vlc was unknown to the windows people. I even asked them discovering that VLC is the more codec supporting player around even on win. Anyway, talking about mature, maybe the GP was refering to the content :P