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  1. Re:That's what unregulated capitalism does on IBM, Other Multinationals "Detaching" From the US · · Score: 1

    I checked my bank account apparently I'm not one of the "us".
    Even Adam Smith admitted that you needed 20 poor people for every rich person.
    When and how are we going to get past this as a species if we adopt your philosophy?
    Is everyone taking maximum advantage of his neighbour the best case scenario for humanity?
    If I truly believed this was the case I would kill myself. Fortunately I have more faith in humanity than that no matter how cruel, narcissistic, irrational, greedy, desperate, histrionic, sadistic, masochistic and twisted it is.

  2. Re:It's certainly illegal in CA on Apple Allegedly Sought Non-Poaching Deal With Palm · · Score: 1

    It's simply price fixing on the labour market and should result in pound me in the ass prison. Fortunately laws are only for poor people.

  3. Re:At the Risk of Sounding Like an Apologist on Poor Design Choices In the Star Wars Universe · · Score: 1

    Those are FFL DRESS uniforms. But if you meet a Legionnaire by all means make fun of his uniform. I'm sure it will go quite well for you. Make fun of their name too they really like that. I've trained with some legionnaires, they're quite intense.

  4. Re:They wouldn't have arrested her on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually you can even request a ride along from the police if you want. They're supposed to be open about what they do. Except the undercovers. Since the drug laws violate people's freedom for no good reason why do we not hold these people accountable for their actions. The drug war isn't really over until the war crimes on both sides are answered for. Remember how many people the Regan government arrested for possessing drugs the government had originally sold? Unfair laws and the people who enforce them to not deserve any respect. I'm just following orders hasn't been a valid excuse since Nuremberg.

  5. Poser bullshit and Lawyer Ball in the Desert on EFF Says Burning Man Usurps Digital Rights · · Score: 1

    It used to be this great piece of hippy anarchy. When are people going to realize that lawyers and litigious thinking(it's not all on the Lawyers) are parasitic. They never contribute to anything they only destroy.

  6. Re:What I want on In UK, Two Convicted of Refusing To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    A forensic investigator usually only works from a copy of the machine to preserve the chain of evidence. You're better off using the false partition and hope the cops are stupid (usually works). Another option is to give them a made up password and tell them the file is corrupt. You're kind of grasping at straws at that point. Unfortunately justice has nothing to do with policing and they'll lie, cheat and steal to get a conviction. Technology hasn't changed that.

  7. Too many Suits with their fucking opinions on Are Information Technology's Glory Days Over? · · Score: 1

    If he wasn't completely ignorant of media science his blatherings might have merit. We're just about to START the computer age. We're just about done repackaging the content of old media after that is done the computer age will start. IT is dead is kind of like the claims that everything has already been invented. It just demonstrates a profound ignorance of the processes going on. Read Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan to avoid being an ignorant cunt like this douche.

  8. I need more info on Open Source Textbook For Computer Literacy? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you have a syllabus?
    A description of where these people are going to be starting and what standard you want to bring them up to would be handy.
    Do they need a description of how to use a mouse?
    How many classes are going to be devoted to this?
    How long are the classes?

  9. Re:System on Playing a First-Person Shooter Using Real Guns · · Score: 1

    I don't know MILES Gear seems better for training. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_Integrated_Laser_Engagement_System That's what I used in my day. Personally I prefer paintball because there is more viceral feedback if you get hit.

  10. Re:Antitrust avoidance on Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat To Windows · · Score: 1

    Bahahah So I hear this desktop dominant version of Linux has Duke Nukem Forever as a desktop game.
    Linux is a geek OS. It will always get picked last for every team except the chess team.
    From a coding stand point it may be vastly superior but from a media science stand point and from a marketing stand point it really is a fucking joke. Much like solar powered cars: they work, they have some vastly superior features, no one wants to party with people who use them on a regular basis. One day I will write a design book demonstrating why Linux has as much chance of really competing with windows as the Sham-wow does. For now I'll leave you guys to hope against hope. And before you go crowing about the server market remember, it doesn't count if you get invited to the party and they lock you in a closet all night.

       

  11. Re:Extradition Act 2003 on British Hacker Loses Review of Asperger's Defense · · Score: 1

    The US is a CRIMINAL STATE. It's one of the most sleazy and underhanded countries on this planet. It routinely violates its own agreements and constitution. I think the defence team should have fought on the grounds that a foreigner under terrorism laws is unlikely to get a fair trial and may be illegally tortured. They have no moral right to impose any "justice" on anyone until they have dealt with their own bullshit. "Fuck the USA, Fuck the USA, U-S-A" -The Exploited

  12. Re:Failure to appear in court... on The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users · · Score: 1

    All the EU countries have extradition treaties? Maybe, I have no idea. I'm in Canada and even with the extradition treaties we have I'd still tell a US judge to get bent if I got sued in US court.

