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  1. Re:Too late for "innocent until proven guilty" on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: 1

    Man, i think that you need to read some facts: 1. Magna Carta is the FIRST and ONLY valid "constitution". 2. Magna Carta is IRREVOCABLE. 3. There is no 3

  2. Do You Remember the new MS interface? on Microsoft's Health-y Patent Appetite · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Do you remember the new 3d-scanning game interface that MS made? Can you link now the dots? And honestly, when i heard about their new visual interface, i was impressed, i wish i had one.....but now i am scared, and would never buy one.

  3. Re:Too late for "innocent until proven guilty" on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: 1

    Please, don't mess STATUTES with RIGHTS. There is so big difference between them..... or with other words, the statute revocable, the right is NOT.

  4. Re:Too late for "innocent until proven guilty" on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: 1

    Do you remember the new about Apple and storing iPhone's geo location? Do you agree that everybody could know where you are, and where you were all the time??? Let me help you a little bit more, do you want your wife to know where you are drinking beer.....or something else?

  5. Re:Too late for "innocent until proven guilty" on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: 1

    You are messing the RIGHT with the PRIVILEGE. The RIGHT is irrevocable, the PRIVILEGE....you make a guess. Anyway, let me help you, regarding the Magna Carta, having a gun is a RIGHT, not PRIVILEGE.

  6. Magna Carta is irrevocable, did you know? on UK Gov't Launches 'Your Freedom' Website To Seek Laws Worth Repealing · · Score: -1

    At last, somebody remembered their roots, the unique Magna Carta, which is btw irrevocable, no matter what the big cats are trying to say or do. This little document is of so big importance that i am surprised that it is not known by everyone. Why, tell me why!!! And why there is not some national day devoted to Magna Carta? To celebrate it, and to remember. WHY?

  7. Who is the pirate now? on Colleges Risk Losing Federal Funding If They Don't Fight Piracy · · Score: 1

    And this news comes just after the announcement of The Pirate party from Swedish? So, how do you suppose to teach/learn/invent something, anything in fact, if you have all that draconian restrictions even in University? What is next, the LIBRARY?

  8. What about Hell and Paradise? on What Bilski Means For Biotech Patents · · Score: 1

    Since, this is obviously something new, and very original idea, do you have to pay a fee to go to Paradise? Or even Hell? Or even talking about??

  9. Win-Win case on Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor · · Score: 1

    The funny thing about outsourcing is that the outsourced company/branch is avoiding (taking back) the taxes, simply because the main company is based here (or some other tax trick). Or to make it more clear, if a company MicroHardware for example, with main office in USA, offshore 100% of its business in India, for example, then Microhardware will NOT pay taxes in USA (for the obvious reason), and will NOT pay taxes in India (for some another obvious reason). Win-win situation, but as usual, for the big pocket guys, not us, regular people.

  10. Re:PhD vs BA, vs high school on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    Yes, it was Python. I always mess these ah so different scripting languages. And if you are not aware, but in most cases they are the biggest open source software users, without giving anything back, and without breaking the letter of the GPL license (and who cares for the spirit?). Try to "google" memcache for example, or even the discussion(flame war!) that the google android developers had with the Linux Kernel developers, and you will be surprised at the level of incompetence in GOOGLE.

  11. try to use SOCAT. on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 1

    Another very good solution is to use this little multipurpose relay netcat++: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/ They are saying that you could tunnel even a VPN traffic, with just one simple command.

  12. Make a proxy. on Tunneling Under the Great Firewall? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have somewhere a computer with real IP, and start some proxy server. Or even some remote-control(vnc,rdp), if you have a good bandwidth.

  13. Re:PhD vs BA, vs high school on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    Sorry man, but in Google they use Perl and youngsters, and when you become 40, you will be thrown out. So, unless you are able to make some cutting edge Perl libraries, forget Google.

  14. Re:Yay for common sense on Zoho Don't Need No Stinking Ph.D. Programmers · · Score: 1

    Is there any salary statistic? I mean, if you hire a high-school student instead of one with MS, do you still pay him the same salary? Or is this simply the new twisted mantra of how to pay less, and get more and more and more....

  15. Not so perfect iPhone? on Apple To Issue a 'Fix' For iPhone 4 Reception Perception · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So, instead of solving the problem, they just downgraded the problem??? Sorry iPhone fans, but it looks like your phone cannot event manage something so simple and base as signal strength!!!!!!

  16. Re:IT is for 3rd worlders on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 1

    It also funny that all these useless university degrees problems are common, for UK, EU, USA, and all the 3rd world countries. I know some cases where a big company outsourced their business in such a 3rd world country, and is having troubles to find a decent developer, in the whole country, no matter the salary...can you imagine? So, you just have to calm down, and soon than later, all the well-paid jobs will return to us, within 5 years, or so i believe.

  17. Re:not here on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 1

    Maybe because you require 10-years C# experience? And 20-years Windows 7 support? Try to be more realistic, and you will find your man....or woman, btw, did you try to hire women? Just asking, no pun intended.

  18. Re:IT recruitment agencies on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is really funny that the HR agencies, where most under-non-qualified IT related people work, are trying to actually evaluate/measure an IT professional??? It is really funny, and sad, because in most cases our job (or lack of) depends on these funny people.

  19. Re:A job? How twentieth-century. on In UK, Computer Science Graduates the Least Employable · · Score: 0

    Freelance? You mean that a project to make shuttle auto-pilot should cost only $100, or with the bidding war $98? Forget it, i prefer to go out and wash some dishes, and actually to do something meaningful, instead of selling my precious skills for nothing. As for the other kind of jobs, like writing books, inventing something new, you either have to have a lot of experience, or a lot of money. There is no shortcut here, and even I, after so many years of active development in so many languages, i still confess to myself how little i do know, but at least, i do know how to make the work done, in time, and with the available resources.

  20. Re:Sounds familiar. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 1

    It already does bite. To the bone. Why do you think there are so many foreigner engineers? Or physicist, or pick any other math-logic oriented profession. The university system is ridiculous, too costly, and with questionable results. There are only 2-3 big and good well known universities, and they are simply not enough. And one of them is MIT.

  21. Re:no encryption in France on France Says D-Star Ham Radio Mode Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    http://www.tc-forum.org/topicus/ru10tech.htm or some quote: .............France is the only Western European country which does not allow a free use of encryption on its territory. In spite of the recent decrees (dated March 15 and March 25, 1998), obstacles still remain to achieving full implementation and free usage of encryption in France. ..............

  22. No win, No loose on IEEE Supports Software Patents In Wake of Bilski · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It appears that the case is: No one won, No one lost. Which is good for our copyleft cause, because for the first time in USA patent history, the judge questions the whole nasty patent troll system, and who knows, maybe there will some positive change? Or with other words: I have a dream, a world, without war.......and software patents.

  23. no encryption in France on France Says D-Star Ham Radio Mode Is Illegal · · Score: 1

    Don't you know? In France it is illegal to encrypt your mail. Repeat, mail, not e-mail. Do you want to have the same legislation in USA? If you are not careful, it will happen soon than later.

  24. Re:Evil money can be washed and become good. on Congress Mulls China's Networked Authoritarianism · · Score: 1

    There is no real good or evil human, it is just a human...... I don't know for you, but for me you sound kind of unconvincing.

  25. Re:little blue numbers on Congress Mulls China's Networked Authoritarianism · · Score: 1

    The funny part is that you, and me, and everybody else has 4-digit hex number. For example, your number is: 513215 (decimal). What do you think will be changed in another hundred year? Maybe instead of hex base, it will be 256-base system? The gods are laughing.