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  1. Re:Warrants on New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Doesn't that kind of make sense? Before phone was the only possible electronic communications device. If there's a need (real need) to tap on to someones phone, it should include all electronic communications.

  2. Re:US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Conclusion:

    Afghanistan is doomed.

  3. Re:"Viral mechanic"? on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 2

    Eh, I suspect you don't understand the area. It is perfectly clear what he means by it. If you have nothing meaningful to say, just don't.

  4. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    And not only WTO rules, but pretty much every international treaties when it's in their interest.

  5. Why not on Finding Someone To Manage Selling a Software Company? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You didn't tell why you came to conclusion that you would make more money that way, and it seems you haven't tested the other possibility either. Why not? If it doesn't work, then sell it. It also gives more value for the platform.

  6. Re:Fuck you America ... on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 1

    But you do not even need to enter. This applies if you're even flying over US, lets say Canada->Mexico.

  7. US bullying and demanding other countries.. on Canada's Airlines Face a Privacy Dilemma · · Score: 5, Insightful

    .. to do exactly what they say, or suffer?

    Now I didn't see this one coming.

  8. Re:Worthless on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 1

    Bye, I'm off to set my User-Agent to elinks, and access the target websites over every tor exit node.

    Talk about completely wasting your time while thinking you're being clever. While true it doesn't represent the usage 100%, the sample size is a little bit larger than that.

  9. Re:Chrome on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 1

    Well that was a bit different metric, but the point still stands.

  10. Re:Chrome on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It does sound a bit more reliable than Net Applications tho, "which the company says encompasses data from some 160 million users per month.". Thats 31x larger source for data.

  11. Re:Obviously on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    Well, isn't that exactly what they're doing? If US owed China only a little big, China wouldn't ship anymore. But since it's a huge sum, it's better for them to just continue (if it's economically viable) than try to pursue the money by refusing to ship more products (and hurt their own economy too). At some point its all going to crash tho, and in worst case could lead to war or other shit.

  12. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    For a moment I though you were actually talking about Chinese, but you're actually describing the US bubble. Good job.

  13. Re:Was waiting for Chrome on OSX until... on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Congrats on having the same sort of doughbagery advertising we've come
    to expect from Microsoft and Apple, do you feel like you really belong now?
    That we really, really like you now?

    This is exactly why I don't understand Google fanboys. They think it's some hippy, "don't be evil", and cool group of "indie" people, while in fact it's just like every other huge corporation doing the best they can to make more and more money. They just have good PR people, which really isn't a surprise since they're basically an advertising company with a technology side to enable their main business.

  14. Chrome on Google Chrome Displaces Safari As Third In Survey · · Score: 4, Informative

    Has passed? StatCounter shows they already passed in August 2008, far before Chrome beta for Mac or Linux was available. However Internet Explorer still seem to have majority of marketshare with 63% (interestingly the Net Applications site seems to use IIS..)

    Interestingly other countries seem to have a totally different market shares (wiser users?):
    Opera is leading with 32% in Russia, with 35% in Ukraine, and 44% in Belarus.
    China saw a huge 7% decrease from 95% in just recent two months, with Maxthon picking up the same percent and Firefox as 3rd with only 3%. (Maxthon uses IE engine tho)

    Google has huge ways to market Chrome; they can do tv/billboard ads, internet ads, include a notice on their sites (like they're doing with YouTube) and enable option to install it along with their other apps, and pay manufacturers to include Chrome with their pc's.

  15. Re:Obviously on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 1

    And what if the Chinese decide to retaliate and simply shut down exports for a couple of months?

    In this economy, I think the Chinese would suffer more.

    The West needs to stop shipping their dollars to China for finished goods. If China were to help with the weaning off process, it would be excellent.

    In this economy? "This economy" doesn't hit China nearly as much as US, because their base industries are all self-sufficient.

    And another thing to consider is that they're pretty much the only supply. You either buy what they offer or be without.

  16. Re:and why not ? on China Moving To Restrict Neodymium Supply · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Exactly, and I think we will see much more such too. China is improving its economy fast currently, with the USA's economy crisis and huge debts. They're getting their foot between the door, and I think both China and Russia will be starting to have a lot larger influence on global economy soon. Russian entrepreneurs are already buying big shares of US companies and gaining larger share of US corporations. China (and Taiwan) is attacking from the cheap manufacturing and resources supply front, India is attacking from the cheap programming and computer technology front, and Russia is attacking from the ownership of US companies front. With the huge government debts and economic slowdown, what will happen to US? It's already known the spendings are too much and theres no possibility to live on debt forever.

  17. Re:Let's start digging then... on NASA Mars Rover Spirit May Move Forward By Spinning Its Wheels · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Earth it wouldn't, but it's a different matter in space. The dust wont be falling down but just flow all around the rover, since theres no gravity.

  18. Do you hear that? on Microsoft Says Goodbye GUI, Hello MUI · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's the sound of all the slashdotters coming on the idea of not having to use a mouse when porn surfing. Just move your, eh, muscle to the direction.

  19. Re:What about epoch + 2G? on The Long Shadow of Y2K · · Score: 1

    I don't see how planes would be falling tho, most likely the integer just swaps around back to zero, but it's not like planes have some code like if (date() 1980) crash();

  20. Re:Just wait for the 2010 bug on The Long Shadow of Y2K · · Score: 1

    And why exactly would be that?

    The reason for Y2K bugs is pretty ridiculous tho, someone had to see it coming. It's not even like the amount of available IPv4 addresses, it would had required some imagination back then to understand there would be so many internet connected machines today. But years you just saw coming.

  21. Re:Apple sucks that Chinese tit on Apple Censors Dalai Lama iPhone Apps In China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And you can apply the same kind of "censorship" in the US and elsewhere too. Apple wont let you release apps to the app store that break laws, just the same way they wouldn't let you release some app praising Hitler in Germany.

    There are no principles involved - it's a company making money for its shareholders for gods sake. They wont fight the impossible-to-win fight against China government, instead they just do like any other company working in any country would do - play by the rules.

  22. Re:Enlighten about technology? on Italy May Censor Torrent Sites · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not saying that, the courts are. Sure you can always go the "but we are like google" route, but I think its perfectly clear what The Pirate Bay's purpose is.

  23. Re:UI responsiveness on A Mixed Review For Google Chrome On Linux · · Score: 1

    I agree you on the Google information feeding part. But firefox's UI responsivess is still a deal breaker for me, after using Opera for 10+ years.

  24. Re:Enlighten about technology? on Italy May Censor Torrent Sites · · Score: 1

    It's not even about censorship. What The Pirate Bay and others supporting "swedish piracy" fail to see is that your purpose will count in court. No matter the stupid .torrent 'indirect' linking, hash linking, whatever, the judge will look at what your purpose is. This is why the pirate bay failed in court. It is perfectly clear what they are doing. On another note, sweds do have a nice culture, as seen in this tv advertisement.

  25. Re:javascript on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 1

    Yeah that I can second, it's not an awful language by itself. But a programming language is only as good as what can run it. We have all hated Java for that. Some even hate Flash (tho I dont really see a reason). Some javascript is perfect for its job, even while there are quirks with it.

    But something as a beginner language? No. It would be better to get his interest in programming with something you can do games and such with.