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  1. Re:To Tape... on Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Multiple backups to multiple media.
    More than once I've seen tape recovery atempts fail because a streamer didn't work correctly, the tapes had manufacturing faults or their software of choice was nothing but a useless piece of shit.

  2. Re:"Over" $50 million? on Universal Music Demands Insurer Pay For Infringement Damages · · Score: 2

    How did it get to be "over $50 million"?

    All the booze and hookers for those lawyers didn't come cheap.

  3. Re:New ToS clause on DOJ: Violating a Site's ToS Is a Crime · · Score: 1

    If it's a "private" one which requires an account.

  4. Re:Sounds like swindle on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 1

    You actually asume there's any connection between politicians and common sense?

  5. Hmm ... on Is American Innovation Losing Its Shine? · · Score: 1

    What gave it away?
    The remakes of remakes of remakes?

  6. Re:11.10 made me switch on Linux Mint: the New Ubuntu? · · Score: 1

    Same here. A few changes here and there and it had all I liked about Gnome 2.x

  7. Re:It's change for the sake of change on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    This!!!

    Unlike Gnome (and others) someone on the KDE team had enough brains left to actually implement the whole thing in a way where the users are able to choose which type of interface they want to use.

  8. Re:Scary on Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF · · Score: 2

    European countries, asian countries, ...
    It's a worldwide problem.

    Actually, I'm surprised it took the country, which brought you the search for Iraqui WMD, Homeland "Security" and our favorite TSA gropers, this long.

  9. Re:Scary on Stop Online Piracy Act Supports Blacklisting, Says EFF · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least it's more honest than in Europe countries where politicians/lobbyists in several countries were using the fight against child abuse as a pretense for the implementation of such censorship systems.

    Just look at Australia, where there's already rampant abuse of online filters which were introduced like that:
    http://nocleanfeed.com/learn.html

    The list of material that will be banned under a mandatory filter is much broader than illegal child sexual abuse material. Based on previous decisions of the Classification Board, it includes:

            Information about euthanasia;
            Movies such as Ken Park or Baise-Moi;
            Books such as Join the Caravan and Defence of the Muslim Lands
            Many, many computer games, because Australia lacks an R18+ rating, although the filter will not immediately ban such games.

    Items that have been banned because they 'promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence' include things such as:

            A satirical article title "The Art of Shoplifting" in a student newspaper (see libertus.net's summary of the case).
            A computer game that features "an amateur graffiti artist [...] who uses graffiti and tagging as a way to protest the corrupt Dystopic city of New Radius, in a future world where freedom of expression is suppressed by a tyrannical, Orwellian city government" (wikipedia) because it "provided elements of promotion of the crime of graffiti." (see libertus.net's summary of the decision).

  10. Re:JavaScript... or HTML DOM? on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 1

    Really? I actually know a lot of universities whose courses still include C (separate section of a C++ course) and x86 assembly, since they're regarded as one of the best ways of understanding essential basics using familiar technologies.

  11. Re:Then one has to ask why they didn't address it on Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

    Weren't there plans for the gpodder client to switch to this one as well (instead of creating the package manually)?

  12. Re:Windows virus detector in python? on Open Source Tool Scans For Duqu Drivers · · Score: 1

    That will probably be addressed at a later point.
    Turning Python source into an executable isn't exactly rocket science.

  13. Re:Still high-priced on Apple's Secret Weapon To Influence Industry Pricing · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not really. If you gear your marketing campaigns towards people who shouldn't even be let near a calculator you better factor in a large safety buffer for future customer service costs.

  14. Re:5 Step Program on DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying · · Score: 1

    It's still a country with nuclear capability. They could do a lot of damage to allies in that region.
    Quite a difference from a group of camel fuckers with explosives, AKs and an overflowing supply of nutjobs.

  15. Re:5 Step Program on DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying · · Score: 0

    I wouldn't be too sure about that. The last time the US sent troops into a war with a country that was a serious opponent was WW2.
    Since then there have been some proxy wars in-between, but never against a country that could actually take the fight back to them and do some serious damage.

  16. Re:5 Step Program on DOJ Drops FOIA Rule To Permit Lying · · Score: 2

    While I agree that this administration is mostly the same corrupt crap, just with a different label, at least this guy didn't throw the nation into two wars which will force the country to remain involved for over a decade.

  17. Re:My problem with Eclipse on Open Source Eclipse Celebrates 10th Birthday · · Score: 1

    As opposed to what?

    NetBeans, which automates a lot, but prevents you from doing some basic things, making it necessary to implement those changes using yet another editor? In the end, every IDE has its downsides.

  18. Re:The Difference on Ubuntu Heads To Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Apples and oranges.
    While Apple seems just as bad, they have a far better PR department to spin the whole media coverage in their favor.

  19. Option C on Is That an Android On Your Wrist? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't give a shit about either one.

  20. Re:Talk to ze Zhermans on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 1

    Yet, two decades later they still haven't reconstructed all the remaining shredded material.

  21. Re:As a foreigner... on PROTECT IP Renamed To the E-PARASITE Act · · Score: 1

    Just don't mention any birth certificates.

  22. Re: on Rendering Synthetic Objects Into Old Photographs · · Score: 1

    Equal opportunity. Just sell licenses instead of selling the whole package to a single buyer.

  23. Re:If only we had a space craft to go fetch 'em on DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones · · Score: 1

    Good thing the Chinese are currently developing something based on that novel idea.

  24. Re:One question on DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We should listen to some AC who's talking out of his ass instead of actually adressing the question?

  25. One question on DARPA Proposes Ripping Up Dead Satellites To Make New Ones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Would the whole process and those dated components even warrant all those expenses?