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  1. Re:"punitive damages" on Firm Threatens To Sue Consumer Websites For Harrassment · · Score: 1

    or simpy freeze or devest them of there assets depending on the sevarity and jail all of those involved with prison time prepositional to their responsibility and involvement in what ever the incident is/was

  2. Re:Dear Parasite on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    religious organizations who oppose are exempt,

    what if you are an atheist and opposed to it than would it not be biased against you? which i believe is illegal.

  3. Re:Difference on Microsoft Trying To Woo Businesses To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    someone will come up with a way to boot it and post it online and someone else will write a script that requires you to do do very little other than click the box asking how big you want the partion for it and tell you to reboot

  4. Re:eula on Lying Online No Longer a Crime In Rhode Island · · Score: 1

    why was this moded troll it was an honest question?

  5. eula on Lying Online No Longer a Crime In Rhode Island · · Score: 0, Troll

    now if it is legal to lie on the internet, does that than mean lying about agreeing to a eula or other digital contract is valid if said agreement unlocks software after key exchange over the Internet?

  6. Re:Partially a lack of interest by users on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 0

    i might use them if their hardware wasn't two to four the price of competators and it had compiz and came with free-ish copy of windows for me to duelboot to for the non-*nix software.

  7. Re:Partially a lack of interest by users on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 0

    have you ever tried linux mint it has both gui and terminal. ubuntu used to be that way but not so much anymore you could also try xubuntu

  8. Re:Partially a lack of interest by users on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 1

    powershell... Oh you mean the bastard lovechild of bash and dos prompt?

    joking please don't kill me :-D

  9. Re:Partially a lack of interest by users on Are Open-Source Desktops Losing Competitiveness? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    4. KDE vs Gnome. I've never bought the "choice is good" mantra. Linux is too small to support 2 different environments. Any enthusiasm I had for developing for Linux was squashed by the continual doubt in my mind about which environment I should develop for, or which one would survive. I'm surprised one or the other hasn't died by now. Having an overlord to make tough decisions in this area would be good IMHO.

    well they both can run the others programs just fine so just flip a coin or choose which ever is easies for you to program in or has best libraries for what you want to do. there is a good reason that there are two major desktops it is the same reason that the US has two major parties because not everyone agrees. what would be best ideally is if people realized that it is not a all or nothing deal. i can have gnome desktop and kde apps. that the way my computer is i have a mate desktop with a kde terminal emulator, a gnome text editor and apps from half a dozen other projects. the linux desktop has a problem of not knowing where to go right now. but that is true of computers in general right now look at windows, they cant decide what the hell they are. consumer compututainment has just met a new potentially disruptive technology and no one other than apple seems to have an idea of what the hell to do about it.

    so let me summarize what i think computing need to figure out.
    1. the family of libraries and desktop environment don't matter. what matters is license and how well it works for your purposes.
    2. different form factor require different interface paradigms and environment libraries can stay the same just change who you use them. this is where kde is excelling right now multiple environment one for touch one for desktop.
    3. just because an idea is old does not mean it is bad or needs replaced. the desktop paradigm didn't change for so long not because it was we all worship windows 95 but because the windows 95 gui engineers finally figured out the best type of interface for the form factor. they tried other styles that hadn't worked see bob or windows 3.11, but wimp (windows icons menu pointer) was best. and still is for the desktop.
    4. desktops make data and consume it, tablets only consume it don't try to change the nature of the beast you will fail.
    5. experimentation is good and can improve anything do it slowly or every one will hate you when you f*** up and you will, and make it fixable see gnome three unity windows 8. not fixable not really the fixes are awkward and halfa**ed.

  10. Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    smaller, easier to store, portable can be moved to a more convenient location. what would be best is laptop form factor with more or less dumb terminal with access to OO.o, Firefox, document viewer for pdf's, text editor like gedit/notepad++, a calculator graphcalc preferably, basic photo editor, a file manager, and maybe a media player, and collaborative document editing software/chat. maybe for certain classes some additional software for more advanced classes, eclipse/mono-develop/net-beans for programing classes, gimp for graphics arts, other specialty programs as needed.

  11. Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    same here, i have my tablet in my backpack next to me right now but i am browsing on my laptop because it is easier and more powerful.

  12. Re:i don't really like bill gates that much but... on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    or tools if you turn them into a computational cluster. hell a group a while back built a cluster of play stations a broke ssl. https://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/ssl-broken-hackers-create-rogue-ca-certificate-using-md5-collisions/2339

  13. Re:dude on While the U.S. and Iran Negotiate, War Commences In Cyberspace · · Score: 2

    Also, maybe let the diplomats of both sides work this out? It worked with the Soviet Union/Russia.

    really then whats was Vietnam war, Korean war, Cuban missile crises, and all of the nastiness in eastern Europe? we didn't just talk things out. it was war by proxy

  14. Re:What? on Chatbot Eugene Wins Biggest Turing Test Ever · · Score: 2

    no but the generally know what spell check is. most don't know what banalities means though.

  15. Re:Linux users on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 2

    and no netflix which is a must for many people. i use a vm for this but most average joes would have no idea what they are doing trying to build one

  16. Re:Show ID, get a medical screening, ... on Immigrants Crucial To Innovation · · Score: 2

    At best, you'll get treating with disrespect, dismisive attitude, rudeness, made to wait entire days in line, etc.

    Are you sure you haven't mistaken immigration for the DMV?

  17. Re:Please, Please, Please start a trend. on UK's 'Three Strikes' Piracy Measures Published · · Score: 1

    wrong. the right to information and to be represented on tinternet is more important that your ability to get from A-B without taking a bus.

    only if you live in an urban environment. where i live 20 miles from town there is no bus. (and it rains much of the years so bike is out) Car transport in much more important for people like me.

  18. Re:Nothing makes americans paranoid like the word. on The Google Transparency Project Transparency Project · · Score: 1

    Some states have too high a concentration of ignorant, violent people, with too few civilized people to balance them out.

    thats right and they are getting rid of those violent people via execution

  19. Re:Poor bastard... on Lonesome George Is Dead At 100 · · Score: 1

    he could have been impotent thus the inability to interbreed would not be able to produce offspring while still compatible species

  20. Re:Okay, but... on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    i think one is the result of the other or at least kept that way by the other

  21. Re:China on AutoCAD Worm Medre.A Stealing Designs, Blueprints · · Score: 1

    I'm SHOCKED that Chinese email addresses seem to be involved. SHOCKED... and we will continue to do business with these lying cheating bastards who are waging economic warfare with the US until we send our last dollar there.

    um this is a attack on puru no the US. you can calm down now besides haven't you ever heard of hosted servers, they can be leased anywhere in the world and china would be a great place to put get one because they aren't likely to sell you out without large amounts of money being involved

  22. Re:Okay, but... on Arizona H-1B Workers Advised to Carry Papers At All Times · · Score: 1

    More probably we just have less stringent laws in the US for dealing with frivolous law suites.

  23. Re:Was Jesus riding Nessie? on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    same thought.

  24. Re:Was Jesus riding Nessie? on Fundamentalist Schools Using "Nessie" To Disprove Evolution · · Score: 1

    unless as god he wanted people not robots, so gave us free will. giving humanity free will means letting them exercise it even if the out come is horrific otherwise what are you but a mindless robot.

  25. Re:NFC and hacking on New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna · · Score: 1

    this is a security vulnerability but it is not one for viruses.