I'm thinking OBL may have been mutilated then shot from very close range so pictures would help. I didn't like his beliefs or methods and I suppose dying would have been his choice. The spin on his killing was dishonorable though. He fought corruption and lost and if we don't see it that way then all the death and suffering he caused is for nothing.

Thanks. Good reading, at least the first one about RMS. RMS is wise. I particularly like his Eric Raymond observations. The last chapter about the book license and publishing deal contains the exciting bits.

Yes me too. I thought that it would be free online. I guess he is just making a point and maybe expecting $ to boot. I'm a little curious what RMS thinks about IP in general and his place in the world but not buy his book curious.

The point was to have the most pretentious name unchallenged. How can buying that be a waste a money?

so he says that sometimes you should just settle so that when he fights he seems more reasonable..

Well then you haven't seen my mum. #3 She uses it for leaving me 10 minute long voice messages with 10 secs of voice and 9:50 of mouse clicks as she lays the cards waiting for the grim reaper to show.

He expressed that he could use gadgets to find stuff out like never before and that made him wiser. Sex is disgusting though, try another subject. Dig out your google earth gadget and take a close look at Somalia, then Western sahara and finish up with that long wall in Israel.

I just read the proposal and it's purpose, as far as cookies go, is to make spyware illegal to comply with an EU directive. The discussion centers around how to do this without requiring an opt-in for every cookie because cookies are also used to spy on you.

Third party cookies should be illegal but I very much doubt that this proposal wants to go there.

If you are defending against the US you wont have any ships or planes so you attach your weapons to hydrogen balloons and let them drift. Lasers could be useful against such a cloud.

Imagine that a significant percentage of ./ is sock-puppets and bots. It's possible.. Posting an otherwise reasonable comment today, or yesterday is a fair indication of your true nature and a bug in your code.

Most car sounds do not come from the engine. The spikes on my winter tyres make plenty of noise. We could ban wheels and speed. Just ban everything at some distant point in the future, so distant that we don't have to take any action now, that seems pretty easy and safe.

A swede and a kiwi, an american would want their kids to read by 4. In Sweden school starts at 7 and when they are done they write better english than your average kiwi.

Desktop Linux could make a bigger effort to run android apps. Those are what developers are developing and controlling them from a touch phone using vnc makes a lot of sense to me.