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  1. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was a parliamentary vote to impeach him. At least by the English translation of Ukraine's constitution that I read, that's how it's done. Sure the lawmakers may have felt a lot of pressure to do so, but the forms were obeyed, even if in a ragged and somewhat bloody way.

  2. Re:extremist comparisons on In Ukraine, Cyber War With Russia Heating Up · · Score: 5, Informative

    Whatever the merits of claiming that government asked Russia for help, that government is no longer in power. The former president has been impeached as per Ukraine's constitution and the new government is within its rights to request foreign troops leave its sovereign territory.

  3. Re:Slightly biased... on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    I plug my Nexus 5 or Nexus 7 into my laptop, I can move files through the laptop's file browser on or off the device. No special software, no nothing. I can use a file browser on the Nexus to navigate to the files, delete, edit or move on the files much as I would in a Windows or *nix GUI. I don't need some colossal, slow and bug-ridden monstrosity to do any of it. What's more, with Dropbox and Google Drive, I have alternative means of moving files, regardless of what app opens them, as a block of files.

    I tired of iOS and its restrictions on me using my device. I don't want to have to use a bloated piece of software just to move files on to the device. If you don't mind, bully for you, but for me, everything about Android, at least on my Nexus devices, is many times easier. Having a tablet or phone I can basically use like a USB stick is far more useful and painless for me.

  4. Re:The API that the developer sees on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    Lots of developers codes in Python and Java, both of which sit as API and library layers atop the Linux kernel. So what? Abstraction layers of all sorts exist for virtually every operating system, and Dalvik is no different. Underneath is still the Linux kernel.

  5. Re:ANDROID != LINUX on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 2

    And many of the embedded Linux platforms are any different.

    Since when did userland count for more than the kernel?

  6. Re:Slightly biased... on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 1

    I stopped using iDevices months ago. Gave my iPhone 4 yo my daughter and bought a Nexus 5. While iOS has some usability advantages, the agonies of iTunes and no access without jailbreaking to the file system finally got the better of me.

  7. Re:ANDROID != LINUX on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's the Linux kernel, for chrissakes. Why you would count embedded Linux installs and not Android is beyond me.

  8. It's amazing how any mention of Russia brings out the lunatica

  9. Re:The only thing I care about. on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 1

    Without Lend Lease, the Soviet regime would almost certainly have been pushed east of the Urals. Churchill published numerous letters and cables between Stalin and himself showing Stalin doing everything from demanding more equipment destined for Britain be redirected to Russia, and constantly begging for the US and Britain to open a western front.

  10. Re:US destroyed almost half of the wold on WikiLeaks Cables Foreshadow Russian Instigation of Ukrainian Military Action · · Score: 0

    I'm impressed that the Kremlin feels /. Is so important that it has its online army posting anti-US rhetoric.

  11. Re:Not everything observed... on 3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean · · Score: 1

    Proven by who? The Koch Brothers? Exxon mobil?

  12. Re:A way to wipe out Android? on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    How would this hurt Google at all? It looks aimed at desktop and notebook users. I guess it could threaten Chrome book, but considering the massive footprint of Windows, I doubt it will have any impact. The consumers of this would be people who have PCs running older versions of Windows in the hops of enticing them into the Metro verse.

  13. Re:Not everything observed... on 3D Maps Reveal a Lead-Laced Ocean · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank goodness we have all these armchair experts to correct those worthless braindead scientists. My goodness, between the experts on hydrology, climatology, physics, biology and all those other disciplines who always seem so quick to poke holes in theories without RTFAing or the papers the articles are based on, why Slashdot is a regular renaissance man's hangout.

    Clearly we have no need of academia at all. We can shut down the universities and the research facilities, because here on Slashdot we have geniuses of unfathomable brilliance.

  14. And In Other News... on Google Ordered To Remove Anti-Islamic Film From YouTube · · Score: 1, Informative

    And in other news, King Canute has officially commanded the tide to stop coming in. We'll keep you abreast of any late breaking details from this fascinating story.

  15. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    1. Pedophilia is unlawful and involves minors who cannot give lawful consent.
    2. Quit willfully missing the point.

  16. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 2

    The bigots lost this argument fifty years ago. Why do some continue to try to fight that which law and jurisprudence forbids them?

    You're rights as a business are not an absolute on a number of fronts.

  17. Re:Pro freedom, not anti-gay on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    If the baker didn't believe in miscegenation, would you object then?

    The United States has been down this road before; hence the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  18. Re:Yeah this law should work out well on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    And apparently discriminating against Jews and blacks (and presumably Communists and Catholics too) will be just fine in Arizona.

    Until the bigots suddenly find themselves hauled into Federal court under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    Ah Arizona, land of bigots and morons.

  19. Re:First blacks, on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 0

    What I can never quite sort out is why anyone would believe an infinite all-knowing being of unlimited power would actually care whether someone was homosexual or heterosexual, or hell, Catholic, Jewish or FSMer for that matter. The god of these kinds of people is a weak ineffectual sociopath.

  20. Re:Read the bill yourself it mentions nothing abou on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good solid Jim Crow law.

  21. Re:Some grade A consistency from Apple on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me get this straight. Because China does bad things, Arizona a free pass?

  22. Re:Not pro-business? on Apple Urges Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-Gay Legislation · · Score: 1

    "White only" and "colored only" bars, laundromats, cafes, taxis and the like gave businesses a choice, too. No freedom is absolute, nor was any freedom intended to be.

  23. Re:Because people already have E-mail addresses? on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 1

    Maybe you do now. But I've had my Gmail account for the better part of a decade.

  24. Re:Because people already have E-mail addresses? on Facebook Shuts Down @Facebook Email System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What I don't like is Google trying to force me to make a Google+ account, and even get a little sneaky about it.

  25. Re:I like your style! on Mt. Gox Gone? Apparent Theft Shakes Bitcoin World · · Score: 1

    Christ, how many chickens is that per horse? Man, and I thought Confederate dollars were a pain in the rear.