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  1. To develop??? on AMD To Open ATI Specs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FTA:

    To develop of a fully functional 2D and 3D driver that supports all of their newer radeon chipsets.

    Does this mean they don't have them yet?..

  2. Re:vim 7.0 anyone? on Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? · · Score: 1

    Yep, me too. Especially I like that it is aware of comments and text zones and spell checks them as you write the code. It can also check the spelling of function names, if you use underscore_to_separate_words. As for a code spell checker, it is pretty good.

  3. Re:None of which... on LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links · · Score: 1

    Not expectations, but habits. Expecting this from other people is silly.

  4. Re:1/5th of the time wasted? on Don't Let Your Boss Catch You Reading This · · Score: 1

    In the beginning I asked for more work every day and would either get a be patient or crap work please proof read this, wtf . Then I only asked twice a week, same answer, same grunt work. Example please make sure 5 people review a manual and give feedback. Glad I got my masters for this

    I feel like you're somewhere in the same office with me...

  5. Re:And so help us... on China Says Tibetans Need Permission To Reincarnate · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...if we figure out you're defying this order, we'll slaughter you in your crib.

    Since we are talking about China here, this is actually more scary than funny...

  6. Re:This is a problem because...? on Beijing Police To Launch Animated Web Patrols · · Score: 1

    ... maybe such reminders will help the people of china think about what kind of society they live in and what kind of society they would like to live in

    It is possible, that people of china think that the rest of the world lives under the same or even worse circumstances. Besides, it can even give them a warm a fuzzy feeling that all "wrong" people are watched by authorities too.

  7. Re:How to defend against this on Microsoft Bought Sweden's ISO Vote on OOXML? · · Score: 1

    From the summary: ...each one payed about $2500 to be allowed to vote...

    So, there are about 2500 * 20 = 50000 reasons they should be allowed to vote.

  8. Re:US Intellectual Property laws on Judge — "Making Available" Is Stealing Music · · Score: 1

    The first one is called republicans and the other democrats -- Is the choice of a name not enough for you?

  9. No need for this info... on Chinese Bloggers Encouraged to Register Contact Info · · Score: 1

    Well, they actually don't need everyone to publish their name in order to know where to find "abusers". I work for one of the biggest blogging service company in Russia. In the last 3 - 4 years maybe 15 people were brought to court over something they wrote in their blog and our company was _never_ asked to release some info about the blogger in question. They somehow manage to do without us.

  10. Re:Not a Gentoo user on Linus Torvalds Speaks Out on Future of Linux · · Score: 1

    Gentoo is like going to a restaurant, ordering your dinner, and having the chef take you back into the kitchen and put you to work making your own meal.

    Hmm... I'm not a gentoo user, but I think I'd like that kind of restaurant! Not every day, of course, but I'd go there from time to time.

  11. Re:OpenID on Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live ID · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is worth noting, that OpenID is a decentralized system, so you don't have to depend on single ID provider.

  12. Re:Here it is on New URI Browser Flaws Worse Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    This is the clear indication of problem being a Windows only:

    ...Thor Larholm showed how a browser could be tricked into sending malformed data to Firefox.

    Guess what is this mysterious "browser" thing.

  13. Re:Amazing concept on Kids Review the OLPC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't see how replacing a motherboard is in any way, shape, or form a useful skill for anybody who is not a screwdriver monkey in a local PC shop.

    You can't do this, can you?

  14. Re:It was only a matter of time.. on BitTorrent Closes Source Code · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Malicious software re-packaging is a lame excuse too.

    This excuse is exactly what pisses me off the most. I mean, you want to close the source? Fine, just don't act like you're "doing it for the children".

  15. Re:I think this is probably a GOOD thing... on $1.5B Fine Overturned For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    In lieu of patent reform, in general I am for the defendant in any patent trolling case, which this appears to be. Even though my Linux loving heart hates to see M$ win anything.

    I'd say that when it comes to patents, M$ is pretty fair player (in M$ish sense of word "fair"): they did spread some FUD, but didn't sue anyone.

  16. Re:Put their money where their mouth is on Music Piracy Documentary Released As Torrent · · Score: 1

    Someone does a documentary about file sharing, puts it up on BT and we attack them for it... sad. I would have thought we'd be glad to see that someone is finally starting to smell the new media.

    They put it on BT because their target auditory uses BT, not because they are "smelling new media".

  17. Re:New plan on RIAA Backtracks After Embarrassing P2P Defendant · · Score: 1

    Lets see, the pr0n part is done, now, where do I get songs?

  18. Re:No way to embarass them on RIAA Backtracks After Embarrassing P2P Defendant · · Score: 1

    ...what if he had exposed some of their embarrassing info?

    Like what? That they are suing children?

  19. Re:Lopsided priorities on Our ATM Is Broken, Go To Jail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I once received an extra $1.5k on my bank account by mistake. I didn't tell anyone, but didn't withdraw money either. Then the managers from the bank called me and told that correspondent bank wants the payment back.

    When I came to bank and talked to like 5 different managers they told me that there is nothing they can do and that they don't know where this money should be returned.

    Here is what happened: the Company A sent the money to my bank account through an intermediate bank B. Bank B processed the payment *twice* by mistake and I got an extra payment on my account in bank C. So, company A didn't care: they paid what they should have paid. My bank C didn't care either: they sent me exactly the sum they received from bank B.

    I kept the money and nothing happened. Yet :)

  20. Re:GPL Converts. on Under User Pressure, SugarCRM Adopts GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    Oh lord. Are we going to get a frontpage news report for every single project that converts to GPL v3?

    Well, we did for every user that bought an iPhone...

  21. Re:All well and good, but... on $150 Linux Laptop for the Masses · · Score: 1

    Our company fax is an E-Fax line sent to an email address with a MIME-parser behind it that strips out the fax and saves it as both a TIFF and a PDF on a database-driven, password-protected website.

    Now, THAT is what I call a good pickup line!

  22. Re:Shamelessly stolen from bash.org and changed on RIAA Adds 23 Colleges to Hit List, Avoids Harvard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, here in Australia, It's not really our place or even possible for us to write to U.S. Senators and Congress people about the state of the law in your country! I completely disagree with what the RIAA is doing, but somehow I think that the members of parliament here will quite happily ignore the state of the 'states, and won't get involved, even if everyone here wrote them about the issue!

    Be patient, my friend! These stupid laws will be dumped on your country really soon.

  23. Re:You see, there's these corporations... on Richard Stallman Talks On Copyright Vs. the People · · Score: 1

    Apparently there aren't people involved. Just faceless corporations.
    Look into the eyes of your fur coat.
  24. Re:Creepy on Democracy Player Is Dead, Long Live Miro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Creepy that so many people associate "Democracy" with bad things. Actually scares me...

    Well, Bush and friends have done to the word "democracy" what Stalin and comrades have done to the words "socialism" and "communism"

  25. Re:IE still had some + points on Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe · · Score: 1

    I think this is exactly the reason FF is winning over Opera and other browsers: extensions add tiny bits, but there are A LOT of them.