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  1. Re:Well color me not surprised. on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "The Stasi was primarily an organ of political control"

    Do you think for one second that Stasi did not use the exact same rhetoric as NSA, Homeland Security etc? What they did and what people in east germany thought they did are not at all the same.

  2. Well color me not surprised. on Florida Activates System For Citizens To Call Each Other Terrorists · · Score: 2

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

    Read it, think, reflect.

  3. My Samsung Galaxy Note II has the size i want. on Smartphone Screen Real Estate: How Big Is Big Enough? · · Score: 1

    While 5.5" may sound way to big it really is a pretty good size for what i use it for. No problems holding it on call and at the same time enough screen to be able to do anything on the web with ease and watch movies etc comfortably. Imho its just a matter of taste really and what you use your mobile for. If all you do is making calls then a large screen will of course suck.

    Personally im still waiting for the mobile that can replace my desktop. I suppose any phone with an intact Linux distribution in it would fit the bill rather nicely.

  4. Re:As a tech guy get used to it on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 1

    More work yes, more money, no.

  5. Re:As a tech guy get used to it on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 1

    You obviously have no clue have you?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi

  6. Is the free trade not so fun anymore? on US Congress Rules Huawei a 'Security Threat' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    First off i have a very hard time believing backdoors are built in the large networks they sell. In complex systems like that its next to impossible to hide things in the long run. Anything suspicious would have been found in the audits.

    This looks like a try at restricting import with arbitrary reasons without any substance behind them. I am sure many countries smile at this as they get to block American goods like GM corn etc citing safety reasons, and now they can use US own rhetoric.

  7. Ehhr... on Europe Joins Forces In Massive Simulated Cyber Attack · · Score: 2

    If someone is really out to hurt the infrastructure an DDoS attack is not that efficient. A shovel do much bigger damage if applied on a couple of strategic fibers. DDoS attacks is just nuisance and putting all efforts into stopping those but forgetting just how much damage someone malicious can do easily IRL is rather stupid.

    Ten people that cuts a bunch of fiber could black out most of Sweden with ease if they just snip the right ones.

  8. Re:Fighting Piracy is Good for Open Source on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    We need to keep separate antipiracy mechanics and antipiracy. Often the various antipiracy stuff is just badly disguised walled gardens not really there for fighting piracy but more about controlling content.

    But overly i agree, the less piracy the more popular open source stuff.

  9. Re:As a Mormon, Conservative-ish Linux user... on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 2

    You dont need to be brilliant to spell it out like Torvalds do, it just takes enough balls to tell the truth. People need to try it out more.

  10. This is good for Linus. on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 2

    We all know Romney are just as crazy, unethical, slimy and backhanded as Obama. Calling it out as it is just makes Linus look better. Same goes for religious people. We need more people with balls enough to say what they really think. Right now we have a very small minority that sets the agenda for everyone else because they are to afraid to speak their mind. People even go to church because they are afraid to lose their jobs otherwise.

  11. Re:Boho said Microsoft. on Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU · · Score: 1

    There are strong connections between Foundem and Microsoft. Microsoft has been working very hard to get competitors to Google to complain.

  12. Whats the point? on Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung · · Score: 0

    The trial will be either tossed out or redone with judge less hostile to Samsung. And the jury foreman, that guy must be paid by Samsung because he has shot more holes in the jury decision than Samsungs lawyers could ever have done with a haubitzer.

  13. Boho said Microsoft. on Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As this comes directly from Microsoft and a couple of paid minions of them its pretty lame. Its so obvious who is behind this. What Google should try to do is to get any remedies they have to do be written down as much of it is applicable to Microsofts own promoting of MS Office inside Windows and its Server products etc.

    When you cant compete, litigate. If everybody laughs at you for the sheer audacity, get a couple of toady minions to do your dirty work.

  14. Re:How fast should it go? on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The function of the stock market is not to make you able to buy and sell stocks based on what other people might pay for them. That is an unfortunate side effect.

    Some people like you have long since abandoned stocks as a way to distribute risk and capital investment among more than one investor. Instead you view it as a game where its all about tricking some poor sod out of their money. Where the fuck do this contribute in any way to anything? Personally i would be all over a stock market that was regulated back to what it was first meant to be, somewhere i could invest in good ideas and ventures based on how much they would pay off in dividends, not inflated stock prices.

