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  1. Re:Can't you simulate a chemistry set with softwar on Safety Commission To Rule On Safety of Rulers In Science Kits · · Score: 1

    Are you being serious or sarcastic ? I can't even tell any more.

  2. Re:Translation on Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent · · Score: 1

    And that gives you the right to pirate the "glorified notepad" ?

  3. Re:governments on Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested In India · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's more do do with, way too few people wanting to hold their elected officials accountable.

    So those few who do, are easy to eliminate.

    Take your own country USA for example, as an Indian, I can't help but laugh when I see people being used as mere pawns in the bi-partisanship circus. The right and the left both are equally suckered in to believing that the other side is evil, and will be the end of your country if given a chance to govern. Very few realize that both are sides of the same coin. Same BS sold in different flavor.

  4. Re:I did this after my last ticket... on Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers · · Score: 1
    This sounds like something a 12 year old with a chip on his shoulder would do. Do you go around pointing the blame at others for all the failures in your life too? You seriously need some kind of professional help.

    Well Steve Jobs did it too. Now what does it say about his mental age ?

  5. Bitch all you want on Apple Raises E-book Prices For Everyone · · Score: 3, Insightful
    If you don't like Apple's policy, simply don't sell via their store.

    This is ridiculous , you perfectly know how Apple operates, so either conform to their wish or say to hell with you Jobs, I am taking my business elsewhere.

  6. GLPI on GUI-Based Asset-Tracking Tools For a Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    GLPI, works well for us, and it's GPL, what more can you ask ?

  7. Re:Ubuntu needs two things added. on Matt Asay Answers Your Questions About Ubuntu and Canonical · · Score: 1

    Maybe there are no binary drivers available for your hardware.
    Nvidia and ATI (AMD) both drop support for older hardware in their new releases, after that the only choice you have is either stick with a older kernel that can use the older Nvidia/AMD binary drivers, so use latest kernel but then you have to use the OSS drivers, as the lastest binary drivers may not support your older hardware.

  8. Re:May be a good time to discuss alternatives on 20 Years of Photoshop · · Score: 1

    Picasa ? Runs fine under wine too.

  9. Re:multitouch? on MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative · · Score: 1, Insightful
    Why would you choose Windows Mobile over Android ?

    Not to sound like a OSS or Google fanboy, I really am serious, what does WinMo provide that Android lacks ?

  10. Re:Rsync? on Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Better yet, Setup ZFS on a opensolaris box, export the ZFS volume as NFS/Samba share or as an iSCSI target, access from Linux,Solaris,Windows etc.
    ZFS can also do compression, and automatic snapshots, not to mention rock solid data integrity with raidz2
    • data integrity - check
    • remote access - check
    • automated incremental backups - check
    • No limitations of software raid neither the need for expensive hardware raid - check
    • Dead Simple to Use - check

    Seriously what more do you want from a storage/backup solution ?

  11. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    I should have been more clear in my earlier post, and typing code-pages instead of code-points didn't help either.
    I don't mean unicode characters that use same glyphs as ASCII characters, I meant unicode characters that look like ASCII characters but actually use different code-points, or more precisely IDN URL Spoofing.
    http://secunia.com/advisories/14163/

  12. Re:After reciving an e-mail that appeared... on Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online · · Score: 1

    I second,
    Never ever click links in emails. They can be very deceptive,
    1 and l are too close, so is 0 and O, not to mention unicode characters that are exact equivalent of ASCII characters, but different code-page mind you.
    Just don't ever click links in email.

  13. Hmm on Google Patents Its Home Page · · Score: 1

    The Bing and Yahoo search pages look a lot like what the patent describes, may be google will sue them, and make bing and Yahoo search pages go back to the days of alta-vista and lycos.

  14. Re:Market share on YouTube Phasing Out Support For IE6 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    A lot of those could be merely the hits to their validation services, used by web developers, just to test validity with different browsers, IE6 being one of them.

  15. Re:Why is this important to non-Italians on Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy · · Score: 1
    As someone who has visited Venice, I can tell you it's very commercial and full of tourist traps.

    100 Euros for a 30 min gondola ride, 400 Euros for a Venetian mask and don't even get me started on the Murrano glass.
    I felt like I was in a giant Hallmark store, full of useless over hyped and expensive stuff that only women can find "Oh so romantic".

  16. Re:More propaganda on Siemens, Nokia Helped Provide Iran's Censoring Tech · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Seriously, Why blame the technology ? I mean don't we use the same argument when defending bittorrent?

    It's not the technology it's the people who put it to use.

  17. Just for kicks on Microsoft Launches New "Get the Facts" Campaign · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I clicked the "Download Now" button, and I can't find my operating system in there.
    Compe up with a native Linux/BSD version Microsoft, and then we will talk.

  18. Re:Verry Pretty ...but on A Visual Expedition Inside the Linux File Systems · · Score: 1

    what does it all mean ?
    ZFS rules ?

    ducks.

  19. Re:I humbly disagree. on Google Announces Chrome For Mac and Linux Dev Builds · · Score: 1

    Seriously, every time someone compares apt to rpm , I feel like going sudo on them.

  20. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Emacs has vim
    Finally a decent editor for the Emacs OS ;)

  21. Re:What about MySQL? on Oracle Buys Sun · · Score: 4, Informative

    No Microsoft's Shared Source prevents redistribution. Netbeans is licensed as CDDL and GPL2 (with classpath exception), which means you can fork and redistribute all you want.
    Please reread your open source concepts and licenses. Just because a project is open source, doesn't mean the project's host have to accept any incoming changes from any random person.
    In fact you can't commit to the Linux kernel tree too, until you have build some credibility with the core kernel team. You can submit patches, but don't hold your breath for them to be accepted any time soon, unless you have build some sort of repertoire.

  22. Re:Wait.. on Microsoft Ending Mainstream Support For XP · · Score: 1

    What if the software is used in government space, or public domain space, funded with taxpayers money?
    In such cases, shouldn't the software be open source and distributed under a OSI approved license ?

  23. Here you go on Google To Monitor Surfing Habits For Ad-Serving · · Score: 1, Redundant

    http://www.customizegoogle.com/ Removes click tracking, google analytics cookies, and a lot more.

  24. Simple on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do what I did to my old printer that kept telling me to "PC load letter".

  25. Re:Uh-oh on Is the Relational Database Doomed? · · Score: 1

    and were operating in auto-commit mode. gasp..