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  1. Re:Full refund on Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" · · Score: 1

    The United States is the only system that guarantees a trial by your peers, and has no double jeopardy.

    Your statement is shallow and scary for this believe is widespread.

    A trial by peers would be OK when the laws they had to use were written by the same class of peers but they are not.

    Not alone for this reason I would decline the offer of a jury.

    We all know double jeopardy is often seen in a very narrow light and the professional prosecutors are not above using a slight deviation of the original case to continue prosecution, ANY prosecution.

  2. Re:Story link to DailyFinance.com article on Murdoch Demands Kindle Users' Info · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Since when has he cared about quality journalism or good reporting?

    Since it pays.

  3. Re:10, 000 bugs! on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    You've just noted the difference between open and closed source. (the number of disclosed bugs)

  4. Re:Too little, too late; I'm with Linus on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1

    If KDE 3.5 did what you wanted then why didn't you stay on it until KDE 4 did?

    It seems you have not understood or even heard of "Go west boy"

  5. Re:KDE4 anti-fanbois much? on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1
    A Troll?

    I fully agree with this summary.

    Kubuntu should never have incorporated KDE4.0, period.

  6. Re:Is this the KDE 4.0 we've all been waiting for? on KDE 4.3 Released · · Score: 1
    Them long emphases of the periods between sentences really spoil this example.

    ;)

    This might be a way to quickly gather a lot of info but you better have an unusual brain to parse it correctly, forget enjoyment.

  7. Re:Yes, but... on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1

    gold is a pretty useless metal outside of the electronics industry.

    Hmm, some men would disagree. :P

  8. Re:And? on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1

    The real WTF is: why this story wasn't posted by kdawson?

    My first thoughts too :)

  9. Re:And? on Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results · · Score: 1
    I assume the search algorithm would replace the words Microsoft and Windows with something generic like Software and Operating System.

    When there are more hits for Google and Evil then there could be reasons to rank them high.
    None the less, such results should come after a (near) perfect match.

  10. Re:bar-codes on Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It's worse, virtually any type of ID has this other code on the outside, it's purposely done in a contrasting colour so it's easy to copy and photograph and is called Alphabet.

    That's scary!

  11. Re:They'll move elsewhere on After Links To Cybercrime, Latvian ISP Cut Off · · Score: 1

    but as we know USA laws dont apply everywhere.

    Reference please?

  12. Re:Postscript-Interpreter in Javascript on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    FF3.5 needs some 18 sec. for the Tiger and Konqueror4.3.0 needs 4.3 sec.
    Interesting.

  13. Re:And you can turn off the music... on HTML 5 Canvas Experiment Hints At Things To Come · · Score: 1

    Quick preferences (F12) -> uncheck "Enable Sound in Web Pages"

    Is it the html5 page or some obscure browser using F12?

    It doesn't work in FF3 & 3.5 nor Konqueror.

  14. Re:I wonder where these numbers came from? on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1
    Well said, the amount of money in circulation will hardly change because of piracy.

    As a matter of fact there are examples where a significant drop in price of a product was more than offset by the larger numbers sold.

    But where would Microsoft be if they hadn't allowed large scale copying of Win3.1, 95 & 98?

  15. Re:Scary on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1
    Your DA thanks you for a novel way of busting terrists.

    Modifying things likely includes circumvention.

  16. Re:Microsoft has retail stores? on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    The only two things in the store that will perform exactly as displayed would be MS's two main hardware products: Zune and Xbox.

    You forget their no. 1 reliable product, the mouse!

  17. Re:Linus was right on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    From what you list I get the impression there's a monopoly waiting for an anti-trust investigation.

  18. Re:!Botnet on America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets · · Score: 5, Informative

    Malware becomes a botnet when it can be remotely controlled and updated, that's what these ten have in common.

  19. Re:Top ten lists... on America's 10 Most-Wanted Botnets · · Score: 1
    You must be a Microsoft shill 'cause both lists omit the facilitator.

    :)

  20. Re:So who was it ?? not on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    Except the Cadillac doesn't specifically forbid Ford executives from riding in it, nor does Airborne refuse to deliver to UPS clients.

    Mod: Insightful :)

  21. Re:Why Blacks and Asians (or Whites) can be Differ on Study Catches Birds Splitting Into Separate Species · · Score: 1

    It's a good point; I wonder how different the modern world would be if England had had no coal.

    And in stead would have (had) moral standing.

    Please note roughly the same is valid for most leading nations of the past millennia.

  22. Re:Racist cops..... on Online Forum Leads To Hostile Workplace Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I know, who cares about a bunch of cops who get together and create a group specifically not including people based on race?

    I do, especially when they are on the public (my money) payroll.

  23. Re:Bullshit on Spyware In BlackBerry Updates For Users in the UAE · · Score: 1
    Your reasoning about not wanting to go back to the type of government your forefathers left when they set up the USofA is correct.

    But fail at seeing the present Europeans have also thrown out their feudal overlords.

    And contrary to the US we here in Europe have not replaced them by commercial interests but instead prefer society as a whole to take care of the weak.
    As a matter of fact the majority of Europeans are quite upset about the lack of compassion your system displays.

    The European Union is a very young institution and the individual states are much more independent than the states of the American Union, those two factors are contributing to the deficiencies you correctly noticed in places like Greece.

    But the attitude towards a common responsibility are largely the same throughout the old continent and contrast notably with the US (esp. Republican) view.

  24. Re:Nice text color on Embedded Linux Achieves One-Second Boot Time · · Score: 2, Funny

    What are you talking about? On my monitor his site is shown with the same amber colour like any other.

  25. Re:Not so great on Most Complete Topographical Map of Earth Complete · · Score: 1

    Well observed :)

    (Undoing moderation error)