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  1. Re:Cool on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 5, Funny

    HURD is, and will always remain, the OS of the future.

  2. Re:OK on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yggdrasil LGX was the full name of Yggdrasil, for Linux/GNU/X - apparently GNU people liked it enough, except for that pesky thing saying that the Kernel comes first and giving any credit to X.org

  3. Re:OK on Debian Elevates KFreeBSD Port to First-Class Status · · Score: 1

    There's a hell of a lot of people who ran GNU on SunOS, BSD and other Unixen before GNU started noticing that Linux had ported their shit to a unix clone for micros, why are Linux and FreeBSD any less entitled to say fuck off to GNU because they, years later, figured they were worth the time. The GNU OS is the one powered by HURD, all GNU has are a compiler/clib almost everyone uses anyway and a set of utilities which can be torn off linux distros and replaced by other shit anyway relatively trivially.

  4. Re:My essay on MIT Axes the 500-Word Application Essay · · Score: 1

    You're apparently still a jackass.

  5. Re:How will my butcher use these? on Microsoft Research Shows Off Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes · · Score: 1

    Accessibility means not forsaking, but having sufficiently redundant interfaces that not only asshole snowflakes like you can use them.

  6. Re:Obligatory Open Source comment on Ballmer: Don't Expect Simpler Licensing Soon · · Score: 1

    Apparently real men use towers on the go and prefer wrecked backs at 40.

  7. Re:Less tactile on Microsoft Research Shows Off Multi-Touch Mouse Prototypes · · Score: 1

    You have to enable a few of the gestures on Mac in System preferences, and yes it's pretty damn lovely - I basically just use a mouse for my linux box, and more and more I just remote on it so I can keep using my mbp's touchpad/work on a comfy couch :p

  8. Re:well duh... on Ballmer: Don't Expect Simpler Licensing Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes, but would "You are about to install Microsoft Windows on your desktop, your soul is ours" work well with the DoJ

  9. Re:Not for a while on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    Not much more legible than eink at night, only I happen to read more often in low light conditions where just dimming as low as I can and going negative will usually work. Like I said, for me - and people who'd need something that works more often in low light than in direct sunlight.

  10. Re:Not for a while on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    eInk is a nice technology, but for the strain reduction you get, a lcd with backlight to minimum tends to be more legible in the dark for me, and I've had more difficulty getting anything read with a kindle if the light wasn't perfect.

  11. Re:More on the "iPod for books" on Will Books Be Napsterized? · · Score: 1

    Legit, of course =/= costs money, some people listen to a lot of classical recordings, and they may do on their own something like Naxos records did, which is redistribute public domain recordings. It may not be common, but I'm pretty sure it happens. Then there's some bands who do distribute their records for free because they make their living on gigs (NIN, for one example).

  12. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Since I'm being blamed for picking american eamples, and it's not like tests are victimless, especially when you're indeed not throwing mere stones. I don't trust anyone with them, period. "Armed Deterrence" was also the order of the day behind Europe's mass mobilizations. That totally worked, right?

  13. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    That's why I read military historians when I want military history.

  14. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    Also, they still didn't know what had hit them at time of surrender.

  15. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    And I'm going from the historians

    a) They surrendered to the US because of that

    b) Russia had already launched the island hopping campaign

    c) The Kwantung army that was crushed in August Storm was over a million man strong.

    d) The Togo government was facing palace intrigues led by the foreign secretary. That's when the surrender happened

    e) Irrelevant.

  16. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    There are other secular democracies in the middle east, and Israel bows to religious interests just as much as any secular democracy that doesn't go for a state that is "legally atheist"

  17. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 1

    The japanese surrender only happened because blockade+soviet DoW had led the high command to realize everything was lost - hell, they were about right, the home islands were undefended on the asia facing coasts and the russians had overrun every japanese position on the continent in a week.

  18. Re:Not the first middle east nuke on Report Claims Iran Has Data To Build a Nuclear Bomb · · Score: 3, Insightful
  19. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Final point granted - I guess I have too many friends in Chicago who tend to just shrug it off and divide their scorn between Chi-town popo and the gangs themselves too.

  20. Re:Crossing borders elsewhere can be far easier. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Hell, in Europe, whole armies can cross borders accidentally and apparently almost nobody will notice

  21. Re:Border Control only? on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    Wow, because I totally never got my pockets picked in my home city. Like, it absolutely never happens.

  22. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    The best satire is usually unintentional.

  23. Re:"The most ridiculous interview..." on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    The last time I went to the US, my mother was driving me to the Greyhound station to avoid me the hassle of dragging three months of luggage in the metro, and her main advice "when you get in, they don't care that as a Canadian citizen you have a visitor visa waiver, especially since they'll hear that you're a foreigner, you lie and tell them you're only staying the month, you'll thank me when you write back from your boyfriend's"

  24. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    If you read the Papers written by middle class idiots who'd be afraid of their shadow in most working class neighborhoods of the world

    There, corrected for ya, I grew up in a neighborhood the newspaper like to describe as "omg violent gangs shooting each other" and yet, the ministry of justice's statistics hint (let's face it they wouldn't tell it) at the very well known fact that there's more police brutality going on than actual violent crime.

  25. Re:I'm sure it didn't help. on Did Chicago Lose Olympic Bid Due To US Passport Control? · · Score: 1

    With all the security proposals, is anyone actually getting protected?

    Or maybe it would be time to ask, seriously, how many of the lobbyists and congressists behind them happen to get a cut.