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  1. Re:I have a much more ambitious vision on The Continued Censorship of Huckleberry Finn · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it just takes another form, will we have to wait for another form of the Nazis to take power before we are able to identify the the groups that love the violence that racism brings?

  2. Re:This seems to be a very strange patent on OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming · · Score: 1

    The best thing altogether is the list of documents cited against this application: I stopped counting when I reached 100. Actually, having been patent examiner, I never ever before saw such a long list. How can the examiner seriously find the relevant elements comprised of aspects and features from more than 100 documents?

    128 references I suspect they were aiming for a nice and even number.

  3. Re:Long time ago on OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming · · Score: 1

    who knows what I missed or didn't understand before my eyes glazed over. : )

    Yeah that text was pretty dense and meaningless, so there probably something very important hidden in there.. :-)

  4. What does wireless has to do with onlive? on OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming · · Score: 1

    It just doesn't make sense 'apparatus and method for wireless video gaming.' does not contain "online internet gaming by streaming video"

  5. It's about money on Single-Player Game Model 'Finished,' Says EA Exec · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They just look at Zynga and hope they can make the same amount of money making crappy games.

  6. Vietnam war exposer on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wikipedia article , basically Ellsberg copied a couple of meters of reports stating that there were now way the US could win the Vietnam war.

  7. Haskell is in a similar position on Erlang and OTP in Action · · Score: 2, Funny

    But apparently the Haskell comunity found a programmer that actually care about Haskell just last week, they are now up to 38 people. I quote:

    People see words like monads and category theory," Briars continued, swatting invisible flies around his head for emphasis, "and their Giving a Shit gene shuts down...

  8. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    You just need to graph all that to make it "sellable". Good post.

  9. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    I mean All saints day which I thought was the same, but sure I get a paid day off.

  10. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 2

    From google translate:

    Finland 30
    France 30
    United Arab Emirates 30
    Estonia 28
    Lithuania 28
    Poland 26
    Denmark 25
    Greece 25
    Luxembourg 25
    Sweden 25
    Austria 25
    Israel 24
    Malta 24
    Germany 24
    Hungary 23
    Portugal 22
    Spain 22
    Cyprus 21
    Egypt 21
    Morocco 21
    Romania 21
    South Africa 21
    Australia 20
    Belgium 20
    Bulgaria 20
    Ireland 20
    Italy 20
    Japan 20
    Latvia 20
    Netherlands 20
    New Zealand 20
    Slovakia 20
    Slovenia 20
    UK 20
    Czech Republic 20
    Korea 19
    Malaysia 16
    Lebanon 15
    Hong Kong 14
    Pakistan 14
    Singapore 14
    Taiwan 14
    Vietnam 14
    India 12
    Indonesia 12
    Canada 10
    Thailand 6
    Philippines 5
    USA 0

  11. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 2

    This does not include days like Halloween and Christmas etc.

  12. Re:Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a list of the amount of paid days you are required to give your employees:

    Finland 30
    Frankrike 30
    Förenade Arab Emiraten 30
    Estland 28
    Litauen 28
    Polen 26
    Danmark 25
    Grekland 25
    Luxemburg 25
    Sverige 25
    Österrike 25
    Israel 24
    Malta 24
    Tyskland 24
    Ungern 23
    Portugal 22
    Spanien 22
    Cypern 21
    Egypten 21
    Marocko 21
    Rumänien 21
    Sydafrika 21
    Australien 20
    Belgien 20
    Bulgarien 20
    Irland 20
    Italien 20
    Japan 20
    Lettland 20
    Nederländerna 20
    Nya Zeeland 20
    Slovakien 20
    Slovenien 20
    Storbritannien 20
    Tjeckien 20
    Sydkorea 19
    Malaysia 16
    Libanon 15
    Hong Kong 14
    Pakistan 14
    Singapore 14
    Taiwan 14
    Vietnamn 14
    Indien 12
    Indonesien 12
    Kanada 10
    Thailand 6
    Filipinerna 5
    USA 0

    from unt.se

  13. Vacation time on Corporations Hiring Hooky Hunters · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should give your workforce a bit more vacation time, 5 weeks enough?

  14. Re:Bullshit on Interpol Issues Wanted Notice For Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    but what have [china] done for us lately?

    Produced 70% of what you own?

  15. Re:Sour grapes? on Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN · · Score: 1

    Except my friends have never managed to recover domains they have lost in the same way, how are they going to get WIPO to intervene on their part?

  16. Re:Sour grapes? on Peter Sunde Wants To Create Alternative To ICANN · · Score: 1

    ...except in domain disputes, average joe never wins.

    Sigh! You just get WIPO to tell ICANN that "According to the ifpi.com case you should give back the domain to avarage joe". How hard can it be?

  17. Re:I dunno man on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously a racist?

  18. Re:"Because You're Popular, You Get a Free Pass!" on Swedish Court Orders Detention of Wikileaks Founder Assange · · Score: 1

    you got to be ffffffffucking kidding me.

    Sadly there are many vocal swedish men who thinks rape is to serious in Sweden, or rather they say that many rape cases are false accusations and discuss this on their blogs bemoaning how pro-woman/feminism the media is.

    Kind of tiresome..

  19. Re:Reasonable packaging on New Device Puts SSD In a DIMM Slot · · Score: 1

    actually quite a few embedded platforms use flash as swap.

  20. Re:What dould possibly go wrong? on USB 'Dead Drops' · · Score: 1

    They do look quite alike. http://osm.org/go/uG4UMOp

  21. Re:resistive? on Hands-On Test With the Dirt-Cheap CherryPad Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    All cheap android tablets are resistive. I've seen people say good things about wits a81e, also a resistive and the Android versions has been shipping since june/july I think.

  22. Re:America on College Student Finds GPS On Car, FBI Retrieves It · · Score: 3, Informative

    Freedom is just a state granted regulated monopoly on your own free will.

  23. Minecraft is already doign this on Building the LEGO MMO · · Score: 3, Insightful
  24. Re:Dupe on Google Publishes Censorship Map · · Score: 4, Informative

    And here it is Googles transparency report instead of a useless article with no links. Interesting that Germany and the US have the same amount of take down requests..

  25. Re:No thicker than... on Promised Microsoft Tablet 'No Thicker Than Sheet of Glass' · · Score: 1

    Since they incorporate the multitouch in the screen it probably will be thinner than 1cm but I thought Surface was supposed to be a table so I guess it should have a glass surface made of 2cm thick glass..