Nobody would seriously consider using the crappy non-x86 Linux versions, either. Linux, as well as Windows, is a pure x86 thing today, and Windows supports far more hardware than Linux ever will.
That recent Linsider announcement, "We don't usually post new sites, but...", and now "Linsight has a good summary"... doesn't quite look like coincidence, does it? Does CmdrTaco own stock in them, or is Hemos being blackmailed with photos of him and his hamster?
That's just two days, very quick in comparison. The "Scotch Tape Storage" story was a full year behind. And I'm not really sure I want to know what the Slashdot guys are doing all day instead of looking at the stories.
This is what we should do with Mac users!
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani man was sentenced Thursday to die in the way he killed 100 children - strangled, dismembered and with his remains dissolved in acid.
The judge ordered Javed Iqbal, 42, executed in a Lahore park in front of his victims' parents.
``You will be strangled in front of the parents whose children you killed,'' Judge Allah Baksh Ranja said. ``Your body will then be cut into a 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children.''
``Your honor, I am innocent,'' Iqbal said upon hearing the sentence. His lawyers said he will appeal, a process that could last years.
The government said it will challenge the sentence.
``We are signatories to the human rights convention which does not permit this,'' Pakistan's Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said.
Public punishments are not common in Pakistan, where death sentences are carried out in prisons by hanging.
``You don't answer back a sick man in a sick way by the state,'' said Asma Jehangir, a human rights lawyer who also consults for the United Nations. ``This is judicial anger and emotionalism. This is unheard of. It is barbaric.''
The judge did not say who would carry out the death sentence. Under Pakistani law, family members are allowed to kill a convicted murderer in the same manner as their relative was killed.
Or they can show mercy.
``In this case you will have to get all 100 families to agree to show mercy,'' Jehangir said.
Ranja also sentenced Iqbal to 700 years in prison for destroying evidence - seven years for each of the 100 bodies dissolved in acid.
Iqbal had testified that he was only a witness. He said his confession letter was intended to teach the parents of the missing children a lesson and frighten them because they had neglected their children. Some of the victims - mostly beggars, street kids or runaways - had been missing for more than six months before their parents reported their disappearance to police.
Iqbal had shared a house with three youths, who also were found guilty in the crimes.
A 17-year-old identified only as Sajjid was convicted on 98 counts of murder and sentenced to death and 686 years in prison. A 15-year-old named Nadeem was convicted on 13 counts and given 186 years in prison. A 13-year-old boy identified as Sabir was given a 42-year prison sentence.
The trial generated strong emotions in Pakistan, where serial killings are a rarity. Throughout the trial, parents of the missing children held a vigil outside the courtroom, screaming abuse at Iqbal and demanding the death sentence.
In a Dec. 2 letter mailed to police, Iqbal said he went on his killing rampage after being abused by police. He claimed he had been wrongly detained and badly beaten while in custody. Iqbal said he strangled the children, dismembered their bodies and placed them in a vat of acid.
Iqbal later recanted, but the letter led police to his home where they found the remains of two bodies in a blue vat. Police also found pictures of 100 children and clothes belonging to the young victims, whom they believed also were sexually abused.
Parents of missing children viewed the pictures and went through the clothes to determine if their children were among the victims. Most of the children were identified, but police did not recover any more bodies.
On Dec. 30, Iqbal walked into the office of a newspaper and turned himself in.
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If it's mission critical, why don't you use a real operating system?
Right, to run Gnome at a reasonable speed, you don't need more than 3 or 4 processors.
Nobody would seriously consider using the crappy non-x86 Linux versions, either. Linux, as well as Windows, is a pure x86 thing today, and Windows supports far more hardware than Linux ever will.
Who cares about Posix these days? Linux uber alles.
Use Windows. It's that easy.
Since Linux sucks, I didn't download it in the first place. Everything else works fine.
