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  1. Re:What about everyone else... on Obama's Proposed Space Weapon Ban · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are still their because in reality nobody gives a fuck that you are still there. The problem is that you are often just just there. You want to be here as well. If the rest would have liberated the Americans from the stupidity of Bush, you wuld be angry and rightfully so.

    So stop doing that to the rest of the world. I hope that this is a good start to do so.

  2. Re:Where exactly are these cards? on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 1

    In Belgium they did it the other way around. First the a testcase in one smaller village. Then to all Belgians and only later to foreigners. The reader can be used to fill out your taxes online among other things. There are plugins for different browsers so that people can use the card instead of filling out their address on a website (e.g. for delivery)

    All places and stores where you would expect to give your details, you can use a reader and enter it directly into your own system instead of typing it in.

    But then everybody had to have an ID card on him/her from the age of 12 anyway. So adaptation and acceptation is pretty easy. And all is open source, so you know what is in there.

  3. Re:Nonsense on Why Windows Must (and Will) Go Open Source · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They are windows users. They log in as root so no need for the sudo.

  4. Look at Belgium on UK Can't Read Its Own ID Cards · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stop making fun at Belgium and follow in their food steps. The readers are available and the source is open Dutch: http://eid.belgium.be/nl/Achtergrondinfo/De_eID_technisch/
    Main thing is that you see there are Linux drivers for it.

  5. Re:I believe stealing slurpees on Man Robs Convenience Stores With Klingon "Batleth" · · Score: 1

    Bloods? Are those the ones in the red shirt?

  6. Re:Protective Sleeve on Hackers Clone Passports In Driveby RFID Heist · · Score: 3, Funny

    The thing is very small. I have embedded it in a pilots cap, that way I have an alibi that I was elsewhere when I actually am somewhere completely different. The governement things they are smart, but I am one step ahead of them.

    Be explaining more later, but there is a knock on the door.

  7. Re:My Linux desktop is called pygoscelis on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    And almost all people who have a peguin on their desk call it Tux. I think it is insane to have millions of annimals that look alike have the same name. Mine is called Fux.
    After all we are all individuals

  8. RFC1178 on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    RFC1178 - Choosing a name for your computer
    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

  9. Re:Huh? on Stone Tool 1.83M Years Old Discovered In Malaysia · · Score: 1

    but it's so unlikely that I reject it

    That is almost literally what people said when they first read "Of the origin of Species". Do not reject it because it is unlikely, reject it because it can't happen.

  10. Re:HAHAHAHAHA on DRM Shuts Down PC Version of Gears of War · · Score: 1

    The free market theory doesn't work very well when the customer's reaction to being screwed over is to go back and ask for more.

    It works fine, just not in customers favor.

  11. Re:Thailand's censorship directly impacts our news on More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked · · Score: 1

    Have you ever looked how the traditional media get their news? They buy it. They just tell you what was fed to them through whatever source they get it from. If you read some newspapers online, you see that many messages are almost identical from one mewsitem to the other. With larger news items they will rewrite more. It becomes obvious with the smaller items. Almost identical word by word.

    And not only in one country, this can be noticed cross border and cross language.

    Sure, "real" journalism would not do that, but there is very little happening in that area. Most likely a traditional media had one own item and the rest is copied. The difference is that the traditional media adds comments (if that) and the internet, well, does basically the same.

    Traditional media are not in it for the sake of news. They are in it for the sake of money. Journalism is expensive. Reselling stories is cheap.

  12. Re:Thailand's censorship directly impacts our news on More Websites Offending Thai Monarchy Blocked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would you watch CNN if you have Fox?

  13. Re:Here's the challenge and the problem on "Do Not Call" Violators Fined $1.2M · · Score: 1

    What if you do *123 with a debt collector? Would they also be prosecuted for this? What if the debt collector uses a call center?

  14. Re:It is good SSN becomes totally public on What Web Surfers Can Find Out About You · · Score: 1

    In Belgium each card has a chip that you can read.
    http://eid.belgium.be/nl/Achtergrondinfo/De_eID_technisch/index.jsp for (source)code including Linux.

