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  1. Re:License war commencing... on PlayStation 4 Will Be Running Modified FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    We don't need Wayland! X already does everything we need.

  2. Re:When did bitcoin(tm) become a currency on California Sends a Cease and Desist Order To the Bitcoin Foundation · · Score: 1

    How in the hell are you measuring the intrinsic value of gold? Note that the intrinsic theory of value (where one measures the value of an item by objective properties of it, such as the raw materials or labour that went into producing it, or whatever else) has not been accepted by almost any economic thinker since Marx. The modern consensus is the subjective theory of value, where the value of an object is determined by observing the relative worth that individuals put into it.

    That is to say, the only reasonable way to determine the value of any commodity is to take the price at which it trades.

  3. Re:So much for... on NSA's Role In Terror Cases Concealed From Defense Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Well, the lives of every American are probably more important than their right to due process. The dead have no such guarantee.

  4. Re:Shocked I am not. on Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data · · Score: 1

    Even those that watched idly as the PATRIOT act was passed should not be called silly. I would encourage them to be shocked at the realisation of what its implications were and start opposing it. Otherwise the minority who rejected the act from its inception will never become a majority.

  5. Re:Too little too late on Cerulean Studios Releases Trillian IM Protocol Specifications · · Score: 1

    It kind of does skype. You need to keep skype running, and I've found it often does not display incoming messages. More than once I've had to open up the skype chat window to see what someone's said.

  6. Re:Bend over and submit citizen on What Can You Find Out From Metadata? · · Score: 1

    Progressive taxation rates.

  7. Re:Yeah, right! on British Foreign Secretary on Surveillance Worries: '"Law Abiding Citizens Have N · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What? National socialism is a right wing movement. But also, yes you're right. Neither right nor left nor centre should get access to these tools when in power.

  8. Re: Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    They don't just quite believe you that you don't own a tv. I got a visit from some guy because I wasn't paying my tv licence. I showed him around and he saw there was no television anywhere. He then told me I still would have to pay it if I watch any live broadcasts from the bbc website. I told him to leave. If it happened again now, I would not have let him in at all, but alas nowadays I do own a tv and pay my fee.

  9. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    Yes, of course you can. I do it all the time. Although I recall something about it being an 'awesome bar'.

  10. Re:now they are nazis on Israeli Army Retweeting 1967 War As It Happened · · Score: 2

    Yes, we expect Israel to act like a liberal, enlightened western democracy. And it bloody well should: Israel was not created to act like a warmongering bully but as a safe haven for Jews escaping ethnic and religious prosecution. They have some of the most impressive cultural and scientific communities in the world and should know better.

    And we don't expect that same level of civility or liberalism from Syria or Egypt because why would you. It is a double standard, but not one that Israel should be complaining about, nor one that excuses its behaviour.

  11. Re:This is a compatibility issue on Ubuntu Closes Longstanding Bug #1 · · Score: 1

    Not when they're using Ubuntu.

  12. Re:That's nice... on Kepler-62 Has 2 Good Candidate Planets In the Search for Life · · Score: 2

    Giselle 581 is about 20 light years away.

  13. Re:So long, farewell... on Apple Bans Sale of Comic Book On All iOS Apps Over Gay Sex Images - Update · · Score: 1

    You can't look up a word in the dictionary if you don't know how to spell it. He'll be in the esses forever!

    To add to your comment though, our modern view of censorship (in the West) has rarely anything to do with government. The ALA says banned books:

    A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.

    are all those that are removed from a library, and considers it censorship. And while the first amendment only applies to the law, society's commitment to freedom of speech even in these instances are what keeps it inviolable.

  14. Re:Not google? on Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy · · Score: 1

    But that's true of literally any single login scheme. It's better in the sense that no-one gets to store all the places you've logged into and all the sites you visit afterwards.

  15. Re:I'd rather have multiple authentication realms on Mozilla: Unlike FB and Twitter Single Sign-in, Persona Protects User Privacy · · Score: 1

    You can have as many profiles on your browser as you want. They will each keep separate logins. Each profile is stored in ~/.config/chromium.

  16. Re:Really? on Linux Fatware: Distros That Need To Slim Down · · Score: 1

    I use ubuntu; I've only started using linux about 6 months ago, so I'm their market. A few days ago I installed xmonad to play with a tiling window manager (also cause I think haskell is pretty cool). But then all my settings were messed up, I couldn't even see my terminal's text; no matter what I did to my Xresources, things stayed the same.

    It's a pretty noob problem to have, and it happens because the DE usually takes care of parsing Xresources. Sure enough I found the answers online - but on the Arch wiki. Ubuntu had nothing to say about it, and it's the same with most problems.

  17. Re:The only ones who win are the lawyers. on Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    someone else could patent it

    Only if you keep it a secret. If you publish your results, then the inventive step is public and no one can patent it any longer.

  18. Re:The only ones who win are the lawyers. on Rackspace Goes On Rampage Against Patent Trolls · · Score: 1

    It doesn't mean that you should like them; hey should still be outlawed like usurers, tax farmers, or racketeers. But you definitely should not expect them to stop patent trolling just because you called them an asshole.

  19. Re:Agents do have some latitude on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    Or the decent ones will leave, and we'll be left with the ones with a little Hitler complex and can't get/keep a job anywhere else. Enjoy.

    It is very likely that we already have these, and the decent ones were never there to begin with.

  20. Apologies for the inconvenience, bro. on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 1

    But it's for your own safety.

  21. Re:This is horrid on Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays · · Score: 1

    0.5 is most certainly equal to 1/2. What are you, a physicist?

  22. Re:Patriot Act is unconstitutional on National Security Letters Ruled Unconstitutional, Banned · · Score: 1

    I think it's more the EFF than a telecom who care about this. Not quite a human, of course, but being defended by the EFF certainly humanises the defendant.

  23. Re:76? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    Are you saying you like rolling releases better?

  24. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Likes are public information, so it's not necessary facebook. Also, it neither knows nor presumes anything about you. It can merely predict with 60-93% accuracy certain dichotomous/dichotomised traits.

  25. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    It works because the algorithm only claims to be correct 88% of the time, and because musical theatre is not the only variable that is considered. One counterexample - especially when it's likely that the only people that voice their views are the ones that don't fit in the model - does not make statistics.