Comment Re:That just made my day.... (Score 1) 347
it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies.
Is that you, Nixon?
Comment Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score 1) 344
+1 funny if I'd had mod points!
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 1) 734
OK, I'll give you Canada then. But that sort of bullshit is certainly not common in Europe. Also: In Europe we usually don't separate between "crime" and "misdemeanor" - everything goes on our criminal records.
I found a link to "Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas"
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 1) 734
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
But the US rules _are_ onerous compared to other countries. The US demands that everyone wanting a tourist visa need to have a clean criminal record. (And I'm not talkin about having done jail time, everything more serious that a traffic ticket and you're disqualified.)
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 2, Interesting) 734
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
So will I! The U.S. makes it so damn difficult getting into their country that it hardly seems worth the effort any more.. The worst part is that they deny visa (even 3 months of tourist visa) to ppl like me who have a small thing ($400 dollar fine) on our criminal record. A US citizen with the same record I have will have no problem entering my country (Norway).
Comment Re:Double Duh! (Score 1) 711
That would have been a good point, except that you're wrong: For the purpose of a server OS (and probably most other purposes) OS X is so far removed from it's BSD ancestry that your point is not valid at all.
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 2, Insightful) 693
I don't see the problem.
Seriously, you don't? Largely because of the music industry's reluctance to use distribution methods and pricing that makes buying music "legally" attractive, we now have a situation where everything may end up on p2p. If you are happy living with the risk that one of your purchased iTunes Plus files will end up on a file sharing network and you getting sued for it, then you must be on Valium.,.
Comment Re:Paul and Ringo loose out (Score 1) 434
And also considering Paul McC's new project is sold without DRM in a choice between mp3, FLAC and Apple Lossless from his own site: http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/purchase
Running Android On Netbooks 203
jjohn_h writes "Two guys at VentureBeat have managed to take the source code for Google's Linux-based operating system for mobile phones, Android, and compile it for an Asus netbook. Immediately, speculation began that Android will soon be running on PCs and laptops. '... we discovered that Android already has two product "policies" in its code. Product policies are operating system directions aimed at specific uses. The two policies are for 1) phones and 2) mobile internet devices.' Though some remain skeptical, I surely hope it is going to happen. Since Android does not rely on X11, but has its own framebuffer graphics, that would indeed be a cosmic shift."
Comment Re:Double Duh! (Score -1, Flamebait) 711
..if they really were using OS X server they were obviously idiots and doomed to fail.
PS: Not saying OS X is not pretty good on the desktop/laptop, just that for your servers you should use Linux or possibly Solaris or BSD, but not OS X or Windows.
Comment Re:That's my laptop! (Score 1, Informative) 258
NTFS support on Ubuntu is really pretty good. The performance is not quite as good as native, but I think saying that "neither works particularly well in their non-native environments" is going to far, as functionality and stability is very good.
You can even run Ubuntu easily on NTFS with wubi. Check out this review: http://www.linux.com/feature/130713
The Year of 2008 In Cybercrime 47
BobB-nw writes "Underground botnet markets and high-profile spam cases headlined the year in tech crime. One of the most disturbing cybercrime trends in 2008, many security analysts say, has been the emergence of a full-blown underground economy where credit card information, identity theft information, and spam and phishing software are all available for relatively low prices. 2008 also saw major developments in the cases against three major spammers in the United States."
Comment Re:Some Darwin awars ready and waiting (Score 2, Interesting) 578
Comment Download the effing file? (Score 1) 591
Apple: Why do you have to make it hard to just download the file? I don't like watching video in my browser, and you obviuosly don't care too much if I download it.
Just What is this ASUS Eee Thing Anyway? 401
davidmwilliams writes "ASUS have released a cheap subnotebook. It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor. It has a 4Gb hard drive and no optical drive. Its screen is 7" and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this?" I've been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing.
