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  1. Re:Slavery on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    Yes. The suicide rate in China looks like bullshit, and you could question the competence of the countries engineer leaders for that crap but the the foxconn rate looks pretty normal especially if the majority of those 400k workers are young men. The point being that 10 suicides per 400k workers in a 6 month period does not indicate slavery.

  2. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1

    Because the civilian may flee her slaughter but the soldier must stand and die if so instructed. Doesn't that make it worse? The kicker is that we sell despots weapons for the oil money they get from us but when they have too many guns and maybe think about buying other stuff, like our IP, that would give them real power over us then we have to slaughter their men to use up the weapons so that the new guys blow more oil money on more weapons. Where is the honor in that?

  3. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1

    Not to me it doesn't and I'm not defending his actions or beliefs.

    The point is that US foreign policy is to protect and further the interests of the US and that makes it the duty of the US gov to use whatever methods are effective abroad. Fairness, truth and justice are not required. Defenseless civilians is an interesting term. The US has slaughtered defenseless military opponents for the last 30 years but do you think that make the US bad?

  4. I want one on Google Lobbies Nevada To Allow Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 1

    Self driving car. Take me to work, drive very very slowly around the block while I work, great, now take me home. As to safety which I give some though to while cycling to work ignoring all the rules in my quest to average 30km/h through the city (mytracks..), if any of those pissed off motorists wanted to kill me with a deft turn of the wheel they could probably get away with it so I'd prefer them not to have that choice.

  5. Re:stupid on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 1

    I'm thinking OBL may have been mutilated then shot from very close range so pictures would help. I didn't like his beliefs or methods and I suppose dying would have been his choice. The spin on his killing was dishonorable though. He fought corruption and lost and if we don't see it that way then all the death and suffering he caused is for nothing.

  6. Re:Where are the free PDF versions? on 2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0 · · Score: 1

    Here and here.

    Thanks. Good reading, at least the first one about RMS. RMS is wise. I particularly like his Eric Raymond observations. The last chapter about the book license and publishing deal contains the exciting bits.

  7. Re:Save 10 percent? on 2 RMS Books Hit Version 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Yes me too. I thought that it would be free online. I guess he is just making a point and maybe expecting $ to boot. I'm a little curious what RMS thinks about IP in general and his place in the world but not buy his book curious.

  8. Re:The point? on Oracle Plans To Hand Hudson To Eclipse · · Score: 1

    The point was to have the most pretentious name unchallenged. How can buying that be a waste a money?

  9. just business on Red Hat CEO On Patent Trolls: Just Pay Them Off · · Score: 2

    so he says that sometimes you should just settle so that when he fights he seems more reasonable..

  10. Re:So where's the FLOSS/open codec Skype alternati on Facebook Wants To Buy Skype · · Score: 1

    Well then you haven't seen my mum. #3 She uses it for leaving me 10 minute long voice messages with 10 secs of voice and 9:50 of mouse clicks as she lays the cards waiting for the grim reaper to show.

  11. Re:People have never thought on their own on Do Gadgets Degrade Our Common Sense? · · Score: 1

    He expressed that he could use gadgets to find stuff out like never before and that made him wiser. Sex is disgusting though, try another subject. Dig out your google earth gadget and take a close look at Somalia, then Western sahara and finish up with that long wall in Israel.

  12. Spyware vs cookies on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just read the proposal and it's purpose, as far as cookies go, is to make spyware illegal to comply with an EU directive. The discussion centers around how to do this without requiring an opt-in for every cookie because cookies are also used to spy on you.

    Third party cookies should be illegal but I very much doubt that this proposal wants to go there.

  13. Re:Patently useless on US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons · · Score: 1

    If you are defending against the US you wont have any ships or planes so you attach your weapons to hydrogen balloons and let them drift. Lasers could be useful against such a cloud.

  14. Is this a bot test? on Convicted Terrorist Relied On Single-Letter Cipher · · Score: 1

    Imagine that a significant percentage of ./ is sock-puppets and bots. It's possible.. Posting an otherwise reasonable comment today, or yesterday is a fair indication of your true nature and a bug in your code.

  15. My bike makes car sounds on Europe Plans To Ban Petrol Cars From Cities By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Most car sounds do not come from the engine. The spikes on my winter tyres make plenty of noise. We could ban wheels and speed. Just ban everything at some distant point in the future, so distant that we don't have to take any action now, that seems pretty easy and safe.

  16. Re:Hardly stupid on Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day · · Score: 1

    A swede and a kiwi, an american would want their kids to read by 4. In Sweden school starts at 7 and when they are done they write better english than your average kiwi.

  17. Re:Windows "was" a competitor? on How Mac OS X, 10 Today, Changed Apple's World · · Score: 1

    Desktop Linux could make a bigger effort to run android apps. Those are what developers are developing and controlling them from a touch phone using vnc makes a lot of sense to me.

  18. Hardly stupid on Facebook Bans 20,000 Kids a Day · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I've been thinking that Facebook accounts for my kids, 5 and 7, might encourage them to learn to read and write.

  19. Re:And when he... on Best-Selling Author Refuses $500k; Self-Publishes Instead · · Score: 1

    Here is how I do marathon ebook reading sessions:

    Windows 7, 720p laptop in portrait mode using adobe reader. Alt gr + arrow keys rotate the screen, in adobe reader Ctl+l then Ctl+3 to maximize the page so the text reaches the margins in all directions. Page down to read. Open Office and amber lit converter to make a nicer PDF. I get more headaches reading paper books.

  20. Re:It is and it isn't on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most of the casualties from Chernobyl (4000 to 8000 fatalities and counting) were from Thyroid cancer.

    Check your facts! 4000 cases of thyroid cancer and only 9 fatalities, because it is 99% curable (I think I read somewhere else 15 deaths).

  21. Great chart on A Handy Radiation Dose Chart From XKCD · · Score: 1

    That was helpful. But after a 10 days of study I'm missing the information about the non-ionizing radiation that the water in those spent fuel pools was there to adsorb. The cancer link is also curious - the WHO report on Chernobyl states 4000 cases of thyroid cancer from milk in children with a 99% survival rate, just 9 deaths. I have cancer myself and visiting a reactor would probably be good for me because tumors hate radiation.

  22. Seems odd to leave the plant at all on Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker's Job · · Score: 1

    With a storm coming the brave and heroic thing to do would be to leave the plant and help others get to shelter.

  23. Re:And they would know that you watched them showe on Scott Adams Says Plenty Would Choose Life In Noprivacyville · · Score: 1

    You're confusing patents with trade secrets.This would not kill patents;

    Am I? I was thinking about the absolute novelty requirement but I see in the USA you could still slip the quick and easy stuff through. Not much point in that. The only IP that would remain after 20 years of full transparency would be trademarks. Copyright would have to go because I must have access to whatever creative work you are observing.

  24. Re:I think the Market is absolute garbage... on Android Game Devs Worry Over Ease of Copying · · Score: 1

    First and Third explanation are correct. What you are mostly doing wrong is being new to the market and after a few months you will feel better about it. It is in the interest of google and new developers that people try out new apps.

  25. Yes it is dead! on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    It's mostly organic but the life is gone. If you want people you meet to remember you without using the business card then humiliate them, or hurt them avoiding blows to the head.