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  1. Re:CSIRO are still good guys on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 1

    Is this some kind of weird US-centric bias?

    No, it isn't weird, it's natural - most ./ers are american.

  2. Re:"Faith Science Basis?" on Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    [...] but it isn't a scam. Many people sincerely believe in ID (or a variation thereof).

    You mean a scam is no longer a scam if enough people believe in it? This would certainly please the Nigerians.

  3. Re:This is good for the United States on BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Problems 11 Months Ago · · Score: 1

    Actually, Canada is the greatest country on the planet. Looks like you've been blinded by the American beacon showing the world the path to [insert utopic ideal here].

  4. Re:The first movie on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 1

    You're actually being self righteous. Here, those who share actually spend more on music than those who don't:
    http://news.cnet.com/Study-File-sharing-boosts-music-sales/2100-1023_3-898813.html

  5. Re:The first movie on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Pure and shameless war propaganga. The fact that not even americans would pay to watch it says everything. After all, a good movie brings good money regardless the degree of pirating - or, maybe, because of the pirating.

  6. The first movie on The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I fell asleep watching - in a long time!

  7. Re:I must be new here on Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials · · Score: 1

    Is the buyer really going to come back and demand a refund when it doesn't work?

    It depends on the customer: some might not care, some might want a refund, some might want to skin you alive for disrespecting them...

  8. Re:No sensible, honest person would work for HP? on HP Explains Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive · · Score: 1

    In 2002 I was helping the owner of chinese restaurant keep his computers and printers running. He showed me chinese ink (bought from Tianjin) that was generating the same print quality (to the naked eye), but was water resistant (when immersed in the sink full of water, not just splashed) and costed about 20% of what HP ink costed.

  9. Re:But... on Penn. AG Corbett Subpoenas Twitter For Bloggers' Names · · Score: 1

    I don't see a violation of the Constitution, according to the text you have quoted. Please note "the printing press" and "publication of papers". The Constitution only refers to words printed on paper and a GA-friendly judge might interpret the Constitution ad-literam.

  10. One single point of failure on Symantec To Buy VeriSign's Authentication Business · · Score: 1

    ... and failure is inevitable.

  11. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 1

    One should keep a softporn image (from Playboy, maybe) on the desktop and declare it. This way one will be covered for the eventual images from pop-ups cached by the browser.

  12. Re:Too Controversial on National Academy of Science Urges Carbon Tax · · Score: 1

    And why should chinese companies pay a carbon tax to the US government? If this happens, the american companies might start to pay a carbon tax for all the goods manufactured for them in China. That would be really funny :D

  13. Re:sigh... on New Hotmail Integrates Office Features · · Score: 1

    I was disappointed to see that Google would fail to import may OOWriter document (.odt created with OO 3.2) and I had to convert it to .doc before I could import it into Google Docs...

  14. Re:So what? on Microsoft Kills Support For XP SP2 · · Score: 1

    Installing SP3 requires validating your copy of Windows...

  15. Re:Maybe I'm missing something on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    If you learn the underlying basics with Pascal, you learned theory. If you learn the underlying basics with C, you learned theory, plus a language that you may get a chance to use sometime.

    Actually, I never got a chance to use C. All the projects I worked on as a (paid) programmer were either Pascal/Delphi, or C++ Builder (Delphi's VCL with C++ syntax).

  16. Re:Maybe I'm missing something on Exam Board Deletes C and PHP From CompSci A-Levels · · Score: 1

    I agree. On the other hand, what can one do in C and cannot do in Pascal?

  17. Re:Title is a goddamn sonofabitch phony on Amazon Is Collecting Your Kindle Highlights & Notes · · Score: 1

    Since when "most popular" is synonymous with "quality"? "Most popular passages" might be funny, at most, but not awesome.

  18. Re:Good concept, bad rates on CRTC Approves Usage Based Billing In Canada · · Score: 1

    If Bell is selling a 5 Mb/s connection, you would be able to download a maximum of 1582 GB in 30 days. By limiting the download to 60 GB in 30 days, Bell is actually selling a 0.18Mb/s connection for the price of 5Mb/s. Isn't this misleading?

  19. Re:Translation on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1

    BMO - Bank of Montreal only accepts 6 digits for the password. No letters, no punctuation, no password length > 6.

  20. Re:On the other hand on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 1

    From the article: "[...] the pact [...] will not restrict the United States from building such a (missile) shield." If Russia does not insist on canceling the missile shield, it means they don't feel threatened by it. They let the americans spend money on the missile shield and they protest every now and then, but the missile shield might already be ineffective against the Russian new weaponry.

  21. Re:Is ugrading OpenBSD still kind of a mess? on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No offence, but I used Fedore once, after two days it upgraded the kernel (automatically, security update), then it could not boot anymore. Never used Fedora/RedHat/CentOS since. *buntu upgrades never worked flawlessly either, though.

  22. Re:Is ugrading OpenBSD still kind of a mess? on OpenBSD 4.7 Preorders Are Up · · Score: 1

    Upgrading OpenBSD is a complicated process, but I was able to complete the upgrade following the instructions step-by-step, without even understanding what every command was doing and why. I never found an OS providing such a correct and exact upgrade guide.

  23. Re:Generate a Vacuum on The Future of Wind Power May Be Underground · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the idea, I just submitted the patent application.

  24. Re:ISP's hate bittorrent on Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research · · Score: 1

    I don't think BitTorrent clients are going full blast all the time: one uses the torrent protocol to get content. This content must be consumed and, with a decent connection, one doesn't have the time consume all the content one can get => the bandwith usage is still a series of spikes, even in the case of torrent users.

  25. Re:Google V China on Google Asks US For WTO Block On China Censorship · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's information that the government doesn't want to be public. The US government can control the publication of the information regarding Guantanamo. The Chinese government cannot control the publication of the information about Tienanmen, but it can restrict access to it. It's the same thing: don't let your citizens read about it.

    If you cannot see the similarities, I pity you.