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  1. Re:Uh on Wikileaks Donations Account Shut Down · · Score: 4, Informative

    There was no names nor pictures leaked... WikiLeaks actually went through the reports as best they could to censor that kind of information.

    But go ahead, troll harder for the great of America.

  2. Re:Freedom on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Except C++ is not slower than C... It's actually equally fast, and can give a lot of performance optimizations with a fraction of the code needed to do the same on C.

    You're just a troll who doesn't actually know C nor C++.

  3. Re:Coders fault - Not the language on Bjarne Stroustrup Reflects On 25 Years of C++ · · Score: 1

    A kid that does not play is a grown up who does not know how to do anything.

    All those C++ coders that were using 'esoteric' (wait, template class is esoteric?... you do _NOT_ want to see my code then) were getting experience in writing more complicated code than what the task at hand would have given them normally. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as one day they'll actually _NEED_ that experience.

  4. Re:Science on Sir Isaac Newton, Alchemist · · Score: 1

    Gold has no inherent worth, not even with those properties.

    Gold just is. Nothing more, nothing less.

  5. Re:Pull the plug on Baumgartner's Daredevil Parachute Jump From Space Put On Hold · · Score: 1

    Well, they stole it from the USAF (or was it one of the research agencies), breaking of sound barrier and all.

  6. Re:40,000 price tag plus interest, fuel, electrici on GM Criticized Over Chevy Volt's Hybrid Similarities · · Score: 1

    And also they should give subsidies to people buying Ferrari and Lamborghini cars since they're also so damn expensive...

  7. Re:Why all that fuss? on 10/10/10 — a Nice Day To Celebrate the Meaning of Life · · Score: 1

    Except we aren't, it's 22[year]10[month]10[day] where the brackets are the respective kanji's.

  8. Re:Chinese people know... on China Blanks Nobel Peace Prize Searches · · Score: 1

    Bitter much? Were you also one of those losers back home in China?

    Speaking as a loser who's now in Japan. ^_^

  9. Re:Yeah. Or just legalize marijuana. on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah, come on with those fines... Just wait for the counter-fines when other countries look at all the ways in which the US is fucking them over, and decides they want to play the same game.

  10. Re:Face the fact that laptops are ... on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Cause you know, having the ability to view both your code and documentation / terminal side-by-side is just for entertainment purposes...

  11. Re:um on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 1

    Are you implying that an extradition for a jail sentence would not need to be processed by the courts?

  12. Re:um on Canadian Spammer Fined Over $1 Billion · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's pretty fucking simple this guys... Don't mess it up.

    A US court ruling has no power to get anything from the guy as long as he and all his possessions are outside of the US. Before anything happens in Canada a Canadian court needs to look at the case and see if it agrees on the ruling.

  13. Re:Revolution on Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie · · Score: 1

    When did the US ever have any interest in promoting democracy? Considering all the democratically elected governments they have overthrown, vilified and/or marginalized it seems much to me that democracy is something they actively work against unless the results please them.

  14. Re:[Citation Needed] on Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie · · Score: 1

    Go to youtube, search for 'Noam Chomsky'.

  15. Re:Do the Swedish have laws? on Wikileaks Now Hosted By the Swedish Pirate Party · · Score: 1

    There's been plenty of extradition cases where Sweden/etc have denied an extradition cause either they didn't think the person would get a fair trial, or the potential sentence would be contrary to human rights.

    I doubt you'd be able to extradite anyone from a Nordic country on the grounds of copyright infringement nor leaking stuff... The fairness of the trial and sentence you might receive are so far outside of what people in these countries consider sane that no judge would agree to such an extradition.

  16. Re:Failed Prisons? on Building Prisons Without Walls Using GPS Devices · · Score: 1

    Sorry but the 'deterrent' part of prisons have been shown to not really be very effective at all, so that's as failed as the reeducation part.

  17. Re:Correction on Brazil Using Smartphones For Planning the Future · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but cost-of-living by city is not the same as that of a country as a whole. Tokyo comes quite high, the whole of Japan not as much. Facts you know, which vary a bit due to exchange rates.

