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  1. Re:Get the hackers involved on Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy · · Score: 1

    This one was insightful 5 years ago, but nowadays there is broadband outside of Moscow.

  2. Re:Case in point on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    You see, despite all of trigger happy cops, zero tolerance, death penalty, having a huge chunk of the population imprisoned, lax firearm laws and so on the chance to be murdered is way (6.47 times actually) higher in the United States of America than in Germany.

    So either the German laws do work or the German society isn't as fucked up. Either way the current German body of law seems to be sufficient to live safe.

  3. Re:Dead man walking on Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Not only the revolution you think of.
    There were several assassination attempts on Alexander the second by the revolutionaries in 1866, 1879, 1880 and and 1881 (the last one successful).
    There were prearrangements to assassinate his successor, Alexander the third, but the police arrested the revolutionaries and sentenced them to death. One of them was Lenin's elder brother.
    Then there was the Revolution of 1905 and the Revolution of February 1917 you think of.

  4. Re:Case in point on German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names · · Score: 1

    Maybe German law should focus a bit more on protecting innocent people from getting murdered.

    It already does - murder is illegal.

  5. Re:Wow look what happened... on Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation · · Score: 1

    As proved by Pink Floyd in 1976

  6. Re:Oh, great. on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    It is not about me - I honestly prefer Windows to OS X. It is about Apple intentionately breaking stuff without any real need and potentially introducing bugs and security flaws because of it. Imagine some virus changing the CPUID search string so OS X suddenly stops working on a genuine Apple hardware.

  7. Re:Maybe the 15 year old is a momma's boy on Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Cars, for instance, are numerous times more dangerous to me than any dog

    That is the reason why you need several special permits (driving license, vehicle inspection proof, insurance) to operate a car on a public road.

  8. Re:No biggie on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, in this exact case they make the software malfunction on a certain chipset and the only one to blame is Apple.

  9. Re:Oh, great. on OS X Update Officially Kills Intel Atom Support · · Score: 1

    "Disabling support" in this case is an euphemism for intentionally breaking stuff.

  10. Re:fmt on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    wll, why d y thnk w nd nthr c?

  11. Re:Okay... on EC Formally Objects To Oracle's Purchase of Sun · · Score: 1

    Switzerland is not in the EU.
    You see, Switzerland is officialy a neutral country for almost 200 years and only slowly joins any unions. For example they were very late to join the UN.

  12. Re:Biased... on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Try a Schuko socket sometimes. The connection is so stable that it might rather tear the socket from the wall than unplug the plug.

  13. Re:OMG Ponies! on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Looks like one designed by the Japanese, very kawaii.

  14. Re:Math Error on Microsoft's Lost Decade · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Increase profits for everyone... on Film Studios May Block DVD Rentals For One Month · · Score: 1

    Barter always works.

  16. You forgot the First Condiment! on French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud · · Score: 1

    I'd Really Rather You Didn't Act Like a Sanctimonious Holier-Than-Thou Ass When Describing My Noodly Goodness. If Some People Don't Believe In Me, That's Okay. Really, I'm Not That Vain. Besides, This Isn't About Them So Don't Change The Subject.

  17. Re:How do I choose? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    Okay, let me rephrase: a hard reset was never needed (except right after ROM update) on my HTC Wallaby, HTC Himalaya, HTC Blue Angel, HTC Universal, HTC Athena and HTC Blackstone.

    I cannot speak for other handsets, though.

  18. Re:How do I choose? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    Not in my case and I used WM phones since the first one (HTC Wallaby) came out.
    A soft reset is sometimes needed, yes, but if you need a hard reset then something is seriously fucked up.

  19. Re:This is a non-event. on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    You are absolutely right, but Russian pilots never had a proper training with TCAS back then and in the instruction manual there was written that TCAS is just a support tool and the traffic controller commands have priority over TCAS.
    After the crash the Tu-154 manual was corrected.

  20. Re:How do I choose? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    Not at the operating system level, but there are about 10 different sms schedulers for WM.

  21. Re:N00b thing? on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    I was an early adopter for both CD-ROM and DVD drives.
    I remember back then when I wanted to rent a DVD at a video rental store (back then they had only 20 DVDs or so) and the clerk pointed out that it is a DVD and that I need a DVD player for that.

  22. Re:This is a non-event. on Lost Northwest Pilots Were Trying Out New Software · · Score: 1

    Yep. Controllers even might interfere with TCAS (Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 collision was because the DHL pilots knew that TCAS has got priority over air traffic controllers and the Tu-154 pilots didn't knew it).

  23. Re:How do I choose? on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 2, Informative

    all the features you mentioned are available with windows mobile.

  24. Re:N00b thing? on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    Doom came out in December 1993. In January 1994 my parents bought me my first PC (used a ZX Spectrum before that) with a 240 mb hard drive. This was the cheapest PC with a smallest hard drive in the stores.

  25. Re:N00b thing? on Geocities Shutting Down Today · · Score: 1

    Sorry dude, but wrong. At the time Doom was released, 250 megabyte hard drives were considered low end.