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  1. Let's ban Slashdot as well on Thailand Bans YouTube · · Score: 1

    Just to be sure Slashdot is banned as well: King Bhumibol Adulyadej is a child molester and beats his wife.

  2. Sununu on Sununu Sets Aim on Broadcast Flag Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    My first thought was about an Opensolaris distribution by the Ubuntu folks.

  3. Mandriva packages available on Ekiga 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've uploaded package of Ekiga 2.0.0 earlier today to Mandriva Cooker, a version built for GNOME2.14 is available from my private repository: http://gpwgnome.osknowledge.net/

  4. Re:Audiophile? on iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download · · Score: 1

    It is at least better than pedophile. Seriously, iPods are nice equipment, but stuff like 'podcasts' sounds fine on other players.

  5. Punk Rock Band on Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans · · Score: 1
    I call dibs on using Toxoplasma as a name for my rock band.
    This band name is already taken by a Punk Rock band from Germany: http://www.toxoplasma.de/
  6. Audiophile? on iTunes Music Store hits Billionth Download · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the term 'audiophile' does not fit here. Audiophiles buy expensive HiFi equipment and don't listen to 128kbit AAC from the Apple store. Especially as many people can hear the encoding artefacts on good equipment. But I must admit that I cannot hear the difference with the crappy earbuds that came with my iPod.

  7. Re:whoa! on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 1

    Mandriva 2006 will ship with the previous stable release 2.10, as 2.12 was scheduled too shortly before the 2006 freeze, this was the decision of MandrivaSoft's official GNOME maintainer fcrozat.

  8. Mandriva packages of GNOME 2.12 on GNOME 2.12 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hi Mandriva users,

    I've prepared packages of GNOME 2.12 ready to be installed with urpmi on your Cooker system:
    http://gpwgnome.osknowledge.org/

    There are a few missing features, especially support for the new HAL and D-Bus, this is owed to Mandriva's decision of shipping with the old versions of both in the 2006 version. Otherwise, these packages are working fine, please give them a try.

  9. Re:What God will say to them on 60 Years Since Hiroshima · · Score: 1

    Too bad your god doesn't ever answer claims like this. This way you can can speak for him trying to justify that horrible war crimes of the US.

  10. Re:This sounds dumb...but on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure there's a principle of commensurability regarding collateral damage (hell, I hate that word). Killing 70,000 civilians for destroying a military target IS a war crime.

  11. Re:This sounds dumb...but on U.S. Offers Glimpse at Manhattan Project Facility · · Score: 2, Insightful
    No, you can't compare that. Nobody celebrates concentration camps. The Nazis have been condemned for their crimes.

    The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs where serious war crimes. BTW I think was more a demonstration for the Soviet Union than the Japanese.

  12. Re:a start? on Adobe Releases Acrobat Client for Linux · · Score: 5, Informative

    There was no Acrobat reader 6 on Linux, that release was skipped. The last version before 7 was 5.0.10.

  13. I like the name: Irrlicht on Irrlicht - Fast Realtime 3D Engine · · Score: 1

    The name is nice for a 3D project, translated to English it means will-o'-the-wisp, but it's all explained in the FAQ, including a wave file to explain the pronounciation (although featuring an Austrian accent).

  14. Inofficial Mandrakelinux packages on GNOME 2.8 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    GNOME2.8 came too late for Mandrakelinux 10.1 (just as KDE 3.3), that's why I've created my own packages. You can get them from a urpmi repository. Remember to add the Mandrake Cooker (soon to become 10.1) and Contrib repositories as well for some of the dependancies.

  15. Mandrakelinux packages available on Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released · · Score: 1
    As with the last versions, I've built packages for Mandrakelinux 10.0 for mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird. They are in my urpmi repository.

    Versions for 10.1 and source packages are in the Cooker Contribs.

  16. Re:Jesus didn't walk on the water on Robot Walks on Water · · Score: 1
    I dig the robot, too ... but, there's some pretty interesting stuff in that old book.
    Sure, the commandment about not killing is pretty interesting. Unfortunately it's most of the time interpreted as justification for crusades and death penalty. I'm really happy that I'm not in the church anymore.
  17. Re:Jesus didn't walk on the water on Robot Walks on Water · · Score: 1

    You're taking this pretty seriously, aren't you? Anyway, it doesn't really matter for me what was written in that old book, there are more interesting things to do like drooling for a robot that can walk on the water :-)

  18. Re:Are you catholic? on Robot Walks on Water · · Score: 1

    No, I was raised as a protestant, but I've resigned from the church a long time ago. This has saved me quite a chunk of tax money.

  19. Re:Only 18? on German Teen Charged with Creating Sasser · · Score: 1
    Uh... you are an adult at 18. He Does the time.
    Not always, here in Germany, he can be sentenced using juvenile criminal law, which limits the maximum punishment.
  20. Jesus didn't walk on the water on Robot Walks on Water · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The story about Jesus walking on the water results from a translation error, in the original version he was simply swimming, no miracle at all.

  21. Missing Foot Icon on BayStar Sets Lawyers on SCO · · Score: 2, Funny

    This article is missing the foot icon, as it was the first one today that made me laugh.

  22. I've played this once on Rare East German Arcade Game Unearthed · · Score: 1

    This brings back memories. I was at a youth hostel somewhere in Thuringia (East Germany). I think it was 1988 or so. There was a Polyplay machine, but I've played only a few times. I wasn't too exited about it as I had already seen ancient western arcade machines like Pacman at a fair and some friends of mine had C-64s, all which had better games and graphics.

  23. Mandrakelinux packages available on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 1
    I've packaged Firefox 0.9.1 for Mandrakelinux Cooker, but a backport to 10.0 is available from my repository.

    There are a few issues with this package, e.g. you have to run it once as root after the installation.

  24. Re:Who knows what would have happened on Was Zuse's Z3 the First Programmable Computer? · · Score: 1
    At least Zuse went to work with the allies instead of the Soviets after the war.
    Can you explain me why this was any better? Who threw nuclear bombs at civilians, the western allies or the Red Army?

    Some of the German researchers moved east after the war, some west. Most of the time this wasn't even political belief but pure opportunism. These who were Nazi believers rather cooperated with the US. Guess how many Nazis cooperated with the CIA after the war.

  25. Re:SuSE Works on Flash 7 for Linux Released · · Score: 1

    Try the rpm package from this site. I haven't tried SuSE, but on Mandrakelinux, the rpm post install script detected the right directories to install to.