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  1. Re:Backdoor for fairness doctrine on FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I know you Libertards like to misquote and claim the memory of Jefferson, founder of, among other things, some of Virginia's oldest public schools, who knew how to get public moniez easily and could play his state's legislature like a fiddle, but this one is from Gerald Ford, who invented it of whole cloth.

  2. Re:Backdoor for fairness doctrine on FCC To Propose Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    So you agree Rush is wrong, good.

  3. Re:Brain... locking... up... on Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" · · Score: 1

    LOL, who are the morons who modded it insightful :p - true though, I can run some malware in wine and watch the fireworks with amusement :p

  4. Re:Brain... locking... up... on Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" · · Score: 1

    That was only one of Debian's dumbass in-house patches that never made in the upstream - so only one of, what, 4 families of Linux distros affected by the bad decisions of the debianites? Not my fault if people like script packs and nih syndrome.

  5. Re:Brain... locking... up... on Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" · · Score: 1

    The Electors, nuance

  6. Re:Fine! on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    It's also possible to do that whole discography without a lot of effort though - if you only have the discography, that's more shows the performer doesn't need to do.

  7. Re:Is it like Sex Ed can I opt my Kid Out on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    I suggest we implement the hardline libertarian program and see how long it takes for them to be lined up on the wall for shit and giggles - oh right, if Somalia's any indication, a couple of years :p

  8. Re:Public Schools Taking a dump ... on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    Does Stormfront count as a source, because it's apparently one of them.

  9. Re:Okay, You Have the Floor on RIAA's Elementary School Copyright Curriculum · · Score: 1

    The first links found are from ABC and Stormfront - I guess that fits in well with your view of reliable sources.

  10. Re:the whole reason d'atre of The CodePlex Foundat on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 1

    (Yggdrasil was the first distro to do that - they called the whole OS LGX - Linux/GNU/X - I guess that flattered Stallman's ego enough to keep the first two letters and swap them so the core of the OS suddenly became less important than a bunch of utilities - let's face it, Apple and the *BSDs use gcc, so it,s most certainly what deserves GNU in the name)

  11. Re:the whole reason d'atre of The CodePlex Foundat on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 1

    Tell that to embedded devs.

  12. Re:the whole reason d'atre of The CodePlex Foundat on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 1

    GNU is not essential and can and has been in the past replaced by BSD and Plan 9 by individual efforts. It's not an OS. I can get any shell I want, I know of at least 4 libc, 5 compilers and 4 userland utilities sets I could swap for GNU - besides, the original tools in Linux were not GNU but GNU forks made because they couldn't give a fuck about micros.

  13. Re:Great. Now let's compare this on The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation · · Score: 1

    So that's why nobody considers basic in any inception as a serious language, point taken.

  14. Re:Somebody please on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    Well, in the US, yeah, unless you're a) part of BMI or b) don't give a damn. But with BMI they form a cartel, which is kind of ironic since BMI exists exactly because ASCAP used to be a monopoly.

  15. Re:Imagine! on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    So, unless you are blind AND deaf

    Not only

    in which case the internet in it's entirety is "inaccessibile"

    Wrong, I know it's /., but talking shit about stuff you know jack about is not a good argument.

  16. Re:What the fuck on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    ASCAP: ALL of the music publishers in the United States.

    No.

  17. Re:Imagine! on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    Any large scale implementation of capcha is in breach of section 501 (which applies to google as they're a US company) due to its inaccessibility (w3c report for the interested ) - this kind of lawsuit has already happened in the past if the company had an important enough presence and problematic implementation enough (and no, having sound samples is not unproblematic) to add a significant barrier to access to internet utilities.

    We'll just have to see how far and wide they go with it.

  18. Re:Not suitable for 15 yr old boys? on Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia · · Score: 1

    That would be most of the world.

  19. Re:Imagine! on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    They'd probably not do it because they'd be bound to be sued for it.

  20. Re:Somebody please on ASCAP Says Apple Should Pay For 30-sec. Song Samples · · Score: 1

    Not every, only 300k or something (and that includes songwriters) - a hell of a lot of indie acts are not on ascap at all. And of course they would then be also competing with foreign acts who are not trying to do business suicide.

  21. Re:Not suitable for 15 yr old boys? on Left 4 Dead 2 Banned In Australia · · Score: 1

    Hopefuly that was sarcastic as Puritans = founders of New England, drinking ban = *cough* that was the US and in some cases still is and "harm done to the western world" = most of Europe disagrees.

  22. Re:Cerebral achromatopsia on Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys · · Score: 1

    TBH, I'm not colorblind and have never understood the cultural understanding of colors that exists in the west, just, intellectually, sure, physically? Are you kidding me?

  23. Re:It doesnt matter... on Snow Leopard Missed a Security Opportunity · · Score: 1

    It's less than 30%, and the webserver people hack into is IIS, which is not only closed source but the runner up and by far behind apache's various versions - they know MS knows jack about security or the internet.

  24. Re:It's a cultural thing. on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    (okay, bad example since when I'm not being a balding 40yo overweight american male like everyone else on the tubes, I play a 24yo woman IRL ;) - but my grandfather and his nephews (mom is a single child) and brothers follow the same pattern).

  25. Re:It's a cultural thing. on On-Body Circuits Create New Sense Organ · · Score: 1

    My family is recent emigration from rural Britanny, in the north west of France, afaik it's that way still in many parts of Western Europe, but I'll be damned if I can tell you numerical addresses even in a city like Rennes. I can give the street, sure, but even there, I know the buildings and properties I need to remember by their name/street(s) - and I live on a different continent.