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  1. Re:Ouch on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    He's also critizing capitalism elsewhere to shift the blame of his own, continuing capitalist endevors.

    He also uses his status as a philinthroper to specificly target and silence unrelated critism of himself and his work at microsoft.

  2. Re:Ouch on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 1

    he didn't pay for those mistakes, he simply bought a cover up.

    Charity and donations won't change the nature of the system of exploitation.
    http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2010/sep/29/gates-foundation-gm-monsanto

    especially when its for profit.

  3. Re:Things have changed on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 5, Insightful

    that said, they still sit on their lareuls and collect money via patent trolling.

    Bill Gates can talk about being a do-gooder when he renounces patent trolling, or more aptly sells his stock in monsanto, and denounces that too.

  4. Re:Fan of capitalism on Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World · · Score: 2

    because microsoft is complicit in helping the feds set up monitoring.

    If Bill Gates wants to end capitalism it starts with microsoft and the exploitation of tech workers.

    I don't take anyone seriously who wants to end exploitation, but won't end or denounce the exploitation they participate in, or solicit first.

  5. Re:Marxism was a disaster ! on MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students · · Score: 1

    marxism or mao-ism?

    really from china?

  6. Proffessor Nut? on Scientist Seeks Investment For "Alcohol Substitute" · · Score: 1

    Proffessor Nut?

    you don't say.

  7. Apology Accepted! on Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for Trademark Action Against Fix Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It takes a big man to apologize.

    I want to thank Mark Shuttleworth for stepping up and doing the rightthing.

  8. Re:Give me a break. on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    what if the encryption is properly written by the NSA like AES.

    the most common 256 bit standard after the NSA pushed it

  9. Title Doesn't Lie on The NSA Is Looking For a Few Good Geeks · · Score: 1

    At this point, you could say the same about any large gang, or mafia that gets caught.

    Making headlines in a downright terrible way is still making headlines.

  10. I liked the movie back then too on Critics Reassess Starship Troopers As a Misunderstood Masterpiece · · Score: 1

    you also have to remember living in the 1990s was far diffrent than looking at it 15 years past due. Movie Critics, Teachers, Government, Corporations, and just about all types of authority figures, newspaper men, and anyone with an official voice in mainstream society was an unbelievable prude in their public life. The concept of satire didn't sit well, and its hard to see anyone in that decade looking past the boobies and co-ed shower scenes.

    Then we take the 1990s mainstream society view that being critical of society meant you had some form of defect, or where just being juevinile.

    As a teenager I got the satire and parody quite well. Critics didn't "get" the movie, because they just didn't want to hear it, as it raised issues we didn't want to talk about. Mind you this movie also came out BEFORE 9/11 and the current wars.

  11. We need a perminant comittee on TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit · · Score: 1

    We need to turn this into a perminant comittee to rountinely test all open source encryption software, popular kernels (linux, freebsd, etc...), webbrowsers(firefox,chromium), webservers(apache, nginx), and other essential bits of free software we depend on (mariadb, php, python, etc...)

  12. Re:The Type on Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other · · Score: 2

    >even though there are paranoid conspiracy nuts who think school administrators just live for coming up with weird and restrictive regulations

    I used to think this in high school, after all none really seemed that bright.

    later on in life, I just found they were playing dumb just to fool the students, silly me

  13. Re:Why would you want to? on The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Durability, thats why.

    Think about it, when you drop you phone, a phone that bounces is going to release the kinetic energy as vibration. the phone that is hard and solid is going to absorb the energy.

    In science class as a kid, you must have done the experment with shattering a frozen rubberband. Similar concept in reverse

  14. Re:Without Mobile Firefox it's dead in the water. on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    they have this concept called "the other half", where you can snap all kinds of gizmos to the back of the thing, via I2C interface.

    Its confirmed there WILL be a HW keyboard otherhalf

  15. misleading title on EU Considering Sensors In Sewers To Detect Bomb-Makers · · Score: 2

    > Using remote sensors might be effective because the liquid- and gas byproducts of bomb production â" and manufacture of many drugs as well

    lets be frank about what this is really about

  16. Re:Without Mobile Firefox it's dead in the water. on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Jolla Mobile

    http://jolla.com/

    Maemo -> meego -> mer -> sailfish.

    its even made by the same design team that rage quit nokia and founded a new company

  17. Re:Non-free parts include on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    they said, all free software, not Open Hardware. Many wifi, and I think a few huewi LTE cards have Free drivers.

    As for GPU, a few of them have things like freedreno and the like. Not the best, but they exist.

  18. Bill "McSwindler" Gates on Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World · · Score: 1

    Translation: What I am doing is right, and whateveryone else is doing is wrong.

    I'd say he's slightly biased. I guess this is payback for people not liking him, or his products, or his predatory practices

  19. Re:I donâ(TM)t suppose... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 1

    the USA is paying off the debt from ww2, and hasn't turned a surplus in a very long time, with the exception of clinton.

    however, thats more the dot com boom, than any bit of clinton policy. In fact clinton nearly killed it, trying to outlaw private encryption strong enough to proccess credit cards online, and with it e-commerce

  20. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    in capital cases, you need a unanimous verdict to get the death penalty

  21. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    and KDE and englightenment....

  22. All government projects should be open source on How To FIx Healthcare.gov: Go Open-Source! · · Score: 1

    We the people pay for this shit via tax dollars, I for one am sick of the US Government treating public stuff as its own private property.

    In addition, we need to bring back the concept of "public" property. I think this is where most of the backlash against the government, and government property lies. The US Government treats what should be public property, as Private Government property.

  23. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    gnome 3.10 launched with wayland support with mutter being a compositor

    gnome 3.12 released next spring will mandate all gnome apps have native wayland compatibility.

    all the major desktops are going wayland.

    X11 is NOT integral to linux, in any fashion. In anycase, wayland has XWayland that runs X11 applications.(there is also XMir)

  24. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    again, not true

    http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38964

  25. Re: Of course... on Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party' · · Score: 1

    Gnome 3.10 for one, that was just released in septempter, KDE is getting a port, and so is google chrome.

    Both GTK and QT have solid ports already mainlined.

    wayland is the standard the rest of the GNU/Linux community is gearing up for.

    the real quesiton is, except cannocal, who is using mir?

    answer: no one.