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  1. Re:Canada too on China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users · · Score: 1

    Why would you need to lie?

    In common law countries (i.e. Canada and most of US) a person can have however many names they wish, as long as the names are not used for fraudulent purposes.

  2. Re:How can this be enforced? on China Demands Real Names From Mobile Phone Users · · Score: 1

    I believe officials can visit your registered address anytime after that to make sure you haven't sold the card. If India can enforce a law like this, I'm sure China can.

    Obi-Wan: "The phone is still in my possession. I am not the one you are looking for."

  3. Re:Enchantments? on Android Fork Brings Froyo To 12 Smartphones · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Who need enchantments when iOS comes with Reality Distortion Field?



    Oh wait, sorry, my bad. Only Jobs has RDF.

  4. Gotta love these /. advertisements on Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    1. Develop app
    2. Crack the app then distribute it
    3. Send hilarious email to pirate bay
    4. ???
    5. PROFIT!!

  5. Re:begs the question on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Informative
  6. Re:begs the question on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course there are better alternatives, but I don't think any alternative is good enough to warrant an off-topic post attacking the so-called "grammar mistake".

  7. Re:begs the question on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "improper" way is so widespread it has become acceptable usage now, perhaps even the standard usage.

  8. I don't get it on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why couldn't they just switch back to the default theme?

  9. Re:Greedo shooting first is far more hated ... on How Star Wars Trumped Star Trek For Scientific Accuracy · · Score: 1

    In the official stories written AFTER Return of the Jedi, one of the books told the story of Han and Chewie making the Kessel Run. Kessel was a planet where Spice was mined. The only way to get to Kessel was to traverse a maze of black holes, or to just go around it, which would have taken way longer than going through the black hole maze. So, making the “Kessel Run” in less than 12 parsecs is accurate, as Han brillaintly navigated it in record time and shortest distance.

    Disclaimer: I'm not a fanboy; just found this after a little googling.

  10. They are toying with powerful forces here. on OpenSolaris Governing Board Dissolves Itself · · Score: 2, Funny
  11. A little background on the guy on Non-Profit Space Rocket Launching In a Week · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The project leader, Peter Madsen, reportedly commutes to work every morning in his miniture submarine.

  12. Re:Left out the best part on Iran Unveils Its First UAV Bomber · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't get started on the names of recent Middle East US military operations... they're almost oxymoron.

    I personally found the name "Operation Iraqi Liberation" quite straight-forward and descriptive.

  13. He has my sympathy on Throwing Out Software That Works · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It must suck to have Steve Jobs break into your house, smash your netbook, and force you at gunpoint to buy an iPad.

  14. Re:This is in depth analysis? on Legal Analysis of Oracle v. Google · · Score: 1

    You should really compare Java's bytecode instructions with Dalvik's bytecode instructions; there's nearly a one-to-one correspondence there. The entire reason why Dalvik is register-based instead the usual stack-based is because Google wanted use it as a legal defense in the inevitable legal battle.

    Also let's not forget that the entire Dalvik classpath library is built on top of Apache Harmony.

  15. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    If you get fired when you submit your notice, then they're still legally obligated to pay you for your last two weeks of work - the previous two weeks.

  16. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 1

    Please clearly read my options A and B. I have never stated that I should be paid for non-working days. I simply said that it's illegal not to get paid for the last two weeks. If I tender my resignation and the company fires me on the spot, my last two weeks would have been the previous two weeks.

  17. Re:So. on Employees Would Steal Data When Leaving a Job · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Option A:
    Work 52 weeks, leave on the last day without giving any notice. Receive 52 weeks of pay.

    Option B:
    Work 50 weeks, give 2 weeks notice, then work 2 more weeks. Still receive 52 weeks of pay.

    Since the total pay is exactly the same whether you give the two weeks notice courtesy or not, the company isn't extending any sort of courtesy. In fact, it's illegal for them not to pay you for the last two weeks.

  18. Re:Ineffective? on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    its more likely the sober person would drive, hence defeating the purpose of the device.

    A sober person driving a drunk person? I'd say the device has served its intended purpose then.

  19. The slippery slope... on Convicted NY Drunk Drivers Need Ignition Interlocks · · Score: 1

    "Get in the car, son! Daddy's gonna get some beer."

    "Here's some treats, Lassy. Now get in car."

    Hobo's sign: "Will breath will for food"

  20. Re:Wrong on US Students Struggle With Understanding of the 'Equal' Sign · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Lunch - Lunches

    Makes you wonder why the American kids are considered overweight when the British ones are having multiple lunches a day.

  21. Re:you so dumb, AC calls you out on Market Data Firm Spots the Tracks of Bizarre Robot Trading · · Score: 1

    The irony is strong with this one.

  22. Re:One on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    Who else went through this guy's post meticulously in order to find a single rouge space that violated his own rules?

    Come on, fess up. I know I did and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

  23. Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1

    Woosh.

    A bad developer asks the team a useless questions that is probably covered in the company's coding style guidelines.

    A terrible developer does not even understand the difference between "indentation" and "newline" and asked the wrong question.

  24. Re:False assumption on Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2? · · Score: 1
    You are entitled to your opinion, but sometimes it is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand. In most cases a programmer does not have a choice on using spaces or tabs for indentation - their company coding style guidelines or FOSS project coding style guidelines completely determines that.

    The "older" standard is only tabs for indentation - You and Linus belongs in this camp:

    Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

    The "newer" standard is using spaces because the newer generation of developers are used to IDEs that does not handle vi and emacs style mode line well. Mozilla's code style guidelines is a prime example of this:

    Indentation
    Two spaces per logic level.

    I, for one, would really rather the Firefox developers not be shot.

  25. Re:Bad guys on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    Then there's games like Modern Warfare 2 where Russians are portrayed as bad guys.

    Did you even play the game? My impression was that the overzealous American Military Industrial Complex was the "bad guys" for starting WWIII.