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  1. Re:How about on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 1

    That's not a case of "okay, they have a different culture, so them treating suspects a tad different than us is fine", this is a case of "if we presume guilt we might as well just imprison everyone since nobody will be able to prove innocence on EVERY crime ever commited".

    And just in case anyone wants to shout at me for assuming that indonesia had a presumed-guilt system:

    Presumed guilt is so stupidly crazy that i never, ever, not for a single second, thought that indonesia had such a system.

    All i was doing was telling the parent how wrong he was.

  2. Re:How about on Microsoft Sets Value Of Pirated Windows: $1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is only *one* way of running a trial. Some countries practice guilty until proven innocent, including as it happens, Indonesia.

    I beg to differ. "Presumption of innocence is an essential right that the accused enjoys in criminal trials in all countries respecting human rights." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_until_prove n_guilty)

    "It is better than 5, 10, 20, or 100 guilty men go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. This prinicple is embodied in the presumption of innocence. In 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision in the case Coffin v. United States, 156 U.S. 432; 15 S. Ct. 394, traced the presumption of innocence, past England, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and, at least according to Greenleaf, to Deuteronomy."
    (http://web.archive.org/web/2003021 6230239/http:// www.talkleft.com/archives/001907.html)

    Presumption of guilt is crazy, simple as that. That's not a case of "okay, they have a different culture, so them treating suspects a tad different than us is fine", this is a case of "if we presume guilt we might as well just imprison everyone since nobody will be able to prove innocence on EVERY crime ever commited".

  3. Just trolling, ignore me. on Sony Beefs up FAT for Consumer Devices · · Score: 2, Funny

    But will you be able to cp stuff off that filesystem or is it write-only?

  4. Re:But is it prior art? on A Gamer's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    Even if the C=64 tape games did have minigames during loading, they weren't on an optical disc, so it might not count as invalidating prior art.

    Even if they were on an optical disk, $RANDOM_UNRELATED_CIRCUMSTANCE was completely different, so you can't really compare it. Even if $RANDOM_UNRELATED_CIRCUMSTANCE is only the year of the game's release.

    "Method and apparatus for user interaction via pressing and releasing buttons in games released after 2005."

  5. [OT] *numa numa* on Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    [sig] "Alo, Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc..."

    *singing* ... numa numa hey, numa numa numa hey! ... */singing*

  6. Re:The Obvious on Steering Wheel Checks Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    The best way to introduce kids to alcohol is in their mid-teens,

    Can't agree more. Had my first beer at around 15, legal drinking age over here (Austria) is 16 for non-distilled drinks, 18 for the "hard stuff".

    Back then, buying anything (including schnaps, whiskey, rum, ...) in the supermarket was no problem at all, but nowadays they are stricter and checking IDs.

  7. Re:Maybe im missing something here.. on VS.Net Apps Can Now Run On Linux · · Score: 1

    PHB: Is this 'Linux' thingy written in .NET?
    tech: sure.
    PHB: does it leverage the power of XML?
    tech: sure. What color do you want it?

  8. Re:Classic "You must be hiding something" syndrome on PGP Ruled as Relevant For Criminal Case · · Score: 1
    What argument are you attempting to make. Are you saying that if you're a child pornographer that you should be allowed to continue your actions just so long as you encrypt the result so it's private?


    He's saying that encryption software has plenty of legal uses. That's all. He didn't say anything about criminals.

    Some claim that if you're no criminial then you've got nothing to hide.

    He says that he's no criminal and still has plenty to hide.
  9. Re:Political commentary in ROTS on Review: Star Wars Episode III · · Score: 1

    Sure is, but only because bush is a sith! ;)

  10. Re:Upload, not download on Cuban Says RIAA Damages Should be $5 Per Month · · Score: 1

    If it is anything like its two predecessors, Episode III is a commentary on what a bozo George Lucas is.

    But it's probably not exactly public domain.

  11. Listen people... on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 5, Funny

    if anyone tells my girlfriend, they'll die a slow and horrible death.

  12. Re:Will this always happen. on FSF, OpenOffice.org Team Reach Agreement on Java · · Score: 1

    If Sun went belly-up tomorrow and/or abandoned Java, I still have my current JVM installs and permission to use them.

    And the rate of bugs getting fixed will be pretty much the same as now, too.

    SCNR.

  13. Re:looking forward to see the thriller ... on Mathematicians Become Hollywood Consultants · · Score: 1
    Aleph zero. The beginning.


    Wouldn't that take rather long to watch?

    Aleph one - the power of Aleph zero.


    Wouldn't take that even longer? And exactly as long, too? Gaaa, I'm going insane.
  14. Let me be the first to say: on Adobe Blasts Nikon's Closed File Format · · Score: 5, Funny

    Freely readable white-balance information is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.

  15. Re:Excellent commentary... on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1
    Make a downloadable application that runs seperately. I even dislike Java's WebStart technology.


    Java WebStart is a mechanism for packaging applications that run separately.
  16. Re:the answer is.. on Does Adblock Violate A Social Contract? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because of the commercials cable television doesn't cost as much.
    Because of the commercials DVDs don't cost that much.


    Prices are set by what people are willing to pay, not by production costs.
  17. Matrox, are you hearing this? on XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    *shakes fist at sky*

  18. I've seen it in a movie! on Google Delivering Factual Answers · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Terminator: The Google Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Google begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

  19. Re:I have to.. on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    What's this pee-are-zero-enn thingamajic? You geeks with your funny slang...

  20. Re:I cant say I blame them on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 2, Insightful
    The same way that drivers don't need to understand the enginneering behind airbags, they just need them to work.


    Some background knowledge can help them save their baby's life though. (I'm talking about backwards-facing passenger-seat baby mounting devices here.)
  21. Re:IE & Opera Unaffected on Mozilla / Firefox Memory Exposure Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    firefox-bin-1.0.2 on gentoo is vulnerable.

    Don't beat me for using -bin.

  22. So... on Microsoft Tries to Patent the Internet Again · · Score: 2, Funny

    IPv4 is outdated.

    IPv6 is 0wnz0r3d.

    Good thing we have IPv5 to switch to.

  23. Re:The Pacebo effect is controversial on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia.de claims it started on Sept. 1, 1939 in Europe but on March 8, 1937 in Asia.

    Germany "invaded" Austria in 1938, and that was probably what i (as an Austrian) was thinking about, but i hereby claim: On average I was right!

    On a more serious note: shame on me.

  24. Re:The Pacebo effect is controversial on 13 Things That Do Not Make Sense · · Score: 3, Funny
    Never mind that before 1913 when opiates were banned and before 1937 when marijuana was banned, we didn't seem to be having all too many problems keeping society together.


    When looking at those numbers i just realized something.

    1913 opiates banned
    1914 WWI starts
    1937 marijuana banned
    1938 WWII starts

    I see a pattern, don't you?
  25. Re:So, basically... on IE7 Details Emerge · · Score: 1

    Yeah, shame on me. Seriously: IIRC, when i first emerged firefox there was only the binary package. And yes, i'm too lazy to unmerge that and emerge the source package.

    Actually i didn't even know that a source package exists until i did a emerge -s firefox just to see wether "firefox-bin" was the right packagename so i don't post crap to slashdot (and that was a good idea, as i was wrong and would have been flamed to hell).