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  1. Re:Stumbleupon on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    Well, I looked up their TOS. You're correct that they have a shitty privacy policy, however I don't use my real name there anyway.

  2. Re:User codecs vs. system-wide codecs on The Ambiguity of "Open" and VP8 Vs. H.264 · · Score: 1

    It's because Ubuntu ignores US patent law. So there's still an issue but people in US using Ubuntu usually aren't sued, at the moment.

  3. Re:sad thing is ... on Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Germany has similar gun laws like Britain, so that point is moot.

  4. Re:Stumbleupon on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 1

    So, do you have some kind of proof that Stumbleupon is spyware? Or is it just "everyone knows it"?

  5. Re:Good riddance on Comics Code Dead · · Score: 1

    The idea that nudity is wrong is, in fact, a lie. It is a lie promulgated by oppressive religious ideologies that are designed to control, enslave and indoctrinate peoples minds.

    You mean feminism? /ducks

  6. Re:This raises questions: on Woman's Voice Restored After Larynx Transplant · · Score: 1

    Then I recommend the novel City by Clifford Simak.

    "The novel describes a legend consisting of eight tales the pastoral and pacifist Dogs recite as they pass down an oral legend of a creature known as Man. Each tale is preceded by doggish notes and learned discussion.

    An editor's preface notes that after each telling of the legend the pups ask many questions:

            "What is Man?" they'll ask.
            Or perhaps: "What is a city?"
            Or: "What is a war?
            There is no positive answer to any of these questions."
    "
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(novel)

  7. Re:This raises questions: on Woman's Voice Restored After Larynx Transplant · · Score: 1

    You can teach gorillas sign language, but they will have a rather low vocabulary, and they don't use grammar rules. They also suck at maths.
    For 3 year old child it takes 2 repetition to learn a new word, while for a gorilla it takes around 10. (I took a cognitive science course at uni.)

    See also:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

  8. Stumbleupon on Mozilla Flips Kill-Switch On Skype Toolbar · · Score: 3

    The Stumpleupon toolbar is quite cool. And there's the Webdeveloper's toolbar as well.

  9. Re:What does Drupal look like on Foundation Drupal 7 · · Score: 1

    Here you can fond it: http://php.opensourcecms.com/
    The site hosts a lot of different live-CMSes, so you can try how it feels from user/admin perspective. They're reinstalled every 2 hours, so nobody can mess it really badly.
    Of course these are minimalist installations without fancy plugins.

  10. Re:Misguided on FSF Announces Support For WebM · · Score: 1

    There are no free software implementations of the complete specification, and certainly none which are legally licensed.

    You mean, except x264, which is by most accounts, one of the most *full-featured* H.264 implementations available... right?

    I guess you missed the free part.

  11. Re:The Hobby is dying on NASA Seeks Ham Operators' Help To Test NanoSail-D · · Score: 1

    Computers are just a commodity and excessively boring.

    Unless you know how to program them ... /wink

  12. Floating license server? on Espionage In Icelandic Parliament · · Score: 1

    It would be funny if it turned out that this is just some licensing server.

  13. Plugins? on No More Version Numbers For HTML · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a plugin architecture. Which is not quite surprising considering they're planning to replace Flash and co.

  14. Re:What, exactly, is 3-SAT? on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 1

    It means people called Romanes go to the house.

  15. You're wrong on Carbon Trading Halted After EU Exchange Is Hacked · · Score: 1

    Here's the catch: if it would cost you less to update your equipment to produce less emissions, it would also probably cost your buyer less to upgrade their equipment

    You assume that my buyer produces exactly the same goods, with exactly the same equipment with exactly the same output volume.

  16. Re:Wait, carbon trading wasn't a scam to BEGIN wit on Carbon Trading Halted After EU Exchange Is Hacked · · Score: 1

    Well, then how do you plan to keep the co2 emission below a threshold? Central planning comittee gives out carbon credits for companies or what?

  17. Re:Not Wikipedia's job to be a first publisher on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 1

    Look, there are thousands of games like Streets of rage. The above game however is more grittier. Actually maybe the GTA parallel isn't that good, it's more like Postal. But the point was the uncensored urban decadence, and a weird sense humour.

  18. Re:I'll be first to say WTF on Polynomial Time Code For 3-SAT Released, P==NP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please turn in your geek card. This is basic CS stuff.

  19. Re:Not Wikipedia's job to be a first publisher on Wikipedia and the History of Gaming · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What about Franko the crazy revenge? (NSFW) I would doubt gaming newspapers would be keen to write about it. It also doesn't help that it's in Polish.
    I could argue that with its brutal realism/cynism it was a forerunner for GTA.

  20. Re:The "Bad" the original article refers to is _ba on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    Where I live (Hungary, Eastern-Europe), labour law mandates andvance notficiation for both the employer and the employee (it's 30 days). I guess there's a similar law in other EU countries as well.

  21. Re:Modern Life on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    It's usually a question of management which does know something about what they're manageing.

  22. What about the Matrix? on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    What about the Matrix?

  23. Re:Some IT Managers are Quick to... on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    Another thing to mention: in Germany unions tend work really well, that country has the strongest economy in the EU, and can afford public healthcare, and don't have huge foreign debt like the US.

  24. Re:God forbid... on IT Management Always Blames the Worker Bees · · Score: 1

    Khmm, you mean iterated prisoners dilemma, or tit-for-tat.

  25. Stockmarket-sharks swimming down Wall street on Sharks Seen Swimming Down Australian Streets · · Score: 1

    Nuff said