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  1. Re:Seems clear... on Mystery Missile Launched Near LA · · Score: 1
    Or some high-ranking Tea Party supporters wanting to warn the president he'd better be careful when travelling home.

    Seriously scary.

  2. Re:Havent seen it. Let me go Download it... on Porn Maker Sues 7,000+ For Copyright Infringement · · Score: 5, Funny

    Plus the porn industry is heavily protected by lobbyists from the paper towel industry.

  3. Re:A bit big for their britches? on Ubuntu Dumps X For Unity On Wayland · · Score: 1
    The inclusion of KDE4.0 was another experiment.

    And it backfired on the Kubuntu team.

  4. Re:Well, there's nothing to see now... on Pay Or Else, News Site Threatens · · Score: 1
    That's what I got at first attempt.

    But in a different browser it slowly opened up but the articles are dead slow opening up.

    I was surprised to find a lot of the local news articles are password protected, in my world that does make a strange combination with what the Techdirt article is about.

    I noticed the warning in red at the bottom at a 'free' article but don't see the 'ad at the right'.

    What I did notice is a google ad at the top of the page and by the subject I figure google knows I'm able to read Dutch :)

  5. Undemocratic on US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency · · Score: 2, Insightful
    It is highly undemocratic that entities without votes can legally spend so much on influencing the democratic process.

    Democracy can only function properly when it's a one man-one vote system where every man and vote has the same bearing on the outcome.

    This level playing field is seriously out of balance because of the present donations by companies, organisations and rich individuals.

  6. Re:Treating of symptoms on Bredolab Botnet Taken Down · · Score: 1
    What I heard (from a police spoke person) is they identified the infected/ affected computers and are going to notify their users.

    Something that might work in parts of the world...

  7. Re:Wow on Ubuntu Moves Away From GNOME · · Score: 1
    You sound like a testy kid.

    For years now I run two partitions, presently one with a stable version of Kubuntu 8.04 and one with the latest Kubuntu 10.10 including KDE4.5.x .
    8.04 is installed on ext3, 10.10 on ext4 and via links they share parts of the /home.

    I learned long ago that cutting edge can be fun but you better have something secure to go back to when in need.
    And I can say since about KDE4.2 I hardly ever come back to 8.04.

    Once spoiled by the configurability of KDE you can only smile about Gnome users that class themselves as Hackers, Gnome seems locked up like OS X minus the 'it just works'.

  8. Re:Simple life here on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1

    Duh, then I forget an important tool, I number my jobs.
    These numbers are in a ledger (dead tree) with the client, date and subject, all mails and documents have the number in their title.
    The jobs are kept in a root folder with that same number.

  9. Simple life here on How Do You Manage the Information In Your Life? · · Score: 1
    The number one solution is to have it all in one place, for me that's my laptop.

    The number two is to have a solid back-up system including off site.

    My photo's are so manifold that most are on a couple of TB drives, the most recent several 100GB also on the laptop.
    The trick is a logic nesting of the folders, in this case first the name of the camera, then the year, next the month and possibly a subject.
    When a specific subject is worth marking I append it to the number of the file, a quick CTRL+F in the file manager will bring it up.
    There are document folders with distinctive names like company name, then the subject. In case of a simple thing I shouldn't forget I might send myself a mail, the Thunderbird search option is very helpful.

    For the more private stuff like tax returns and banking I use a Truecrypt folder.

  10. It had it coming on In the Face of Android, Why Should Nokia Stick With MeeGo? · · Score: 1
    Symbian has had it's time but is too limited for future hard and software.

    Android is good because it has a Linux background meaning there is a lot of experience with it yet it's ever more fragmenting.

    So I find it entirely logic that the largest phone manufacturer bites the bullet and goes with a much more mainstream fork of Linux.

    With the success of ARM-bases processors in mind it might be somewhat dangerous to get too cosy with Intel but hey, they already have experience with the other Linux offshoot Maemo on the excellent ARM powered N900.

    Porting existing software to Maemo or Meego is going to be a breeze compared to the many versions of Android.