    And the BS on true costs? I'm talking about per capita cost for the whole thing based on OECD studies. A person doesn't pay anything himself it's all aggregated and newer figures than those in the link show the US is only exaggerating the gap.

    So no, I won't find that the total cost of health care is more in socialized systems it's the opposite. It's the gigantic white elephant in the room that americans just refuse to see despite the numerous studies. And it's not 'my' cost analysis...

    BTW, the state of civil liberties in a country is not defined by the most liberal of people in a country, rather it is defined by who you allow into power. (note; using the real definition of liberal not the us version)

  18. Re:Commercial Systems on Hackers Eavesdrop On Quantum Crypto With Lasers · · Score: 1

    Quantum crypto is about passing a key and being sure it wasn't read by a third party (or borking if it has been). Old fashion plaintext passing of that key does not have that particular property which makes it _NOT_ more secure even if it is cheaper.

    That the system would have an error mode where it just starts ignoring the overloaded quantum state sensor seems like braindead design to me...

  19. Re:First? on Brazil Using Smartphones For Planning the Future · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In the US, you worry about the government spying on you or infringing on your rights, while giving the corporations free pass to fuck you in the butthole all day and night.

    In the Nordic countries, we make sure our elected representatives and civil servants are people who do the right thing, in addition to expecting them to protect us from corporations too.

    Worrying about civil liberties? You guys won't even allow homosexuals to marry, wtf is that for civil liberties... Stop living in the 19'th century, as America is no longer the bastion of civil liberties it once was. It's frankly quite insulting and ignorant point of view that more shows your ignorance than anything else.

    BTW, per capita cost of health care in Norway (the most expensive country to live in in the world) costs less than half what it costs in the US, yet covers everyone. I believe that should be classed under 'nannying is damned cheap' if done using the Northern Europe style public management.

  20. Re:What song would you choose for yourself? on Company Presses Your Ashes Into Vinyl When You Die · · Score: 1

    I'm going for audio recordings of me masturbating.

  21. Re:Can't remember who said it first on Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent · · Score: 1

    Even better, make something that is used to download countless torrents off those sites. ^_^

  22. Re:highest ethical standards on Apple Manager Arrested In Kickback Scheme · · Score: 1

    This was especially apparent during the financial crisis... Unions made agreements with companies and the state to a system where the workers cut their work hours and salaries so that the companies wouldn't go bankrupt in a climate of near-zero demand. The state agreed to pay partial unemployment benefits in order to fill the gap.

    The American model has only one option; fire those you can't pay. This means all your in-house knowledge gets thrown out on to a market that likely doesn't have the capacity to exploit it to the fullest.

    Once the orders start moving again the European countries (especially Germany) are ready to start producing immediately. It's not like the goods one used to make suddenly aren't needed again, and as long as the dregs of the workforce got fired (which they generally did even in Europse) then you achieve a balance between keeping in-house knowhow and increasing efficiency.

  23. Re:Ummm Personal responsibility? on Look-Alike Tubes Lead To Hospital Deaths · · Score: 1

    Personal responsibility is a concept that seems reasonable but is basically idiotic when put into the context of the Real World. It's the same as thinking that no one will lose their job if you remove all social safety nets.

    Mistakes _WILL_ happen, always, even with several layers of security protocols. That is reality and we need to design stuff with reality in mind. Just color coding or text labeling doesn't take things far enough, as those are measures that assume the nurse isn't distracted by e.g. an annoying patient that keeps complaining and demanding attention, etc, or any number of other things that can lead to fleeting moments of inattention.

    The best solution here is to make it impossible to connect tubes to the wrong device. Simple, effective and takes the human out of the equation.

  24. Re:Horn? on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you propose we introduce traffic laws that require cars to at all times be going above 30 km/h?

    You don't need much speed to kill a kid or dog, and it'll just feel like a small hump in the road when you start dragging the corpse under your car..

  25. Re:What a shame on Toyota Adds External Speakers To Warn Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and those careless idiots think they got a right to drive too... Not really much choice here.