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  1. Re:In short.... on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 1

    All Bundys Dodge, 0 miles.

  2. Re:Wake up, people. on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 1

    Guess I could had asked who kills the most people to. Guess China wins, but only the fact you actually DO kill them .. Nor that much good can come from serial killers.

    Funny if China catches up and the US becomes worse in comparision in this area ..

  3. Re:Wake up, people. on Former Employee Stole Ford Secrets Worth $50 Million · · Score: 1, Interesting

    8 years and a bunch of torture, not to mention the difference in Chinese prisons vs American ones.

    Which one is worse?

    JK, I know your opinion, but seriously US prisons don't seem very great, your rehabilitation system seem to suck, everything is over-crowded and you probably make people worse. Stop with putting drug users into prison (people who are deep into it may need some rehabilitation I guess, but not the Cops OMGIT'SAPIECEOFMARIJUANA!! DOWN ON THE GROUND!) and crap like NBC dateline.

    (Oh, he wanted to meet and have sex with a seventeen year old girl!? TEH HORRORZ! Over here in Sweden the age is 15 and actual pedophilia is with pre-pubertal humans. Why is attraction to attractive people a crime? =P)

  4. Re:This scares me a little bit on China Demonstrates 25+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles · · Score: 1

    An almost tyrant government with great military power. This never ended well for humanity whenever it happened in history

    ... but it's only an issue than it happens to you?

    (Say hi to Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, Korea, .. :D)

    Maybe they just want to defend themselves. Wait and complain only if they don't. Your own "defense force" isn't really defensive.

    (And neither are ours, why the fuck do we have CV-90s and such in Afghanistan? Should have medical equipment, drills, food supplies, agricultural machinery, blankets, tents, ...)

  5. Re:Only a matter of time on China Demonstrates 25+ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because everyone want to work under slave-like conditions.

    Either you try to compete with that, or you understand that as the Chinese people will get richer and have more jobs they to won't accept any working conditions and start to demand more and hence it will balance out somewhat.

    Though I guess you could stop buying items from them and hence slow down their economic growth, and then invest in areas where you believe you're better or could get on top of them for whatever reason. I don't know where though.

    Maybe open more mines, grow more forest, plant more crops or something. I don't know =p

  6. Re:Nothing new here on 200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant · · Score: 1

    Would be a valid claim for our AI courses.

    Teacher from Italy trying to speak English very poorly to a Swedish class using a compendium made of her OH slides only containing single words to help her remember what to speak of.

    There was a book to though but I don't think I bought it, back then at least, did get one (a different one?) later.

    Probably solved it from the thin book itself but the classes really sucked.

    She where researching into robots and probably knew her lisp but she wasn't a very good teacher.

    Also I ate once a day, stayed on IRC half night and most likely slept away everything beyond the first 10-15 minutes of the lectures but that can't have anything to do with it.

  7. Re:Benchmarks on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1

    Many customers make the benchmark result their experience of the soft- or hardware.

  8. Re:Benchmarks on Internet Explorer 9 Caught Cheating In SunSpider · · Score: 1

    They also have one more thing in common.

    They're both utterly useless ;)

    Nostalgic purpose / dreams / cool numbers, yeah, but what matter is today, and actual perceived performance.

  9. Re:Google's "nightmare scenario"... on Facebook Inbox Throws Blow At Google... No Flinch? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but considering Facebook track record in privacy, secrecy and usable options for the same do I want them to read my e-mail? No.

  10. Re:teh snappy!!!! on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    I just said this:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1870628&cid=34244576

    But yeah, I think it forgets mouse input to. As like you press the close gadget in a Window, but the OS was to busy so for whatever reason that was ignored and your window is still there when it feels like coming back.

    Great.

    Not the first time someone say everything is just fine in Apple camp though.

  11. Re:teh snappy!!!! on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    OS X 10.4.6 "forgets" keyboard and mouse input under load / whenever it feels like. Don't know if that's much better.

    As in press ctrl-space, type firefox, and maybe after a while quicksilver shows up and get refox, or some text area lags a lot and only get 1/3 of the text you typed while the OS crawled. And so on.

