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  1. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    German law prevents public demonstration in favour of nazism, racism or antisemitism. In particular denying the Holocaust is not allowed.
    Those are pretty serious offences to freedom of speech.

  2. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    In continental Europe, there is no difference.
    I do remember that in the UK, depending on whether you used a credit or debit card, you had different fees. No such thing here. Credit cards just allows to pay with the money that's in your bank account, there is no interest or whatever nonsense that the British (and probably Usian) credit cards have.

  3. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They're the same thing in most countries.

  4. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What sort of stupid parent doesn't provide a mean for their children to use the money on their own bank accounts?

  5. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Essentially all of non-UK Europe.

  6. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Except hate speech prevents expressing valid opinions, while defamation prevents expressing insults and false accusations.

  7. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1

    Germany has hate speech laws, so not really free speech.

  8. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 2

    It doesn't use your real name. It offers to do so, but you can refuse it.

  9. Re:typical on Facebook Ordered To End Its Real Name Policy In Germany · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Children have credit cards too.

  10. Re:W3C Testimonials Members list on HTML 5 funny on W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Wether it is XML or SGML hardly changes anything with regards to performance.

    The evolution of XHTML 2.0 was to ditch compatibility and move to semantic document markup.

  11. 21th month? on NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies · · Score: 1

    Good thing there are only 12 months in a year then!

  12. Shinzo Abe already was PM in 2006-2007 on Will Japan's New Government Restart the Nuclear Power Program? · · Score: 1

    Not really a "new prime minister", since he already took the job 5 years ago.

  13. Re:W3C Testimonials Members list on HTML 5 funny on W3C Finalizes the Definition of HTML5 · · Score: 1

    XHTML 2.0 was actually much better than this crap, but it's not an iterative improvement, it's a whole new language altogether.

  14. Re:Agree complete on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 1

    There is no room for what I think in this.
    The only things that matters is what the law says should apply.

    And a judge has already ratified that there is nothing to do as far as the law and the juridical system are concerned.

  15. Re:Agree complete on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 1

    Who is this "we" you're speaking of?
    Society?

  16. Customer Experience Program on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    What power user would agree to such a thing?
    It's just using my connectivity needlessly, and the anonymity in it is probably dubious.

  17. Re:Better idea on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 0

    I have a better idea: we stop wasting precious time of busy people and let them do their work to fix actual problems.
    Nothing good comes from dwelling on the past.

  18. Re:Agree complete on New Call For Turing Pardon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What is a crime and what isn't is arbitrary. At the time, the law, said this was a crime, so it was.
    There is no absolute definition of crime, just what a jurisdiction will classify as crime during a certain time period.
    Therefore, technically, there is no reason to give a pardon at all.

    The thing is, emo people would feel better if a pardon was given, because the previous law was unjust (whatever that means) and therefore changed. So the real question here is the following: shall we throw logic out the window to make the masses happy?
    The answer, of course, is no. There is no sufficient popularity to gain to justify such nonsense.

  19. Re:Digital signatures are too complex an idea on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    The private key is the equivalent of the physical card that only you own.
    The public key is the facade of the card as you show it to people.

    Even if we trust the government as a third party, it doesn't really solve the other problems with digital signatures. People still have to understand how to create them, distribute them, revoke them, how to know when they are compromised and how to actually use them. I don't see an easy solution to those problems.

    I'm afraid I don't see your problem.
    The governments clearly take care of all the points above, just like they take care of creating passports, distributing them, revoking them, and knowing when they're compromised.

  20. Re:Cisco can't deal with acquisitions on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 1

    The high-end Tandberg telepresence endpoint is the T3. Picture below from 2008.
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Tandberg_Image_Gallery_-_telepresence-t3-side-view-hires.jpg

    They sell the whole room, and I believe it is indeed in that price range, if not more.
    I won't go into too much detail, but know that Tandberg had made some interesting innovations to make both its software and hardware quite better than the competition; supporting higher resolutions, at higher framerates, with better encoder/decoder quality, better interoperability, and better data loss tolerance. Tandberg contributes (contributed?) to the new h265 video standards, and worked on next-gen endpoints with Tilera many-core processors. They were, however, quite more expensive that the alternatives, in particular their rival Polycom (no one considered Cisco as a viable telepresence solution at the time).

  21. Re:Cisco can't deal with acquisitions on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 1
  22. Cisco can't deal with acquisitions on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 2

    I used to work for a company that was bought by Cisco: Tandberg.
    They cancelled all the high-end Tandberg projects because they were in competition with the products they had developed internally, despite Tandberg's products being vastly superior.
    Cisco's products are crap but they want to brand themselves as quality, and they want all their acquisitions to serve the low-end market.

    As a result all of the founders and star employees left the company. Several of them used the money they got from the IPO to make new companies in the same sector.

  23. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    People just don't buy optical media anymore.
    They just download scene releases, the quality and experience are better.

  24. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    how many of those will be willing to buy $1000 TVs

    You mean there are decent TVs for less than $1,500?
    What fantasy world do you live in?

  25. Re:Digital signatures are too complex an idea on Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? · · Score: 1

    The government is already handing out ID cards and passports, which are essentially the same thing except they can't be used in the digital world.