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  1. Re:Number One on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 1

    But...

    Could a caveman still use it?

  2. Re:Feature Rich on GNU Coughs Up Emacs 22 After Six Year Wait · · Score: 1
    The current one ("5'4 Asian Girl Friend v10.0") is both stable, DRM free, include the "hot" feature and "sane" feature which some of the previous versions lacked. I was thinking of trying make the "threesome" feature but I might be pushing my luck :D

    You forgot to add the "loyal" feature. She's gonna run with the nearest jock she sees if you don't.

  3. Re:As today is the 30th anniversary... on New Copyright Alliance Formed In D.C. · · Score: 1

    I feel a disturbance in the force, as in millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and then silenced.

  4. Re:Prepaid in other countries on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    Well, that's the advantage of having the peso worth approximately 20-30 fractions of a dollar. The telco knows that can't try to bleed to much the customers or they risk loosing them. That and the fact that in the DR, most places don't have landlines.

  5. Re:Kids aspiring to be CEOs? on 13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is 273.

    But I would use the FOIL method I learned in school.

    21 = 20+3
    13 = 10+3

    (20+1)(10+3) = 200 + 60 + 10 + 3 = 273

  6. Re:The R2-D2 cover-up on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    Did you forgot that both R2-D2 and C3PO were property of Luke's parents?

  7. Encryption? on TSA Loses Hard Drive With Personnel Info · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The important stuff was encrypted... Wasn't it?

  8. Re:Government and political recap on Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    The difference is that there's a lot more oversight from the local people into what the federal authorities in this jurisdiction are doing than in most of the states.

    It usually means that the FBI and the Federal DoJ need to be very careful when investigating local potential terrorist.

    What I think is happening in many states is that people are so used to unconstitutional measures in their local governments that these measures are eventually projected into the federal system during administrations like the current.

    And when people are so used to ignoring the actions of the local FBI offices, then they tend to expect this things to happen(except for a few that notice what's going when the damage is already done)

  9. Re:Government and political recap on Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Privacy is a privilege, not a right. What they say in politics about privacy as a right, they are simply selling a sales pitch to the citizens. You are not entitled to privacy, freedom, or any other government given item.

    Good thing there's this little clause Article II of my local(Puerto Rico) constitution

    Section 10. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. Wire-tapping is prohibited. No warrant for arrest or search and seizure shall issue except by judicial authority and only upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons to be arrested or the things to be seized. Evidence obtained in violation of this section shall be inadmissible in the courts.

    What? Some states forgot to put anything like this? It's time to start demanding that from(at least) your state government

  10. Re:Did Indians forgot to put something like; on Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship · · Score: 1

    IANAIL(I am not an Indian Lawyer) But it seems by the version you have linked that the state does reserve some rights to restrict freedom of speech.

  11. Did Indians forgot to put something like; on Google Aids Indian Goverment Censorship · · Score: 1

    No law shall be made abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
    in their constitution?
  12. Re:Google vs. Viacom... on Viacom Demands YouTube Remove Videos · · Score: 1

    And the winner picks his prize from... the wheel

  13. Re:"...No damage was reported..." on Russian Rocket Hits Wyoming · · Score: 1

    What?

    Didn't you get the memo?

    The end of the world will probably start in Wyoming.

  14. Re:Very interesting on Viral Fossil Brought Back To Life · · Score: 1
    the rest is junk DNA which has a lot of interesting stuff like alternate versions of genes, commented out ideas, and coded critters like this one that sit in your DNA like "sunken ships".

    Just like some software projects we know about.

  15. Re:Office Space on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1
    The OS in Office space was carefully crafted to mix elements from both MacOS and Windows. If you looked closer, you would see that although the window title bar is from Mac OS, the hourglass icon is from Windows. I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I remember being amused at the way they mashed interface elements from the two OSs to make a Grand Unified OS. In addition, some of the boxes in the movie are Macs.

    So they installed Linux on those machines and skinned KDE to look like OS X.Not difficult if you are using kde-native applications

    Or they could have used XP with any of the well known skinning applications.

  16. Re:Tell me again, Americans... on Space Shuttle Atlantis Delayed Again · · Score: 1

    And why not moving the spaceport further south east? To Puerto Rico, maybe.

    Or, is there a need for a land connection to the rest of the US Mainland?

  17. Re:Is thas a backdoor MS move? on MA To Adopt Short-Term Plug-in Strategy for ODF · · Score: 1
    While the concept of accessibility is incredibly important, JAWS, the most used screen reader is totally tied to Microsoft products. Did Microsoft come back through the back door with accessibility to derail the Open Format initiative?

    In short, yes

    But at least some Open Source software, including Firefox, works with the latest version of JAWS. So does the proprietary Adobe Reader. What I don't know is how hard for Sun and the rest of OOo contributors to work with Freedom Scientific(Makers of JAWS) to add JAWS support to OOo.

  18. Re:Office 2k3 in linux on Stuart Cohen Predicts Office for Linux · · Score: 1

    I don't think any serious business is willing to pay for Cross Over just to run a single program. They already paid for Office, you know.

  19. To keep with the Animal Farm references on ESR Advocates Proprietary Software · · Score: 1

    Raymond is ALWAYS right.

  20. Re:The Aliens use open source? on Firefox Crop Circles Prove Intelligent Alien Life · · Score: 1

    What, I thought they were using a windows NT based system.

  21. Re:Edison on DC Power Saves 15% Energy and Cost @ Data Center · · Score: 1
    Did you know that he'd "Westinghouse" a cat "to show the dangers of AC power" during the time where he was trying to compete with AC power versus his DC system (From which ConEd initially came from...)?
    Yeah, he even managed to "Westinghouse" an elephant.
  22. Re:Psh... on Strange New 'Twin' Worlds Found · · Score: 1
    Any Star Wars CCG fan can tell you that Kiffex did this long, long ago.

    in a galaxy far far away.

  23. Just need to know. on More Massive Layoffs at AOL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Which employees are these?

    The people who work at the AOL booths giving away coasters(CDs)?

    The Mexicans who work customer support in Spanish?

    Coders and network admins?

    Because the article doesn't give much details.

  24. For Thruly accessible webpages on Google Accessible Search Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The w3c check is not an acurate measure on how thruly accessible the pages are

    I now this because I have friends who are blind and frecuently use screen reader applications

    If you really want to make sure your pages are accessible then download the trial version of Jaws for Windows wich is the defacto standard screen reader. This trial is limited to 40 minutes per session, but those 40 minutes should be enough to test your webpages.

    As mentioned in posts above, make sure the content can be reaced quickly by readers.

  25. Re:Propietary cost on Former MS Employees Explore OSS · · Score: 1

    I think they're speaking of initial time to develop.