  13. Re:Failure to appear in court... on The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's also a DUTCH court..they are not Dutch and do not own a Dutch business. This Judge is out of his juristdiction and can basicly go blow himself.

  14. Re:warning! on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    I don't defend but I do understand. What would you do if you were born in Somalia? What are your choices? Even if you could get ID most countries don't want your uneducated ass. So immigrating is unlikely to be successful. Drugs and shooting people are the local industries. At least as a pirate you get to rob foreigners and not your own impoverished people. You've got hungry mouths at home to feed (or should they just let themselves die out). So what would you do genius? I want to hear this answer.

  15. Re:warning! on Study Finds Delinquent Behavior Among Boys Is "Contagious" · · Score: 1

    Oh underpriviledged kids are already shunted off quite effectively already. They don't really enjoy working their whole lives and never having anything to show for it so they take option B and rob you, or sell your kids drugs, or whore out your daughter. As a little elitist puke you have to appreciate survival of the fittest..too bad it wasn't you. Fair is fair.

  16. Re:Let's Put the USA to sleep on Belgium Tries to Fine Yahoo for Protecting US User Privacy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually the restraint of lawful trade and is illegal under several trade agreement. The US the world over are known as lying scum who never EVER follow the agreements they sign. (i.e. NAFTA ) ask a Native how well they respect treaties.

  17. Re:Terrible Analogy on Canadians Find Traffic Shaping "Reasonable" · · Score: 1

    It's kind of like when a used car sales man sells you a car but disables everything but first gear after delivery and then tells you it's so you won't cause crowding on the freeway..then he laughs in your face, kicks you in the nuts and steals your wallet.

  18. Re:I thought they.. on Wikipedia Debates Rorschach Censorship · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there are only 10 then why are they all pictures of my mother when she's angry?

  19. Re:Drop the Visual Basic. on Volunteer Programming For Dummies? · · Score: 1

    Have you ever created a GUI interface using Visual Basic to track an IP address?

  20. Re:Good luck with that! on If You Live By Free, You Will Die By Free · · Score: 1

    It worked for Napster...oh wait I guess not.
    When Cuban starts running a successful business based on free I'll listen to his opinion on how to run businesses based on free.

  21. Other hot film properties on Universal Lands Rights To Asteroids Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm currently entertaining offers for a biopic of my navel lint. This one has sequel written all over it.

  22. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Linux has configurability up the wazoo in many ways however it's all moot because they fail to follow the first rule and optimize the user and hardware as a single system. A new user to Linux is far more lost than a new Windows user. Mac is better at both at this. For a person sitting down the first time to radically configure their Linux it's a hellacious experience that wastes tons of time. Time that could be spent on actual productive work. For Linux to make real strides on the desktop they would need to balance the OS for people who have no desire to learn about an OS. All the hard core Linux geeks hate that idea because they would see it as a dumbed down OS and if it was poorly designed then that's how it would turn out(i.e. MS Bob). In my experience *nix users will argue for hours how VI/Emacs were competently designed interfaces. It's just not worth arguing.

  23. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    "What the developer wants is not always wrong, I am far more efficient working in my Linux environment where every key combo and set of key strokes and set of mouse movements does exactly what I want them to. I like select copy, middle click paste for example my Linux using flatmate doesn't so he disables this functionality." These are your user role functions..the developer of your environment would have been wrong if he had made the decision to code the interface to work in either fashion but he didn't he gave you the choice. He followed the rule.

  24. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Er uhm the server market is not exactly what I would call a vindication of its user interface.
    The fact that it's doing well on the server market and failing on the desktop kind of proves my point that people don't want to use the Linux interface.
    Don't get me wrong..if I'm going to lock a machine in a closet like an ugly step child then I'm going to go Linux.

  25. Re:Um, here's a thought. on Nielsen Recommends Not Masking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Excellent point.

    My second rule of interface design is that whenever the programmer is making decisions for the user those decisions are always wrong.

    The first rule is that the users and the hardware are one system and must be optimized as one system.

    If the Linux crowd could grasp those two concepts they might actually achieve an OS that people want to use.