  12. Re:teh snappy!!!! on The ~200 Line Linux Kernel Patch That Does Wonders · · Score: 1

    So... now how to get it into Firefox as well? ;)

  13. Re:The problem with computer sabotage... on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 3, Funny

    Installed IE6 in the process. THAT WOULD HAD SHOWN THEM!

  14. Re:Too Easy on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 1

    187 IT & technology books:
    http://www.elib.se/library/search.asp?secondrun=YES&BCAT=314&lib=105&text=IT+%26+teknik&typ50=50&typ54=54&typ56=56&typ71=71&typ75=75&lang=

    All the library pages are slow as shit, work like shit, are layouted like shit, are coded like shit, and just in general suck.. shit.

    I can't understand how they can suck so bad. Most likely same design as they had 10-15 years ago. Their own design or someone elses? Impossible to update?

  15. Re:Too Easy on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    The library of the city, Örebro, Sweden, but most likely all the libraries in all other cities in Sweden to (maybe not school libraries and such.)

    http://www.elib.se/bibliotek/

    Our: http://www.elib.se/library/default.asp?lib=105

    Readers: http://www.elib.se/library/get_install.asp?lib=105

    Questions: http://www.elib.se/library/faq.asp?lib=105

    Formats: Adobe encrypted EPUB and PFD or Mobipocket.

  16. Re:Too Easy on Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android · · Score: 1

    "... and nothing of value was lost"

    Over here our libraries provide e-books. But you can't read them on the Kindle because it doesn't support whatever DRM they use.
    But I doubt the copyright holders agree with being able to borrow books at a library in the first place so how much difference would it make if you could read/keep the book forever or not? Regardless of time you're free to read it through. How much value does the information held after you've already consumed it? And the copy is digital ..

  17. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    That would had happen package or no package.

  18. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Not more secure stupid. But not depending on updates of others code so it won't matter whatever it doesn't update _THEIR_ code or not automatically through some package manager.

    All that is their is your code and if it suck it still suck, with or without package manager, and if it doesn't then it doesn't.

  19. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying it won't work with a package, just saying that in the early days of the the mac, the Amiga, DOS and so on maybe you didn't used that much "something else" stuff. So it didn't seemed weird back then.

  20. Re:Limitations on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    I haven't RTFA and have no idea if they track the needed files. But the obvious alternative would of course be to compile everything needed to some other location than / and then pack it all together.

    No need to track anything. Either everything needed is there or it's not.

  21. Re:copying proprietary software on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    As if there is ever hard to copy any data you can get hold of?

    Spreading files all over the place for sure won't make it "impossible" or even hard to pirate the application.

    Other things will try their best to prevent that, and fail.

  22. Re:Party like it's 1988 on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Except it doesn't.

    Poorly written libraries or whatever may, but the package maintainer and package manager will make sure that won't happen.

  23. Re:Isn't that three-letter acronym taken? on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Depends on the code used though.

    With open-source code and lots of borrowed code? Yes.

    If you have written everything yourself from scratch anyway? No.

  24. Re:Party like it's 1988 on CDE — Making Linux Portability Easy · · Score: 1

    Some mac applications does to. It's just that there's nothing tracking it :D

    The obvious disadvantage to this is that 1) it takes up more space, and more importantly, 2) libraries or whatever included in the applications may be outdated since long but nothing is tracking it or noticing you. You have to rely on noticing the application is out of date and the developer to have upgraded anything vulnerable.

    Personally I still want my Amiga :/

    Copy libs/ fonts/ env/ if you want to. Don't if you don't want to =P

    Copying them obviously make removal somewhat harder but I never saw a purpose to remove any library files anyway. The advantage of copying them was that Directory Opus could tell you if the version you tried to replace with was newer or not and hence they would eventually get upgraded at the same time.

    Package managers are good. With one package format for all platforms / large enough selection of packages (see Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, Gentoo, ..) there sorta wouldn't be any need whatsoever for any of these portable or "single installation package" solutions.

    A solution for a problem which isn't there, and which make new ones.

  25. Re:Yeah right. on Why Unlocked Phones Don't Work In the US · · Score: 1

    Ok, some page claimed it.

    So it's only that this and that frequency is used in this and that area?

    Is it locked within software to only use one of them or will it work in all regions regardless of where you bought the phone?

    Thanks :)