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  1. more info: on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 1

    here.

    Reading this account it seems that a house was surrounded by heavily armed police, and a resident handcuffed, before a warrant was obtained or shown.

    The other accounts describe excessive intimidation.

    This kind of thing makes me very glad I don't live in your "free" society.

  2. UK on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    is not really part of Europe. Some of the reasons I say this are subjective and cultural, but there are two serious practical differences: The currency, and immigration policy. Europe is far easier to enter as a visitor, unless you're white and (relatively) wealthy.

  3. Proof on Programming Jobs Abroad For a US Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Money can't buy you love, but it can buy you a college degree.

  4. no, no, on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 1

    Not against the interests of a "country" (which makes no sense); against the interests of the incumbent ruler or their backers! That might be as simple as financial interest, as we have seen time and time again.

    The definition already includes activists, dissenters, academics, and so on.

    In the end, the birth of an aggressive totalitarian state is, more than any other factor could possibly match, against the interests of America and its citizens. Fix that, will ya?

  5. memo to pro-Bush on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 4, Insightful

    May you choke on your beloved waterboarding, spying, illegally kidnapping, profiteering, lying administration.

  6. You must be new around here on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 1
  7. election time! on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    make the people afraid of something so they'll do whatever you want them to,

  8. You bet on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is how you terrorise innocent people. (Today in Minneapolis, not in some remote police state that you can ignore.)

  9. I found em! on Tracking the Terrorists Online · · Score: 0, Troll
  10. Re:(Intranet vs. Internet) & Efficiency on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    MS is a business - but wouldn't their money

    By 'their money', you mean, of course, money that was yours before you gave it to them.

    There's your answer - save your money in the first place and use the better free products.

  11. I'm surprised on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    At this rate, the shareholders will sue.

    Can you [deep] link to SharePoint content by URL?

    What functionality is missing when you use a browser other than IE?

  12. better yet - on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 4, Informative
  13. Re:Huh? How does IE8 determine internet vs. intran on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    Check if the site is on a routeable IP (or on a local subnet). Another is if its hostname is in the public DNS. Etc.

  14. wow on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 1

    already so finely tuned to the intricacies of IE6 that reworking them would cost too much

    NOBODY SAW THAT COMING!

  15. Exactly - tag: AndThisSurprisesYouBecause on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    n/t

  16. or it could be... on IE8 Breaking Microsoft's Web Standards Promise? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Only intranet pages are not rendered in standards mode by default,

    Because SharePoint (and other denizens of the MS ghetto) does not, and never will, comply with relevant open standards.

    (Should we be thankful they still use TCP? Or should we pray for the ultimate ghettoisation - let them isolate themselves behind their own proprietary walls.)

  17. it can also be judged, perhaps, on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    On how many prisoners it "creates". (In the US, six times as many per capita than typical developed countries!)

    Yes, I posted this elsewhere in the thread, but I'm not sure most people are even aware of this telling disparity.

  18. "freest"? I think not on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Actually they're the locked-up-est - about six times as many prisoners per capita than comparable developed nations (the UK, Canada). TEN times more than some countries. What a sick society: Either you're breeding more criminals, or you're locking up more innocent people.

    And what's with the 24/7 obsession with crime and violence in all your media? Is there an American movie ever made that doesn't have a gun, a car chase, a beating in it? This is not civilisation. It's the exact opposite.

  19. not always on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    crime procecution and punishment allways kicks in when there is a loss that can't be recovered

    So who's going after the Bush-Cheney cabal? The American public can't even get organised to impeach, let alone give them the comprehensive Nuremberg treatment they've earned.

    Meanwhile we bicker over the case of a murderer who was actually caught and punished...

  20. why don't you ask? on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    The customers and the filesystems are still around. Please learn to separate Reiser's personal life from the code his company wrote, confusing the two just makes you look stupid.

  21. the Bush family on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Murdered hundreds in Texas, and father and son, have now racked up literally millions of civilian deaths in the Middle East. Karma's going to be a bitch.

  22. I agree on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    If he could keep working on his ideas, he could still be socially useful. Apart from anything else, he's a very smart guy, reiser3 is a really solid product, and reiser4 was getting interesting. (It is still being worked on, btw.)

  23. plea bargaining on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    Has long seemed surreal and bizarre to many of us outside the US.

    This case is one example. "I'm innocent... but what will I get if I show you the body?"

    As for the truly innocent who are offered "Plead guilty [or turn in somebody else] for less punishment," isn't that exactly what happens in a Stalinist trial?

    IANAL but isn't all this against the spirit of the British system?

  24. tagging stupidity on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1

    I see that people tagging have still not learned to differentiate the code and the man.

  25. by the same logic, on Hans Reiser Gets Sentence of 15-To-Life · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Windows is for thieves and liars.

    If you want to talk about criminality: Gates has made an art form of extorting money and getting away with it. By his design, lies, lock-in and greed are the underpinnings of the Microsoft business model.

    However, your logic is bogus. Windows is for victims, and Linux is for those who want to be free.