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  1. Re:ICANN has lost it! on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    Admittedly, yeah, not that arabic is that terrible (I grew up on arabic windows even if I only have very cursory basics in it). It's when they'll start expanding to UTF-16 and UTF-32 that they may have trouble getting everything in in such a way that you can make key modifiers work well enough to cover as much as possible.

  2. Re:ICANN has lost it! on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    Yeah I corrected myself lower - the Austronesian family mostly works.

  3. Re:Latin =/= Support for English only. on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    There's only a handful languages that use strict ascii, one is dead, and a bunch is a small family of closely related languages spoken by about 2 million people in the Pacific, which is what TFS and TFA describes TLDs as being able to do.

  4. Re:ICANN has lost it! on ICANN Approves Non-Latin ccTLDs · · Score: 1

    You look in the table of characters, it's not like there's thousands of french words that have that. Hell, the cedille is common enough to be added to the characters you can hit with a modifier on at least apple's version of US qwerty. Also, US ASCII isn't even considered good enough for british english because of loan words - it can do three languages right: Latin, US English and Hawai'ian.

  5. Re:Wiring is infrastructure on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    The laissez-faire concept was for wanting government out of the way of commerce, post was not considered commerce.

  6. Re:As an Australian living in Australia.... on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    Liberalisation of markets is not what the american conservatives do, and never implied what neoliberals want. The Vienna and Chicago boys tried to rewrite history.

  7. Re:As an Australian living in Australia.... on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    It comes from seating arrangements in the french national convention, dumbass.

  8. Re:Not government's job on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Thomas Jefferson set up public universities and hospitals, wtf are you on about.

  9. Re:free market on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    That's exactly the kind of behavior Rand wanted, monopolies of the "worthy captains of industry". She painstakingly spent a million pages writing that crap in some of the most painful BDSM rape fantasies written ever.

  10. Re:Wiring is infrastructure on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    You're a moron if you think laissez-faire is the only way a free market works, and if you think laissez-faire when it was thought up didn't consider government infrastructure as something important.

  11. Re:1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Dep on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    That and the quote - no wingnut would ever paraphrase that sentence.

  12. Re:1 Million Strong Against our SOCIALIST Fire Dep on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Fun thing: Crassus, the third man who ran Rome during the Caesar-Pompey-Crassus triumvirate, made his wealth that way; he bought the land for a joke sum, and if the person declined, his firefighters just didn't do a thing.

  13. So that's what the ministry of justice sounds like on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    in 1984 that is

    The role of the criminal justice system is repression. Justice is retribution: Punish those who do evil, and in measure to the evil done. Focus on deterrence, rehabilitation, or any other goal weakens repression and is a hazard to society.

    There, much more accurate

  14. Re:Revoke TDS' exclusive license on Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband · · Score: 1

    Shhhh, you'll confuse almost everyone by daring to imply governments and corporations are complicit, with one as the bagman and the other as the gunman.

  15. Re:As an Australian living in Australia.... on Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan · · Score: 1

    No it's not, "liberal" used to design a number of non conservative ideologies that got steam in the 18th and 19th centuries, and many liberals were in favor of public education, healthcare and such already then. Libertarianism itself is just a synonym for anarchism initially and I know plenty of libertarian-socialists who are terribly insulted at the hijacking a bunch of Randroids and industry captains have done of the term (which she hated anyway) for a neo-feudal nonsense that, afaik, disgusts a lot of small l capitalist libertarians too.

  16. Re:So any serious pirate group on Amazon Patents Changing Authors' Words · · Score: 1

    Yay, I knew these philology classes would pay off!

  17. You fail economics forever on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 1

    No it's not, or any economy is capitalism, including communism.

  18. Re:chipset inside and utilization? on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, although somehow even OCZ's JMicron drives have better reliability than most, however, for the better relialibility/safety option, the Vertex and Agility lines use Indilinx controllers, which should be perfect to use, although of course they still tend toward 2.5-3$ for the GB, not very useful unless you have a lot of budget and these requirements, or your laptop is ubiquitous (my case, I've had at least one dead hard drive for every laptop I've had, except this one, but I'm crossing my fingers as it's only on its first year and the fan already had to be replaced).

  19. Re:uh...no on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We forgot the East India company.

  20. Re:What a Troll! on Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts · · Score: 1

    So, hm, only about 184 million in property tax, or about 1% of the budget.

  21. Re:Netbook remix on USB? on Canonical Halts Ubuntu CD Free-for-all · · Score: 1

    Seconded, DSL and Puppy used to sell a few custom USB sticks with a preinstalled livedistro, now that computers without optical are more common as a consumer piece, it would be pretty awesome.

  22. Re:Apple Universal Binary is kinda of a joke. on Ryan Gordon Wants To Bring Universal Binaries To Linux · · Score: 1

    they contain 32 and 64 bit code

    that's x86_32 and x86_64, although 32 bit x86 is apparently also soon to be a dead horse on mac (only the rev A intel macs can't handle it - they're 4 years old, so by 10.8-10.9 they will probably be dropped from the main support list, too), what AC means is that Apple will probably go with ARM more and more once they have a chip that compares to the current intel offerings and do 64 bit - for now I kinda doubt it, but some people like to predict things, like an apple tablet since the newton died.

  23. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    They only really make software with a bit of hardware on the side, and their main customers are big corps and OEMs

  24. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't, on MacOSX it used to be spacebar and if it hasn't changed in SL, remains so.

  25. Re:Vodka on A Tale of Two Windows 7s · · Score: 1

    It exists on windows.