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  1. Re:Theory bites back on Airport Access IDs Hacked In Germany · · Score: 2, Funny

    Some of us has more than 26 letters in our alphabet you insensitive clot.

  2. Re:You are not really getting it, are you? on Psystar Activation Servers Down? · · Score: 1

    Why are you linking to a US decision about EULA when I'm talking about EU? You are aware that they are two entirely different beasts right?

  3. Re:You are not really getting it, are you? on Psystar Activation Servers Down? · · Score: 1

    No no no NO! Just because they add a license doesn't mean normal local laws doesn't apply any longer. In the EU for instance consumers are rather well protected by consumer laws and most EULA's wouldn't stand a chance in court.

    If Apple wants to sell products in the EU they must respect local laws, Apple can't do whatever they want...

  4. Re:At the risk of starting a flame war on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    Odd, I do touch type and my keyboard is about 2 years old, guess I'm not "people"... (rtard).

    While you might have no problem hitting ctrl with your girly hands, us guys with big hands will have to move and twist our wrist in order to get down to ctrl, key, which is a fairly uncomfortable thing to do, and doing it lots of times every hour is going to kill my wrist - having big hands means escape is in a natural position for me while alt and ctrl are far away from my fingers.

  5. Re:At the risk of starting a flame war on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've only been using VI for 10 years, but still is almost impossible for me to work in any editor now where there aren't modes.

    What made me choose VI over Emacs back in the day [tm] was the fact that my hands aren't build for the ctrl voodoo used in Emacs.

  6. Re:Emacs! on IDEs With VIM Text Editing Capability? · · Score: 1

    Well since it supports VI binding I guess it has a decent editor.

  7. Re:Depends on How Many Admins Per User/Computer Have You Seen? · · Score: 1

    I've worked as the "IT-guy" a couple of times where I was doing various support, from showing how to open a word document to installing machines to lightweight management of servers, usually around 100-200 users would take 2 people to handle, but this has been "low priority users" (school and government) where waiting a couple of hours for someone to come by to fix your issues isn't a problem.

    As you pointed out, whatever works.

  8. Re:Freenet on Wikileaks Needs Help, and Not Just Money · · Score: 3, Interesting

    TOR is already proven to be pretty unreliable since the exit node can sniff all the traffic, have enough exit nodes and you can track your target.

  9. Re:All OEM's do this on Psystar Not Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1

    "Buy a PC from Dell, or HP with Windows on it, and you can't legally transfer that OS to another PC."

    Yes I can, but then again, I don't live in the land of the free...

  10. Re:How about relative to other recruitment methods on America's Army Games Cost $33 Million Over 10 Years · · Score: 1

    Also the game was a massive success in the beginning regarding recruiting, don't know these days since I've stopped playing, but when I played there was a lot of people talking about signing up because of the game.

  11. Re:Cool... but mundane - It was a Rocket! on Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? · · Score: 1

    And what exactly would Norway be shooting with? Dried fish? Norway, like Denmark and Sweden, has a military plan in case of nuclear attack that is pretty much summed up with "play dead".

  12. Re:Kudos on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    Prisons in Denmark are generally considered holiday resorts (except for "maximum security" (gangs, bikers et.al)). You have the right to have internet installed in your cell, there are common rooms with consoles and tellies, you get healthy food and depending on the prison you can actually walk outside during the day.

    Most inmates in Denmark have better living condition than students in Denmark do.

    If you end up in maximum security and aren't member of a gang it usually means you killed someone or sexually assaulted someone, if the latter prison wont be fun.

  13. Re:That Dude is My Hero! on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    If the police decides to press charges he will be offered a lawyer, else his insurance company will normally have coverage for parts of the bill, but this will most likely be requested as "fri proces", if granted it means it is a principal ruling and the government will foot the bill all the way to supreme court (højeste ret).

  14. Re:this is brave on Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law · · Score: 1

    No. However, it is up to the police to choose what lawbreaking they are after - and with COP15, he couldn't have chosen a worse time for this to be tested, the police doesn't have time to do it and will probably just ignore him.

  15. Re:Well personally on Air Cannon Ties Pirates In Knots · · Score: 1

    The thing about a machine gun is you can't undo the damage if it turns out the vessel you are shooting at is just a bunch of fisherman, a net in their path makes it a job for the navy to sort out.

  16. Re:Er on Giving Touch-Screen Buttons Depth and Height With Pneumatics · · Score: 1

    HTC Hero (pureish touchscreen) has tactile feedback when you press a button in the form of vibration, I find this very nice, gives me a clue about the phone registering my press and I can go on to the next one - it does however, not, help me find the button I want without looking.

  17. Re:So technically on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 1

    It's called a rhetorical question...

  18. Re:So technically on Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How much is a gigabyte then?

  19. Re:Does this mean TPB will still be working? on Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table · · Score: 2

    For me it isn't about the money, we pay quite a lot more for content here in Denmark (music is £18-20, rest is about twice what you guys pay). The reason why I pirate stuff is due to the fact that I get a better product by downloading rather than buying.

    If IP sales where market driven they would remove all those fucking nag screens (FBI warning? wtf?) , they would drop the price to something more affordable, they would start distributing the stuff worldwide faster - yesterday I grabbed top gear, today I watched heroes, bot of which wont be on TV around here for another year, top gear wont even be avalable to me legally since the channel who has the rights to show it don't want to do business with my TV provider.

    What the IP companies have been doing is insisting on making extreme amounts of money on content in a cash strapped environment, and when their business plans fail, the cry foul rather than adapt, well bu-fucking-wooo...

  20. Re:Dude! on Intel Allows Release of Full 4004 Chip-Set Details · · Score: 1

    You are of course aware that slashdot presents posts in different order depending on your settings? So while his post might be "way down there" in other views it will show up in the top.

    Perhaps you yourself should go look for that elusive slashdot for beginners...

  21. Re:silly on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 1

    Oh, always thought it was Ingres, live and learn.

  22. Re:silly on Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So is yours. While MS SQL 2003 and 2005 are some very nice products you should remember that they bought most of the SQL software from others (Ingres). The original MS SQL server sucked donkey balls and was retired some time back.

  23. Re:How stupid can he possibly be? on Cable Exec Suggests Changing Consumer Behavior, Not Business Model · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Err locked in phones are consumer driven. We want cheap ass mobiles and we are more than willing to sign over our souls for them, business will provide this.

  24. Re:Yep on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 1

    Not true. Hollywood studies have through time never made a dime( see hollywood accounting ), so obviously money doesn't drive them...

  25. Re:Sigh... on Pirate Bay Closure Sparked P2P Explosion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes except not. What happens when a large torrent site closes is a lot of people see it as an oportunity to fill a void in a lucrative market. Over time the sites will slowly but surely merge into bigger sites like the pirate bay, rince repeat - until some new technology comes along which is more convinient for users in some way.