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  1. Re:Quick, calculate me another way to profit. on Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve · · Score: 4, Informative

    Communism never meant you could use whatever you want; not in theory, nor in practice. The principle was "to each according to his need".

  2. Re:How to easily add HTTPS to a website? on HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    SSL certificates are not the problem: https://cert.startcom.org/

    The problem is that some browsers (mainly IE on XP) don't support SNI, so your website needs a dedicated IPv4.

    If you manage the machine, you can get a VPS with a dedicated IP for almost nothing (I pay $3/month), but managed web hosting is another issue.

  3. Re:Server Load on HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard · · Score: 1

    Why not? A cheap hosting provider is probably serving hundreds or thousands of sites from a single box, it makes sense to invest in an hardware solution that can be shared between all of them.

    And you can get free certs, as long as you don't need extra validation.

  4. Re:Can the EP take over my country, please? on EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet · · Score: 1

    Yes, but my country has proportional representation and yet has been government by shitty, corrupt parties since the 70s, when we transitioned from a fascist to a democratic state.

    I think it has much to do with the electorate and culture of the institutions.

  5. Can the EP take over my country, please? on EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet · · Score: 3

    Seriously, between the shittiness that is our national government and the shittiness that is the European Commission (fairly well demonstrated by having put my countryman Barroso in "charge"), the European Parliament seems like the only sane institution around here.

  6. Re:Can someone explain this point? on Mannequins That Watch Shoppers · · Score: 1

    Sure. And you can just install a hidden camera. So what?

    The point is not to make it technically impossible to record. They just didn't put record capabilities because it's illegal to record anyway, so it'd be useless.

  7. Re:Good on Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. If you write 'amazon.com' in your browser and the domain has an A record, it'll resolve directly. You don't need any alias - you don't even need to have a 'www.' subdomain configured.

  8. Re:True dat on Pirate Party MEP Helps Draft New Credit Card Company Controls · · Score: 1

    Even if that was true, not all parties are part of the government, so they can still tell what the government doesn't want people to know.

    And before you claim that "the two parties are the same", consider that the US is just one of many countries.

  9. Re:this is a bad sign on Sharp Overwhelmed By Volunteers For Early Retirement · · Score: 1

    I made a mistake, the last quote is actually Thatcher's, in the memorial lecture of Keith Joseph.

    But I don't deny she was a conservative, I'm saying she was a New- or American-style conservative, not a traditional European conservative.

    And 'conservationist' is someone who advocates conservation of natural resources. You mean 'conservative'.

  10. Re:they are just bits on Popular Android ROM Accused of GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    Uh, the GPL doesn't prevent you from making money from the distribution of code, not even by selling it.

  11. Re:this is a bad sign on Sharp Overwhelmed By Volunteers For Early Retirement · · Score: 1

    Thanks darling, but I claim no such thing. Like many people, she didn't fit the labels cleanly, but she was still much more a New- or American-style Conservative than a traditional European conservative.

    the thing that people do not recognise is that Margaret Thatcher is not in terms of belief a Tory. She is a nineteenth-century Liberal.

    -- Milton Friedman

    The kind of Conservatism which he and I...favoured would be best described as âliberalâ(TM), in the old-fashioned sense.

    -- Keith Joseph

    She was much more a New- or American-style Conservative than a traditional European conservative.

  12. Re:250$ buys you a lot of netbook... on $250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast · · Score: 1

    That's not the source of Dropbox, that's just the Nautilus extension. The daemon is proprietary too.

  13. Re:this is a bad sign on Sharp Overwhelmed By Volunteers For Early Retirement · · Score: 2

    That definition of conservatism is limited to the American conservatives; in Europe, where the term originated, conservatives were far from fans of capitalism, much less of laissez-fair, and supported a controlling state with strong ties to the dominant religion (Catholic Church here in Latin countries), like in the "God, Homeland and Family" motto that was used here in Portugal.

  14. Re:Individual Song Downloads on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 1

    I'm not GP, but I've listened to it a bunch of times before going to their concert in '09, and I frankly never picked it up again. It's OK, but hardly worth repeating the experience.

  15. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    To expand: I think it's plain and obvious that it's extremely different to live in a place where maybe more than two millennia ago some people lived and were defeated (and no longer even exist), as opposed to living in the place where the fight is occurring, and therefore supporting it.

    Your argument is a complete false equivalence, and I despise your position that we should strive to be nothing more than animals, taking other's land by force, as much as I would despise someone who took yours.

  16. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    I don't live in the US nor am I from there, but nice try.

  17. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Weren't they living there?

  18. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    You said that the non-acceptance of the UN plan by the Arabs justifies the expansion of Israel. Therefore, the Arabs had to choose between accepting a plan that took away a bunch of their land, or eventually have much more of their land taken away with the justification that they didn't accept the plan.

  19. Re:You disgust me. on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Why should the Arabs have to choose between accepting the UN plan or getting invaded by Israel?

  20. Re:Sound subsystem fragmentation on Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? · · Score: 2

    And this story demonstrates another problem: most Linux gamers dual-boot anyway, so most Linux sales a publisher could get would probably cause an equivalent drop on the Windows side.

    Maybe the 30% tax on the upcoming "Windows Marketplace" - assuming it kills third-party platforms - can change this equation, but I doubt it.

  21. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    I know not who Martin Luthor was, but Martin Luther was the guy quoted a lot by the ruling party members in Germany in the 1930s.

  22. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Oh, I have no doubts that there is much more violence begin carried on today in the name of Islam than any other religion, possibly combined. I just don't like whitewashing.

    And there is nothing tenuous about what the Catholic Church did during Franco. They were Catholic priests and nuns - not just the average believer - stealing thousands of babies from their mothers for decades.

  23. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, but they might bomb you if you offend them by being in a nightclub for people with the wrong sexual orientation.

    You may also offend them by being poor, in which case they might just steal your recently born baby.

    Of course, these are exceptions. But so is your accusation.

  24. Re:Space company founder trash-talks competition.. on Ariane 5 Has No Chance, Says Elon Musk · · Score: 2

    And what government would that be?

  25. Re:More Political Crap on GOP Study Committee Director Disowns Brief Attacking Current IP Law · · Score: 1