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  1. Re:Honesty on Sweden Defends Wiki Sex Case About-Face · · Score: 1

    It is punished by death according to the Codex Hammurabi.

    I think wikileaks should be governed by a secret society, like the Illimunati, they had interesting pseudonymes.

  2. Re:Goodbye Jack on Jack Horkheimer, 'The Star Hustler,' Dies At 72 · · Score: 1

    did he write the insightful Adorno/Horkheimer paper about culture industry or was that his father?

  3. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Exactly, that is the message to Assange. Scare him a bit. But that will only drive Wikileaks underground.

  4. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Assange has reportedly Australian citizenship but he looks, talks in a very Swedish way that is hard to descibe. Australians are different.

  5. Re:This just in on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    You mean some magic organisation like the Illuminati or Templars should take over Wikileaks? Great idea, that would resonate well with traditional news media. I mean imagine Bill O'Reilly to smear the Illuminati for releasing the U.S. military documents. Would be real fun.

  6. Re:Lawyers are scum on Patent Office Ramps Up Patent Approvals · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I mean, by common standards a corporate lawyer of the largest software patents client who becomes head of the USPTO, that simply smells corruption.

    In the United States no one seems to care.

    The patent system is anti-free trade, it should be abolished altogether, it is merely about useless bureaucracy.

  7. Re:Amazing on The Moon Is Shrinking Like a Wrinkled Apple · · Score: 1

    Finally a plausible 2012 teaching. The moon would be split into pieces.

    All that happened just because in 2009 the Space Nazis drilled for gold. They planned the financial crisis together with the skulls and bones. The Space Nazis wanted to "get rich big" by selling moon gold.

  8. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    It is obvious that you have never served..

    You're wrong but English is not my native language. I am a slashdot native, I don't consume classic news media. As far as US media is concerned I observe slander patterns from the right and reasonable arguments from the left, in my nation it is exactly the other way around.

  10. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When you are a solidier it is part of your normal duties that you could get killed in action. There is no moral argument in complaining about getting shot when you occupy a foreign nation and your nation attempts to impose your societal model on their nation. Many Afghans don't agree with Taliban opinions but many Taliban are Afghan while the occupying forces are not. I am not arguing that the invasion of Afghanistan is "wrong" because I don't moralize the military interests of the United States.

    Furthermore, soldiers are supposed to obey and do their duty, not to "fight to preserve a way of life, a way which includes freedom of expression" or pursue other personal political agendas. That is propaganda for the uninitiated. A military is rooted in the traditions when soldiers were like prisoners and 30% of them got killed in a single battle.

    Unlike warfare the current occupation of Afghanistan implies insignificant losses of coalition soldiers. That does not require all the mourning and respect for those killed in action, heroism tales and phrases like in a real war. Likely more Americans die in the making of the hollywood war movies about their heroes than in battle: car accidents, drugs, gun crime - you name it.

    Americans follow a strategy of their chess master Bobby Fischer and sacrifice the pawns of their opponents, even use machines to kill. I think war without risk leads to moral decay, it is not a fair fight. It is very useful that soldiers die because it reminds the nation that engaging in war should not be taken too easy and their leaders bear a responsibility for its military planning.

  11. Re:Underwhelmed. on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Well, I remember how excited I was when I saw the new version of Metropolis with the scenes from Agentina.

  12. Re:Snooze. on Lost Star Wars Scene In the Wild · · Score: 1

    The idea to forge a light saber is real fun. Siegfried is more convincing to me.

  13. Re:What the frak is Konqueror? on WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox) · · Score: 1

    So there is no such release of KDE 4.5, even 4.4.0 is not the latest of the KDE 4.4 series. Last time I tried Okular was unable to open PDf files!

  14. Re:Not a useful comparison (yet) on WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chrome uses Webkit!
    Apple Safari uses Webkit!
    Nokia uses Webkit!
    KDE Konqueror uses Webkit, in fact it was invented by them under the name KHTML.

    So imagine that KDE's Konqueror will benefit from Webkit progress, now that they support webkit along KHTML

  15. Re:What the frak is Konqueror? on WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox) · · Score: 1

    Wow! A single informative sentence.

