Comment legally demand (Score 5, Insightful) 328
Well, that demand doesn't need to be answered.
Submission + - Legality Of ACTA In U.S. Questioned In Petition (techdirt.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt reports that a petition on the US Government's We the People website raises the question of whether ACTA is enforcable as an executive agreement — which allows the President to sign the agreement without getting approval — when it covers intellectual property, which is the mandate of Congress, and would require a vote before it becomes a treaty.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
Slashdot has previously covered Senator Wyden questioning the constitutionality of ACTA before its signing last year; while the EU is said to be signing ACTA into force from today.
Comment Re:For Facebook and Google+ (Score 1) 284
So that'll be Joe_NoFacebooknoPlus Smith? No Facebook, No Plus? Nice title for Bob 'in Moms basement' Marley.
Comment Re:Outrage (Score 1) 230
Who cares if they know that MAC address X was at location Y?
If it's the MAC address of my smartphone, which I'm likely to carry around with me more or less all the time, I care a lot about who knows where that MAC address has been. While Googles rather idiotic behaviour just (may have) recorded, where said MAC address was at one point in time, the statement above is, in its broadness, quite a bit more than I would like to have to stomach.
It's not like there's a database linking MAC address to people.
yet. It's not like nobody could ever come up with that smart idea.
Comment The Space Shuttle (Score 5, Funny) 245
Opensource the Space Shuttle :)
Comment Re:Sample size (Score 1) 468
What's more interesting: The count of crashes or the count of "stuff working as expected"?
With 5/11 crashes, the glass is not only "half empty", the other half is red wine spilled all over the tablecloth. And that's a bitch to get rid of.
With 5/11 crashes, the glass is not only "half empty", the other half is red wine spilled all over the tablecloth. And that's a bitch to get rid of.
Comment Re:Earnest... (Score 0) 217
Dear US military!
Please be so kind as to include german speaking countries, especially Austria, in your oh so earnest puppet shows. I hope your sock puppets operate during normal US business hours which would mean I'll get a couple of great laughs with breakfast.
Thank you.
BTW: Why bother, just use Fox news and Google translate.
Please be so kind as to include german speaking countries, especially Austria, in your oh so earnest puppet shows. I hope your sock puppets operate during normal US business hours which would mean I'll get a couple of great laughs with breakfast.
Thank you.
BTW: Why bother, just use Fox news and Google translate.
Comment Re:I'm going to quote an old robot saying (Score 1) 433
prove it in court.
Comment Re:Android? (Score 1) 354
Slackware, as far as I know, uses a vanilla kernel as well.
Comment Re:short discussion (Score 1) 354
and is still working fine.
Comment and later... (Score 1) 375
...they'll become great cryptographers once they start texting in rot13 so mom can't spy on them.
Comment Nuts (Score 1) 148
Am I the only one who read 'Nuts' instead of 'Nuns'?
Comment Re:Doubtful (Score 1) 169
It's an idiotic/automatic translation. The village is called Frauenkirchen. Frau means woman/lady/wife, Kirche means church.
sic transit gloria mundi.
sic transit gloria mundi.
Comment Too much? (Score 5, Insightful) 242
I don't really see much of a difference between the JAL page und delta.com, united.com or lufthansa.de. And the page of the ministry of health isn't looking too crowded either. Neither is the third one, but I couldn't figure out how to switch that one to English (still, ebay.com seems just as stuffed). The japanese versions of the pages look like a crowded mess, but that's rather because I can't deal with the characters. Switch to english and you should be fine.
Comment Re:I dont give a flock (Score 2, Funny) 154
Ethanol fuel is for combustion engines, not for oral ingestion.
Relax.
Relax.
