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  1. Re:Correction. on France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music · · Score: 1

    No, at least in Sweden, it is not a fee for owning a TV or a Radio, any machine with a channel-selector is sufficient for levying the fee, hence if you own anything like for example a TV-card for the Computer, a Receivers or a VCRs, you will have to pay the fee.

  2. Screen and keyboard? on Raspberry Pi PCB Layout Revealed · · Score: 5, Funny

    How am I going to use this computer without a screen and keyboard?
    I demand a credit card sized keyboard and screen!

  3. Re:Hm... on Pirate Party Invited To, Then Banned From Gaming Exhibition · · Score: 1

    Since when have such a small issue as nationality or heritage stopped politicians to yearn for office they can not get. *Looking at you Arnold*.

  4. Bohoo hooo on RIAA Lawyer Complains DMCA May Need Revamp · · Score: 1

    Someone call the Muwaaambulance!

    Adding this line because the stupid filter do not let me post a perfectly good post because the original text above apparently contains too much repetition.

  5. Re:Thank god on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 0

    Excuse me for disagreeing, I find apple's products totally unusable! They lack the simplicity that the simple Linux distributions grants you. Accomplishing anything on a Mac or iWhatever is a total pain.

  6. Proprietary programming languages on Oracle Removes Java Signatures, Breaking Webstart · · Score: 2

    Why do we even need corporations to be involved and in control of our programming languages. Is it not time to rid ourselves as programmers from the tyranny of these greedy organizations by simply choosing to not use proprietary programming languages?

  7. Re:Which illustrates what we already knew on Linux 3D Games Run Faster On PC-BSD · · Score: 1

    With the popularity of Android, separating the two by using GNU/Linux and Android/Linux seems to be very sensible now. GNU/Linux is truly a free operating system and tools while Android/Linux may share the free kernel, the rest of the system is closed down. For example, I would be glad if I could purchase a tablet PC that I can install GNU/Linux on. However sad as it may be, all tablets are closed down Android/Linux.

  8. Re:Great! on Amazon's Android Tablet Expected This Fall · · Score: 1

    Have you tried to read on your phone for days in and days out without recharing?

  9. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 1

    As far as I have heard, tubes have a smooth cut-off curve which is idea for analog sound while the solid-states will flat out cut-off the charge which results in a click.

  10. Re:I guess it was inevitable... on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    RMS uses a CPU he built by himself from individual transistors he put together on his prototype board. Of course the designs are completely free and liberated from the clutches of any non-free integreated circuitry.

  11. Re:I guess it was inevitable... on Test Driving GNU Hurd, With Benchmarks Against Linux · · Score: 1

    The copying is by necessity made in an analog way. Hence the quality of the copy will detriment each time it is copied.

  12. Re:Self-Destructing Key on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 1

    Indeed it is off the shelf. But what common pig on the street would expect to need to bring one and then also know how to connect it to the device that just stolen.

  13. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Base 12 system like the imperial was widely used before by merchant because it is easily divisable with 2,3,4 and 6. Which comes in handy when trading goods.

  14. Re:Not so bad to have different systems. on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    The meter is not arbitrary at all, it is based on the distance from the equator to the north pole. There are 40 000 meters around the earth.

  15. When I grow up I want to become a patent troll... on Patent Troll Going After Alzheimer's Researchers · · Score: 1

    I wonder how it come that some people become patent trolls? I can't imagine anyone's childhood dream was; "when I am big, I am going to be a lawyer, a POWERFUL! lawyer that will sue everyone I know and anyone I can find".

    Probably, these people are forced to become patent troll by their financial circumstance, we should not be angry at them. They deserve our pity and help from their awful situation that has lead them to live a life of a destructive harbringer of everything good and cuddly.

  16. Essential business tool! on Is the Business Card Dead? · · Score: 1

    Business cards are the best thing for doing business. You want that number to a person who you know can get you what you need. Simply get the business card and there you have it.

  17. Re:Slashdot bias on Facebook Bans AdSense In Apps · · Score: 1

    Who would have known, there are several different people posting on /.

  18. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    Heey, don't say that, Canonical's biggest contribution to the open source world has been to Gnome as they created a a set of icons. Accidently that is pretty much the only contribution they have made upstreams.

  19. Re:What's going on? on Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go? · · Score: 1

    If I am not suppose to mess around with the files in /dev, how am I ever going to mount my media? Sorry to say but you are speaking crazy. Better to learn the simple way instead of relying on the ill-functioning script some kiddie at Canonical wrote.

  20. Re:"We own it" on Microsoft Bans Open Source From the Windows Market · · Score: 1

    I loooove my cancer, I can't live without my cancer!

  21. Re:Only buy PDF, ePUB or another open standard on E-Book Lending Stands Up To Corporate Mongering · · Score: 1

    Lucky for me I am not under US laws >)

  22. Re:Eh, it's tame... on FBI Releases File On the Anarchist Cookbook · · Score: 1

    My friend set his arm on fire under one the experimental lessons we had in chemistry class in 9th grade. No injuries, though I never saw him wearing that sweater again.

  23. Ohh yea, fp! on Magnetic Brain Stimulation Makes Learning Easier · · Score: 1

    The borg side of me want to make use of this technology for evil purposes such as programming people. While my benevolent side think this is really exciting cybernetic tool to enhance the human capabilities.

  24. Re:Uh oh, I'm in *so* much trouble now on FBI Executes 40 Search Warrants For 'Anonymous' · · Score: 1

    Ahhhhhh! Anonymous is here, run for your life!

  25. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    Is it not the duty of the company to keep their staff educated in the technology that they will be using? I do not see surgeons practice the newest and latest techniques at home. Even Walmart educates their staff continously, why would software development companies be unable to?