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  1. Re:Stealing & More on Dan Rutter Suggests Tossing Some Wi-Fi At the Neighbors · · Score: 1

    I can't remember agreeing to that. It definitely wasn't in the ads.

  2. Re:Abuse of what trademarks are for... on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 1

    Google Ads display Microsoft ads in Linux dominated domains all the time. And even if it isn't okay... what is that to do with me or you?

  3. Again? on Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Google is still an optional service. If you don't like how they deal with you, don't use them.

  4. Re:Bomb, bomb Iran, bomb, bomb Iran! on An Inside Look At Iran's Nuclear Program · · Score: 1

    Two of Iran's neighboring nations have been invaded, and the rulers at the times of the invasions have been killed publicly. The nation that did the invading stated at the begining of this that they also wanted to invade another country, North Korea.
    Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi judge in an Iraqi court, and executed by the Iraqi government. The US supported this government, but opposed his execution (at least as quickly as it happened). Afghanistan has not had a leader executed by an invading party in recent memory; the last one to be killed was Prime Minister Mohammed Daoud Khan, executed during a Communist coup in 1978.

    Hahah. Dude, you're funny. If I didn't know better I would think you actually believe what you said. Next time you should use the sarcasm tag though.

  5. That seems unlikely on Data Centers Expected to Pollute More Than Airlines by 2020 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Data centers need electricity, not jet fuel. There are many semi-environmental ways to generate electricity. At some point companies will do that purely out of cost saving.

  6. Re:To be fair, Linux OLPC isn't that great on New President for OLPC Organization · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that the beta software seemed unfinished, and that we, outside OLPC, are the ones who failed it... not the people in charge who did not make contributing to it easy. Okay.

  7. I am more afraid of the US on Bill Would Bar US Companies From Net Censorship · · Score: 1

    China seems content with only censoring their citizens.

  8. Re:SI on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    And outside the USA, high schoolers are taught that data sizes in computing are based around base-2. I would assume people within the USA are also capable, but I can assure you that those of us outside the USA are fully capable of maintaining that concept.

  9. Re:Oh for fuck's sake... on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    It's not an obsession it's how it is. Do you have no respect for things at all?

  10. Re:50%? on Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players · · Score: 1

    Does your mechanic do similar?

  11. The least ISO could do is drop ODF on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the people over at the ISO have any level of logic left within their collective, they would have some respect for ODF and the people who worked on it and drop it. It is impossible for ODF to exist favorably in the face of of MS-OOXML for several, non-technical reasons

  12. Re:No way on Unix Group Takes UK Standards Body To Court Over OOXML · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Microsoft was really interested in standards at all they would simply have filed complaints against ODF so those involved could fix them.

  13. Re:Rediculous. on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    I guess. Doesn't feature set often affect how well it gets a job done?

  14. Re:This feature sounds Gnomish on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 1

    I really can't see how a single radio button (and associated label) would hurt here.

  15. This feature sounds Gnomish on Pidgin Controversy Triggers Fork · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems like something that would be done to a Gnome app. Hope that's just a coincidence. Back to Kopete I guess.

  16. Re:More interested in open drivers on Nvidia's Chief Scientist on the Future of the GPU · · Score: 1

    Does Nvidia make commercial games? I thought they made hardware. I can't (yet) download hardware for free.

  17. More interested in open drivers on Nvidia's Chief Scientist on the Future of the GPU · · Score: 1

    So I am going which ever manufacturer has the best drivers for my platform of choice, Linux. So if the future doesn't hold this for Nvidia, it doesn't really interest me.

  18. Re:Lower TCO on Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" · · Score: 1

    I am referring to cost as in prosecution for corruption

  19. Lower TCO on Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade" · · Score: 1

    You can't argue that using Exchange in this case did not lower the total cost of ownership for the Whitehouse, by all indications, it would have been much more expensive for them if the emails had been preserved.

  20. Re:HP on Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    You must be mad.

  21. Re:What do hardware manufactures... on Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers · · Score: 1

    Then they didn't buy it, they licensed it.

  22. Two suggestions on Disillusioned With IT? · · Score: 1

    1) If you currently working with Linux (unless your doing dev work) and things are repetitive, then you don't have enough scripts -- quite simply, more scripts.

    2) Again if you do dev work (or are interested in it) find some area of computing you're interested in, and take up an OSS project within it, you'll likely find some comfort in it via it's community and having the likely ever changing activity as a hobby.

  23. Re:Microsoft's Official View of the Situation on Half a Million Microsoft-Powered Sites Hit With SQL Injection · · Score: 1

    No, they are the fault of Linux obviously. Isn't that the normal assertion?

  24. Re:I find this so laughable... on Second Galileo Test Satellite Now in Orbit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've heard that US (government) paying US farmers to grow food for Africans as opposed as Africans growing food for themselves didn't help either.

  25. Re:OLPC Has Lost Its Way on Negroponte vs. Open-Source Fundamentalists · · Score: 1

    No, it is accepting that getting them hooked on some American vendor is not helping them.