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  1. Re:why the word needs openstreetmap on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. Re:why the word needs openstreetmap on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 2

    agreed - it would be really great if you could add it :)
    or, if you don't feel that you could figure out how to do it, you can also add a note for somebody else to potentially review : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Notes

  3. why the word needs openstreetmap on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business · · Score: 5, Insightful

    again and again people fail to understand that they are the ones giving this power to a single company.
    who controls the map ?
    or, why the world needs openstreetmap :)
    http://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2014/01/04/why-the-world-needs-openstreetmap/

    of course, no dataset is immune from vandalism/poisoning... but an open one is both available for auditing/monitoring, and also improvable by many more, not just business owners.

  4. Re:Consciousness on Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep In Brain · · Score: 1

    right. because logic and facts made all religions obsolete long time ago.

  5. Re:Not likely in modern communications on Can the NSA Really Track You Through Power Lines? · · Score: 1

    look at the reconstruction of that lander video. from nothing to understandable things. i wouldn't be that sure nothing can be obtained

  6. Re:Very bad car analogy on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 1

    "While honest people most certainly use cars, so do criminals"

    so you were saying ?

  7. Re:The answer is alcohol! on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 1

    lufthansa gives free warsteiner. they don't do local fights in the usa yet, though...

  8. Re:The answer is alcohol! on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 1

    hmm, there's something... any airline that allows phonecalls or provides wifi must provide unlimited free alcohol :)

  9. Re:meanwhile in the rest of the world on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 1

    i recall reading a summary of all the cases when reported devices were sent to faa or something like that for examination in all of those cases the devices were found to be incapable to cause the described effects, so something else was causing problems, but then passenger devices got blamed

  10. Re:If they approve allowing calls on planes... on FAA's Ruling On Smartphones During Takeoff Has Had Little Impact · · Score: 2

    a) too many people fucking shout in their stupid phones. then there are the retards who put the mobile on loudspeaker and hold it near their waist. and shout (this seems to be an american thing, though).
    b) psychologically, one-sided conversions are more annoying : http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...
    c) it's less likely for two unstoppable speakers to sit next to each other. one person will likely get tired. unstoppable idiot will all everybody they know.

  11. Re:His choices... on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    were they all prosecuted by one of the most powerful states in the world for a tiny, tiny crime ?

  12. Re:His choices... on The Internet's Own Boy · · Score: 1

    i have no idea what he looked like (and him being male, i don't care). i followed the story, though - and it seems to me that the ones "getting tired" are those who benefit from the current copy-lack-of-rights state

  13. Re:Opera on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    would that be https://support.mozilla.org/en... ?
    opera (12) has such a feature, too.

    one area where opera is MUCH better - handling of a large amount of tabs. ff starts to do scrolling way too soon (even with some extensions). opera's tabs scale down perfectly, even to the point of scaling down those favicons on each tab...

  14. Re:Opera on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    i'm considering a move to firefox, but it just does not work as nicely as opera with lots of tabs and needs 10 extensions for features opera had/has out of the box, like mouse gestures... it will be a complicated move for me.

  15. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    opera definitely has sucky areas, but...
    a) most other pages/players work
    b) vimeo did work some time ago, i even posted a couple videos there myself

  16. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    youtube works. also, learn the difference between "optimised" and "does not work"

  17. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    btw, vimeo seems to suck a lot. it mostly does not work on opera

  18. Re:Overreach much? on US Agency Aims To Regulate Map Aids In Vehicles · · Score: 1

    which is still way more safe than messing with a paper map, trying to find the correct page or unfold an elephant's sheet. i'd hate to see navigation features being deliberately made less usable

  19. Re:The science behind GMOs show they are safe. on EU May Allow Members Home Rule On GMO Foods · · Score: 1

    what about the terminator seeds and other nast practice ?
    i suspect that evilness of gmo companies contributes a lot to the attitude.

  20. Re:An interesting caveat on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    link to the case and video, please.

  21. Re:The benefits are obvious on Parents Mobilize Against States' Student Data Mining · · Score: 1

    If I invent something e.g. patentable, I may not be able to share the details with people, but I am probably going to tell people I have a patent.

    patents are supposed to disclose invention in detail - i don't think i'm following your point here

  22. Re:So Scott Oldham of Edmunds.com is a liar? on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    what has communism have to do with this at all ?

  23. Re:So Scott Oldham of Edmunds.com is a liar? on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    maybe a law prohibiting to change part (product) bur not its number would help here a bit

  24. Re:employee on Severe Vulnerability At eBay's Website · · Score: 1

    sure. but how do you have backend servers "physically disconnected to the internet." ?

    that seems to be either an ignorant claim, or a flamebait :)

  25. Re:employee on Severe Vulnerability At eBay's Website · · Score: 1

    true, but parent said "So we had the production servers in a datacentre that were physically disconnected to the internet." - how should that work for products that do not do massive offline data crunching, i do not know...