    No need to give a social security number or anything else.

  15. Re:OpenID on SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses · · Score: 1

    And it is silly. I have accounts with Novell.com and those are the same as those from openSUSE.com yet I do not see the possibility to use that one.

  16. Re:OOOK on Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds · · Score: 1

    and in a few tens of millions of years, its humans who'se bones are being displayed in museum

    So that will be around 8.000 AD.

  17. Lawsuit stops what? on Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping · · Score: 2, Informative

    No judicial precedent was set, because the case was settled before reaching a judge.

    As it was settled outside the lawsuit, the lawsuit settled nothing. Also no precedent, so this is actually bad news.
    Now we still do not know what is and what is not legal. A complete lawsuit would have been better, be it for or against linking.

  18. Re:window maker ??? on Midnight Commander Development Revived · · Score: 1

    Many applets need to be re-written as they do not compile well. New development will hopefully lead to new applets.

    Either that or get some of the functionality of Windowmaker into XFCE, like the ease of changing the settings for each program individually.

  19. Re:An Excellent Idea on SUSE Studio — Linux Customization For the Masses · · Score: 1

    It was already possible for a while to make your own openSUSE based distribution with e.g. makeSUSEdvd. The main issue was there that you still had all the branding of openSUSE/Novell on your system potentially violating their trademark.

    When asked if it was possible to do something about it, the legal department of Novell told me that they must enforce their trademark or loose it. They were not happy about that.
    So what Novell did was make a tool to remove the trademarks: http://en.opensuse.org/Rembrand

    They always have been helpful in finding a way to make your own openSUSE (and even SUSE Enterprise) based distribution.

  20. Re:And the previous owner was? on US Army Files Found On Second-Hand MP3 Player · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most likely they will try to punish the current owner.

  21. Re:Every one... on Obama Sides With Bush In Spy Case · · Score: 1

    What about the part where he promised to help stabilize Iraq?

    What about it? I would not call it stable and it has become unstable because of the invasion ordered by Bush.

    What about where he promised we'd see no new terrorist attacks on American soil?

    The fact that there were none does not mean that there would have been one or more.

    Will Obama need to continue to stabilize Iraq? Sure he must. If it were not for Bush he would not have to do so. People seem to forget that it was Afghanistan was where the terrorists where hiding and operating from. Iraq was invaded for oil.

    If I put your house on fire and then promise to save your kid and actually do so, I am not a person who kept his promise. I am a criminal. Without Bush there would not be a 'both agendas' and he could have concentrated fully on the economical crisis without the debt the country already has because of Bushes lust for war. That economical crisis would have come with any president, but if there would have been not such a big deficit, it would be much easier to handle.

  22. Re:Agree about GMail... on Despite Gates' Prediction, Spam Far From a Thing of the Past · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm intrigued by your ideas. ....and I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter. Several times. Many more several times.

  23. Re:DoD use Blackberries on Obama Keeps His Blackberry (And Gets a Sectera) · · Score: 2, Funny

    That is the reason we use unencrypted and unsigned email via Outlook for all our correspondence including confidential mails. If it is good enough for the CEO it is good enough for everybody else.

  24. Re:Good luck with that on Microsoft Donates Code To Apache's "Stonehenge" Project · · Score: 0

    Embrace - you are here. AKA: First they laugh at you.
    Extend AKA: Then they fight you
    Extinguish AKA: Then you win

    Yep, sounds like a good plan.

  25. Family album on 6 Pennsylvania Teens Face Child Porn Charges For Pics of Selves · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope they do not look in our family album. Several images of nude children can be seen. Not only that I was forced to look at other peoples family albums containing nude children as well.

    This all while I was underage myself. So who can I sue that has money enough to make me rich? Mmm. Kodak?

    Must be all my moms fault for putting that nipple in my mouth shortly after I was born. That turned me into a sex offender.