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  1. Re:Who grants authority to world bodies? on World Summit On The Internet And IT · · Score: 1
    Typical ignorant American. No wonder people around the world hate Americans.

    Well, there are other reasons as well. Iraqi people did not vote for any americans. They even did not know who they are. Until Americans bombed Iraqi people.

  2. Re:miguel still part of things! on GNOME Foundation Board Election Results · · Score: 1

    Well, the question is how many GNOME Foundations can be build on a top of GNOME project? Who said "only one"? Miguel can easily found new GNOME Foundation.

  3. Re:How They decide speed limits on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1
    I don't use those things, myself. Partly for the reasons being discussed here, partly because there aren't any toll roads where I live.

    In ontarion on the commercial toll road 407 they use video cameras tracing your plate when you on and off. they send you a bill later based on that video. I wonder when first time the bill will include a speed ticket. Also I wonder if they already have a database with all over-speed records.

  4. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1
    Total Collisions: 419,937
    Speeding: 3,353
    As a percentage, speeding causes 0.8% of ALL collisions.

    That's correct.

    845 people died in collisions during 2001 in Ontario. This means, from 845 people, 6 people have died due to speeding.

    And now you are lying. % of fatal in each reason based group of accidents is different.

    Now it's my turn to cite the article you link here:

    Speed to fast (including "for conditions"), fatal: 149
    Total fatal: 1,251

    That gives us 12 % of all fatal cases was from the speeding. It's second after "driving properly". Add here 5935 people being injured from the speeding. And that's only in small Ontario.

    You know, I for one agree to bring 149 cop unmarked cars to highways of Ontario just to save life of 149 people. No need to mention saving 5935 people from being injured.

    By the way, I am living in Ontario. I see crazy dangerous speeding guys on the road each time. And besides killing and injuring people, they stop the traffic. Every day, every hour the traffic report on the radio saying that at least one of 7 GTA freeways is not free anymore. Do you like to be stuck in the traffic?

  5. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 1
    Hmmm... Larger, more powerful government... good. Protecting the ignorant masses from themselves... good. Myself? I believe in personal responsibility.

    I am not for bigger more power goverment. You read me wrong. I am for using democratic ways to change the way the goverment performs.

    As for personal responsibilities vs protecting masses from themselves... It is the same as your safity belt. And if you don't like it - use your democracy to change the rule, instead of violating the rule.

    You've got to be a far-left-winger.
    Big Brother is watching you!

    You've got to be a criminal with a really long history of your crime if you afraid a survilance systems.

    When you come to a convinience store you are ok with survilence camera watching you, aren't you? If not - your pace is in a jail!

    When you come to the airport and they check your laggage and your prsonal belongings you are ok with that, aren't you? If not then your place is on Guantanamo camp.

    We are living our lives and we ant to do it safe. And I don't want to wait until you (especially you personally) will remeber and use your personal responsibility when you come close to the kid's school. If you disobey road rules - I want cops to remove you from the road permanently. Well, untill you change you mind and bigin to obey rules.

    Again if you dislike those rules and have arguments, perhaps other people would agree with you. Then beign the compain of changing them into the way they will make more sense for you. Of course, only if you have enough people who agree with (I don't think there are much of them, most of people are not that crazy as you). And that should be the only way to move faster then today's speed limit signs.

  6. Re:How soon.. on Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Personally I appreciate it. Changing the speed limit signs to increase should be the only way to move faster, not violation of existing ones.

    Now if the highway is not busy most (if not all drivers) are violating the law by speeding. It's bad because it creates a style of thinking: "it's ok beacuse everyone's doing the same". No need to mention that many people are dead from speeding.

    But, I repeat again, if the highway speed is unreasonable low then you should use your democracy, with which you are so proud you have it, and change the speed limit signs.

    I don't think that anything's wrong with tracking my speed. One way or another cops are doing it anyway. Let's them just do it in a style of 21 century :)

  7. Re:No. What makes a GOOD patent? on When Good Patents Go Bad · · Score: 1
    The problem is that society doesn't decide about patterns per se. It's responibility of that part of society which benefits form it. It's called corporations. US govt is for corporations and by corporations. No chance to have a law system protecting small inventors here. Same for small developers. As for today, in USA there is no way to develop anything any usefull without either violating some patents or paying some royalties. But if a big company can afford doing both by hiring an army of emploers and keeping tons of patents to answer back if being threatened, then a small company cannot do neither of it.

    This society is organized wrong in general. It's a bug that cannot be fixed by the society itself - the part of the society that can fix it doesn't have a motivation for doing so, the rest of society has no capability of fixing anything.

  8. Re:Sound Support on More On The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1

    you could always use paper instead of computers.

  9. Re:I assure you that the first victim of this on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1
    Since when US govt arrests Canadian citizens based on their nationality? The guy did not do any crime to USA.

    What you are saying is a troll, because formally there are some laws or agreements between USA and Canada allowing both citizens to cross the border without any visa.

    By the way, the guy was not on the territory of USA, formally. He just changed the flight in airport.

    Anyway, they guy, along with Canadian govt, is going to sue the ass of US govt for illegal deportation. What US govt did is exactly one of many reasons why people around the world so hate USA.

    Another reason is people like you trolling like you just did.

  10. Re:Sound Support on More On The 2.6 Kernel · · Score: 1

    MIDI is poorly supported by both linux kernel and open-source applications. It's barely useful even for teaching my kid some simple music basics.

  11. Re:I assure you that the first victim of this on ICANN Troubles At UN Summit On Internet · · Score: 1

    That's right. US govt is smart enough to leave own citizens alone. But it's still crazy about others. Otherwise why would they arrest the Canadian citizen and deport him to Siria? US govt is often showing full disrespect to the rest of the world. Don't expect any respect to USA as well.

