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  1. As Firefly put it: on Hector Xavier Monsegur, Aka Sabu, Dodges Sentencing Again · · Score: 1

    Mal: You called the Feds.
    Jayne: I got pinched!
    Mal: Which is what happens when you call the Feds.

    Not now, but when his case is heard at least.

  2. Re:Confusing press release without context on Nikon Buckles To Microsoft, Will Pay "Android Tax" For Smart Cameras · · Score: 1

    They also make the Nexus line. Would you consider Gentoo not to be a real OS just because it's a user's problem to compile it from scratch?

  3. Re:Looks pretty good. on The Chromebook Pixel Is Real, and Expensive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Still, it's like 1 million dollar vodka - it does its job for sure, but it is surely a little expensive for that.

  4. Re:Timba his arms wide. on Canonical Announcing Ubuntu Tablet Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    Deeeebian. Mageia's good too.

  5. Re:well it worked for google on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 2

    Then we can't blame Google for not being open - after all, they are doing the same thing GNU did, using the Cathedral model of development.

  6. Re:well it worked for google on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 2

    Still, the "cathedral" model was used by GNU back in the day, and you'd probably be nuts not consider Emacs open.

  7. Re:FUD on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it is QML, but it's long since discontinued.

  8. Re:well it worked for google on KDE's Aaron Seigo Bashes Ubuntu Phone · · Score: 1

    Read Cathedral vs Bazaar to understand just what exactly open means.

  9. Re:ubuntu linux stores next on Google Watchers Expect Company-Branded Stores This Year · · Score: 1

    I don't know who is posting those things, but they are really, really great.

  10. Re:Fail even if on time and on budget on Sony Exercising Its Acquisition of GaiKai, Plans To Stream Games To PS4 · · Score: 1

    Developer support for Ouya is not extreme, but quite nice - it's pretty much well-done Android, so there's little effort to port.

  11. Re:well... on Iceland Considers Internet Porn Ban · · Score: 1

    We lust so much for pretty much any other nation. Russians usually are hot for Czech women.

  12. Re:Really, who cares? on GNU Hurd To Develop SATA, USB, Audio Support · · Score: 1

    Freedos is largely used as a binary-compatible MS-DOS implementation with a few ramifications gone. It has its niche.
    What does Hurd have? It's as half-baked as it was in the 1990's, and for all practical purposes, there are better free OS on the market now. Heterogeneous OS is largely useless if no one uses the alternative, not even counting the fact that all the GNU stack that makes it GNU/Linux is still there, making the point of heterogeneousness largely moot.
    However, it's the foundation that develops the OS, and not me - if they are trying to do it, no one is stopping them. Just please don't try to justify the development - it's still an experiment and a toy for every party involved.

  13. Re:Time to haul the red herrings on Eric Schmidt To Sell Up To 42% of Stake In Google · · Score: 1

    Is this comment a reference to "a swarm of butterflies"?

  14. Re:Why not? on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    I'd argue about Raspberry: it's pretty much made for PC use cases.

  15. Re:Am I missing something? on Jonathan Coulton Offers Some Gleeful Turnabout · · Score: 2

    Not quite: people say they actually ripped his melody off. Directly. Using waveform reduction.
    That may give him legal ground.

    Also, with that kind of logic you can try and cover Rising Sun by the Animals using their arrangement, or a lot of things by Zeppelin (yes, even Stairway), because the original authors are long dead and gone.

  16. Re:Oops on Steve Jobs Movie Clip Historically Inaccurate, Says Woz · · Score: 1

    Actually, while RMS doesn't like BSD much, he also doesn't think it's really evil. Skype and Microsoft, Apple and Google's shenanigans, maybe. BSD? It's just not his style.

  17. Re:I'm sorry but he is wrong.. on Open Source Software Licenses Versus Business Models · · Score: 1

    With your model, we are countlessly duplicating the work, and the whole point of FOSS kind of is lost. Plus, it exists for game engines at least, and it doesn't fit much into OS.

  18. Re:How many products reach that internal milestone on iPod Engineer Tony Fadell On the Unique Nature of Apple's Design Process · · Score: 1

    It's called a stereo?

  19. Re:Because all other problems have now been solved on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    I would listen to you, but my ears only listen to arguments that save babies.

  20. Re:Non-metric units easier for humans on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    1 N = 1 kg*m/(s*s). By laymen's terms, 1 kg puts 10 N of force onto a surface it's sitting on.
    Therefore, 1 Pa = 1 kg/(m*s*s).
    Psi is kind of absurd because it matters not what mass you put on a square inch, but what force you exert. In order to wrap your head around it, try first touching somebody with a baseball bat, and then smashing his jaw with it - the mass was equal, but the pressure wasn't

  21. Re:Really shows how far ahead they were on Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger · · Score: 1

    I'd say that flat screens were simply wishful thinking, and some of these designs are from 1985 rather than 82. Also, the plastic is tasteless by modern standards.

  22. Re:We can already feed the world just fine on FDA Closer To Approving Biotech Salmon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And if you eat an apple, you will inherit apple genes.
    Your ideas are wildly intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

  23. Re:how about on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 1

    Most of all, it goes this way: 1. I don't want to be marked as "the guy who requested switching the adult filter on" by the government or ISP. 2. It's better to have it this way by default, and not have to resort to proxies. 3. YMMV highly about what is or isn't offensive.

  24. Re:Fantastic news on Valve's 'Steam Box' Console Is Real, Says Gabe Newell · · Score: 0

    It's really fucking funny, you know?

  25. Re:Brilliant on Google Launches Private Android App Stores · · Score: 1

    FSF? Android? Not without at least forking the thing.