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Comment Re:at the most they can shed light.. (Score 2) 252

by Lucky_Norseman (#42714407) Attached to: Anonymous Warhead Targets US Sentencing Commission
The Germans used concentration camps for a lot of people, not just the jews. In fact, later in the war they had two different classes of camps. Konzentrationslager and Vernichtungslager. The last can be translated as annihilation camp, and it was at these that the truly massive murders of jews occurred.
Many at regular concentration camps were political prisoners, homosexuals and so on.
I was taught about this from a teacher in my high school who was sent to German concentration camp for taking part in a student protest in occupied Norway.

Comment Re:Nazi claws vs. Swiss claws (Score 1) 314

by Lucky_Norseman (#42689663) Attached to: Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives

>>> The Swiss Bank Account model is also what allowed jews in Germany to keep some of their family fortune out of the claws of the Reich. Is that so evil? >>>

State your reply after considering that those accounts went then into Swiss claws, they were lost anyway.

If Death had asked each jew killed in a camp: DO YOU WANT YOUR MONEY TO GO TO THE NAZIS OR TO ANYONE ELSE? The answer would in 99.999 % be "anyone in the whole world except the nazis"

And that is ignoring all those who either were able to get away earlier or who managed to survive. They got their money back.

Comment Re:BB10 more sellable than Win8/WinRT (Score 1) 193

by Lucky_Norseman (#42598589) Attached to: RIM Attracts 15,000 Apps For BlackBerry 10 In 2 Days

BB10 supports ActiveSync. So BES will no longer be needed for email integration with Exchange.

Making BB yet another Exchange client among many. What does it bring to the table here?

It means that you can use a BB10 device in a BYOD setting without IT having to install BES. Same as with an Android or iPhone.
If they want more control over the device, IT can choose to use BlackBerry Fusion which gives them similar control as BES.
Why are more options a problem?

Comment Re:Gamestop Fail (Score 1) 370

by Lucky_Norseman (#42410225) Attached to: Child Gets Nintendo 3DS Full of Porn For Christmas

TBH I saw this coming a mile away when I first heard of the DSi having a camera. I'm just waiting for the case of a refurbished 3ds with pics a teenager took of themselves nude.

But if you buy a refurbished 3DS with pics of a teenager, doesn't that make you guilty of both possession and purchase of kiddie-porn?
Go directly to the sex offender list, do not pass go, do not collect $200

Comment Re:Irrelevant Company (Score 1) 102

by Lucky_Norseman (#42177915) Attached to: Ericsson Seeks US Import Ban On Samsung Products

And an interesting thing about this case - Ericsson is doing to Samsung what Samsung is doing to Apple, and indeed, Ericsson's arguments are practically identical. It's a very interesting situation, to say the least. (Likewise, it's probably similar to the rates Google/Motorola are asking from Apple and Microsoft and such, too.

So, the smart thing for Samsung to do is to take it to court, make sure they lose and then use the loss as precedent against Apple.

Comment Re:How many more? (Score 2) 409

by Lucky_Norseman (#41648361) Attached to: The Three Pillars of Nokia Strategy Have All Failed
The micro-USB charger for the phone DOES charge the Playbook.

But due to the current limitation in the phone charger it will only charge it when the playbook is in standby mode. If the playbook is in use the phone charger only supplies enough current that the playbook runs on power from the charger and thus does not use the battery.

There is no possible way for a 500 mA charger to charge a device while the device is using 450-500 mA to stay on.
However the Playbook charger which delivers more than 1A over micro-USB works perfectly fine as a quick charger for a BlackBerry phone.
Why would it have been better to NOT use micro-USB??

Comment Re:Pro death == pro stupid (Score 1) 761

by Lucky_Norseman (#41410065) Attached to: Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account?

Prosecutors have been discovered falsifying evidence, tampering with witnesses, hiding exculpatory evidence that would exonerate the defendant, in short doing every dirty deed under the sun to win a high profile case and maybe be politically set for life. As long as our system of justice is more interested in winning than in finding justice we can expect innocent men going to prison in general and death row specifically.

Doing this should be legally considered premeditated murder (attempted murder if the victim is not convicted or gets out before getting executed) and should as a rule have a mandatory death sentence for the prosecutor.

Comment Re:Bill of Digital Rights (Score 3, Interesting) 133

by Lucky_Norseman (#40998417) Attached to: WIPO Broadcasting Treaty Back On the Table
Nothing in the Berne Convention prohibits a government from taxing Intellectual Property.
If Big Content was taxed according to the official **AA value of their properties, they would soon start delivering to public domain.

Same of course could be applied to the broadcasters with "broadcaster eternal copyright". Tax them until they either release copyrights or go bust.

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