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

    It is a matter of a criminal court, not company policy.

  2. Re:Did anyone ever actively use it? on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    Etherpad.com closed, but Etherpad is well and alive.

    See also:
    http://etherpad.org/etherpadsites.html

  3. Re:Did anyone ever actively use it? on Google Kills Wave Development · · Score: 1

    Etherpad is just fine thanks to the Etherpad Foundation.

  4. Re:Thank goodness there's no damage on Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth · · Score: 1

    Messiah on Slashdot!

  5. Re:Let me tell you... on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 1

    Or the Soviet Union. The United States is only 20 years late...

  6. Re:Let me tell you... on Barnes and Noble Bookstore Chain Put In Play · · Score: 1

    Remember what Amazon did to Barnes&Noble? They enforced their infamous 1-click patent. Barnes&Noble never recovered.

  7. Re:Bad guys (this shit doesn't equate) on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    After the United States murdered the civil population of two cities with a military innovation, that forced the Japanese to surrender. Afterwards the US celebrated their "military" victory. The United States have a positive relation to bombs. Murdering civilians with bombs is more humane than shooting people. That is why the model is so successful and is used again and again. And they freak out when they suffer damages. The overall casualties at Omaha Beach were riddiculous, 3,000 people. Look what hero stories the Americans make out of it.

  8. Re:Bad guys on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    Oh, ha ha, as a occupying soldier in a foreign nation and they dare to shoot back... Ouch, "people want to kill me".

    The Germans believed war was a business only between two armies. They learned that lesson, War is dirty and history is always written by the winning party. Partisan warfare is natural when the power distribution is uneven. Equally no one should whine about brutality needed to keep partisans in check. The problem in current scenarios is that the Americans could as well leave Iraq and let it flow. If they want to occupy, they have to use iron fisted control. By the way, Vietnam is a safe place for business and it does not really make a difference which side took government when the US left.

  9. Re:No, you don't on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the war games and movies perpetuate the myth that they were brave soldiers.

  10. Re:Bad guys on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 1

    Killing US soldiers in Iraq is not the point. You can't complain that people shoot at you when you invade and occupy a foreign country.

  11. Re:Thank goodness there's no damage on Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth · · Score: 1

    So when will the Messiah drop by and explain to us what all this means?

  12. Re:companies on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    No one needs MSI packages.

  13. Re:Simply put Politics, and Software on Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia · · Score: 1

    Patents are strictly territorial.

  14. Re:I don't understand this.. on Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia · · Score: 1

    The United States are rich because they revived their crushed economy with WWII and won the war. They were able to develop their industry by war without enemy fire at home. Same for the Soviets, except
    i) The Soviets turned later villains but shouldered the main load of the allied victory and unlike the US the Soviet Union was part of the battle field.
    ii) Their empire went bankrupt 1990 and the United States only 20 years later.

    The United States didn't win WWII by military skills or bravery but because of their logistic capabilities and production, starting war as logistic supporters of the British. Logistic competences were fruitful. Why do we use containers for shipping freight? Because the US military invented them and offered commercial use of the return freight to the US. The container was a revolution of trade.

    All other nations had to rebuilt their economy after WWII and make themselves dependend on the US. US and Soviets grabbed the hitech from the Germans. Japan was never beaten according to military rules, the US simply murdered the population of two Japanese cities to make them surrender. After WWII like Orwell explained in 1984 the US government had to keep war as a paradigm to stimulate the economy, and streamline the fragmented population by new collective enemies and fears. Fear of a nuclear strike from the Soviets (they never intended to invade the US), fear Alien invasion, later fear of Saddam and Osama, both of them were first supported by the US to fight against Iran or Soviets.

    War economy is the dominant business model of the US. The reason is that the same persons who speak about tax cuts and non-DC, non-regulation promote excessive military spending. Military spending is perfect keynesianism and keeps the lower percentile of society in check, or as Kissinger said "dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy".

    Without fear and enemies US society disintegrates. The United States need war abroad or their economy breaks down. So from an agnostic viewpoint it is perfectly fine to let them invade Iran, for whatever reasons. You have to think nihilist, myth are necessary illusions.

  15. Re:I don't understand this.. on Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia · · Score: 1

    The largest percentage of the population in the US came after the abolishment of slavery. Basically the whole 18/19 century history of the US is irrelevant because most Americans don't originate from these people, but they were brainwashed to believe they have to uphold the freemaison ideology of the United States founding fathers.

  16. Re:companies on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    In the small environments you have a PC with no administrative lockdown. When administration and software management kicks in things get complicated. And where there is real software deployment, everyone is advised to use Firefox because they don't want to deal with IE security hell.

  17. Re:I don't understand this.. on Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia · · Score: 1
  18. Re:companies on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    Firefox portable anyone?

  19. FF on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to install software on my win7 running netbook but IE annoyed me so much, it became usable and smooth only after installing Firefox.

    Today the first thing you do, you simply install Firefox, don't use IE, it is a pain.

  20. Re:Half the story on First GNOME Census Results · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Canonical did the mistake to base Ubuntu on Gnome, a very fragmented infrastructure, instead of KDE.

  21. Re:So? on Why Google's Wi-Fi Payload Collection Was Inadvertent · · Score: 1

    Next time they will use hostilewrt...

  22. Re:too late on Microsoft To Add Yet Another Smartphone OS This Year · · Score: 1

    Maybe microsoft bought Maemo? Microsoft Maemo!

  23. Re:US, Indonesia too on Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    See also his cynical smile29 campaign. He is no real MEP, he is a media lobbyist from Berlusconi who harasses Google a bit. The astroturf seat in Parliament.

  24. Re:Dirty Move on Italian MEP Wants To Eliminate Anonymity On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Motti is one of Berlusconi's astroturf MEPs. He is an Italian media lobbyist with an MEP seat. See also his recent smile29 campaign for Google data retention

    2. Asks the Council and the Commission to implement Directive 2006/24/EC [DATA RETENTION] and extend it
    to search engines in order to tackle online child pornography and sex offending rapidly and effectively;

    What a cynical campaign.

  25. Re:OS matters on Time To Dump XP? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, a computer is for real work. For games you buy a console.