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  1. Language bias? on Zune HD Twitter App Censors Tweets For You! · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Naughty words in which language? Only English?

  2. Re:Not the best idea on Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In addition, what if this actually interferes with an emergency call?

    People don't place emergency calls over 3G data connections. Those are voice calls.

  3. Re:Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fht on Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop talking while you are chewing your food.

          -- Mother

  4. Re:Put him away... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    Still no reason to walk somebody against a window. I don't care if it was Osama Bin Laden himself.
        it is not something a society should agree with.

    Remember that "Innocent until guilty" part? It is not the officers part to decide that he is guilty and evene more not decide to give anybody a punishment 'because they deserve it'.

    I understand what you are saying. What I am saying is that the glass breaking wasn't because of the cop using excessive force. The drunk guy put this hand through the window, either because he punched it or the glass was brittle. It's pretty clear from the video that the cop was just taking him to the wall of the station, where there are windows, to cuff him. Here's a link to the video so watch and decide for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKhnKoQAfXA

    And remember, innocent until guilty works for both parties: the drunk guy and the cop.

  5. Re:Put him away... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    The fact that people were glad to have him removed does not mean the cop didn't do anything wrong. It is precisely when it is inconvenient that we should demand legal and civil rights be upheld, otherwise laws are nothing more than empty phrases to be abandoned when some cop has characterologic problems or there is a handy mob nearby.

    I agree completely with what you say. Having seen the video, I don't believe that the cop did anything wrong. The drunk guy held his hand up and put it through the window. Whether it broke because he punched it or the glass was brittle, I don't know. But it's clear from the video that the cop wasn't using excessive force. He was getting him to a wall to get his hands behind his back and get him handcuffed.

    Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKhnKoQAfXA

  6. Re:Put him away... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but under very few circumstances is pushing a guy through a piece of glass "doing nothing wrong."

    The cop didn't push the guy through the window. The guy held his right hand up and put it through the window, breaking it. Here's the video. The window breaks at 0:25 so decide for yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKhnKoQAfXA

  7. Re:Put him away... on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 5, Informative

    the more recent case where a bart police officer grabbed someone [who did need to be taken off the train], walked the poor guy across the platform and smashed a glass barrier with the guy's face.

    I saw the video of that. The guy being arrested was drunk and belligerent and was holding his hand out when it hit the glass. It wasn't his head but his hand that hit the glass. Did you see the video someone recorded of it and put online? The guy was picking fights with people on the train. When the officer pulled him off the train, you could hear everyone in the train car clapping. It was pretty clear that the officer didn't do anything wrong.

  8. Patent fight!!! on Apple Counter-Sues Nokia Over Patents · · Score: 1

    [grabs popcorn]

  9. Re:Linux FS rocks on DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33 · · Score: 1

    ZFS works great on Linux. Some of us don't care about the license, only if the software works. If you're a lawyer then I'm sure you love to get in a tizzy about the license, but for technical people with real work to do it's about whether the code works and is stable. It does and it is.

  10. Re:Facebook is not about privacy. on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 1

    He wasn't responding to you.

  11. Re:Bloated. on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Firefox has slowly become more and more like what really bothered me about IE. Nothing specific -- but it's getting slower and buggier. Just like IE. It's not quick and light like it used to be.

    I think the problem is all the extra javascript that is being added to the average web site. I've noticed sites getting slower and slower even on the same version of Firefox. Then 3.5 came out and sped things up a bit. I suspect that this will encourage developers to use more excessive javascript when it's not necessary and slow down their sites even more.

  12. Bloated? Give me a break. on Google Chrome Extensions Are Now Available · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does the availability of extensions put Chrome at risk of becoming bloated, like many complain about with Firefox?

    Are there really people so dumb that they use that line of reasoning? The only reason something would be bloated once you installed extra software is because you installed extra software. If you don't want to "bloat" your program, then don't install any addons. Problem solved.

    "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"

    "Then don't do that."

  13. Re:This has taken too long on The Perl 6 Advent Calendar · · Score: 1

    Perl 6 is a new language, not just an upgrade.

    Then they should have chosen a new name than use the same name as an established language. By not doing so they have created confusion leading to people thinking, rightly so, that this is somehow an upgrade to the older Perl.

  14. Re:Simple solution on Personalized Search From Google Now Opt-Out · · Score: 1

    I do. I don't like having lots of windows open and I close them when I am done with them. If I'm done browsing the web, I close my browser. I can always click the icon again and launch it in a second if I need it. Likewise, if I'm done with any other program, I close it.

    I agree with you about blocking cookies. I use the CookieCuller addon to review my cookies list about every week or two and see which ones go to what look like advertising and tracking sites. I then block those sites from setting cookies. I've also been looking at using the CS Lite addon which aims to be like NoScript for cookies, but it's not as user friendly as NoScript.

  15. Re:ZFS works great in Linux on FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    It could be slower. I haven't used ZFS outside of Linux for very long and haven't performed any speed tests. But it works for me. I get about 25MB/s with it. I'm using an older version (0.5.0) and a new stable version was released today that is supposed to be much faster. In any case, since FreeNAS is moving to Linux, then if FreeNAS users want to continue using it their choice becomes a matter of ZFS with slower performance or no ZFS at all.

  16. Re:ZFS works great in Linux on FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    Yes, it runs in userspace. It's not that slow for me. I can get about 25MB/s out of it, and I'm running an older release. A new stable version was released today and it has a number of performance improvements.

  17. Re:ugh on FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    Try ZFS, which isn't available on Linux due to licensing

    ZFS is available for Linux.

  18. ZFS works great in Linux on FreeNAS Switching From FreeBSD To Debian Linux · · Score: 1

    ZFS works quite well in Linux. I've been using it for over a year with no problems.

  19. Re:Of course on Man "Beats" World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    ...in 24 hours.

  20. Re:I'll admit... on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 1

    whoever puts in an IT Request about it gets fired.

    The first to get fired is the IT guy that didn't disable autorun on the company's computers.

  21. Re:A PC has no soul on Typewriters, Computers, and Creating? · · Score: 1

    But the actual physical materials are unique to that machine.

    As they are for each computer.

  22. Re:A PC has no soul on Typewriters, Computers, and Creating? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, real honest to god typewriter has character, every one is unique.

    Yes, as unique as the next one that came off the assembly line, identical in every way as the former save the serial number.

  23. Coral Cache links to the PDFs on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Why would an ad server slow down a site? on Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web? · · Score: 1

    Often the entire page is delayed until it has been fully cached, meaning it COULD display that empty box and fill it in when it gets the info but insteads it decides to make you wait for it all at once.

    That needs to be fixed in the browser.

  25. Hire a lawyer on Arrington's CrunchPad Dies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Airing your dirty laundry on your blog is a sure-fire way to alienate the very people with which you want to reach an agreement. You've no doubt made it harder to resolve your differences amicably, even if Fusion Garage were the ones being dicks.