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  1. Re:same country that wants Assange just raided.... on Colocation Provider PRQ Raided; Wikileaks and Many Torrent Sites Offline · · Score: 1

    TFA also mention about two thousand clients including ones with names such as "North America Man-Boy Love Association" and "Pedophile.se" so yeah.. Doubt TPB was the target, as if this would keep them down, I didn't thought they was in Sweden longer ATM but maybe they are to. Wikileaks would make somewhat more sense but I would had assumed they have already done some damage control regarding Assange if anything serious was stored for non-public view. But what do I know.

    (They mention more sites to like "Chechen rebel site Kavkaz Central, and the defamation-accused Italian blog known as Perugia Shock" but I have no idea what that is and I assume not all other Slashdot readers do either.)

  2. Re:So... on EU Says Apple's Warranty Advertisements Are Unacceptable · · Score: 1

    Back when I looked at it Apple Care covered things not in your regular warranty.

    Though I assume regular warranty and a home insurrance with a bonus insurrance for you messing up will be more cost efficient.

  3. Re:Steady... steady... on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    For their own good maybe.

    I don't know how much they care about others considering they are ok with dumpi^wshooting depleted uranium on others soil.

  4. Re:Apple needs to think a bit more... on EU Says Apple's Warranty Advertisements Are Unacceptable · · Score: 1

    There really is no legit reason why a Mac will cost 1.5 - 2 times more than a similarly specced Windows PC.

    Sure there is. Apple have likely came to the conclusion they earn the most money that way.

    The PC sellers most likely have argued the same for their sales.

    (Also you could argue that Apple may put additional effort and money into the design of their products and how they are manufactured.)

  5. Re:Touchless plumbing fixtures in the restrooms on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    I've only used a touchless soap dispenser once but it was cool.

    But the one which didn't worked made you think "Doesn't it work?" and "Maybe it's run out of battery" rather than the "It's probably out of soap" which would had been my first thought in the normal case.

    Reminds me I saw this fixture and thought it looked awesome:
    http://www.moraarmatur.se/Produktinformation/Tvattstallsblandare/Mora-MMIX/Mora-MMIX-B5/Mora-MMIX-B52/

    If it's faucets I want some which actually work. Locally I've used three and one of those work nicely but I hate when people set them up so they go off and on the whole time, doesn't work at all and in at least one place people can change the temperature of the water and it's always wrong whatever that is =P

  6. Re:Touchless plumbing fixtures in the restrooms on Ask Slashdot: What Would You Include In a New Building? · · Score: 1

    I hate toilets so small the air drier hits of as soon as you try to wipe your ass.

  7. Re:Haha on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds · · Score: 4, Funny

    They did a long time ago.

    And OSnews has become "Thoms latest phone purchases and such"

  8. Re:Reasonable doubt on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Homosexuality illegal in big parts of the US..

    Truly a developed country.

    Check Iran, Oman.

    I knew it had been an issue in the US military but I thought that was because it was mostly males there living closely and so on. Guess I could assume that maybe it was illegal in parts of the US if you had different rules but I didn't know.

  9. Re:Now that's how to use version numbers on FFmpeg 1.0 MultiMedia Library Released · · Score: 0

    MyMultimediaLibrary RatherCrappy.BugsExpected.PatentedVideoCode

  10. Re:Reasonable doubt on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Biologically unnatural may be pushing it. Since then homophilia would also be biologically unnatural. Or well, whatever that means. Some have sex because they enjoy it, not because they want to bring children.

    Interesting that the definitions you linked talked about exclusive sexuality vs "also including." Especially for the pubertal but young women I don't think it's weird that many men fantasies or enjoy it. No matter how much old women would had wanted to be the attractive ones instead (don't we all?)

    You talk about mutation but do we know sexual preferrence is genetic? If not that doesn't make any sense. Also if it was the gene MUST be a mutation for each individual who got it for the true homosexuals .. (Or parents in denial.)

