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  1. Re:Phooey. on Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico · · Score: 1

    passing a sensor check against a central db would be required to enter any govt building at first (hospitals etc). then it will migrate to pubs. then "fake eyes" will start appearing.
    then districts will be separated with scanners that you must pass to move from to another, then, in some locations, this will change down to block level or even house level.

  2. Re:Again no x64 Windows build - why? on FOSS RTS Game Glest Gets Revival — Enter Mega-Glest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    maybe because ms/windows ignored 64bit for many years, while other operating systems supported that. so maybe people associated "windows=32bit" or something.

  3. Re:Sounds like some kind of liberal! on Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games · · Score: 1

    riding your harley without a helmet might be an issue if you don't agree on who's going first and somebody gets charged with masnlaughter (or whatever is the term in your region) instead of something much less serious.

    don't misunderstand me, people should be able to choose their own risk level - but only if that does not put others at disadvantage.

  4. Re:And for those older machines? on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    Neither does the silly "KDE SC" gimmick.

    ahh, at least i'm not the only one ;)
    that one, hopefully, will be presented as one of the great marketing mistakes of the early days of opensource software centuries later. or something.

  5. Re:And for those older machines? on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    screw usability. can we drop "SC" from any communication ? ;)

    it looks bad, is unclear and took 3 releases of kde (ha) for me to care enough to find out what sc means. and that's as a kde user, and somebody who had read about this "sc" thing before... imagine the dilution of the brand for non-users.

    confused about this post ? have no idea what "sc" means ? vote against it in the next election !

  6. Re:They're incorrect on purpose on Catching Satnav Errors On Google Street View · · Score: 1

    openstreetmap.org ;)

    and the url is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs - that just lists some examples, there are way, way more errors than that. and for many, it is not possible to really say whether they are deliberate or just sloppy mapping.

    as for errors being very small, some vendors are known to include roundabouts where there are none - that's a pretty large mistake, on-purpose or accidental one. and i find it hard to believe that it's accidental...

  7. Re:Does anyone.... on OpenSUSE 11.3 Is Here · · Score: 1

    in my experience, doesn't work with network boot iso. quite limiting :)

  8. Re:iphone on No iPhone Apps, Please — We're British · · Score: 1

    anyone can use linux without paying anybody.
    are you willing to provide a free iphone to everybody who would express interest in running the app ?

  9. Re:Nine billion names of God on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    but you claim you composed them manually...

  10. Re:Dumbdumbdumbdumbdumb on Microsoft Spurned Researchers Release 0-Day · · Score: 1

    Look, Windows is a HUGE product. Last I heard, it takes something like 12-15 hours JUST TO BUILD.

    bah. surely half of the gentoo users will respond to you in a week, and make fun of that build time.

  11. Re:I just wrote this guy an email: on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    You just "composed" the above comment. FOR FREE. Why?

    why are you so sure about that ? riaa or similar organisation probably can afford a person here or there...

  12. Re:It's not "trade" on A Composer's-Eye View of the Copyright Wars · · Score: 1

    because most of them are dead ?
    all the previous works have been built on all the works that came before them, a tiny tiny part from each one. paying for all the possible references and sources would mean that this comment would owe a couple of trillions in total.

  13. Re:Ha. on ASCAP War On Free Culture Escalates · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it seems to be going in the wrong direction. for some reason eff and public knowledge are _defending_ themselves, so they look half-guilty and inefficient.

    calling ascap greedy thieves who are doing blackmail would be more appropriate and effective. couple that with stories of their wrongdoings, and it is more likely to touch the common person.

  14. Re:Fulltime Job on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1

    i hereby announce that the following are representations of muhammad :

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    0 is reserved for future use.

  15. Re:So now our jobs go to Georgia? on Former Soviet Republic of Georgia To Become IT Tax Haven · · Score: 1

    btw, there's no technical inspection on privately held cars in georgia. none.
    supposedly that's because level of corruption in the inspection process was so extremely high, so it was decided to abandon it completely, at least until overall level of corruption can be brought down.
    so if it moves - you can drive. and sometimes also if it doesn't move.

  16. Re:Um ... on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1

    It's just like my English friends who think US Football is just running into a pile then resting for 30 seconds.

    that's not completely right, agreed. an important fact is that one guy in a mechwarrior costume must have an egg with him. or something like that.

  17. Re:Um ... on Ranking Soccer Players By Following the Bouncing Ball · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Try Mapivi on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    interesting. removing a tag really should remove it from the files, not sure about other issues.
    have you reported the problems on kde bugzilla ? although that's indeed not the latest digikam version, according to their page latest already is 1.3.0, so the issues might be fixed already.

  19. Re:Try Mapivi on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    i'm planning for some time now to use digikam for my photo management - could you please expand a bit more on what you found to be lacking regarding digikam metadata support ?

  20. Re:Anything that uses XMP should work well. on A File-Centric Photo Manager? · · Score: 1

    actually, because of qt4/kde4 port, digikam should be available on windows for some time now : http://windows.kde.org/

  21. Re:I Don't Think Zero-Day Means What You Think on Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i'm sorry, but that's the first time when i hear such a definition, and i'm sorry again, but it's completely silly.
    what's the "zero" in there, what's the "day" ?

    two definitions that at least make sense -
    * vendor had no time to patch it;
    * there was no public information beforehand.

    these are a bit similar, as you just redefine who had or had not information on the problem.

  22. Re:Well on A Quick Look At KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 · · Score: 1

    i think the problem is... priorities.
    i believe nepomuk is cool. akonadi is cool, and useful. and we need those two.
    but AFTER we have solid foundation to use every day.
    don't get me wrong, i'm a kde user since... a looong time ago. i recently set up a laptop with kde4, and it indeed has progressed a lot since the first few releases, and is mostly useful. some features are very cool and i sometimes consider upgrading my main computer, which is still 3.5.10... but it's the little things and lots of them that annoy me.

    let's see... no right-click menu for konsole tabs, no (easy ?) way to see exif timestamps in konq/dolphin (in kde3 it's just a mouseover an image and i see the exif timestamp - massively helpful), gwenview panel size is not remembered between two runs...

    and there's lots and lots more. that's kde 4.3.5, so maybe some of these are already resolved... but it's the damn 4.3.5 ! it's not 4.0 anymore.

    to be fair, none of the kde4 problems has annoyed me as much as gtk file dialogs do :)

  23. Re:In the rest of the world on 2 In 3 Misunderstand Gas Mileage; Here's Why · · Score: 1

    a word of sense for americans. but it seems that they like to be reminded about their previous colony status by using the imperial units, so liters and kilometers might be as bad as "COMMUNISM !" ;)

  24. Re:Age 15-22? on Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break · · Score: 1
  25. Re:fishheads, fishheads,... on The End of the Dr. Demento Show On Radio · · Score: 1

    ooooooooooooh. napoleon xiv reference :)
    neato. personally, i really like the "I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle". oh, and "nuts on my family tree". oh, and "The Place Where the Nuts Hunt the Squirrels".

    i've never heard dr demento (ex-ussr, no chance), but i know that napoleon xiv appeared on demento record releases, so thanks for popularising that :)