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  1. Re:Verified, and will continue on Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly think that you could fight the U.S. government with any amount of weapons you as an individual, or even organized with your buddies, could ever accumulate?

    It seems to work well in places like Syria, where the regime is well sponsored by the Russians and have lots of tanks and other heavy weapons and armour, and the rebels started out with only simple AK-47's.

  2. Re:I wanted to post this on Another Elon Musk Bet: Half of All Cars Built In 2032 Will Be Electric · · Score: 1

    Say that to someone from Denmark!

  3. In the bible... on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    In the bible it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, and it was called a catastrophe. In Sweden we call it summer.

  4. Still no native 64-bit SDK on Google Unveils Nexus 7 Tablet, Nexus Q 'Social Streaming Device' · · Score: 1

    After so many years and releases, there is still no native 64-bit native SDK. While it's still good to have 32-bit applications still for a few years, I don't think you can get a new system today that is not 64-bit capable, and doesn't have a 64-bit OS.

  5. The long earth? on Missing Matter, Parallel Universes? · · Score: 1

    Maybe Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter knows something we don't know?

  6. Re:Were they bored? on 12-Core ARM Cluster Beats Intel Atom, AMD Fusion · · Score: 1

    comparing apples to oranges

    Why can't you compare apples to oranges? The are both fruits, are picked from trees, spherical, has mass and volume, colour and taste. Of course you can compare them! The result of such a comparison will most likely conclude they are not very similar, but the same conclusion will probably be made by comparing a car to a navel.

  7. Re:Buggars! on Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight · · Score: 1

    And if that happens, it will be an enormous political scandal, and it will be take to the highest European court where Sweden will be punished.

  8. Re:A recent conversation on Skype To Feature Giant Ads · · Score: 1

    Viber is okay, used it while my wife was in Philippines with me back home in Sweden.

    Sound quality is normally okay, but the latency can be pretty bad sometimes. Up to a couple of seconds. And no video calls.

    I'm not to fond of Skype, but it works very well, has video calls, and no latency that was noticeable.

  9. Re:The Twilight Zone on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: 1

    Maybe one of the addresses in the subpena was of a Comcast exec?

  10. Re:No problem on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    the government suspends elections

    Remember that in the Soviet Union they still had voting, and many other "non-democracies" still have voting. Often there is only one party to vote for, but at least the voter turnout is almost 100%.

  11. Re:sometimes backwater is good on Why Do Programming Languages Succeed Or Fail? · · Score: 1

    I was one of those imbeciles that ridiculed the whites space

    Good thing you don't program in Whitespace.

  12. Re:My Wii has the same problem on Is Microsoft's Kinect a Gaming Failure? · · Score: 1

    The Wii's motion control is okay for simple games like tennis or bowling, but a PITA for complex games.

    When I played Zelda: Skyward Sword I was amazed how well the motion control worked, and I wouldn't exactly call a Zelda game "simple".

  13. Re:IANAL: explicit consent not part of EU directiv on Five EU Countries Taken To Court For Failing To Implement Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    The same in Sweden. Though websites have to contain a notice that they have cookies, what cookies are and how to disable them.

  14. Similar law exist in Sweden on 64 Complaints Received On UK Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    There is a similar law in Sweden, but instead of saying that the user have to permit cookies, the Swedish law just states that users have to be informed about them:

    • That cookies are used
    • What they are used for, in general and on the site
    • How to disable cookies
  15. Re:Fairly well known issue on New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss · · Score: 1

    See also The Problem With Music by Steve Albini.

    He also lists all income/expenses of a fictional band, it's not a happy read for aspiring musicians.

  16. Re:Creativity on Allowing the Mind To Wander Aids Creative Problem Solving · · Score: 1
  17. Y2k again? on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1

    shutting down electrical grids and making planes fall from the sky

    Weren't the exact same things going to happen with the Y2k switchover? Now how did that go again...

  18. Re:Prior Art on Activision Blizzard Sued For Patent Infringement Over WoW, CoD · · Score: 1

    In DikuMUD from 1991 players or NPCs could be invisible, and their movement or other actions would be hidden from players who could not see invisibility.

  19. Re:Oh, that's bullshit! on Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics · · Score: 1

    No, they're merely resting their eyes during the hours that they are likely not being paid overtime for, that's all.

    Unlike USA, most European countries have laws regulating overtime, and that it can't be unpaid. While I don't know about the UK, I think it highly unlikely they don't have such laws, considering how strong the unions there are (or at least was).

  20. Bobby Tables on GreenSQL is a Database Security Solution, says CTO David Maman (Video) · · Score: 1

    How will this work for poor Bobby Tables?

  21. Re:heh on Why Linux Can't 'Sell' On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    And this is different from Linux how?

    If you link against the core libs (things like libc, libm, libX11, lbGL) it will basically work on any machine anywhere up to a fairly respectable age.

    Not true, as both the functions and the binary interface changed numerous times over the lifetime of Linux. I have lots of old Loki games lying at home, can't use them anymore without some major tweaking to find old libraries and installing them correctly. And doesn't work for some games anyway.

  22. Re:Waiting for the other shoe to drop on Humble Bundle For Android 2 Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I checked out the Indie Royal St. Patricks bundle, and Hard Reset indeed seemed like a nice game. However, most of the games were Windows only, or possibly Windows and Mac.

    The nice thing about the Humble Bundles, at least the non-phone ones, is that they are on all three big platforms, including Linux.

  23. Re:If wishes were horses on Apple Sued By Belgian Consumer Association For Not Applying EU Warranty Laws · · Score: 1

    In Europe, most prices already include sales tax, while it in the US seems to almost never be included on the sticker price.

  24. Multi-screen workspaces? on GNOME 3.4 Preview · · Score: 1

    Have they fixed so it's easier to disable the static workspace on the non-main screen if you have multiple screens?

  25. Re:swift, distant and anonymous on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1