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  1. Re:It's too bad YouTube and Yahoo are the only opt on Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, we know. And if McDonald's don't want to serve a black person they don't have to, and you can take your business elsewhere. Isn't the free market wonderful!

  2. internal decision on Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube, Yahoo! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    YouTube said the decision to remove Abbas' videos had nothing to do with the Egyptian government, but was rather an internal decision.

    Uhm... internal decision? So they mean that they didn't bother to even wait for the government to order them to remove it? And this is supposed to make them look better or what?

  3. Re:Just good. on DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain · · Score: 1

    Don't quote me on that, though...

    Don't worry, without sources to back it up, no one will.

  4. Re:No OS competition? on States Claim There is No Match for Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Amiga with gamers.

    I'm no gamer, you insensitive clod!

  5. Re:Better yet, just don't send them on Nigerian Company Sues OLPC · · Score: 2, Informative

    I use this on my Thinkpad in Ubuntu. Pressing for example ^ while holding down the right Alt, enters the "put a ^ on the next character" mode. Right Alt + " + o gives ö. I think it's called "Compose" or something.

    Pretty much necessary since I'm Swedish but I want a US keyboard since the retards that decided where to relocate all the keys necessary for programming placed them so you had to break your fingers to access the [ ] { } / \ | when you use a Swedish layout...

  6. Re:Recomendation to dissidents on Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Online · · Score: 1

    Actually, by personal data I don't mean the heaps of movies and music that I've been downloading from the internet... ahum.. I mean linux distributions. More like pictures I've taken, source code I've written, and in general, things I can't download again from the internet.

    RIAA would of course want to believe that it contains their precious Imaginary Property, but since it's encrypted, they could only guess.

  7. Re:Barack Obama called for data to be stored in... on France Leading Charge Against OOXML · · Score: 1

    Oh well, if Swedish citizens were allowed to vote in the US presidential election, I'd probably vote for Dennis Kucinich. Doesn't seem like there's any chance for either of Obama or Kucinich to get any votes though. Too bad. I don't really have high hopes that Mrs. Clinton would be much different from Bush when it comes to legislation that affects me as an European (intarwebs and war on zombies/terrorists).

  8. Re:Recomendation to dissidents on Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Online · · Score: 1

    On the contrary.

    I've long been planning to put my most personal and important data on Google's servers, using the already existing gmailfs. Using good encryption, of course, which you really should use on local storage as well, if there's even a slight chance that it might get physically stolen.

    Using this would give me a very cheap (actually free) off-site backup, so I know I can still retrieve my stuff even if my house burns down, or if RIAA sends the police to get my computers...

  9. Re:Barack Obama called for data to be stored in... on France Leading Charge Against OOXML · · Score: -1, Troll

    Having a seven digit ID is at least far better than being an Anonymous Coward.

    // 6 digits and proud!

  10. Re:Barack Obama called for... on France Leading Charge Against OOXML · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apparently he's also pro network neutrality: http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/

  11. Barack Obama called for data to be stored in... on France Leading Charge Against OOXML · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Barack Obama called for data to be stored in 'universally accessible formats.'

    And all it takes is for Microsoft to say "Look, our document format is also universally accessible, we even have 'open' in the name," and most people would believe them. Good thing though, Obama seems to have some sort of grasp about the concept of computers and the interwebs.

  12. Re:Russian? on Rare Soviet Retro-Future Space Art · · Score: 1

    1 out of 4 pictures of earth show America, 3 out of 4 does not.

  13. Re:Terrorism aside, this could be useful ... on Portable Nuclear Battery in the Development Stages · · Score: 1

    You need an UPS anyway, since most outages probably happens when some clueless construction worker manage to dig through the cable to the building. Unless of course you have a datacenter that consumes 27MW. That would be nice.

  14. Re:The researcher is !clue on The Cultures of Texting In Europe and America · · Score: 1

    You mean receiving text messages for free leads to spam? How? Doesn't this mean that all the cost for sending goes to the spammer?

  15. Re:What happens when... on Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Care to share?

  16. Re:Never examined? on MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns · · Score: 3, Insightful

    then how do they manage it without examining traffic?

    Easy, they do what they do best. Lie.

  17. Xubuntu on MPAA College Toolkit Raises Privacy, Security Concerns · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nice. For those of you that didn't read TFA, the toolkit is basically Xubuntu, with some tools like Snort preinstalled.

  18. Re:What problem are you trying to solve? on Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    O.k., you solved what problem again?

    Delivering what the customers actually want.

  19. Re:How about lowering your own prices first? on Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Retailers like FLAC should realize that outright gouging of your customers doesn't spur business.

    I don't know about you, but I prefer to get my music in FLAC, even after the recent security flaws.

  20. DVD release on Illegal Downloaders to be Blocked By French Government? · · Score: 1

    How about releasing the DVD at the same time as the movie, so people didn't have to download it if they wanted to watch it at home.

  21. Re:hold on a sec... on Mark Cuban Calls on ISPs to Block P2P · · Score: 1

    he doesn't understand the very basics of how bandwidth is paid for

    I don't either, but I would like to be enlightened. Do you have any pointers?

    More specifically, it would be nice to know how much my ISP have to pay for each byte I send to someone else, and stuff like that.

  22. Re:Great Works on Copyright Alliance Presses Presidential Candidates · · Score: 1

    You forgot to enable your sarcasm detector.

  23. Re:Post-call Alarm "Emergency Mode", Boston, 112. on Worry Over VZW, Sprint Phones' 911 Alarm · · Score: 1

    The European equivalent to 911.

  24. Obl. on Man Sized Sea Scorpion Fossil Found · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our old Eurypterid overlords.

  25. Re:They Don't. on Microsoft Claims Patent On Elements of Embedded Linux? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The GPL has been proven to be unenforcable

    Show us the the source of this statment, or stuh teh fkuc up and go back to the caves of Redmond.