What about "Fucking Bullshit"? Oh, wait, that's the proper name for GNU/Linux.
goatse.cx without the picture is kind of pointless...
shutup
If you use Java, the Linux community doesn't want you anyway.
But long ago, I had the pleasure of posting at -2. Those days are gone.
Why is there no high score list for negative karma?
MMMM, PANTS....
...than having the military people in control of that stuff.
Another all-time low. That trick doesn't seem to work...
That recent Linsider announcement, "We don't usually post new sites, but...", and now "Linsight has a good summary"... doesn't quite look like coincidence, does it? Does CmdrTaco own stock in them, or is Hemos being blackmailed with photos of him and his hamster?
Getting rid of X is a good start. Next, we have to get rid of Qt, and then there's only Linux left to get rid of. Let's do it!
...that he's talking about a "Creative Daemon Content" instead of "Contest"?
That's just two days, very quick in comparison. The "Scotch Tape Storage" story was a full year behind. And I'm not really sure I want to know what the Slashdot guys are doing all day instead of looking at the stories.
The judge ordered Javed Iqbal, 42, executed in a Lahore park in front of his victims' parents.
``You will be strangled in front of the parents whose children you killed,'' Judge Allah Baksh Ranja said. ``Your body will then be cut into a 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children.''
``Your honor, I am innocent,'' Iqbal said upon hearing the sentence. His lawyers said he will appeal, a process that could last years.
The government said it will challenge the sentence.
``We are signatories to the human rights convention which does not permit this,'' Pakistan's Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said.
Public punishments are not common in Pakistan, where death sentences are carried out in prisons by hanging.
``You don't answer back a sick man in a sick way by the state,'' said Asma Jehangir, a human rights lawyer who also consults for the United Nations. ``This is judicial anger and emotionalism. This is unheard of. It is barbaric.''
The judge did not say who would carry out the death sentence. Under Pakistani law, family members are allowed to kill a convicted murderer in the same manner as their relative was killed.
Or they can show mercy.
``In this case you will have to get all 100 families to agree to show mercy,'' Jehangir said.
Ranja also sentenced Iqbal to 700 years in prison for destroying evidence - seven years for each of the 100 bodies dissolved in acid.
Iqbal had testified that he was only a witness. He said his confession letter was intended to teach the parents of the missing children a lesson and frighten them because they had neglected their children. Some of the victims - mostly beggars, street kids or runaways - had been missing for more than six months before their parents reported their disappearance to police.
Iqbal had shared a house with three youths, who also were found guilty in the crimes.
A 17-year-old identified only as Sajjid was convicted on 98 counts of murder and sentenced to death and 686 years in prison. A 15-year-old named Nadeem was convicted on 13 counts and given 186 years in prison. A 13-year-old boy identified as Sabir was given a 42-year prison sentence.
The trial generated strong emotions in Pakistan, where serial killings are a rarity. Throughout the trial, parents of the missing children held a vigil outside the courtroom, screaming abuse at Iqbal and demanding the death sentence.
In a Dec. 2 letter mailed to police, Iqbal said he went on his killing rampage after being abused by police. He claimed he had been wrongly detained and badly beaten while in custody. Iqbal said he strangled the children, dismembered their bodies and placed them in a vat of acid.
Iqbal later recanted, but the letter led police to his home where they found the remains of two bodies in a blue vat. Police also found pictures of 100 children and clothes belonging to the young victims, whom they believed also were sexually abused.
Parents of missing children viewed the pictures and went through the clothes to determine if their children were among the victims. Most of the children were identified, but police did not recover any more bodies.
On Dec. 30, Iqbal walked into the office of a newspaper and turned himself in.
I guess Hemos is spending too much time with his hamster, so there's no time left for new stories.
Come on, guys, this was demonstrated at CeBit last year. Even by Slashdot's standards, running the story now is a bit late.
Wow, it's taken him only 25 minutes to fix it. Congratulations!
Looks like Taco can't even balance quotation marks.