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  1. Re:Someone should paint obscenities... on In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting · · Score: 1

    I suppose you can check millions of daily posts for rudeness. Google is acting as a carrier and the carrier immunity still applies(the one that says do not kill the carrier). As long as Google do not discriminate or monitor the messages they carry they got immunity.

  2. Re:Security through obscurity? on Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking · · Score: 1

    Security through obscurity is no security at all. Any security expert knows this. If there are nomad world eating aliens out there. Then we need bigger guns!

  3. Re:Traditionalist here on Thoughts On the State of Web Development · · Score: 1

    You mean: Only manipulating the current by hand is true! Adults these days...

  4. Re:People are fighting ACTA = Useless on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    The congress was meant to be the representative of the people with the senate was meant to be the representatives of the states. It used to be that the senate was appointed by the state legislators however that was changed in order to decrease the power of the states because the states' senate as the check and balance as it was intended to be didn't want to play along with the other branches of the government.

  5. Big Bang is stupid on Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There was no Big Bang, first of all the current theory that is used to explained the observed facts states that the universe started out as a singularity so it was not big and considering there were no molecules present that could propgate any sound it didn't start out with a bang neither.

  6. Re:Australia on Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems · · Score: 1

    You forgot that the Oceanian countries are inbetween Australia and China.

  7. But just the other day... on Hubble Builds 3D Dark Matter Map · · Score: 1

    Just the other day there was an article about finding the remaining 90% of the universe that was previously missing by simply looking at the frequency spectra associated to hydrogen. Showing a whole lot of more galaxies than what previously was seen.

  8. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Ohh, you mean like the current situation, where the bigest warlod is opressing a whole lot of people and other smaller ones are scurrying around in the shadows trying to compete. The sooner you realize that the world is always in anarchy the better you are off.

  9. Re:-1 Troll on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    It is not democracy, democracy means the minority gets repressed. If I fork, no one will shut me down because I am developing a version that caters to my minority views. Hence free software is better than democracy, it is almost total customer freedom.

  10. Re:Lynx? on The Seven Hidden Browsers In the Windows Ballot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's nothing! In my days we had to paint the web pages on the walls of caves.

  11. Re:Non-obviousness. on Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed · · Score: 1

    I am not even sure it made sense centuries ago and actually promoted progress. Considering the many patent stories one hear about, that goes something alike, "Person X invented Y first but person Z handed in the patent first".

  12. Re:Contact MEPs! on European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA · · Score: 1

    On the other hand power has been moved from the individual countries to the EU. Which is a bad thing.

  13. Guess where this card goes? on US Immigration Bill May Bring a National Biometric ID Card · · Score: 1

    If I get a card like this, they will simply have to look for it in the local dump. I am not going to cooperate with this program.

  14. Re:The amazing human journey on Earliest "Writing" On 60,000-Year-Old Eggshells · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, all research points that they had a lot more spare time, meats of various kinds is a very energy dense food item, grain production requires a whole lot of work for piss porr nutritional values in comparision.

  15. Re:Dear Ubuntu on Ubuntu Gets a New Visual Identity · · Score: 1

    Broaden your perspective, there are more window manager than you can keep track of. Just to name a few popular ones that seems to be forgotten in this discussion. Just to name a few we have, LXDE, Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox, XMonad, DWM, ratpoison, compiz, all very different from each other. Running an GNU/Linux system offers so much more. Lets face it, Windows is outdated one size fits all and if you want something else or get something fixed or be in contact with the developers, well you are screwed if you run a Microsoft system. In my opinion a Windows system is inferior in all aspects compared to a GNU/Linux. Because statistically they got an insignificant number of engineers relative to Free Software which statistcally could have every engineer working on building a great operating system. Considering the diversity that exists for a GNU/Linux system, I would say it actually is so, the freed market-share that uses a GNU/Linux system demands diversity and diversity is what it gets, The desktop environment may not be as polished as windows yet. However it seems like Canonical found a niche of GNU/Linux users that demands a highly polished desktop environment and are doing great by supplying an increasingly polished desktop environment.

  16. Re:Mother nature is winning on New Wave of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    There actually is, simply stop using antibiotics, the resistant strains of bacteria will be outcompeted or their resitence will degenerate as it is no longer selected for.

  17. Re:$187 million? on Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability · · Score: 1

    But it is a very good hammer you see. Guaranteed to work you see. You need these very splendid and unfortunately expensive hammers in order to wash some money you see...

  18. Re:What's worse? on What Happens In Vegas Happens In Afghanistan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seriously, the people the us army terrorize have no means to even transport their armies to the shores of America. Your daughter being property, yeah, right, only in propaganda and your brainwashed fantasies.

  19. Re:and this is how google wins on Five Years of YouTube and Forced Evolution · · Score: 1

    No, gnash is not illegal the previous poster is just a little bit misinformed, you can write your own decoder but you have to do it in a cleanroom fashion.

  20. Re:We never needed foreign workers on Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 1

    Have you tried to LEGALLY immigrate? It requires tens of thousands of dollars for fees and attorneys and decades of bureaucracy. How is that helping anyone?

  21. Re:Fewer jobs? More H-1bs! on Are Silicon Valley's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 1

    Not a bad idea, it may actually be to a positive turn-around for the rest of the world. When USA stops their divide and conquer imperialism and blatantly exctraction of resources by might from the rest of the world as the USA isolates itself, the rest of the world may actually be able to make use of their resources instead of getting it stolen.

  22. Re:Yes, and no on Ex-Pirate Bay Admin Launches Micropayment Service · · Score: 1

    Richard Stallman says so many outrageous things that it has become socially acceptable for him to say outrageous things.

  23. Re:Pro-piracy on Man Fined $1.5 Million For Leaked Mario Game · · Score: 1

    The handheld games are region free but the console games are not.

  24. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! on Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions? · · Score: 1

    If you want a fully customisable browser, maybe you would be interested in Uzbl, the web-browser that is built around the Unix software philosophy.

  25. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Lynx are for rich people, I run curl you insensitive clod!