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  1. Re:BULLSHIT! on Soaring, Cryptography, and Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    You're being rational. Go back to whatever planet you came from and leave us to our hysteria.

  2. Re:Neat, but... on Silverlight 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I think the AC is looking for an implementation which is at least alpha quality. Moonlight describes itself as pre-alpha for silverlight 1.0 still.

  3. Re:A Muslim is not Islam on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    The same "we" that Pat Robertson speaks of when talking about Christians.

  4. Re:Qur'an verses in media on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    Mixing with music is the problem. Music is illegal under the Taliban -- fundamentalists consider it sinful. Put the holy in a sinful medium and it's a grave insult.

  5. Re:What are you smoking? on LittleBigPlanet Delayed Due To Qur'an-Sampling Audio · · Score: 1

    If you hate 90% of people then your point stands. If not, the point is that since all religions are regressive and offensive but most people aren't so bad, apparently most people try to filter the bad out of their religions and keep the good.

  6. Re:Credit crunch my butt on Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off · · Score: 1

    Maybe what saved the economy was the fact that the war put a lot of women to work. That increases not not only the workforce and total output, but average family income -- just as women going to work more permanently did decades later.

  7. Re:Great news but... on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 1

    If the do not open source it, one day it will a better alternative will grow out of the open source community

    ... which will be ignored by 98% of users even if it is better. Silverlight is the one real threat, not open source.

  8. Re:welcome to the future on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 1

    It's a win for a lot of us users who wanted it. Period.

  9. Re:RealPlayer? on Linux Now an Equal Flash Player · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or for anybody who listens to BBC radio, it's the only linux method supported.

  10. Re:It's not that it's a bad browser.... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    By "text browser" I [somehow] mean "browsing anything without flash."

  11. Re:It's not that it's a bad browser.... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 1

    Sure, I have 20 or so open most of the time. But Opera's better for text browser, firefox for media/compatibility, and konq has less annoyingly agressive caching.

  12. Re:The truth about the milanesa on Bugs Delay Release of Debian Lenny · · Score: 1

    Explain him why in his Ubuntu, Kubuntu or Fedora, he cannot see many web pages: he must download the Flash and the Java plugin, in order to install them with complicated commands.

    Using the command line to install java and flash? Which century are you posting from?

  13. Re:It's not that it's a bad browser.... on Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because you should have curiosity, and it costs you nothing? I've never understood single-browser people anyhow... I happily switch between Opera, Firefox and Konqueror depending on what I want to do. Do you not have enough RAM for two browsers?

  14. Re:As a non-american... on YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows · · Score: 1

    BBC Radio is open the rest of the world.

  15. Re:As a non-american... on YouTube Adds Full-Length Television Shows · · Score: 1

    I watch full-screen in youtube, but yes. Couldn't care less about the quality as long as I can see what's going on. If the resolution's too high the effects look stupider... radio drama has the best resolution.

    Does anyone seriously want to stand up, leave their computer and walk over to a TV in order to watch something? Why not have everything in one place? Why suffer moments of separation from the internet?

  16. Re:Ummm... on Looking For Earth-Like Exoplanets · · Score: 1

    Most aliens prefer parking garages that take fewer years to reach.

  17. Re:There is no problem here on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 1

    The dictionary observes what a word means in the community. If you use that word in a different way, you're just being an ineffective communicator or an idiot -- not a wild rebel fighting the evil definitions of the tyrannical majority. Words are for communication with other people, so you'd better use them the way other people do.

  18. Re:Why a keyboard, anyway? on Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    It's still not clear to me why precisely I want a hardware keyboard in my ebook reader.

    Scenario: you're reading some fiction and something stupid happens which detracts from your enjoyment of the story. Now you can use the handy keyboard to rewrite the offending parts.

  19. Re:Kindle and Sony have the same basic problem on Amazon Kindle 2 Leaked, Sony Reader To Get Touch Screen · · Score: 1

    In principle I agree, but phones are just too small. I've used my nokia tablet for reading, but at 4.1" the screen is about as small as I can stand... and heavier than I'd like.

    There's a reason you don't see many 4" paper books. You're never going to sell a phone with a 7" screen, so there's certainly a market for larger devices for reading. Though preferably these larger devices would do other things besides just reading.

  20. Re:So? Is anyone really surprised? on Was the Yahoo-Google Deal a Ploy To Weaken Yahoo? · · Score: 1

    You're forgetting
    3) Use the company's profits to hire an army and puchase nuclear weapons on the black market, then overthrow the Chinese government to get the law changed.

  21. Re:There is no problem here on Microsoft Treating "Windows-Only" As Open Source · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The dictionary is a governing body on what words mean. It agrees with OSI: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/open%20source

  22. Re:LNL on Michael Robertson Sued Over Missing Linspire Cash · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uh, Linspire was as much linux as any other distro. It was KDE with all the usual programs, though most of them renamed. It included proprietary codecs and a commercial dvd player, but was 99% open source and had a 100% open source derivative freespire.

  23. Re:Solution? on Can Static Electricity Generate Votes? · · Score: 1

    Or just a marker like we use in California.

  24. Re:Too bad my flash version isn't compatable on Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items · · Score: 2, Funny

    You must be using the binary 10 (2).

  25. Re:Totally agree on Stallman Says Cloud Computing Is a Trap · · Score: 1

    The company -- because the company is much more likely to have the resources to do things in your interest than you are, and attracts your usage by doing them.