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  1. Re:Do Boeing or Airbus also do this . . . ? on Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, newsletters would like to subscribe to you?

  2. Re:Regex on VeriSign Could Add 220 New Top Level Domains · · Score: 1

    Don't change them, unless you really have to. In fact I would be thrilled if all the tools would break when used with a new TLD, browsers would not recognize them as URLs and thus redirect to Google, network admins block them because they could be porn domains like .XXX... Nobody would actually use them if they don't work right for a sizeable chunk of the potential userbase.

    Not that anyone will upset their users (and bosses) for this.

  3. Re:Next step on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 1

    there's a reason that the only swastika in the Captain America movie is a one second scene that could be easily cut for foreign distribution.

    Not for Germany. Swastikas can be depicted in movies as they, unlike video games, are considered works of art.

  4. Re:Bloat on Apache OpenOffice Lagging Behind LibreOffice In Features · · Score: 1

    When they find an unused method, why can't they remove it immediately?

  5. What, no copyright extension? on 'Mein Kampf' To Be Republished In Germany · · Score: 2

    I was fully expecting a push for copyright extension. Just so this book wouldn't be freely available. Anything else would have been "collateral damage".

  6. Re:Mirror on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 0

    Nobody reads Slashdot anymore either.

  7. Re:Choose two: on Startup Claims C-code To SoC In 8-16 Weeks · · Score: 1

    step one: compile gnu code licensed under gpl3
    step two: watch the lawsuits ensue while gnu demands the blueprint.

    Nah, I the blueprints would be more akin to the intermediate assembly that gets created when compiling somethin.g

  8. Re:Police not enough? on French Elections Could Affect HADOPI, ACTA · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Confusing France and Nazi Germany is just fucking dumb.

  9. Re:This e-mail was years after Google started Andr on Google Developer Testifies That Java Memo Was Misinterpreted · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Unlike Microsoft, Google doesn't claim that their platform is compatible with the JVM. Just as C can be compiled for x86 or ARM, Java can now be compiled for JVM and Dalvik and nobody claims they are bytecode-compatible.

  10. Re:personal pronouns are your friend on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    That, as opposed to which, can be used for both people and things.

  11. Re:What about open street map? on Google Earth Incorporates Crowdsourced Balloon Images · · Score: 2

    Indeed. Google Maps is horribly outdated in some places I care about but I haven't found any OSM (Android) app that even comes close in usability to Google Maps.

  12. Re:MAD. on Ellison Doesn't Know If Java Is Free · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google might get a huge kick in the garbage over Dalvik, Oracle might get a huge kick in the refuse over whether or not...

    That doesn't sound any better.

  13. Re:What about the legal implications? on Prince of Persia Source Code Released On Github · · Score: 5, Informative

    We did this for fun, not profit. As the author and copyright holder of this source code, I personally have no problem with anyone studying it, modifying it, attempting to run it, etc. Please understand that this does NOT constitute a grant of rights of any kind in Prince of Persia, which is an ongoing Ubisoft game franchise. Ubisoft alone has the right to make and distribute Prince of Persia games.

  14. Re:Privacy? on Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space · · Score: 1

    Don't let the horrible UI performance fool you, Spideroak is based on Python and not Java. Wuala doesn't have any jar or class files in its directory and looks native to me.

  15. Re:Women are cunts on The Ugly Underbelly of Coder Culture · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Everything is a compliment in Australia, you bloody fucking bastard.

  16. Re:Enforcement? on German Court Upholds Ban On Push Email In Apple's iCloud, MobileMe · · Score: 4, Informative

    The question I have is _in Germany_ who enforces court rulings? The petitioner, or an agent of the court?

    Normal court rulings are enforced by the court itself, injunctions have to be enforced by the petitioner via a bailiff, according to de.wikipedia.

  17. Depends on what you consider "knowing to program" and "language"... I'm a freshman and I have surely looked at dozens of programming languageish things.

  18. Re:It's a fact on US Judge Rules Against German Microsoft Injunction · · Score: 1

    But "WWII" didn't truly become a *world war* until the late 1930s.

    No shit, it started in 1939.

  19. Re:why do you even have phone booths? on Giant Touchscreens Coming To NYC Phone Booths · · Score: 1

    What we really need are cellphone dispensers.

  20. Re:Finish Minecraft First on Minecraft Creator Announces Space Sandbox Game Mars Effect · · Score: 2

    He made a shitload of money and presumably enjoyed working on Minecraft. If that is no success, I don't know what is.

  21. Re:Sigh on Minecraft Creator Announces Space Sandbox Game Mars Effect · · Score: 1

    I would assume that the droids do indeed translate, but we aren't shown it because that would be just annoying.

  22. Re:the bigger problem on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    That's linear growth.

  23. Won't somebody stop thinking of the children?

  24. Re:How can that even happen? on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 1

    And we use those about as much as we use floppy discs.

  25. Re:equal protection? on German Law To Make Google Pay For Snippets · · Score: 1

    It does have sort of an equivalent to that, in the form of a number of articles like "Every person shall have the right to (property|life|...)". That the state may not make a law that restricts these rights (unless otherwise authorized to do so by the constitution) is implied. I'm not sure which rights apply to corporations and to which extent.

    This new law will probably be constitutional for the same reason patents and copyrights are. I'm not sure what this reason is since the constitution doesn't specifically mention them, it might be the right to property.