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  1. Re:Same as it's been forever. on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 2

    If you're serious and doing serious business, RHEL is the only acronym you will ever need.

    If you believe you're serious, but happen to be poor, you've got CentOS.

    If you're one of those neurotic Linux on the Desktop folks, Mint is where it's at.

    If you're completely insane and are sexually aroused by compiler flags, you want Gentoo.

    If you're a crochety old bastard who writes out config files via echo and redirection, Slackware is your drug of choice.

    Kinda reminds me of this post http://linux.slashdot.org/comm...

  2. undoing a bad mod, my bad

  3. Re:Make it easier on 400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin · · Score: 1
  4. Re:PLEASE on Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't get so wound up over protecting it's integrity.

    You mean fidelity...right?

  5. Easy... on Why People Don't Live Past 114 · · Score: 1

    e x "The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything" = 114

    Explaining why is another thing...

  6. Re:Another politician with half a brain? on EU ACTA Chief Resigns · · Score: 1

    This is true that their technical expertise is valuable. Perhaps what is not clear from my previous post is that the power the Commission holds in the law making process is constitutionally and the relationship between the high level institutions wiht in the European Union is different to what most western countries would be accustomed to.

  7. Re:Another politician with half a brain? on EU ACTA Chief Resigns · · Score: 1

    Ahhh thanks. The Commission sounds like a pointless organization.

    Maybe it is now, who knows.. In its creation after WW2, the idea of the Commission was and still is that it is run by "technical experts" (technocrats) rather than politicians. The technocrats do not represent their home member state, instead they represent the European Union. In this respect as another post as mentioned they are like the civil service. And why aren't they politicians? Well the track record in Europe leading up to WW2 even isn't that great with politicians.

  8. Re:Attention! on Project To Mainline Android Kernel Changes Formed · · Score: 0

    Yet they contract it to it is to it's. We are fighting a losing battle.

  9. Chances of success on Samsung Vs. Apple Tit-For-Tat Down Under · · Score: 1

    It remains to be seen whether Samsung has any better luck with the retaliatory strike in Australian [snip] courts than it did with courts in the Netherlands.

    I don't know, will adversarial courts get it wrong like inquistorial courts did? :P

  10. Re:Ah Hell on Wine HQ Password Database Compromised · · Score: 1

    I concur, good sir. But we were talking about the word "steal" not "theft".

    Take a look at this in New Zealand law
    http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329897.html#DLM329897

    I do not know what the codified definition of theft or steal is your jurisdiction or if its even the same as in New Zealand. The point is depending on what is written in the law chances are your definition does matter.

  11. Re:Where are the VLC devs on VLC Player For Android Is Almost a Reality · · Score: 1

    http://wiki.videolan.org/AndroidCompile

    It's very simple. I have it running on my Android phone. Its lacking features but my music and vieos are playing.

  12. Re:Whole lot of nothing? on Weak Typing — the Lost Art of the Keyboard · · Score: 1

    I never used Graffiti when I had my Palm Pilot but I use it now with my Android and I love it. Its so much better than an onscreen qwerty or a alphanumeric 12 key layout. I don't know why I didn't use Graffiti before

  13. Re:Wait, what? on Massachusetts Lottery Broken · · Score: 1

    Apparently Massachusetts thought that meant people who are bad at math should be running the lottery. A critical mistake in the state that's home to Stanford.

    Come on people, this deserves a +5 troll.

  14. Re:The Next Firefox UI on The Next Firefox UI · · Score: 1

    Actually the last Firefox UI was Chrome. Or at least I stopped being able to tell the difference.

    I am hearing this comment a lot but I am not seeing it. First I thought on my Debian install, the nice people at GNU had changed the code in Icecat 5 to preserve the old look and feel, but my Firefox on Windows looks exactly the same.

    I still have a menu bar, I still have the navigation buttons to which I can add and remove buttons. Just go to Firefox|Options and select what toolbars you want.

    The other changes such as the status bar and the tab positions are not a big deal either. Link details still appear at the bottoms of the screen. Tabd above the address bar, after some thought make a lot of sense, because that address belongs to that tab.

    Firefox is not actually as bad as you might think. In my case I moved to Firefox because the webkit based browsers on my Debian install had poor performance and rendering issues (although I liked Arora very much).

  15. Re:Anyone want an invite? on Facebook Bans Google+ Ads · · Score: 1

    yes please, my last one was ballsed up when it went to a Google Apps account

    supergroovegear [at] hotmail [dot] com

    Thanks,

  16. Re:Money on Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or Google could have used common sense to interpret the order narrowly to mean "delist the papers from Google news". It is obvious that they would not be fined for continuing to display search results.

    True, but Google faces a fine of 1 million euros each day that it does not comply (with 10 days' grace). At one million euros a day, I be taking a broad interpretation too.

  17. Re:VLC Android on Open Source Software Hijacked To Push Malware · · Score: 1

    No, official vlc for android yet but they are working on it (http://ivoire.dinauz.org/blog/index.php?post/2011/02/02/VLC-on-Android) but in the mean time if you are up for it, you can always compile it yourself (http://wiki.videolan.org/AndroidCompile). I can't say I have had much luck working on the phone.

  18. Invite please on Google+ Already At 10 Million Users · · Score: 1

    mip004 [at] aucklanduni [dot] ac [dot] nz
    thanks

  19. Re:"as opposed with their entire list of contacts" on Google Wrestles With Privacy Bugs In Google+ · · Score: 1

    I'd love a Diaspora update, too, but in the last three months I've seen precisely zero activity there.

    Diapsora development is active with daily commits https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commits/master.

  20. Re:Recent convert from Firefox on Chrome Hits 20% Share As IE Continues Slide · · Score: 1

    I am actually finding webkit browsers on my linux rendering slashdot.org poorly and really slow especially with the scrolling. I tried a number of them, Chromium, Chrome, Epiphany, Arora (which I really liked) and Midori. I go fed up so I switched back to the gecko engine, Icecat 5 in fact and its great.

  21. Re:Sounds familar on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    Well diaspora is still in alpha state. Once I did get it installed and arguably 'running' I still couldn't do much with the little skills that I have.

  22. Re:Sounds familar on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    I installed the server on Debian Squeeze. The instructions for Debian (here https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Installing-on-Debian) were pretty straight forward though I would have like just one 'sudo apt-get install ...' and had a few problems but nothing like compiling VLC for Android.

  23. Re:Sounds familar on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    I installed diaspora the other day, I hadn't realised that the alpha was out. It still needs a lot of work but I think its promising.

  24. Re:In on day 1! Whee! on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 1

    There is already an Android app for it https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus&feature=search_result. Installing it doesn't get you a space in it yet, though.

  25. Re:Sad, but I can see doing it too on Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care In Jail · · Score: 1

    This story is a sad state of affairs.

    I am not saying this guy has mental health issues, but I have some perspective on the matter regarding serious crime and mental health issues in prison having just completed a paper on Psychiatry and the Law at a New Zealand university. In a guest lecture from a retired California judge, the LA County jail was labelled as the largest de facto mental hospital in the USA.

    In New Zealand, when someone has mental health issues and has allegedly commited a crime, they could be made what is called a 'special patient' either by being 'unfit to stand trial' or 'not guilty by reason of insanity' but having a continuing risk of serious harm to others and the need for . These people are put into mental health insititutes and receive care in those places. Those which are found to be insane at trial have an indefinite disposition, which possible can exceed the length of a sentence specified in statute and release is actually political rather than clinical or judicial. Duration for thos unfit to stand trial is defined but release is also political.