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  1. Re:uname -a on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 1

    Linux grumpy 2.6.27-6-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 7 04:15:04 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

    huh? has ubuntu been using early releases or something?

    Well, you are on Intrepid, recently still in alpha, currently in beta. They used a pre-release kernel for testing on a pre-release OS! THE HORROR!

  2. Re:Too much Enemy Of The State on Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live · · Score: 1

    IMINT is great for watching [...] big crowds of people.

    Oh I see, nothing to worry about, then. *back to sleep*

  3. Another fun animal on Fungus Fire Spores With 180,000 G Acceleration · · Score: 2, Interesting
  4. Re:I just got 2.4! on GIMP 2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Why exactly is it a problem of the GIMP devs that you speak no proper English? I think the number of people who have seen the English-language version of Pulp Fiction and remember some character from it this vividly is greatly overestimated.
    In fact I have, and I didn't. Is there even confirmation that the GIMP devs knew about the usage in the movie?

  5. Ignore, posting to undo moderation on HD Wii By 2011? · · Score: 1

    n/t

  6. Re:Fuck the police on MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay · · Score: 1

    I agree in principle, but two points:

    • Do you have real-life examples of the "good police" actually in existence?
    • According to Marxist theory (whatever you may think of it), the socialist state is indeed supposed to dissolve itself in time, but it's hard to argue that any existing socialist state ever reached the stage that would trigger this dissolution
  7. Re:Anyone prefer this to the stock firmware? on After 3 Years, Rockbox 3.0 Released · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Yes on Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not all that can't be proven is wrong, not all that is right can be proven. Of course, your approach is a valuable tool in many, many areas, but is not able to decide all questions.

  9. Re:This with a suse bata not a finale release with on OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Sod privacy! on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 1

    Or children.

    Well, the guy I replied to said, "I already know how to hide pr0n from the missus"

  11. Re:Sod privacy! on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with multiple user accounts? I expect you also don't want your children to delete your files or mess up your desktop, either.

  12. Re:Sod privacy! on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You sound like somebody without wife/SO

    You sound like someone with limited life experience.

  13. Re:Sod privacy! on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ah, someone in the same sorry state of affairs got mod points. Still, doesn't change that it's a poor way of living. Think about it.

  14. Re:Sod privacy! on Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode · · Score: 4, Interesting

    People having to hide pleasures from their wifes/SOs makes me sad (Y_Y)

  15. Re:Stupid names on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    Where do you see any code names? http://www.ubuntu.com/
    Don't blame Ubuntu if you are talking geek to non-geek friends. Do you also tell them that they run Longhorn on Conroe?

  16. Re:Speed is important... on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    What companies want is a single binary to run on "Linux", the way a single binary runs on "Windows".

    Yeah, they can have that right now by exactly the same means as they use in Windows: static linking.

  17. Re:I agree.. but... on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    Exactly, and the code names work wonders on Google.

  18. Re:Why is this important? on Ubuntu 9 Is Jaunty Jackalope, Coming Next April · · Score: 1

    there's really nothing nice about Satan

    Only if you believe the judeo-christian propaganda. There are valid differing interpretations of the Satan persona, such as the one Wikipedia mentions (emphasis by me),

    While Hebrew ha-Satan is "the accuser" and Satan itself means "to overcome" - the one who challenged the religious faith of humans in the books of Job and Zechariah - Abrahamic religious belief systems other than Judaism relate this term to a demon, a rebellious fallen angel, devil, minor god and idol, or as an allegory for knowledge or the enlightenment of mankind.

  19. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1

    Face it the FSF and most of the community don't want them to use Linux in the way they do.

    I agree here, and I don't find that surprising at all, as it was clear from the start, even with GPLv2, that Tivo was exploiting a loophole to lock out their users.

  20. Re:Slow News Day on How HP Could Turn a Novelty Into a Revolution · · Score: 1

    Tivo's supplier is the kernel team and they have done nothing of the sort. Anyway, if they are unhappy with the licensing terms they can always write their own code.

  21. Re:What has he done lately? on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 1

    The mc that was in Gnome was not the CLI mc. See an early Gnome screenshot here, that's mc's GUI version.

  22. Re:They pay photographers on Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Email · · Score: 1

    But newspapers want people to create stories witness the News of the World going back on the amount that they would have paid their source in the Max Mosley case.
    This is not the first time that they have gone back and sought a "discount" after the story broke.

    Mosley can't exactly complain that the story was "created", nobody forced him to enter into spanking sessions with 5 prostitutes, play "German prison" scenes and bellow orders in German.

  23. Re:What has he done lately? on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nautilus is the Gnome file manager and replaced nothing.

    Please quote here the appropriate law about errors in posts that correct errors.

    Nautilus did replace something: Midnight Commander.

  24. Re:What has he done lately? on Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nautilus is the Gnome file manager and replaced nothing. You are thinking of Pennington's Metacity which replaced Sawfish. And I thought that Eazel's Nautilus was a tremendous failure, they allegedly burned through $15 million of venture capital and left behind a practically unusable file manager, which took the other contributors years to get into a good state. It's possible that Eazel lost funding too early and that they would have come up with a great tool if just given a year more time, but then I guess they should have used the 15 million better than they apparently did.

  25. Re:Not useful in 30 years on If Linux Fails, Blame Jim Zemlin · · Score: 1

    Again, HURD is UNIX based.

    How so?