    Some monkeys have sex with each other no matter what sex to settle disputes, in that case I guess it's not an unsuccessful mutation because maybe they would had killed each other if not or had a harder time to cooperate and find food and what not. So if that's a successful mutation will that eventually lead to all such monkeys having sex with each other more or less at random?

    How much is an environmental thing?

    I saw a TV show just yesterday about some child they had found out in the wild at some time and he assaulted the girls at the school he was at so I guess he'd had his sexuality built in so to speak.

    Yeah, here in Sweden the legal age is 15, in the US I think it's 18? For porn it seems to be 18. (Higher age for porn but more accepted to pay for sex in pornography so it goes both ways.)

    I don't think 15 is weird from a sexual perspective. All I care for is that the individuals got good intentions (or are ok with what they are participating in and why), as in I think it's totally ok if you love someone and want them in your life and you end up together but it's somewhat of an asshole alert if you trick someone into believing that's the case and then just use them and their trust. That's of course true for all ages.

    Personally I have my own imho rather high moral standards but they may not always include those set by the law.

    As far as teacher and pupil goes that may have different professional problems, such as grades or which pupil get the most attention and what not.

  11. Re:Redhat - XP - Ubuntu on Ask Slashdot: What Distros Have You Used, In What Order? · · Score: 1

    Sine you're not sure how it is today maybe you shouldn't say always =p

    I used Debian back in the days and wouldn't had wanted to use Redhat to but I currently use openSUSE and Redhat seem to be one of the better options today. Both zypper and yum should work well.

    Yum got things like history so you can undo something you've done, zypper has that to as long as you use btrfs (it snapshops the last 100 actions you've done.)

    Yum supports plugins and by default download and uses delta packages which imho suck because my flash drive and processor is much slower than my Internet connection. Well, relatively. But you can turn it off.

    Haven't used openSUSE for long and did try Fedora even shorter so I can't really say much (installed Fedora from a disc and assumed I would get to pick any packages but I didn't, it just copied the content of the disk to the HDD. There's a net install disc which you can find but their webpage is a mess and don't list it in a convenient way, you have to Google it or something such.)

    I don't like how openSUSE have a lot of user repositories and would feel safer with packages from official ones, I don't know how Redhat do there but I assume that possibly Debian and Ubuntu got more packages from the distributors. Something like ports/pkgsrc/portage/emerge would also work since chances are someone would had looked at the patches used.

    Zypper and Yast provide you with details about what doesn't work for the packages in question and list you all possible solution of which you get to choose one and then continue and see whatever that leads to any new problems. Like if I tried to install an older version of libqt it would either suggest that I installed that but downgraded KDE or that I didn't installed it and kept the old version.

    Chances are likely higher that you run into dependency problems with a whole bunch of different repositories. PC-BSD has done away with that completely and the packages contain all they need to run (except what's in the OS itself I suppose), you could put a lot of links to a library of the same version that way, with ZFS they even got de-dup which make the file system keep a hash for the content of all blocks on the HDD and not store the same data twice which would be one way of solving it. De-dup supposedly use a lot of RAM though so I don't see that as a viable alternative atm.

    To think in advance and keep old API and ABIs would be another way of course.. Can't remember ever having a problem on my Amiga from installing a newer version of a library. Sun wasn't all that likely to break your software with an upgrade either.

  12. Re:Reasonable doubt on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Where I come from on the Internet couples may be ok with things not all couples are. People are different.

    (Not that I think she's a bi-sexual pedophile who was into it with her bf but it wouldn't be impossible.)

    Also I don't really think the word pedophile should be used for people at age 14. Under age or whatever. (There's some word for it (pubertal/passed puberty but underage) but I can't remember what it is.)

  13. Re:BlackBerry groupware on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 2

    So this is why the stock was up 20% pre-market:
    http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/rimm

    (No it's not.)

  14. Re:Wait, what? on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah clearly if you know how to contact someone underage you're a pedophile.

    Now let the government go through all your contact lists.

