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WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down 565

Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."

Comment Re:IE and Microsoft (Score 4, Funny) 151

It's a strange thing. It seems the only reason Ballmer exists it to repeated punch Microsoft's reputation in the face. I'm surprised shareholders haven't gotten so fed up and fired the "Monkey Dance" Ballmer or replaced him with a better monkey. I watch Channel 9 and there are some seriously smart people working at this company and yet this one person has done more to harm the company's reputation like no other.

Comment Re:Apple (Score 1) 507

Kinda sorta. I don't like Apple. Why would I buy a phone that supports them? So I waited until a phone came out that had the features I wanted (and a little bit of the good ole' open source movement behind it, partially), and picked it up. At least I didn't buy a CECT SciPhone.

Comment Re:Am I a cheap bastard? (Score 1) 208

I think he was being ironic, but whatev. I also think that people here need to understand that there is often an implied context to what people are saying. Also, arguing over the rules of grammar borderlines idiotic.

It's just a stupid god damned sentence. It's obvious what he meant to say and there is nothing explicit about the definition of the word "ever" which implies that he made any mistake. This entire thread is nitpicking at best. Don't you guys have some one better to degrade? Like, perhaps, someone with the gull to us a goto?

Comment Re:Statistics, statistics (Score 3, Insightful) 401

Unless, of course, they are the majority and it doesn't look like that is going to change anytime soon. I mean, you're talking about being behind the curve, but I also bet you're running an x86 derivative. A 64-bit instruction set doesn't fix the gaping problems of x86. Yet, x86 remains the defacto standard.

Comment Re:...Did they just say...? (Score 1) 202

I got marked down a troll... I actually meant that question. I used Winamp way back at Winamp 2, when it was a light weight, exceptionally useful Media Player. AOL killed it. I am aware that there is a version of the source code for Winamp 3 floating around, and I was rather fond of Beep Media Player because it supported Winamp 2 themes. But in this day and age where Media Players are also full-featured Multimedia Managers, I don't think Winamp is still relevant. So I ask again, is that obsolete program really still relevant, when even light-weight programs like foobar 2000 are more fully featured and only iTunes is more bloated?

Comment People use the search bar? (Score 1) 267

I took the search bar off my firefox. I prefer using keywords. Just gotta type in the address bar, "g query" and it'll do a google search for whatever query I want. I also have it setup for wikipedia, lyricwiki, php.net, isohunt... y'know, the works. I find it to be a ton faster than some drop down menu. Of course, I'm a tinkerer. Most people, sadly, aren't.

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