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  1. Re:I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0 on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    LaTeX is ideal for knocking out a quick letter. It has a letter class that does everything you need and looks great. The margins need a little tweaking, but you only have to do that once.

  2. Re:No Such Thing as "British Police" on LulzSec Calls For PayPal Boycott, Spokesman Arrested · · Score: 1

    Well Nebraska isn't recognised as a nation state as Scotland IS under the Articles of the union is it?

    OK, here's a more fitting analogy. It's just as valid to call Scottish people "British" as it is valid to call people from the US "North Americans".

  3. Ambiguously Gay Duo on What Happens After the Super-Hero Movie Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Can Ace and Gary make it in the theater?

  4. Re:Euphemisms on Better Copyright Through Fair Use and Ponies · · Score: 0

    The problem is that wealthy people will always be able to twist the government to their liking. Wealth is power, and power begets more power. We have to abolish both wealth and government if we are to be free.

  5. Re:Please widen kde.org! on KDE 4.7.0 Released · · Score: 1

    The human eye can best read lines between 60 and 80 characters long. Trying to read longer lines is fatiguing.

    Now I agree that a fixed pixel width is not the way to achieve the desired effect, but you really don't want to be reading 200 character long lines.

  6. Re:Simple solution on Ubisoft Brings Back Always-Connected DRM For Driver: San Francisco · · Score: 0

    I haven't bought a game with DRM in 10 years. Yet they keep publishing games with DRM. It's not really that simple of a solution after all.

  7. Re:I remember the big jump from DOS 1.0 to 2.0 on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    WordPerfect is more in line with editing a TeX file directly than it is using a modern WYSIWYG editor

    In other words, Word Perfect is better than a modern WYSIWYG editor.

  8. Re:Still in use on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    First thing to do on a development system: install cygwin

    Cygwin is a must on any Windows system. Almost any task you do on a computer involves file management, and Bash is much better at file management than anything graphical.

  9. Re:Rewrite the Constitution or face default! on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    Continuing tax breaks on the super rich is a major concession. This is a perfect example of how you and your kind are impossible to negotiate with. If you don't get everything you want, you deny you're getting anything.

  10. Re:No Such Thing as "British Police" on LulzSec Calls For PayPal Boycott, Spokesman Arrested · · Score: 1

    on a personal level i am Scottish not british

    That makes about as much sense as saying I am Nebraskan, not American. The country of Scotland lies mostly on the island of Great Britain. Therefore most Scottish people are also British. Would a Venn diagram help?

  11. Re:The only OS that stands against UNIX on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 1

    MS-DOS is dead. Windows is based on NT these days. NT was built by some of the same guys who did VMS. So it's more accurate to say we're looking at 2 major lineages, UNIX and NT/VMS.

  12. Re:No Such Thing as "British Police" on LulzSec Calls For PayPal Boycott, Spokesman Arrested · · Score: 1

    English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish are all subsets of British. Therefore English Police, Welsh Police, Irish Police, and Scottish Police are all British Police.

  13. Re:too big to fail? on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    Except that the system has been broken for so long that you can't really do that. Any change large enough to fix the system is large enough to label you an extremist. At some point you have to realize that keeping on like we have been IS an extremist position.

  14. Re:Rewrite the Constitution or face default! on House Websites Jammed After Obama Debt Speech · · Score: 1

    Then, he gets in front of the nation and the first thing out of his mouth was it's Bush's fault

    Which is in fact the case.

    The next thing out of his mouth was class warfare

    The past 30 years have been nothing but class warfare. But nobody calls it that when it's the upper classes waging war on the lower classes.

    Then he went on a rant of this is not how to run a country, blaming Republicans and absolving Democrats (despite Harry Reid's offer of a plan that also did not include tax hikes).

    Yes, Democrats are absolved because they have made major concessions, e.g. the Reid plan you just mentioned. Republicans have responded not by making concessions of their own, but by making more demands. This is not negotiation, this is taking America hostage.

  15. Re:to everybody who says how crappy DOS is on MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today · · Score: 2

    DOS was never intended to be a huge and all-powerful operating system. it was designed for the machines of the time

    Compared to operating systems for other machines of the time, DOS still sucked.

  16. Re:Oxymoron on Security Expert Slams Google+ Pseudonym Policy · · Score: 1

    Yes. In fact that's all they're really good for. If I want to keep in touch with people I know IRL, I'll give them a call or go for a visit.

  17. Re:Outrage on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    They may or may not need to obscure faces, depending on their use of the picture. But it's entirely legal to collect such data.

    Same goes for this data. They might need to redact the MACs if they intend to publish the data they collected. But there's no reasonable way to argue that they violated anyones rights by collecting the data in the first place.

  18. Re:Oxymoron on Security Expert Slams Google+ Pseudonym Policy · · Score: 2

    At the very least I must know something about who I'm sharing information with or I wouldn't be there.

    Yes, but that something doesn't need to be your real name. All you really need to know is that you share common interests.

    The only real privacy on a social network could be within your circle of "friends", as opposed to having a public profile.

    Or by having a public profile behind a pseudonym. That way you can even share your most embarrassing moment with the world, and it never gets back to you.

    I don't see why this is so hard for people to understand.

  19. Re:Imagine on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 2

    You needn't be so specific in targeting the conservatives - it's true of all politicians from all sides across the whole world. If a report or scientific study doesn't give the result they want, then they reframe the question and try to bury or hide the original.

    Yes, whenever a politician encounters a scientific fact that conflicts with their ideas he will try to cover it up. The difference is that conservatives are much more likely to have ideas that conflict with scientific facts.

  20. Re:leak the damn thing on Canadian Government Muzzling Scientists · · Score: 1

    TFA said she was told she couldn't speak because she has to give evidence in a judicial inquiry.

    Why does that make it OK? Why should judges be able to stop scientists from reporting their results to the public in a timely manner? As long as the evidence she gives on the stand is accurate, why does it matter what she does in the media?

  21. Re:Not defending Google here... on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Now, I'm not saying this makes it all ok

    I am. What you broadcast on public spectrum is public information. It is OK for anyone to do anything with that data.

  22. Re:Outrage on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Google grabbed this info from the street, without asking permission

    Why would you need permission to capture data from public spectrum?

  23. Re:The only thing this console generation taught m on PS3 "Strong Contender" To Overtake Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    How so? TVs still have composite inputs, and there's a used game store in every small city I've been to. The hardware is pretty robust too. PSX lasers can fail, but it's cheap an easy to just pick up another unit.

  24. Re:The only thing this console generation taught m on PS3 "Strong Contender" To Overtake Xbox 360 · · Score: 2

    Try going backwards. An SNES or PSX will be a much better use of your time and money than a next gen console. Todays games aren't any more fun than the older ones, and the older ones have been around long enough so that it's known which ones are good. They're usually cheaper too, with a few exceptions.

  25. Re:It's 2011, don't open the attachment on The Rise of Polymorphic Malware · · Score: 1

    The rule is, never open an attachment you weren't expecting. If you weren't notified in advance by a trusted party of the attachments impending arrival, assume it is malware.