Comment Re:What stupidity. (Score 0) 398
your quote is inaccurate. the fact that it was accurate 2 seconds ago is insubstantial.
Comment Re:Claim 7 Has Your Number (Score 0) 212
scan? on my computer? how did he get the root password? oh wait
Comment Re:Print Link, The 25 in a list (Score 0) 185
so there has been no innovative microchip since 1989. is there a reason for that?
Comment Re:M!! (Score 0) 176
duhhhh!!! its reversed engineered!
it means we are going to be able to play bvmr in the Wii soon!
Comment Re:Pessulus (Score 0) 904
kde 3 has kiosk admin tool http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool/
Comment asimov (Score 0) 902
to bad he dint live to see a short story of his become reality.
oh hey!
Comment Re:looks like it still loses history (Score 0) 459
how about this instead?
shopt -s histappend
Comment in simple terms (Score 0) 333
hmm.. to put it succintly for these lawyer types:
booo!!!
or maybe even
jones, you've been a bad boy, go stand in the corner!
Comment Re:Doesn't Sound so Bad (Score 0) 202
grandparent post dint
Comment Re:USB connectors (Score 0) 277
wait let me get this straight....
green plug invented a technology (i assume its patented) that uses a chip (i assume they manufacture it) that has to be put in every electronic gadget on earth (i heard the word monopoly). and this will make the gadgets less competitive to the cheap clones...
someone explain to me why consumers should want this?
Comment so what else is new? (Score 0) 205
um
Comment Re:Pyrenean Ibex, bucardo. (Score 0) 249
but um
who will clone the cloners?
Social Networking Spurs Activism Against Repression 303
The New York Times Magazine is running a story about the rise in political activism in Egypt through sites like Facebook, which allow citizens to gather and share ideas in ways they otherwise aren't allowed. A state-of-emergency law has been active in Egypt since 1981, which, among other things, "allows the government to ban political organizations and makes it illegal for more than five people to gather without a license from the government." As affordable internet access has spread throughout the country, the government is having a much harder time keeping wraps on the ideas of dissidents. Blocking access to the sites isn't a good solution for the government, because many non-dissidents use it for mundane communications. As Harvard's Ethan Zuckerman puts it, "...doing so would alert a large group of people who they can't afford to radicalize."
Comment Re:Bedlam... (Score 0) 384
and how far will you go to protect the user from himself?
maybe a "you are about to receive mail from a mailing-list, do you wish to receive this mail?" ala vista kind of thing?
Comment america != universe (Score 0) 414
when i first read the headline i was like
then i read the rest of the intro and i went