  15. Re:I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 2

    Rather cool excuse if it had worked though.

  16. Re:You won't have to use Steam to benefit from thi on Valve Blog Announces Dates For Steam Linux External Beta · · Score: 1

    Valves games alone would be interesting enough for me.

    Having Blizzards games would had been totally awesome though.

  17. Re:After years on GNOME 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    It may not be unaffected by it. Or it may just not be using that functionality. The bug obviously wasn't enough to prevent release of the libqt version and I only think it's affecting x86_64 (and I think it was qtscript related which maybe razor-qt doesn't use.)

    I don't have much to say about razor-qt. A start bar with menu, four virtual desktops, quick launches, window listing and a clock. Yay, totally not like many others ;)

    But it's QT instead of GTK :)

  18. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Well it's all up to people to pick what they want.

    If they prefer a $2 one which break sooner then get that, even if it goes reasonable fast / as fast as a regular one haven't you saved the difference in electricity cost anyhow?

    I don't think IKEAs LED bulbs are competitive against Toshiba or Philips. At least they wasn't when I looked at them.

    Also the IKEA I know try to get good ideas and new thinking for how to get their goods made for the best prices. No matter where.

    In general I don't see their items as quality.

    And I am from Sweden with 8 minutes to my closest IKEA store.

  19. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Or you buy the correct light bulb.

    http://www.lysman.com/sv/products/fastighetslampa.php
    First one: Osram DULUX INTELLIGENT LONGLIFE
    500,000 on/off switches, -20 degree celsius.

    http://www.lysman.com/sv/products/normal-lagenergi.php
    MEGAMAN INGENIUM GSU111i
    15,000h, 600,000 on/off switches, 1 second pre-heating.

    http://www.lysman.com/sv/products/dimbar-lagenergi.php
    Dimmable.

    Those are more expensive than the "buy whatever crap you can find for the lowest price" but they are also better. Obviously. And 600,000 on/off @ 15,000 hours = 1,5 minute per on cycle should be good enough? Right?

  20. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    No they don't.

    While many is labeled 10.000 on/off switches others are labeled 100.000 on/off switches.

    Just buy the right bulb and you'll be fine.

    And the LED ones do more than those 10.000 to (mine are only labeled 25.000 though, if I remember correctly.)

  21. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Dimmable lights doesn't use less electricity when you use them?

    http://www.lysman.com/sv/products/dimbar-lagenergi.php

    That's a Swedish page but I can't imaging dimmable fluorescent bulb won't give you any hits on Google ..

    Seems like there's dimmable led to:
    http://www.ledgiganten.se/?dimbar=47

    But please explain and tell me if and why those isn't appropriate if they aren't.

  22. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    Well, guess that depends.

    Personally I bought my 8,3 watt 650 lumen Toshiba ones at half price (at first I bought many) at 124,50 SEK = 18,88 dollar.

    However I buy my food in the same store so I guess you're about right. Though I doubt the very small light bulb sales they do affect the price of the high volume of food they sell.

  23. Re:All Edison's fault on Light Bulb Ban Produces Hoarding In EU, FUD In U.S. · · Score: 1

    I use Toshiba LED light bulbs you insensitive clod!

    (In somewhat relative news I do know Philips do well in lighting but in general their product quality just suck. For TVs I don't know (Loewe used to buy their tubes) but all my small home electricity appliances has totally sucked, broken and/or not worked as intended.)

  24. Re:reflects well on Torvalds Uses Profanity To Lambaste Romney Remarks · · Score: 1

    It's hard to be humble when you know you are right.

  25. Re:After years on GNOME 3.6 Released · · Score: 2

    Currently my KDE 4.9.1 is broken due to latest (4.83?) or thereabout libqt which broke by some patch from webkit or whatever.

    Anyway, so I'm currently in razor-qt. And saved 300 MB or thereabout of RAM by doing so.

    Also it starts within the second.

    (Razor-qt + openbox so kwin won't crash.)