  15. Get him into creating things, not consume. on Ask Slashdot: Best Computer For a 7-Year Old? · · Score: 1

    My 6 year old girl had struck a balance between creating things and consuming at the computer. She draws, writes and build things in Minecraft. Internet is used to mostly go to youtube and learn new stuff she then applies to making things. This is something i think is very important and what will differ the kids when they get older. Some kids will just use the computer as a media hub to make the hours go away between sleep sessions, some will use them to create things.

    Unless the child is steered towards creating on the computer it will be better off without one at all. Nobody is going to get a job because they can chat, play games, surf 4-chan or make badly spelled comments on Facebook. The ones getting the jobs are the ones that has learnt to use the computer as just a tool to get a task done. The other ones will have lost much of their younger years of development to mindless drooling and as a side effect, have a complete lack of concentration, focus and patience.

  16. Re:Why? on 100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television · · Score: 0

    The latency problem i can understand, but that will be a problem regardless of compression or not.
    Encoding and decoding will not add that much cost compared to the network.
    Compressing/uncompressing only destroys the pic if its lossy. There are numerous lossless codecs that should do the trick and save tons of money in the process.

    Unless you have a straight feed to your provider, your HD footage is pretty lousy compared to whats at the station. Just as we looked and awed at Zelda when it came out and had such impressive graphics, we dont see the difference until we have something to compare to.

  17. Why? on 100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television · · Score: 1

    Im sorry but i fail to see any reason to throw around uncompressed footage. Considering the abysmal quality of HD content once it reaches the viewer it seems overkill. Until we get a lot better signals out to the homes its just wanking because a normal HD picture is compressed around 96 times. That the footage at the broadcast is uncompressed does not help one tiny bit.

  18. Re:Attention Obama-Drones! on Science Wins Over Creationism In South Korea · · Score: 1

    Someone has to pay for all the bailout money and we sure cant have the banks and their wealthy owners doing that can we?

  19. Re:Brewers don't sue over recipes on Open Source Beer Served Cold, With a Heated Licensing Discussion · · Score: 1

    You would be surprised of just how different taste beers can have. And getting the right recipe is not an easy feat, it takes many brews before you have something drinkable. Just a different strain of yeast can affect the taste to a large degree. If you start mixing in other ingredients than malt, yeast, water and hops it becomes n hard.

  20. Still a bloated turd. on GNOME 3.6 To Include Major Revisions · · Score: 0

    Its still slow as molasses and craves memory like a zombie craves brains. If i wanted something to really tax my spare cycles i would install Windows.

    Had it been fast and slick i could have taken the asinine interface but when its slow and unworkable its a no go for me.

  21. Re:Makes you wonder... on Did Sweden Pay Cambodia For the Pirate Bay Co-founder? · · Score: 2

    Sadly probably not a single dime. Sweden's politicians are starstruck whenever they meet an American politician. They will happily bend over and take it. This is pretty strange considering Sweden being on the socialist side of the scale and the US on the fascist side. You would think atleast the Social democrats would have objections but no, as shown in the wikileaks cables, they cant wait to get that Uncle Sam schlong deep into their ass.

  22. Re:WTF. on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 1

    "Were there ANY mono applications EVER developed?"

    Novell did their network client in .net on the Windows side and it sucked so much it was not even funny. Novell lost countless of customers because of that decision. The server side was made in Mono and it was the slowest hog ever to have touched a server of mine except Exchange.

    I have yet to see a good app written in .net or Mono. They all suck.

  23. Re:1st, Ignore 90% of the answers in this thread.. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    "In the Windows world, just like in the *Nix universe, there are a million and one ways to do the same thing."

    And while there are millions of ways to do stuff in Windows, its rarely more than a couple that works IRL. The standard methods that gets a routine bug check works but as soon as you stray from the narrow path you are in for a world of hurt from all the bugs.

  24. Get someone who knows both. on Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? · · Score: 1

    Seriously, you do not want a Windows fan at all in any position ever. What you want is a pragmatic person that knows to use the best tool for the best job, not someone running around with a hammer using it like a drill or a shovel. And believe me, the Windows fans are the absolute worst in that regard. Anything not from Microsoft is heretic to some of them.

    Imho the best Windows administrators are the ones that has used and worked with multiple systems in the same place. They know each systems strength and also have knowledge of how to interconnect them. Trying to get that Windows fanatic to connect to your *nix system is not going to be fun when they just tell you its impossible, but fails to tell you its impossible using the way he is used to connect a network of only Windows machines and Microsoft services.

  25. Re:Broad Patents on Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win · · Score: 1

    The system is broken but its on purpose. The idea is to hoard patents in the US and get agreements with the rest of the world honoring the patents. The downside is that this seems to hurt the US a lot more than the rest of the world.