    Anything Windows is for obvious reasons not acceptable, a phone manufacturer like Nokia would have to fall on really hard times before selling out to Microsoft

  11. Re:What are "Christian business principles", exact on Bible.com Investor Sues Company For Lack Of Profit · · Score: 1

    Sounds good for the long run but many of today’s hot businesses only (need to) worry about the next quarterly bonuses.

  12. Re:There's an easy fix for this on Bible.com Investor Sues Company For Lack Of Profit · · Score: 1

    It (almost?) sounds like you mix up three very different subjects; church, religion and trusting in god...

  13. Re:No on Antenna Arrays Could Replace Satellite TV Dishes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, I should be a well paid politician :)

  14. Re:No on Antenna Arrays Could Replace Satellite TV Dishes · · Score: 1
    A well set up offset dish gives much less chance for snow to accumulate on it.

    But during heavy showers you'll need more amplification than under a clear sky.

    How you achieve the amplification, larger dish or better electronics, is fairly immaterial for the end result.

  15. Re:No on Antenna Arrays Could Replace Satellite TV Dishes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have the wavelengths of the sat broadcasts changed?This about using a new type of antenna to handle an existing broadcast, not trying to receive a different signal, no? I suppose the old sats might use a different wavelength than say DirecTV sats I guess.

    Yes, the old C-band has a much greater wavelength than the present Ku-band.

  16. Re:Seems pretty simple to me on Leaked Letter — BSA Pressures Europe To Kill Open Standards · · Score: 1
    Just because the commission members are unelected they are not undemocratic.

    In many European countries the Parliament is elected and in turn appoints the government.

    These governments can fall when the parliament so desires, not only during the next election.
    The EU Commission is appointed by the democratically instituted governments of the member states.

  17. Re:bring these to the surface? on New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Then keep it pressurised while it is raised, it has already been done with other species.

  18. Re:The next step. on Why You See 'Free Public WiFi' In So Many Places · · Score: 3, Funny

    Al Qaeda web -at this airport- is another good one.

  19. Re:as if they didn't explode easily enough on Paper-Thin Batteries Provide Bendable Power · · Score: 1
    Possibly.

    And in jurisdictions where waste segregation and recycling is taken seriously we'll now have to dispose of this paper as chemical waste.

  20. Hooray! on New Legislation Would Crack Down On Online Piracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Finally we'll again get good movies and music, just like it used to be before the market collapsed due to piracy.

  21. Re:Legal...but Creepy on Salesforce Uses Chatter To Monitor Employees · · Score: 1
    Although the guy seems to use the data gained as a valuable metric for company decisions it is in all likelihood not auditable and thus suspect.

    And in case his is an internationally operating enterprise he better checks out what other jurisdictions feel about this type of information hoarding because most places are more careful protecting personal privacy than the USA.

  22. Re:Oh, crap on Court Says First Sale Doctrine Doesn't Apply To Licensed Software · · Score: 1

    Do these judges even understand the enormity of their decisions?

    Judges interpret the law, when you don' t like their decision first look at the law in question.

    And I think the USofA could do with some more consumer oriented laws, not the least in the field of software.

  23. Re:About Fucking Time on European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA · · Score: 1

    The sound bite you quote is to be digested including the first part of my sentence.

  24. Re:"just google it" on Microsoft Suspends Gamer For Being From Fort Gay · · Score: 1

    For example with that Dutch/Frisian town called sexbierum.

  25. Re:About Fucking Time on European Parliament All But Rejects ACTA · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Your posts of today mainly show how incredibly ill informed you are yet you voice a strong and by consequence wrong opinion.

    Norway is not part of the EU and they won't be until they in about a century from now run out of oil and gas.

    Opera is a well respected but very much niche browser, in the EU and even in Norway, supporting it in this manner would be a bad investment.

    It's only since this year that the EU parliament has some real legal teeth and they love to use them against the somewhat old fashioned/conservative European Commission.

    Because members of the EU parliament are at home often little known they tend to be more independent than their national counterparts.

    Today's action demonstrates this independence and has next to nothing to do with 'EU vs US'.