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Comment Re:It's a search without a warrant. (Score 1) 337

I re-read it periodically

Why?

I mean it is 200 years old document, some of it is hardly relevant today. We (Finns) have had several changes to constitution as we see the world change.

So do we. In fact, we recognized that need early on and built in a process for it.

The problem comes when the legislature ignores the process and says "well, we want to do this, so we're just going to do it, lack of lawful authority be damned." When people accept the government's unauthorized laws on one point, it establishes a precedent that (constitutionally) unauthorized laws are just fine, and ultimately renders the whole document moot.

Want to step into a new function to adapt with the times? You can do that--just follow the procedure to do so. But if you can't garner the support to amend the Constitution, perhaps you ought to reconsider whether it's something you really ought to be doing.

Comment Re:Still no virtual desktop (Score 1) 848

Believe it or not, virtual desktops have never ever made me more productive. For me it's just a useless extra step in switching windows or applications.

I can manage my windows on a single desktop just fine, thank you. Be it Windows, Mac OS, GNOME or KDE, I don't need that kind of functionality, just like the majority of other people. For the minority out there, there are third party solutions that provide virtual desktops in operating systems that don't have them built in.

Comment Re:Windows 7 (Score 1) 605

the start bar doesn't have "run" on it the way XP does

Just because it's disabled by default, it doesn't mean it's not there.

- right click "Start" and choose "Properties"
- go to the "Start menu" tab, click "Customize"
- check "Run command"

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Submission + - Why Digg Failed (or may)

beakerMeep writes: David Marcus, a user on Kuro5hin, recently put together an excellent piece on the perils and faults behind the workings of Digg.com. From the article: 'As I write, the top story on Digg is "Transparency in Social News", a newspaper-as-blog item that the Digg community have used as a little self-congratulatory pat on the back. I understand why Digg's users feel like they deserve to toast themselves now and then — after all, they've made the place one of the Web's Top 100 sites, and they've made Digg, Inc. upwards of $200 million.' Incidentally, as I submit this story to Slashdot, Digg has appears to have removed the story from the list of upcoming stories.

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