    Indeed that is the issue and we are happy that KDE 4.5 is out.

  16. Re:What the frak is Konqueror? on WebKit Gives Konqueror a Speed Boost (Past Firefox) · · Score: 1

    You mean KDE 4.5. will not be provided for these platforms? Wasn't there a porting project?

  17. Re:KDE is great on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 1

    They add a testing infrastructure and KDE becomes rock solid.

  18. Re:Sexual harassment on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Actually, that is not a very German concept of governance. I think a CEO who talks about visions is a waste of our time, a personality cult. Talking cheap as we say, or: show me your code/results. A chief spokesperson is your press officer who keeps the media at bay.

    The role of governance is centered about taking decisions and bearing responsibility. That means you are to blame when things go wrong. Your private life is irrelevant to this end.

  19. Re:Bug fixed on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    KDE Code quality is high and they have a KDE review board

  20. Re:W00t on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well. audio support is no KDE4 issue. They did everything right with Phonon.

  21. KDE is great on KDE 4.5 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I really like KDE and I believe that it needs to be supported better by distributions. Kubuntu is a mess.

    The investments of KDE in code quality and design will pay off. Unfortunately runtime quality was lacking, esp. reg. Plasma crashes in earlier versions. KDE is now in a state where it maturates. Here the SC split in three components really makes a whole lot of sense.

  22. Re:Sexual harassment on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Well, that is just because of the CEO cult in the United States...

  23. Re:Sexual harassment on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    Isn't that a private and personal issue which has nothing to do with business?

  24. Re:Sexual harassment on Larry Ellison Rips HP Board a New One · · Score: 1

    if its not criminal why bother

  25. Re:and... on Google Secret Privacy Document Leaked · · Score: 2, Informative

    3 Aug 2010 - P-6552/2010
    Question for written answer to the Council under Rule 117
    MEP Stavros Lambrinidis (S&D)

    Council recommendations for combating ‘radicalisation’ in the EU

    The conclusions adopted at the Council meeting of 26 April recommend, as
    a means of combating ‘radicalisation’ within the EU, a mechanism for the
    collection of personal data for the purposes of political, religious and
    psychological profiling in order to assess the likelihood of recruitment
    by terrorist organisations of those concerned. An addendum dated 30
    March 2010 contains a joint questionnaire for the authorities seeking to
    investigate, for example, ideologies directly advocating violence, more
    specifically ‘extreme right/left, Islamist, nationalist,
    anti-globalisation etc.’ movements, while a further question seeks to
    obtain data concerning the ‘friends, family’ etc. of individuals under
    investigation. In view of this:
    1. What precisely is the Council's legal interpretation of the term
    ‘ideology’ with a view to monitoring the practices followed by the
    prosecution services regarding compliance with the rule of law? Who will
    be responsible for deciding which individuals subscribe to the
    ‘ideologies’ under investigation and accordingly which of them are to be
    subject to scrutiny? What criteria will be applied in this respect?
    2. What is understood as being encompassed by ‘anti-globalisation
    ideology’ and how will the Council ensure that the extremely general
    nature of this concept does not mean that all those who hold political
    views diverging from the relevant ‘mainstream ideology’ regarding
    international developments are not from the outset treated as
    ‘potentially violent suspects’ and kept under surveillance accordingly?
    Similarly, the term ‘Islamic ideology’ obviously encompasses thousands
    of individuals who have no intention of committing acts of violence or
    inciting others to do so (offences in any case already covered by
    criminal law within the Member States and hence not necessitating any
    new data collection ‘mechanism’). How does the proposed mechanism avoid
    the danger of the national authorities collecting data on all ‘Islamic’
    (or other) ‘ideologists’, without exception, in order to investigate
    which of them are likely to engage in ‘violent radicalisation’ and which
    are not?
    3. Why does the Council recommendation ignore the close link between
    certain forms of terrorism and organised crime, which obviously has very
    little to do with established ‘ideologies’?
    4. How does the Council respond to the accusation that its
    recommendation is couched in such general terms that it is effectively
    encouraging Member States to keep both law- abiding citizens and
    wrongdoers under systematic surveillance?