  12. W3C or GPL? on Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent · · Score: 1
    Perhaps the Mozilla people should patent XUL. For defensive purposes, if nothing else.

    Alternatively, Mozilla can submit XUL to W3C and *that* would protect all of us from the Redmond's evil.

    By the way, if Mozilla is GPL, isn't it already protected from being hit by any patents?

  13. My list of Power Tools on Linux Power Tools · · Score: 1
    I agree. Postfix is not a tool - it's a server software. Gnome is not a tool either - it's a windowing/desktop environment.

    Tools is what you use to fix someting or to build something.

    Here is my list of Linux Power Tools:

    • bash - in Linux you really need it to choose other CLI tools;
    • find - you need it to find what to fix;
    • awk, sed - you need to filter what you found;
    • emacs - you need it to edit config files in order to fix them;
    • cvs - you need it to keep track of a history of your changes;
    • lynx - that's how you find new software with fix patches;
    • wget - that's the way you download new software;
    • Perl, Tcl, Python - many scripts, you want to fix, are written on these languages;
    • gcc, make, configure - you may or may not program on C, but you have to build lots of packages from their source;
    • C - actually programming on C is always good to know;
    • PostgreSQL, MySQL - it's not just a database server - it can serve your data;
    • webmin, linuxconf, apt, rmp, Portage - some tools are prescripted already, chose what's better for yur system;
    • iptables - protect yourself;
    • Postfix, Apache, Squid, Zope, Samba, LDAP, Gnome, KDE, X11, CUPS - only now you are ready to learn not fixing tools, but what should be fixed;
  14. Re:Mozilla is still bad with standards on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1

    I thought AOL is for USA (well, North America) mostly, no?

  15. Re:Mozilla is still bad with standards on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 2, Funny
    *You* havn't figured out how free forums work yet have you?

    Here's a hint: you don't tell me what to criticize or not and in return I don't tell you what I am telling you now!

  16. Re:Mozilla is still bad with standards on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 1
    IMO, Mozilla shouldn't waste their time with file upload protocols. Especially because WebDAV and FTP are already supported by most of the major GUI shells (Windows, MacOS X, KDE, etc), it would be redundant bloat.

    Following your logic, Mozilla developers should drop whole FTP protocol support - it's already supported very well in other GUI shells, so it's already a redundant bloat in Mozilla.

    By the way, IE in win2k, when you open a "web folder" goes to the site using WebDAV. And with kernel help or not - it is available in IE. But I think a kernel should not bother Mozilla developers - the WebDAV protocol implementation is already in the MOzilla code base, it just doesn't have proper UI for it. Same thing about FTP upload.

  17. Re:FMV and network transparency? on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    I send video as good as I can with my network. The bandwidth per se has nothing to do with the protocol design. But whatever video I send I want visual and audio being syncronized. Period.

  18. Mozilla is still bad with standards on Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Two big problems I see with Mozilla's way of implementing protocols: Why Mozilla developers think that Calendar and Chatzilla (which has nothing to do with web-browsing at all, and by the way it's implemented anyway so badly that nobody use it) are more important for web-browsing than a complete implementation of core web-browsing protocols?

    Maybe at early 90s it was ok that that the web-browsing is a one-way communication when you only read and download the content. But it's not true anymore (perhaps since the dot-com bubble?). Today the web-browsing is almost always a two-way communication: people are answering web-forms and uploading files all the way.

    I suggest Mozilla developers to wake-up, to free themselves from old AOL cultural traditions (remember? AOL still tinks that the internet access == dial-up 56K modems!), and to redistribute their resource accordingly to real priorities. Stop wasting your time on developing ChatZilla and Calendar (really useless components). Instead, devote those resources on FTP upload and HTTP WebDAV.

  19. how encoded? on Linus Corrects Darl on Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    How exactly is GPL encoded to the US law? I fail to see it in document Linus is pointing to.

  20. Re:for single users, not enterprises on Evolution 1.5 has Been Released · · Score: 1

    and as other mentioned too, that makes that option impractical. Thus it's not an option.

  21. Re:sounds nice on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    My point was (and still is): when I connect remotely (through SSH or any other way) I want all my interraction input and output, both graphical and sound, being directed through network transparently, just using DISPLAY variable. I don't care if it's X11 or not. But it must work same transparently.

  22. Re:for single users, not enterprises on Evolution 1.5 has Been Released · · Score: 1

    If it's not financially practilly (like you said and I agree) then is not an option.

  23. for single users, not enterprises on Evolution 1.5 has Been Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ....I must say, woo-hoo! Evolution is great stuff; it truly is an Outlook killer.

    Excuse me, Outlook per se is close to useless without Exchange server. Sure, Evolution works fine with IMAP. It even works with LDAP to keep Contacts (although that piece is not fine).

    But how about Calendaring and Tasks being stored on the server *AND* processed with the server? In Outlook when I appoint the meeting ti automatically checks if the attendee is busy or not, and it ch checks it on the server - not in my personal folders.

    Without groupware-based calendaring Outlook is useless for most of enterprises.

  24. Re:sounds nice on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Personally, I fail to see the importance of tying a sound server to the X server (even if it is merely association),

    Two examples:

    I want my sound being network-transparent and automatically follow my $DISPLAY variable. Remember, X11 is network transparent.

    I want to make sure that video and audio are in sync. Today they are not. Recent improvement in Linux is a help. But it's not a general soultion (it doesn't cover even all cases on Linux itself). Remember, X11 is not just for Linux. Need more examples?

  25. Re:sounds nice on First Xouvert Milestone Released · · Score: 1

    How about GPM? it's not related to GUI, it's for TTY. Based on your logic, mice input driver should be removed from X11 - because we already has GPM.