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  1. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1

    That's not the same. The same would be if you'd shrug your shoulders and think: "It sure hurts, but you don't get to decide what other people do." Charging someone is a decision about what someone should have done, and by extension what they should de in similar situations.

  2. Re:e-mail needs to get better on The Time Has Come to Ditch Email? · · Score: 1
    In what world has land lines _replaced_ cell phones?
    In ROTW.
  3. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1

    I'm not all that concerned with what I'm doing as with were I'm going. It's kind of hard to more from one place to another while avoiding public space.

  4. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1
    I imagine this might be a personal preference, but is there any rational reasoning for that attitude?
    Yes, I don't think a one-way-mirror-transparent society is any good.
  5. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Tough. You don't get to decide what other people do.
    Will you apply this logic if I punch you in the face?
  6. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 1
    I guess you never leave the house then, because there are cameras everywhere you go.
    You are talking about individual cameras, no one person can monitor my movements around the town using them.
    1. Grocery store
    2. ATM machine
    3. Convenience store
    4. Mall
    I know there are cameras, I know they can't be used follow me when I leave the area. I have a good idea who is watching them and what their motives are.
    5. Sporting events & stadiums
    6. Gentlemen's Clubs, i.e. titty bars
    I know there are cameras, I know they can't be used follow me when I leave the area. I don't need to go there.
    Just face it, the second you walk out your door, your privacy is gone.
    Not really--following people around is hard work, I'd prefer it to stay that way.
  7. Re:also, for further reference... on Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have a problem with people watching from private what I do anywhere in public. If you want to see what I do in public when I'm not in front of your window come and join me, so I can see you as well.

  8. Re:notebook? on Alienware GeForce 7900 SLI Notebook Tested · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A set that can form a portable box, but accepts a standard internal components would be a better solution.

  9. Who would want a multifunctional computer... on Sony Rep Denies Need For PC, PS3 Better · · Score: 1

    When they can have a Sony controled 'content' delivery device?

  10. Re:This is the sort of publicity you can't buy. on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 1
    You fork over tax money so that the 'police' can protect it, and whatever copyrights you may hold.
    They won't give a shit about my copyrights as I'm not a big organization. I would have to pay a lawyer.
    I won't buy their music, but I won't pirate it, either.
    I don't do it either anymore, but I still have to pay them if I need a CDR. As long as they have rights to my money I won't agree with your stance that I have no rights to their "commercial entertainment".
  11. Re:This is the sort of publicity you can't buy. on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 1
    Look, I've said this before, too, but I think it bears repeating: you do not have a right to commercial entertainment.
    Yet I have to fork over my tax money so the police can protect it? And of course copyright holders have the right to get a cut out of my backup media...
  12. Re:The Political Pirate Party on ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I am Swedish, I worry a lot about the IP land grab going on, but no way will I vote for those people come september.
    Why not? Unless they get the majority (do you think they will?) they should make a nice counterbalance.
  13. Re:When Interests groups get stupid. on FSF, Political Activism or Crossing the Line? · · Score: 1
    [..] telling people what programming jobs FSF Approved Applications can and Cant do gets scary. [..]
    How about RTFD(draft)? It basicly tells you that you can't use the DMCA to prosecute people who break the GPLed DRM scheme.
  14. Re:Open Source zealots on FSF, Political Activism or Crossing the Line? · · Score: 1
    Open Source zealots are no more credible than any other type of zealot.
    Why should I believe an anti-zealot zealot like you?
  15. Re:Looks ok on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    I really wish /. would have something similar to the kuro5hin "Dynamic" mode, it makes it easy to deal with large amount of comments (the split pages we have here are awful) and moderate. But at we got the long awaited CSS upgrade recently, so I don't think an Ajax upgrade is comming for the next 5 years.

  16. Re:Huge ads on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    The winning entry seems to flow until around a width of 800 pixels, not bad, better then to eliminate the middle section at all like the current design does.

  17. Re:I agree. The runner-up seems FAR better. on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1

    I find the CSS version far more readable in text browsers. Sure, the sections could be moved below the stories, but overall it seems less clutered in links (text mode table layout in links seems to confuse me).

  18. Re:Idea for next /. Poll: on Waiting For Hasselhoff · · Score: 2, Funny

    That may be the reason he prefers it...

  19. Re:Understandable on The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time · · Score: 1
    Java is getting the comments from RMS, but that's largely because .NET, as a generic platform, hasn't really taken off amongst Free Software developers in the same way as Java.
    And pretty much everything that has been done in that direction runs on Mono, there is no reason to talk about free software running on free platforms in this context.
  20. Re:Numbers seem off... on 130 Filesharer Homes Raided in Germany · · Score: 1

    Thousands of CDs == thousands of euros of copyright tax...

  21. Re:What a unintuitive blowhard on Elephants Dream Creator Talks to Wikinews · · Score: 1
    Wings is harder but not as hard as Blender.
    That's what I thought when I had played more with Wings then Blender. Now I'm anoyed by the endless right-clicking...
  22. Re:I Can Hear It Now... on CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1
    In the small embedded systems, Linux may be most of the system; perhaps "Linux systems" is the right name for them. They are very different from GNU/Linux systems, which are more GNU than Linux.
    -- GNU/Linux FAQ
  23. Re:The diplomatic response on The CVS Cop-Out · · Score: 1

    They could fix it as WORKSFORME, but you wouldn't like that either would you?

  24. Re:I Can Hear It Now... on CNN Sits Down With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I don't think I have ever heard RMS talk about signle floppy distros, so what are you talking about?

  25. Re:*boggle* on Open Source is 'Not Reliable or Dependable' · · Score: 1
    Also, last I remember Opera wasn't free, which is important to a lot of people.
    It's free, but not Free. It may be actualy import to a lot of poeple, we didn't start using Mozilla because it had so much mindshare, did we?