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Comment Re:not what I asked (Score 1) 354

Sorry, just being a little flippant :) No offense intended.

If you mean at the time of his demise, Abbottabad is located very close to Kashmir, where the state of national borders is muddled to say the least. It's definitely closer to Indian-administered Kashmir than to Afghanistan, though. The Wikipedia page has a pretty good map.

Now, If you mean where was he since the invasion, my impression is that the best available answer is that nobody really knows. It seems to be commonly accepted as fact that he was present (and nearly captured) during the battle of Tora Bora in late 2001. Since then, reports on his whereabouts are a mishmash of obituaries, wishful thinking and he's-definitely-anywhere-but-here-dear-god-stop-killing-us pleas. Here's a summary. MSNBC is running a story that indicates he might have been holed up in Abbottabad for a while, (Possibly since 2005) but I can't verify any of that.

Comment Re:Lame excuse - improving traffic safety (Score 1) 204

I could be missing something, but I don't think anyone has mentioned the data being provided as a real time feed. If I were to guess I would think that the 'delay' was much longer than a week, but probably covered a considerable duration of time.

The cops probably care less about where someone is speeding right now, and more about where and when the incidence of speed limit violations are the greatest.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 511

I didn't say there were, or even that he was wrong in saying Ubuntu would never succeed. I said that the arguments he presented were complete and utter boloney and that that indicated that he was, in fact, just pulling stuff out of his ass with no real justification.

As a side note, the notion that stock linux has a terrible user experience does not follow logically from the fact that it is not very successful/widely deployed. There are many reasons for the very limited success of desktop linux. Suggesting that it being too difficult to use (If you assume that this is the case, which I do not.) is the only - or even the most important - reason is just not very insightful.

Comment Re:No. (Score 1) 511

While I agree that the linux desktop and even ubuntu has several unsolved usability issues, you come off as someone who used ubuntu for a week in 2006 and then for another two weeks in 2008 and then decided it was always going to stay the same.

I challenge you to spend a month running Natty and then a month running Win95. (Feel free to apply the most recent updates) Good luck finding the latter more UXillating (?) than the former.

Comment Re:No. (Score 3, Insightful) 511

Do you even know what Ubuntu is? Have you ever used it?

Linux, and by extension Ubuntu, don't care about the UX.

What? Ubuntu has always been about streamlining user experience as compared to other distributions. With varying degrees of success, sure, but that's always been their mission statement.

The only success Linux has had is with integrated applications where the UX is designed completely from scratch by a third party private company.

You mean like exactly what Ubuntu is doing with Unity? I almost hope you're a troll. "UX"..., sigh.

Comment Re:Troubling for IPv6 adoption (Score 1) 157

Score: 5, Insightful, seriously?

The basic understanding of market effects are so poor on this site it's a fucking travesty. How is this not obvious? As scarcity of IPv4 addresses diminishes, a market (inevitably) emerges. As demand for addresses continues to increase, the market price (inevitably) increases. As that price increases, the cost of providing IPv4 addresses (inevitably) increases, thus (inevitably) providing increasing incentives to transition to IPv6.

Also, in response to another poster: Yeah, this could certainly lead to IPv4 addresses becoming a luxury item. So. fucking. what?! As long as routing is in place, an IPv4 address serves exactly the same function as an IPv6 address. Why would you even care if somebody is interested in paying extra for nothing? What is the loss to you?

Comment Re:Inquiring minds want to know... (Score 1) 143

Yeah, I'm just going to go ahead and call a big fat [Citation needed] on this one. According to Wikipedia, Chlamydophila pneumoniae, formerly TWAR "less commonly" causes myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) which has been linked in some studies to sudden unexpected death in athletes. This appears to be what you're thinking about, but I can't find any verification that Chlamydophila should be more prevalent nor more indirectly lethal in athletes than in the general population.

Also it appears that the incidence of sudden unexpected death is somewhat in debate, as is the most common causes of it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that "died as flies" is almost certainly a massive exaggeration. If young athletes were suddenly dropping dead in large numbers in the 80s and early 90s, I'd probably be putting my money on drugs.. Pending further study, of course.

Comment Re:Good thing it is open (Score 1) 373

I say "does it" as the diversity of hardware did not hurt Microsoft.

This diversity of hardware is nothing like what Microsoft had to deal with. Microsoft had to deal with a multitude of vendors providing devices that resulted in, more or less, some combination consisting of a processing unit, graphics hardware, a screen, a keyboard, a mouse and a sound card. Android is supporting a multitude of devices that may or may not provide one or more of the following: a screen, a capacitive touchscreen, a resistive touchscreen, gsm hardware, gps hardware, 3g connectivity, wlan connectivity, ethernet connectivity, a physical keyboard, no physical buttons at all, any number of physical buttons offering any random functionality, sound hardware capable of reliable voice input, a useless simplistic microphone, lots of internal memory, little internal memory, limited internal memory with optional extension. I could go on.

The point is that if someone tried to put Windows on something, it was a PC. If someone tries to put android on something, it could be anything from a toaster/washing machine/fridge through a headless server through a laptop through any imaginable kind of phone through a tablet pc. Creating a system that performs reasonably well in all those use cases involves more than just writing plenty of drivers for a lot of different hardware.

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